Posted on 07/18/2019 10:13:45 AM PDT by Maceman
Authorities in West Palm Beach, Florida are using children’s music to deter the homeless from setting up camp in a city-owned park.
West Palm Beach Lake Pavilion is a city-owned park and event venue frequently used by the homeless as a place to sleep. City officials are now playing the children’s songs “Baby Shark” and “Raining Tacos” in the park to annoy homeless campers, preventing them from sleeping, according to the Palm Beach Post.
“Legally morally ethically and even fiscally, any way you look at it, this [music] is not the right approach to this [homelessness] problem,” said Eric Tars, legal director at National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty told The Daily Caller.
“Sleep deprivation has been condemned as torture or at a minimum cruel, inhuman degrading treatment,” continued Tars. “It was condemned when they were playing loud rock music in Guantanamo or in Abu Ghraib to disrupt the detainees’ sleep patterns, and now we’re doing it to citizens,” he added.
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“Sleep deprivation has been condemned as torture or at a minimum cruel, inhuman degrading treatment,”
If the homeless people don’t like it, they can leave.
Or is that racist?
As long as they aren’t playing Taylor Swift songs I don’t believe it can be considered torture under U.N. and Geneva standards.
It could be worse.. they could be playing the Hamster Dance.
It’s a Small World after all...................
Achy brakey heart 24hrs/day
Oh my, that right there is the set for a low budget horror film with the sound track already built in!
Real torture would be looping anything by either Joni Mitchell or James Taylor.
“Who took the cookie from the cookie jar...”
Try getting that out of your head after listening to it a few times.
YES!!
The homeless can ‘move on’, use some of their drug money to rent a room, or buy headphones. The “Homeless Industry” is wrong here - the outdoors is NOT a prison... if the bums don’t like the music - they have options.
I made it about three seconds into the first verse of Baby Shark, before i had to (QUICKLY!!) shut it off.
If that song is play over and over, I expect to hear about shots fired at the speakers.
Never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down...
[[Florida City Uses Music To Deter Homeless — Advocates Call It Torture ]]
Riiiiight, but the homeless disease infected crap laying in the streets, in doorways, dirty needles, disease laden rats everywhere, rotting foul food everywhere, isn’t torture on everyone else- oh heck no- only those who object to filth and disease in the streets and crap and piss in front of businesses can be capable of torture
The little shopping centre in the suburb I grew up in began doing that years ago (playing classical music on the loudspeakers) to stop teens from making it a hangout.
We once had something closer to the right approach called institutions for the crazy. The libtards shut them all down.
If you can hear past the Alvin & Chipmunks type falsetto,
“It’s Rainin’ Tacos!” isn’t all that bad. In fact it made me hungry.
How many of these homeless advocates have taken in even one homeless person?
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