Cruelty beyond measure

Jared was recently hit by a car and from the picture here it looks like he is wearing a back brace as well as an ankle brace. When the cops did their "Clean Sweep" they would not let Jared's partner keep his backpack which I would think might have had his pain medication in it. I cannot fathom the inhumanity that would allow this to happen. I can however fathom the type of pain Jared is in if he is not able to access his pain medication. OMFG!! How can people be so f'cking cruel and callous?

'Heartbreaking' Scene on Boston Streets as Police Destroy Wheelchairs Belonging to Homeless Residents

"Can we all agree that it is inhumane and cruel and a waste of resources to crush the wheelchairs of people who are living on the street after a car accident in a full body cast?"

The destruction of the wheelchairs is only the latest incident involving the trashing of the possessions of homeless people in the operation.

One of the destroyed wheelchairs was reportedly confiscated from a man named Jarrod who was hit by a car last month.

"It was heartbreaking to speak with Jarrod, who lost not only his wheelchair, but everything he owns that he keeps in his backpack," said homeless advocate Cassie Hurd.

Hurd told Boston Magazine that Jarrod's wheelchair was taken after he left it "for a minute" in spite of pleas from his partner to police.

"He is not able to be mobile without it, and not having a home, nowhere to sit, nowhere to go, and was having pain," said Hurd of Jarrod. "He couldn't really balance or walk."

After the 3 mass shootings, the embargo of Venezuela's food, the mass immigrant arrests yesterday where 680 people were arrested by ICE leaving countless children without their parents and now this I am near the end of my tolerance for cruelty and crimes against humanity against those that have so damn little to loose.

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We can keep trying to win at Fascism Whack-a-Mole, or we can walk away.

Since childhood, I’ve been painfully aware of the cruelness of the American character - borne out of the competitive nature of capitalism, and promoted in all of our social, political, and civic institutions - but I’ve never had it thrust so aggressively in my face that I feel like hiding under the bed and crying.

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They take their cues from the odious occupant in the oval office.

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When I offer to wash your back in the shower, all you have to say is yes or no.
Not all this "who are you, and how did you get in here?" nonsense.

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@Socialprogressive

The rot starts at the top. They take their cues from the odious occupant in the oval office.

O.O.O.O. ! Love that!

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"All power corrupts absolutely!" -- thanatokephaloides

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@thanatokephaloides

We have had a looong string of sadistic psychopaths in the White House - the previous occupants wore masks and faked sincerity and compassion. But none of them gave a flying fart about anyone who wasn't in the Gilded Class.

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There is no justice. There can be no peace.

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@TheOtherMaven

This was going on long before The Rump

We have had a looong string of sadistic psychopaths in the White House - the previous occupants wore masks and faked sincerity and compassion. But none of them gave a flying fart about anyone who wasn't in the Gilded Class.

So there's more than one o.o.o.o., then!

Diablo

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@snoopydawg I thought maybe Koch Foods had annoyed someone, but your news seems a much better explanation.

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@tle

That the company that lost the lawsuit worked with ICE to do the raid. Besides once people get to comfortable in their jobs they might think of becoming uppity.

Hundreds of children went to bed last night with some in new houses and with relatives if they were lucky to have them. I don't want to think where others ended up not knowing what the f'ck just happened to their moms and dads.

One tweet in the article says, "don't look away". Kids are trying to find their parents after their first day at school. Can you imagine what they are going through? As well as the kids that were separated from their parents and are still in some detention center?

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The most discriminated group in the U.S. is the homeless.
Homeless people have no skin color because they are invisible.
They would actually have to rise on the social scale to merit a skin color.

Only with the homeless are the basic necessities of life outlawed.
Sleeping, eating, standing, going to the bathroom, all can get you arrested.
Simply existing is actively discouraged.

The homeless are a caste - the Untouchable Caste.

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@gjohnsit

Homeless people have no skin color because they are invisible.
They would actually have to rise on the social scale to merit a skin color.

