“F**k the rich:” Class-war arsonist on the loose

By Michelle Malkin  •  December 13, 2010 10:53 AM

Yes, I would like to know where all the civility police are to point fingers at Washington class-warfare demagogues for stoking dangerous hatred and violence-inciting, insane rage.

CapeCodOnline.com reports:

Police and fire officials are investigating an arson fire in Sandwich that has a disturbing similarity with a suspicious incident in Barnstable.

In both cases, the arsonist left a calling card, the message, “(expletive) the rich” at the scene.
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A confidential arson hotline is available 24-hours a day at 800-682-9229.

The Arson Watch Reward Program, funded by the state’s property and casualty insurance companies, provides rewards of up to $5,000 to help solve arson cases, according to the state Fire Marshal’s Office.

At 3:30 a.m. on Nov. 24, flames engulfed an unoccupied home still under construction at 16 Boulder Brook Road in Sandwich. Only the exterior of the house had been completed. The home, which was valued at $500,000, had a three-car garage and three bedrooms, but no plumbing or electric service, Sandwich Fire Chief George Russell said.

The heavy damage burned much of the evidence. But the state Fire Marshal’s Office was recently able to rule that an arsonist had set the fire, Russell said.

The following week, on Dec. 2, incendiary devices were found at 43 Trotters Lane in Marstons Mills, law enforcement officials said.

At Trotters Lane, the message “(expletive) the rich,” was clearly spray painted on a fence on the property, Barnstable police Det. John York said.

York said a similar message had been found at the Sandwich property. Sandwich officials have declined to provide details about that case.

If the unknown arsonist involved in this spate of property crimes had tagged walls with “F**k the poor” instead of “F**k the rich,” MSNBC and the New York Times would be posting figurative Most Wanted Posters for the Tea Party all over again. (h/t Doug Powers and JWF)

Instead, crickets chirp…

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  1. #1
    On December 13th, 2010 at 11:02 am, NJ-Aviator said:

    The ObamaMedia won’t assign blame for something they approve of.

  2. #2
    On December 13th, 2010 at 11:05 am, swede said:

    At 3:30 a.m. on Nov. 24, flames engulfed an unoccupied home still under construction at 16 Boulder Brook Road in Sandwich.

    Hey, genius, guess who pays for this? The insurance company who must then raise premiums for everybody to cover it. Ignorant idealism strikes again. “Don’t confuse me with facts, I’m on a mission.”

  3. #3
    On December 13th, 2010 at 11:07 am, mchristian said:

    Now we know why John Kerry does not berth his yacht in Massachusetts.

  4. #4
    On December 13th, 2010 at 11:09 am, Dexter Alarius said:

    If the unknown arsonist involved in this spate of property crimes had tagged walls with “F**k the poor Muslims” instead of “F**k the rich,” MSNBC and the New York Times would be posting figurative Most Wanted Posters for the Tea Party all over again.

    Probably more accurate.

  5. #5
    On December 13th, 2010 at 11:10 am, TanyaB said:

    This is totally on Obama’s and the liberal’s shoulders. All we have heard for over two years is about the wicked, evil rich.And the pitiful oppressed poor.
    This is truly caused by a “flaming” liberal. heh

  6. #6
    On December 13th, 2010 at 11:11 am, Speakup said:

    Criminality and useful idiocy, neither require a High School diploma.

  7. #7
    On December 13th, 2010 at 11:32 am, spaceycakes said:

    F* J. Kerry.

  8. #8
    On December 13th, 2010 at 11:35 am, txvet2 said:

    If (s)he hates the rich so much, why doesn’t(s)he burn out Kerry or the Kennedys?

  9. #9
    On December 13th, 2010 at 11:35 am, hawkeye54 said:

    Criminality and useful idiocy, neither require a High School diploma.

    Strangely, though, in cases such as this it’s possibly a case of the suspect having been exposed to radical leftist university indoctrication. Wouldn’t suprise me if the suspect has a Masters or PhD in some useless field leaving him or herself in a pitiful state of poverty eaking out a living being overeducated, underemployed and having an induced seathing hatred and envy of anyone achieving financial success with less education.

  10. #10
    On December 13th, 2010 at 11:35 am, TooMuchTime said:

    Have you noticed that the knuckle-draggers seem to think that the socialist politicians for whom they vote are NOT among the rich?

    So George Soros is actually the socialist verison of a Benedictine Monk and has given up all worldly possessions in his spiritual search for true socialism.

    Yeah. Right.

  11. #11
    On December 13th, 2010 at 11:36 am, Rogue Cheddar said:

    They wanted class warfare, now they have it!

