The Oregon legislature has passed a bill allowing the homeless to occupy and public space and that local communities must rewrite local laws and ordinances to allow it.
In my city they are living in all of my local parks, biking trails, even on school grounds. I don’t have a single green space to take my nieces and nephews to in the city. The only place they removed them from was along the waterways as they were dumping feces into the untreated water supply for the city of Portland.
Listening to people at the bars, markets, streets and elsewhere I foresee a rise in vigilantism in the near future.
The mechanism for rural districts of Oregon to secede and join Idaho have been underway since Portland became a communist beach head. Things are now starting to gel legally for this initiative to become reality.
https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2021/05/more-oregon-counties-vote-to-move-into-idaho-part-of-rural-effort-to-to-gain-political-refuge-from-blue-states.html
“If Brown signs the bill, it will take effect on July 1, 2023.”
why wait, do it now!
To all practical purposes, that law is now in effect here in Oregon. This simply makes it official, and will make the current situation much, much worse. Instead of providing “safe” zones where the unfortunate homeless can peacefully reside until their circumstances magically improve, these encampments quickly become squalid, near-lawless zones of filth and disease, drugs, crime, and mental illness.
When the backlash finally happens, it will be terrible to behold.
Homeless.
Unsheltered.
On the streets.
How many times do we hear about suspects, assailants, criminals that include homeless in their description?
John Doe, homeless age XX who allegedly assaulted (some poor innocent schmucks) on the street was released on his his own recognizance.
Just Ask Jupiter Paulsen. Oh! You can’t! Some homeless drifter killed her for no reason.
https://www.smalldeadanimals.com/2021/06/10/jupiter-paulsen/
Why are they released??? Wouldn’t it be more compassionate to shelter and house them? Give them regular meals, medical care, and if necessary, Addiction and/or mental health treatment? Jail Them!!! Keep them in jail until they make bail or make their court date. Maybe in the interim some few of them can get clean, get straight, and break free of the streets?
I guess the ACLU and Bleeding Heart Liberals think it is better to leave people on the streets in conditions that I wouldn’t allow a dog to suffer in. The ASPCA would demand arrests for if we treated cats or dogs like that!
Why Not? Would it cost too much? More than the costs of their crimes and destruction of their cities? More than the cost of the treatment, meals, and shelter they receive on the streets? Maybe it would take money away from the politicians pet causes or graft and patronage powers?
Make no mistake. Homeless people are a BIG BUSINESS. Lots of local, state, and federal grants and partnerships. Lots of government employees and Non-profit employees and even paid “volunteers” that owe their jobs to certain politicians. They support the politicians that support them with your tax dollars.
I guess the ACLU and Bleeding Heart Liberals think it is better to leave people on the streets in conditions that I wouldn’t allow a dog to suffer in. The ASPCA would demand arrests for if we treated cats or dogs like that!
Boulder Revolution
https://sf.curbed.com/2019/9/30/20890782/san-francisco-homeless-boulders-rocks-residents-interview-sf
Just something new to take a dump on.
The cure,starts with banishment of the legislators.
House the homeless in their empty homes,for they are owed no compensation for their treachery in office.
Exactly! Use eminent domain to take the homes of these foolish legislators and convert them into homeless shelters. It would be poetic justice or karma.
For reference, look up ‘Lost Liberty Hotel’ and ‘Just Desserts Café. The story involves using eminent domain to take homes of two Justices of the US Supreme Court who ruled that private homes could be taken (via eminent domain) in order to “promote economic development.’’
I guess the ACLU and Bleeding Heart Liberals think it is better to leave people on the streets in conditions that I wouldn’t allow a dog to suffer in.
Yes. There are two types of homeless: drug addicts and severely mentally ill (these categories are not exclusive, obviously). The third kind, honest hardworking citizens temporarily down on their luck, don’t actually exist – or more accurately, they have their **** together enough that they can make use of the charity and social services and get off the streets quickly.
The ACLU won a case in the 80s, I think, that made it illegal to institutionalize or medicate people against their will, even if said people were self-destructively crazy. The entirely predictable result of which was widespread homeless crazy people.
