https://www.shouselaw.com/ca/blog/laws/is-california-a-stand-your-ground-state/

Gentleman Bank robber Willie Sutton said that in an interview.

“an American bank robber notorious for his prolific criminal career which lasted for forty years. He is estimated to have robbed over 100 banks, stealing around $2 million.

He was a master of disguise who often impersonated a postal telegraph messenger, police officer or maintenance man. His expertise at carrying out robberies in disguise earned him the nicknames “Slick Willie” and “Willie the Actor.”

Besides being an innovative robber, he also had a reputation for cleverly breaking out of prisons, which he did thrice.

In spite of being a criminal, Willie was non-violent and polite; he never killed anyone throughout his career as a professional criminal. He always carried a gun on his robberies, but he later admitted that he never carried a loaded gun as he was afraid of injuring anyone.

He was often arrested for his crimes and spent half of his adult life in prisons.”

Quite a memorable character.

“Why do you rob banks? That’s where the money is.” IIRC

And forgive the plug, but I make mashups of Shakespeare and current events (at abardseyeview.com), and I just finished a book in that vein: ‘Hamlet’s 2020 Vision: A recasting of Hamlet as the tragedy of the 2020 election.’

When you combine these two tragedies you get quite a bit of comedy, it turns out, and a chance to vent and gain some perspective on what has just happened to us.

And the parallels! The Biden cabal as the usurping King Claudius, President Trump as the Ghost (still haunting the liberals, after all), Polonius the spymaster as the tech oligarchs, and Hamlet as All of Us, since we, like Hamlet, are trying to avenge the theft of a nation’s entire government in a way that reveals the illegitimacy of the usurping regime and restores the nation to legitimate rule. Again, sorry for the plug. The book is here: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=hamlet%27s+2020+vision&i=stripbooks&ref=nb_sb_noss

That will be the “hang them from lamp posts” stage of things because the number of upper middle-class folks who NEED those retirement accounts cannot be underestimated.

Mike

My guess on the “tax the rich” political program, is that the top 0.2% in wealth will be “allowed” to dodge it, and the top 10 or 15%, excluding the top 0.2%, in wealth will targeted. This chart shows that this is where the money is. (Note: wealth and income are different and often confused and used interchangeably by the left.)

My other fear is that when the Dems really screw up the federal debt to unsustainable (or should I say unmaskable?) levels, they will come after our retirement accounts. Don’t worry, they will only take 10% of it. Then another 10%, etc. They already held congressional hearings on this during Obama’s second term, if memory serves.

Well-explained in the following video, which is 10 years old but unfortunately still relevant:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvzqa71plv4