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San Antonio Woman Fined $2000 For Feeding The Homeless

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Based on the newsflow in the last few weeks, Americans must increasingly consider themselves lucky just to avoid getting shot in the back or being run over by trigger-happy, heavily armed officers of the law. Unfortunately while we (hope we) mostly jest, the reality is that America has quietly turned into a heavily weaponized police state right under everyone's noses. A police state in which one doesn't have to be considered even a remote threat by the authorities to suffer. Consider the completely innocuous act of feeding the homeless, with a permit, which as San Antonio philanthropist Joan Cheever, founder of the nonprofit food truck, the Chow Train, discovered last week was enough to get her ticketed and fined $2000 for feeding the homeless.

 

What is strange is that neither was this the first time she had acted generously toward the homeless, nor the first time the local police were aware of her actions: for the past 10 years, Cheever has devoted her Tuesday nights to providing hot, restaurant-quality meals to homeless people in the downtown area. SAPD officers would routinely pass by and wave. Often, she jokingly asked if they planned to arrest her, and they laughed. She was profiled on Rachel Ray's cooking show for her charitable efforts.

But everything changed last Tuesday when he got a citation which carries a fine up to $2000 issued by four San Antonio Police Department bike-patrol officers.

According to the San Antonio Express News, while Cheever was in Maverick Park serving a meal that included lamb meatballs, spaghetti, a garden salad and a vegetable soup, SAPD officers cited her for violating the city code, because she transported the food to the park in a vehicle other than the mobile truck for which she has a food permit.

"I told the officer that we cook dinner in the truck and then we put it in health-department-approved catering equipment, like every caterer or restaurant-delivery service in this town, and then serve it. And he said, 'You can’t do that.’"

 

David Martin Davies, host of “The Source” on Texas Public Radio, witnessed and recorded Cheever’s Tuesday night encounter with the police officers.

 

“She seemed aware going into it that there was a change in the way the police were acting, and something like this might be coming,” Davies said, adding, “She’s unabashed. She’s not going to back down.”

Cheever is scheduled to go before Municipal Court on June 23, but she remained defiant after receiving the citation, arguing that under the 1999 Texas Religious Freedom Restoration Act, she has a right to serve food to the homeless because she considers it a free exercise of her religion. 

"This is how I pray," she told the local NBC affiliate, "when I cook this food and deliver it to the people who are less fortunate."

The Chow Train founder will be holding a candlelight vigil at Maverick Park Tuesday night to raise awareness about the incident, according to the restaurant’s Facebook page.

What may explain the police's sudden aggression to the philanthropist? According to Express News, the incident is merely the latest incident in a series of homeless crackdowns by the local police.

Over the past year, it’s become increasingly obvious that the city wants its homeless population out of the view of downtown tourists. It wants to push the homeless west of downtown to Haven for Hope, and discourage any acts of compassion that might divert them from that destination.

 

Last September, then-Police Chief William McManus floated the idea of making it a Class C misdemeanor to give cash to local panhandlers, an example of municipal overreach that met with scorn from the public and was abruptly dropped.

 

Express-News reporter Benjamin Olivo also reported that benches had been discreetly removed from Houston Street because city staffers worried that the benches led to loitering and panhandling in the area.

 

“(The city) has already made being poor and homeless a crime,” Cheever said, “and now they’re going after Good Samaritans.

 

“I always say, 'We’re not working against Haven for Hope, we’re working with them.’ They have a waiting list, and they send their people over to us, and we feed them.”

In a statement by the SAPD, the local police noted that “Haven for Hope is the city’s designated service provider for the homeless population,” and added that Cheever’s citation “was issued for failing to adhere to the Downtown Mobile Food Truck Rules & Regulations. The regulations are in place to ensure public health and safety.”

Perhaps the biggest irony of all is that under the current administration's policies, which have been called socialist by many and are precisely meant to improve the standard of living of the 99% not the 1%, Obama has been eager to demonstrate his emapthy toward the disenfranchised if only in front of the teleprompter. What is sad is that a "progressive" president, one elected precisely to promote acts of philanthropy and kindness (with the Fed funding the cost via trillions in debt monetizations) concurrently allows this kind of behavior by those tasked with enhancing the quality of life for all, not just Goldman's or JPM's rogue traders.

Then again, talking out of both sides of his mouth is perhaps the least of Obama's faults.

Meanwhile, here is Joan Cheever in less troubled days.

From left, volunteer Elaine Olivier, founder/ Chef Joan Cheever, and her husband, Dennis Quinn, prepare dinner before the Chow Train feeds the homeless in partnership with Resurrection Ministries, Tuesday, February 28, 2012.

 

Joan Cheever, founder of The Chow Train, puts a piece of bread on a plate given to an individual at Maverick Park on Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2013. Cheever and other volunteers have cooked gourmet-level meals to feed the homeless and the hungry for years. The non-profit group serves meals at various locations around San Antonio and recently served up a Thanksgiving meal to feed the needy. Cheever primarily does the cooking of all the food which she gets from donations.

 

Ray Salines dines on a plate of feed at a stop by The Chow Train off Austin Highway on Tuesday, Nov. 19 2013.

 

Joan Cheever (center), founder of The Chow Train, coordinates getting plates of to be served at a location near Austin Highway on Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2013.

 

Patrick Harris eats a meal from the Chow Train off Austin Highway. Joan Cheever, who founded the nonprofit food truck, and her team offer free, gourmet-style meals to feed the homeless and the hungry.

 

Chow Train volunteers Shannon Murphy-Sachanowicz (center) and Diane Sharp (right) fill up bowls of soup to serve at a location off Austin Highway on Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2013.

