brizoda 4,177 Posted November 5, 2014 Share Posted November 5, 2014 A Florida city was quick to show how serious it is about its new homeless feeding ban by making an example out of a 90-year-old advocate who’s been helping the hungry for two decades. Despite heated protests, Fort Lauderdale passed an ordinance early on Oct. 22, restricting charitable groups from doling out meals to homeless people in public, the Sun Sentinel reported. The city wasted no time implementing the law. On Sunday police cited two Christian ministers and volunteer Arnold Abbot, 90, who runs the advocacy group, Love The Neighbor, Local 10 News reported. The three served less than a handful of the 300 meals they prepared before the police run in, according to the Sentinel. They each now face 60 days in jail and $500 fines. "These are the poorest of the poor, they have nothing, they don't have a roof over their heads," Abbott, who plans on suing the city, told Local 10 News. "How do you turn them away?" The new rules, billed as "public health and safety measures," limit outdoor feeding programs to one per city block and must be set up at least 500 feet away from residential properties. Organizers are also required to bring portable toilets for workers, according to the Sentinel. Making it increasingly difficult for people in need to access food has become the norm in a number of major U.S. cities. Since January last year, 21 cities have enacted measures to limit feeding homeless people, according to a recent National Coalition for the Homeless (NCH) survey. Many resorted to restricting the use of public property and implementing stringent food safety regulations. Florida remains one of the toughest places to live on the streets, and it’s not just the feeding bans that make it so. Though the Sunshine State declared attacks against homeless people a hate crime in 2010, it had the second highest rate of reported attacks against homeless people last year, according to NCH. "This violence is prompted by a profound lack of empathy for fellow human beings, the same moral failure that allows our society to tolerate the larger tragedy of homelessness," Jerry Jones, NCH's executive director, said in a statement about the issue last year. "Homeless people deserve our help and protection." http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/04/man-90-arrested-feeding-homeless_n_6100738.HTML Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SEVDALIZA 1,274 Posted November 5, 2014 Share Posted November 5, 2014 This is f*cking ridiculous, what is the world coming to? operating from another world Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
honza 2,194 Posted November 5, 2014 Share Posted November 5, 2014 that's awful :( Come along with me and the butterflies and bees Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TSUNAMI 21,297 Posted November 5, 2014 Share Posted November 5, 2014 What? Can people die, please? I don't think we deserved to live on such beautiful earthy gazing ball :( Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azor Ahai 18,861 Posted November 5, 2014 Share Posted November 5, 2014 They just want them to die on the streets from hunger or what? Why would feeding the poor be punished. It was one good thing Christianity preach and now they make it illegal lol wtf America Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fizzy 2,217 Posted November 5, 2014 Share Posted November 5, 2014 A world where People like Oscar Pistorious get leniet sentences for Murdering his GF! You had to jail people who were helping the poor? Fuccking Disgusting! Florida is always full of school shpptings and stuff. Only this was left out. Stupid :awkney: “The scars on my mind are on Replay” Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spooky 501 Posted November 5, 2014 Share Posted November 5, 2014 This is just stupid. "FEED THE HUNGRY!" "NO THEY'RE TOO HUNGRY AND IN NEED. YOU NEED TO BE FINANCIALLY STABLE TO ACCEPT HANDOUTS." like a ghost, i vanish into you Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
brizoda 4,177 Posted November 5, 2014 Author Share Posted November 5, 2014 how i wish these people enacting this laws suffer the same destiny becoming homeless Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
monsterdreams 1,529 Posted November 5, 2014 Share Posted November 5, 2014 What sort of messed up law is this? I'm ashamed Haters gonna need more than a flashlight for my shade Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Better Day 5,766 Posted November 5, 2014 Share Posted November 5, 2014 What is this world coming to? The older generations is ruining it for us young ones. Soon they will be all old and grey while we will be running the world Together You And I! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ELECTRAHEARTPOP 93 Posted November 5, 2014 Share Posted November 5, 2014 Disgusting. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
zexion_armando 241 Posted November 6, 2014 Share Posted November 6, 2014 I absolutely love this law, and hope to see it implemented into bigger cities. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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