The misspelling of "gun control" on Alex Jones's site reminds me, there was a song by the political-comedy group The Foremen called "Hidden Agenda", in which the chorus accuses the right wing of being in favor of wealth care, fun control, snivel rights, & public broad bashing.

I'll agree with Thom's practice of not naming the shooters.

When the shooter has a European name, people can remember it and differentiate him from other people of his race and ethnicity. But when the name is Arabic, all that most people will remember is that it's "some Muslim name" (even though Muslim isn't a language), and that assists them in becoming prejudicial.

If we treat shooters equally and name none of them, then prejudice must be more equitable.

Kilosqrd, San Francisco is the most gentrified city in the United States and harbors a great intolerance for the homeless. That would probably extend to most of the rest if the Bay Area as well.
Some mayors of 'Cisco had been elected running on virulent anti homeless platforms. One such mayor, in the '90s, acquired military aircraft with heat seeking technology for the police department to better find the homeless sleeping in Golden Gate Park. He got an ordinance passed banning outdoor food sharing with the homeless. He got another ordinance passed unconstitutionally limiting the amount of possessions the homeless were allowed to have and would then have the police forcibly tear their "exessive" possessions from their hands and toss them into garbage trucks. He tried to place all the city's homeless into what advocates called a "concentration camp".
These and other actions inspired a heroic movement of opposition that included such groups as Food Not Bombs, orders of Catholic clergy, local trade unions, Human Rights Watch and others, in which hundreds were arrested in passive resistance and civil disobedience.

Criminalizing Homelessness is no different than eliminating the draft to excuse the children of wealthy families from service and assuring yourself of a supply of volunteers who can't find jobs anymore, which have all been exported to countries with lower wage levels and standards of living , and not nationalizingfeducation so those who cannot afford an education will remain unemployed and be complelled to join the miltary, in order to avoid homelessness, while the wealthy pay whatever it costs to keep their children out of military service and exposire to the loss of life and shell shock and disability that military service exposes volunteers to. We have reached the point that we are awakening to the fact that we have lost control of our country but it is too later to do much about it when it is criminal not to do any more than speak up against such legalized tyranny. What is even worse is that this planned

THE FUNCTION OF WASTE IN MODERN TOTALITARIANISM

Once again, it is clear that Orwell's grim narrative was a primary model for The Report from Iron Mountain. The authors of that blueprint for our future spoke at length about the value of planned waste as a means of preventing the masses from improv­ing their standard of living. They wrote:

The production of weapons of mass destruction has always been associated with economic "waste." The term is pejorative, since it implies a failure of function. But no human activity can properly be considered wasteful if it achieves its contextual objective....

In the case of military "waste," there is indeed a larger social utility.... In advanced modem democratic societies, the war system ... has served as the last great safeguard against the elimination of necessary social classes. As economic productivity increases to a level further and further above that of minimum subsistence, it becomes more and more difficult for a society to maintain distribution patterns insuring the existence of "hewers of wood and drawers of water."

The arbitrary nature of war expenditures and of other military activities make them ideally suited to control these essential class relationships.... The continuance of the war system must be assured, if for no other reason, among others, than to preserve whatever quality and degree of poverty a society requires as an incentive, as well as to maintain the stability of its internal organization of power.1

These documents from the real past and the imagined future can help us to better understand our present. The spectacle of wasteful government spending suddenly becomes logical. It is not stupidity that pays farmers to destroy their crops, or that purchases trillion-dollar weapons systems that are never deployed or in some cases not even completed, or that provides funding for studies of the sex life of the tse-tse fly, or that gives grants to pornographers posing as artists. The overriding object behind most of these boondoggles is to waste the resources of the nation. It is obvious by now that the decline in living standards in the Western world is associated with a widening gap between the haves and the have-nots. What is not so obvious, however, is that this is according to plan. To that end, massive waste in government spending is not an unfortunate by-product, it is the goal.

That brings us back to the question of finding an acceptable substitute for war. War is not only the ultimate waste, it is also the ultimate motivation for human action. As Orwell said, waste in the absence of war "would provide only the economic and not the emotional basis for a hierarchical society." Will the environmental-pollution model be able to sufficiently motivate human action to be a substitute for war?

