From Arnold Abbott, a ninety-year-old man who feeds the homeless in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. He won a prior suit against the city when it tried to stop his charitable efforts. Now they’ve tried to stop him again.
“One of the police officers said, ‘Drop that plate right now,’ as if I were carrying a weapon,” said Abbott, who runs a nonprofit group called Love Thy Neighbor, Inc. “It’s man’s inhumanity to man is all it is.”
“I’m going to have to go to court again and sue the city of Fort Lauderdale — a beautiful city,” said Abbott. “These are the poorest of the poor, they have nothing, they don’t have a roof over their heads. How do you turn them away?”
“I don’t do things to purposefully aggravate the situation,” said Abbott. “I’m trying to work with the city. Any human has the right to help his fellow man.”
http://www.local10.com/news/police-charge-90yearold-man-2-pastors-with-feeding-the-homeless/29510268
Let’s think about this. When government redistributes money it has extracted by force, it’s now labeled humanitarian. When private individuals voluntarily try to aid the homeless, it’s now a crime. We’re setting new lows in linguistic perversity and Orwellian concept-reversal. In a free society, people are free to help each other.
