Posted on 04/29/2023 4:28:29 AM PDT by Libloather
Oregon Democrats have put forth a bill that would allow homeless people to sue residents for "harassment."
House Bill 3501, also known as the Right to Rest Act, would allow aggrieved parties to sue for $1,000 for each incident of harassment. It would also decriminalize homeless camps. The bill comes after several years of a worsening homelessness crisis, and many residents complain of harassment and improper behavior on the part of the homeless population in cities such as Portland.
The bill blames homelessness on "economic hardship, a shortage of safe and affordable housing, the inability to obtain gainful employment and a disintegrating social safety net system." It argues that decriminalizing homeless encampments would allow the state to redirect resources toward the "root causes of homelessness and poverty."
"It is declared to be the public policy of Oregon to guarantee persons experiencing homelessness participation in the social and economic life of this state, remunerative employment, use of and free movement within public spaces, participation in and receipt of the benefits of the services, programs and activities of state government and local governments and housing accommodations of the person’s choice, without discrimination," the bill reads.
It defines harassment as a "knowing and willful course of conduct directed at a person experiencing homelessness that a reasonable person would consider as seriously alarming, tormenting or terrorizing of the person experiencing homelessness." It does not consider the vice versa of homeless people harassing residents - something many have complained about.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
Yes, it should.
And incidents like these are just the tip of the iceberg.
What we consider the extreme like in Oregon and Washington and NY is just what democrats want for a of us. It’s just that many know better than to push to hard too fast, so they are just biding their time.
And how are these economic hardship cases supposed to afford an attorney for what I am assuming would be a civil case?
This could become an interesting part-time job.
I had a homeless guy tell me he’d gone to “lawyer school,” so there’s that....
Democrats will push anything that undermines order.
Codified anarcho-tyranny.
The heck you say. I saw that same guy but I thought he was saying he was hairy-assed!
Oh my, more of play stupid games by voting Democrat, you get stupid prizes such as these from Democrats.
Liberal lawyers will crap all over themselves going after anyone ‘wealthy’ enough to own a home.
Wealth transfer mechanism to the state under the guise of “protecting the homeless”.
This is outright exploitation of the homeless by socialists.
This’ll be effective in the Portland metro. In eastern Oregon, they have acreage…and shovels…
Not recommending anything, just ‘casually observing’ human nature.
There has to be some provision in the law to allow the homeless to use any attorney who can bill the state or some other public agency for the legal fees. And pay for the community organizers or whatever else the leeches are calling themselves. At least one democrat rode that pony to the White House.
Squatting on another’s property for a long time legally conveys ownership. The government wants to prevent people from protecting their ownership. Wouldn’t this be an unconstitutional “taking”?
I wish the Left Coast would hurry up and fall in the ocean.
Deconstruction of the social order so the globalists can sweep in with their dictatorship.
So homeless person pulls up a car in front of your house, pulls out a tent, sets it up on the sidewalk/public easement in front of your home, you tell them to get the hell out of there, that's apparently traumatic, here's your lawsuit, gets rubber stamped by the judge, here's your $5k bill for your civil penalty and write a check to the homeless person for $1k... and if you're lucky, they move on to another location. If you're not, you get a squatter in front of your property using your sprinklers to run their shower and should you say boo about it, the opportunity for another trip through the courts and if the judge feels like it, a $50k civil penalty. A third visit is a $100k civil penalty (with the extra fees and whatnot that is added automatically to civil penalties escalating that higher.)
You could easily make a living on these $1k payouts and a nefarious political terrorist could simply pull up something like ‘anyone who has ever donated to Trump’ or whatever liberal agenda they want to find names and addresses to specifically target.
President Trump did a great job addressing one “root cause” of homelessness - jobs. Illegal immigration may be another root cause, directly as the non-citizen homeless, and indirectly as taking jobs from citizens who then become homeless.
Why so much unemployment? High energy costs reduces manufacturing and farm jobs. Higher energy costs, increased crime, lockdowns, etc., paying people to stay, tend to increase prices and reduce the amount of goods and services provided. We hire people to produce goods and services. So fewer goods and services means less employment and more homelessness.
Biden and team have been a disaster. The root cause of homeless is the election, honest or not, of Democrats.
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