  12. #12
    On December 13th, 2010 at 11:40 am, AlohaGuy said:

    valued at $500,000

    The rich? Here’s what a $500,000 home looks like on Oahu. I just looked it up – that’s a true photo. It’s in Waianae, which as Hangfire will attest is not anywhere you’d want to live.

  13. #13
    On December 13th, 2010 at 11:43 am, Pasadena Phil said:

    Rogue: “You lived in a box?!?! We used to dream of living in a box!”

  14. #14
    On December 13th, 2010 at 11:45 am, Pasadena Phil said:

    Sorry, I meant Aloha Guy.

  15. #15
    On December 13th, 2010 at 11:46 am, letget said:

    AlohaGuy#12,
    At that price, it better have one heck of a view near the water! Wow, property is out of sight in Oahu!
    L

  16. #16
    On December 13th, 2010 at 11:50 am, hawkeye54 said:

    Have you noticed that the knuckle-draggers seem to think that the socialist politicians for whom they vote are NOT among the rich?

    Decades and decades of brainwashing and indoctrinating at work here. Obviously, those who are rich and leftist socialists are “noble” and fight for the well-being of useful idiot leftists in the rank and file. The “rich” rich are,of course, the greedy conservatives and “Rethuglians” responsible for oppressing the poor.

  17. #17
    On December 13th, 2010 at 11:52 am, stillontheroad said:

    Now tell me, because of negative comments spewed by the Libtard Progressives inciting a fellow basement dweller to go out and Burn Down a RICH persons home, why this is not a HATE CRIME!!

  18. #18
    On December 13th, 2010 at 12:02 pm, ArizonaNeanderthal said:

    I am guessing that an awful lot of rich people who have been supporting these leftist radicals are starting to wonder just how bright an idea that was.

    Don’t play with matches?

  19. #19
    On December 13th, 2010 at 12:10 pm, AlohaGuy said:

    #
    Pasadena Phil said:

    Rogue: “You lived in a box?!?! We used to dream of living in a box!”
    #
    #14
    On December 13th, 2010 at 11:45 am, Pasadena Phil said:

    Sorry, I meant Aloha Guy.

    “You were lucky. We lived for three months in a paper bag in a septic tank. We used to have to get up at six in the morning, clean the paper bag, eat a crust of stale bread, go to work down t’ mill, fourteen hours a day, week-in week-out, for sixpence a week, and when we got home our Dad would thrash us to sleep wi’ his belt.”
    (Monty Python)

  20. #20
    On December 13th, 2010 at 12:23 pm, dan708 said:

    Police and fire officials are investigating an arson fire in Sandwich that has a disturbing similarity with a suspicious incident in Barnstable.

    I wonder if this is one of those people who used to set fire to Hummers in the name of environmentalism, before Gubmint Motors dropped the line?

  21. #21
    On December 13th, 2010 at 12:26 pm, letget said:

    Breaking news=Fed. Judge rules bhocare is unconstitutional, Virginia v sebelius!
    L

  22. #22
    On December 13th, 2010 at 12:29 pm, stillontheroad said:

    Judge rules bhocare is unconstitutional!
    Welly, welly, welly, welly, welly, welly, well. To what do we owe the extreme pleasure of this surprising verdict? Ole Sock Puppet will really retire to the Puppet Bunker over this latest slap.

  23. #23
    On December 13th, 2010 at 12:30 pm, John Deaux said:

    Phil and Aloha,

    You try and tell that to kids today and they won’t believe you.

  24. #24
    On December 13th, 2010 at 12:30 pm, Hangfire said:

    On December 13th, 2010 at 11:40 am, AlohaGuy said:
    The rich? Here’s what a $500,000 home looks like on Oahu. I just looked it up – that’s a true photo. It’s in Waianae, which as Hangfire will attest is not anywhere you’d want to live.

    Roger that, AG. I will say that it is easy to fix plumbing problems at that property.

  25. #25
    On December 13th, 2010 at 12:31 pm, Hangfire said:

    On December 13th, 2010 at 11:46 am, letget said:
    AlohaGuy#12,
    At that price, it better have one heck of a view near the water! Wow, property is out of sight in Oahu!
    L

    For the homeless, there is a used shopping cart dealership in Kakaako.

  26. #26
    On December 13th, 2010 at 12:39 pm, plymouthacclaim said:

    This craziness is magnified by the law-abiding citizen’s inability to defend self, others, and property. Glad I live in Texas.

    On December 13, 2010 at 09:26 am, letget said:
    Breaking news=Fed. Judge rules bhocare is unconstitutional, Virginia v sebelius!
    L

    W00t!!!

