All Episodes
Previous Next
Aug. 25, 2023 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams
16:37
American poverty spreading fast as DOLLAR stores see record shoplifting
| Copy link to current segment

Time Text
The Dollar Tree is reporting record losses due to shoplifting.
The Dollar Tree.
So people are stealing from the dollar store.
Yeah, that's a sign of how desperate people are.
And it looks like Dollar Tree is going to have to raise prices because of all of the theft.
But there's way more to this story.
Did you know there's a new law that will probably be signed into law in California?
And the law makes it a crime for a retail shop owner to stop a shoplifter.
That's right.
That's right.
This is state-sanctioned shoplifting.
And currently, the way it works, at least in Los Angeles and perhaps the entire state, I'm not sure, But the way it works currently is you can steal up to $950 worth of product from any retail store, and the officials will not charge you with a crime.
You will not be prosecuted for stealing up to $950.
And so people are running around stores in L.A., And just walking in and stealing and sometimes bringing a calculator and making sure it's underneath 950 because I guess a few of them can still do math.
And so they steal 925 or 900 or whatever and they just walk out.
And the shop owners, occasionally they try to stop them.
Or employees at the retail outlets, you know, like a Best Buy employee or something will try to stop them.
And sometimes there are fights and sometimes there's a shooting.
And sometimes the bad guy gets stopped, but usually not.
Well, this new law is going to make it a crime to stop the crime.
Now, I can't think of a better demonstration of how Democrats destroy everything.
They want to make it a crime to stop the crime.
And their argument is, well, these people are broke.
They need these tennis shoes or they need these groceries or they need whatever they're stealing.
Cosmetics.
That's a very common theft item, by the way.
So that's their argument.
Those people need this stuff.
Well, what about the people who own the shops?
Don't they need to get paid for the products that they already bought and paid for and then put on display for the public?
You know, Democrats are throwing the shop owners under the bus and also, you know, the retail chains.
And if this law becomes law, if this gets passed and signed...
Here's what you're going to see.
You're going to see retailers just closing up shop and moving out of California, which is already happening to some degree, but it's going to accelerate in ways that just shock everybody.
You're going to see retail chains close up and leave.
You're going to see grocery stores and food stores close shop and just leave.
Because why wouldn't you?
You can't stay in business just giving away products to shoplifters.
That's not a sustainable model, obviously.
But the Democrats don't understand that because Democrats are economically illiterate and they always excuse the criminals, don't they?
It's never the criminals' fault, is it?
Oh no, it's your fault for having a shop and offering something for sale at a price that people can't afford.
It's your fault.
Well, never mind the fact that it's a free market, and if a shop owner prices something too high, the customer can just walk to the next block and find it cheaper.
So of course there's price competition.
That's what keeps prices low.
And the reason things are not affordable doesn't have anything to do with the shopkeepers.
It has to do with the money printing by the Federal Reserve and the Biden regime.
It's the mass money printing that is causing inflation or devaluation of the dollar and apparent inflation in consumer products.
But you won't see Newsom or anybody in California decrying the trillions of dollars in money printing that's taking place by the crooks north of Richmond.
You won't see that at all.
No.
This is the way they think.
We're just going to make it illegal to stop shoplifting.
Wow.
So you know where this goes next, right?
Next, they'll make it illegal to stop a home robbery.
Which, frankly, in certain parts of California, they practically have made it illegal.
They'll charge you with a crime for defending yourself against a home invader in many areas.
You know, in George Soros DA-run areas.
And this is true in certain parts of the country as well, outside of California.
But what if they pass a state law?
And this isn't on the table currently, but it could be coming soon.
What if they pass a law that says you can't stop home robberies?
That's illegal.
It's a crime to resist a home robbery.
Well, then that would be just a free-for-all for all the criminals to say, wow, we can just go rob all the homes in California because, well, the Democrats said we need those pieces of jewelry and we need to steal those firearms and we need the food in the refrigerator.
We need the stuff we're stealing.
Therefore, it's okay.
