This afternoon, I bumped into this guy.
I asked him if the Frdericton Police Force have bothered him?
He told me last night around 2:00am? He was surrounded by five police officers and they kicked him.
He couldn't understand what was going on?
They told him - MOVE ON YOU PIECE OF SH@T!!!!
They turned around and gave the guy a $70 ticket.
So? Did this story truly happen?
Is the Police truly out of control? Who knows? 
I have been told that I shouldn't be walking alone at night. I don't get scare easily.
Saturday, June 24, 2006
FREDERICTON POLICE FORCE- MOVE ON YOU PIECE OF SH@T!!!!
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I would be suspect that the guy was beaten. Was he fined? Maybe. If he's panhandling he was breaking the law. Certainly efforts can be made to change laws and there probably is some happy medium in there such as busking as long as no one is harassed. Anyone who diagrees with the panhandling by-law should write mayor and council. I don't agree with same-sex marriage and welcome the upcoming opportunity to have my say regarding changing it however for now it's the law and anyone can feel free to marry whoever they want. I have no probelem with that. I respect the law of the land even when I don't agree.
Charlie you should be carefull of hear-say or "this guy said that guy..." Yuo know were I'm going and especially on an issue of such enormity in circumstances.
True but I asked the question? There's a lot of strories on the streets and I'm asking the question in a blog.
Nobody said this guy was 'beaten', they said he was 'kicked' and called a derogatory term. If you've ever been poor or a minority then this stuff is old hat. The white middle class that only experience the police as friendly guys or guys who occasionally give them a speeding ticket will of course make allowances for them.
There have been thousands of complaints against the police force all across canada in the last ten years, and of course who can forget the officers that took a native man out to die in the cold in Manitoba a few years back.
Kicking the poor and calling them 'shit' is pretty low key, just look at the pictures of the arrest of peaceful demonstrators at city hall.
Of course the police can decide what is 'loitering' or 'vagrancy' or whatever they want, which means the poor are not allowed to be visible, or they can go 'live off the land' in the woods til a forest ranger catches them. That's life for the poor.
Pat Carlson from the men's shelter was on the news not long ago talking about the poor, I agree with her when it comes to the amount of welfare that the poor recieve, she said that a single person should receive at least $600.00 per month to live on to meet the cost of living. I think it's terrible what little money they are getting. It's not even enough to cover their rent, everything is going up except the welfare cheques. I can see more crime happening here, people stealing food and robbing stores to survive. That's why people panhandle in this city to make extra money to make ends meet, now they can't even do that anymore. Pat Carlson and the food bank can only do so much to help these people. And I have to say thank God for people like them. And not to forget the soup kitchen. It really upsets me when I hear of people putting them down they are human beings, just not as lucky in life as others.
There is the other side, which is what government used to do, which is provide Housing. Most of a welfare cheque goes to rent, most of these landlords aren't even from the province, many are from Alberta, BC, etc. In other words, taxpayers are subsidizing millionaires from other parts of the country with welfare. There are very few regulations or rent ceilings so they can charge what they want.
Virtually every other country but Canada spends a higher proportion of budgetary expenses on low income housing.
As I've said elsewhere, it would be simple for the government to organize welfare recipients into Co-ops. The rent cheque would be put together to pay a mortgage at the credit union, which also keeps money in the city, or at least the province.
It would only take eight to ten people for it to be cost effective, an average house would have a mortgage cost per month of around a thousand dollars. This would enable people to have a fixed address for getting work, a yard for gardening and growing some food, and perhaps even accessories for some type of small business.
However, millionaires don't get richer from ideas like that. I have heard that something on a small scale has been started in Saint John, but at this rate, it'll be next century before anything is accomplished.
Welfare isn't supposed to be comfortable. If it was, then there would be no incentive for anyone to get off welfare and more people would get on it.
Take a person making $7/hr working 35hrs per week gets $980 per month. Take off the taxes and it's not much more than the $600 that Pat Carlson wants welfare recipients to get.
If I was making $7/hr, why on earth would I continue working when I could get pretty much the same amount of money for doing absolutely nothing?
If a person has valid reasons for not being able to work due to a disability, then by all means, they should be allocated enough money to live comfortably. But any able-bodied adult with no children who is too lazy to look for a job should be made to work for their welfare cheques.
Interesting story on CTV Maritimes tonight about panhandling in Fredericton. To a casual viewer it looke pretty harmless. A fellow name Bert Sacobie was interviewed, a well known figure on the streets of downtown Fredericotn and at the homeless shelter. What was left out of the story was the fact that Mr. Sacobie is a chronic alcoholic. You may remember a few years back when even the shelter had to kick him out because he had become so disruptive in the shelter. However facts like that may leave people not as generous when it comes to donating to the shelter et al and it gets left out of the story. Mr. Sacobie and many others like him (80% or better at the shlter are alcoholics or have serious mental illnesses)need our help, without question but loosening up panhandling laws and giving him money on the street is clearly not the answer. Essentially helping the man kill himself will not help him.
Heh, I've tried to help them before..instead of money I brought one homeless person food from second cup...and he threw it back at my face....
There are places for these people to go, but no, they want money for drugs and alchohol. There is only so much a state can do. Although I know if some of you on this blog got your way, the government would control every aspect of our lives in an effort to ensure 'equality'.
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