Posted on 02/14/2009 5:31:25 AM PST by reaganaut1
The dean of California's newest law school is suing this seaside community over its treatment of the homeless. The suit should serve as a warning to the business establishment of Orange County, Calif., -- which has poured over $24 million into the still-unopened University of California, Irvine law school -- that it is creating a litigation monster that will endanger the county's fabled quality of life.
The law school will open its doors this fall. Part of its core mission is to train students in "public interest" law []. The term "public interest" law is a masterstroke of misrepresentation, since its practitioners usually subvert the broad public interest, arrived at democratically, in favor of judge-created rights conferred on favored victim groups. The aim is judicially mandated government social services, strict new environmental regulations, and compromised public safety.
This dispute is a perfect example. [] Dean Erwin Chemerinsky, the American Civil Liberties Union, and the law firm of Irell & Manella [have] filed a complaint in federal court charging Laguna Beach police and city officials with a deliberate campaign of abuse against the homeless. Shrill, occasionally ungrammatical, and devoid of factual support for its sweeping accusations, the complaint could only have been written by someone who hasn't observed this city's police-homeless interactions, or who is blinded by ideology.
he homeless here seem to be as mellow as the beach town in which they live. Michael and Robert, wearing sunglasses and relaxing in a park overlooking the sparkling Pacific Ocean, cheerfully list for me the meals and services available to them: coffee and Danish brought to the park every weekday morning; bag lunches and dinner feedings; showers, laundry and kitchen facilities at a drop-in center; and shelter during the winter months.
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More leftwing crap. I hope the school is never completed.
What a waste of good money and malleable minds.
“They” (ACLU, Welfare Rights activists, ACORN, and -— oh, yes -— “public interest” lawyers) would like millions to live the “idyllic lifestyle” of homeless on the sparkling Pacific beaches: drinking, doing drugs, urinating on the sidewalks, and reduced permanently to a degrading state of dependency; well no, not “permanently,” but until Our Dear Leader helps them to exercise their sacred Constitutional right to die.
Thanks for the link to the article. Madison Wisconsin is a city with a big homeless problem and it hurts businesses downtown. The homeless have gotten more and more aggressive to women when they walk down the street. They are sometimes relentless and follow you for a couple of blocks badgering you in all sorts of ways. They burned down the cathedral and have been murdered and murdered each other on the streets. The downtown library is just scary....and I am tired of calling them homeless. They are bums. There are people who are down on their luck, who might be homeless. A fellow who has been scrounging around for years is just a bum. Let’s be forget the PC language. Aiding the people who are down on their luck is what the Salvation Army does. Aiding the “homeless” is what keeps the bums on the street and gives the politically correct a way to feel good about themselves and morally superior to the rest of us.
Free housing as well for the students and teachers. You should see the wonderful new homes the taxpayers have paid for that these people get to live in.
One must realistically look upon the HOMELESS as the raw material necessary for the LEGAL INDUSTRY. “Public Interest” lawyers depend and REQUIRE the sacred homeless for their industry to thrive and survive. It is in plain English a matter of money, from you to them.
No one begrudges the compassionate attempts to help and assist those who, for one reason or another cannot cope with either life or existence in society. Some people, sadly must be housed and cared for away from general society, but that withdraws “raw material” from the ADVOCATE.
The creation of addition PUBLIC INTEREST ADVOCATES will require a steady and growing supply of people needing their help. Public Interest is as much an industry as autos.
The auto industry requires STEEL as its raw material, while the Advocacy Industry requires PEOPLE. There MUST be a steady supply of causes for the advocates.
I’ve seen less of the on ramp panhandlers in the Portland area lately. It may be because the economy is down and people have less to give. It is also possible that the word has finally gotten out that the bozo getting the handout makes more money than the bozo giving the money out.
“badgering you”?
Cute :-)
Exactly right. Erwin Chemerinsky is a scum sucking lawyer like most “public advocates.”
There’s a case here in Fresno where a burly “homeless” (aka bum) fought with a policeman with a pen and a knife. The policeman struggled to get the knife away from the bum and ended up punching the bum in the face to subdue him. Someone video taped the incident... guess which part of the tape has been shown over and over on TV?
They are now suing for millions.
Earlier the police did a sweep to evict “homeless” from their encampment by Highway 99. They picked up tons of “belongings” and dumped them. The bums got lawyers and sued for loss of “their” property. The city had to pay and now holds the bum’s “possessions” in mini storage units. Not once have they had one of the bums come back to claim the property. A complete waste of money.
Lawyers are parasites.
California has some unique attributes which exacerbates the homeless problem. Start with the mild climate which allows outdoor living, year around and add the abundance of open public spaces, better known as green belts, and top it off with the limousine liberals controlling the agenda and you have a mess.
Up here, in WA, they have come up with the idea of tent cities that are set up by various charitable groups for six months at a time and are moved every six months or so. I haven’t heard much about them this past year, though, not since they set one up in a wealthier neighborhood near Olympia (the capital).
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