WTF! We have lost our ever loving minds and our Humanity!

[sheshe2]

Elderly Ft. Lauderdale Man Arrested for Feeding the Homeless

"I fully believe that I am my brother's keeper." That's 90-year-old Arnold Abbott, a homeless-rights activist from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, who's now facing jail time for the crime of feeding the city's homeless.

A new ordinance in the city effectively bans groups from feeding the homeless in public areas and on Sunday, police charged two ministers and Abbott under it. They could face up to 60 days in jail and a $500 fine for the "crime."

"One of the police officers came over and said, 'Drop that plate right now,' as if I was carrying a weapon," Abbott told Ft. Lauderdale CNN affiliate WPLG.

http://www.people.com/article/homeless-advocate-arrested-florida


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[shenmue]

1. Yes, we have lost them.

[sheshe2]

19. We have~

[Cleita]

2. Pretty awful.

[Earth_First]

3. 60 days...

The individuals implementing these laws haven't spent 60 days in their entire lives in unselfish service to those in need.

However, these same legislators have spent YEARS creating a system which penalizes those willing to offer compassion to those in need.

Now, a 90-year old man faces 60 days incarceration for feeding a hungry soul...

[sheshe2]

20. It makes your mind explode

and your heart hurt does it not Earth_First?

[SamKnause]

4. Land of the Free

and Home of the Brave.

Not.

Common sense, decency, sympathy, empathy, and equality are in short supply.

Shameful and embarrassing.

[freshwest]

5. Grew up in a southern city where the city hall had a wooded park area with a reflecting pool, etc.

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The building was built during the Depression and the mayor allowed the city's homeless to sleep unmolested in that area. It was the public's land, he said, and they should be able to use it when they needed it. That was 80 years ago when there was more empathy for those displaced than now.

We've been through a change in our society created by media for the most part that allowed the business predators free rein in every aspect of our lives. First we were taught to disrespect others, then ourselves, then the only agency that could keep media and business in check. And people have so many excuses to not care and want these 'inconvenient' people to just disappear.

They don't want to pay for to help or pay to eliminate their housing problem, don't want them on the street, in their neighborhood, or any of the rest of it. And they vote for people to make laws like this.

It's sick.

[sheshe2]

6. In a nutshell freshwest. You said it all.

"We've been through a change in our society created by media for the most part that allowed the business predators free rein in every aspect of our lives. First we were taught to disrespect others, then ourselves, then the only agency that could either of those groups in check. And people have so many excuses to not care and want these 'inconvenient' people to just disappear."

[freshwest]

7. We have taken a different path on the opposite corner of America:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014937343

We lift each other up so that all of us benefit. And yes, the agency I speak of is the hated government and the laws passed...

[sheshe2]

8. Ya, I saw the OP on Seattle.

You did good freshwest!

And~

"We lift each other up so that all of us benefit."

Yes we do.

[Live and Learn]

9. How the heck do they defend these bans?

I am sure they were put in place by pretend Christians.

[Cha]

10. It seems so, she! "Drop that plate, right now!"!!!!!! Don't think Charlie Crist would be getting

behind this.

Mahalo, she~

[sheshe2]

22. So very sad Cha!

I weep for our souls....correction their souls because we are not them.

[Cha]

24. I hate to keep mentioning this,she.. But.. it really is like

The Twilight Zone!


Yeah! But, how do we Get Out!

[sheshe2]

26. I don't know how we get out Cha.

[Cha]

28. We need an escape

clause!

[SheilaT]

11. The older you get, the more fearless you can be.

I'm all of 66, and I've already experienced that. I often tell people there is nothing more fearless than a woman past menopause, because she has absolutely nothing to lose.

Older men, like this one, are much the same.

[TheKentuckian]

12. Way low, a bunch of monsters.

[BlueJazz]

13. I like the part in the Bible where Jesus took a few fish and threw them back in the lake, turned..

...to the hungry crowd and said "Ha Ha! You bastards..Starve!"

[Major Hogwash]

29. Or that other part where the mob is about to stone the prostitute and Jesus tells the crowd . . .

. . . let he who hath no sin cast the first stone.

And it pisses the mob off so much they stone him instead!!!

[Odin2005]

14. The middle class does not want their beautiful minds distubed...

...by the sight of people in need.

[sheshe2]

15. It sure as hell isn't the middle class that feels that way....

there is no longer a middle class. We have become very wealthy or struggling to put hand to mouth.

[KJG52]

16. The Democratic Party, "representing the middle class people who work hard and play by the rules."

Which is the Democratic Party dog whistle for "we represent only the people of color with jobs," and Democrats think all poor people are a drag on the society, just like Republicans. I don't see anybody asking why Wall Street lawyers and corporate CEO's are being put up for appointed and elected office by the Democratic Party? The class consciousness of the Democratic Party is with the oligarchs not the working or poor people that we titularly claim as our "base." Where are the Democrats in this area? Why aren't they standing in solidarity with this man and the poor? Crickets....chirp, chirp, chirp....

[Rex]

17. This is a country of laws...unless you have connections ie money. Okay it is all about money.

Uber wealthy people get away with raping their children...working class people get arrested for feeding the homeless. Ain't America unfuckingbelievable at times?

[lpbk2713]

18. More law enforcement inspired from the local Chamber of Commerce

I often wonder if it ever occurs to LEOs that they are being used by one percenter types?

[KingCharlemagne]

21. Advocates for the homeless (and leftist activists in general) caused a similar

proposed ordinance here in Los Angeles to be 'tabled' in City Council and its two (Dem!) sponsors shamed into STFUing. They'll probably try to bring it back after January though. Should they do so, my wife and I will be doing exactly what this American hero is doing. Hope LA County has jail cells ready for me and my wife.

[Liberal Lolita]

25. I should move to FLA to feed the homeless

I can't afford my medicare co-pays, but I can afford some food. I could feed the homeless, go to jail, and let the state pay for my medical care, rent, and food. We all win!!! Well maybe not the FLA tax payer.
Do you think if they did a little math, they could figure out it is cheaper to feed the homeless, than jailing good Samaritans?

[ZombieHorde]

27. From the article:

Mayor Jack Seiler warned that the city wouldn't relent: "We enforce the laws here in Fort Lauderdale."

Fuck rule of law. We need a new paradigm.

[UglyGreed]

30. What the next

step killing those who have fallen on hard times????

[rock]

31. Why if this keeps up pretty soon

it'll be illegal to bride a politician!