Authorities in Oregon are considering calling in the National Guard to help with Portland’s homeless issue – while locals reveal they no longer walk in certain areas because of the problem.
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Authorities in Oregon are considering calling in the National Guard to help with Portland’s homeless issue – while locals reveal they no longer walk in certain areas because of the problem.
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It’s not just homelessness, America seems to be coming up short in everything!!!
Really… it is like the drug addict’s problem.
That doesn’t look a heck of a lot different than when I was there in late 2019. It was shockingly horrible then. It was difficult to even walk down a city street because there were so many drug dealers and homeless all over the sidewalk, and the tent cities were huge and EVERYwhere. Hundreds of them, villages of them even. Maybe it’s gotten a little worse, but it was already very, very bad.
Not just decriminalize the camps (which is effectively done already), but allow the homeless to sue anyone who makes them feel uncomfortable. So, if you give a nasty glance to a hobo shooting up heroin, YOU could get sued.
They’re homeless. They’re not suing anyone.
They’d need I.D.
They’d need proof.
They’d need to be functional.
They’d need money.
Etc.
Where there’s a corrupt council and judicial system, there’s a way. There’s no proof that Donald Trump raped or molested E. Jean Carrol in any way, and yet he was found liable for battery against her anyways.
What part of your brain is missing? He was being ironic
Actually, I wasn’t. But the West Coast is becoming basically lawless, so having an ID, proof, money, or a functioning brain are hardly the restrictions that they used to be.
I had to park on the street a couple weeks ago near a big tent with a homeless guy fidgeting with something. We made eye contact and my expression may have been less than accepting (I didn’t scowl or say a word) When I came back my driver side mirror was hanging broken – if it had been hit by a passing car it would have hung differently. I’m pretty sure the guy broke it. The homeless are getting pretty entitled around here. Another time I was walking my dog through a wooded space near the street and my dog went up to his encampment and he came running out chastising me about being respectful ‘of his home’. He truly felt his tent and surrounding land was his home and nobody should go near it.
They shouldn’t be on a sidewalk, in a tent.
5000 homeless people and 100 tents….
Big tents??
Not all of them stay in tents. Some stay in homeless shelters, salvation army, soup kitchens, or worse, the streets, under bridges, abandoned buildings, and sewer systems.
No one should have to be homeless. But no one should have to have a hobo camp on their front lawn either.
I don’t know when Vigilant Citizens got to be so callous & dense, but the comments below me have made me lose hope in the community that I’d been a part of for years. They’re homeless PEOPLE…PEOPLE damnit! I assure you whatever misfortune that befell them to be in that situation wasn’t planned. There, but for the GRACE of God (and fear of being in their position), go y’all! Fie and shame on y’all for viewing them with contempt, when you could be let go from your job, have a major crisis & lose your dwelling & what’s left of your personal property tomorrow and be in their position with people calling you bum, treating you like your very existence is an abomination to them (while all you’re doing is trying not to die and get back on the hamster wheel of this capitalist hellscape). Y’all are weird, and elitist. I pray you don’t receive the energy you’ve put out.
100% AGREE!! Excellent comment! Thank you!
It sounds like you don’t live in a place with a lot of homeless. I can tell you with certainty a lot of them are on the streets BY CHOICE and not forced there by hard times. There is still a lot of work available all over the place – businesses are desperate for more help. I see tons of people very capable of working – youngish and reasonably healthy who rather than working they prefer to beg hard working people for their money, while also making a mess of things and committing petty crimes at the least. I have absolutely no sympathy for these people making the choice to be a burden on society rather than contributing to it and trying during these ridiculous times like the rest of us. Everyone is experiencing these times and most are choosing to still fight and hold on rather than join the growing masses of the disillusioned and quitters begging those still fighting and trying. Those with real mental illnesses and addictions I do feel compassion for. But if you were here you would know there are many on the streets that are there because they don’t want to work just bum around and live bohemian, being a burden and begging from those making a contribution to society like running a small business.
I agree, although I also know often that it is not the person’s fault or choice. In our area, we have a fair few lifers as well – they’ve begged ever since we’ve lived here and I see people – business owners – offering them jobs all the time. People have taken them to shelters (when they’ll agree to go) washed their clothes for them, provided food and told them to show up and hand in an application, yet they never do. They drug up and pass out on park benches, and the two worst offenders do all this pushing their toddler up and down the main town drag, just off the roadside. The dad apparently has dreams of youtube fame, so is trying to make it look like the cops are stalking him, as he frequents that same main drag that fronts the jail, the police station and is not far from DMV and the sheriff’s dept. He goes to State and Federal buildings to stalk and film the employees to try to set up a confrontation he can then try to capitalize on. In our area, the ones who want to get off the streets, do, because good people will make for them a way.
I have spoken to a number of them because it’s an area of personal interest. Through the conversation I would gather there is no mental illness or addiction that led to them being on the street. They just preferred dropping out into the growing sub-culture of street life rather than actually working to maintain a life with faith and devotion – they prefer begging, petty crime and making disgusting messes all over the place. Most have total disregard for others leaving trash everywhere and their belongings all over.
At the height of the pandemic it was tent city here. Tents covering the streets in many places. At least 3/4 were young 20 somethings enamored with the drop out culture – it was their way of rebelling only they were pigs defecating everywhere completely destroying several areas of the city. Many long standing businesses had to close because the loitering intimidating homeless drove away any hope of customers. Then after a few months many disappeared presumably going back to mommy and daddy.
I have witnessed many times someone trying to give them food or water and they were met with hostile anger because all they want is money.
Listen to interviews with them. The vast majority just want to do drugs. People in places like Seattle get randomly punched and stabbed by the homeless for simply existing. Many of them move to these cities because they will hand out money that they will then spend on drugs. Very, VERY few are trying to get back on the “hamster wheel.” They’re there because it’s easy.
I’d be homeless where nobody could see me out of respect to the rest of the public.
There was a time when homeless meant down on their luck, but these are junkies and tweakers. They are so much on drugs it’s awful. I lived in Cali for six years. Tweakers we’re always in our garbage cans and you would find them with throw up on themselves doing karate in the streets. So awful. It’s not the 1940s deal with the dust bowl where people had dignity, these people are naked in the streets shooting up in playgrounds and leaving needles( my niece got poked). There is a difference, but people change the language (example men=women) and lie.
I don’t feel bad one bit for these people they’re criminal. This country may not be perfect but no one needs to resort to vagrancy. Vagrancy – No visible means of support. It used to be a crime and still should be, we wouldn’t have this problem. No one that works their a*s off everyday to support themselves and family owes these vagrants anything especially sympathy.
Homeless=tweaker/junkie/druggie (in this article and most) . They changed the definition please note that. Homeless doesn’t mean someone. Down on their luck in this article.
Fentanyl is for participation award winners.
this has to all be intentional to push people to the edge so eventually they accept some major change in near or distant future