Stopped Lights

The stoplights go out in Oakland:

Oakland, Fox News explains, “has been experiencing high crime and theft, including people stealing copper wires and the city's infrastructure.” The city tried to stop this by putting up cement barriers around electrical boxes, but the brigands proved resourceful enough to overcome that. And so now the wise Communists who rule the city have “taken to removing the traffic lights at a busy intersection and replacing them with stop signs.” A nearby business owner spells out what this signifies. Tam Le of Le's Auto Body & Engine Repair said: "It's just telling us that the city is giving up on us.” That’s right, Tam Le. That’s exactly what it’s telling you. Tam Le continued: "If you really want to fix the stop sign, I think you really have to clean up this homeless encampment." Yes, but there is no chance that Oakland officials will do that. It would go against so many leftist dogmas that they would be impeached and removed from office within minutes. And so the traffic lights have to go.

But the thieves get to stay...