Posted on 07/27/2024 1:09:28 PM PDT by Retain Mike
Today, people caught with hard drugs (including heroin, fentanyl, LSD, and methamphetamine) should receive a $100 citation—max. But they can even have that waived if they call a toll-free number for a health assessment that can connect them to treatment and other services. Over 95 percent of people ignore the citations altogether. It didn’t take the police long to figure out writing them was a waste of time. They mostly gave up, which meant addicts were free to use narcotics openly, and they do.
Timothy Desper works at the Portland Rescue Mission, a Christian nonprofit that helps people struggling with hunger, homelessness, and addiction. He says Portland’s attitude toward illicit drugs is part of a larger ethos he calls “radical autonomy”—the idea that a person should be allowed to define his or her own reality free from outside influences like the law, moral systems, or community standards.
Misery is compounded by the mindset of Portland’s leaders, who say, ‘We’re going to affirm you in your homelessness, we’re going to affirm you in your drug use, we’re going to affirm you in your sex work. We’re going to build up your sense of self-worth, so that you are empowered to make choices.’ That’s the idea they have, but it’s based on a false understanding of human nature. It doesn’t work like that.”
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I wonder if Lot attempted any efforts like Timothy Desper and Mark McConnell are part of before God told him to leave?
Do you believe 7.8% in Oregon and 5.5% nationally identify as LGBTQ? What questions were asked? What method of statistical analysis was used? Who did the studies? Who paid for the studies ?
“ Over 95 percent of people ignore the citations altogether.”
Because Libtardism is so effective
Portland is too far gone. The best thing to do nuke I, like was done in the 1950’2 drama/documentary “A Day Called X”.
The only way to get these addicts to choose help is to threaten them with jail if they don’t do that.
I had a good friend who passed in 2021. He was an alcoholic, but he had been sober since about 2007 or 2008. When he was drinking, he did a really shitty thing by stealing about 600 dollars from his younger brother to fund his habit. His father heard about it. His father is a cop. His father threatened to refer him to the Maryland State’s Attorney for prosecution unless he got help.
So my friend went into a treatment center. He hated it at first, but afterward, he said it was the best thing that happened to him.
Sometimes, with these addicts, to help them, you must leave them no choice.
When it comes to drugs, societies can ban it with severe penalties, or freely allow it.
We in the US have seen it both ways.
Going forward, it is entirely up to us how lax we want to be.
Is everyone happy with things the way they are now?
Homelessness by the million, all major cities ruined, people defecating on streets openly, slow motion rioting and mass stealing of most urban merchants forcing closures of stores of all kinds, deaths and permanently impaired criminal addicts by the million, families destroyed everywhere, small towns destroyed everywhere, political corruption in every aspect of our lives, open borders, rule of law dead, prison a way of life for many families, dirtbag tat and piercing culture everywhere?
Everyone happy with how permissiveness has worked out?
You are right. What I don’t understand is why treatment options can’t be made mandatory in lieu of jail instead of part of the sentencing agreement. Does it really have to be all or none?
PORTLAND KEEPS DIGGING THE HOLE DEEPER
“Death Tourism”
Looks like the popes were correct. Again.
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