 

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Thu, 04/16/2015 - 18:44 | 6000663 ebworthen
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Fucking bicycle cops giving a middle-aged Woman a $2,000 citation for feeding homeless people out of the back of her S.U.V.!?!?

What have we come to?  Can't you fine officers look the other way?  Guess you want some new bikes or something.

Where has the common sense gone?  Where is the sanity?  Where is humanity?

That Woman and her friends have it, but not the cops, the courts, or .gov.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 18:48 | 6000692 Looney
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Thank Goat! She didn’t get shot in the back 8 times! ;-)

Looney

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 19:14 | 6000807 Crawdaddy
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Goat?

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 19:30 | 6000879 tarabel
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He meant Lucifer.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 20:18 | 6001061 Fukushima Sam
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WHAT THE FUCK is wrong with feeding homeless people!?!

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 20:27 | 6001109 tarabel
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In my world, nothing.

But I don't live in San Antonio and didn't vote for the "Progressive" hypocrites who thought this up.

 

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 20:36 | 6001151 zaphod
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Rich progressive liberals love homeless people, as long as they are far far away.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 21:11 | 6001241 knukles
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See, this is exactly where we wind up with a buncha fucking Progressives in charge.  They want to close her down so that the state takes over as sole warder for the poor and starving.
See, she prays and is therefore, fucking dangerous.
The End of Days, the Banishment of Evil, is starting to make sense.  We'll bring our very own own hell upon Earth right here to ourselves.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 21:33 | 6001369 COSMOS
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You keep yapping about the cops but you dont consider the source of the laws.  The politicians!  You will get no change on the streets unless you kick out the assholes in office who make these laws.  Had the laws not been on the books there would of been no issue here.

Fri, 04/17/2015 - 01:59 | 6001965 JLee2027
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That's a well fed cop for a bike handing her the ticket. A true pig.

Fri, 04/17/2015 - 08:50 | 6002503 Muddy1
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I was thinking the same thing, well fed, as in FAT pig.  The bike riders I know are as thin as a bean pole.  Then it occured to me, steroids.  Gotta get beefed up to write a ticket to this woman.  Furthermore... it takes FOUR, 4, IV, cops to write this citation????  I wonder what would have happened if she would have handed each cop a plate of food?  She is lucky they didn't seize her SUV and kitchen equipment under the current police trend of "asset forefiture".

Maybe the govrnment doen't like the competition.  They have created a dependent lower class with nearly 50 million people on food stamps and want to keep the dependency and control going.  This woman is sharing her time and wealth with others and has cut out the middleman of the government and acted with kindness on her own.  She has put her money, and her physical labor where her heart is.  Kudos to her. 

Fri, 04/17/2015 - 11:15 | 6003024 Jack's Raging B...
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First off, I would sue for harrassment and improper citation, as The State needs to prove that any of the people she fed are indeed "homeless".

Feeding cops is an interesting suggestion. She should set up a "Law Enforcement Appreciation Meal" table, and give away meals for free. She can then sue the police for vagrancy or some similar infraction.

Fri, 04/17/2015 - 07:11 | 6002272 Hobbleknee
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You act like voting works or something.  Wake up.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 22:13 | 6001491 Colonel Klink
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Disgusting what government control has become!  Through government's actions, or should I say INaction, more people are becoming poor.  Now they criminalize charitable action.

The truth is evident.  They want control of everything and you reliant on them for all.  For with those, they control the people.  Remember the words of our founding fathers, when government fears the people there is freedom.

Fri, 04/17/2015 - 00:19 | 6001807 New Kid
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This is part of their plan.

1. Criminalise the homeless and those who try to help them.

2. Impoverish the middle class so that they become homeless.

3.Put everyone who is homeless in FEMA camps... cause thats the law.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 20:45 | 6001184 turnoffthewater
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Well someone that lives in SA needs to go to city hall and get a permit for a donkey.

Jackasses!

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 21:10 | 6001243 knukles
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The Mexican night clubs can't be too happy about that one!  Call the ACLU!

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 23:43 | 6001734 Global Observer
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But I don't live in San Antonio

Even in San Antonio it doesn't appear to be anything wrong with feeding the homeless.

 

Contrary to what the title says, the woman was cited not for feeding the homeless, but for transporting cooked food in a vehicle other than the one she had permit for (those details are found in the content of the article). Should people be required to get a permit for a vehicle to transport cooked food for distribution/delivery to others? That is the only question that is raised by this action of the San Antonio police.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 23:54 | 6001763 ILLILLILLI
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So it does...

 

In a statement by the SAPD, the local police noted that “Haven for Hope is the city’s designated service provider for the homeless population,” and added that Cheever’s citation “was issued for failing to adhere to the Downtown Mobile Food Truck Rules & Regulations. The regulations are in place to ensure public health and safety.

Fri, 04/17/2015 - 00:24 | 6001816 New Kid
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Right. Because safety is their only concern.

If a charity does some trivial wrong, you let them off with a warning... at least the firat few times.

Fri, 04/17/2015 - 01:08 | 6001880 tarabel
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"I told the officer that we cook dinner in the truck and then we put it in health-department-approved catering equipment, like every caterer or restaurant-delivery service in this town, and then serve it. And he said, 'You can’t do that.’"

Like this beetle-browed sidewalk nazi is a past master of the arcane local food service regulations.

And like the cops rigorously enforce every single law, code, and regulation they see being transgressed upon.

But, as the defendants desperately claimed at Nuremburg, he "was only following orders."

 

Fri, 04/17/2015 - 07:46 | 6002359 FrankieGoesToHo...
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The officer was "following his training"

Fri, 04/17/2015 - 00:54 | 6001868 tarabel
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I am aware of what the title and the article both say.

