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90 Year Old Arrested For Feeding The Homeless
// Two pastors and a 90-year old man have been arrested for feeding the homeless in public.
The pastors, Dwayne Black and Mark Sims along with Arnold Abbott, an advocate for the homeless, face a 60-day jail term and a $500 fine for breaking a new law passed by the city.
"One of police officers came over and said ‘Drop that plate right now,’ as if I was carrying a weapon,” Mr Abbott said.
"These are the poorest of the poor, they have nothing, they don't have a roof over their heads. How do you turn them away?”
It is estimated that there are 10,000 homeless people in Fort Lauderdale.
According to Mr Abbott, who runs a non-profit organisation called “Love Thy Neighbour”, the homeless are drawn to Fort Lauderdale because of the climate.
“The homeless people come here for the weather, they know they won’t freeze to death in Fort Lauderdale,” said Mr Abbott a retired jewellery salesman who won two Purple Hearts as an infantryman in the Second World War.
Fort Lauderdale imposed the new restrictions saying that the move would help tackle homelessness. //
Strange chaps the Yanks.
The pastors, Dwayne Black and Mark Sims along with Arnold Abbott, an advocate for the homeless, face a 60-day jail term and a $500 fine for breaking a new law passed by the city.
"One of police officers came over and said ‘Drop that plate right now,’ as if I was carrying a weapon,” Mr Abbott said.
"These are the poorest of the poor, they have nothing, they don't have a roof over their heads. How do you turn them away?”
It is estimated that there are 10,000 homeless people in Fort Lauderdale.
According to Mr Abbott, who runs a non-profit organisation called “Love Thy Neighbour”, the homeless are drawn to Fort Lauderdale because of the climate.
“The homeless people come here for the weather, they know they won’t freeze to death in Fort Lauderdale,” said Mr Abbott a retired jewellery salesman who won two Purple Hearts as an infantryman in the Second World War.
Fort Lauderdale imposed the new restrictions saying that the move would help tackle homelessness. //
Strange chaps the Yanks.
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// I'm sure I read somewhere that they are going to do the same thing in Westminster, ban on feeding the homeless// no surely feeding MPs - the fat bastaards - let them starve !
23:25 Wed 05th Nov 2014
One of the (many) contradictions in USA
Many citizens of the 'Land of the Free' have an inappropriate level of respect for Authority no matter how ruthless.
I think it's because the law abiding are sensitive that they are only a few miles and a few years from lawlessness and the 'wild frontier'
Stick someone in a uniform with a badge and when they say 'jump', a lot of people's first reaction is 'yessir'. And they give them guns!
And yet most of the Americans i know are (like the man in the OP) kind, sympathetic and generous when allowed to be
Many citizens of the 'Land of the Free' have an inappropriate level of respect for Authority no matter how ruthless.
I think it's because the law abiding are sensitive that they are only a few miles and a few years from lawlessness and the 'wild frontier'
Stick someone in a uniform with a badge and when they say 'jump', a lot of people's first reaction is 'yessir'. And they give them guns!
And yet most of the Americans i know are (like the man in the OP) kind, sympathetic and generous when allowed to be
"Examining 187 major cities across the country, the study found that more than half had laws banning sitting or lying down in public – a rise of 43 per cent since 2011"
Any country that resorts to passing these kind of laws ought to seriously question whether it has the right to call itself a democracy any longer.
America...the Land of the Free ? I don't think so.
Any country that resorts to passing these kind of laws ought to seriously question whether it has the right to call itself a democracy any longer.
America...the Land of the Free ? I don't think so.
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But... I can only assume that the naysayers on here are also infected with the NIMBY virus as well. (Not in My Back Yard).
If you had a nice home in a nice part of your village or city and a kind soul began feeding numerous homeless people infected with all kinds of diseases as well as being alcoholics, or durg addicts (or both) and all of their possessions are in a push cart, and this gathering to receive food occurred on your curb maybe twice a day and the homeless had no Port-Pottys and used your front hard, ya'll would be Ok with that? I don't think so...
If you had a nice home in a nice part of your village or city and a kind soul began feeding numerous homeless people infected with all kinds of diseases as well as being alcoholics, or durg addicts (or both) and all of their possessions are in a push cart, and this gathering to receive food occurred on your curb maybe twice a day and the homeless had no Port-Pottys and used your front hard, ya'll would be Ok with that? I don't think so...
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