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In 33 U.S. Cities, Feeding The Homeless Has Been Criminalized
Submitted by Mike Krieger of Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,
The “war on compassion” when it comes to the homeless in America has been one of Liberty Blitzkrieg’s key themes this year. There are many reasons why I find this topic to be of such tremendous importance. First and foremost, I think that if we want to see how the state and crony corporate status quo will treat everyone in the future, all you have to do is look at how the homeless are being “dealt with.” Secondly, random groups feeding the homeless in various venues is a great example of decentralized compassion. Political power hates decentralization and is quite intentionally trying to corral the homeless into the centralized bureaucratic channels over which it has total control. So this isn’t merely a humanitarian issue, it is also a front line battle in the key war of our time: Decentralization vs. Centralization.
As I mentioned, this has been a key topic on this site in 2014. Before reading on, I suggest checking out some of my recent posts on it:
Couple Fined $746 for the Crime of Feeding Homeless People in Florida Park
The Homeless in NYC Are Now Living in Tiny Spaces in the Frame of the Manhattan Bridge
Illinois Church Told by City Officials It Can No Longer Provide Homeless People Shelter
South Carolina City Implements Law that Requires a $120 Permit to Feed Homeless People
Moving along to the meat of this post, the National Coalition for the Homeless (NCH) is about to release a report that details how 33 cities in America have either banned or are considering banning feeding homeless people. It’s so bad, that the UN singled out the U.S. in a report on human rights for our nation’s criminalization of the homeless. Where’s George Clooney and the rest of the Hollywood faux human rights celebrities on this issue? Crickets.
PolicyMic reports that:
The news: In case the United States’ problem with homelessness wasn’t bad enough, a forthcoming National Coalition for the Homeless (NCH) report says that 33 U.S. cities now ban or are considering banning the practice of sharing food with homeless people. Four municipalities (Raleigh, N.C.; Myrtle Beach, S.C.; Birmingham, Ala.; and Daytona Beach, Fla.) have recently gone as far as to fine, remove or threaten to throw in jail private groups that work to serve food to the needy instead of letting government-run services do the job.
Why it’s happening: The bans are officially instituted to prevent government-run anti-homelessness programs from being diluted. But in practice, many of the same places that are banning food-sharing are the same ones that have criminalized homelessness with harsh and punitive measures. Essentially, they’re designed to make being homeless within city limits so unpleasant that the downtrodden have no choice but to leave. Tampa, for example, criminalizes sleeping or storing property in public. Columbia, South Carolina, passed a measure that essentially would have empowered police to ship all homeless people out of town. Detroit PD officers have been accused of illegally taking the homeless and driving them out of the city.
The UN even went so far as to single the U.S. out in a report on human rights, saying criminalization of homelessness in the U.S. “raises concerns of discrimination and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment.”
According to the NCH, one survey of homelessness found 62,619 veterans were homeless in January 2012. Other at-risk groups for homelessness include the seriously ill, battered women and people suffering from drug addictions or mental illness. The economy isn’t helping. More Americans live in poverty than before the recession began in 2008 and the number of households living under the poverty line has reached levels unseen since the 1960s.
So we send young kids off to die in pointless wars and if they actually come back and before homeless we aren’t allowed to feed them. Stay classy America.
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When disaster strikes, FEMA turns to ... Waffle House
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/05/02/when-disaster-strikes-fema-turns-to-waffle-house/
Nobody in this echo chamber wants to hear it, but it's actually better for the homeless people if they are forced, by having no other options, to get help from an organization that can actually help them, rather than relying on the inconsistent, hand-to-mouth, random mercy of strangers.
it also is better for communities if they do not have a congregation of homeless people milling about. Have any of you been to San Francisco? The homeless there are creepy. They come from all over to SF because of its lax policies regarding homelessness, panhandling, etc. Fortunately for SF, it is wealthy enough to absorb this kind of blight. Raleigh NC would not be able to handle it.
If you want to help the homeless, help strengthen the organizations that help them. Donate your time. In other words, DO something. Don't take the easy, lazy way out and just give money to people or buy them food. It might make you feel good, but it does not help them.
