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Title: Three arrested, accused of illegally feeding homeless
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Orlando Sentinel
URL Source: http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news ... rests-20110601,0,7226362.story
Published: Jun 6, 2011
Author: Susan Jacobson
Post Date: 2011-06-06 14:19:58 by Hondo68
Keywords: feeding the homeless, Food Not Bombs, illegally fed
Views: 5875
Comments: 10
Members of Orlando Food Not Bombs were arrested Wednesday when police said they violated a city ordinance by feeding the homeless in Lake Eola Park. Jessica Cross, 24, Benjamin Markeson, 49, and Jonathan "Keith" McHenry, 54, were arrested at 6:10 p.m. on a charge of violating the ordinance restricting group feedings in public parks. McHenry is a co-founder of the international Food Not Bombs movement, which began in the early 1980s. The group lost a court battle in April, clearing the way for the city to enforce the ordinance. It requires groups to obtain a permit and limits each group to two permits per year for each park within a 2-mile radius of City Hall. Arrest papers state that Cross, Markeson and McHenry helped feed 40 people Wednesday night. The ordinance applies to feedings of more than 25 people. "They intentionally violated the statute," said Lt. Barbara Jones, an Orlando police spokeswoman. Police waited until everyone was served to make the arrests, said Douglas Coleman, speaking for Orlando Food Not Bombs. "They basically carted them off to jail for feeding hungry people," said Coleman, who was not present. "For them to regulate a time and place for free speech and to share food, that is unacceptable." Orlando Food Not Bombs has been feeding the homeless breakfast on Mondays for several years and dinner on Wednesdays for five years. Police had not enforced the ordinance while the court battle continued. The U.S. District Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit in Atlanta ruled that city rules regulating how often large groups of people can be fed in a park do not violate the Constitution. The penalty for violating Orlando's ordinance is 60 days in jail, a $500 fine or both. Arrest documents state that Orlando Food Not Bombs received permits and fed more than 25 homeless people at Lake Eola Park on May 18 and 23. Coleman said the group rejected the permits. On May 25, Orlando Food Not Bombs illegally fed a large group of homeless people, the police report states. The group on its website called for members to show up that day and defy the city ordinance, according to the report. Officers said they found a press release on Markeson when they arrested him stating that group members planned to defy the ordinance Wednesday. Bail was set at $250 for each person arrested. Cross and Markeson were released from jail early Thursday. McHenry wants to stay in jail and let the legal process take its course, Coleman said.
Poster Comment: The private charity was doing a better job than the government socialists, for a small fraction of expense, so they arrested them. They would have tazered Mother Teresa.
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#1. To: hondo68 (#0)
Nuts to your conspiracy theory. These people were arrested because the way they gave out food to the homeless attracted vagrants to a specific spot, etc. That is the basis of such laws - to prevent vagrants from taking over specific locales.
"Keep Your Goddamn Government Hands Off My Medicare!" - Various Tea Party signs.
And you can bet the local businesses did the most complaining.
Like this law or not - the law does not exits because the govt has a monopoly on food to the homeless as hondo68 (who was probably kidding to make some jackass point about the govt) stated.
"Keep Your Goddamn Government Hands Off My Medicare!" - Various Tea Party signs.
Most such regs originate with the support of the local Chambers of Commerce.
Might as well round up these unemployed capitalists and ship them off to re-education camps, since their jobs have been outsourced due to environmental regulations, socialism, and high taxes. More communism will solve everything. /s
Obama's watch stopped on 24 May 2008, but he's been too busy smoking crack to notice.
So the only way Americans can have jobs is if the country looks like and is run like Mexico or Red China? Fuck Re-education camps, I would hang you mother-fuckers from ever other lamp-post for trying to turn my country into a third world rat hole so your capitalist pig pals can earn extra coin on the backs of their fellow citizens who would have to live in filthy hovels and pollution and poverty to please their over lords. I would not even bother burying you pigs - I would let the meat rot off the bones while your bodies twisted in the wind.
"Keep Your Goddamn Government Hands Off My Medicare!" - Various Tea Party signs.
I would not even bother burying you pigs - I would let the meat rot off the bones while your bodies twisted in the wind. Hanging the unemployed and homeless vagrants would bring the numbers down. You socialists have all the answers. Buzzards gots to eat too!
Obama's watch stopped on 24 May 2008, but he's been too busy smoking crack to notice.
