News & Blogs Activists arrested for feeding the homeless—again

[Deleted member 8978]

Way to go, Tampa P.D.

http://www.cltampa.com/news-views/l...a-activists-arrested-for-feeding-the-homeless

Video (if it is still public):

After reading that article, it was easy to see how lawmakers (not the police, can't blame them) can get in the way of ruining the lives of the less fortunate - even if someone is trying to help them in any way. This is why I would take a different approach and just volunteer at a rescue mission to stay legal. This anti-feeding law/bill may already be state-wide by now. I am not sure how many more people would group together to try to get this law repealed, but I think this might be one step closer to another long battle. You got to shake the police off your back before you go and assist someone.

 

[Renegade]

It's the most sickening thing I have ever witnessed. The reason they don't want people to feed us is because they think it will move the houseless along but that idea is stupid and flawed. They want to control everything.

 

[Sm4L27NMD]

what do you expect from a bunch of thugs this country lost everything it was ever meant to be. laws, or no laws, this country and its enforcers will do whatever they want to get their way. this govt has lost any hope of being fixed. do it anyway i say. fuck their laws. fuck their enforcers. they will do whatever they want anyways

 

[ped]

I blame us. we just sit back and take their shit. we dont organize, we dont do violence, we dont take back what has been taken from us.

 

[Renegade]

It's the most sickening thing I have ever witnessed. The reason they don't want people to feed us is because they think it will move the houseless along but that idea is stupid and flawed. They want to control everything.

Exactly dude.. I always say the same shit, if we all could rise up a couple hundred million people would be hard to stop from taking back what's theirs.. but they keep everyone dosed with social media, fast food and TV. Most people are in a state of apathy and comfortable in the decay happening around them.

 

[ped]

Nah...even ppl who have given all that up don't do anything. It started as we were children. With "education." Forced to sit 8hrs a day learning large volumes of useless data and obedience to the teacher and the syllabus. Marginalized and overloaded the brain learns to cope and eventually successfully repress itself.

It primes the amygdala for flight reaction patterns to critical thinking and more importantly, action. That's why you start school so young. Distraction of media for instance becomes a coping mechanism for secondary defense of constant unconscious tension, conflict, and inherent dissonance that is the natural result in the quasi-adult. marginalize, overwhelm, repress. They know perfectly well what they're doing.

you're seeing it play out right here. Its the exact same thing. gated communities of people who think, talk, act, value, dress, work, etc all the same. Repressing issues of poverty and next marginalizing any protest or counter action.

And we do the same shit to each other. Instead of building together, supporting each other, we stay fractured. we have a whole lexicon of terms to denote who is "in" and who isn't for instance. Or we constantly come up with ways to self-sabotage any building of real collectives and support networks.

 

[AnOldHope]

And we do the same shit to each other. Instead of building together, supporting each other, we stay fractured. we have a whole lexicon of terms to denote who is "in" and who isn't for instance. Or we constantly come up with ways to self-sabotage any building of real collectives and support networks.

This is an interesting idea. If you had a group, what kinds of things would you build and what support would the group provide for its members?

(Assume you have located a group, say 5, 20, 100, 1000 depending on how you want to answer the question, that has sufficient cohesion and effective means of consensus in the group to determine a goal and cooperate towards it).

 

[Kim Chee]

What a great thing to be arrested for, being arrested for feeding people means all of the child molesters and rapists are off the street, right?

Had they been serving donuts, the cops would have just confiscated them, moved on and gorged themselves.

 

[autumn]

There's some more info from one of the people that got arrested here, just look at the comments:



They were charged with criminal trespassing because feeding the homeless is built into the trespassing law. Tampa is a really fucked up city and this isn't at all surprising, the law has been in place for a long time to my knowledge and the pigs have been shaking them down a lot. It's just getting national attention now.

 

[Andrea Van Scoyoc]

I belong to a support type group for the Food Not Bombs group in Tampa, on Facebook.

I live an hour and a half from Tampa and the lawmakers in this state are assholes.

They don't want the homeless here, yet they won't offer any real solutions to get them off the street, get gainful employment or help for addiction.

In fact...There should be no homeless here...We have enough abandoned buildings all over Florida, the homeless should be allowed to live in and refurbish them for ownership...Like was done with this one building I heard about in, I think, New York.

Anyway...I'll stop now before I really get going...

 

[Kim Chee]

...In fact...There should be no homeless here...We have enough abandoned buildings all over Florida, the homeless should be allowed to live in and refurbish them for ownership...Like was done with this one building I heard about in, I think, New York.

Anyway...I'll stop now before I really get going...

I propose a luxury tax upon anybody who can afford to have a vacant building and doesn't let it get used for social programs.

Let THEM eat taxes!

On topic:
Locations and dates for festivals like this frequently are changed at the last minute.

 

[Andrea Van Scoyoc]

I propose a luxury tax upon anybody who can afford to have a vacant building and doesn't let it get used for social programs.

Let THEM eat taxes!

On topic:
Locations and dates for festivals like this frequently are changed at the last minute.

Thank you! I've said that, for years. There is absolutely no excuse in allowing buildings to sit empty until they decay, and then have, to be torn down so something else can be put up in its place.

Waste, waste, waste...It's despicable.

 

[Deleted member 8978]

And not to mention, sometimes a rescue mission just isn't enough. The total population of the homeless can be worth more than a single rescue mission can hold as far as capacity.

Another thing, how would city officials (police) react if Food Not Bombs was granted multiple licenses to run as a rescue mission while continuing to serve food for the homeless? Or maybe a license to serve food from a public area like that. I'm looking for an excuse to legally serve the lawmakers and city officials my middle finger!

They don't want the homeless here, yet they won't offer any real solutions to get them off the street, get gainful employment or help for addiction.

 

[Andrea Van Scoyoc]

And not to mention, sometimes a rescue mission just isn't enough. The total population of the homeless can be worth more than a single rescue mission can hold as far as capacity.

Another thing, how would city officials (police) react if Food Not Bombs was granted multiple licenses to run as a rescue mission while continuing to serve food for the homeless? Or maybe a license to serve food from a public area like that. I'm looking for an excuse to legally serve the lawmakers and city officials my middle finger!

When you give them the middle finger, give them one for me, too.

This state sucks. Been trying to get out of here for 20 years.

I'm a Florida native and this state has just declined with each decade.

 

[AnOldHope]

Goodman tried to do something like this in the parks in Vegas, but I thought I'd read the courts overturned it.

The ostensibly greatest civilization in the history of man, we have planted our flag on the moon and come back alive...

...and somehow it legally emerges that one is to be punished for giving food to people who badly need it.

It makes it very difficult to explain and justify our laws to our children without expecting them to think, "Wow, this confirms my suspicions that adults in large numbers are dumb."

 

[Hobo Mud]

It is a crime to be poor in this country. This shit is getting out of hand and ridiculous. Wow! The sad fact is that it will only get worse.