Adele Andaloro is the owner of a home in Queens, N.Y. worth approximately a million dollars which she inherited from her parents who are both now deceased. Having left it unattended for some time, she recently went there in anticipation of selling it, only to discover that it was now inhabited by homeless squatters. Having changed the locks to prevent them from returning after their daily departures, she was arrested by police for unlawful eviction. In N.Y., apparently, squatters who have occupied a site for more than 30 days have legal rights. Adele is utterly astounded that she faces charges for simply trying to take possession of what she thought was legally hers!
As reported by The Epoch Times today, a Toronto police chief recently admitted that a car is stolen in that city every 40 minutes. 2023 in fact saw more than 12,000 people so deprived of their vehicles, often as they were parked on their very own property. Coincidentally, as reported by The Blaze News Network just a couple of days ago, a police chief in Etobicoke, a suburb of Toronto, advised residents there to leave the keys to their car by their front doors so as to avoid any physical confrontation with intruders intent on stealing them.
The facts cited above illustrate the subtle but pernicious impact of the Left’s disdain for Capitalism, manifest in a N.Y. law seemingly indifferent to the principle of Legal Ownership as well as a Canadian police force less concerned with upholding that principle than in minimalizing the impact of its inevitable violation. Yes, people who own million dollar homes and automobiles worth stealing are, in the “mind” of the contemporary Left, just so many “privileged” opportunists whose legal rights are no longer a priority of our “progressive” civilization.