"Let them touch those things for once!"
Posted on 08/15/2026 9:21:53 AM PDT by DFG
A progressive New York City lawmaker says shoplifters should be left in peace to steal items like toothpaste and soap.
Emily Gallagher - a Democrat Socialist member of the New York State assembly - shared a clip on her X account that also villainized drugstores, which have been forced to lock products in plexiglass cases because of rampant theft.
Gallagher wrote that 'no one should be arrested - much less jailed' for stealing toothpaste' and said in a speech that such thefts were just 'crimes of poverty.'
Speaking at an event, she continued: 'People who were stealing things like toothpaste, people who were stealing things like soap.
'And that means if you're stealing those things, you need them.
'And we are choosing to protect billion dollar companies like CVS and Walgreens over the people who are struggling to get by.'
Gallagher represents NYC's District 50, which comprises the wealthy Brooklyn neighborhoods of Williamsburg and Greenpoint.
Many residents of New York and other big cities have complained that soft-on-crime policies such as those pushed by Gallagher have worsened their quality of life.
The drug store chains she sought to villainize now lock tens of thousands of everyday products in cases, which can only be opened by staff forced to endure regular abuse and anti-social behavior.
But Gallagher was unrepentant and continued: 'I would say that the true crime is that there is such incredible wealth disparity in this city.
'That there are people who can be thrown in jail simply for having a biological need.'
Gallagher said she would push for 'treatment not jail' punishments.
She urged her fellow progressives to 'hold the line' on criminal justice reform policies that have passed and which she claims are being 'threatened by right-wing media looking to fearmonger.'
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that fat, ugly bimbo with the tatts found the solution to stores carrying personal hygene items. How long before all those stores stop stocking those items when theft becomes legal? About 5 minutes.
That one needs a nose ring or she’s going to spend her time rooting for grubs.
Obviously confusing psychological need with biological need.
Red Glasses: *whispering* “She sayin’ what I think she sayin’?”
Blue Dress: *whispering* “She sayin’ it, sistah!”
That explains why democrats pass laws that allow people to steal without any consequences. If they could, they would seize all businesses and redistribute their money.
What a loon.
That fatso’s carcass could feed a small African village, for 20-25 days.
"Let them touch those things for once!"
“Gallagher wrote that ‘no one should be arrested - much less jailed’ for stealing toothpaste’ and said in a speech that such thefts were just ‘crimes of poverty.’“
Something tells me they aren’t stealing the generic brand… somehow they “need” the $8 Crest brand with whitening power.
Just bear in mind, there won’t be any food there.
Maybe the stores should just leave all their stuff out on the sidewalk to make it easier too. In fact, why even have stores with stockers and clerks at all then?
Funny: That's the same thing that I always say about rapists!
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Regards,
There, fixed it!
Regards,
Thieves and property destroyers should be in prison and required to pay back what they have stolen or destroyed.
Traitors, murderers, rapists, pedophiles should be executed.
Liars should be exposed to everyone for the myriad of methods they use to deceive.
A. Package-deals: “need” becomes a moral claim to others’ effort
A common epistemological maneuver in socialist argument is to treat “need” as an automatic entitlement—i.e., to slide from a description (“X lacks Y”) to a moral/legal conclusion (“therefore others must provide Y”).
That is a non sequitur unless you establish—by objective reasoning—that one man’s need is a lien on another man’s life. Rand’s answer is: it is not. Rights are freedoms of action, not claims to unearned values.
Stupid wench. Lock up the thieves, not the toothpaste.
New York City a mecca for hobo tramps and thieves.
She looks like she has a biological need to be fat and ugly.
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