You should talk to some actual homeless people. It may be a shock to your sensibilities but many homeless people want to be homeless.
I have hired homeless people and have gone out of my way to help them only to be rebuked by them for mine own presumptuousness.
"To be honest with you, I would have run that box of 2000 1/4-20 thread cutters in for a half pint of the cheapest vodka".
"I would rather live under the bridge abutment"
Concur with your assessment. I talk with them too and have had them help me periodically. If they are not under the radar, they get foodstamps in California, I believe. I just had a few weeks of dealing with a 54 yr old alcoholic who was confident, way happier than me, and though she drank beer for breakfast, seemed amazingly healthy with enough energy to clean for 4 hours nonstop. Maybe it was meth that propelled her zest for house cleaning...but she ate well, made sure to get calcium, took vitamins and was quite intelligent, articulate and easy going when sober.
Joining a church is not for everyone - even the homeless shelter has restrictions (45 day stays, with 45 days no occupancy between stays, you have to report to the shelter at 4 PM, asleep by 9 PM (after church and other inspirational gatherings which are a must-attend), up by 6 AM for more church and breakfast. Drug tests took place, of course.
Some get comfortable with their lifestyle, as shitty as it is. They become desparate people who simply cannot make a change - much like a drug addict who try as they may, or simply too far gone to ever get better. A healthy society does not breed such people. We are a sick society. Regardless of who's to blame, I prefer to give them a handout and a simple prayer that they will somehow find it within themselves to get better and somehow get the willpower and fortitude to become functioning members of society. Most cannot and will not make that transition. If it were your brother, son or father - would you deny them a buck or so so they could get a cheeseburger at McDonalds? Or would you just save a buck under the rationalization that they just might be begging for their next 24 ounce $2 Pabst Blue Ribbon Ban of beer?
Believe it or not, Most homeless just want something to eat and a bed to sleep in for the night. The hardcore who live under the bridge for years are a minority.
It may be a shock for many sensibilities but many people who were in the gulag found positives in being in a gulag.
Contrary to 'american' middle classers, who enjoy wallowing in fantasy for their peace of mind, certain other human beings have no other choices than rationalizing their immediate reality.
In 'american' societies, those guys are responsible for anything that happen to them (to be put in relation to the 'american' middle class typical guy who is responsible for nothing as they have frontmen like politician, corporations to take the blame for everything and anything) so the homeless better to cope with that situation by claiming they want to be homeless, to try to paint homelessness as a decision coming from them rather than a suffered situation.
Read this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gulag_Archipelago
Then, and only then, come back to tell us how dear your freedom is to you.
And?
Quoting a book that might accurately represent the life in gulagh does not change the fact that many people who were in gulagh found positives in it.
'Americans' cant face facts.
When human beings are able to find positives in the life in ghulags, it means that human beings might find positives in homeless lifes.
As to freedom, in an 'american' world, it is just a marketing label to sell submission.
'Americanism' is all about submission. Tagged as freedom because freedom sells better.
I would think that there is some merit in what you say, but then you run into guys like Papa Nuetrino who blows your premise straight out of the water.
http://www.poppaneutrino.com
"You should talk to some actual homeless people. It may be a shock to your sensibilities but many homeless people want to be homeless. "
Talked to a guy who lived in the bush out behind the racetrack. Asked him why he didn't go to welfare and get set up with a room in one of their hotels. "Tried that" he said. "If you like getting your door kicked in and robbed twice in one week, then I guess it's OK." "Me, I'll take my chances out here."
wow...lay off the booze asshole.....sober up
Your point is valid and is the rational for the restraints but do we really live in a society where the government can tell us that we cannot aid people with good intentions. These bureacrats who are trying to help us can do anything if they rationalize it as in our best interest even contrary to our preference. Government is neing allowed to control our behavior without limits. If your ok with that then peace be with you but i am not ok with it. Where will it stop?
I wish there could be a law that would restrict our government from making any law except as is required to protect our liberties.
What would Jesus say?