What’s the plan?
Try This:
“Did you really think we want those laws observed?” said Dr. Ferris. “We want them to be broken. You’d better get it straight that it’s not a bunch of boy scouts you’re up against… We’re after power and we mean it… There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What’s there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced or objectively interpreted – and you create a nation of law-breakers – and then you cash in on guilt. Now that’s the system, Mr. Reardon, that’s the game, and once you understand it, you’ll be much easier to deal with.”
From “Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand.
That is, indeed, the “game”.
Play by their rules and “live”, (at least for a while): Defy their rules and death and misery await you and yours.
NICE!!
You can’t plan ahead too far as our politicians keep changing the game and the rules you have to follow or be arrested and fined.
They keep promising back to a normal when now they have even more power than before…
So don’t expect this new normal to change much as even more regulations have been added.
Vigilantism – not against the homeless, I hope – they are not to blame for any of this – purely pawns.
We all know who needs to be seen swinging from lampposts.
Watch as “public space” is slowly sold off to become private property. Another tragedy of the commons will be removed.
Don’t worry, the next step will be to establish “squatters rights” for homeless encampments on private property. [I wish I could put a /sarc tag on that.]
And then watch as it is all “nationalized” back again.
A huge, murderous hamster wheel.
It is long past time for we working citizens—who don’t have the time to protest (nor the hatred to destroy city/public property) to stand up and say, loudly, to all in government and all pushing this complete horseshit, “How about ‘F_ck you!!!’.” And repeat, repeat, repeat.
Not that you don’t have a point, and rhetoric is rhetoric, not to mention that I read “wherefore” the same way, but when Shakespeare used it, it meant ‘why’ as in “Why are you ‘Romeo’?” which makes a lot more sense with the rest of the speech.
It’s like his line about an “engineer hoist by his own petar” An engineer was, and is, a kind of soldier who often works with explosive charges, ‘hoist’ at the time also meant “to lift up and remove” and petar or petard was a kind of explosive charge used by the military, so it simply would have meant “a soldier blown away by his own explosives”
But yeah, “good and hard” is what they voted for and “good and hard is what they are getting.” In fact you might. say they are bing hoist by their own petard.
If I’m ever in Oregon, I’ll be sure to perform a large and loud blundersplatz in the center of their state capital.
Without making things painful and awkward for the “judges” (i.e. Ephors) that impost this sort of shit, nothing will improve. Start “Maxine Waters-ing” these judges. If it comes to that, bash his/her face in with a half brick. A little violent revolution now and again is absolutely vital for the maintenance of a free and prosperous society.
Judges and politicians have been able to fuck Western countries up for decades now, basically consequence free.
This is why political assassinations and car bombings remain a necessary thing in politics. It’s all about moral hazard and risk vs reward. It was always recognised, way back when, that politics paid well because there was high risk… We removed the risk, … and radically upped the rewards! And the results have been entirely predictable.
Kings and Nobles of Europe were rich, and they ran the gauntlet of assassination on a daily basis!
Read “Skin in the Game” , by Taleb.
Why is Putin so good? If he wasn’t, Lavrov or Medvedev would have offed him!
My other question is as follows: if trannyism mandates a biological female can transition to male (via the famous “addadicktome” procedure), what if a dude wants a second dick? I mean, if you can go from 0 to 1, why not from 1 to 2? Why discriminate against a dude just who wants to “jack up” his hardware capabilities?
See, what used to stop all this nuttiness, was that the judiciary and the political class actually knew that the good ole boys would have stormed the legislature, and given them a serious beatdown if they tried this garbage on. And the cops would have been leading the charge!
Solzhenitsyn said the same thing about the NKVD: once upon a time in Russia, the “secret police” used to face regular ambushes (during the Revolution) and asswhoopings. When that all stopped, they got to work.
He pointed out how hard it would have been had the NKVD faced a lynchmob every time they tried to drag someone off to Lubyanka for “treatment”…
Every nation receives exactly the political dispensation it deserves.
And if you think cops dragging people off to gulags in the West can’t happen, you’re a moron.