Alan Horowitz writes:
On Mon, 29 Jul 1996 jbugden@smtplink.alis.ca wrote:
Think of how many of our laws are being enacted that tacitly make being poor or indigent a crime.
Horseshit. This is a poorly-disguised re-tread of one of the standard lines of the Patrice Lumumba University brand of leftist agitprop.
Tell it to the starving Cubans who have to watch Fidel sitting in his palaces.
Perhaps, but I can think of a lot of examples. Laws that make it illegal to ask for money. Laws that say you can't sit on the sidewalk. Laws that make it illegal to feed soup to people without a stack of permits six feet high. Laws that make it illegal to perform an excretory function outdoors in a city with almost zero public toilets. (You should have gone before you became homeless. :) Certainly, it would be naive to think that such laws are passed without being targeted at particular populations of individuals, especially during a period when "compassion fatigue" is on the rise. Here in Seattle, we have an city attorney who specializes in creating ordinances to annoy and harrass the underclass, often paving new roads over former civil liberties in the process. I'm not sure starving Cubans have anything to do with it. -- Mike Duvos $ PGP 2.6 Public Key available $ mpd@netcom.com $ via Finger. $