Jack, we've all been down the "rational argument" route with Kevin
before. He is a typical "God is on my side" zealot who believes his
point of view must be right and everyone who disagrees is against
God. We all know how much trouble this attitude can get us in. He
doesn't care about what's best for Asbury Park. He only cares about
what's best for his personal agenda. Logic need not apply.
So my new approach is to simply ignore him and hope he goes away.
It worked for several others - as soon as we all stopped falling
into the trap of stoking them on they got bored and left. Maybe he
can stick with Long Branch - perhaps he can actually find 1-2 peole
to follow him there rather than coming here and explain to us all
how we should be living our lives and managing our city.
--- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "Hinge" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I don't think it's so much about bad mouthing you.
> You need to step back and think about the situation here in AP a
little differently.
> Our city has had many more crime problems then LB, and for more
then 30 years the city
> has been struggling. We residents have to cope with problems
brought on by our
> homeless population, such as people sleeping in our parks, pan
handlers at our
> convienience stores, homeless people using our parks etc. as open
air bathrooms. Not
> only that, but many of these people come to AP with serious drug
and alcohol problems,
> and AP is not the place to send somebody with a drug problem.
There are plenty of drugs
> here, and plenty of dealers looking for new customers. One of my
pet peeves with the
> drinking homeless people is that they don't seem to understand
that there are these
> things called garbage cans to discard things in, so they just
leave them anyplace, such as
> my lawn, or broken on somebodies sidewalk.
> Meanwhile, AP is trying to make a comeback. I think our growing
homeless population is a
> threat to this.
> And please don't think the people of AP are without compassion,
because that's not the
> case. Many of us are just plain fed up. That's not so hard to
understand, is it?
>
> --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "Kevin Brown" <jerseykev@>
wrote:
> >
> > I understand. I think the one issue that has some in a knot is
the
> > fact that the men in the shelter are released every day into the
> > public streets. What they must understand is that the Federal
Court
> > made it illegal to keep them in for 24 hours a day. They are
not to
> > be in prisoned in the shelter. They are to be released every
day in
> > an attempt to secure work independent of the shelter and move on
with
> > their lives.
> >
> > I saw a guy sleeping in the parking lot over the weekend, he had
> > three options. "Shelter, hospital or jail." He was not sick so
the
> > hospital wouldn't take him. He was not "jailable" - so he had
no
> > choice but to go to the shelter. He had 2 options there. Fort
> > Monmouth or Asbury park. Fort Monmouth wouldn't take him, so he
> > wound up in Asbury park.
> >
> > Now some of you who fight with me about what I have tried to do
in
> > Long Branch, open the shelter at Lighthouse here, well the irony
of
> > it is you support the few who have made it impossible to open a
Long
> > Branch shelter over the last 13 years, and you now have the Long
> > Branch homeless in Asbury!
> >
> > So I decided because Mario & asbury couple like to jump on me
every
> > chance they get, and because I have faith that MSM will do the
proper
> > job I have decided not ot provide shelter in the Long Branch
project
> > at all. Besides there is so much more to do in ministry.
> >
> > So as we all can see, what a man sows so shall he reap. Those
of you
> > in Asbury who have joined in with the Long Branch politicians in
bad
> > mouthing me for wanting to help the homeless here in Long
Branch, you
> > win, I'll refer them all to MSM in Asbury.
> >
> > Thanks for lightening my load.
> >
> > Blessings
> >
> > KB
> >
> > --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "icaruscriesfire"
> > <icaruscriesfire@> wrote:
> > >
> > > You must understand, kev, those with interests in AP believe
that
> > no
> > > one else has valid interest in AP. They don't need anyone
cleaning
> > the
> > > rose color off their goggles.
> > > --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "Kevin Brown" <jerseykev@>
wrote:
> > > >
> > > > --- In AsburyPark@yahoogroups.com, "asburycouple"
<asburycouple@>
> > > > wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > Actually it's not a cheap shot. Why don't you focus on
Long
> > Branch
> > > > > issues and stay out of ours. I sense nobody wants you in
> > either
> > > > > place but you live there so they are stuck with you.
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > I'll focus on what I wish to focus on, thank you very much.
> > > > and you senses need an adjustment.
> > > >
> > > > kb
> > > >
> > >
> >
>
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