Austin city council votes to allow
homeless camping on sidewalks...
except in front of city hall
American Thinker,
by
Thomas Lifson
Original Article
Posted By: PageTurner,
7/3/2019 10:30:56 AM
Today's prize for lack of self-awareness goes to the Austin, Texas city council. While it is fine and dandy for homeless people to camp out in front of people's homes and businesses, with all the problems of human waste, panhandling, mental illness, and open drug use that we in the Bay Area see whenever we venture to take a walk in San Francisco, the wise councilors exempted their own place of business from the such concerns.
Elizabeth Findell of the Austin Statesman writes:
After emotional testimony last week regarding homelessness in Austin, City Council
Reply 1 - Posted by:
OBX Pete 7/3/2019 10:40:35 AM (No. 112885)
What the hell is happening to this country? These liberal/communists have completely lost their minds.
Why do the people who live in these cities that are being trashed keep on voting these crazy bast**ds back into office again and again?
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
oldmagnolia 7/3/2019 10:47:21 AM (No. 112892)
#1 is the way the left is planning to destroy it - from within. One of Alinski's rules is to overwhelm the system. This is what they are trying to do with the illegals. It is a war.
23 people like this.
Reply 3 - Posted by:
john56 7/3/2019 10:47:25 AM (No. 112893)
Let's support the rights of homeless to camp in front of Austin City Hall, all Democrat elected officials, party offices, and registered Democrat voters in Austin.
16 people like this.
Reply 4 - Posted by:
DVC 7/3/2019 10:49:01 AM (No. 112896)
The leftists really DO hate Americans, and are really trying to make us all miserable.
10 people like this.
Reply 5 - Posted by:
spacer 7/3/2019 10:54:38 AM (No. 112905)
These are the same kind of pious frauds that run Lutheran Out Reach and Catholic Charities.
17 people like this.
Reply 6 - Posted by:
jacksin5 7/3/2019 10:59:46 AM (No. 112913)
The City can approve anything it wants, but what about the State Health Department? It makes no sense to place a disease vector in the middle of a heavily populated urban center. Also these Homeless Camps will be the landing place of a lot of illegals who have crossed the border. TB. Diptheria. etc. will soon establish a foothold among the unvaccinated illegals and migrate into the general population.
12 people like this.
Reply 7 - Posted by:
jalo1951 7/3/2019 11:05:54 AM (No. 112929)
It's always this way with the "political elite". The laws are only for the little people. You will lose your car, but not them. You will lose your guns, but not them. You will get inferior healthcare if you get healthcare at all, but not them. Bernie will set up bread lines for you, but they won't need to participate, they will take as much money from you as they can, it will go into their pockets, camp wherever you want, but not at my house. Yes, overwhelm the system, open the borders. Just heard where Newsome CA has blamed Trump for the tent city mess in his home state. I'm sure Austin will release a statement soon agreeing with his finger pointing. As long as THEY insulate themselves from the chaos they have caused they are good because it doesn't impact them. Drugs, alcohol, general filth (body waste), trash, rats, disease, mental illness. Yeah, let's vote these dems into office year after year.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
bad-hair 7/3/2019 11:34:41 AM (No. 112958)
They have a T shirt in Austin that says "Keep Austin Weird". We have a T shirt in Houston that says "Keep Austin 170 miles from here". That's where we stash the Californians.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
legalart 7/3/2019 11:37:02 AM (No. 112963)
This is no surprise, it was a matter of time. Austin has been an enviable magnet for many years, because of its economy, beauty, and quality of life. The leftists who populate it will die before admitting that the capitalist principles they practice on a daily basis are responsible for their good life; they will trash capitalists ideas and present themselves as more enlightened than the rest of Texas -- scratch that, than the rest of the country. While it is growing by leaps and bounds with a tech sector that names it as the next Silicon Valley (without the outrageous cost of living), it is filled with green deal advocates and other leftist riff-raff, prone to use other people's money to finance their untenable ideas; it suffocates you after you've been there a while.
Now, pass the popcorn and let's watch how this will play out for them: the implementation of their misguided ideology is bound to ruin their smug little Vichy in a NY minute. The worst that will happen is that they will start migrating to other parts of the state as soon as downtown Austin begins to mirror downtown San Francisco.
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This is what lawlessness looks like.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Hermit_Crab 7/3/2019 11:44:50 AM (No. 112975)
Actually #2, the overloading the system is more Cloward-Piven than Alinsky.
