Posted on 05/15/2019 2:18:07 PM PDT by Kaslin
Denver, Colorado residents might be as high as the Rocky Mountains but at least they have enough sense to overwhelmingly REJECT homeless encampments in public spaces!
It’s time for “First Thoughts.”
Denver’s initiative 300 – which was sneakily and misleadingly deemed the “Right to Survive” measure – was rejected by a wide margin last week!
The measure would have reversed the mile-high cities' 7-year ban on “urban camping” – AKA pitching tents, creating blanket shelters, or sleeping in cars in public spaces.
If you live in California, you know what “urban camping” looks like all too well.
Proponents of this so-called “Right to Survive” measure argued that being able to turn parks and other public spaces into homeless encampments is a basic human right.
Um, wrong. Allowing the homeless –some of whom are drug addicts and ex-cons – to turn public places into their own personal oasis is not a basic human right, it’s an encroachment, infringement, and eye sour to residents who have every right to enjoy their tax-payer funded spaces for their intended purposes and activities.
Denver’s mayor added urban campsites are, “unsanitary, they're unsafe and they're unhealthy."
They are also dangerous. Kids and families should be able to play in parks and other public areas without being hassled for money, step over human feces, trash, make-shift shelters, and the occasional needle.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
It’s all these brain-dead democrat-run City administrations that have allowed hobo camps in the first place...
Thank you for your service.
Colorado is the 10th circuit
Dude, we have to get shelter from the 5G waves! Need more Tin-Foil, need more Tin-Foil.....
I just wanted to be funny as if homeless had any logistical reason for anything. Most likely the reason dogs dig a hole to sleep in, protect their rear side.
Wildlife conservation wisdom:
“DO NOT FEED THE WILD ANIMAL, AS THEY WILL BECOME DEPENDENT ON HANDOUTS”
Let’s see if it gets enforced.
Urban Campers
“What are they going to do with the busload of illegals that the governor of NM sent to dEnver.”
Put them on a bus right back to Albuquerque and send that filthy leftwad swine the bill.
Good for Denver. About time a major city did the right thing. Hope this spreads like kudzu.
Thanks for telling my story.
Given my druthers, I’d rather sleep at a truck stop. It’s expected there.
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