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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBill Wells Claims Liberals Are Trying To 'Normalize Homelessness'
Bill Wells, founder of Mayors for Safe Cities and mayor of El Cajon, California, appeared on Intercessors for Americas monthly prayer conference call on Friday, where he baselessly asserted that liberals have created a great exodus from the prisons of California, which has, in turn, he said, swollen the states homeless population. Consequently, he claimed, liberals in his state are trying to normalize the concept of homelessness.
If you come from a reasonable state, it may not make any sense to you, but in California, the belief is that people are incarcerated not because theyve committed crimes, but because society in general is racist against those people Wells argued. Because so many people in prisons are minorities of some kind or another, he continued, the feeling is that they are only in prison because of that. So there has been a great exodus from the prisons of California, and that has swollen the ranks of people who are homeless.
Wells pointed to Proposition 47, a ballot measure passed in 2014 that reclassified various nonviolent offenses as misdemeanors as another attempt to normalize the homelessness lifestyle, saying that, Proposition 47 was passed, and it says that if you steal less than $950 a day, its a misdemeanor, not a felony, and you cant be arrested for that, all you can do is get a ticket.
Now, of course, the homeless people dont have ID, so the police officer says whats your name? and the guy says John Doe and we give John Doe a ticket and he throws the ticket in the trash and its all over and nothing else can happen, he said.
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/bill-wells-claims-liberals-are-trying-to-normalize-homelessness/
If you come from a reasonable state, it may not make any sense to you, but in California, the belief is that people are incarcerated not because theyve committed crimes, but because society in general is racist against those people Wells argued. Because so many people in prisons are minorities of some kind or another, he continued, the feeling is that they are only in prison because of that. So there has been a great exodus from the prisons of California, and that has swollen the ranks of people who are homeless.
Wells pointed to Proposition 47, a ballot measure passed in 2014 that reclassified various nonviolent offenses as misdemeanors as another attempt to normalize the homelessness lifestyle, saying that, Proposition 47 was passed, and it says that if you steal less than $950 a day, its a misdemeanor, not a felony, and you cant be arrested for that, all you can do is get a ticket.
Now, of course, the homeless people dont have ID, so the police officer says whats your name? and the guy says John Doe and we give John Doe a ticket and he throws the ticket in the trash and its all over and nothing else can happen, he said.
http://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/bill-wells-claims-liberals-are-trying-to-normalize-homelessness/
Wrong, dipshit. We're trying to bring light to the cause of homelessness - extreme wealth inequality and the skyrocketing cost of ownership.
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Bill Wells Claims Liberals Are Trying To 'Normalize Homelessness' (Original Post)
Initech
Jul 2019
OP
LOL, as opposed to trying to normalize it as a just punishment for immorality and laziness?
Thomas Hurt
Jul 2019
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Aristus
(66,468 posts)1. No, you hammerhead! We don't want to normalize homelessness! We want to END it!
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)2. LOL, as opposed to trying to normalize it as a just punishment for immorality and laziness?
Anon-C
(3,430 posts)3. Yep. That's Bill Wells, Mayor of El Cajon, California alright.
Ohiogal
(32,106 posts)4. What a total moron.
Egads.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)5. And Republicans are trying to mandate it.
For anyone who isn't a member of the 1%.