As of or before 10/5/14, Fort Lauderdale, FL has made a law to fine people who help feed the homeless outside. This is so inhumane. How is it moral for three people (one man is 90 yrs. old and two are pastors) to get fined and face jail time for feeding the homeless in Fort Lauderdale, FL?
The fine is $500.00 a piece, plus 60 days in jail! l think this is a big mistake. We are allowing certain people to make careless and horrible decisions for us. There is nothing wrong with what these three men did. l do not understand in the USA why this is allowed to even become a law. Where is the humanity here? This is a free country, land of opportunity. Compassion is a crime now?
Why is this important?
I have been homeless, so I have personal experience with suffering and am very empathetic to others. It strikes me as deeply immoral to have a country so wealthy, yet people so poor. Now it is a crime when individuals take matters into their own hands to help the less fortunate. The government is not providing equality of opportunity and now it feels threatened when good citizens pick up the slack. We the people are "mad as hell and we're not gonna take it anymore". It seems like the government just wants to appear to be needed to help the poor, while only handing out peanuts to a select few, then it criminalizes poverty and those that seek to eliminate it. More prisons, more prisons, disenfranchise more voters, continue oligarchy, militarize the police, etc., etc.
