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San Antonio Woman Fined $2000 For Feeding The Homeless
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.
I'm raising money for The Chow Train Donation Fund. Click to Donate: http://t.co/4AJyNhUN2G via @gofundme
— The Chow Train (@TheChowTrain) April 16, 2015
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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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.
Thank Goat! She didn’t get shot in the back 8 times! ;-)
Looney
Goat?
He meant Lucifer.
WHAT THE FUCK is wrong with feeding homeless people!?!
In my world, nothing.
But I don't live in San Antonio and didn't vote for the "Progressive" hypocrites who thought this up.
Rich progressive liberals love homeless people, as long as they are far far away.
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.
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.
That's a well fed cop for a bike handing her the ticket. A true pig.
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.
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.
You act like voting works or something. Wake up.
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.
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.
Well someone that lives in SA needs to go to city hall and get a permit for a donkey.
Jackasses!
The Mexican night clubs can't be too happy about that one! Call the ACLU!
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.
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.”
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.
"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."
The officer was "following his training"
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.
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!
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.
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.
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."
"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.
Clueless Red/Blue-fixated posting will win you few friends on here.
No way nodick was one of the downvoters here, seeing as I am quoting him. I guess 2 people disagree with him.
Hillary ~ Hit her head real bad!
Poor Hillary can't control the crowds !
Awe
She hit her head real bad!
(Jack Nicholos)
Poor Hillary!
Nicholson
Sorry
Hey, if Jack wanted us to get his last name right he should not have been born in the same century as Jack Nicklaus.
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.
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??
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
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!
dont worry, these cops will soon be eaten by these homeless hungry men and women
I thought the cops were the zombies in this case. They certainly need brains.
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
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.
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"
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.
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.
Fascism on Parade.
Nothing to see.....move along.
http://www.informationliberation.com/
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.
Again, when you see virtue punished and vice rewarded, you know your society is doomed.
The amount of dgaf these ppl continue to show is outstandingly brasin.
Also, I think this is the first time ZH has made me hungry, most times it just makes me sick.
GOOD!
Feeding stray cats leads to more stray cats....
Your mom's a stray cat.
I am Chumbawamba.
It only took you a week on ZH to confirm that you're an utter douchebag.
Impressive...but not a record.
Nope that bitcoin douchbag does it immediately upon respawning.
The time draws near when you too shall be the functional equivalent of a stray cat.
Someone fed you
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 . . . . .
"I hate the homeless...
...ness problem that plagues our city."
—Captain Hammer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-39wDLJMxU&t=0m27s
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-
KJV The only way to fly.
Despite all the mistranslations by converting to English?
You mean from Hebrew to Greek and ONLY THEN to Latin?
The spirit comes through just fine and I enjoy the majestic language.
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
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.
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 BeastAnd 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.
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.
Except for when you hit TBTF status, then you just get a check for your criminal behavior.
With the "right connections" you can even get a Nobel Prize . . . . .:-(
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.
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.
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.
One of my good friends refers to this as "Smoking or Non-Smoking?".
Ticketed by a bike cop...lol...at least they're saving the fucking planet.
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...
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.
"Yeh uh tarabel means beautiful earth, but in ma town it just means fucked up place to live" - thugnificent
:(
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.
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?
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.
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
I'm going to build an asparagus cannon. Look for me on the news in a few weeks......
The message: invest your money in the stock market instead. To get rich is glorious, according to the Chinese. Do you get it, MOFO?
Let the homeless BTFD in Equities!!!
Maybe she can work off the fine .... with community service .... like feeding the homeless ?
See, you can get laughs without lame trolling attempts.
You have a nice day, ma'am.
Speaking of San Antonio, go Spurs! First things first, right?
badly off topic (if not too vague sarc attempt)
real world not stupid commercial sports
" 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
The homeless probably filed the complaint .... because, "The bitch never gave us any money !" !
Yeah, that's pretty fancy faire .... but, menudo works best on a hangover !
JPM hates competition.......
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 ;-)
Word.
SAPD says "let them eat flashbangs".
Something tells me this is going to blow back on them.
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.
Gee I wonder where an idea like that may have came from....
http://www.mintpressnews.com/the-uk-is-outlawing-homelessness/199886/
Soulless cowards. I'd have a hard time sleeping at night ticketing someone for feeding people. My God, what have we become?
Monsters
I believe those bike cops recently transferred to San Antonio from Los Angeles....freaking Clipper fans.
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?
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.
..."there are programs for them"....
Yeah.
There's a program for you, too, chief. Just wait. It will be exciting.
lmao! first time I laughed tonight thx.
I can help anyone I damn well please. Fuck the "approved" govt/NGO programs.
"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.
You need a size 12 in the nads. What a douchebag impersonation.
Watch out, a cop may pull out a gun and shoot ya instead of tasaring you if you continue feeding the homeless.
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...
"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.
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???
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......
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.
Mowing down caterers on a Huffy would make for some entertaining 10 o'clock news......
Nah, this is Mericka, they'll just drive those DHS approved Anti-Riot Tanks over them...
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.
If they want the homeless gone, then wouldn't failing to obey food safety laws be a good thing? Oh, the delicious irony!
"How much cash do you have in your vehicle, ma'am?"
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,
Indeed, the system is unable to protect everyone in it. At some point, enough people - both inside the system and out - will realize that.
• 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?
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.
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...
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?
Easy, get a job with the NSA.
Their side? That's easy.
Just doing what they are told.
Earns you a rope in the end, just the same.
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.
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.
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.
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
It is a federal crime to grow food crops in your backyard. And sell to your neighbors. Not kidding.
This mofo is going to fly apart sooner or later that kind of BS will never make any kind of nation that lasts.
She better call Saul!
She needs a feed the homeless permit first.
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.
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!
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.
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.
Good for her. Damn the state.
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...
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.
Will the Catholic community rise up for what is right? Or will they just pray?
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
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..
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.
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 . . . . .
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?
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.
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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?
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.
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.