The Importance Of Poverty, The Mother Of Crime

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“Poverty is the mother of all crime” true or false? Both true and false. Starving or well-fed, on the streets or under a roof, penniless or prosperous; a criminal can come from any condition, any background, anywhere. A criminal can be a mother or grandmother trying to feed their family. A criminal can be a politician with alternative motives. Poverty is not the mother of all crime. Desperarity and power are the mothers of crime.
The impoverished and the hungry and the destitute are forced to resort to a life of crime to survive. Helen Johnson, a mother, grandmother, and aunt, was caught stealing five eggs so she could feed her children, grandchildren, and niece. Miss Helen is a good, kind-hearted lady who had to turn to theft to feed her family
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Teenagers are supposed to be concerned if it is pizza day for lunch at school, not if they will even have lunch at school. Adults are not the only ones who steal food to feed themselves and their families. Teenager Amine Ahnini was near starvation when he stole a sandwich from a sandwich shop. Ahnini said that he would go up to two days without food because he could not afford basic groceries to keep himself fed. There are many others like Amine who are forced to steal food in an attempt to keep themselves nourished. These famished adolescents cannot afford the necessities for life and are compelled to steal to …show more content…
State Department Special Mission Compound in Libya, four dead including U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens caused by the State Department’s failure to send help. Hillary Clinton, Secretary of State at the time of the attack, claimed that an anti-Muslim video sparked the unrest which led to the attack. The State Department also declared that this attack was “spontaneous” and “unorganized”. On the contrary, President Mohamed Magariaf of Libya insists that this onslaught was a planned terrorist attack. Mrs. Clinton knew about the attack and had aid just hours away, yet she never sent them. Mrs. Clinton sent no help to those American souls under attack in Benghazi. Her next move was even more criminal, when she was asked to hand over her emails to the FBI she deleted them. She deleted 30,000 emails to erase her ties to the Benghazi attack. The emails that confirmed her knowledge of the terror in Benghazi. The emails that confirmed her refusal to send service to the Americans in

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