Lisa Bender, President of the Minneapolis City Council, (the City Council has far more power than the mayor):
CAMEROTA: "What if in the middle of the night my home is broken into. Who do I call?"
BENDER: "Yes, I hear that loud and clear from a lot of my neighbors. And I know — and myself, too, and I know that that comes from a place of privilege." pic.twitter.com/WhubQ9yJIf
- The right, the ability to call the police on a break-in is a privilege??!! Or to call the fire department? Or to call an ambulance? To have a snowplow clear your street for safe travel? It's not a privilege; it's a contract, a broken contract, paid for on one side and not delivered on the other. I thought these public goods were the entire justification for government, some things better done collectively than individually, like national defense, police and fire. If what we call government is now just the power to take, transfer and redistribute, kleptocracy without consent, the whole justification is gone. I will be happy to make private associations for all basic protections and end all taxation if that is what the Left demands. But if I have an armed intruder in my home and I paid for police protection, don't send me a social worker.