Can you imagine what that would do to the property values in California?
Just the law that's already about to be signed, the one that makes it illegal to stop commercial shoplifting, that's going to cause commercial real estate values to plunge.
I mean, who will want to run a retail operation if stopping shoplifters is illegal?
Nobody.
Nobody in their right mind.
So commercial real estate will plunge.
Well, if they do this to homes, then, you know, home real estate will plunge.
And the bottom line is, anybody who can is fleeing California right now anyway.
Nobody in their right mind wants to be left in California as the Democrats just destroy everything and plunge the cities into complete chaos and violence, you know, mayhem, starvation, because that's where this is headed.
I mean, think about where these cities are going to be when the grocery stores leave, when the 7-Elevens leave, the convenience stores, the Walmarts, the Best Buys.
Who's going to stick around when you just get robbed over and over and over again?
Nobody's going to stick around.
No retailer's going to stay.
And so it's going to become a retail desert where...
You can't go out and buy anything you need.
You can't buy clothes, you can't buy food, you can't buy anything because, well, the shops are tired of being robbed.
And by the way, most of the youth that are caught on camera doing the robbing in these retail outlets, all the ones that I've seen are black youth, but that's not my point.
My point is, why are they in a hurry all the time?
The typical scene is 10 or 12 black youngsters who are very frantic.
They're in a big hurry to steal.
And I'm thinking, what's the hurry?
No one's prosecuting you.
No one's calling the police.
The shopkeeper's not doing anything.
What's the hurry?
I mean, you're already on camera.
There should be no hurry.
Just take your time.
If California is going to legalize shoplifting, just take your time.
And by the way, is it $950 per shop or per incident?
So if you walk in and you steal $900 and then you walk out and you take that loot to your car, can you walk back in and just steal another $900?
Is that what the law is going to say?
Is it per incident and does the new incident start over when you walk into the shop again?
Or is it per shop?
Or is it per day?
Is it one thief can only steal a maximum of $900 per day in the aggregate across all the shops?
Or is it per shop per day?
You can walk in and shoplift from Best Buy $900 per day every day.
Oh, it's Monday.
Let's rip off Best Buy.
Oh, it's Tuesday.
Let's rip off Best Buy.
Oh, it's Wednesday.
Let's rip off Best Buy.
And then, of course, most of the stuff ends up for sale on eBay, which is the stolen items retail second-hand outlet.
That's where you find all the stolen goods.
On eBay.
You know, I'm not advocating this, but I'm just making a point.
I think under Islamic law, if you're caught stealing, don't they cut off your hand?
Wouldn't that stop shoplifting pretty quickly?
I mean, I know that sounds like a very cruel punishment, and it probably is.
It's probably way too cruel.
But it certainly works in Islamic countries, as I understand it anyway.
Whereas in America, stealing is just incentivized.
It also makes me wonder at what level of theft do shopkeepers actually call the police and have a report filed because that's necessary for insurance reimbursement.
And I'm wondering, you know, if it's less than a thousand, is it even worth dealing with insurance and police and taking up your whole afternoon, filling out a police report, filing insurance claims?
Only to have them denied or whatever.
Is it even worth it for the shopkeeper?
You know, this is why I think a lot of shops are just going to close up and leave.
Wouldn't you?
I mean, I would.
And you know, another interesting thought on all of this is most of these people engaging in this theft are, of course, left-wing people.
They're Democrats.
And You know, why wouldn't they steal when they watch the Democrat leaders and they see that all they do is steal?
Democrats steal elections.
Democrats steal money with money printing.
And they steal money with, you know, kickbacks and bribery and fraud.
I mean, Joe Biden has been given all these 20 million dollars in bribes from, what, Burisma and Ukraine and who knows how much from China and other countries.
I mean, That's a form of stealing from the American people because you're getting paid off to redirect resources that are paid for by American taxpayers to benefit other nations rather than America.
That's stealing.
It's also treason, by the way.
Joe Biden should be arrested and prosecuted for treason.