"'When did we see You sick, or in prison, and come to You?' "The King will answer and say to them, 'Truly I say to you, to the extent that you did it to one of these brothers of Mine, even the least of them, you did it to Me.' " Matthew 25:39-41.
Jack, no offfence ! Aren't you pressing your Intuitiveness?
Fish-on
Bitchez
Did you bring any?
These cities might as well just put up billboards saying:
"This City is Morally Bankrupt: Treat us accordingly."
There is one example in the legends of history which some people recognize. He said come to me. The stories of him feeding the hungry and so on are largely ignored. In the end, what goes around comes around.
There's real history, and there's the gritty unspoken dead body history.
Which version will pleasure you. Hitlery Cliton is in denial.
Sounds something like the plot of Rambo.
A few years ago things got scary, business dried up for a few weeks and I was starting to eat savings.
Kidding, my wife suggested we should rob a bank together, if we got away we'd be rich, if we got caught we'd have food, shelter and healthcare.
1. "Food" is a relative term. Talk about making McDonald's look good.
2. "Shelter" does not equal safety. I'd rather take my chances with the elements than my potential cell-mates.
3. "Healthcare" is also relative. Think mandatory Obamacare. And you shall be stuck with needles by people would couldn't get a job outside the prision system.
And here I thought I was making a simple point.
Would you mind providing data sheets, statistic analysis and links to sources?
Data sheets, statistic analysis and links to sources for what?
The number of people who got rapped in US American prisons?(which fit taking chances with the elements rather than with cell mates)
There was a recent article on that by the same propagandist author.
But what, 'americans' live to perceive security and freedom as trade offs.
When facing the fact that their prison system that punishes by deprivation of freedom is certainly not paramount to security, this disturbs their peace of mind, so, anything goes to preserve 'americans' in the comfort of their fantasy.
Don't you mean Fuud(tm), Shelter-Skelter and BrawndoKare (the unwellness Mutilator)?
RIP USA!
Never interfere with new Government EBT card recipients. This thought crime action becomes enforceable.
"My guillotine has a home, and soon lots to eat."
It's a little slow, but should work.
http://www.toolfetch.com/reed-manufacturing-hpc12-12-guillotine-cutter.h...
The portable guillotine. "For those times when you can't bring the pols, crats and banksters to the guillotine."
The price is redonkulous. I could, and will build one for less than 200 TP-dollars. Kind of a little sister to the "big-guy" in the backyard.
"Give me your crats, your pols,
Your huddled banksters yearning to 'return' free,
The wretched refuse on this treasonous shore
Send these, the criminals, odorous to me,
In my steel maw to be done for.”
Emma Lazarus and K. Chris C.
http://www.youtube.com/sokkomb
Not too slow & you assemble yourself just like from IKEA.
YenCross (AKA) bits-o-shit !
The news: In case the United States’ problem with homelessness wasn’t bad enough, a forthcoming National Coalition for the Homeless (NCH) report says that 33 U.S. cities now ban or are considering banning the practice of sharing food with homeless people. Four municipalities (Raleigh, N.C.; Myrtle Beach, S.C.; Birmingham, Ala.; and Daytona Beach, Fla.) have recently gone as far as to fine, remove or threaten to throw in jail private groups that work to serve food to the needy instead of letting government-run services do the job.
Viva imigration! Remember "Scarface" bitchez?
The Roman soldiers would persecute and eventually crucify the Christians early in the 1st and 2nd Centuries for performing
these same acts of charity.
American governments turned into Roman thugs!
The 'american' middle class are cleaning houses. Just as expected.
'Americans' have scored many great achievements, a lot of them beyond what was performed in the past.
But their best remains to come. The 'american' middle class are going to dazzle, they will own the stage.
You are disgusting. Simply disgusting. Your faux campaign to denigrate by sophistic and I may add, specious and dissembling statements is matched by your evident failure to self-reflect on your non-anonymous self, not just your internet moniker. You are the plague of 'anonymous' idiots who think that spewing excrementious matter is fertilizer, to grow your weeds, just graffiti.
What on earth are you two talking about?
How funny. The eternal nature of 'americans'.
