Link to Portland resignation regarding the plan
In another chapter of the city of Portland’s protracted struggle to address homelessness, a senior policy advisor for Commissioner Dan Ryan resigned the night before Ryan and Mayor Ted Wheeler announced a controversial plan to construct compulsory mass encampments for homeless Portlanders Oct. 21.
Portland City Council approved the plan Nov. 3, which also included banning unsanctioned homeless encampments.
In an email obtained by Street Roots via public record request, Margaux Weeke, Ryan’s then-communication director and senior policy advisor, announced her intent to resign in response to the proposed ban “due to a moral conflict.”
“It is my strong belief that forcing hundreds of unhoused people into large, sanctioned camping sites with minimal services will cause irreparable trauma and unnecessary deaths,” Weeke wrote. “I am deeply concerned that the involvement of law enforcement in relocating unhoused people to sanctioned camps will result in violence and the further criminalization of houselessness. I hope that I am wrong, but I cannot in good conscience work to advance this initiative in partnership with the Mayor’s office. I appreciate your understanding of my position.”
NYC to involuntarily commit more homeless people.
Don’t get me wrong—I don’t support the hubs of criminal chaos these cities have become.
I support the creation of mass camps and at will involuntary hospitalizations less, though, given what they have been used for in the past.
It’s a test run to put everyone in government camps when communism impoverishes the country.
Unless we can stop them.
They will start with the homeless,and then slowly put their enemy's in....
When the problems you create become too big for you to step over you remove said problems from public view.
Sounds like classic democrats. Take your "undesireables" and shove them into government camps. It happened to the Jews, it happened to the Japanese, and it's happening with the homeless.
Isnt that what Killary said? Part of the plan continues.
Anyone who has been to or thru Portland knows the camps won't be for "hundreds". The whole f'n place is a homeless drug infested trash pit.
I live in a smallish college town in the Midwest who recently did this same thing. It's been there since August and it is causing problems like those mentioned above. They have about 80 tents there.
Well they used to have state Mental Hospitals for the mentally ill. I would state those were the mass camps of the past for degenerates. When they closed they released the patients in them onto the streets.
I know bc I used to work in one of them.
I grew up near Pennhurst.
They’ve turned a site of atrocity into a Halloween haunted house.
None of what occurred in those places was okay, either.
You buy into the propaganda. We can’t have a functioning society without a system of mental asylums. Otherwise they spill out into the streets and seek self medication. Bring back the mental hospitals
There are mental hospitals run by good people. With moral and ethical oversight.
And there are the atrocities that were run by the state.
I used to believe that. Now I’m not so sure. There were probably some bad doctors but on the whole is it worse than life on the streets for these people? As it is they would be better off dead. A mental institute is better in every way. We can’t have a society without them. I think they got black washed by the deep state so they could be shut down and the money redirected toward wars and other bullshit
We likely wouldn’t have mental illness without the society forced upon us
Now you're barking up the right tree. I love that meme about howe the psychiatrist wants to 'medicate you for your completely normal reaction to our messed up society' or something like that. I remember having a girlfriend who's dad went on depression medicine because he hated his job so much, even though he was highly qualified and could have gotten a different job at a better company.... also ate like shit and never exercised, .. but no, let's just give him drugs instead
We all have bought into the idea that there’s something wrong with having asylums. But there will always be a certain number of nutcases and addicts in society. The mental hospitals are places for them to be fed, sheltered, looked after by doctors, and most importantly removed form our city centers. We for some reason abandoned asylums because of a fucking jack Nicholson movie and now look around you. Bums everywhere
Its just to make room for the illegal migrants. Replacement plans.
All these "remove the homeless" or "solve the homless problem" is just people relocation. They attract the homeless with a wonderful, fancy, new, clean place for free. In a year or two, after the homeless are sufficently addicted to the new fancy thing, the place closes up and they get opportunities to goto another newer shelter slightly further away.
The old shelters turn into apartments in the newly gentrified areas that got cleaned up. ta-da magic.gif
You talk like that’s a bad thing.