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| DATE | 2005-03-29 |
| FROM | Billy
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| SUBJECT | Re: [hangout] Weird Useless News
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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.
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?
> 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?
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