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   From: tom@shootguns.com   
      
   Jail that old fuck and let him die in prison.   
      
   Stop feeding illegal aliens and stop the illegal Mexican   
   invasion!   
      
   A Florida city was quick to show how serious it is about its new   
   homeless feeding ban by making an example out of 90-year-old   
   advocate who’s been helping the hungry for two decades.   
      
   Despite heated protests, Fort Lauderdale passed an ordinance   
   early on Oct. 22, restricting charitable groups from doling out   
   meals to homeless people in public, the Sun Sentinel reported.   
   The city wasted no time implementing the law when it cited two   
   Christian ministers and volunteer Arnold Abbot, 90, who runs the   
   advocacy group, Love The Neighbor, Local 10 News reported.   
      
   The three served less than a handful of the 300 meals they   
   prepared before the police run in, according to the Sentinel.   
      
   They each now face 60 days in jail and $500 fines.   
      
   "These are the poorest of the poor, they have nothing, they   
   don't have a roof over their heads," Abbott, who plans on suing   
   the city, told Local 10 News. "How do you turn them away?"   
      
   The new rules, billed as "public health and safety measures,"   
   limit outdoor feeding programs to one per city block and must be   
   set up at least 500 feet away from residential properties.   
   Organizers are also required to bring portable toilets for   
   workers, according to the Sentinel.   
      
   Making it increasingly difficult for people in need to access   
   food has become the norm in a number of major U.S. cities.   
      
   Since January last year, 21 cities have enacted measures to   
   limit feeding homeless people, according to a recent National   
   Coalition for the Homeless (NCH) Survey. Many resorted to   
   restricting the use of public property and implementing   
   stringent food safety regulations.   
      
   Florida remains one of the toughest places to live on the   
   streets, and it’s not just the feeding bans that make it so.   
      
   Though the Sunshine State declared attacks against homeless   
   people a hate crime in 2010, it had the second highest rate of   
   reported attacks against homeless people last year, according to   
   NCH.   
      
   "This violence is prompted by a profound lack of empathy for   
   fellow human beings, the same moral failure that allows our   
   society to tolerate the larger tragedy of homelessness," Jerry   
   Jones, NCH's executive director, said in a statement about the   
   issue last year. "Homeless people deserve our help and   
   protection."   
      
   http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/11/04/man-90-arrested-feeding-   
   homeless_n_6100738.html   
      
       
      
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