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Re: (fwd) Santa Cruz Homeless Update - Middle Class Councilmembers Attempt to Pit the Police Against the Poor

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From: dhm_at_best_dot_com
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 10:13

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Rudy Canoza wrote:
> dhm_at_best_dot_com@yahoo.com wrote:
> > >From Robert Norse Tue Jan 9 00:31:27 2007
> >
> > Date:	 Tue, 09 Jan 2007 00:31:27 -0800
> > Subject:  City Council Moves Today To Expand Police Power Against Poor
> > -
> > More Police Punishing the Poor in the Pogonip
>
> This massive and massively incoherent load of SHIT perfectly
> illustrates, again, the big myths of homelessness, mostly in its
> lumping of all the homeless together as people "just like you and me"
> who happen only to be poor.  It's crap.
>
> It is dishonest to talk about "the homeless" as an undifferentiated
> class of people.  Most homeless are seriously mentally ill, have major
> subtance abuse problems, or both.  VERY FEW homeless people are "just
> like you and me."
>
> Santa Cruz is one of those places infected with a naive form of
> liberalism that makes a mockery of true compassion.  The answer to the
> plight of homeless people is not to try to keep them homeless, as this
> idiot seems to think.

Which robot factory did you come out of?

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