After all, it costs money they don't have to maintain a nice camping area.
Posted on 04/28/2024 10:32:19 AM PDT by libstripper
In a Supreme Court showdown Monday over whether the homeless have a "right" to camp in public, almost no one mentioned the actual victims of that crazy idea. Homeless advocates, including the American Civil Liberties Union, told the court that living on the streets is a "victimless" crime. Victimless?
Everyone who has to step over needles and human poop and navigate around half-conscious humans while walking to work or taking their kids to school is a victim.
Every store owner whose entrance is blocked by makeshift cardboard shelters is a victim.
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If they do it would be a horrible mistake.
Homelessness is simply NOT a federal government issue. The Constitution gives the feds NO authority or power over homelessness. It is a local/states’ issue. SCOTUS would get it right by remanding it to the state(s) where the issue belongs.
Common.
What will it take to get us back to our Free Constitutional Republic with a constitutionally VERY limited federal government and constitutional state sovereignty?
A right doesn’t require somebody to give something up.
Somebody has to give up land for a person to camp there.
If they say we can camp in public, I’m getting a great big outfitters wall tent with a wood stove and putting it up in a nearby national park.
Who needs a house payment?
“Homelessness is simply NOT a federal government issue. The Constitution gives the feds NO authority or power over homelessness. “
Oh yeah? Next you’ll be saying the Federal Government has no place specifying what flavor tobacco should be, or what how many flushes per gallon my toilet should have, or what kind of light bulb I use. /s
The SC will probably insist the municipalities provide alternatives like shelter space or a designated area in which to camp. I don’t see how they can outlaw homelessness itself these people are going to have to sleep somewhere.
Bring back vagrancy laws and county farms.
Sleeping in the street is a privilege and not a right.
After all, it costs money they don't have to maintain a nice camping area.
It's not peaceable assembly when they are defecating on the street, openly doing drugs, openly engaging in prostitution, openly engaging in solicitation, and openly blocking access to commerce and use of public spaces.
-PJ
Trying to make destitution a crime.
Really intelligent.
The facts are that the fastest growing population of homeless are seniors citizens. And about half of those are WORKING, seniors. Those seniors citizens account for about one third of the homeless population nationwide.
For all you freaks proclaiming that criminalization of destitution just remember. Destitution will always result in desperation which results in social collapse.
To these jackoffs, study what happened in history..especially the French revolution.
BTW..to those geniuses, many of the people who get kicked out of rental housing because of costs, these people often turn to addiction to cope.
I’ve noticed they have quite a few older women (and men) on YouTube living in their vehicles because they can’t afford to make it otherwise on their Social Security. They document their daily life on those channels. They sometimes have difficulties finding a safe place to park where they won’t be chased away by cops or security guards. Taking showers is a hassle. Altogether it doesn’t look like much fun. But as inflation keeps going up and the housing market remains tight I expect many more will wind up on the street. It’s not just young able bodied drug addicts that are homeless.
Not only homelessness, but public safety/policing and banking regulation as well.
Squatting in public spaces is not a right. You’ll have bands claiming ownership of public parks if you allow the homeless to camp anywhere.
Or how, ften you can buy a gun or where you can’t exercise your supposedly unalienable 2a rights.
This was the 1940s veterans’ attempt to get help from Washington.
https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=0498115c76c36171&q=1940s++bonus+army+camps&uds=AMwkrPuKiz3kd7jHuta4ar-HNLVtotrROJPp49ws2P
At least 259 men were killed and “the final indignity was mass cremation.”
The GI Bill was passed later partly as a reaction.
From the Bill of Rights Institute: The bonus Army.
“On June 15, the House of Representatives passed the new bonus bill by a vote of 211 to 176. Two days later, some 8,000 veterans massed in front of the Capitol as the Senate prepared to vote, while another 10,000 assembled before the raised Anacostia drawbridge. The police were anticipating trouble because of the large crowds. The Senate debate continued until after dark. Finally, at 9:30 p.m., Waters learned that the bill had been defeated and shared the news with his followers.”
“When it appeared that the bonus would not be paid, many of the marchers refused to leave, and President Hoover ordered the Army to evict them. Using tear gas, tanks, and a troop of saber-wielding cavalry commanded by Major George S. Patton, U.S. Army chief of staff General Douglas MacArthur drove the marchers out of Washington and burned their main camp on the Anacostia Flats.”
On Federal or state land? Private land? Everyone else buys a campsite and pays taxes for land.
I meant to display these photos....
Only they have water and sewer but not the running in the streets kind ,LOL
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