Living by the railroad tracks is a ” life-sustaining activity”

I have been reading many things on the web today that has me wondering when Rod Serling is going to pop up and say, “You have entered the Twilight Zone.”

In Orlando, FL, they are trying to remove homeless individuals that are residing underneath a freeway along a railroad track. Well, the ACLU and a Judge has something else to say:

The homeless living along the CSX tracks beneath the East-West Expressway started moving out this morning in advance of the Orlando Police, who said they were going to start removing their belongings from the private property.

A large city of Orlando Dumpster was moved to the entrance of the encampment where about a dozen homeless men and women have created their own community. A representative from the Coalition for the Homeless of Central Florida was handing out flyers with information about the homeless shelters and services available to the displaced.

Local ACLU president George Crossley said this morning his organization may file a lawsuit for an injunction. Crossley said a federal court in Miami ruled that the homeless could not be evicted without providing them a place to go.

“If they move these people, they are violating a federal court order,” Crossley said. “You can not deny people a life-sustaining activity.”

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