A crazy man and an anti-capitalist paradigm
Bookworm on Mar 17 2011 at 10:46 am | Filed under: Uncategorized
Crazy people — really crazy, the ones with serious schizophrenia or other mental illnesses — reflect the times. (And yes, you’ve heard me say this before.) In a pre-scientific era, they heard voices from God or the Devil. In the post-WWII era, the men from Mars spoke to them, and they paraded around in tinfoil hats. That’s why I found it unsurprising that a manifestly delusional 24 year old, after hearing the anti-capitalist voices in his head, took a gun to a local bank so that his “manifesto” could be heard:
Anthony Lee, 24, told police that he had planned to protest the bank on March 14 because 3.14 is the number for pi, according to a court affidavit filed by Twin Cities police Detective Cheryl Paris.
“Lee said he felt that everyone deserved a piece of the pie in reference to the amount of wealth in the United States,” Paris wrote.
The affidavit also provides excerpts from a manifesto Lee wrote in the hopes of garnering publicity for his cause.
“goal: change the capitalist monetary system (non-violently); gain national media coverage,” Lee wrote.
“suppliez: poster board w/ writin on it, pizza money, BB gun, backpack full of water, sheetz w/ subject content (az evidence) 2 discuss with the bank president, n maybe a rolled up blunt w/ an ipod the boredom-az well az a positive frame of mind.
“when: 3.14, before the House of Reps makez the final decision, n the government shutz down (unemployin millionz)-2 pay off the $14 trillion deficit…”
This was not a terrorist act: That is, this was not a sane person deliberately using terror to advance a specific political/religious agenda. This was a truly crazy guy, whose craziness takes on the coloring of the world around him.
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“Lee stated he was upset over the problems with poverty, lack of diversity, and how America was top heavy with wealth and that the wealth needed to be spread out to the lower class,” Paris said.
Mentally ill, certainly, but how did those ideas get into his head? Where did he learn them?
Yeah, I know — from his teachers, from the mainstream media and from the liberals with whom he associates. These are the liberal/socialist memes that have infected a broad swath of our collective (pardon the term) consciousness for years.
All of them contain a kernel of truth, which gives them their hook, but if you look beneath the surface and examine them critically, you see they are shams.
Yes, there is poverty in America, but not nearly to the extent the social justice folk would have us believe. Yes, there are a goodly number of people below the poverty line, but according to studies by the Heritage Foundation, if you identify them by name and look a few years later, you will find that the vast majority of them are no longer in poverty. It seems that most people in poverty are just “passing through” on their way to middle-class-hood or higher.
Yes, not all ethnic groups are represented proportionately in the most desirable jobs or professions or places to live. Liberty does not guarantee equal outcomes, only equal opportunities. And we do no one a favor — least of all the “downtrodden victims” — by lowering standards for them. Remember Patrick Chavis, the left’s poster child for diversity, who was admitted to U.C. Davis Medical School in place of Allan Bakke? Through gross ineptitude, he caused his patients, one of whom died, immense, unneeded suffering. And how about the DOJ ordering Dayton to accept applicants to their police force who scored an “F” on the entrance exam? How many will die as a result of that bit of insanity? If some people have started behind others, let’s help them to catch up instead of lowering the bar.
And yes, some people are wealthier than others, but the idea that there is some kind of fixed “wealth pie” such that for some people to have more, others must make do with less, is both pernicious and misleading. The size of the “wealth pie” is not fixed. It is the role of entrepreneurs, seeking wealth for themselves, to create new businesses which produce new products and generate new revenue streams, and thereby expand the “wealth pie” for all of us. Make no mistake, the pie is expanding. All a person needs to do is consider how poor people lived at the beginning of the 20th century — or even in the 1940′s after FDR’s New Deal programs were in place — to see that the poor are far better off now than they were then. By those standards, today’s poor are immensely wealthy.
Yes, Anthony Lee is mentally disturbed, and on top of that, he has a head full of insidious ideas put there by people who are either useful idiots or liars or both.
And yeah, I know that most of you know all this stuff already, but it drives me nuts to hear these useless, misleading, and pernicious memes mindlessly repeated day after day. Thanks for allowing me to rant.
He’s a product of his generation and the crap that’s been jammed down their throats OR … a failed rap artist.
Can’t decide if it’s one or both.
Crazy people are also used and indoctrinated by terrorist or nationalist organizations. In the case of Germany, the Reichstag fire is a good example. The person they caught doing it, was not the real perpetrator. It was just a stalking horse.
“Lee said he felt that everyone deserved a piece of the pie in reference to the amount of wealth in the United States,” Paris wrote.”
This is the responsibility of Michael “It’s ours. That ton of cash, it’s a National Resource” Moore.
It’s hard enough for MM to be responsible for his weight under Earth grav, MacG, let alone all the other stuff he does.
puts on his plate, has on him, weighing him down, etc.
I wish you knuckle draggers would understand the rules when it comes to discussing/dissing obesity:
It is OK to refer to Rush Limbaugh as a porker because he is a right winger, therefore has surrendered any claim to decent treatment by his opponents.
It is not OK to refer to Michael Moore as an ever-so-much-larger-than-Rush porker because he is on the side of good (that is, if you can really call anything “good” since that’s a value judgment that could lead to us not getting the kind of sex we want, or pensions for that matter).
Charles,
The difference between the two is clear: Rush is a fat drug addict doody head and Michael is as pure as the driven snow (where is that gag smilie?). Never mind Rush kicked his medically induced pharmaceutical addiction years ago and has slimmed down quite a bit from what I hear. “Yeah, well he’s still RICH and he’s MEAN and and and …”