This is where we are now: A city in Northern California isn’t just making homelessness illegal—it’s criminalizing those who *help* people living on the street.
Under a new ordinance, “aiding or abetting” an encampment would be a misdemeanor, punishable by a $1,000 fine and up to six months in jail.
Under a new ordinance, “aiding or abetting” an encampment would be a misdemeanor, punishable by a $1,000 fine and up to six months in jail.
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John Steinbeck
Ppl did this in STL. Camped out on sidewalks in front of ppls homes…bathing & shitting there. Offers for hotels/housing were not accepted. Help was turned down.
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Signed, a Californian.
Providing a blanket or tent to an unhoused person is now punishable by six months in jail and a $1,000 fine.
This is criminalizing survival itself.
This will become a trend across the U.S.
Be easier to just say “we get a lot of money from private prison lobbyist”.
Ahh yes, communist paradise where they punish people for being homeless. My god people this blows.
https://bsky.app/profile/brian-goldstone.bsky.social/post/3lhesg5lyzc2n
AZ Woman arrested & threatened w/ jail for feeding homeless.
https://ij.org/press-release/police-arrested-an-elderly-woman-for-feeding-people-in-need-now-shes-fighting-back-in-federal-court/
OH Church convicted for housing the homeless.
https://apnews.com/article/church-homeless-shelter-pastor-charged-ba43fad9d81d51be55a1de3e8e1002b7
I wish we had only just gotten here, but this is where we've been.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/04/texas-volunteers-fined-feeding-homeless-heat
Or, like, something along those lines.
Aucks
I collect data
while developing AI, automation, drones, robotics, computers, self-driving vehicles
to replace people
who wont have jobs or UBI
and will become homeless
and then hunted down by robots, drones, AI, computers
Buying a homeless person a meal is a crime.
What a time to be alive in this ass-fucking-backwards nation, where compassion is treated as a sin and profiteering as a moral duty.