An Ordinary Citizen’s Bill of RightsWhat, we might wonder, would our municipal Bill of Rights look like if we could ever take our cities back from the activist chieftains who lord over them on their tribe’s behalf?
By Alexander Zubatov
June 18, 2023
New York City has approximately 70,000 bums—the size of a small army—which we might consider sending to help out Ukraine in lieu of continuing our giveaway of billions in aid and weaponry.
Instead, because, apparently, those bums don’t already have enough rights compared to the rest of us, the New York City Council, with Mayor Eric Adams’ signature on the dotted line, recently passed a “Homeless Bill of Rights” to give them some more.
Sponsored by New York’s “Public Advocate” Jumaane Williams—whose life’s mission, contrary to his misleading title, is to advocate not for the general public but for thugs, bums, and derelicts and to be a perpetual thorn in the side of all of those who think living in a city that is safe, sane, and sanitary is a worthwhile goal—the Bums’ Bill of Rights accomplishes such things as setting forth their right to a city-funded shelter, including one consistent with their preferred gender identity (no, that’s not a joke), codifying their right to sleep on the city’s streets, as though they needed an invitation, and reminding them of their right to vote . . . because, of course, we want the input of people who contribute nothing to our society, pay no taxes, live off of the hard work of others, and make our lives just a little more miserable each and every day, to have an influence on public policy.
To those of us who live in this city and actually use its streets and subways—unlike the hereditary caste of limousine liberals that assuages its guilt at having inherited wealth by making a conspicuous show of promoting policies that coddle druggies, bums, and criminals and make cities generally unlivable — the Bums’ Bill of Rights is just another slap in the face, another reminder of all the rights ordinary citizens don’t have because they are always the city’s last priority. What, we might wonder, would our municipal Bill of Rights look like if we could ever take our cities back from the activist chieftains who lord over them on their tribe’s behalf?
The Ordinary Citizen’s Bill of Rights might look something like this:
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It took all of de Blasio’s disastrous eight-year reign for the sky to fall, for crime to spike again and for the filth, disorder, thuggery, and vagrancy to rise to its present-day fever pitch.
And so, just as it took years for our hard-won good habits to degenerate into bad ones, it will take years for us to learn once again that actions have consequences and that the rights of ordinary, law-abiding citizens who are the backbone of our society, as of every society, actually matter more than the rights of thugs, bums, and criminals. What we want is a good-faith effort.
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Source:
https://amgreatness.com/2023/06/18/an-ordinary-citizens-bill-of-rights/