The only question that I can see is that of guessing the date when the volcano of public outrage blows rather than merely fulminates.

You failed to indicate where you personally stand on the question of requiring a (no doubt paid) permit for someone to provide limo service for free lasagna. Or on the question of dragging well-meaning citizens into court while probably tens of thousands of San Antonio residents walk around with active warrants.

But there is danger and no money in catching actual crooks. Far better and much safer to shake down the law-abiding middle class people who have the money to pay their fines and court costs. Probably took four of them to slap the metaphorical cuffs on this dangerous menace to society.

Fri, 04/17/2015 - 01:54 | 6001958 StychoKiller
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If I were her, I would insist on a trial by a Jury of my peers, then read into the record what Jury nullification means during the trial!

Fri, 04/17/2015 - 03:00 | 6002029 Element
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WHAT THE FUCK is wrong with feeding homeless people!?!

 

She was showing worrying signs of actual unsolicited charity. It had to be stomped out before it spread and infected human affairs or we'd soon be overrun by people with sense of right and wrong which could quickly cause the downfall of the advanced world. It's for the best, who were later seen congratulating and encouraging the police to keep up their tireless vigil against good will and other subversive acts. 

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 20:22 | 6001075 NoDebt
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Don't get in between government and their subjects by competing with them to "help" people.  How can the government make people utterly dependent on them otherwise?  When you fuck with their monopoly you will end up dead, penniless or in prison.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 20:31 | 6001122 tarabel
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The universal madness takes hold all around the globe.

A remnant of the faithful will resist them and be driven into the darkest corners of the earth, but will eventually win. Sadly, that day is a long way away.

"The whole world united shall not prevail against her."

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 20:35 | 6001139 NoDebt
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"The whole world united shall not prevail against her."

Oh, come on now.  I'd give it at least a 50/50 shot that all of us together could take down Hillary Clinton.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 20:40 | 6001164 nailgunnin4you
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Clueless Red/Blue-fixated posting will win you few friends on here.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 21:35 | 6001378 nailgunnin4you
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No way nodick was one of the downvoters here, seeing as I am quoting him. I guess 2 people disagree with him.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 23:44 | 6001736 Weaponized Innocense
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Hillary ~ Hit her head real bad!
Poor Hillary can't control the crowds !
Awe

She hit her head real bad!

(Jack Nicholos)

Poor Hillary!

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 23:51 | 6001756 Weaponized Innocense
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Nicholson
Sorry

Fri, 04/17/2015 - 16:39 | 6004292 nailgunnin4you
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Hey, if Jack wanted us to get his last name right he should not have been born in the same century as Jack Nicklaus.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 19:45 | 6000931 BringOnTheAsteroid
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A goat is just as sensible as a great invisible grey bearded skyman. Then again, a goat can't listen to your thoughts and watch what you do whereas something completely invisible that floats in the dark reaches of space that has a long grey beard can, I've been told.

Humans are fucking insane. Humans in government, humans in military, humans running corporations have one type of insanity. All the plebs who dedicated their lives to patently cock-a-mammie stories and believe in invisible skyman have a different type of insanity.

Either way, we are all fucking insane.

Fri, 04/17/2015 - 00:07 | 6001103 Parrotile
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You have really got to wonder whether this may be the reason why the many reliably-reported UFO visitations are so very secretive? Do "They" regard "Us" as very much "Short Bus" material, and a Planet whose populace should be avoided at all costs - since they are "The Crazies of that part of the Galaxy"??

We have (and continue) to fight major conflicts / all-out wars over "My God(s) is/are better than Your God(s)",

We only co-operate if "we" can gain a significant advantage - "Competition" (which certainly wastes limited resources) is preferred,

We lavishly reward nepotism / corruption / dishonesty, whilst heavily penalising honesty / effort / charitable acts e.g. - this very article??

So, if "you" represented a space-faring community (presumably technologically advanced, since you have the capacity for safe, reliable and maybe rapid interstellar travel), would you really want to associate with a "Global Community" that spends more annually on killing than feeding / clothing "their" populace?

Would you really want to risk the possibility that this "Community" might have ideas re. "their Conquering Space" - the same "Space" you (and presumably other similarly advanced, similarly peaceable, Communities) presently populate??

Is this the real reason for lack of contact? "They" know just how bad "we" are, and so "They" intend to avoid us like the plague we literally are??

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 21:17 | 6001310 Crawdaddy
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Do you really believe that? I hope not. Many are lost in the fake world created for them - a world formed by minions of Edward Bernays. Look it up my friend. Find the truth. Nothing new under the sun

Fri, 04/17/2015 - 01:07 | 6001894 shovel ready
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How the fuck did she get out of being tasered!

Cops probably saw whomever it was with camera taking pics.

Don't worry everybody - they'll get her. Your freedoms will be protected even if they have to shoot every one!

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 18:58 | 6000733 unicorn
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dont worry, these cops will soon be eaten by these homeless hungry men and women

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 19:13 | 6000798 nuubee
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I thought the cops were the zombies in this case. They certainly need brains.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 19:17 | 6000819 Ward cleaver
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EB to answer your question, empathy, sacrifice, heard work, patriotism, common sense, communities helping each other, manners, and all other things that made this a once great country have been replaced with a dog-eat-dog society where having the latest igadget is more important. I'm glad I'm 60. Just sad

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 19:28 | 6000872 Kirk2NCC1701
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Sheeple are SO easy to bamboozle. 

Don't confuse Pretext with Agenda: "To condition the Sheep into letting them know Who's In Charge."