Well, gobsheit, if it'd been homosexual vagrants, or unemployed (broke, stupid, worthless) Greenpeace activists, you'd be screaming for blood. Your sense of empathy extends only so far as to those that share your twisted political viewpoint... All others can starve. But then again, that's how SOCIALISM works: you either do what WE say, or you starve. Wanna' see some pics of past expirements in SOCIALISM? Want a body-count? Well, since YOU promote SOCIALISM (which is really just communism in slow-motion), we'll list 'em all out... whether they call themselves "socialist" or "communist," it really doesn't matter... What matters is that you LOVE them, for all the people they've helped... Communist Countries The History of Murder and Starvation in Communist Countries There are only 5 countries today that are considered fully communist countries: 1.China 2.North Korea 3.Cuba 4.Vietnam 5.Laos The political system in China is considered Communist, but they are continuing to shift away from a Socialist economic system and closer to a capitalist system. While this is a very gradual shift, they continue to struggle for balance to bring incentive to the workers and the businesses, but still maintain the overarching power that is a Communist Government. Past Communist Countries have committed the worst atrocities on their own citizens than any other form of government. Here is a list of current and former Communist countries with a staggering number of their own citizens that they have either killed or starved to death. The sad thing is that the old saying goes, “better red than dead!” I can see that they are one in the same. Communist Citizen Deaths: 149,469,610 Communist Countries: People’s Republic of China Body Count: 73,237,000 Chairman Mao’s great leap forward starved almost 40 million alone (conservative estimate) China- Maos Great leap forward Union of Soviet Socialist Republics Body Count: 58,627,000Murder and forced Starvation and genocide of the Ukraine, Kulaks, and others who disagreed with Stalin’s Communist vision Stalins Forced starvation in Ukraine Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic Body Count: 3,284,000 Stalin’s execution and Siberian work camps for the Kulaks and the government created famine in theUkraine known as the Holodomor. Democratic People’s Republic of Korea Body Count: 3,163,000 Cambodia Body Count: 2,627,000 Democratic Republic of Afghanistan Body Count: 1,750,000 Vietnam Body Count: 1,670,000 People’s Democratic Republic of Ethiopia Body Count: 1,343,610 Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Body Count: 1,072,000 Chinese Soviet Republic Body Count: 700,000 People’s Republic of Mozambique Body Count: 700,000 Socialist Republic of Romania Body Count: 435,000 People’s Republic of Bulgaria Body Count: 222,000 People’s Republic of Angola Body Count: 125,000 Mongolian People’s Republic Body Count: 100,000 People’s Socialist Republic of Albania Body Count: 100,000 Republic of Cuba Body Count: 73,000 German Democratic Republic Body Count: 70,000 Socialist Republic of Czechoslovakia Body Count: 65,000 Lao People’s Democratic Republic Body Count: 56,000 Hungarian People’s Republic Body Count: 27,000 People’s Republic of Poland Body Count: 22,000 People’s Democratic Republic of Yemen Body Count: 1,000
List of those unable to think: Bumper sticker on DwarF's car: Bring it on.
List of those unable to think: Bumper sticker on DwarF's car: The photos you posted are from the Armenian genocide by the Turks, you idiot.
"Keep Your Goddamn Government Hands Off My Medicare!" - Various Tea Party signs.
The private charity was doing a better job than the government socialists, for a small fraction of expense, so they arrested them. They would have tazered Mother Teresa.
#2. To: Godwinson (#1)
Nuts to your conspiracy theory. These people were arrested because the way they gave out food to the homeless attracted vagrants to a specific spot, etc. That is the basis of such laws - to prevent vagrants from taking over specific locales.
#3. To: mininggold, hondo68 (#2)
And you can bet the local businesses did the most complaining.
#4. To: Godwinson (#3)
Like this law or not - the law does not exits because the govt has a monopoly on food to the homeless as hondo68 (who was probably kidding to make some jackass point about the govt) stated.
#5. To: Godwinson (#1)
prevent vagrants from taking over
"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul
#6. To: hondo68 (#5)
(Edited)
Might as well round up these unemployed capitalists and ship them off to re- education camps, since their jobs have been outsourced due to environmental regulations, socialism, and high taxes.
#7. To: Godwinson, *Extended Clip Progressives* (#6)
(Edited)
I would hang you mother-fuckers from ever other lamp-post
"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul
#8. To: hondo68, godwinson (#5)
(Edited)
prevent vagrants from taking over
mcgowanjm, ferret mike, skippy, fartboy/yukko, white sands, bucky, lucys idiot mom, e_type_jackoff, go56, badlie, wreck, calCON, mininggold, war, Banjo Boris, Biff, Godwinson and meguro. If you're on the above list, you're too fucking stupid to hold a real conversation.
#9. To: Godwinson (#6)
I would hang you mother-fuckers from ever other lamp-post for trying to turn my country into a third world rat hole so your capitalist pig pals can earn extra coin on the backs of their fellow citizens who would have to live in filthy hovels and pollution and poverty to please their over lords.
mcgowanjm, ferret mike, skippy, fartboy/yukko, white sands, bucky, lucys idiot mom, e_type_jackoff, go56, badlie, wreck, calCON, mininggold, war, Banjo Boris, Biff, Godwinson and meguro. If you're on the above list, you're too fucking stupid to hold a real conversation.
#10. To: Capitalist Eric (#9)
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