And remember that homelessness is not difficult to achieve. F'rinstance, one could have had a Steve Mnuchin mortgage, or lose a job due to toking when cops are around (thank you, Camel Harris, you bitch).

Well said.

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@Alligator Ed

who owed less than $.30 on her property taxes. But of course Kambama was more interested in getting campaign donations than prosecuting him with the slam dunk case her office had against him.

Thank you, Tulsi for taking that evil woman down on live TV!

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@gjohnsit @gjohnsit Colorado, even here in Washington State and other than the weather the only real difference between them all are the 'Missions' or 'Shelters' that are available. Almost all are in the worst areas of a town and with the exception of this one in Bellingham Wa. the food was always primarily food donated that was in the last stage before the trash barrel.

Even when food was stuff before an expiry date it was almost always the worst food for good nutrition, a lot of stuff I wouldn't eat even if I had the money to buy it, so a poor diet brings with it more punishment for those with a life on the streets.

As teenager in Texas I got better food, and bunk, in jail after being busted for vagrancy but I didn't like a lot of the company I was forced to keep, whereas when I relocated to Boulder Colorado with a sleeping bag there were many places to hide in the woods to sleep.

But on the street in the daytime there wasn't a whole lot of difference between them all, you are an outcast,they (Mission/Shelter) all throw you out early in the morning and face it you best hang out where Public buildings like the Court House, Library etc. are so you have access to a restroom but these usually are places where you are the least welcome sight. Plus a lot more cops are around and they are always watching you.

Long story short, I'm much older now and lucky enough to have a place under section 8 housing with my small SS check but the mission is just a few blocks away, and with the park across the street I'm pretty familiar with all the people from the mission and even tho I keep change in my pocket to give to panhandlers I know my quarters are of very little real help to them other than to help buy whatever temporarily eases their pain.

Another thing of great importance is age because there are a lot of homeless that are too old to just crawl up into bushes to sleep but that's what they'll have to do if they aren't back at the mission for the early curfew, and that's one boring place to hang out until bedtime.
As if life on the street wasn't hard enuf when you were young I feel the most for the older people I see with their mobile home, aka shopping cart with all their belongings.
They have their lives in a metal basket on wheels, which they gotta closely guard or it will end up in the nearest dumpster which is devastating.

I can give out food and/or change which is a drop in the bucket to their ocean of needs but I gotta give credit to the people that have organized to build 'tiny houses' for the homeless however there are a lot more homeless people than there are 'tiny houses' built so they are allocated according to the neediest like people with children,or are handicapped in one way or another but not necessarily due to age which should be considered in my opinion.

Even tho there are those that supported the tiny houses being built, there are a lot of people that supported it just because they didn't want the "eyesore" of homeless people downtown but no one gives a damn about the reasons given as long as a person can get a 'home', a place where they have a door to lock and believe me there is no one more helpless against an attack/assault than someone asleep.

Yeah how we treat the least in society tells everything about us as a people.

A song from a fellow Texan Guy Clark (RIP) "Homeless"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQazOIZxZGo

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@aliasalias This a shitty and cruel country.

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"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981

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you history. i'll never forget the first time i'd discovered that the shopping trolley homeless were a fact, and a culture unto themselves. mr. wd our chirren, and i were staying in a friend's apartment above a catholic worker mission in the seven points (?) area of denver when i woke to the sound of the clatter of the wheels on the sidewalks below.

it was a full moon night, and i could hear voices as well as some of them ducked under an abandoned semi-trailer across the street for shelter for the night. how can that not change a person forever, especially knowing how many amerikans are one medical or other disaster away from being homeless?

bless your heart for surviving it, aliasalias. i'll add that some homeless camps in oregon or washington use prison laborers to roust homeless camps, and throw every possession into dumpsters. remember when ronald reagan decided to close boatloads of mental hospitals, and many of the mentally ill were simply discharged with their prescription meds? oh, sure, they'll be fine! and that was the time when the homeless numbers skyrocketed. now, no one even knows how many are homeless in this wealthiest nation on the planet.