But keep chasing that bouncy, shiny, chewy, noisy ball. Sit, Ubu, sit!  Good dog.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 20:35 | 6001138 Parrotile
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I suppose this is what you mean - http://www.standard.co.uk/incoming/article9743077.ece/alternates/w620/IphoneCoventGarden.jpg

Never forget, "Fools and their Money are Easily Parted"

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 19:29 | 6000874 Peak Finance
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It's not the cops this time.

Believe me this order came from up on high

Some local important business owner or local management board got pissed at the homeless congration around the food trucks and bitched to the cops until they decided to do something.

This shit has been happening down here in Florida a lot as the people in the richer areas try to drive out the homeless.

Fri, 04/17/2015 - 08:09 | 6002421 Refuse-Resist
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Because "I was just following orders" is ok and an accepted legal defense.

 

That works for now, but one day they may sing a different tune.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 19:48 | 6000950 Jumbotron
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Fascism on Parade.

Nothing to see.....move along.

 

http://www.informationliberation.com/

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 20:35 | 6001137 jaycephus
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It always disgusts me to see cops writing tickets and then saying that they are serving the community, rather than admit the truth that they are simply serving as a tax collector and nothing else. But it is clear that this happened because the mayor or someone in SA govt simply wants to hide the homeless from the tourists.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 18:42 | 6000668 nuubee
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Again, when you see virtue punished and vice rewarded, you know your society is doomed.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 18:47 | 6000687 Shizzmoney
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The amount of dgaf these ppl continue to show is outstandingly brasin.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 18:48 | 6000690 nuubee
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Also, I think this is the first time ZH has made me hungry, most times it just makes me sick.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 18:49 | 6000698 BoredRoom
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GOOD!

 

Feeding stray cats leads to more stray cats....

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 19:12 | 6000790 chumbawamba
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Your mom's a stray cat.

I am Chumbawamba.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 19:15 | 6000804 NeedleDickTheBu...
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It only took you a week on ZH to confirm that you're an utter douchebag.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 19:20 | 6000830 IndyPat
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Impressive...but not a record.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 22:17 | 6001507 Colonel Klink
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Nope that bitcoin douchbag does it immediately upon respawning.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 19:32 | 6000887 tarabel
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The time draws near when you too shall be the functional equivalent of a stray cat.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 19:53 | 6000964 imaginalis
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Someone fed you

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 20:43 | 6001178 Parrotile
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Many of those "Stray Cats" were people with jobs, but their jobs disappeared when "The Executive" realised that overseas labour was so much better for their hallowed "Bottom Line".

Maybe your job will go the same way, and you too will join their swelling ranks (those who have "Voluntarily" dropped out of the Workforce, and so who do not count towards the entirely laughable "employment" statistics).

Maybe your opinion may change, once your perspective changes . . . . .

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 19:07 | 6000770 McMolotov
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"I hate the homeless...

...ness problem that plagues our city."

—Captain Hammer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-39wDLJMxU&t=0m27s

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 19:10 | 6000783 A Lunatic
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 Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! -Isaiah 5-20 KJV-

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 19:28 | 6000868 tarabel
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KJV The only way to fly.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 19:42 | 6000926 MeelionDollerBogus
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Despite all the mistranslations by converting to English?

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 20:00 | 6000995 Jumbotron
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You mean from Hebrew to Greek and ONLY THEN to Latin?

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 20:04 | 6001013 tarabel
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The spirit comes through just fine and I enjoy the majestic language.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 21:03 | 6001259 knukles
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Bingo.  Nothing like the Book of Matthew's Sermon on the Mount in the KJV. 
It is the mote of dust in the ray of light

Fri, 04/17/2015 - 01:15 | 6001876 Jumbotron
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I would have to say, even as a Protestant, I like the Roman Catholic Jerusalem Bible.  Which oddly enough....was a French translation from the Hebrew and Greek, before being translated to English.  Thusly, the English that is written is heavily influenced by the French style that was imparted to the original Hebrew and Greek texts.

Another curious thing about the Jerusalem Bible; none other than J.R.R. Tolkien contributed to some of the Jerusalem Bible, the largest part being the translation of Jonah.

There is a version called the New Jersualem Bible....but this is a more modern rewrite of the orginal, and to my eyes and ears, loses somewhat the richness of the original's language.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 21:29 | 6001357 Icelandicsaga.....
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Thinking along those prophetic lines.... the besst . have always believed revelations was indicating a STATE or system .. the STATE wants to be all things aka god... if they decide you starve. you starve . .if you are a 'useless eater' you die .. .. they need bodies for war .. you are cannon fodder .. sooner or later they will get around to preventing people from growign their own food .. or raising chickens or whatever .. it is happening in some places now. Michigan killed thousands of pigs because they might have feral blood.. farmers . wept over the slaughter of animals they cared for like family .. sooner or later the State will go too far.

The Mark of the Beast
And he causes all, the small and the great, and the rich and the poor, and the free men and the slaves, to be given a mark on their right hand or on their forehead, and he provides that no one will be able to buy or to sell, except the one who has the mark, either the name of the beast or the number of his name. 18Here is wisdom. Let him who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for the number is that of a man; and his number is six hundred and sixty-six.
Thu, 04/16/2015 - 18:43 | 6000670 blindman
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the fines increase as you move up the food chain.
feeding fish and ducks, not a problem, stray cats,
you might have a little problem? forget monkeys,
if there were monkeys being fed all hell would
break loose i guess.
feeding hungry people must carry the biggest penalty,
no?
i give up on this culture but not on the victims
of it.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 18:45 | 6000676 nuubee
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Except for when you hit TBTF status, then you just get a check for your criminal behavior.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 20:47 | 6001194 Parrotile
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With the "right connections" you can even get a Nobel Prize . . . . .:-(

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 21:05 | 6001267 knukles
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CAN'T FEED THE HOMELESS BUT THE NIGHTLY NEWS IS OK RUNNING A LOOP OF SOMEBODY BEING SHOT IN THE BACK (MURDER) BY A POLICE OFFICER.
Now if that ain't conditioning, I sure as shit don't know what is.
Maybe that's why the End of Days is starting to make sense ..... Book of Revelations.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 18:43 | 6000673 Shizzmoney
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God bless her.