  27. #27
    On December 13th, 2010 at 12:40 pm, swede said:

    AlohaGuy said:

    You had a paper bag and stale bread? Luxury. We lived in Michael Moore’s armpit. Had to eat the fleas.

  28. #28
    On December 13th, 2010 at 12:43 pm, frontierguy said:

    What is so funny is that the rich in Mass are all Teddy worshipping, democrat lock step marchers. I love left on left crime, makes the coffee so much sweeter. Especially when these people really have the same message. Like when college students terrorize professors’ homes. News like this, makes my day.

  29. #29
    On December 13th, 2010 at 12:44 pm, spaceycakes said:

    I’ll say it before anyone else can: ‘the Barnstable police acted stupidly.’

  30. #30
    On December 13th, 2010 at 12:47 pm, Hangfire said:

    Saturday night we made boiled a few hotdogs for dinner. Last night we had hotdog water and rice.

    Nice reddish water from the hotdogs, full of FD&C red #40 and sodium nitrite. Ummm, good. Redondos, AlohaGuy.

  31. #31
    On December 13th, 2010 at 12:51 pm, Rogue Cheddar said:

    On December 13th, 2010 at 12:40 pm, swede said:
    You had a paper bag and stale bread? Luxury. We lived in Michael Moore’s armpit. Had to eat the fleas.

    Are you kidding? At least you had fat fleas to feast upon!

  32. #32
    On December 13th, 2010 at 12:52 pm, TooMuchTime said:

    Fed. Judge rules bhocare is unconstitutional, Virginia v Sebelius

    Virginia responded, in relevant part, that the Commerce Clause does not grant Congress unbridled authority to regulate inactivity and force every man, woman, and child to enter the marketplace or face a civil penalty.

    I love that quote from the CATO website. It’s perfect. Think about it. Congress can regulate commercial activity because of the Commerce Clause. However, if you choose to not participate in commercial activity, none of the regulations apply to you.

    I forgot which judge said this and from which decision it comes, but it is relevant here:

    Any man may so adjust his affairs as to pay the least amount of tax possible.

    But with ObrainlessCare the gov’t is trying to prove that they can force people to engage in mercantile activity so they can regulate it. And their logic of regulation? Because you’re required to get health care!

    Do you think this intrusion would stop at just health care? Sure it would…

  33. #33
    On December 13th, 2010 at 12:53 pm, Rogue Cheddar said:

    We were so poor, we never had any tinsel to decorate the Christmas tree, we always had to wait for Grandpa to sneeze!

  34. #34
    On December 13th, 2010 at 1:05 pm, swede said:

    had to wait for Grandpa to sneeze!

    We’d have killed for snot tinsel! We had to use Grandpa’s carcass for a tree.

  35. #35
    On December 13th, 2010 at 1:16 pm, hawkeye54 said:

    Do you think this intrusion would stop at just health care?

    Nope. It won’t stop until the socialists have complete control of everything and everyone. Or, until there are no more socialists…anywhere.

  36. #36
    On December 13th, 2010 at 1:22 pm, cheapseat said:

    Very funny guys, love those I’m poorer than you stories. When was the last time you burned down some EVIL RICH GUY’S HOUSE?

  37. #37
    On December 13th, 2010 at 1:25 pm, right_on said:

    This person has undoubitably undergone significant trauma at the hands of some rich person…like being paid minimum wage for serving hamburgers, instead of what he/she is worth, say, $200,000/yr.

    If and when this vandal is caught, we should show some level of compassion, then send he/she/it to prison for a long, long time. This way, they will have a roof over their heads, 3 squares a day, and can be all they were meant to be…and give the bored inmates some fresh pickin’s.

  38. #38
    On December 13th, 2010 at 1:34 pm, Dexter Alarius said:

    Hmmph! Must be Yale man! (said in my best Thurston Howell III voice)

  39. #39
    On December 13th, 2010 at 2:06 pm, Rogue Cheddar said:

    On December 13th, 2010 at 1:05 pm, swede said:
    We’d have killed for snot tinsel! We had to use Grandpa’s carcass for a tree.

    At least you had a carcass! The longest wait is waiting for someone to die, especially if you’re hungry!

  40. #40
    On December 13th, 2010 at 2:10 pm, Milwaukee Mike said:

    Anyone know whe Ayers and Doerrn are vacationing?

  41. #41
    On December 13th, 2010 at 2:22 pm, mchristian said:

    Rogue Cheddar said:

    At least you had a carcass! The longest wait is waiting for someone to die, especially if you’re hungry!

    Donner, party of one!

  42. #42
    On December 13th, 2010 at 2:46 pm, Rogue Cheddar said:

    Here’s a song to sing while you’re waiting to be seated.

