More and more, Canada is becoming a place that is very hostile to the average person - Mr. and Mrs. Lunchbucket. If you are not uber-wealthy or uber-poor, if you are not one of the current group of fashionably worthy, you are forgotten, and worse, you are being marginalized even as the paycheck you earn is used to help everyone but you.
Yesterday, yet another example. The B.C. Supreme Court dismissed charges against three people camping in a Victoria City Park. Based upon a B.C. Supreme Court decision, apparently, you cannot now prohibit people from camping in public parks if there aren't enough shelters in the community.
So, Mr. and Mrs. Lunchbucket, afer you go to work eachday, tend to your own and your children, now if you go to take your children to your local park that you pay to create and maintain, well, you may need to share it with the homeless, with those who in many cases are aggressive, angry, perhaps abusing substances of some type. Yes - a lovely day in the park for you and your family.
You see - you, as a tax-payer in your community, you don't matter. Doing the "right thing", taking care of yourself and your family, means nothing to the powers that be - more and more, your right to a safe and comfortable community is being eroded in favor of those who, frankly, contribute nothing. Absolutlely nothing. And if you don't like it - well, you're going to have to build more shelters. Where I come from they call that a shake-down.. but hey, that's just me.
There is good news.. if you're going to the Olympics, pack a tent! Go set up in Stanley Park, sure, it will be rainy, but, compared to the rest of Canada, it will be quite pleasant - and best of all, it will be free! Don't worry if there are no bathrooms, I'm quite certain that the next decision will be that you can defacate where ever you wish if the city doesn't provide porta-potties within 20 paces of wherever your tent is parked. And hey, if the kind-hearted have their way - soon, they may be handing out free heroin as well - so next you know, Stanley Park will be party-city for heroin shooting homeless. Woohoo.. of course, you'll never want to take your children walking the sea-wall again, but, a small price to pay to encourage socially irresponsible behavior.
As, little by little, we whittle away the negative impact of stupid life-decisions, we in fact encourage them. One can only marvel and the kind of world we'll create for our children's children.
4 comments:
To finish what you started we can then build a fence around the park, destroy the bridge over the moat and leave them to their own devices.
Any new vagrants we find we can airlift them into the park.
Anyone wanting to leave would have to sing an agreement to become a viable member of society.
Sounds like a plam to me. Cheers.
I meant 'sign' but they could sing it as well. Also meant plan not plam.
Get rid of Harper and these problems will start to heal again.
It's never too late to start undoing the damage.
..Harper is not the problem.. but recent events are a "symptom" of the problem that society as a whole is falling into - which is taking away the negative impact of stupid life decisions..
..we shouldn't make it easier to get out of bad marriages, we should make it harder to get into them.. we shouldn't make it easier to become a drug addict, we shouldn't make it easier to make homelessness a "life decision" - and don't kid yourself, as stupid as it is, it is a life decision..
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