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The new law allows the city to seize personal belongings on sidewalks without providing notice. The owners have 30 days to retrieve their items in exchange for a $200 fine. Authorities said many chose to have their belongings destroyed instead of paying the fine.
Neil J. Donovan, the executive director of the National Coalition for the Homeless, said the state was one of many trying to deal with the homeless through ordinances, like the one barring tents, rather than programs to create housing. “That’s just such a short-sighted approach,” Mr. Donovan said. “It’s all about a lack of affordable housing.”
In 2009, the coalition named Honolulu the eighth meanest city in the country in its dealing with the homeless. Still, Mr. Donovan said Hawaii’s situation was particularly challenging: on an island with limited land, escalating property values have made affordable housing scarce.
“A lot of communities have different options to present to people,” he said. “In Hawaii, if you are persistently poor, you are really stuck where you are, on the islands.”
Originally posted by VoidHawk
Doesn't that just show how powerful the msm is?
Originally posted by jude11
I don't expect many to see this as wrong because these people are just an eyesore to them.
MAKING people homeless should be the crime in a civilized society.
Originally posted by intrptr
reply to post by Char-Lee
MSM propaganda:
Gun = Crime
Homeless = Criminal
Everywhere, not just Florida. Before I came indoors they were changing the laws so that Amtrak could patrol the tracks looking for "Trespassers" (people who live outdoors). Placing Razor wire and spiked fences under the bridges to deny access to overpass "shelter". Placing leaflets in camps that read, You are trespassing, if you are found here tomorrow you will be arrested and charged".
Its a phased program. Roundups are next. A person who lives outdoors can be found guilty of Trespassing, Loitering and Disorderly without ever opening their mouths. Thats three charges right off the bat. Add Resisting if they complain. Assault if they fail to comply.
Enough?
I have started and many others have as well, are you in?
Originally posted by intrptr
reply to post by jvm222
I have started and many others have as well, are you in?
Is this a sting operation or just entrapment? Sorry, thats the first response I must make to solicitation by internet.
It's just a way of empowerment to yourself as an individual
Originally posted by th3onetruth
reply to post by jude11
Amerika is a disease. This is absolutely grotesque. We rob these people of their homes and money. Then throw them in jail for not having a home or money
Originally posted by jude11
Originally posted by boymonkey74
reply to post by jude11
I know it is insane, like the guy says in the interview the homeless have changed they are normal people who have lost their jobs due to the economic crisis.
The prison owners obviously want more people in Jail and has slipped this guy some $ to try and get more in Jail for simply being homeless.
I can not see this actually happening but If it does I hope you the people of the USA do something about it.
And that's what I'm seeing between the lines.
Lobbyists getting excited and prisons drooling over the potential to have 1,000's more under lock and key for profit.
Peace