Comments on: ACLU and the Homeless

By: Robert

Robert — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 21:46:18 +0000

Update on the above story, thanks to John Jay Ray’s PC Watch blog. I found this story there

http://www.city-journal.org/html/17_4_skid_row.html

Now the ACLU is trying to stop a policing program that has been effective, and actually helped the homeless the most, to say nothing of all the residents. The ACLU is with the hard-core criminals in this case.

By: The COLOSSUS OF RHODEY

The COLOSSUS OF RHODEY — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 20:36:27 +0000

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By: Jay

Jay — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 01:15:33 +0000

I’m not suggesting anything…I don’t have the answers, but I certainly don’t think we should be compassionless.

By: CaptainRational

CaptainRational — Tue, 18 Apr 2006 01:06:14 +0000

In the city where I went to college, there was a considerable homeless population, and I must say most of them were better behaved than my fellow students. Seriously, I saw far more students urinating on street corners than homeless people. But I do agree with Jay in that most homeless people do suffer from some sort of mental illness or chemical dependency, and they certainly do need help. Are you showing your inner liberal by suggesting that we provide free health care for them, Jay? If you are, I’m proud of you.

By: Jay

Jay — Mon, 17 Apr 2006 23:20:31 +0000

The majority of homeless people are mentally ill and should be committed to treatement. The ACLU fight this. Addressing the heart of the matter is not giving them handouts, I hope that isn’t what you concluded I was suggesting…it also isn’t letting mentally ill folks freeze to death. These folks need mental help.

By: David Needham

David Needham — Mon, 17 Apr 2006 12:41:01 +0000

“Creating a system of year-round, emergency homeless shelters, for instance, has provided many with an alternative to life on the street and has helped thousands into better living situations.”

Yep. And very likely drawn many who abuse that system. I’ve seen it up close. There are more than a few who bum their way from one shelter to another who are quite capable of working and living off the streets but who simply choose the lifestyle of sponging off others.

I’d submit that the population of “helpless” homeless is vanishingly small, and can be determined by simply requiring those who want shelter to work for it. Those who really cannot will be readily apparent. As will those who simply will not. Those who are willing to work for shelter and food deserve shelter and food, and often be aided in finding work (but will NOT be so aided by most “homeless shelters”) that will move them out of the homeless category. Those who cannot work for shelter and food do too, for different reasons. Those who will not work for shelter and food should be left in the cold hard reality they create for themselves. Or sent to a chain gang, the bums.

I’d further submit that most “homeless” programs are full employment programs for the crippling, truly harmful efforts of do-gooders to maintain a population of homeless.

Visit a few homeless shelters. Voluteer for one. See if the place is intent on really helping people or just perpetuating the class it serves.

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By: kerwin_brown

kerwin_brown — Mon, 17 Apr 2006 07:37:37 +0000

Wait a second. The last I knew bedding down in a jail cell was healthier for you than bedding down on the sidewalk. So the Ninth Federal Circuit Court decided it is cruel and unusual punishment to treat a person humanely. Maybe the court believes they should be nice and give the homeless spike beds to sleep upon. The judges are obviously out of touch with reality.

By: Angel

Angel — Mon, 17 Apr 2006 04:34:01 +0000

Excellent post!…sure endanger all the citizens who pay taxes and try to uphold the law by pretending to be “humane” to a few…humane to let someone LIVE on the streets?..since when?!

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