Bums belong in the ghetto

It's Their Natural Habitat
Do homeless people have a right to eat in nice neighborhoods?

I read a story in Newsweek the other day about how US Cities have now begun to crack down on the homeless problem by making it illegal to feed bums in public parks, lest said parks become overrun with bums, at the expense of tax-paying citizens who might want to use the park or happen to live near it.

Which sounds fair enough to me. Imagine you lived across the street from a park and some d-bags decided to hold one of their feed the homeless rallies there. Not only is it an aesthetic issue, but it's a safety one as well. Reports of crime have been known to spike when bum feedings are held in such areas.

According to old crackety-crack:

"I was having to pick up human waste from my yard and shoo people out from sleeping in my bushes," says Robert Harding, a local attorney whose office is around the corner from Lake Eola Park.

That's just nasty.

Of course the fake socialist fruits who organize such feedings have attempted to characterize this as a matter of cities taking away a bum's right to eat, as if the only place a bum is capable of digesting any food is on the lawns of people who actually work for a living.

"Food is a right, not a privilege," quoth one of these d-bags.

Look, I don't have any problem with feeding people who need to eat. I'm into human rights like that. But I think it's only fair to the rest of us that these feedings take place as far away from our noses as possible.

Peep: OK, Sister, Drop That Sandwich! [Newsweek]

And be sure to check out my previous story on a group of bums who sued the police here in St. Louis for jailing them in order to clear downtown for the 4th of July weekend a couple of years ago.