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[William Flynn Wallace]

The problem is almost entirely restricted to a very small area of
downtown.  J Davis

It can't be very small, as Spike says that well over 20K people are
homeless addicts.  And I don't think that there is any problem with a state
or city making laws against prisoner labor.  You just can't have it the
other way. Is there a valid reason not to put up a slew of PortaPotties?
Spike?

bill w



On Mon, Apr 8, 2019 at 1:53 PM Jeff Davis <jrd1415 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Spike, our straight arrow boy scout white boy from Whitelandia writes:
>
> "...putting convicts to work is illegal unless they volunteer... "
>
> Actually, no.
>
> Re Thirteenth Amendment to the US Constitution,  w/ attention to:
>
> "...except as a punishment for crime ..."
>
> *Section 1.* Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a
> punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted,
> shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their
> jurisdiction.
>
> *Section 2.* Congress shall have power to enforce this article by
> appropriate legislation.
>
> *************************************************
>
> That said, a further note:  Like so many problems that society chooses not
> to solve despite an obvious, free, and immediately available solution, the
> "problem" of homeless persons pooping on the street has just such a
> solution:
>
> As everyone knows, the whole frikkin' city is chock full of toilets.
> Every business, govt office, hospital, library, cop shop, bus station,
> subway station, and every private residence has several toilets.  I would
> wager that every homeless street dweller is no more that 100ft away from a
> functioning toilet.  So I have no sympathy w/ those who decry this problem.
>
> "But, but, but,... those facilities are for..."
>
> As with so many issues of modern life, people can choose either to get
> their head out of their ass or to live in shit.
>
> By the way, San Francisco is a big city -- I just got back from a visit --
> and the notion that there is shit everywhere is the usual media nonsense.
> The problem is almost entirely restricted to a very small area of
> downtown.
> --
>           "Everything's hard till you know how to do it."
>                                                 Ray Charles
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