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| DATE | 2005-03-30 |
| FROM | dspira@att.net (Dave_att)
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| SUBJECT | Re: [hangout] Weird Useless News
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From: Billy
>
> Dave_att wrote:
> > 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.
>
> 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.
> > > 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.
> 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?
> >> I believe that was Mayor Lindsay, his predecessor, that released all the looneys.
>>>> He figured he could save the city a lot of money by taking
>>>them out of hospitals
> > 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.
>
> Good for them!
> Do you think we should ignore them?
>>> 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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