My brother-in-law lives 2 blocks from Higgs Beach.
He claims that he has had beer bottles thrown at him by these gentle
stakeholders while walking his kids to the beach.
Since my nephews qualify as important people, I hope that UPenn starts
taking over the Friends of Higgs Beach soon.
-Lew
On Mar 31, 2010, at 9:23 AM, Glenn moyer wrote:
Remember the mass round-up in Clark Park last fall because of
"powerful and important people"?
In Clark Park, the unemployed and military veterans are targeted
too, as described in this Key West report. It starts with the
powerless, and the frightened people stay silent. As survivors of
past transformations have explained: It's easy to stay silent and
sacrifice the powerless, because no one really believes a time will
come when the middle class will also be the targets.
I know its not civil to understand the patterns of class warfare and
a shift to plutocracy, but i do see patterns all the way from Key
West to Clark Park and beyond.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/31/us/31keywest.html?hpw
“It’s for vagrants,” said the police chief, Donald J. Lee Jr.
“People who are out on the streets, disrupting the quality of life
or experience for visitors, residents and businesses.”
"The police now regularly question the homeless but ignore visitors
like the man at a table near Ms. Skinner’s Jeep last week. He was
passed out before sunset, snoring, with a 16-ounce beer in front of
him and two chickens pecking near his feet. Only his pressed shorts
and a half-eaten Godiva chocolate bar suggested that he had a home...
...The homeless see it as a double standard.
They say the police are “profiling” them with arrests for small
infractions, like drinking outside in violation of open-container
laws.
“The tourists come here and drink all day long,” said Manuel Casas"
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