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I don't have any faith in this Supreme Court to do the right thing. I am sure the facsiest and for profit prisons hope they vote their way.
We should revolt if they do. How do you make illegal to be homeless if our government and society won't help them not be so?
Democrats should rally people against this but they won't.
It would seem that doing the morally right thing here would have far reaching affects. However, I too, don’t see how we could consider homelessness a crime. That’s just too far. Those folks basically have nothing left to lose. Not a great combo if you want to keep the peace.
How do you make it illegal to sleep on your own planet (which is something every human must do)?
Well we get to watch the Supreme Court make that decision. I really want to see how Thomas and Roberts justify doing just that.
If they want to allow cities to make laws punishing people for sleeping in tents in undesignated areas, they need to provide adequate temporary housing at no cost, and with no prerequisites, like being sober.
Or even just free to use camp grounds. Just have a sweep done every couple weeks to do cleanup, not even just for drugs just because thatd be good for maintenance.
Free to use campgrounds would be fine as long as people are not allowed to stay longer than a certain period of time. They can move from different campground to campground and then back again, but it’s important that campgrounds don’t become permanent dwellings.
There are a lot of empty office buildings in my city. Perhaps they should be squatting on capitalism.
The thing to keep in mind is that the specific question being asked here is: can cities punish homeless people for existing outdoors if they haven't provided somewhere for the homeless to go to? Grants Pass, OR and Co. say yes.
He asked what would happen in the city if the ordinances were to remain blocked.
“The city’s hands will be tied. It will be forced to surrender its public spaces, as it [already] has been,” Evangelis said.
This is the crux of it. The city does not consider the homeless to be the "public". Can't be homeless and a citizen at the same time apparently.
To make this clear, this is a about the government further destroying the entire concept of "public spaces". Dividing further who counts as "the public".
Maybe they should invest in proper shelters then if they don't want them in the parks...
I've read elsewhere that the city already had a case like this, where it was ruled it wasn't illegal as long as there wasn't adequate shelter. Or something along those lines.
Time yet again for the Supreme Court to attack human rights again! This time it’s the right to exist!
Bell Riots - September 2024
Entering stage two of some dystopian fiction written many, many years ago. I hear markets are doing great, record profits in the pandemic age.