My view of the world

Picture, from the NY Times, of Gail Sacco and some of the homeless she feeds in Circle Park.

Well, Las Vegas made the news again, it seems that as of Friday, it’s illeagal to feed the homeless in any public park.
This came about in part, because of Mayor Oscar Goodman’s tyrades against the homeless, and in part, because of people like, Gail Sacco, who has fed the homeless in Circle Park for several years.
Activities like this have caused a number of homeless people to spend as much time as they can in city parks, leading to complaints about, crime, drunkeness and litter. People with families, who live in the area of circle park, say that they are afraid to go to the park.
Las Vegas has a number of ordinances on the books about large groups, and who can be banned, but this is the first law aimed specifically at the homeless. Las Vegas officials say that the enforcement of this new law will not be aimed at the casual handout, but at people like Ms. Sacco, who encrourage the homeless to gather in these parks.
We have a number of shelters here in town, but, aside from the fact that at times these shelters are overcrowded, the homeless complain that the shelters are too far to walk to.
Ms. Sacco, said that another reason the homeless do not flock to shelters here,is that the chronically mentally ill who make up a sizable part of the homeless population typically resist treatment and services.
Ok, so now, the ACLU and a number of other groups, are planning on suing as usual.

The problem I have, with these wonderful, caring, advocates for the homeless, is that they quite obviously don’t give a shit about the safety of our children, or the people who live near these parks, who are not “chronically mentally ill”, and who paid the taxes that were used to build those parks.

Just a thought:
How come the guys in the picture look so clean and well dressed, do you think, that, maybe, they’re afraid that if they showed what the less, politically correct homeless looked like, they wouldn’t get as much sympathy?

I’ll end this rant with Oscar’s statement about the coming lawsuits.
“For 35 years, I represented reputed mobsters and was never afraid to go to court and I am not afraid to go to court against the A.C.L.U.’’