Poverty Doesn't Cause Crime People Do! - Garner Ted Armstrong - April 1977

Garner Ted Armstrong

Despite tons of evidence to the contrary, a member of the United States Congress, who also happens to sit on a congressional subcommittee on crime, believes crime is caused by "desperation brought on by joblessness, poverty and community disintegration." Representative John Conyers of Michigan recently claimed that crime multiplies when "individuals feel that stealing, mugging or selling dope is an acceptable means of survival." So, according to Conyers, society is to blame. An affluent society. A cruel, exploitative, upperclass society which possesses only indifference to its " marginal and disadvantaged people" is to blame. How utterly strange, and how totally contradictory to the known facts. - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library