Sunday, November 9, 2014

I Warned You This Was Going to Happen: The Committee for Squalor in the San Francisco Subway System Was Out in Full Force Saturday

The Committee for Squalor in the San Francisco Subway System, aka the Coalition on Homelessness, on Saturday protested the police crackdown on filthy homeless sleepers in the BART system by sitting down, with some stretching out, in the system.

 Jennifer Friedenbach, the head of the Coalition on Homelessness, distorted the nature of the police crackdown and told the San Francisco Chronicle:
“It is really a fundamental civil rights violation to lock people up when they are not breaking the law and just because they have no place to live. They are arresting people under false pretenses."





Instead of this:


The protesters want to see this:


-RW
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3 comments:

  1. AnonymousNovember 9, 2014 at 10:03 AM

    Someone should remove that "is not" portion of their sign and replace it with the word "without".

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  2. AnonymousNovember 9, 2014 at 12:01 PM

    I don't see anything wrong with the quote about not arresting homeless people on "public" property who don't commit crimes. Why would anyone advocate such State police action? It's akin to the Natonal Socialists rounding up undesirables in 1930s Germany, a very slippery slope. For libertarians who currently can't avoid sometimes treading on public property, being poor, homeless, dirty, unlucky, and/or shiftless doesn't violate the NAP. Obviously, if someone is trespassing on private property, the property owner has the right to remove them from the premises or allow them to stay.

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  3. fbc3November 9, 2014 at 1:25 PM

    “It is really a fundamental civil rights violation to lock people up when they are not breaking the law..."

    It's amazing that someone can speak a fundamental truth yet apply it so selectively.

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