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shoplifting reports are up 20% over the past three years in Chicago. Suburban retailers have blamed the increase on a decision by Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx to take a softer approach to shoplifting cases. Foxx has instructed her attorneys to reject felony-level retail theft charges unless a person is accused of stealing more than $1,000 in merchandise at a single event. An exception may be made if the accused thief has more than 10 felony convictions in their past, Foxx instructed. https://cwbchicago.com/2019/12/video-shoplifters-walk-out-of-lincoln-park-store-with-armloads-of-winter-coats.htmlSee also what MA Suffolk District Attorney Rachael Rollin proposes.

And what is behind this shoplifting is the victim-entitlement mentality which goes way back to the Garden of Eden. In which the devil craftily works to use man's sense of justice to bring her to believe that what belongs to God should belong to her ("share the wealth"), and that God is selfishly and unjustly keeping it back from her.

And that the penalty for it is unjust and a bluff. And therefore disobedience is justified in order to obtain what is rightfully hers. Same premise as the "Occupy Movement."

And that rather than receiving such being by those of humble hearts and as an act of grace - which fosters gratitude and motivation to betterment - instead having what others earned is considered a right by "victims, which fosters demands for more.

The lie is that rather than benefits belonging to those who are morally worthy, and who can choose to share such out of mercy and grace, instead, no one has a right to benefits you are envious of, except those who possesses certain non-mora aspects as skin color.

Which racism is essentially what we see in the devil presuming to occupy the throne of God, not on the basis of reward for obedience or of grace, but evidently, like liberals, because he saw himself as inherently worthy of greater unearned power.

All of which rebellion God allows as revelatory, and providing the alternative to obedience for man to chose btwn. Sadly the nation is increasingly choosing proxy servants of the devil. Whose end is not good:

And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are, and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever. (Revelation 20:10)