This reminds me of a buddy who used to live in Vegas; he would often mention that in most of these "red" states, they are so fucking deep in financial doo doo that they would fine and ticket ppl over the smallest of offenses.  And remember, this is in CONSERVATIVE Nevada...where there is no income tax.

The best part is that all of these cops and politicians who created and procured this citation will all be praying to Jesus on Sunday. 

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 19:24 | 6000845 Crawdaddy
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I quibble:

"The best part is that all of these cops and politicians who created and procured this citation will all be praying to Jesus on Sunday. "

praying to the state masquerading as gods, listening to Homeland Security Clergy Response preachers, will get you in the goat line, not the sheep line. Believe me brotha, you want to be in the sheep line when those lines form.

Fri, 04/17/2015 - 08:48 | 6002513 cgbspender
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get you in the goat line, not the sheep line. Believe me brotha, you want to be in the sheep line when those lines form.

 

One of my good friends refers to this as "Smoking or Non-Smoking?".

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 18:44 | 6000675 nmewn
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Ticketed by a bike cop...lol...at least they're saving the fucking planet.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 18:56 | 6000719 MonetaryApostate
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From the looks of it, the beast is rising up to cast down the Great Whore of Babylon, not that most people would understand that...

(Just look into the streets and tell me what you see every day...)

I see many poor WHITE people...

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 19:26 | 6000858 tarabel
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I see the lost, straying children of God and know that the time is near when all shall be summoned to answer for their deeds in this life.

 

 

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 21:31 | 6001363 FidTheRED
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"Yeh uh tarabel means beautiful earth, but in ma town it just means fucked up place to live" - thugnificent

:(

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 22:35 | 6001555 tarabel
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It's not too late to find someplace more amenable. It pains me to go into my own hometown and see what it is becoming. The spirit has flown, but out in the country 40 miles away it still abides.

For those who would like to escape but don't know how they could make a living out in the toolies, I would suggest a short truck-driving course to get a CDL. All of the rural papers are crammed with Help Wanted ads that require one. Homes are cheap, the land is wide, and the neighbors are genuine made-in-the-USA type of people-- even the ones who weren't.

Fri, 04/17/2015 - 08:11 | 6002425 Refuse-Resist
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I can tell you're not watching enough TV, because all whites are rich, control everything, are racist, and have White Privilege.

Didn't you get the memo?

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 18:45 | 6000679 silverer
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That's too bad.  I guess it's better to be a rat-bastard law breaking scumbag at the top.  And it's expected people are supposed to worship you as well.  Jerko millionaires: few of them ever offer to feed the homeless THEMSELVES.  How grody.  They'll pay someone to do it.  Thanks, Joan.  Understand that there are people out there who appreciate your efforts to take care of your fellow human beings.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 19:02 | 6000752 ljag
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The only cure for this and all other forms of rression is to get personal. Get the bike cop's name and go after him. Once you get their (cops) attention they just MAY get the clue that it could happen to them too.

"Go after him" can be left to your imagination

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 19:06 | 6000768 A Lunatic
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I'm going to build an asparagus cannon. Look for me on the news in a few weeks......

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 18:47 | 6000684 reader2010
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The message: invest your money in the stock market instead. To get rich is glorious, according to the Chinese. Do you get it,  MOFO? 

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 18:50 | 6000700 nuubee
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Let the homeless BTFD in Equities!!!

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 18:48 | 6000693 Monetas
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Maybe she can work off the fine .... with community service .... like feeding the homeless ?

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 20:26 | 6001096 nailgunnin4you
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See, you can get laughs without lame trolling attempts. 

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 18:49 | 6000694 homiegot
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You have a nice day, ma'am.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 18:49 | 6000697 Hohum
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Speaking of San Antonio, go Spurs!  First things first, right?

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 20:11 | 6001031 Volkodav
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badly off topic    (if not too vague sarc attempt)

real world not stupid commercial sports

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 18:49 | 6000699 HeavydutyMexica...
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" lamb meatballs, spaghetti, a garden salad and a vegetable soup..."

 

Come on cheever, this is San Antonio! Tacos and Bar-B-Que are the only acceptable meals!  I would have called the cops on her too if she tried serving this MexiCAN lamb meatballs and spaghetti. /s

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 18:50 | 6000703 Monetas
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The homeless probably filed the complaint .... because, "The bitch never gave us any money !" !

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 18:55 | 6000704 Monetas
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Yeah, that's pretty fancy faire .... but, menudo works best on a hangover !

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 18:52 | 6000708 A Lunatic
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JPM hates competition.......

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 19:15 | 6000810 nmewn
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Idiot progs are never gonna get that, you may have to spell it out in terms Julia & Pajama Boy can understand.

Julia works the night shift and .gov extracts taxes from her check to give to Pajama Boy who is poor. When Sally feeds homeless Pajama Boy for free, .gov and its paper shufflers are cut out of the socio-economic money loop, thus Officer Speedo is dispatched to drive Sally out of the charity business which .gov is fighting for control over.

