War On The Homeless: Cities All Over America Are Passing Laws Making It Illegal To Feed And Shelter Those In NeedBy Michael Snyder This backlash against homeless people comes at a time when homelessness in America is absolutely exploding. In a previous article, I shared with my readers the fact that the number of homeless people in New York City has just set a brand new all-time high, and the homelessness crisis in California has become so severe that the L.A. City Council has formally asked Governor Jerry Brown to declare a state of emergency. Sadly, instead of opening up our hearts to the rapidly growing number of Americans without a home, way too many communities are trying to use the law to force them to go somewhere else. For nearly two thousand years, churches have been at the forefront of helping the poor and disadvantaged, but now many communities are trying to stop this from happening. Earlier today, I was absolutely stunned when I came across an article that talked about how a church in Dundalk, Maryland has been fined $12,000 for allowing the homeless to sleep outside the church at night Grover added that the men and women who sleep outside their doors do so because they have nowhere else to go and because they feel safe there. We feel we here as a church that its scriptural mandate thats it an imperative to care for the least, the last, the lost, the poor, the hungry, she said. The authorities in Dundalk say that the church is running a non-permitted rooming and boarding house, and the severity of this fine is likely to put the church in significant financial difficulty if it is forced to pay it. You can watch a local news report discussing this story on YouTube right here Of course Dundalk is far from alone. All across the U.S. laws have been passed that specifically target the homeless. According to the National Coalition for the Homeless, the following are some of the most typical ways that the homeless are targeted There are some people that have been feeding the hungry for decades that now find that their work has been suddenly made illegal. For instance, down in Houston a Good Samaritan named Jay Hamberger is outraged that the help that he has been providing to the homeless for 27 years has now made him an outlaw Jay Hamberger has been bringing food to Houstons homeless for 27 years. He feels the city is infringing on his right to help others by requiring him to have prior permission to distribute food on public and private property. Ive done it with impunity for 27 years now, and Im the most law-abiding outlaw, because what Im doing is illegal, Hamberger said. My understanding is that theres no legal way to make this right with the city. This is just another example of how our society is being strangled to death by control freaks. If I see someone who is desperately hungry and I want to give that person food, then I am going to do it no matter what the law says. Unfortunately, as the homelessness crisis continues to escalate these types of laws are only going to increase. Even in supposedly tolerant areas of the country we are seeing draconian measures being implemented. For example, just check out the new ordinance that was just passed in Los Angeles LA legislators passed an ordinance that would ban people from sleeping in cars and recreational vehicles (RVs) near homes, parks and schools. Advocates see the ordinance as the latest move to criminalize homeless people. The Los Angeles City Council voted in favor of the ordinance on Wednesday. Banning people from sleeping near homes, schools and parks in their vehicles, would, if signed into law, only make it legal to sleep overnight in cars and RVs in industrial or commercial districts from 9:00pm to 6:00am. As millions of Americans have fallen out of the middle class in recent years, we have seen an explosion in the number of people living in cars, trucks and recreational vehicles. This is something that I addressed in my recent article entitled Living In A Van Down By The River Time To Face The True State Of The Middle Class In America. During this time of the year many that live in their vehicles head for warmer climates, and cities like Los Angeles are responding to the influx of homeless people by trying to force them to go somewhere else. And this war on the homeless has actually been ramping up for quite a while. Just check out these numbers from the Washington Post Cities have enacted a wave of crackdowns and new laws against panhandling, camping and other activities associated with homelessness. They say such efforts help preserve the renewed vitality, curbing crime, health problems and behaviors that bother residents and disrupt business. Between 2011 and 2014, the National Law Center on Homelessness Poverty found that bans on sleeping in cars shot up 119percent, citywide camping prohibitions jumped 60percent, anti-loitering laws increased 35percent and anti-begging laws increased 25percent in a survey of 187 cities. Homeless people do not have a permanent address, and there is always a temptation to try to force them to go somewhere else so that they become someone elses problem. But the truth is that we have a massive national crisis on our hands. The number of homeless children in this country has increased by 60 percent since the end of the last recession, and the number of homeless people sleeping in shelters has risen to record levels in major cities on both the East and West Coast. And considering the fact that about two-thirds of the country is currently living paycheck to paycheck, how bad will things get once the next major recession strikes? Poverty is growing all over the nation, and at the same time hearts all over America are growing very cold. I truly fear for what this country is going to look like just a few years from now. Michael Snyder is a writer, speaker and activist who writes and edits his own blogs The American Dream and Economic Collapse Blog. Follow him on Twitter here. Image Credit: TheAntiMedia.org Any nation that forbids feeding the hungry and claims to be Christian crucifies Christ again. Corporatocracy Rule #1: Everything is monetized. Again, they are trying to make something perfectly lawful illegal. Just watch, theyll try to make us get licenses in order to give stuff away to whomever we wish. There is a way around this though, and that is to stop acting as our legal fiction where all these corporate codes bind us (and thats the ONLY time they do, when we are acting in their jurisdiction which is a corporation), and start being the men or women we are, where we can do whatever we like so long as we dont harm anyone or damage their property. Thats real law, thats a Maxim of Law, and thats all common law regards private property rights. Their admiralty (UCC) corporate code law is wholly voluntary, by consent, contract, joinder, or stipulation, so lets just start avoiding that legal joinder, and they cant even recognize us (corporations can only interact with other corporations), let alone kidnap us, steal our money and stuff, or throw us in a cage for doing something as honorable as feeding someone who is hungry. ProLife War on Terror, War on Drugs, War on Natural Health, War on Freedom of Speech, War on Native Peoples Land Rights and now War on the Homeless! Isnt it about time Americans declare war on their psychotically depraved and sick Government because clearly their Government is at war with them! Here is the deal. You cannot be a human being if you do not owe a mortgage or pay a lease to someone who owes a mortgage to a bank. That is the reality of our society. You cannot eat, you cannot sleep, you cannot stand, you cannot sit. You have no rights and your life has no value if you do not owe a mortgage to a bank or pay rent to someone who owes a mortgage to a bank. You will see camps very soon where orderly termination and disposal will be carried out. The city, state and federal governments are all enforcement arms of the banks and the military is paid by the money our government gives to the banks to lend to our government to maintain an army. I am more concerned with fascism than communism. TPP is all about corporations/banks and giving them the power to lord it over the citizenry. Dont think its not still in the works either. Unfortunately, US society has become dysfunctional from the top down. Now it is illegal to help others. When will it be illegal to prevent crime, to save lives, to give to charity? That is where all this foolishness is going! If Americans dont wake up soon, they will be snowed under with fascist laws preventing them from simply living. The homeless cannot feed the machine. They cant be taxed. They are considered as useless eaters. 