First category: The lowliest of thieves on the theft food chain. These people find ways to steal food, clothing or shelter. They may shoplift food, or make up stories at the fast food restaurant to get free food. They may shoplift clothing or claim jackets from the lost and found. They may squat in an apartment, or find shelter on private property. The simple fact is, these people have it the worst and find whatever they can to self-preserve their own lives. Who are we to judge why they can't work for a living? So I say, they should not be spit on.
Second category: The occasional thieves are the next step up. These people keep the extra change when a cashier screws up. They might pocket a small item at the supermarket or home improvement warehouse while they shop and pay for more expensive items. These thieves are generally sympathetic to people that are closer in class to their own situation. They wouldn't steal from a "Ma and Pa" shop. These thieves are targeted by the large corporations, so much so that these corporations have orientations to educate their employees to recognize.. They feel if they could deter the "occasional" thieves, the losses they suffer from our next category wouldn't mean a thing.
Third category: Professional thieves prey on corporations as well as individuals. When dealing with a corporation they are cunning and daring. They will load up a shopping cart full of expensive power tools and walk (or run) right out the door with them to a waiting car. Same thing happens at a clothing store, when a person walks in grabs a stack of jeans and leaves. These people have what is called a "fence" to unload these products at an attractive price. People in this category also may burglarize a home or automobile, and fence the items they steal. More professional thievery includes robberies, embezzlement, insider stock trading...any way you label it, these guys do it for a living. When they get caught, they may even have enough money to pay for a fancy lawyer...any way you slice it, they will learn from their mistakes.
Fourth category: The most elusive of thieves, are the ones that use family history. They have solidified thievery in such a way that they have many ways to make you believe that life is 'just' so long as you follow their rules. They have even been smart enough to convince you that the rules you follow are rules that you set forth through the democratic process. They have so much money, and so much advantage in this world that they can pay to have hired thugs to protect them. If a "normal person" finds a way to stop their thievery, they can pay a congressperson to pass a new law to protect them. They have the police and the military at their service because as long as the people believe in their system...money means everything. And if money means everything, most human beings will take advantage of the extra money to "get ahead." It's the same reason that "bad people" exist. They do bad things because they believe it will give them an advantage.
Think of every bad thing that you are happy to have the police protect you from. When a man murders another man...it's because he feels it will give him some advantage. Maybe he can take over the territory of that man, make more money in the drug dealing business, and have a better life. Maybe selling drugs is the bad thing he does...because he believes it will give him more money. Maybe he murdered the man because he was afraid the man would continue to stand in his pursuit of happiness. The same holds true for robbery and other thievery. The ones that commit it feel it will give them an advantage. As long as our system allows us to take advantage of each other, we will have people trying to do so. But getting back to the robbery. If you get paid by the hour, you are a wage slave. You are creating things that are worth a certain amount in this world, but you are not getting your just due. Worse yet, since you are being stolen from, you have to spend more of your time to keep your own life in order. We call this freedom? The same as when you have to replace your stereo after a burglary, you are being held up by the owner of the land where you have your job, and being held up bythe government. Think about the percentage of income tax you pay to the IRS, then your state government (not all states have a state tax) then the sales tax, then excise taxes, gas taxes, alcohol taxes, nicotine taxes, early retirement taxes, property taxes. That is bad enough, but what if you don't follow "their rules?" Then you can add that parking fine, speeding ticket, court costs, late penalties...where does it end? We deserve to be free. There is only one group of people that is allowed to be free, they make up a very small percentage of people, and they want to keep everyone else from being free. They will stand in the way of anybody trying to be free. These people belong to the fourth category of thieves. They are the rich that get richer, while the poor get poorer. They are the proverbial "THEY." The machine, the system...the people that most great rock and rollers have spoken about. How many songs have they inspired since "Woodstock" times?
Keep this in your head...you will need it within the next ten years.
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Nobody PAYS taxes - they TAKE them from you.
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