Austin joins San Francisco, Los Angeles and Seattle in accelerated collapse toward third world living conditions for the homeless, impoverished masses
Friday, July 05, 2019 by: JD Heyes
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(Natural News) The squalid, drug-infested, diseased nature of life on the streets in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, and other über-Left-wing cities along the West Coast is coming to the heart of the Lone Star State, and residents there likely aren’t ready for it.
A new policy adopted by the Democratic city council in Austin, Texas, will allow anyone who is homeless to camp out in any public square or venue, a policy that we predict will serve as a magnet for homeless people (much like the policies in L.A., San Fran, and Seattle are doing).
The policy change went into effect on July 1, just 10 days after the city council decriminalized homelessness, Big League Politics reported, noting further:
Prior to the change in this ordinance, it was illegal to site, lie, or camp in public. But starting this month, officers will only give tickets to individuals who block pathways. Additionally, the city council modified another provision of the ordinance that only punishes aggressive panhandlers.
As most reasonable people might imagine, the policy change has already created no small amount of controversy in the Texas capital, which is perhaps the bluest part of an otherwise deep red state. The mayor, Steve Adler, says the policy is a good thing because it helps ‘address’ the issue of homelessness — though not really, because by ‘addressing’ it he means simply accommodating it.
*** JdN on Adler
Boy, classic leftist Jew lawyer…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Adler_(politician)
Excerpts:
Adler has been a practicing attorney in Austin in the areas of eminent domain and civil rights law for 35 years.[1] […] He has also worked with or board chaired Austin-based nonprofits and civic organizations, including the Texas Tribune, (((Anti-Defamation League))),
Early life and education[edit]
Steve Adler was born to a Jewish family[4] and first lived in Washington, DC and grew up in Kensington, Maryland. His father was a World War II veteran with the U.S. Navy who later became a film editor with CBS News.
[…] On April 14, 2019, Adler gave the introductory speech at [homosexual] Pete Buttigieg‘s announcement of his candidacy for president.
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But the state’s much more conservative governor, Greg Abbott, who resides in the capital, doesn’t agree with the policy change at all. In a tweet, he expressed concerns that the change would put the public more at risk.
What’s more, he threatened to wipe out the policy with a state law.
“If Austin — or any other Texas city — permits camping on city streets it will be yet another local ordinance the State of Texas will override. At some point cities must start putting public safety & common sense first. There are far better solutions for the homeless & citizens,” he wrote.
Greg Abbott
Austin TX moves to abolish city ordinances that forbid camping on city streets
Every area that has removed bans against camping on city streets has been FLOODED with waves of homeless people! I beg you all to oppose this!
Don’t let Texas make the same mistakes California made!!
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Austin TX moves to abolish city ordinances that forbid camping on city streets
Every area that has removed bans against camping on city streets has been FLOODED with waves of homeless people! I beg you all to oppose this!
Don’t let Texas make the same mistakes California made!! pic.twitter.com/UxYfLLWSNn
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Adler fired back with, “I assume that someone on his staff really didn’t explain to him what it was that we did because we’ve been laser-focused on public safety and public health.”
He added: “Public streets are public streets. And the courts have said that if someone’s not causing a public safety risk or public health hazard, that they have as much right to be there as anyone else.”
Except that surely Adler understands that by the very fact they are homeless, people living on the street cannot be healthy, cannot contribute to public safety, and cannot be expected to practice sanitary conditions.
According to a 2018 report, Big League Politics noted Austin already has more than 2,000 homeless people. But this number is certain to go up if the new policy remains in place and the state doesn’t act to overturn it.
But more damning is the fact that, in recent years, urban centers in Texas have become distinctly more progressive, endangering the state’s ‘red’ status as the Democrat Left seeks to ‘Turn Texas Blue’ — which would essentially assure Democrat presidents for the foreseeable future (and lots of turmoil).
For example, in addition to the new homeless policy in Austin, Dallas District Attorney John Creuzot has said he plans on following other Left-wing prosecutors and will no longer prosecute what he deems petty crimes (which will only lead to more of them) — up to $750 in value.
Abbott criticized that decision, too.
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Dallas Co. District Attorney stokes crime by refusing to prosecute theft of personal items worth less than $750. If someone is hungry they can just steal some food. If cold, steal a coat. Where does it end? It’s wealth redistribution by theft. #txlege https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/editorials/2019/04/14/dallas-county-das-plan-justice-reform-go-far …
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“Since the Beto O’Rourke campaign, urban centers have shifted more to the Left, as witnessed with Dallas County voters giving O’Rourke 66% of the vote. As a result, they are embracing policies such as lax law enforcement and economic redistributionism,” Big League Politics noted in a separate story.
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……Margi’s dad, a GREAT poet, was from Austin, a once beautiful, artsy, WHITE city
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Huffstickler
The cure – Albert Huffstickler
We think we get over things.
We don’t get over things.
Or say, we get over the measles
but not a broken heart.
We need to make that distinction.
The things that become part of our experience
never become less a part of our experience.
How can I say it?
The way to “get over” a life is to die.
Short of that, you move with it,
let the pain be pain,
not in the hope that it will vanish
but in the faith that it will fit in,
find its place in the shape of things
and be then not any less pain but true to form.
Because anything natural has an inherent shape
and will flow towards it.
And a life is as natural as a leaf.
That’s what we’re looking for:
not the end of a thing but the shape of it.
Wisdom is seeing the shape of your life
without obliterating (getting over) a single
instant of it.
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