Posted on 11/04/2014 11:49:37 AM PST by SeekAndFind
A senior citizen and a couple of clergymen in Florida face up to two months in jail for feeding the homeless.
A group of volunteers with the non-profit charity Love Thy Neighbor in Broward County face up to a $500 fine and 60 days in jail because they were feeding the homeless last Sunday in Fort Lauderdale, the New Times reports.
World War II veteran Arnold Abbott, founder of the interfaith organization, and members of a local church were confronted by Fort Lauderdale police officers because they had reportedly been in violation of the new laws against food sharing — laws that were ironically enacted on Halloween, a night reserved for, well, sharing candy.
Trays of hot food intended to be distributed to the lines of homeless people on the street last weekend were instead thrown directly into the trash by the officers, who ordered Abbott to “drop that plate right now.” In total, four police cruisers and a half dozen uniformed cops arrived to the scene.
Abbott and two clergymen were subsequently issued citations and are due to appear in court in the coming weeks.
The new law comes on the heels of an announcement from the city in January that restrict camping, panhandling, food sharing and other “life sustaining” activities.
Not to be deterred, Abbott, who has been feeding the homeless for years, talked in the report about how his recent run-in with the law will change things.
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Are you pretending these food giveaways are taking place on your property?
I love it!! Bring this whole dam $hit state down to its knees!!!
They should also fine and jail those medical workers offering up free help in Africa.
Maybe we could get more cops to enforce the immigration laws.
They affect private property. You’re pretending those people have no other options. He is enabling them to continue their self destructive behavior.
You don’t think there was support for this law? I bet there was. And is.
I would support it. I live next to a park. I’m going to look into such laws in my city.
Dems would have probably sent them to the nearest welfare office. Besides I can’t imagine a 90 yr old WW2 vet voting liberal after what Obama has done to this country and our armed forces.
I’m glad you read the post. Most seem to be ignoring it.
But, no. He’s a liberal Dem. Read his own bio.
This is weird thread because people are assuming a lot about this guy and his organization that isn’t the case.
You continue to pretend they are actively affecting YOUR “private property”.
NOT TRUE!
You also continue to pretend that the hungry are all addicts, refusing to clean up their act.
It is NOT for you to judge their plight, but have the mercy you would have shown to you.
“I assume perhaps they passed this law because someone was giving away food, someone got sick or died because of it, and sued the hell out of the city as a result?”
I’m old enough to remember when the Ft. Lauderdale beaches could be a dangerous place, due to all of the homeless, living on the beaches.
Your elder sister is Samaria, who lived with her daughters to the north of you; and your younger sister, who lived to the south of you, is Sodom with her daughters. You not only followed their ways, and acted according to their abominations; within a very little time you were more corrupt than they in all your ways. As I live, says the Lord GOD, your sister Sodom and her daughters have not done as you and your daughters have done. This was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had pride, excess of food and prosperous ease, but did not aid the poor and needy. They were haughty and did abominable things before me; therefore I removed them when I saw it.
Ezekiel 16:46-50
Russell Brand weighs in...
Parklife: 90-year-old Arrested For Feeding Homeless⎥Russell Brand The Trews (E185)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbDhDitAkZ4
Also:
Sodom had the same laws...
...the great Gaon of Vilna, who sat with voice but no vote on the Council of the Jews of Vilna. His task was to comment from a Torah perspective on new legislation proposed before the Council. When there was no such new legislation, he did not take part in the meeting.
One day a member of the Council put forward a proposal for ending or greatly reducing the influx of Jews from poorer regions into Vilna, where they hoped for a better life. The Gaon rose to leave the meeting. "But Rabbi," said a Councilmember, "we need your comment on this proposed new legislation!"
"What new legislation?" said the Gaon. "This was already the law of Sodom, long ago!" And he left.
The proposal was dropped.
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