Unable to address anything at hand.
Sophistic? Specious? That short four line answer is packed with sophistries. It would take maybe half an hour to list them all.
Once again, it appears you cant beat 'americans' in certain departments.
Additionnaly,'americans' cant beat 'americanism'. They are impotent to face the reality of 'americanism'.
That is how it goes.
Point out how 'americanism' acts in one situation and they feel the urge of sidetracking to avoid facing 'americanism'.
You can do better than this AnAnon. 'Half an hour' to list all the 'sophistries'? Get to work, I'm waiting.
As for a bit of 'sidetracking' try looking up 'disgusting'. Address that you moron.
As 'american' propagandists keep fishing for the consent of the 'american' middle class, in a desesperate effort to seduce middle classers, with the hope of being rewarded with wealth and power, this gives this kind of articles.
That is when you see propagandists in action: anything that can protect their beloved 'american' middle class goes.
So in order to conceal this move comes from the 'american' middle class, an irrelevant dichotomy is cast in, trying once again to cast blame on servants to WeThePeople (aka the 'american' middle class)(It is no problem because in an 'american' society, part of the job of politicians etc is to take the blame instead of the 'american' middle class)
The irrelevant dichotomy is centralization vs decentralization. The irrelevant dichotomy helps to introduce government, then servants to the 'american' middle class so they can play their scapegoat part.
Decentralization vs centralization? That is not even a States vs Federation issue.
The issue is not determined at the federal level, it is not determined at a State level, it is determined at a city level.
That is decentralization. What to expect? That the issue is determined at a county level? Now if that 'american' propagandist tries to promote the advantages of centralization, meaning that Washington should determine how to deal, nah, it wont be popular with the 'american' middle class.
Once again, this is when you recognize propagandists: they fear to alienate their main target, in this case the 'american' middle class.
The 'american' middle class are cleaning houses, nothing new, 'americans' are running a business of farming the poor, extorting the weak, that comes with certain consequences, id est getting rid of poors and weaklings in due time.
As such, politicians, who must obey their master, take decisions to please the 'american' middle class.
So, what, homeless are like the critters in the national parks now?
Fuck that. It is an immoral law. Keep feeding.
Like critters? Maybe. 'Americans' see humanity in terms of human, sub, non human beings. Maybe they qualify for critters. Being the right colour would help too.
That stated, those poor are punished now that they served their purpose. 'Americans' run a business of farming the poor, extorting the weak.
The farm turns out dry, time to weed the land.
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Does it read as it reads? Conclusion must be arrived 'americans' see animalism in terms of critter, sub, non critters.
Corollary: the weed turns out dry, time to pack the bong.
'Americans' and drugs. Long love story.
Drugs are a part of the scheme of farming the poor.
Nothing beats an 'american' when it comes to certain things.
Yes, "Fear the reefer!" Do you idiot even notice whose horn you are blowing there? But thanks for a good laugh anyways ...
This is an 'american' world and a US world order.
So apparently, in 'american' minds, it takes to be an idiot to notice that.
'Americans' are making things happen. They are making history. Not someone else.
Blowing horns only turn relevant when the horn is blown by 'americans'.
It means that non 'american' idiots can blow any horn they want. It wont change the course of the world.
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'American' blowing hornism is the greatest thing ever to happen to humanity, and whose debut on 1776, July, 4th is celebrated worldwide.
That is what 'americans' think indeed: 'americanism' is the best thing to have ever happened to humanity.
Now, will they manage to turn the start of it in a global celebration ('americans' are globalist by nature)
It is not yet done.
We have become overwhelmed with immoral, unjust, and ungodly "laws."
It was 'legal' to ship people to NAZI death camps.
If you are an American, you will negate these laws.
If you are an American, you will stand now against the Evil which consumed Germany and Soviet Russia.
B. Hussein Obama represents an Evil which has existed since ancient times. He is only a willing conduit of Evil and Death. A man with no Provenance, born of an Incubus and a Jackal.
In his own words: "I am good at killing people." He has his deck of cards and he orders Death from the Sky. He was but a Man who sublimated himself to an ancient Power, Apollyon. He has told you of his Lust for Destruction and you have remained Silent.
