Govt Threatens To Seize House After Man Shelters Homeless

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NOTE: I know that this happened 5 days ago. This is still very important.

https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/elgin-greg-schiller-slumber-parties-homeless-cold-467714563.html
A really nice guy named Greg Schiller has been letting homeless people spend the night in his house ... and now the government is trying to shut him down.

Conservatives: "If these bleeding-heart liberals care so much about the homeless, why don't they shelter homeless people in their houses?"

Well ... there's your answer. You happy?

More to the point, it's an example of the government telling a person who he is allowed to associate with.
It's telling him who he is allowed to have in his own home, that he owns.

That aspect should offend any genuine conservative as much as the social aspects should offend any genuine liberal.
But will it?

Nope.

"Conservatives" nowadays want to gawk at the shrieking schizophrenics on the extreme left while ignoring the suffering of ordinary human beings. That's Donald Trump conservatism in a nutshell.

To them, politics is a carnival freak show and not a serious matter of life and death. If the political people aren't being funny, they boo and throw peanuts.

https://www.reddit.com/r/TumblrInAction/
^^^
A Cancerous Place Where Trumpers Should Stay

I don't have a link handy, but I heard about something similar on the radio the other day. A veteran who had trouble finding housing after the war is helping other vets by letting them stay there until they can find a place.

Ah, what the heck, didn't take long to find a link. Looks like he's been doing it for almost ten years now: http://fox17online.com/2017/01/27/no-ma ... llow-vets/

I've never heard of such a thing before. But I'm not American. It seems absolutely ret*d that the government have any say whatsoever about what goes on in your own home as long as you're not breaking any laws.

Sounds like one of my finer pieces of work.


Note that this was in a suburb of Chicago, a notoriously liberal city awash in liberal policy.
My statement still stands whether you give me credit for it or not.

the devil is in our nation.

Good, I would be absolutely livid if I was his neighbors and this clown decided to open up a homeless shelter... I am sure the other neighbors would feel the same and would put a stop to it before he brings down the neighborhood values. Also crime and drugs that those people do..., Will SOMEONE PLEASE think of the CHILDREN.

because people did NOT think of the children, is why we have the homeless in the first place.

I helped myself out of homelessness. If they can't, then let mother nature sort them out...

Here is what I find passing strange:

A man's home is his castle... if that man responds to strangers at the door by shooting them. This applies to the stranger who just wrecked their car and needs to call a tow truck, the high school aged stranger who is walking home a little tiddly and accidentally goes to the identical house next to his own, the young woman who walked away from an abusive date and lost her cell phone, etc.

That's all fine and dandy, dude was just standing his ground, etc. (And I'm sure he was thinking of the children. Right before he blew them away.)

But if that man responds to strangers along the lines of Matthew 25 (Mt. 25:35-40, New International Version (NIV)), as follows:

35 For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in,
36 I needed clothes and you clothed me, I was sick and you looked after me, I was in prison and you came to visit me.’
37 “Then the righteous will answer him, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink?
38 When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you?
39 When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?’
40 “The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’

Well, then, we'll take that dude's house away. And we call ourselves a "Christian nation", and lack even the decency to blush.

a party of hypocrites leading a nation of clueless enablers and self-righteous wannabes.

Non-readers. If you've never actually read the Book you profess to worship, you can be taught a lot of hooey about it... and about the Person you claim to follow, as well.

"Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities." [Voltaire]
the GOP-appropriated technique of "the big lie" is part of their Gouldish plan to cull the excess working class by sicking one part of it against the rest. to the working class members here [and nowadays that includes many people who were part of the middle class before the GOP wrecked things with malice aforethought], if we don't put aside our differences and PULL TOGETHER, the PTB will pull us apart and keep us apart, this is our last chance. freedom and ignorance can't co-exist. refusing to acknowledge our similarities and work together is the height of ignorance IMHO. letting trivialities such as skin color and sexual orientation distract us while the GOP is robbing us blind, represents the twin dangers of conscientious stupidity and sincere ignorance that MLK warned us about.

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It's gone on for millenia, and it never seems to fail.

If you keep the peasants at one another's throats, they won't notice you're walking away with all the land, all the minerals, all the jewels, all the crops, all the fish, all the game, all the wood, all the water...

or as pogo said, "we have met the enemy, and he is U.S."