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Old 09-01-2015, 06:05 AM
 
Location: Edgewater, CO
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So much for liberty when you're not even free to sit on public property anymore...
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Old 09-02-2015, 08:23 AM
 
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So much for liberty when you're not even free to sit on public property anymore...
You catch the difference between sitting on a public statue and sitting on a public bench, right?
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Old 09-02-2015, 08:29 AM
 
Location: Edgewater, CO
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You catch the difference between sitting on a public statue and sitting on a public bench, right?
Yes. A statue hurts your butt when you sit on it.

What about the edge of a sturdy planter or a sturdy, short wall?

Why shouldn't people be allowed to sit on those things? Why should you face jail time and a fine of $2500 for sitting on those things? So much for liberty if this is how the government and citizens who support the government respond to a homeless problem.
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Old 09-02-2015, 08:34 AM
 
Location: Berwick, Penna.
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I don't think ANYONE wants to see poor people. Don't you wish that everyone could at least have the basic necessities?
The deserve a right to the basic necessities only after they assume the basic responsibilities.

And if they can't accept that, they need to go to a place where they can't get out, and liquor, drugs, and left-leaning lawyers can't get in.
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Old 09-02-2015, 09:56 AM
 
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... What about the edge of a sturdy planter or a sturdy, short wall? Why shouldn't people be allowed to sit on those things? Why should you face jail time and a fine of $2500 for sitting on those things? So much for liberty if this is how the government and citizens who support the government respond to a homeless problem.
Irony of it all is that this is a town where the word FREEDOM is batted around and rubbed in our faces every day by one of the newspaper and its main editorialist. Scores of businesses here are called Freedom this or Liberty that, etc. Further irony is the majority here want the government to control your freedom as far as deciding who you can marry and what a woman can do with her own body, etc. A better name for this goofy berg ought to be Hypocrisy Springs.
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Old 09-02-2015, 10:06 AM
 
Location: Edgewater, CO
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Thanks Mike, that's exactly what I was hinting at. I'm glad someone more local to COS explicitly said it first.
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Old 09-02-2015, 10:19 AM
 
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Mike, you made my day.
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Old 09-02-2015, 10:24 AM
 
Location: The 719
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This all makes sense when we have an R government. They don't like to see poor people while conducting their daily lives.
What you mean to say is that they don't like having to be harassed by dirty stinky Democratic hippies while spending their earned money and enjoying themselves.

The problem I see with the fine is this, how do you fine a stinky lazy hippie? Bus them to Denver?
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Old 09-02-2015, 03:11 PM
 
Location: Downtown Co Sps
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It's like you're trying to sound like a grown up yet don't really understand it. Keep trying little skipper, one day the world won't be so scary.
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Old 09-02-2015, 04:15 PM
 
Location: The 719
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Yeah, ok. One cannot even scrape the surface of comments here without having "freedoms" tested.

What some of you liberals call "a woman's right to choose, another would call abortion.

But I didn't even bring that up, initially, someone else did.

You guys are talking about vagrancy and looting. Didn't you guys in El Paso County have a tent communion right there along the Fountain? Let's let a bunch of cigarette hoarfing bums just hang out all day and all night long around Acacia Park. Perfect.
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