"Intent to feed"....

[Che a chara]

Dozens of activists arrested in Orlando for feeding the hungry :thumbup1:

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[RGacky3]

Was this the food not bombs group?

[Kamos]

I've seriously no idea how this could be considered illegal.

[ComradeMan]

I've seriously no idea how this could be considered illegal.

Orlando?
Florida?

What was the nature of feeding these people? What is that building? More info please:

[RGacky3]

If its the Food not bombs situation, it had to do with some ordinance the city passed banning feeding in public, sleeping in public, and other rediculous totalitarian state style laws.

[ComradeMan]

If its the Food not bombs situation, it had to do with some ordinance the city passed banning feeding in public, sleeping in public, and other rediculous totalitarian state style laws.

How can you ban "feeding" in public? The stupid fucking assholes, they'd have to arrest all the pigeons.

[Catma]

Sleeping in public?! Are they prepared to house all the homeless, then?

...Never mind, I'm sure they can find a nice prison for them to labor in...

I just can't wait for the video of them assaulting dangerous sleeping terrorists with SWAT teams.

[minimali]

There are very simple laws on who can provide food to the public. From having a restroom to source of the food and the way it was prepare...good or bad is for you to decide but the law is there for the safty of the public...

[ÑóẊîöʼn]

There are very simple laws on who can provide food to the public. From having a restroom to source of the food and the way it was prepare...good or bad is for you to decide but the law is there for the safty of the public...

Speaking as someone who has been homeless previously, I'd rather take the (let's be honest) small risk of food poisoning by accepting food from charitable individuals, rather than take the more certain chance of going hungry for the night.

If the lawmakers of Orlando were really interested in "protecting the public" rather than being dicks to homeless people and those who want to help them out, they would work with the organisations concerned in order to ensure that the food they are distributing is nutritious and safe.

But apparently we can't have that sort of communist nonsense in Orlando!

[Principia Ethica]

How ironic. . .or tragic. . .(take your pick) that these homeless people are in the vicinity of the "Happiest Place on Earth."

Homeless people are NOT animals!!! "Intent to feed?" Would I get arrested if I fed the pigeons? Or just hungry people? I'll tell you what, if my town starts enforcing laws like that. . .I'll probably end up arrested.

The fear of not being able to look at myself in the mirror FAR outweighs my fear of going to county jail.

[Principia Ethica]

I was so outraged by this that I had to go ***** and moan to my boy friend about it. He heard about it and sent me a video to put a smile on my face. And it did. It's about a "guy protesting on the side of the cops"

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[PhoenixAsh]

There is no interest in health regulation in enforcing laws not to feed homeless. That is not what this is about. Health codes are used to enforce a policy of indifference.

There are many reasons why this policy is there....its a comcplicated situation and official position.

The system needs homeless to serve as a deterent to people. To instill fear to keep people focussed on working within the system for fear of the consequences.

They want to keep people from helping the homeless because of a prevailing mythical notion that being homeless is somebodies own fault...and the myth that if you feed them "they will come".

Also cheap prison fodder.

There are many more reasons. But the simple fact that solving the homeless situation is a relatively easy and cheap problem to solve is being ignored completely. It costs nothing compared to wars, bailouts, bonusses and expenditure on tax cuts. In fact not doing anything will cost the tax payer more in police costs and crime prevention and drug prevention programs alone....and actually getting these people the help they need.

So no...health issues are NOT the reason behind the crack down on such initiatives.

[The Dark Side of the Moon]

What are they going to ban next? Farting in Public? Hammer and sickles? Dogs? Accents?

[Judicator]

What are they going to ban next? Farting in Public? Hammer and sickles? Dogs? Accents?

They banned smoking in public parks.

[Weezer]

They were part of a Castro-funded terrorist group and they were gonna bomb the city.

We're in Florida, home of the overly aggressive Cuban Exile subspecies, after all.

[Aspiring Humanist]

STOP RIGHT THERE CRIMINAL SCUM
No one feeds homeless on my watch
Pay your fine or its off to jail



edit: are you fucking kidding me no one gets the oblivion reference