[quote](CNN) -- Arnold Abbott handed out four plates of food to homeless people in a South Florida park. Then police stopped the 90-year-old from serving up another bite.
"An officer said, 'Drop that plate right now -- like I had a weapon,'" Abbott said.
Abbott and two pastors in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, were charged for feeding the homeless in public on Sunday, the city's first crackdowns under a new ordinance banning public food sharing, CNN affiliate WPLG reported.[/quote]
[quote]"Just because of media attention we don't stop enforcing the law. We enforce the laws here in Fort Lauderdale," Mayor Jack Seiler told WPLG.
He defended the law in an interview with the Sun-Sentinel newspaper.
"I'm not satisfied with having a cycle of homeless in the city of Fort Lauderdale," Seiler said. "Providing them with a meal and keeping them in that cycle on the street is not productive."[/quote]
[quote] "Providing them with a meal and keeping them in that cycle on the street is not productive."[/quote]
You heard it from the mayor himself, folks. Giving food to the homeless only incentivizes them to stay homeless.
[url=http://www.cnn.com/2014/11/04/justice/florida-feeding-homeless-charges/index.html]LAND OF THE FREE, HOME OF THE BRAVE. USA = #1 COUNTRY IN THE WORLD AMIRITE?[/url]
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Holy shit. There is no horse vag. *pulls out .44 revolver* Good night, sweet prince
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They already receive free food from fast food reastrunts
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I'm glad those good officers are upholding the law
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I was born in Florida..........I feel embarrassed to be from there now..........
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I understand the logic but it is still stupid.
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That mayor is now allowed entry into the Salty Spitoon.
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-Florida Politicians [spoiler]I live in Florida. I know first hand how stupid they can be.[/spoiler]
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Recently moved to Florida... Everyone here is just a little less intelligence than most other places. People are zombies, and slightly retarded.
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[quote]Florida[/quote]
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Translation: "EEEWWWW you homeless people are ruining our rich and wealth parks and tourist sites it Iis such an inconvenience for our wealthy tourist."
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Obligatory Florida gif.
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"Providing them with a meal and keeping them in that cycle on the street is not productive." As apposed to making a law to keep people from feeding them???? -blam!- OFF!!!!
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And this is why..... [b] [u]I hate people.[/u][/b]
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-_________________- I am ridiculously fiscally conservative, and even I realize how retarded that law is. That's definitely a violation of freedom: maybe not a constitutional right, but that sounds authoritarian.
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>USA >Freedom Pick one.
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Edited by brandorobot: 11/8/2014 12:51:06 AMThere was a chapter of Food Not Bombs around here that was feeding the homeless regularly and it was shut down a while ago. Also in Florida.
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-blam!- YEAH, 'MURICA!
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If we laid a cookie trail to a giant boat and got all the homeless to follow we could ship them to to wait for it[spoiler]the bottom of the ocean[/spoiler]
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Guys guys! I know how to stop the homeless! If we stop helping them, they'll all die so then we won't have any more homeless people in America. Its the final solution! :D
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Florida really is Americas dirty asshole
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It sounds like retards run florida.
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that's what you get for feeding the animals.
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That's crazy
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Natural Selection.