Home Invasion

This crime bears a multitude of outrages:

Didn't this used to be known as "trespassing"?  In this case, trespassing very closing bordering on breaking and entering, followed by assault perhaps?  Sure looks like it to me.

But wait, it gets worse:

Last Sunday, on a peaceful, sun-crisp afternoon, our toddler finally napping upstairs, my front yard exploded with five hundred screaming, placard-waving strangers on a mission to intimidate my neighbor, Greg Baer. Baer is deputy general counsel for corporate law at Bank of America (BAC, Fortune 500), a senior executive based in Washington, D.C. And that — in the minds of the organizers at the politically influential Service Employees International Union and a Chicago outfit called National Political Action — makes his family fair game.

Waving signs denouncing bank “greed,” hordes of invaders poured out of fourteen school buses, up Baer’s steps, and onto his front porch. As bullhorns rattled with stories of debtor calls and foreclosed homes, Baer’s teenage son Jack — alone in the house — locked himself in the bathroom. “When are they going to leave?” Jack pleaded when I called to check on him…

Now this event would accurately be called a “protest” if it were taking place at, say, a bank or the U.S. Capitol. But when hundreds of loud and angry strangers are descending on your family, your children, and your home, a more apt description of this assemblage would be “mob.” Intimidation was the whole point of this exercise, and it worked - even on the police. A trio of officers who belatedly answered our calls confessed a fear that arrests might “incite” these trespassers.

How pussified were these cops?  Not only did they not call in a SWAT team, complete with tasers and billy clubs, they actually provided the Purpleshirts a friggin' police escort.

But wait; it gets worse.  Turns out Mr. Baer is....a lifelong Democrat.  Wonder if that'll be changing after this little impromptu visit.

Don't worry, I saved the best for last.  Despite the usual crapulist boilerplate BS about "evil bank foreclosures," what they're REALLY after is to bully Bank of America into not foreclosing on them.

And if they had broken into the Baer household only to find a terrified teenage boy cowering in an upstairs bathroom, what might they have done then?  The very act itself would have trashed the place.  Is there any reason to think they wouldn't have ransacked it as well?  And maybe "made an example" of Jack Baer (How's THAT for an ironic name?) as a message to his dad.  Doesn't seem to me like much of a stretch at all.

I can see a scene similar to this one unfolding in the very near future.  The vid beats the point to death, but the only appropriate response at the end is worth the wait.

"Like we're in hell or something," indeed.