    Songwriters: Holmes, Rupert

    Trapped in a mine that had caved in
    And everyone knows the only ones left
    Were Joe and me and Tim
    When they broke through to pull us free
    The only ones left to tell the tale
    Were Joe and me

    Timothy, Timothy, where on earth did you go?
    Timothy, Timothy, God why don’t I know?

    Hungry as hell no food to eat
    And Joe said that he would sell his soul
    For just a piece of meat
    Water enough to drink for two
    And Joe said to me, “I’ll have a swig
    And then there’s some for you.”

    Timothy, Timothy, Joe was looking at you
    Timothy, Timothy, God what did we do?

    I must have blacked out just around then
    ‘Cause the very next thing that I could see
    Was the light of the day again
    My stomach was full as it could be
    And nobody ever got around
    To finding Timothy
    Timothy…

  43. #43
    On December 13th, 2010 at 3:28 pm, rambler said:

    There are commandments which state no stealing and no coveting other’s property. Class warfare might get them in office, but it won’t pay the bills. If the rich chose not to work or open businesses then the economy won’t grow. The DC elites tell us that we can’t afford to have tax cut for the wealthy. Then they want to impose wage ceilings and increase their taxes, without realizing that without people making money, there are no taxes to collect. If the gov can’t afford to cut taxes, then it’s time to drastically cut spending. Cut everything that the Constitution doesn’t mandate.

  44. #44
    On December 13th, 2010 at 3:38 pm, swede said:

    And nobody ever got around
    To finding Timothy
    Timothy…

    Catchy tune. Wasn’t it “Timothy” who said “God bless us,every one” before the feast? No further mention of Tiny Tim when that big fat turkey was on the table – and old Scrooge pigging out. Hmmmmmm. Said song puts a new, rather eerie light on Dickens.

  45. #45
    On December 13th, 2010 at 3:52 pm, Rogue Cheddar said:

    Scrooge: Hey this is pretty good with razzleberry dressing!

  46. #46
    On December 13th, 2010 at 4:18 pm, RedDog said:

    OK here’s the profile of the guy we are looking for:

    1. White male
    2. 18-25 years of age
    3. Student
    4. Lives at home or in the basement of his girlfriend’s parents
    5. Possibly works at a service-type job
    6. Smokes pot
    7. Registered Democrat
    8. Attends rallies for Lefty causes
    9. Hates America
    10. Lives in Mass. but also voted in Delaware and CT
    11. Wears rasta braids and a knit pull down hat
    12. Tries to grow a beard but can’t
    13. Wears Trotsky tortoise shell glasses
    14. Has dingleberries and dirty fingernails
    15. Hates his mother

  47. #47
    On December 13th, 2010 at 4:23 pm, Hannibal said:

    Mrs. Cratchit: I loved the goose Mr. Scrooge gave me.

  48. #48
    On December 13th, 2010 at 4:28 pm, RedDog said:

    On December 13th, 2010 at 11:40 am, AlohaGuy said:
    … It’s in Waianae, which as Hangfire will attest is not anywhere you’d want to live.

    Aloha: I lived in Waianae in 1970 and 1975. My brother and literally lived in a shack across the highway from the beach not far south of Makaha as I recall (it is all a blur). I heard they eventually went condo. I suspect that my friends the roaches and mongooses did not appreciate it. The roaches were the size of mice.

  49. #49
    On December 13th, 2010 at 4:30 pm, Rogue Cheddar said:

    On December 13th, 2010 at 4:28 pm, RedDog said:
    The roaches were the size of mice.

    Which means the spliff was the size of a housecat!

  50. #50
    On December 13th, 2010 at 4:53 pm, Hangfire said:

    Rauchen Verboten, RedDog.

  51. #51
    On December 13th, 2010 at 5:20 pm, tre said:

    “(expletive) the rich,”

    The fact that the spelling is correct proves the perpetrator was either homeschooled, or attended a private, Church-run school. That means the perp is a Christian Conservative Republican who is trying to frame looney leftwing liberals.

    It’s elementary, my dear Michelle.

  52. #52
    On December 13th, 2010 at 5:56 pm, hawkeye54 said:

    The fact that the spelling is correct proves the perpetrator was either homeschooled, or attended a private, Church-run school

    Non necessarily. Two of the words use four letters, the third three, and its a very common word. The leading four letter word is a particular favorite of the left that they enjoy using. Even a left wing looney can get these four & three letter words right more often than not…they only get into spelling trouble when using five or more letters in a word, usually.

  53. #53
    On December 14th, 2010 at 11:09 am, drfredc said:

    Left Wing Political Bigotry run amuk…

    Rest assured, as long as Political Bigotry is never properly labeled Political Bigotry, it will proceed along at full speed.

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