Re-reading some of the other talk of Emilie Oy out in the local blogosphere, I continue to be struck by Oy’s own latest statements. Breaking down her most recent website screed, her new argument comes to a simple chain of events.
- The local media reported that Emilie Oy broke the publicly-funded campaigns law.
- Emilie Oy can’t find a job because the local media reported her misdeeds.
- Without a job, Emilie Oy can’t repay the money she owes.
- Emilie Oy will simply take more public money by going to live in a homeless shelter.
In other words, it’s not the fact that she broke the law that’s causing the problem. It’s the fact that the media actually reported that she broke the law, because now potential employers won’t hire her, and the last laugh will be hers because she’ll just end up in a homeless shelter funded by the same people she’s already bilking out of more than $90,000.
In other words, she’s arguing that if people really did care about her misappropriation of public funds, they would stop talking about her misappropriation of public funds, because all of this attention will just lead to her living in a homeless shelter and using more public funds.
In other words, it’s not her breaking of the law that’s wrongful and causing us harm. It’s the fact that people won’t let her get away with it that’s wrongful and causing us harm.
In other words, if she can’t pay, and if she ends up homeless, it’s the fault of the very public which served as her original victims in the first place.
“The body of Christ at large,” she writes in the current missive which she insists we can only use if we quote it in full, “whether Methodist or Baptist or Assembly of God is truly a gift that all citizens should explore.”
I continue to wonder just how Christian it is to take other people’s money and then, when caught, refuse to take any responsibility for your actions, blame the fact that you’re poor and disabled, and taunt the people whose money you took with the prospect of taking even more of it.
