Via John Hayward at Human Events:
A traveling friend sent me an item clipped from a Georgia newspaper that reads, in its entirety:
A woman said she noticed her purse missing from her car just before 5 P.M. Sunday. The car was parked at her residence on Hornet Drive. The woman said the car had been locked, and the purse was in the back seat.
The purse was valued at $400, her wallet was valued at $200, and she said there was $800 cash in the purse, according to the police report. Also missing were the woman’s food stamp cards.
(Emphasis mine.) The sad part is that the food stamp cards were probably worth more than the purse, wallet, and cash.
It bears repeating, as both a critique and a warning of things to come, that the great project of the American Left involves teaching the middle class to think of itself as “poor.” That way, they’ll vote themselves into servitude. The impoverished mind has no use for talk of economic liberty. It values “hope,” which is passive and servile, over “opportunity.”
It took a few days to get an answer but this story was in fact printed in the New Brunswick, Georgia newspaper on April 3rd, according to a reporter who works there.
ReplyDeleteI found this by searching for the term 'Hornet Drive' which was mentioned in the article. New Brunswick, Georgia popped up. I looked for New Brunswick newspapers. I found one but I couldn't access the archives without a paid subscription so I found the Editor and Reporter email addresses. The first one I emailed, the local editor ignored my request, but the reporter,
Louie Brogdon replied to me today:
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Mr. Wright,
The story ran as a crime brief in our paper on April 3.
The complete listing follows.
Regards,
—Louie
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To the people who are who are passing this story around:
You could have easily done what I did to confirm something is factual before forwarding or re-posting it. There's enough crap on the internet without adding unsubstantiated rumor.
Better yet, someone posted a scan of the article
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