Title: Since Feeding the Homeless is Now Illegal, A Group Carried AR15s to Give Out Food—It Worked Source:
From The Trenches/FTP URL Source:http://fromthetrenchesworldreport.c ... -ar15s-give-food-worked/214099 Published:Dec 16, 2017 Author:Matt Agorist Post Date:2017-12-18 06:34:27 by Deckard Keywords:None Views:2040 Comments:47
Dallas, TX — Feeding and clothing the homeless in the land of the free has now become a revolutionary act. Luckily, however, there are still good people willing to carry out that act.
In December 2014, the Dallas city council enacted Ordinance No. 29595, which makes it illegal to serve food to the homeless without jumping through a statist myriad of bureaucratic hoops, including a fee, training classes, and written notices.
One should not need to file multiple forms and pay a fee to obtain a permit to give food to those in need who are willingly ready to accept it. The folks at Don’t Comply know this.
Matthew Short, with the aptly named organization, Don’t Comply, and dozens of volunteers from children to adults alike took to the streets of Dallas this week to hand out food, sleeping bags, clothing, and tents to the area’s less fortunate.
As TFTP has reported on numerous occasions, often times, police will swoop in and shut down those who would dare defy the authority of the state and conduct charity without a permit. However, most organizations aren’t like Don’t Comply.
As they took to the streets this week, many of the members of the organization open carried their weapons. This was done—not out of an act of intimidation—but merely to assert rights as well as protect them.
The resultant heavily armed group of do-gooders effectively staved off any attempts by police to shut down the charitable efforts.
In talking with TFTP, Short tells us that although police drove by fairly often, they never stopped and never attempted to intervene.
Success.
“We are not complying with a bad law today,” Short, who is the PR director of Don’t Comply said, echoing the sentiment from all of those in attendance this year. “Evidently the city of Dallas believes that it’s wrong, or bad, or unlawful for us to feed more than a certain number of people at a time. But, during Christmas, we want to show love to our community and give these people a chance to survive the winter, whether it be with blankets or coats, or just giving them a holiday party like today with all kinds of cookies, and goodies, turkey and dressing, and the whole nine yards.”
Dubbed “Feed the Need 5,” this was the fifth year in a row the group has conducted the event.
Below is the most amazing video showing the results of good people breaking bad laws.
As TFTP has reported at length, the war on the homeless, as well as the war on those who want to help them, is relentless. Just last month, during Thanksgiving, a group giving out food in Atlanta was shut down by police because they failed to pay the state for permission to give food to voluntary recipients.
On Friday, TFTP reported on a new law in Kansas—which appears to be a trend across the country—that allows police to fine and even arrest people not for feeding the homeless but for simply giving them money.
Sadly, the state’s endless desire to generate revenue and oppress rights has led to a system which requires permits for just about every activity not just feeding the homeless. This permitting process acts as a stranglehold on those trying to make a living—keeping them in a perpetual state of poverty.
In May, the Alameda County Sheriff’s department posted a photo of a deputy arresting a man for selling fruits and vegetables on the roadside and attempted to justify the arrest. When people read the department’s justification, they lashed out — peacefully — to let them know what they were doing is wrong.
In June, a 38-year-old homeless man was attempting to earn some honest money by providing a much-desired service of bicycle repair to the residents of Kennewick, Washington when he was threatened with extortion and arrest by the local police department, which effectively ended his enterprise.
After the Kennewick Police Department threatened the homeless man and prevented him from making a living, they took to Facebook to shamelessly brag about it. The man was told that while it was illegal for him to fix bicycles, he could certainly beg for money.
I don’t believe Nicolette Larson means that Christmas is a time for giving food poisoning to homeless people….do you?
Once upon a time, sixty homeless people were hospitalized in Denver when the largest food poisoning outbreak occurred among the homeless in the past decade.
Some of the good Samaritan citizens can’t decide if they want to feed the homeless for Christmas or to give them food poisoning.
The facilities preparing food for the homeless needs to be carefully and continually health inspected.
#16. To: A Pole, misterwhite, GrandIsland (#13)(Edited)
The facilities preparing food for the homeless needs to be carefully and continually health inspected.
What if the food will be from peoples own home kitchens?
As has been repeatedly stated: ALL food for the homeless MUST be prepared in a health inspected facility. I personally can see no reason why people could not arrange to have their own home kitchens health inspected.
Should people be allowed to eat in their own homes without government people like you controlling it?
I eat each day in my own home with no government people controlling me. Albeit my wife does from time to time….but wait, she is no government person.
Are you having a problem with government people controlling you eating in your own home?
Are government officials the safest cooks and food preparers?
The government officials do no cooking or food preparing….unless they may be avolunteer at a soup kitchen after work hours. Then they are of course not consider government officials since they are not there in a official capacity.
Should private families be under supervision of the officials?
I think that Deckard, Hondo and Bucky might qualify as needing this supervision.
Should children be raised by the government officials?
I know of no place they are….except of course maybe some juvenile detention centers. Most/many/some juvenile detention centers are civilian run under government contract,
