tiredoftheshit
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Message #292615 posted by tiredoftheshit (Info) April 28, 2008 20:37:53 ET
In Reply to: Re: The Canada-wide Establishment of Tent-cities posted by forged registration (Info) April 27, 2008 21:25:17 ET
I need to review the Marc Emery case, but last I heard, he was let off. Basically Canada dropped the case, or so I thought, but maybe I'm mistaken?
I know the Conservatives are in power in Canada now, too bad, and also they are anti-mj.
Alberta seems clever but if I were government in Vancouver I'd change the handling of the homeless population.
For homelessness, I think the solution is sterilization, followed by subsidized housing in a rural area far from the city. The city isn't a good place for homeless, because they will run into constant conflict with the citizens. In Atlanta, there have been cases of suburban kids mugging the homeless just because they know they're vulnerable and unlikely to get much help. Homeless are frequent crime victims and when they disappear, nobody is the wiser.
It seems like most liberal cities are plagued by the homeless. San Francisco comes to mind. I've heard however that the homeless can help you score if you're new in town, though typically they don't know the best dealers. San Francisco is home to aggressive and obnoxious pan-handlers, some of whom have pockets stuffed with quarters, easily enough to get a week's worth of food... I've been tempted to beat a homeless bum myself, because he had more money on him than I did and was asking me for change. I have more respect for a robber, who at least has chutzpah, then a bum that wants something for nothing and doesn't have the guts to take it.
In order for a liberal city to be worth living in at all, the homeless need to be relocated... it's not nice to go out for a walk and encounter pan-handling bums every day. The more conservative cities harass the homeless, so what happens is that liberals wind up bearing the brunt of the homeless problem.
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