That is not a safe assumption. The possibility of war in our future cannot be ruled out. The environmental-pollution model is not yet thoroughly proven. It is working well for limited purposes

1. Lewin, Report, pp. 34-35, 40-41.

and on a limited scale, but it is still doubtful that it will ever equal the hysteria potential of a physical war. The world planners will not abandon the use of war until the new model has been proven over many years. On that point, the Report from Iron Mountain was emphatic:

When asked how best to prepare for the advent of peace, we must first reply, as strongly as we can, that the war system cannot responsibly be allowed to disappear until 1) we know exactly what it is we plan to put in its place, and 2) we are certain, beyond reasonable doubt, that these substitute institutions will serve their purposes in terms of the survival and stability of society.... It is uncertain, at this time, whether peace will ever be possible. It is far more questionable ... that it would be desirable even if it were demonstrably attainable.

Some places have found out that giving the homeless access to homes creates better citizens who want to work and take care of themselves.

Gloreapower go!!!

Humans need LOVE FIRST

This simple concept has been lost somehow

What does a child need when it comes from the womb of a woman????

This is elementary... NO?

There is a middle road on dealing with the homeless.

They clearly deserve shelter, food, and medical treatment.

But, city dwellers have a right to a feces and urine free public space.

On the city outskirts, build many tiny housing modules with

automatic sterilizing systems.

Provide food, a camp doctor, and security.

Police are to move city ordinace violators to that camp.

There will be problems but once worked out, am sure many cities

would want a field tested approach.

ct

On a recent trip to Utah I noticed there were more than the usual homeless when i asked about it I was told because they criminalized it in California so they all went to Utah. When will be get to the root of this, rather than pass laws to ignore it? We can't ignore it, it won't go away. We need a leader that will create jobs and stop sending them off shore, a leader that will get revenue flowing in so we can help people get on their feet. I am in Illinois and since we now have a Republican Govenor and still no balanced budget he decided that any amount over a 600.00 winning on our state lottery will not get paid. So people have quit playing the lottery and who suffers but our schools because that is where the some of the money is alotted to. When the lottery was instatuted years ago we were told is was for schools and roads, that was to get people on board, yet come to find out the money that the state allocated to schools was held back so really where did ours schools get helped, they didn't. I wonder if we have reached the point of no return on all of our problems because we have politians that would rather fight each other rather than work together.

I am disgusted with California, my state of origin. Those laws restricting how many possessions a homeless person may have, making it illegal for homeless people to eat, to use blankets or tents, to sleep anywhere outdoors, etc. are yet another example of what fascism looks like. I always thought California (particularly the S.F. Bay Area where I'm from) was among the more enlightened places in this country. It actually was, forty years ago. Now it's a fascist police state. Makes me sick.

I'm delighted that a few homeless people have started fighting back. They should. This is ABUSE, pure and simple. Like Thom says, no one "chooses" to be homeless. Our cancer-stage, crony capitalist system creates homelessness. What many people don't seem to realize is that some of the homeless are actually employed, paid too little to afford the most basic necessities such as housing. It is an outrage.

Nothing short of radical change in this country is going to fix problems like this. With all my heart I pray for Bernie Sanders to get elected and for a much more progressive Congress. Anything less than that transpiring and I guarantee, these problems will only get worse. MUCH worse.

Beats me why "the law" is so hard on the homeless. There is a reason why the the people that have no roof over their heads, or, in some cases live in their vehicles, parked somewhere out of reach of the authorities. Even if they work, they still don't have the means to pay for shelter, and when there are abandoned buildings, they are told it is tresspassing although the some of the people that own the property have long gone, and "nobody owns" them--might as well let them stay there at least.

Granted, the economy cannot offer them jobs as much what with all the outsourcing, but there are solutions, as the "small houses" that can be built with a minimum cost, and , say a public works program that offers some kind income, however mininal to cover the utilities and living expenses. Needless to say, that also can create situations where the authorities might supress them, as well.

The real solution is as the other commenters have mentioned. Love with some sensible way of providing shelter for people that have economic serious difficutlties that prevent them from obtaining any kind of shelter. It would seem that Reagan"s mantra of "Greed" is still around.

Have a nice day.