Lib reporters can’t call it property because that may conjure ‘property rights’ in the mind of the reader. Better to refer to the victm’s belongings as merchandise implying the criminal had rights to it also.
Was it Pelosi who stated that working Americans’ paychecks should be deposited directly in the Federal coffers and then they would decide how much we should get? That really is how they think it should be.
You nailed it a’squared. They are desperate to destroy the very concept of property rights!