former WP member "ASS-P" passed away yesterday, jan. 4, '21

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what happens is that less-than-charitable store owners don't like the looks of people like walter on the sidewalk outside their store, so they call the all-purpose bully boys the cops, to roust them from place to place.

Sounds like "fight poverty by making being poor illegal".

Sounds like "fight poverty by making being poor illegal".

Sounds like "fight poverty by making being poor illegal".

I thought Seattle might just be free of such righties. It gives the impression of quite a progressive and forward thinking city.

That was a previous primeministers answer to homelessness. I believe it was Gordon Brown (Or Tony Blair) who said he was going to tackle homelessness, so he made it illegal. And his way of tackling it as he promised that he would deal with it is one in which I caught the brunt of it in a previous job was to arrest the homeless from London, and take them to the furthest police stations in the country from London like Pembroke Dock in West Wales, and let them go. There were no facilities, no food handouts. Nothing. I had many homeless people trying to get back to London or at least Swansea which even Swansea was around 100 miles away by land, as Swansea was the nearest place they could get free meals via a soup run and any form of help and support, but most were trying to get back to London to get the help they needed from homeless shelters etc, as all the charities help was in the big cities. The prime ministers response probably caused a few deaths and many desperate people. It was a total shame we had a prime minister who thought his solution would work. It did not tackle the problem at all. It just shifted a problem for others elsewhere to sort out. I did ask them why they wanted to go back to London as we have lovely countryside in Wales, and they told me that there was no local council support. No shelters. No food. No help with clothing and even no toilet facilities. They could only get help in cities like London where they also have places to wash and keep clean etc.

.... They don't want tourists and visitors to see any homeless people whom they feel should be neither seen nor heard...

A EULOGY-
i got a phone call from the santa cruz county sheriff's office, telling me that Walter Loyd Lilly, aka "ASS-P" on WP, was found dead, presumably in the shelter where he was staying. they were tight-lipped about all but the fact that he was deceased, they wanted to know if i knew his next of kin since i was one of his contact persons. he lived a hard life, a life which would have long-ago finished me off. he was homeless since the late 90s. that is a long time on the streets, a long hard grind. he was tough and resilient but could not beat father time and the vastly increased wear and tear inflicted by lacking a home. he was coughing terribly the last few weeks, his kidneys were shot, he had congestive heart failure, uncontrolled diabetes and hypertension and arthritis and circulation problems. i knew the end was near but didn't know just how near. he was a hard person to help. he had a tough exterior shielding a vulnerable heart. people did not love him or give him any respect. his life was one of constant irritation and frustration. he wanted SO MUCH to "have the college experience" and get a degree in something. i think it was part of his lifelong search for respect from a society which had other things on its mind. i don't know how many who may be reading this, remember him from his time here. i am one of the early ones who greeted him when he joined up, but trying to help him was more than i could do for long, he had deep chronic needs. he loved his comic books, and he wanted so much to do what he saw everybody else took for granted, things like listening to music on phonograph records/LPs, living in a place of his own with a desk at which he could sit and read in peace, having privacy to do that and do the other things that he never got to do unmolested by the other street people he had to deal with. i hope finally, his earthly worries are erased and he is in a peaceful place now. RIP, brother.