Miami Law Professor Michael Froomkin points to a new Las Vegas ordinance that would ban feeding poor people in public parks. As Froomkin notes, giving a sandwich to a rich man still is presumptively legal, but heaven help you if you decide to show compassion for the starving. I'm not even going to bother hoping that anyone in the Vegas city government is familiar of the maxim "feed the hungry," much less its source. In the meantime, we find a major American city treating human beings as the equivalent of an animal pest to be regulated and contained.
Twisted.
"In the meantime, we find a major American city treating human beings as the equivalent of an animal pest to be regulated and contained."
ReplyDeleteI think the same thing when I think about Chicago regulating Walmart, but we rarely have similar opinions...
I think that rich people are aesthetically unpleasing because they make me feel bad about myself what with their fancy clothes and all, so I'm going to make it illegal to feed them in parks. And I mean, we already have Yacht Clubs and Country Clubs and all of those other perpetual Klan meetings where they can go hang out, so the legislation is just steering them where they belong.
ReplyDeleteOoooh, poor, poor Walmart. What a shame that the world's second largest corporation, and the absolute worst in the US, among the large ones, in terms of wages and health coverage, is "regulated".
ReplyDeleteRob the poor, give to the rich, John Hall, you're not the only one.
I'm not poor and I never intend to become one, but I have a conscience.