Via Witchvox comes a story from the Las Vegas Review-Journal that "The Las Vegas City Council passed an ordinance Wednesday that bans providing food or meals to the indigent for free or a nominal fee in parks.
The measure is an attempt to stop so-called 'mobile soup kitchens' from operating in parks, where residents say they attract the homeless and render the city facilities unusable by families." No, really. And, it gets (as it so often does, these days) worse. "The city's new ordinance, which officials could begin enforcing as early as Friday, defines an indigent as a "person whom a reasonable ordinary person would believe to be entitled to apply for or receive assistance" from the government under state law. Mayor Oscar Goodman, who has been a vocal advocate of cracking down on the homeless in city parks, dismissed questions about how marshals, who patrol city parks, will identify the homeless in order to enforce the ordinance, the violation of which would be a misdemeanor. "Certain truths are self-evident," Goodman said. "You know who's homeless.""
What kind of country are we living in?
"But one advocate who feeds the homeless at the park said she will continue to do so. "I'm going to do whatever I think is necessary to keep people alive," said Gail Sacco. Sacco has been cited twice while feeding the homeless, for holding a gathering of 25 or more people without a permit." Good for her.
2 comments:
Goin on all round the country, especially in places to which the homeless naturallly gravitate, places with mild climates and a high transient population...there was sumpin like it in Santa Monica, or mebbe venice, CA, iirc...
nice snarki-tag on e-ton: "Please, Don't Feed The Homeless"...
have i told you lately you fuukin RAWK and i love ya?
Remember when Jimmy Carter was president & there were no homeless? St. Ronnie dumped on the streets.
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