Its sorta like the Crips & the Bloods on a macro level ;-)

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 19:19 | 6000823 IndyPat
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Word.

SAPD says "let them eat flashbangs".

Something tells me this is going to blow back on them.

Fri, 04/17/2015 - 01:28 | 6001924 NihilistZero
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Its sorta like the Crips & the Bloods on a macro level ;-)

The Crips and Bloods provide highly sought after goods in competition with each other which lowers the price of said goods.  They freely settle disputes over distribution rights openly and honestly.  Do not insult gang bangers by comparing them to the government.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 18:53 | 6000714 MonetaryApostate
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Gee I wonder where an idea like that may have came from....

http://www.mintpressnews.com/the-uk-is-outlawing-homelessness/199886/

 

 

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 19:01 | 6000739 foodstampbarry
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Soulless cowards. I'd have a hard time sleeping at night ticketing someone for feeding people. My God, what have we become?

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 19:25 | 6000854 IndyPat
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Monsters

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 18:56 | 6000723 HeavydutyMexica...
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I believe those bike cops recently transferred to San Antonio from Los Angeles....freaking Clipper fans.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 18:56 | 6000728 Smuckers
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And to think, if the cop was 73yrs old, he would've just pulled out his revolver instead of the paperbook and shot her.  Goons and cowards, go find some real fucking crime.  What in holy fuck am I paying you for?

 

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 18:57 | 6000731 redc1c4
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feeding bums is like feeding pigeons in your yard or cockroaches in your kitchen...

you just wind up witth hordes of them, making a mess everywhere and demanding moar free stuff.

i have sympathy for those who are truly homeless, but there are programs for them. the mentally ill and the willfully transient can go f themselves. time and again i have witnessed them refuse any and all aid.

if they want to live like that, that's their business, but you feeding them to make yourself feel good isn't helping anything, but rather makes things worse.

you want to feed bums, go w*rk at the soup kitchen instead of creating a public nuisance.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 19:07 | 6000772 IndyPat
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..."there are programs for them"....

Yeah.

There's a program for you, too, chief. Just wait. It will be exciting.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 19:58 | 6000987 rsnoble
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lmao!  first time I laughed tonight thx.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 19:12 | 6000793 Crawdaddy
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I can help anyone I damn well please. Fuck the "approved" govt/NGO programs.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 19:38 | 6000907 MeelionDollerBogus
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"there are programs"

oh? You mean there is government cheese collecting tax for which 1% will allegedly go to helping in a "program"?

 

How about people who directly want to bypass this and freely, lawfully (was lawful!) hand food/ cash to who they please is no one's business to stop?

When police are un-busy enough to steal your money (fines) for you donating what you have the sum to give, to another of your choosing, they are un-busy enough to all be fired.

The very notion that it's a crime to help others by your consenting will is nonsensical beyond belief.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 19:57 | 6000978 imaginalis
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You need a size 12 in the nads. What a douchebag impersonation.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 18:57 | 6000732 yogibear
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Watch out, a cop may pull out a gun and shoot ya instead of tasaring you if you continue feeding the homeless.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 19:02 | 6000743 MonetaryApostate
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Nah, they'll just run the homeless all over and say, "Oops, my bad..."  (Problem solved?)

Or you'll see the homeless on the 5 O' Clock news being pumped full of lead...

Or maybe they'll just round them (Read us) all up into F eee MAAA camps after the big Dollar Dump...

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 18:59 | 6000738 robobbob
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"the city’s designated service provider"

so, are we to assume that there is some sort of grant, contract, or budget associated with being that "provider"?

and that the number of cases they handle is reflected in the amount of money they receive?

so, good sumaritans are cutting into their revenue.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 19:04 | 6000761 Cannon Fodder
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What bothers me about that phrase is that it is of the mentality that only government organizations are capable of addressing something.... it removes the ability of the individual to take initiative and do something....

Basically when you see something wrong, you are supposed to step back and wait for "them" to correct it...

See some one dying on the sidewalk? Eh, wait for the paramedics to show up and do CPR...

See some one being assaulted, eh, wait for the police to show up....

See some one in need, eh wait for FEMA to show up....

What happened to helping another human???

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 19:01 | 6000745 Cannon Fodder
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What have we come to when feeding your fellow man is a crime?

We as a nation truely are going to pay for our sins......

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 19:01 | 6000749 wendigo
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Guess I'll have to start feeding the homeless. Mostly because it's the right thing to do, but partly because it'll piss someone off. 

More people need to get pissed off. It's good for them. But, like other things that are good for you (abstinence) they won't want it. 

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 19:02 | 6000751 A Lunatic
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Mowing down caterers on a Huffy would make for some entertaining 10 o'clock news......

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 19:04 | 6000756 MonetaryApostate
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Nah, this is Mericka, they'll just drive those DHS approved Anti-Riot Tanks over them...

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 19:05 | 6000762 ChristopherWhite
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In certain lectures Rabbi Mizrachi points out the similarities in the morals and in the laws of the U.S.A. and Sodom and Gomorrah.  One similarity the Rabbi points out is illustrated by this Zerohedge article, namely that in both U.S.A. And Sodom it was not legal to feed the poor.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 19:05 | 6000764 Lurk Skywatcher
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If they want the homeless gone, then wouldn't failing to obey food safety laws be a good thing? Oh, the delicious irony!

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 19:06 | 6000769 Not_FieldingMellish
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"How much cash do you have in your vehicle, ma'am?"

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 19:11 | 6000787 gregga777
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A question to the uniformed THUGS committing THUGGERY under Color of Law.