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@aliasalias
I almost became homeless when I first got out on my own.
I ended up staying in a flop house for runaways. It was disgusting.

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What the fuck! no pardon my French because sometimes that's all you can say.

We've lost our humanity somewhere along the way (If we ever had it to begin with as a country). We're not even allowed to be human anymore; look at how many jobs these days discourage you from doing anything that makes us human--taking vacations or any time off, taking breaks or lunch, even going to the bathroom or having water at your station (I'm looking at you Amazon). If you're not constantly working you're a worthless sack of shit. Feh! And most of the people who discourage human behavior would be the first to tell you what Good Christians(TM) they are.
I've got an essay brewing that I've been sitting on for a while, mostly about respect and how we treat each other and our younger generations, but I could probably flesh it out even more.
I'm so tired.

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This shit is bananas.

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@Daenerys

WTF indeed. If enough people make enough noise about this will anything be done for Jared and the hundreds of thousands other people who are living on the streets in the most wealthiest country? As long as both parties are whores to corporations and the military industry then we are going to continue watching as people are treated as less than human.

I've posted a video of a guy on a bike going through just one homeless camp in S California and I was sickened, saddened and appalled by how many families are living in those conditions. Furthermore, f'ck the people who don't want homeless centers in their neighborhoods, but will be the first to complain about them.

Looking forward to your essay.

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@snoopydawg

I've posted a video of a guy on a bike going through just one homeless camp in S California and I was sickened, saddened and appalled by how many families are living in those conditions.

I remember that video you posted snoop. It was two bike riders, traveling through that camp. They had helmet cams, or something. Frankly, I had to go back and re-watch that video several times, as I was sure it must have been spliced together - it was so long! It took these guys, like, 15 minutes or so, pedaling at a pretty rapid clip - no stops - to get through on the paved road that passed through that camp. There had to have been thousands of residents staying there. And what was it - the skyline of mighty, money-dripping San Francisco behind them? Maybe it wasn't SF, but as I recall, it was.

Anyway, there was no trickery; the video was as taken by the riders. What an eye-opener that was. I'm still shocked thinking about that video. Had to have been a year ago or so that you posted it...

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@travelerxxx

I'll post it again if anyone wants to watch it

I too thought it might have been spliced, but sadly no. It just goes on and on. I posted it a month ago.

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@snoopydawg

Thanks, snoopy. I wasn't sure how to locate it.

You were right, it was the Los Angles area, not SF. Orange County, evidently. Still, almost hard to believe, as it goes on for miles and miles.

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@Daenerys Obligatory 'Fuck the Police'.

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This shit is bananas.

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please allow me to say that refusing entry to the soybean ship was just one example. it's a total economic embargo the trump admin has laid down, including anyone who does bidness w/ the administration, much like the kissinger/nixon/chigago boys econ team (milton friedman, et. al.) "make the economy scream!" in socialist salvador allende's chile.

he was toppled by a military coup, committed suicide later with a handgun (iirc, so don't count on it) given to him by hugo chavez.

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@wendy davis

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@snoopydawg

offense. it's just that every sector of VZ is under sanctions, including finance, mining, oil, mining, and any second or third-party who does any business w/ VZ (including in-kind) is subject to sanctions as well, and the list goes on. that's all.

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@wendy davis  
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvador_Allende

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@lotlizard

not a handgun, not chavez (how could that have been time-wise, anyway?), but castro. thanks, as i said: but don't count on it. ; )

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@wendy davis

and "official" stories often have, at best, a nodding acquaintance with what really happened.

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There is no justice. There can be no peace.

I can't stand it and I don't know how to change it. The tension between the two is tearing me apart. I'm old and I hurt, but I should be able to do more volunteer work in my community.

Everybody isn't like the people shown. I don't know how you live with yourself when you refuse to give a man in a cast the backpack on his wheelchair. What goes through their minds? Do they think if they don't they'll lose their jobs and be on the same street? Do they walk in the door at night and drink it away? Do they feel empowered?

Was there any response from the highly educated public in the city of universities?

How can we stop this, or even reduce it?

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