He glorifies in this Evil; it spawned him and nurtures him to this day.
Americans seem afraid to confront the Evil.
He is but a front for the Shaitan.
Yet he is a servant of Hades and Death will Flow from him. Human blood is his Drink of Life. All who follow him shall fall into The Abyss.
And yet, America sleeps.
*sigh*
You know, your first 4 sentences were fine...Then suddenly you veer off into "Kenya-muslo-obamaland"...
And this, kids, is why we can't have nice things...
well, now I can't edit it.
OK,The guy is a REALLY bad guy.
Paxil
I did a bowl, and now it's time to back the pong. drool drool ;-D
"War is Peace, Freedom Is Slavery...
Feeding Bankers -Good, Feeding Homeless - Bad....
Talmudic Thievery- Virtuous, Christian Charity - Criminal..."
Agents changing diapers, heating baby formula for surge of children...
Border Patrol Threatened With Criminal Charges for Speaking to Reporters...
I have just re-read Daniel DeFoes's 'A Journal of the Plague Years', and what stands out is the charity that was given, from those who had no protection against a disease that claimed all. According to the author who relied on the 'Bills of Mortality' to document the death tally, and the fear and horror of a population that had no recourse against an epidemic that swept the capital, with little resources, the people gave money, food, care to those affected. A guidon to us all..but I have no charity I have nothing.
I would like to suggest that the pending food riots be called the Krugman Food Riots.
It would be nice if for once, the architect of societal misery has his name pinned to it.
Otherwise he will say "no-one could have seen this coming", fade away into the crowd and then re-emerge many years later as a "respected elder statesman".
We can't allow that.
Krugman. Food. Riots.
Food riots?
By corralling all these guys, food riots are put under control.
Servants of the 'american' middle class are easy to recognize: they are obsessed with serving the 'american' middle class.
They will do everything possible to serve their master.
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Make it a spectator sport and monetize it. 'American' profitry knows no bounds and floats every boat, or so I'm told.
It is already monetized. But resources to support the process are lacking.
'Americans' have put the world on the path of depletion of resources.
The Hungry Games?
A tree is known by its fruit. Enjoy.
These laws should be challengable by quoting the scriptures where Jesus says He was hungry and no one fed him...
Then you say the Bible demands that you feed them, and you thought it was Christ Himself standing there, and didn't want to violate your own religious obligations...
Let's see the powers-that-be argue THAT.
If the religious 'angle' works for folks like Hobby Lobby, I don't see why it wouldn't be useful here...
And unlike the Hobby Lobby case, there actually ARE clear scriptures on this one...
LOL it's been a few hundred years since anyone in government paid attention to scripture. As an aside, does anybody know any lawyers that actually go to church regularly?
They don't pay attention to scripture, true, but they DO pay attention to religious sensibilities. The use of scripture is just to prove they didn't pull it out of their asses.
In the UK the 'anti-homeless' spikes were removed following a petition.
Time for the US people to rise up and do the same. But will they?
Okay to steal from the people via 'taxes' and feed the fat banksters' wallets but illegal to feed starving homeless?
Gas chambers coming to a US city near you to get rid of the useless dregs TPTB have no further use for.
Gas chambers are too expensive. Let them die of hunger, thirst, diseases, assaults from their fellow homeless. It will save our hard earned, hard paid tax payer money.
Signed: an American.
bastards!!! these people are just terrorists trying to make our king ,who is black, look bad. i say off with their heads
Sounds like the kinda shit our forefathers finally got fed up with in the 1770s.
If you like your cardboard box, you can keep your cardboard box.
Feeding animals can result in malnourishment due to inappropriate diet and in disruption of natural hunting or food-gathering behavior. It can also be dangerous to the people doing the feeding.
Change the word "homeless" to "Bum", which is exactly what they are. Most of these people put themselves in the situations they are in. Act accordingly.
BANK OF AMERICA put these people in the street CONFISCATING THEIR HOMES using fraud, break-in squads & stealing the contents of their bank accounts.
