for the Occupiers
The Occupy movement’s weakness so far has been its failure to focus. It’s right to damn an obscene gap between rich and poor, but instead of just tenting in parks it needs to denounce specific offences. Ostentatious excess is a place to start: Make conspicuous over-consumption politically incorrect.
Super-cars are an obvious target. Vehicles capable of speeds more than twice the legal limit should be banned except on the track. Owning them without special permits should be a crime. Anyone walking the street with lock-picks in his pocket and a jimmy up his sleeve is presumed by law to be planning burglary: Anyone on the road in a car that can do 250 kilometres an hour should be presumed to be contemplating driving it at that speed.
Last week’s multi-million-dollar pileup above (in Japan) involved eight Ferraris, three Mercedes and a Lamborghini, but more often when these luxury speedsters go off the rails they take out some poor devils in a modest family sedan — or a pedestrian or two.
Decry these things. Urge politicians to outlaw them. Occupy car lots.
