Posted on 05/06/2020 11:06:04 PM PDT by kaehurowing
State Supreme Court: Victims of Homeless Criminals May Sue Those Who Enable Homelessness By Court House News @ 5:49 PM :: 214 Views :: Homelessness Public Nuisance
Court House News, May 6, 2020
HONOLULU — In the case of a bar owner who was assaulted by a homeless man illegally living in a nearby storage unit, the Hawaii Supreme Court ruled, May 5, 2020, that plaintiffs can recover damages in public nuisance suits if they have suffered individualized harm.
PDF: Hawaii State Supreme Court Ruling
(Editor's Note: This may change the financial dynamic of the homelessness industry. Now, instead of 'activists' moving homeless criminals into our area to shake us down for money, we can shake the activists down for money if they move homeless criminals into our area. Turnabout is fair play!)
Who did he sue? Activists or the owners of the storage sheds?
Good luck with that!
There have been born and raised HAWAIIAN homeless for decades, even before other states sent theirs to the islands.
Look at Keaukaha on the Big Island (for just one example)!
Sanctuary Cities please pick up the white courtesy phone. You have several calls waiting.
Finally a court in Hawaii that knows the law and doesn’t let the Left get away with proverbial murder. Time to clamp down on the Marxists and fake Hawaiians who are trying to stop the building of a new telescope complex (if they haven’t already built it. I’m a lot behind in Hawaiian affairs).
Maybe this can evolve into something good, as Freeper Veggie Todd is suggesting. What if Federal Courts were to start ruling that victims of illegal aliens can start suing those who enable illegal aliens to stay in the United States?
So Nancy Pelosi is going to be sued into oblivion for enabling homeless?
define enablers.
I hand out gospel tracts to the homeless, feed them snacks daily, buy meals on occasion, even hotel rooms for a few during the winter.
I agree, but not letting them reduce themselves to human waste in a gutter expecting them to come to their senses while rolling in their own excrement is a form of enabling, but who defines enabling?
And by the way, many are doing just what I just said...not a joke.
Who enables? The bypasser who hands them a dollar?
The person who buys them a meal?
Or the politician who insist they have a right to squat on other people’s property?
Are food banks enablers?
Are soup kitchens enablers?
Or are sidewalk missionaries enablers?
Nope, giving people money has no bearing on the homeless' right to squat. The local government gives them a pass.
The person who buys them a meal?
Nope, same as giving money. Buying a meal is helping feed a presumably poor person.
Or the politician who insist they have a right to squat on other people’s property?
Yes, that's the first line of culpability. And when local law enforcement is called to enforce homeless laws, and nothing is done, the chief of police and the mayor of the town are next.
Are food banks enablers?
Of course not. Do you think only homeless people get food from food banks?
Are soup kitchens enablers?
Of course not again. Do you think only homeless people get served at soup kitchens?
Or are sidewalk missionaries enablers?
No. Trying to help someone spiritually is not enabling homelessness.
He sued the owners of the storage units. They were letting the homeless live there in contravention to local laws and thereby creating a public nuisance.
This has nothing to do with the social “enablers” of homelessness.
Ah, I knew it was too good to be true. Now property owners are going to be between a rock and a hard place. If they try to run these bums off, they will be in trouble with the ACLU. If they don’t, they might get sued. Welcome to the new USA. In the good old days, the cops could run them out of town and keep them from loitering in public places. When did it become a right to sleep, pee, and pooh anywhere one felt like doing it? Or hang out in public libraries and foul up the place?
The welfare system enables addicts and other bums to live the life they choose. There is no incentive for these people to clean up their act. The mentally ill are another problem, but it isn’t solved by letting them live on the streets, either. If we didn’t have a giant, expensive system enabling people to be bums, and only had private charity, then the poor could be helped and the shiftless would have to find another way of life.
Yes, anyone who does not demand some sort of accountability is an enabler. If people are just feeding the homeless with no expectation that they will attempt to change their situation, then it is similar to feeding the bears in the national parks. It facilitates their journey on the road to ruin. For those who are mentally ill, they need more than just food and are not helped by being allowed to live on the street.
These issues are never easy to deal with, but continuing to support people to live like this isn’t helping anyone.
This is me at the 10 minute mark
https://1063word.radio.com/media/audio-channel/the-tara-show-1-9-20-hour-4
The property owners and associates. They seem to be leasing the properties to themselves via a subsidiary llc.
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