It did not take long for City of Fort Lauderdale to make good on the promise to criminally charge those who violate a new ordinance that effectively outlaws groups from feeding the homeless in public.
On Sunday, the city charged three people, including two ministers and a 90-year-old homeless advocate, and they could face up to 60-days in jail for their so-called crime.
“I fully believe that I am my brother’s keeper. Love they neighbor as thy self,” explained Arnold Abbott.
90-year-old Florida man arrested for feeding the homeless
Welcome to the 21st century.
The bomb in the baby carriage was wired to the radio.
If I had ever been here before
I would probably know just what to do
Don't you?
We have all been here before. We have all been here before.
Fifty years and my life is still
Trying to get up that great big hill
Of hope
For a destination
Lies, lies!
You're breaking my heart.
Go ahead and lie to me.
Let us stop talking falsely now,
The hour is getting late.
Know your rights.
Now testify!
“We Americans are not usually thought to be a submissive people, but of course we are. Why else would we allow our country to be destroyed? Why else would we be rewarding its destroyers? Why else would we all — by proxies we have given to greedy corporations and corrupt politicians — be participating in its destruction? Most of us are still too sane to piss in our own cistern, but we allow others to do so and we reward them for it. We reward them so well, in fact, that those who piss in our cistern are wealthier than the rest of us.
How do we submit? By not being radical enough. Or by not being thorough enough, which is the same thing.”
Wendell Berry
These are the days of miracle and wonder. This is a long distance call.