Posted on 08/25/2013 9:16:55 AM PDT by C. Edmund Wright
This morning we showed up at Moore Square at 9:00 a.m., just like we have done virtually every Saturday and Sunday for the last six years. We provide, without cost or obligation, hot coffee and a breakfast sandwich to anyone who wants one. We keep this promise to our community in cooperation with five different large suburban churches that help us with manpower and funding.
Today officers from Raleigh Police Department prevented us from doing our work, for the first time ever. An officer said, quite bluntly, that if we attempted to distribute food, we would be arrested.
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North Carolina is becoming Florida, actually.
We’re being overrun with loser Yankees, white trash from the deep South, illegals, and tens of thousands of doddering old people looking for a place to die.
In other words: Florida.
I’ve seen the government try to shut down pot luck meals — heck, our HOA just had a party, and we served free food to people that we prepared, and that other people had prepared in their homes, all without any government inspector being paid off to say the kitchens met standards.
But I guess someone will tell me “but that’s ok, because the government decided to give private parties an exception to their law” — suggesting that if they hadn’t, then these people would be fine with arresting people for having a community party.
We are so concerned for perfect “safety”, that we think government can provide that, and allow our liberties to be crushed just so we can “feel” like we are safer.
Grow up
No, this is called "self-governance" and "keeping public order."
As was noted, there are plenty of orderly, organized ways to help the homeless that minimize the negative impact on the public square and potential for harm to vulnerable people.
North Carolina is becoming Florida, actually.
We’re being overrun with loser Yankees, white trash from the deep South, illegals, and tens of thousands of doddering old people looking for a place to die.
In other words: Florida.
I disagree. I've just relocated from the Northeast. I've been seeing many like-minded folks lately who are recent arrivals. Remember, it's only been since this recent influx of new blood that North Carolina finally tipped into the straight "red" column. I think that's due to all of the new arrivals who are sick of the regimes of the northeast, or were tired of their voice not being heard.
I believe the Raleigh City Government is controlled by liberal democRAT politicians.
Are there no prisons? Are there no workhouses?
Mostly to protect union labor,WOOOH! I forgot about those evil unions demanding YOUR food be prepared and handled in sanitary conditions.
I didn't know it was those evil unions that require food handlers to have restrooms to wash their hands after wiping their asses or shaking their dongs.
BTW, I've never seen a public restroom at a homeless park that was clean let alone with soap for food handlers...
Enjoy your egg muffin, don't pay any attention to the corn it though.
Union paranoia?
The fine progressive leadership of liberal bastion Raleigh was fine with this arrangement for six years, so long as it was kept to the public sidewalk and not in the park (an $800.00 permit would be required for that), and they cleaned up after themselves when finished.
Six years. Not a problem. But, suddenly it is a problem. So, something changed. What might that be?
Redevelopment. Moore Square is slated for beautification and gentrification. Drawing the riff-raff every weekend was fine so long as it wasn’t in a good part of town. They’re now planning on making it a good part of town, so it’s not fine any longer.
I truthfully do not know if giving away food with no strings attached does God’s work among people who are clearly not starving for physical sustenance. What benefit there is to the practice appears to be more in the form of humbling those doing the serving. If they were bearing Christian witness as well, then it would most certainly be God’s work.
Who is familiar enough with this situation to actually discern between the all-too-frequent feel-good giveaway and actually ministering, which is less frequent? That would add clarity to the situation.
It sounds as if they could resume in another area not slated for redevelopment as well, imho.
I will write slowly so you can understand:
This is not my church, and I’m not saying this particular ministry is or is not doing a good thing. I don’t know anything about them.
What I do know is that for six years, this has been okay, and now, with arrogance and no explanation, they are run off under threat of arrest by cops - who are public serviants supposedly - who felt no compunction to even tell them why. That was the only issue here, and if you’re too obtuse to see this as part of a pattern, God help you.....
I don’t disagree with any of that - and again, I am not part of this ministry in any way, shape or form. What I do know is that if your explanation is true, and it might be, then that could certainly have been passed along to these people.
My point was the abusive arrogant behavior of the cops....something that is becoming all too common place. RE: Shutting down all of boston to find one wounded teenager.....
My first message was garbled. I’ll try again.
You’re going to disagree with me, a native, because you are an invader, too.
The first wave were victims of mass layoffs from the big Corps in the Triangle: IBM, Cisco, etc. They tended to be rather dynamic and conservative, and have been an asset to my state.
Second-wave were IT losers, who are all working temp, now.
We’re getting third-wave dregs, now, failures in their own states. Pretty useless, except for retail employers.
Florida is full of the same.
Unemployed Yankees are the cheapest commodity in the state, now.
And I lived in NJ and NY for years, and had a great time. And returned home, where I belong.
It’s nothing personal. Just get out.
No, idiot. G-O-D help you. I APPLAUD the POLICE for doing what should have been done 6 years ago or whenever it started.
You posted this crap, you own it.
I am seeing more and more stories like this from North Carolina. I don’t know for sure,
North Carolina is bi-polar. On one side it is an extremely great state that changed election laws and make very difficult abortion rules and on the other you have things like this. In 2008, they voted for Obama. In 2012, they didn’t. They are not sure which direction to go...right or left?????
I will applaud the cops when they come for you.....and “should have done this six years ago?” WTF do you know about this particular park? Oh, wait, NOT A DAMNED THING. Besdies, whether or not they should have done it six years ago is moot....they didn’t for six years...precedent means something....and none of the gives them the right to be arrogant bastards about it.
Everything in context. But I can’t wait for the IRS, the cops, the INS, the EEOC, or some other government tramples you under foot. Don’t come here for help.....you go ahead and trust your government like the good little dronette you are. Does your husband know you feel this way?
It’s the yankee invasion....lot of liberal northerners moving here to escape their liberal crap, and voting the same stuff for the rest of us.....
It’s the yankee invasion....lot of liberal northerners moving here to escape their liberal crap, and voting the same stuff for the rest of us.....
I think that is some of it, but I think weather is the main reason for the snow bird moving down South.
Okay, I see, you’re just a pro union liberal troll. Then I won’t worry about trying to explain anything to you...your life proves your lust for prolonged ignorance.
Dude...you need a NC history lesson. NC has been voting RED for Pres and Senator for the most part for many years. There was no state R party to speak of for a while, but in national elections, NC was actually far more RED - ie - conservative...BEFORE the yank invasion. FAR MORE.
And another thing...back then...even the Dem’s in NC were far more conservative and reasonable than they are now.
Cute. Once again, don’t feed the wildlife. I wouldn’t come here for help, that is a joke. Folks like you can’t get past their so-called pithy remarks to be helpful to anyone, anytime, anywhere for any reason. Get back to your mom’s basement, she’s looking for you.
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