5 people like this.
Reply 12 - Posted by:
earlybird 7/3/2019 11:45:27 AM (No. 112977)
Maybe now Texans and others will finally understand that San Francisco and Los Angeles do not represent all of California. Nothing could be further from the truth. Crazy islands in very large areas of sanity.
6 people like this.
Reply 13 - Posted by:
Strike3 7/3/2019 12:12:54 PM (No. 113011)
#1, the crazy bast**ds are the voters themselves. The cities that allow this mentally ill, filthy, drug-addled population to camp out on their streets actually support their "leaders" in condoning this sub-culture. I'm keeping a list of US cities to never visit, pass through, pass by or support in any way and it's getting longer and longer. Many of them depend upon tourist dollars but their own policies will soon kill them.
4 people like this.
Reply 14 - Posted by:
DeplorableVet 7/3/2019 12:18:24 PM (No. 113014)
#3 - I'd also support their right to use Austin City Hall as an open latrine.
7 people like this.
Reply 15 - Posted by:
Geoman 7/3/2019 12:33:59 PM (No. 113028)
The state legislatures and governors in Sacramento and Austin represent all of California and Texas, respectively, by design and purpose. They are not even close to being the same with regard to political ID and culture, which is seriously impacted for the worse by mass immigration from the third word and through the influx of leftists from other US states. That is not to say that there aren't salt-of-the-earth conservatives in California, as we know there certainly are, even though their percentage of the state's total population is low.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
bighambone 7/3/2019 12:36:24 PM (No. 113031)
Clearly the leftist and liberal Democrats in Austin, Texas have no intention of being left behind by San Francisco, CA when it comes to used injection needles and human poop being dropped all over their streets.
4 people like this.
Reply 17 - Posted by:
bad-hair 7/3/2019 12:37:44 PM (No. 113033)
Set up down my street and I'll burn your dam tent. You might not want to be in it.
4 people like this.
Reply 18 - Posted by:
Penney 7/3/2019 12:59:55 PM (No. 113072)
The gang of PC socialist dems always seek to separate themselves from normal people and insulate themselves from the inevitable horrific results of their destructive socialistic policies. This division on the tax-funded public sidewalk in Austin is but more proof of that fact.
The dem pol's policies have created this urban homeless crises, just as they have also created the current humanitarian crises on the southern border and these same socialist dem pols continue to enlarge both crisises rather than to stop the misery,!!! The dem party has become an angry, heartless mob of elitist socialists and it is a crying shame.
4 people like this.
Reply 19 - Posted by:
fayebeck 7/3/2019 2:49:54 PM (No. 113137)
It has always amazed me that Big Bad God Fearing Texans allow this stuff to happen in their Great State..of course the Sissyfied Wusses from The Worthless Good For Nothing State California is the reason Texas is becoming Wussified. Right? #8.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
hershey 7/3/2019 2:51:42 PM (No. 113138)
Whuh oh....another San Francisco in the making????
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
AlpineLace 7/3/2019 3:15:02 PM (No. 113154)
Austin started going to hell when a judge ruled that UT students could register and vote in Austin. Prior to this ruling college students were not considered residents of the places where they were going to school. Students were temporary residents and as such were expected to register and vote at there permanent address. The federal judiciary struck and Austin was forever changed.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
AlpineLace 7/3/2019 3:17:37 PM (No. 113155)
No 8, Houston had better pay attention. Unless more conservatives start voting in local elections you are on your way to being Austin.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
bad-hair 7/3/2019 3:39:15 PM (No. 113177)
Sorry, I know I shouldn't respond to other posters but I'm getting 2 against 1 here. Houston is a LONG way from becoming Austin in spite of our latest mayor. Texas is not being wussified because we put them all in Austin. Visit "Music City Texas" 6 months from now and enjoy the smell on 6 th.
1 person likes this.
Reply 24 - Posted by:
BigGeorgeTX 7/3/2019 10:37:16 PM (No. 113560)
Why camp on the sidewalk when UT-Austin has all those lovely campus grounds?
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
msavalla 7/3/2019 11:21:23 PM (No. 113582)
Not only are the politicians nuts, the people that allow them to remain in office are nuts. Get rid of these fools.
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You didn't believe me when I said One by one, every city in this country will become a ghetto and we are headed to the reservation.
Why aren't any of these people able to comprehend the health hazard with raw waste and flies on the sidewalk?
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