Tom Finneran: The Sound of Breaking Glass

Saturday, June 13, 2020

Tom Finneran, GoLocalWorcester MINDSETTER™

Tom Finneran is the former Speaker of the House in MA

Let’s not conclude that the entire world has gone crazy.

Let’s not condemn the world in such broad fashion. That’s not fair to the larger world……….

That there are many simpletons in our midst becomes more obvious every day. And those simpletons endanger those of us who are not crazy.

Did you hear that sound? It sounded like breaking glass. A quick glance out the window reveals a noble citizen grabbing your briefcase, your daughter’s violin, and other items out of the backseat of your car.

Not to worry however. You are woke and you recognize the neighborhood thief in his titanic struggle with the criminal law. He should be hailed for those few days each month when he stays in bed and does not commit another crime. Besides, those cranky old laws have been forced upon us by a patriarchal class of reactionaries.

Jump ahead a week or two and you are at the shop or office working late. Your spouse calls and she sounds frightened. The kids are crying in the background. A brick has come through the side panels of the front door and a hand is reaching for the deadbolt lock which separates your family from a friendly visit with the neighborhood addict. If only a counselor was available. I’m sure things would turn out nicely.

While you are working late at the shop, the sound of breaking glass catches your attention. Not to worry, it’s just the neighborhood apprentice with a sledgehammer and crowbar. He probably just wants a letter of recommendation for Harvard or Yale. You should have a constructive dialogue with him. I’m sure that he’s quite reasonable.

Our guest today is more than a simpleton. She is a credentialed idiot. She has Bachelor and Masters degrees. Yet she remains an absolute idiot.

Meet Lisa Bender, the President of the Minneapolis City Council. The University of Minnesota and U.Cal. Berkeley must have had a hand in her achieving a record level of foolishness. Perhaps a few side classes on guilt, oppression, and privilege have brought her to the peak of wokeness.

Miss Bender wants to “defund” the police. Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. Let’s fund some peace activists instead. They’ll rush right out to the scene of the latest armed robbery or sexual assault.

Going even further into the twilight zone of idiocy, Miss Bender wants to abolish the police department and live in a “police free future”. Now that’s a true progressive. Truly moronic, truly progressive.

John Lennon’s infantile nonsense of “Imagine” is probably the Bender family’s favorite song. Of course, John was a classic hypocrite, with armed guards providing him round-the-clock protection, such as it was.

Miss Bender has apparently received some constituent calls which ask the obvious question as to whom one should call if one’s house is being broken into? Councillor Bender has responded that such questions “come from a place of privilege”. I kid you not.

Speaking of privilege, I note that Miss Bender’s salary as a city councillor is $ 98,000.00 a year. Such a pittance for such advanced wokeness. Why can’t Boston find such brilliant public servants? The elderly woman who gets mugged for her pocketbook, the child last seen being hustled into a strange car, the meek family being harassed by neighborhood bullies, all of them suffer from “privilege” in wanting the violence to end. Miss Bender’s concern however is that we find a way to empathize with the perpetrators.

I’m sorry Miss Bender. You are an idiot. And I do not empathize.

I know the sound of breaking glass.

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