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:2020 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.
Yea, SERIOUSLY ….Once upon a time, sixty homeless people were SERIOUSLY hospitalized in Denver when the largest food poisoning outbreak occurred among the homeless in the past decade.
… giving food poisoning….That's what they did?
Not yet, they didn’t….not this time. But that is what they could do….give food poisoning. It has been done by good Samaritans.
The only thing they did was give food to the homeless without asking the government for permission.
Nope, that’s not the only thing they did. They gave food to the homeless prepared in a facility that was not health inspected. That was THE problem. Their problem had nothing to do with asking the government for permission.
Yeah - I can see why that hurts your feelings.
Never hurt my FEELINGS at all. I FEEL great….I never ate the health uninspected food.
I bake a cake and give it to my neighbor without a permission slip from the State.
It’s okay if your run your finger up your butt hole every few minutes while you are baking the cake to give to your neighbor and if your neighbor wants to eat the cake, that’s between you two. And, yes….you can do that without a permission slip for the State.
Now if your neighbor is a homeless person ….then that is a whole different ball game. There is a law/ordinance that says you can’t make it your mission to go out and feed the homeless people without the food having been prepared in a health inspected facility.
I can give them some of my leftovers as well.
Same answer….even if you use a different finger to run up your butt hole ….
This really isn't any different.
Oh, but there is a difference. There is a big difference. And that difference is called….wait for it….a law/ordinance.
Had Jesus lived today and attempted to feed large crowds of people, he would have been threatened with arrest for violating various ordinances prohibiting the distribution of food without a permit. Florida officials arrested a 90-year-old man for feeding the homeless on a public beach.
Whether Jesus was born in a police state or not can be argued. But it would be hard to argue that he did not die in a police state. Anyplace where the authorities can nail you to a cross and let you die can definitely be seen as a police state.
Had Jesus lived today and attempted to feed large crowds of people, he would have been threatened with arrest for violating various ordinances prohibiting the distribution of food without a permit.
That’s a ridiculous analogy....not worth addressing.
Florida officials arrested a 90-year-old man for feeding the homeless on a public beach.
The guy has way more balls (and compassion) than you will ever have.
Maybe, who knows.
But he surely doesn’t’ have the great intellect I have.
I would not have been arrested for feeding the homeless because of violating the law.
I would have used my superior faculty of reasoning and have a clear understanding of the law to objectively find a way to feed the homeless with no problems.
But then, I will pit brains and rational planning versus balls and compassion any time.
Too bad you cannot realize that....life would be a lot easier for you if you could.