But first, a few observations. Using social networks, if one person knows something, everyone will know. So,

• Everyone knows you are a THUG for the ELITES;
• Everyone knows your name;
• Everyone knows the name of your wife;
• Everyone knows the names of your kids;
• Everyone knows where you live;
• Everyone knows where your family lives;
• Everyone knows where your kids attend school;
• Everyone knows where your wife works;
• Everyone knows where your parents live;

"Who, if anyone, do you think anyone is going to protect your family from retribution for your THUGGERY?"

That same question applies to everyone following the ELITE parasites orders to harm Americans.

If you don't pay the ultimate price for your THUGGISH actions your family surely will, and much, much sooner than later,

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 19:23 | 6000844 suteibu
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Indeed, the system is unable to protect everyone in it.  At some point, enough people - both inside the system and out - will realize that. 

Fri, 04/17/2015 - 09:49 | 6002709 Dickweed Wang
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• Everyone knows you are a THUG for the ELITES;
• Everyone knows your name;
• Everyone knows the name of your wife;
• Everyone knows the names of your kids;
• Everyone knows where you live;
• Everyone knows where your family lives;
• Everyone knows where your kids attend school;
• Everyone knows where your wife works;
• Everyone knows where your parents live;

Yeah right, tell this to a cop who has got you on the ground with his foot on your neck and see how far that gets ya. A more indirect, and less offensive, approach to try to accomplish the same thing would be to (keep) asking the LEO; "Who are you actually working for?". You might get a little more pressure on your neck but it's likely you wouldn't have an "accident falling down the stairs to the cellblock" if you used your approach.  And yes, I saw that you said to use the above on social networks.  The only problem with that is it's like anything else on the internet . . . you won't read it if it goes against your beliefs or negatively effects the paradigm that runs your life. So how would that be effective then?

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 19:12 | 6000796 IndyPat
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She should have had an emergency box of jelly and steroid-filled donuts on hand for this situation.
Makes piggies happy.

Kinda shocked they didn't taze her.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 19:20 | 6000831 scatha
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It is a blatant attempt to destroy human solidarity, powerful idea that unites us, ordinary people into power that scares shit out of ruling elites and their henchman.

They want to eradicate from our minds any gestures of humanity, to deny fundamental christian ethics of helping people in need no matter what. The same methods was used by German Nazi regime, to isolate those persecuted or rejected or abandoned by "righteous regime"  and made them  invisible.

They want us to become slaves of money, greed and to be addicted to illusions of reality as propagandized on MSM, blind to injustice and human suffering. Is this an act of protest, rebellion, defiance  against entire system of oppression run by ruling elites, to feed hungry human being?

Is being a human a crime now?

Honest take of dehumanization and enslavement through money and insidious government/financial system can be found at:

https://contrarianopinion.wordpress.com/2015/04/14/plutus-and-the-myth-o...

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 19:22 | 6000840 Smuckers
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Hmm, as a kid I must've missed the episode where Davey let loose a gnashing bezerk Goliath onto a pack of homeless people while Sally freebased for BJ's in the parking lot. 

 

So then how do I shake off this suffocating shroud of empathy such that I can see the cops side to this story?

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 19:25 | 6000855 Not_FieldingMellish
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Easy, get a job with the NSA.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 19:27 | 6000865 IndyPat
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Their side? That's easy.

Just doing what they are told.

Earns you a rope in the end, just the same.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 19:26 | 6000856 rsnoble
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Are they any kind of internet injustice donation sites..............to where we could put something together in order to help in causes like this?  I guaarantee we could come up with 2k real fast.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 19:35 | 6000895 IndyPat
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Dunno.

I do know you shouldn't have to look to hard for a poor person, though. Or a hungry one.
Don't even need to do a Google search either.

Walmart parking lots at 2 a.m. is a sure thing. Just don't be there when the cops get there.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 20:01 | 6000996 rsnoble
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I was actually talking about rescuing the gal that got fined is what I meant.  Were you the one i've had previous discussions with regarding hobos?  I find it funny to call them over and give them something, you can tell they aren't used to that lol.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 19:28 | 6000866 thistooshallpass
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Much respect to The Chow Train founders and volunteers. They are truly inspirational people - and role models - that should be commended rather than fined for their service. Below is their video summarizing The Chow Train's mission and philosophies. Please take a look and support their GoFundMe campaign, if possible. Let's let them know how many ZH'ers agree with what they are doing. Thank you.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=BYYTjfIEbx4

 

http://www.gofundme.com/chowtraindonation

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 19:28 | 6000870 are we there yet
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It is a federal crime to grow food crops in your backyard. And sell to your neighbors. Not kidding.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 21:21 | 6001321 rsnoble
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This mofo is going to fly apart sooner or later that kind of BS will never make any kind of nation that lasts.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 19:35 | 6000901 JLM
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She better call Saul!

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 19:41 | 6000922 1 over Infinity
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She needs  a feed the homeless permit first.

 

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 19:48 | 6000938 Smegley Wanxalot
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As a kid I would go at thanksgiving with my dad to help a friend who was a restaurant owner (small place) serve a meal to the homeless.  The owner was doing a good thing.  One year, right after thanksgiving, he was served papers ... some homeless guy got a tort lawyer to sue him ... supposedly the guy got food poisoning.  In the end, the restaurant owner didn't have to pay the homeless dude or his lawyer a cent because it was bullshit, but it cost him $7,000 (1978 dollars) in legal expenses to prove his innocence. 

Never again did that owner offer free meals to the homeless.  He learned his lesson, as did I at his cost.  You wanna help, but you are fucked if you do.  The system sucks, the govt sucks, the lawyers suck, and the assholes who abuse it suck.  Fuck the goddamned world.

