Hopeville camp for homeless is razed

St Louis Post-Dispatch ^ | 5-12-2012 | Jesse Bogan

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ST. LOUIS • As the rumble of Bobcats and a massive front-end loader approached Hopeville on Friday, Antoinette Triplett, who heads the city's homeless services division, scuttled through the riverfront encampment in high-heeled shoes, looking for one last hold-out.

[Repealthe17thAmendment]

This is the story of the Obama Administration in a nutshell.

[Paladin2]

Marie Antoinette Triplett?

[Paladin2]

""You can't help what you don't know," said Richard "Wolf" Mattson, 42, a former Hopeville resident who said Angelo liked to be left alone. "You can only do so much for someone.""

Many who are not homeless have the same attitude toward public "services".

[Kenny500c]

Next stop for the dozers, Changeville.

[SuzyQue]

I wonder who printed up the nice signs for them?

[fella]

A fair sized segment of our homeless are people with mental and physical problems. They used to be kept in government run or supported asylums. Then during the Carter years the do-gooders said that was awful and the asylums were closed and those people were put on the street where they remain today.

[philetus]

Reagan closed all the state hospitals.

[abclily]

Yes, the mentally ill being turned out on the streets is a great example of ‘liberal inhumanity to man’. Liberals never learn, because you can’t fix stupid.

[fella]

The “warehousing” campaign began in the Carter years and the President has to do what Congress tells them to do.

[wm25burke]

>>This is the story of the Obama Administration in a nutshell.

Don't forget the part where the military industrial complex is being hijacked by Rainbow activists from within...


MCAS - Tustin

[Paladin2]

So the question is still open:

Are the majority of them better off experiencing much more physical and mental freedom than being incarcerated?

[hoosierham]

Many of them need some level of supervision but incarceration was often cruel.Sheltered workshops and closely monitored group homes are probably more humane.Is it moral to abandon those with known and obvious problems to the tender mercies of living on the street?

Then again,the “all rights,no responsibilities” crowd has pushed changes that make matters worse.

Then there are the fools who think giving the homeless shopping carts or demonstrating how to make a better cardboard box shelter REALLY care!

Most of the homeless need a secure place to sleep and bathe and storage where their meager belonging won’t be stolen.

We have a President and Congress that sends trillions of $$$ to foreign dictators when THAT money should be better left in the hands of those who earned it and who would donate to private charities which generally do a much better job helping the poor.

Not to mention the government demanding and requiring church shelters abandon church teachings.A lot of the poor and homeless could benefit from the lessons formerly taught by the Salvation Army and others.Alcohol and drug addiction is a good? bad way to end up poor and homeless.

[Paladin2]

"Most of the homeless need a secure place to sleep and bathe and storage where their meager belonging won’t be stolen."

Who doesn't? When I pretend to be "homeless" for a couple of months a year, I rent an inexpensive motel room by the month, but also have a car and have money for food.

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I wonder who printed up the nice signs for them?

It probably came from stimulus money.