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Rhode Island Considers First-Of-Its Kind ‘Homeless Bill Of Rights’
Associated Press ^ | May 14, 2012

Posted on 05/14/2012 5:19:44 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Eddie Vega has been homeless for a year. He was waiting for a bus one day last week when a police officer rolled up to ask what he was doing and where he was headed. Vega said it’s the kind of subtle harassment that happens all the time.

“I get the looks,” said the 31-year-old Providence man, squinting because he recently lost his glasses in a fight that also left him with stiches on his forehead. “It’s the same hassle everywhere. Happens every day. There’s nothing you can do. You speak up and you get in trouble.”

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1 posted on 05/14/2012 5:19:50 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
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To: Free ThinkerNY

You have the Right to clean yourself up and get a J-O-B.


2 posted on 05/14/2012 5:25:57 PM PDT by freedumb2003 ('RETRO' Abortions = performed on 84th trimester individuals who think killing babies is a "right.")
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To: Free ThinkerNY
It’s the same hassle everywhere. Happens every day. There’s nothing you can do.

Here's a crazy idea Eddie. Get a job.

3 posted on 05/14/2012 5:26:40 PM PDT by Drill Thrawl (The United States of America, a banana republic since 1913)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Excuse me while I throw up on myself. Check out the homeless camp located on the sidewalk outside the front entrance to Rhode Island Hospital in Providence. You have to walk out into the street to get around it. And the police are allowing it.... why???????


4 posted on 05/14/2012 5:29:04 PM PDT by animal172 (Calling the Founding Fathers!! We need your help.)
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To: animal172

There’s no revenue to be generated from the homeless.


5 posted on 05/14/2012 5:32:58 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Homeless is spelled B U M,


6 posted on 05/14/2012 6:30:57 PM PDT by BuffaloJack (End Obama's War On Freedom.)
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Rhode Island is going down the toilet faster than just about any state in the country.But that stands to reason...it's basically the “bluest” state of the 50.
7 posted on 05/14/2012 6:33:01 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Julia: another casualty of the "War on Poverty")
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To: EEGator

Bingo.


8 posted on 05/14/2012 6:39:37 PM PDT by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer, but when it is, it is the only answer.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Didn’t Ruth Buzzy herself tell us the US Constitution is....sort of ....wanting but thought the S. African constitution was boffo?...see, now THAT ONE it’s chock full of rights, it’s got rights to housing, food, medical care, education, environmental rights, labor relations rights and bla bla bla bla...rights, right?

....see that nails it...how in the sam hell did Thomas Jefferson ever, ever forget to tack a HOMELESS BILL OF RIGHTS onto the Constitution while he was sittin around with nuthin to do back in ‘87? It’s beyond me folk..../s


9 posted on 05/14/2012 7:04:12 PM PDT by jimsin
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