Everything I do, I do it for you.....And VANOC.

When the BC government does anything to "help" the homeless, many ears and hackles perk up. The Campbell Libruls do not show compassion to anyone except those who can pay for it.

This latest plan that is getting much needed negative press and opinion, is more of the same.

Sounds good. Get the homeless into shelters when the temperature goes too low.

B.C. Housing and Social Development Minister Rich Coleman said Monday the proposed law will give police the extraordinary power to bring people to homeless shelters, but doesn't compel them to stay once they arrive.

The law will be the first of its kind in Canada, despite British Columbia's more temperate climate, and it's already raising alarm bells among civil liberties groups who say the B.C. government is considering forcing the homeless into jail-like circumstances on the eve of the Olympic Games.

Translated: Force the homeless to go to a shelter in the back of a police car, so they have to talk to someone about going in or not.

In what I consider to be a really good editorial today (from canned west of all places) there  is some hope that someone actually grasps the myriad issues and the heartlessness of this plan.

Shelters are full. They do not take all the possessions of homeless persons. They will not allow pets. They are massive holding tanks, nothing more.

Who wants to sleep on a floor with 30 other people? ETC.

I will take this one a tad further however. 

When the police force a homeless person into the back of a police car, without their belongings or faithful pet......Without all that they have in the world, their "stuff" becomes abandoned.

Think it will be there when they manage to find their way back?

From February, on David Eby's blog.

There is a youtube of the incident, and this is from the sidebar:

February 18, 2009 at 8:50 a.m., two VPD officers instruct City of Vancouver sanitation workers to throw out the belongings of a homeless man. His friend shows up and salvages what he can from the dumptruck.
The officers refuse to even wait 15 minutes to see if the man will turn up to claim his life's possessions.
I recorded this using my blackberry videocamera feature. The voices you hear in the beginning are mine and that of the male officer. 

Watch.

So the plan probably was; Declare the weather to be too harsh, and load the homeless up in cars or paddy wagons. Force them to a shelter without their stuff, and or pets. Once they are gone, send a "clean up crew" and or the SPCA.  

ALL clean! How's that.

The homeless people that want help, mostly need homes. Not shelters. They need a safe place to take all their belongings and their pets. And most of all, they need to be treated as human beings. 

The OWE-lympics is not about the human spirit and endurance or anything else. It's about money. The organizers get along very well with the Campbell Libruls. They will git er'done.
Campbell Libruls: Everything I do, I do it for you....VANOC.