But apparently...
You know, treason and crime and theft and bribery, it's all approved by the Democrats.
And so we shouldn't be surprised when Democrat voters behave in exactly the same way.
And this is why you've got to get to a state like Texas, where you have the right to defend your home, you know, the castle doctrine.
In Texas, by the way, it's currently law that you can use a firearm to prevent a felony crime.
Such as someone stealing a TV or something.
I don't know what the level of a felony is, but surely, if someone's stealing over $1,000, that's going to be considered a felony crime.
Now, I'm not advocating that you run around policing the shoplifting as a citizen vigilante or anything like that.
It's the shopkeeper's responsibility to stop shoplifting.
But if somebody comes to your home and wants to loot your home and rob your home, well, then that is your purview.
And if you have a firearm, in most counties in Texas, you're going to be given the benefit of the doubt.
If somebody breaks down your front door and comes in and you shoot them, you know, most sheriffs and most DAs, not all of them, but most of them are going to say, well, you know, the shooting was justified.
It was self-defense against a home invader.
Now, maybe that's not true in Austin, Texas, super libtard Travis County town there, where it's a George Soros DA and all that nonsense, so maybe don't live there.
But pretty much everywhere else in Texas, somebody tries to rob your home.
I don't know, maybe not in certain counties in Dallas-Fort Worth or Houston or San Antonio, but in most counties in Texas, you are in the right to use a firearm to defend your property and to defend yourself.
And I can tell you that everybody that I know in Texas, they're going to defend their property, firearms or otherwise.
And at some point, because we're living through the last dark chapter of the fall of the American Empire, at some point, the Democrat cities will become so lawless and chaotic that for anyone to survive, they will be forced to begin deploying firearms in their defense.
They will have no choice.
And you're going to see a lot of people get shot in cities like San Francisco and Chicago and so on.
You know, as the rule of law really falls apart, you're gonna see people taking it upon themselves to defend their own property.
You're gonna see shopkeepers shooting looters and shoplifters.
And, you know, you can't blame them, right?
If somebody keeps coming in and just stealing day after day after day, you know, at some point, they should probably expect to get shot by the shopkeeper.
And did you think that this was a free-for-all?
Did you think that you could just steal Basically taking another man's labor?
Stealing the time and labor from another person for yourself, for your own personal greed or your own personal drug habit?
Yeah, you should probably expect that some shopkeeper is going to unload on you some 9mm rounds or something larger.
And I don't know about you, but I'm at the point in this country watching this lawlessness and all this insanity that I wholly support shopkeepers who shoot shoplifters.
I think it's well justified.
They should put up a sign.
You know, shoplifters will be shot.
Go somewhere else.
Pretty simple message, right?
You know, you've seen the signs.
Trespassers will be violated.
Survivors will be shot.
Yep.
We're going to enter an era of tough justice by the citizens, frankly.
That's the backlash that's going to happen because of the lunacy of the laws right now that allow mass theft and shoplifting.
So just have an expectation that the pendulum is going to swing the other way, and you're going to find yourself living in a society with a lot of instant justice, whatever that looks like.
Some of it may be overkill, literally, but you're going to see a society of, quote, instant justice rolling out before your very eyes all across America.
It's the obvious outcome of where this is headed.
So...
Practice self-defense.
Know your local laws.
Don't take this as legal advice or self-defense advice, but do your own research and find out what the laws are where you live.
Obey those laws.
Be in compliance with them.
But also, don't be afraid to defend yourself and to defend your property in compliance with the law.
Thank you for listening.
Mike Adams here, The Health Ranger, naturalnews.com, and also brighteon.com.
Take care.
A global reset is coming, and that's why I've recorded a new nine-hour audiobook.
It's called The Global Reset Survival Guide.
You can download it for free by subscribing to the naturalnews.com email newsletter, which is also free.
I'll describe how the monetary system fails.
I also cover emergency medicine and first aid and what to buy to help you avoid infections.
So download this guide.
It's free.
▲
Export Selection