feeding homeless illegal in N.C.

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Charity group stopped from handing out free food to homeless after having done so for 6 years. Irrelevant that the story is from August last year. These charity organizations still report this activity.

Meanwhile, the statue on a homeless Jesus on a park bench in N.C is looked upon by local minister seen as a good lesson and perfectly acceptable.

http://lovewins.info/2013/08/feeding-ho ... aleigh-nc/

http://www.takepart.com/article/2014/04 ... mpid=tp-fb

It's unfortunate that police threaten to arrest someone without even knowing what law they are accusing the person of breaking. Personally, I would have called them on it, but I have the luxury of knowing I have a legal team at my disposal if I get myself in trouble.

As everyone knows, if you give the homeless handouts they will simply multiply and become an unsightly pest. Hell, I would quit my job and abandon my apartment if I could spend the rest of my life begging for free meals on the street! A new compromise bill is being considered. Proposal 61B will require anyone feeding the homeless on the sidewalk request a shoe-shine or toe-nail cleaning in return for their “free” meal. This will instill a proper Godly work ethic in all the unwashed bums.

Your "ungodly" post is not even worthy of a response. "As everyone knows?" I am not permitted by the guidelines of this website to give the response you deserve, but your comment above is an example of someone who has no understanding of Godly principles or the teachings of Jesus Christ.

I am sorry but I have been homeless and been on the streets with people who are so commonly mischaracterized as "lazy bums' who want a handout.

In reality, the majority of homeless are veterans and people who have lost their jobs and everything they own due to no fault of their own but simply being victims of the economic downturn. That is not mentioning all of the mentally ill among the homeless class who can barely manage to get through the day. I have watched the same homeless people who are at the soup kitchen and the church sleep centers line up in the morning at all of the "day job" centers, sitting for hours waiting for a call to come in to send them to any job they can get. I have watched with my own eyes this process of employment office merry-go-round.

Yes, there are people who will take advantage of the system but these are not in the majority. It is a small segment of people who abuse the system and it is absolutely shameful to exaggerate those numbers to exploit and stigmatize the suffering of other human beings and then turn around and talk about "Godly" things. it is hardly an act of Godliness to minimalize and dehumanize people when they are down.

You do not help people by kneecapping them and shaming them when they are down. That is not the way to help human beings

Khaoz

I think s/he was being sarcastic and making fun of an unreasonable mindset in america where the homeless are supposedly lazy people who don't want to work.

I cannot phantom that post not being a joke.

I hear you can make hundreds of dollars a day begging for money posing as a homeless person. Really, if I were homeless and I was doing that, I would open my own bank account and then use the money I earned to get a job or whatever but I would need to go to a shelter first so I have a address to get a job and shower and be clean. Since finding a job is tough for me, getting an apartment would be out of the question since I would be evicted for no rent unless I had saved up tons of money from begging. But I would not spend my days outside for hours begging for money. I think that is more work and I would never want to be homeless.

Presumably, the food is donated, and the group can claim tax deductions for doing this, so they may be indirectly making personal income from doing this.

The question to answer is whether anyone should be able to show up on public land, get no permit, get no approval, unknown origin and safety of the food, and operate whatever charity business they desire for their own personal income ?

Reason just had an article on this type of law:

http://reason.com/archives/2014/04/19/b ... less-persi

Even as a hateful conservative I find laws like that abhorrent.
WTF are they going to do, fine someone or take them to jail for sharing food with the needy?

Wouldn't they need to prove that those giving out the food KNEW the recipients were homeless?
Also, if it's legal to give food to people with homes then isn't that discriminatory?

So if I bought myself something to eat and I come across a beggar who is homeless asking for money but instead I offer them the food I bought, would that be illegal?