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 of Antiguan