Fri, 04/17/2015 - 00:24 | 6001817 Armed Resistance
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I could tell by reading this story that it wasn't an Italian restaurant. Because if it was, the owner would have paid "Vinny" and "Bobby" a mere $1000 bucks to help the guy settle out of court, if you know what I mean. The homeless guy's lawyer would drop the suit, you know, if he liked to walk and stuff like that.

Moral of the story? No good deed skimmed goes unpunished!

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 20:00 | 6000992 GRDguy
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This is just like the church in San Francisco that turned on sprinklers every so often to keep the homeless from its doors.  In 1903, Jack London wrote "The People of the Abyss," at a time when the "drift of gold "was away from England.  Now that the "drift of gold" is away from the US to the East, look what's happening to us.

Fri, 04/17/2015 - 09:40 | 6002670 Dickweed Wang
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This is just like the church in San Francisco that turned on sprinklers every so often to keep the homeless from its doors.

It was actually an attempt to clean the stink off of the bums (ahem, "homeless people") that were offensive to the people working at and attending the church . . . . not really, but a lot of them DO stink to high heaven.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 20:02 | 6001000 Crazed Smoker
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Good for her.  Damn the state.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 20:05 | 6001015 Volkodav
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four of them? how much money is that a year?

could help a lot the homeless for that much...if city want them elsewhere,

it look they have plenty money to do provide better for them...

than show world how selfish land of plenty in real

 

this lady needs support...

 

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 20:14 | 6001039 rsnoble
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My grandma owned a small restaurant.  Said she'd let in a couple homeless everyday and had a table in the back and would give them chicken skin sandwiches.  And they were happy to get it she said.

After reading this gals menu........i'm ready to go there and get a meal myself lol.  I usually dress like a bum anyhow.

I seen some old black guy on tv that actually runs a non-profit restaurant for the needy and sells huge plates of food for like 50 cents.  I was like damn!  I was driving thru the poor area the other day and since I seen a few white people around I decided to check out the grocery store.  I wasn't in my normal vehicle or I wouldn't had stopped lol.  I found t-bones for $4.80lb.  Needless to say i've been eating a lot of steak lately lol.

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 20:14 | 6001046 ken
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Will the Catholic community rise up for what is right? Or will they just pray?

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 21:27 | 6001350 blindman
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beware condemnation, shame and
indifference; mysterious
feelings of guilt followed by confession,
then many prescribed prayers.
over time it is designed to
reach a beneficent and progressive
"state", somehow, always in the future
but with potential instant temporal benefits.
.
a state of being, waiting.
.
that the plan but, as all plans, depends
on adherence and conscription to the plan
which never manifests in the realm of
"many other plans".
so, we patiently wait and observe the heavens
where and when we can.
anyway ^ tm

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 20:24 | 6001084 OutaTime43
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There's a reason for this law. Her original vehcile was approved because it was deemed SAFE to serve food from it. The law is there to ensure that these people don't get food poisoning. People should pitch in to pay her fine and buy her a newer vehicle that will pass the code. It's not an anti homeless conspiracy..

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 20:46 | 6001189 Midnight Rider
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Not sure the article was read.

"I told the officer that we cook dinner in the truck and then we put it in health-department-approved catering equipment, like every caterer or restaurant-delivery service in this town, and then serve it."

The equipment she was serving it from was safe and health-department approved.

Fri, 04/17/2015 - 00:18 | 6001804 Parrotile
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I (and I am certain MANY others), can remember the days when we got our Fish and Chips nicely wrapped in yesterday's newsprint, and the lard they were fried in was a very good solvent for said newsprint, so the chips at least often had legible text (reverse-print) on them, and my Grandparents even had a small game where whoever could read the longest section of text won!

We all seem to have survived OK on VERY "un-approved" catering materials (Grandparents lasted until their very late 90's), so maybe this issue is more to do with overt control, than any genuine "food safety" concern . . . . .

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 20:47 | 6001193 TradingTroll
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Funny. You worry about code but the people consuming her meals are dumpster diving on other nights.Somenes say something about code? What permit does a dumpster diver need?

Thu, 04/16/2015 - 21:07 | 6001274 blindman
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at this moment, i do not wish to enter the conversation from the
public health regulatory perspective or the socio-economic perspective
but from the evolutionary perspective; to ask the elementary
question concerning organic babies, children and the universal
behavior encoded in the phrase "hand to mouth". notice all
normal and healthy babies go immediately for the hand to mouth
behaviour. combine that with the fact that there are more bacteria
in and on the human body than there are cells compromising the
human body and add to that that the human is born with an infantile
immune system, entirely dependent on challenges and the information
there derived for elemental survival.
.
somethings to think about.
.
nursing and nourishing the moneyless,
who would have thought it should be deemed
a violation? what, exactly, is being violated and
why is there a monetary penalty?

Fri, 04/17/2015 - 06:46 | 6002219 DIGrif
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Do you have some kind of handicap that inhibits your reading comprehension? If that woman were to walk up to her truck, take a plate of food and walk 3 paces to hand it to someone, she is in violation. The citation was because she had a permit for the TRUCK..but not to serve food from outside it.

Fri, 04/17/2015 - 09:35 | 6002652 Dickweed Wang
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Her original vehcile was approved because it was deemed SAFE to serve food from it.

WTF??? I don't care how dirty the "serving area" in the vehicle is originally, all one would have to do is put down a layer of cardboard or thin plywood and then cover the whole serving area with 6 mil polyethylene topped by a clean sheet or something like that.  If they're worried about germs floating around in the air, good luck with addressing that issue as it wouldn't matter what condition the vehicle is in - the location where the vehicle is parked would be the problem.

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