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April 07, 2006

Besides NOLA, LA Needs Some Petty Cash

...to help out with their 'homeless' problem.

The vast homelessness problem in Los Angeles County can be solved in a decade by spending up to $15 billion on affordable housing and other preventative services, officials said Thursday after a three-year study.

Granted, that's a staggering amount. STAGGERING. Once I got past it and kept reading, this sentence caught my eye:
Elsewhere Thursday, Maine Gov. John Baldacci signed a bill to ensure that attacks on the homeless are prosecuted just as stiffly as attacks on people because of their age, race or sexual orientation.

You mean they weren't before this superfluous law? And does this mean if I'm mugged just because they could, I'm NOT entitled to vigorous prosecution of the thugs, since there was no particular reason they did it ~ I was neither old, paleface or goatloving, so they blow it off?

I am so sick of these bullsh*t special 'hate/love/peace/happiness' crime categories. A life is a life is a life, whatever it's wrapped in.

Posted by tree hugging sister at April 7, 2006 09:41 AM

Comments

Boy, that pisses me off. Attacks on people should be prosecuted vigorously because they are attacks on goddamned people.

Posted by: Mr. Bingley at April 7, 2006 09:45 AM

If my experience (16 years in the People's Republic of Santa Cruz) is any guide, the vast majority of attacks on the "homeless" are perpetrated by other "homeless".

But I really have to wonder if there is anyplace in this country where such attacks are not already prosecuted. Sounds like Balducci and the legislators are simply pandering to activists.

Posted by: Ken Summers at April 7, 2006 01:01 PM

This categorization of crimes into discrete social groups rather than being based on the level of criminality or violence, is an effort to codify and legislate the Police response - socializing and bureaucratizing it, and taking Civilian control of the Police.

Posted by: -keith in silicon valley at April 7, 2006 01:36 PM

You sounds like such a nice person, keith. How can you be so angry?

Posted by: tree hugging sister at April 7, 2006 02:42 PM

Keith once took an anger management class. The instructor still limps to this day.

Posted by: Ken Summers at April 7, 2006 07:22 PM