A man has been found not guilty of breaking a law against feeding homeless people outside a public library in Houston, Texas.

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      2 years ago

      Ignorance implies the law writers didn’t know better.

      This isn’t ignorance. It’s hatred.

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    Not only does the state increasingly criminalize being un-housed, they are increasingly using their power to harass people who have any empathy and try to make a positive impact on the world for no profit motive. There is big money in helping “the homeless” as long as you don’t actually do anything. All facets of government in the U.S. has become a system of graft and corruption. Mr. Smith wouldn’t even get the chance to go to Washington because the DNC is just as complicit as the GOP.

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    This is such a frustrating reminder of how stupid people can be. They’re feeding homeless people in central Houston, and the city received reports of violence and threats against library employees. When they decided to designate a new space to feed these people, the fucking assholes chose a location near a police station.

    Like that will work. It was largely rejected, so then they made a law against feeding more than five people without getting permission from the property owners.

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      I don’t understand who you are calling stupid. If the people giving free food to the public received complaints that it was causing reports of violence and threats, wouldn’t be logical for them to move the operation to a police station?

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        “Let’s take a community with a history of mental health issues and a general distrust of law enforcement and require them to get aid next to the police department.”

        Aid program dies and is used to justify cutting budgets of stressed aide programs

        Edit: cause I used the wrong aide