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Old 08-04-2022, 07:03 AM   #31
garysanfran
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Default Becoming an Enabler...

My permanent home is in a City that is the capital of homelessness.

It's a City populated by opposing forces trying to solve the same issue. Willie Brown, Ex-Mayor and creator of Kamala Harris, once told me that those forces negate each other resulting in nothing being accomplished.

A recent true story. A homeless man in Hayes Valley neighborhood was found sitting on the sidewalk, bleeding while incoherently mumbling. People called the "forces" that are the "first" responders. These were medical and law enforcement workers who showed up and started to treat the man.

Then the "progressive" forces showed up and told the man that he had "rights", and could refuse these responder's help and tell them to leave him alone...So he did.

The responders left because they can't "force" help on someone and the progressives left feeling accomplished. The man remained on the sidewalk with the wounds causing the bleeding bandaged.

Less than 10 days later the responders were called to remove his body from a sidewalk about one block away.

San Francisco became an "ENABLER", with good intentions. They set up shooting centers for addicts, no law enforcement allowed anywhere near.

Six square blocks south of Market St. were set-up, where no police can go unless a violent crime is taking place. Drugs of every kind...EVERY KIND! Are sold without impunity.

The City gives out over 400,000 hypodermic needles every month to the homeless who jab themselves and throw the needle onto the ground creating a "hazardous waste" problem that is cleaned up daily by City workers in haz-mat suits.

The City gives $600 to every new arrival without a home. So if you have no money and want $600, free food, warm weather to live under the underpass, get your perforated body to the Left coast and be free!

"Live Free or Die" in San Francisco takes on something a little bit different than the moto of The Granite State. There it should be "Live Free AND Die".

The tide of "do-gooder" ignorance may be changing in SF. We re-called a loser of a District Attorney. The current Mayor has had an epiphany and seems to be changing her direction.

Unfortunately, Laconia may be starting to try solving this problem with the same philosophy...i.e...

These are poor unfortunate folks who need to be made comfortable with their misfortune. Let's try and make their lives easier, more tolerable and less painful and, maybe, that will cause them to rehabilitate...NOPE!!!

Please learn from the mistakes of others and do not think you can do the same, with different results.
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