We talked about this before at Cobb. Now the ACLU has gone and done it. What have they done? Something stupid that the entire Left once agreed was stupid. Patterico reports:
It’s now officially legal for the homeless to sleep on the streets in Los Angeles. You can thank a lawsuit brought by the ACLU.
It’s incredibly frustrating to watch groups like the ACLU fight for the “right” of mostly mentally ill people to sleep on the streets — since it is groups like the ACLU that are largely responsible for their plight to begin with. A tremendous percentage of the homeless population consists of mentally ill people who have no business being on their own. They need to be institutionalized and receive proper treatment for their mental diseases. But thanks in large part to the ACLU and related groups, the homeless were deinstitutionalized and tossed into the streets years ago.
Now they get to sleep there. What a tremendous step forward for them as people.
When Ronald Reagan reduced Federal funds for institutionalization of the mentally deranged, the hoots from bleeding hearts was audible every other day. Now that the ACLU has established the precedent for keeping them in the streets, specifically in skid rows, because this is essentially what this is all about, I expect to hear hurrahs. Why? Because cops don't like people sleeping in public.
Now might be a good time to talk about the urban destitute because I don't think I've been entirely coherent. Here are my references:
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