http://demopedia.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x7524851Oh my.
bobbolink (1000+ posts) Wed Jan-20-10 06:48 PM
#02 TOP PRIMITIVE OF 2009; THE BOBBLING PRIMITIVE
Original message
Homeless people fined, Jailed, for SLEEPING in Boulder, CO
http://www.dailycamera.com/boulder-county-news/ci_14225...
Criminalizing homelessness is such a brilliant idea.
I don't even know what to say anymore.... this is close to home....
Will anyone ever care what is happening to those of us you consider beneath you?
It's an enormous campfire.
JuniperLea (1000+ posts) Wed Jan-20-10 06:52 PM
Response to Original message
1. So, when they can't pay the fine, will they be jailed?
This is ridiculous. Homelessness is so prevalent today... but you're right... too many consider the homeless beneath themselves. And they won't care until it happens to them. And it very well could. Easily. TOO EASILY!
Now wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute.
What's this "homelessness is so prevalent today" thing?
Didn't the primitives promise us
il Duce Bo would have that taken care of, one year and one day ago, today?
What's the hold-up?
bobbolink (1000+ posts) Wed Jan-20-10 07:02 PM
#02 TOP PRIMITIVE OF 2009; THE BOBBLING PRIMITIVE
Response to Reply #1
7. Yes, jailed.
For the crme of being homeless.
What are "progressives" going to do??????????
What will it take????????
I have NO support here, and this is freaking me out!
bobbolink (1000+ posts) Wed Jan-20-10 07:57 PM
#02 TOP PRIMITVE OF 2009; THE BOBBLING PRIMITIVE
Response to Reply #35
36. I keep saying that affluence has dragged this country down the terlet.
I used to think it was important for a democracy to have a thriving middle class.
But now we can see that as people become more affluent, they become more selfish, and more insulated.
People were more human, and cared about each other more during the Depression.
I think there is seriously something to learn from that.
REP (1000+ posts) Wed Jan-20-10 08:21 PM
Response to Reply #36
49. You obviously did not live through the Depression
Squatters' camps were cleared out to make room for income-producing development. People weren't "better," but we did have the WPA and CCC so they did have hope of jobs (though some, like my grandfather, were too proud to accept 'hand-out' jobs like those). Times and people were harder, but memories get distorted by maudlin fiction from the time.
bobbolink (1000+ posts) Wed Jan-20-10 09:48 PM
#02 TOP PRIMITIVE OF 2009; THE BOBBLING PRIMITIVE
Response to Reply #49
72. Oh, stop with the smug denigration.
I KNOW that people cared a lot more about each other BECAUSE I have heard lots of stories from family members WHO LIVED THROUGH IT, and from older friends who also did.
They don't understand attitudes like yours, because they lived it, and know that everyone helped everyone else, however they could.
So kill the sneering put downs. Its a prime example of what I'm talking about.
REP (1000+ posts) Wed Jan-20-10 10:47 PM
Response to Reply #72
94. I forgive you; I understand you see things through a fog of bitterness and illness
I know you can't help misreading posts to see what you want to see. I forgive you, and wish you well.
bobbolink (1000+ posts) Wed Jan-20-10 10:49 PM
#02 TOP PRIMITIVE OF 2009; THE BOBBLING PRIMITIVE
Response to Reply #94
96. Not accepted, and stop your projections.
You know not what you say.
timeforpeace (1000+ posts) Wed Jan-20-10 09:34 PM
Response to Reply #16
67. Wikipedia: "Boulder is one of the most Democratic cities in Colorado"
bobbolink (1000+ posts) Wed Jan-20-10 10:15 PM
#02 TOP PRIMITIVE OF 2009; THE BOBBLING PRIMITIVE
Response to Reply #67
77. You want to put it in a cutting way, so it's coming back to you in a cutting way.
The "CLUE" is right there, if you were actually able to read it.
timeforpeace (1000+ posts) Wed Jan-20-10 10:40 PM
Response to Reply #77
90. No "clue" what you mean. And you're the one calling it The People's Republic of Boulder.
bobbolink (1000+ posts) Wed Jan-20-10 10:48 PM
#02 TOP PRIMITIVE OF 2009; THE BOBBLING PRIMITIVE
Response to Reply #90
95. Because of your crappy comeback, you can just figure it out yourself.
Its telling that you are being so snotty to people who actually LIVE HERE and know what we are talking about, while you only get your talking points from a website.
Buy a clue yourself.
Come back when you can show a little respect for others who KNOW something.
Well, that's only the first few comments of many, but most here can imagine how the rest of the campfire goes.
Does anybody have a spare copy of Dale Carnegie's
How To Win Friends and Infuence People, that they're willing to donate to the homeless bobbling primitive?
