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| DATE | 2005-03-30 |
| FROM | Billy
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| SUBJECT | Re: [hangout] Weird Useless News
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Dave_att wrote:
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> From: Billy
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>>Dave_att wrote:
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>>>About fifteen years ago homeless people were considered a group of
>>>poor misfits who were tagged as mentally ill. Remember when the civil
>>>libertys lawyers defended the homeless against Mayor Koch,who wanted to
>>>put them in a hospital, on cold winter nights. The Mayor lost.
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>>I don't remember Koch being particularly benevolent to the homeless.
>>Many of them WERE mentally ill. The Civil Liberty folks were right:
>>You don't "PUT" sentient people anywhere they don't want to go.
>>Cold or not. Without knowing more about that case, I'll presume
>>the verdict was the right one.
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>>>>I dont think Mayor Koch was planning to put the homeless in the
>>>>same part of the hospital with sick patients. Anyhow I would choose
>>>>the hospital to freezing.
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>>By the way, is this the same Koch who kicked all those loons out
>>of the hospitals to fend for themselves in the first place?
>>What did he expect would happen to them upon release?
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>>>>I believe that was Mayor Lindsay, his predecessor, that released all the looneys.
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>>>>>He figured he could save the city a lot of money by taking
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>>>>them out of hospitals
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>>>Times have sure have changed, today the homeless are well
>>>organized and intelligent.
>>>They know how to work the courts and they know how to get funding.
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>>Good for them!
>>Do you think we should ignore them?
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>>>>No, for heavens sake, dont ignore them laud them for their
>>>>ability to work their way back into society and play the system
>>>>for what it's worth.
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