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[undergroundpanther]

Illegal to feed the poor.

http://www.local6.com/food/9576842/detail.html

[YOY]

1. Amazing

just freaking amazing.

[OneBlueSky]

2. that's just sick . . .

making it illegal to feed the hungry wherever they may be is such a disgusting misuse of the law that it's hard to comprehend the "minds" of the people behind it . . . just sick . . .

[madeline_con]

3. "...in downtown parks." (It did not say stop feeding them.)

"Officials said transients gathering for weekly meals create safety and sanitary problems for businesses."

I've heard some talk on local radio about homeowners in the Lake Eola area being flashed and harrassed by homeless people as they come out of their homes to get in their cars.

[az chela]

4. My son was a disabled vet in a wheel chair and he got 800

dollars a month.After rent and utilities he didnt always have money for food and so I sent him money and his friends helped him out.I never pass a vet or a homeless person with out stopping and giving him money.I do it now in my sons memory as he died two yrs ago from neglect from the VA

[Tsiyu]

15. Sorry about your son's hard life

It didn't have to be that way, and you and I know it.

This nation has no soul.

[LeftyMom]

5. This is intended to eliminate Food Not Bombs

We can't have a bunch of anti-capitalist vegetarian do-gooders feeding people just because they need to eat. You want to eat you get your ass down to the socially approved charity kitchen and get your plate of unhealthful crap and your ears full of jesus talk and you shut up and like it. :sarcasm:

[undergroundpanther]

6. I agree with that

Food Not Bombs I bet under this Bush oligarchy is labeled a terrorist organization just like the vegetarians,peace protesters and quakers.

When will people realize that the rich pigs passing laws like this have no consciences?

[LeftyMom]

8. You'd win that bet.

http://www.foodnotbombs.net/spy.html

[az chela]

7. That is so true and sometimes he did that

When he was at the va in boise Idaho he called seattle washington to get in a program there as he was getting the rest of his leg cut off and they told him to come and he rode a bus for 8 hrs and then took a cab from town and then spent the day at the hospital where they sent him to several different departments and was told that they couldnt take him,there had been a mistake so he wheeled him self almost 2 miles back to seattle and called me and was in tears,he was broke and scared as he was in a very bad part of town ,I had him ask a cab driver where the bus station was and he wheeled himself there as they also had a western union,i sent money for food and a ticket and told him to stay there all night and catch the next bus our in the morning so he went back to Boise,another 8 hr trip and ,was a broken man ,he died 10 days later

[LeftyMom]

9. I'm so sorry.

It's good of you to tell his story. I'm sure it pains you to do so, but if it drives somebody to create change, maybe a tiny bit of good can come from his suffering and yours.

:hug:

[az chela]

10. thank you.He died august 24th and already i am dreading that day

He hated this war and this adminstration and the va had so many benefits taken away and they were treated horribly.The more he heard about the war the more depressed he became.He lost his will to live

[Nicole]

11. How disgusting

It's hard to believe that 23% agree with it. :(

Do you think it should be illegal to feed homeless people in public areas?

Yes 7668 23%
No 25135 77%

[sleipnir]

13. It should be illegal to have have homeless people in our society.

WTF are we doing to help these people? Very little, it would seem.

I for one, would like to see a bill that punishes the government for failing to support each and every citizen to the basic right of having a decent roof and shelter.

In the 21st century, I am shocked that forced homelessness still occurs.

[MoseyWalker]

12. How can they enforce this?

Say I go to the park and feed a couple of people some sandwiches. Who's to say I'm not their long lost third cousin twice removed? I know the idea is to stop "mass" feedings, but couldn't more people just get involved in less obvious ways?

I was wishing this thread was about Tony Orlando playing Vegas, because the truth of this is truly upsetting.

[durrrty libby]

14. what a country n/t

[Ian David]

16. It's part of Bush's program to turn America into a Christian Theocracy

1) Eliminate social safety nets like social security, pensions, medicare, etc.
2) Eliminate the middle class and the working poor
3) Force poor people to join the military as the only way to earn a living or to afford college
4) Increase reliance upon government-sanctioned "Fiath-based" programs to help the poor.
5) Continue giving faith-based programs more and more leeway to discriminate and proselytize
6) If the poor want faith-based help, they will need to accept Bush's version of Jesus as their personal Lord and Savior
7) Those who wish to receive this faith-based help will have to register their loyalty with the government, and will be issued signs upon their foreheads and the back of their hand