WALMARTS CAUSE CRIME: At least that’s the theory one D.C. politician is using to prevent a WalMart from opening in her district.

Brenda Speaks, a Ward 4 ANC commissioner, actually urged blocking construction of the planned store in her ward at Georgia and Missouri avenues NW partly because of that risk [of petty theft]. Addressing a small, anti-Walmart rally at City Hall on Monday, Speaks said young people would get criminal records when they couldn’t resist the temptation to steal.

Did the commisar, er, ... commissioner stop to think that those same youths she fears could turn to crime could also get jobs? Undoubtedly, since jobs might take them off the welfare plantation.