Controversial Supreme Court Ruling

[Pastor Ezekiel]

THIS JUST IN: Apparently hobos and bums are allowed to keep their junk.

Court Rules Homeless People Are Allowed to Have Stuff

Lost amid the uproar over other Supreme Court rulings this week was this: yesterday, SCOTUS let stand a lower court ruling that said that the city of LA cannot just confiscate and destroy the possessions of homeless people. Homeless people may legally have things, huzzah.

The LA Times reports that the case stemmed from a lawsuit brought by homeless residents of LA's skid row, who said that city workers and police came and seized "their personal possessions — including identification, medications, cellphones and toiletries," which they had left behind only temporarily.

In a 2-1 decision, the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals decided that the transients' possessions could be taken only if they posed an immediate threat to public health or were evidence of a crime...

The city, in a court filing, said homeless people defied cleaning schedules by leaving overflowing shopping carts and piles of possessions covered with tarps and blankets on the sidewalks, breeding vermin and bacteria.

The Supreme Court let that lower court ruling stand without comment, meaning that homeless people's stuff is legally protected from just being thrown away by the city. It may still be thrown away illegally by the city, or by cops, or stolen or destroyed by people on the street.

I'm calling an emergency meeting of the Freehold city council to tell them how to circumvent this ridiculous new law being forced down our Christian throats.

[Didymus Much]

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...I'm calling an emergency meeting of the Freehold city council...

You have homeless in Freehold since when?

[Jimmy-Roy Stewart]

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Well shoot their werent' no supreme court to protect my stuff when i lost teh trailer every body gets a special privledge but us God fearing white men.

[James Hutchins]

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All we have to do is demand receipts and proof of ownership. Without proof of ownership, it is a fair bet everything is stolen and needs to be returned to the rightful owner. If that lawful owner cannot be found, the items can be sold and the proceeds used for the Pastors General Fund.
As a gentle and loving Christian,. I do not want to incarcerate the homeless theives, instead Id like to provide them time in San Diego. I can drop them off (for minimal costs, just fuel and time) as I often 'dead head' there.

[GodBlessUs]

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First this devastating ruling, and now the Defense of Marriage Act was struck down?! http://www.vanityfair.com/online/dai...es-doma-prop-8
This has been a sad week for America.

This morning the Supreme Court of the United States struck down the Defense of Marriage Act with a 5–4 ruling, allowing the federal government to recognize legal marriages between same-sex partners. From here, couples married in states where gay marriage is legal will be able to receive federal tax, survivor, estate, retirement, and health-care benefits that straight couples enjoy. The ruling came down on expected lines, with swing justice Anthony Kennedy siding with the majority and conservative justice Antonin Scalia reading a fiery, 26-page dissent. Advocates will likely use this language to instigate a legal battle to rule that any ban on same-sex marriage is illegal.

[WWJDnow]

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I'm calling an emergency meeting of the Freehold city council to tell them how to circumvent this ridiculous new law being forced down our Christian throats.

I thought that after the mayor opened the forced labor vocational education camps, all of the vagrants and hobos cleared out of Freehold. I didn't realize it was still a problem. Why do these bums have to impose their unsightly presence on good, hard-working Christian folk?

[Johny Joe Hold]

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Apparently hobos and bums are allowed to keep their junk.
I'm calling an emergency meeting of the Freehold city council to tell them how to circumvent this ridiculous new law being forced down our Christian throats.

Thank you, Pastor Zeke, for taking the leadership on this. It is something we need to deal with immediately.

The current issue is this. Several times this summer, old women living under bridges in Des Moines have wondered into Freehold pushing their shopping carts full of their blankets and whatever. Our local high school boys have had harlarious fun dumping the shopping carts and kicking the stuff around.

Just yesterday, Frankie Cownie, Mayor of Des Moines, had the nerve to call me to complain. He read that article to me about how homeless people own the stuff in those grocery carts.

Here is Freehold, we need a strategy to protect our young men from persecution for having this harmless fun.

[LBC loving Dutchmen]

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Those boys have the right to have some fun. Whether its is with shopping cards from lost bums or putting soulless gingers in their place: damnation, shouldn't matter.

[Dr Laurence Niles]

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What people seem to be missing is where do these hobos store all of their ill gotten gains?

That's right: where they sleep: on the sidewalk!

And who's tax dollar goes to pay for the upkeep and maintainable of the side walk (and all municipal pedways)?

Joe plumber is paying for Joe crackhead to have his own mobile drug den and sex slumber party.

You tell me how this is fair, Obama!

YIC

[Marshall]

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If they have stuff legally then the next thing will want is somewhere to keep it.