Expropriation Derangement Syndrome

Aggression without consequences becomes acceptable behaviour.

When aggression is crowned by success it creates a heady and addictive euphoria. The negative consequences, such as they are, are borne by the victims of such aggression, and the aggressors appear to be greater, stronger and much to be admired by the subdued and silent witnesses to their behaviour. Some might describe it as the Stockholm Syndrome.

As with all euphoria, it is addictive. As with all addictions, it becomes the go-to solution to all the addicts' problems.

The Government of Antigua & Barbuda is currently experiencing an addiction to expropriation.

The "taking of property" has been limited for some time to property ownership by its own citizens. Only weak opposition was offered, due to the ignorance of the laws governing the Constitutional right of individuals to own private property and the cost of taking on the political machine which still controls all the facets...