You're a damn idiot to excuse these crimes then criminalize the victims of them!
You could be homeless next.
He that giveth unto the poor shall not lack; but he that hideth his eyes shall have many a curse.
You can still feed the poor on private property.
Churches have food pantries all over the country.
A local church gave lunch to the homeless every day until the neighboring library had it's first robbery by an, obviously, homeless man. That was the end of the free lunch for the homeless.
Now, homeless people are fed and brought to a larger city. In one situation I know about, a cop fed the man and brought him, in the cop car, to the much larger city. Centralization and Agenda 21?
THe Caucasus have its oligarchs, as does the Far East. And certainly Europe. Meanwhile, the Federal Reserve suggests the middle class in America is in for some declining economic times.
What it really means is that the oligarchs in the U.S. are in for continued boom times, joining with oligarchs around the world. In fact, Fed policy apparently is to transfer the wealth from the middle class to create a world of oligarchs in its plot to destroy the U.S., enabling the insider elite to eventually gain total global control.
Per Isaiah, America is the true and prophesied "Israel," whose only Sovereign is the Creator of the universe. There is no private interpretation of prophecy. The "whig" People who would repent and seek holiness and righteousness is the Children of God, the El-ectorate. By grace the Beast now upon us shall be cast down.
america is a satan worshipping stench.
...or so a member of Rothschild Zionism's Vatican banker/Fed Scam false Jew Talmud/papist false-elite all know is allied with Rockefeller "Big OIl" and killed Kennedy and King, committed 9/11, and is staging the mass-shooting psyops hoaxes to enslave America would seek to gaslight us into believing.
Soviet union outlawed Christians feeding or clothing poor, because their doing so underscored Communists' inability to provide for population. Many believers and pastors died in gulag for having shown mercy. Better that poor die in cold than that glorious Communism be shown for what it is. Besides, poor not do part to support party. Only party was having party.
michael i love you!!!!!!!!! thank you for taking on this issue.
america is a satan worshipping nation which should be demolished by the justice of god. the hatred of the politicians for the helpless is a reflection of their education and moral squalor. this nation is a communist death camp on steroids. and every single person who votes democrat or republican is a supporter of this wickeness.
the hatred which the elite has for the helpless (and anyone else beneath their statures) is the same hatred of the brithish royalty and the nation of israel for gentiles.
everyone should help the homeless, hungry, and helpless. a curse from almighty god on all who fail to do so.
Until the late 1980s, the mentally ill were warehoused in state hospitals. A nation wide policy change ended that, focusing on: "community based solutions", double speak for dumping them into the streets. Now it seems that policy is changing again, sweeping them off the streets of major cities, and away from resources they need, which are located in the very cities they are being driven from. The truth is that budgets are being slashed, and there just isn't much money left to help the homeless, especially the mentally ill. So why not allow churches and other groups pick up the slack? Gubmint doesn't want the homeless around is why. As their numbers grow {and they are by the day}, what is to be done with all of these people? Sadly, the FEMA camp conspiracy talk is begining to sound more proboble.
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Constitutional issue. Where's the ACLU?
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I'm a spag and I'm not going to be homeless. Maybe you lot should take a look around at all the dirty folks in your neighborhood, and GTFO! Or was that guy nice when you handed him a cheeseburger?
It's not your choice. Someone else decides the condition of your property, home, what you should and will owe in taxes, and will use that to decide if you lose your home.
You have no say.
So let's see if I got this right: is there a specific price, or just food given away? Is there a specific requirement to check if a person actually has a home, and how can everyone who has/serves food be required to check? If I give my buddy a burger because we both just went to a Burger King do I have to check if he's homeless or if cops decide he is, am I automatically a criminal, even though we both probably left a bar or something for the end of the night to grab snacks? Seriously? This is fucked in the head.
FURTHER I question this: if starvation causes death & causing death is murder, is the state-commandment of starvation for the homeless a mass-murder diktat in violation of ALL other laws defending one's right to not be murdered?
If a homeless person who is hungry gets money to BUY FOOD at A GROCERY store is this act now a CRIME?