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They're outraged that President Donald Trump has directed 21 00:01:11,519 --> 00:01:17,640 the Justice Department to eliminate laws and regulations that hinder 22 00:01:18,319 --> 00:01:25,640 cities ability to remove homeless people sleeping on the street. Okay, 23 00:01:25,680 --> 00:01:30,359 so the Department of Justice, the federal government is not 24 00:01:30,640 --> 00:01:33,799 saying we're going to send in people, We're going to 25 00:01:33,799 --> 00:01:36,280 send in troops, We're going to round up homeless people 26 00:01:36,319 --> 00:01:38,719 like that. That's not what the order says. It says 27 00:01:39,879 --> 00:01:45,159 we're going to remove barriers that cities and counties and 28 00:01:45,239 --> 00:01:51,159 states are facing, so if they want to, they can 29 00:01:51,519 --> 00:01:59,799 pursue alternative ways of dealing with the homelessness crisis. The 30 00:02:00,159 --> 00:02:03,159 administration says the move is necessary to crack down on 31 00:02:03,280 --> 00:02:06,280 crime and drug use. This is a piece at the 32 00:02:06,400 --> 00:02:11,840 Washington Times by Jeff Mordoch. Under the executive order, Attorney 33 00:02:11,919 --> 00:02:16,879 General Pambondi will take steps to quote, reverse judicial precedents 34 00:02:17,319 --> 00:02:21,960 and consent decrees that limit local and state governments from 35 00:02:22,000 --> 00:02:25,199 removing homeless people from the streets and help move them 36 00:02:25,240 --> 00:02:30,919 into treatment centers. Oh how dare she? Were you trying 37 00:02:30,960 --> 00:02:32,639 to get people treatment? 38 00:02:34,199 --> 00:02:34,599 Speaker 2: The order? 39 00:02:34,800 --> 00:02:38,159 Speaker 1: By the way, could we brand this maybe as healthcare? 40 00:02:38,919 --> 00:02:42,560 Maybe we brand it as healthcare free healthcare. Maybe we 41 00:02:42,599 --> 00:02:45,879 do that and then the Democrats will be on board 42 00:02:45,919 --> 00:02:49,360 with it. What do you think? Because they are anything 43 00:02:49,560 --> 00:02:52,919 you just label anything healthcare and they're they're in, you know, 44 00:02:54,599 --> 00:02:57,759 whether it's you know, aborting babies, it's like God's healthcare. 45 00:02:58,680 --> 00:03:00,159 So how about this, It's like, hey, we're gonna get 46 00:03:00,159 --> 00:03:02,000 them into treatment. We're going to get them health care. 47 00:03:02,560 --> 00:03:05,960 We're going to get health care for the homeless. The 48 00:03:06,080 --> 00:03:10,280 order also commits federal funding to help move people on 49 00:03:10,360 --> 00:03:13,919 the streets into treatment centers, though it was not immediately 50 00:03:13,960 --> 00:03:19,120 clear how much money is being allocated. Shifting homeless individuals 51 00:03:19,120 --> 00:03:23,000 into long term institutional settings for humane treatment through the 52 00:03:23,039 --> 00:03:27,639 appropriate use of civil commitment will restore public order, according 53 00:03:27,680 --> 00:03:31,599 to the directive. Okay, so civil commitment, what does that mean? 54 00:03:32,680 --> 00:03:37,319 That means if you are adjudicated to be a danger 55 00:03:37,360 --> 00:03:42,039 to yourself or to the community, to society around you, 56 00:03:42,080 --> 00:03:46,439 to other people, that they can put you into a facility, 57 00:03:46,759 --> 00:03:50,759 even against your will. And so this has got the 58 00:03:51,039 --> 00:03:55,280 you know, civil libertarians, it's got Democrats very upset. Although 59 00:03:55,280 --> 00:03:57,520 to be fair, really anything Trump does on this front 60 00:03:57,560 --> 00:03:59,159 is going to get them mad. But here's the other thing. 61 00:04:00,240 --> 00:04:06,159 This homelessness issue, or I think they're now using a 62 00:04:06,240 --> 00:04:11,039 term called those living unhousedly or something like that, they've 63 00:04:11,039 --> 00:04:13,520 come up with different nomenclature because, of course you can't 64 00:04:13,520 --> 00:04:15,680 just call it homelessness, because it's not that they don't 65 00:04:15,680 --> 00:04:18,279 have a home. Their home is their tent and their 66 00:04:18,319 --> 00:04:21,199 community and blah blah blah blah blah. Right, so now 67 00:04:21,199 --> 00:04:27,839 it's like those experiencing temporary unhousedness or something. There is 68 00:04:27,879 --> 00:04:36,560 an entire cottage industry of NGOs, of nonprofit organizations that 69 00:04:37,399 --> 00:04:43,000 feast off of government funding for their programs, and so 70 00:04:43,160 --> 00:04:48,959 they have an incentive to not solve the problem because 71 00:04:49,000 --> 00:04:52,040 if they were to solve the problem or to ameliorate 72 00:04:52,120 --> 00:04:54,959 the problem to such an extent that their services are 73 00:04:55,000 --> 00:04:58,199 no longer required or are no longer required to the 74 00:04:58,279 --> 00:05:01,439 extent that they are providing them, means means that they 75 00:05:01,480 --> 00:05:03,920 go out of business or they have to lay off 76 00:05:03,959 --> 00:05:08,759 people that sometimes make up pretty good living serving people 77 00:05:08,759 --> 00:05:13,399 who don't make a living. Right, So this has got 78 00:05:13,439 --> 00:05:18,000 them very upset. The directive from Trump also says surrendering 79 00:05:18,040 --> 00:05:22,160 our cities and citizens to disorder and fear is neither 80 00:05:22,199 --> 00:05:26,000 compassionate to the homeless nor other citizens. 81 00:05:27,879 --> 00:05:28,079 Speaker 2: Right. 82 00:05:28,639 --> 00:05:31,959 Speaker 1: See, this is what gets lost in the entire debate 83 00:05:32,199 --> 00:05:36,160 about the homelessness crisis. The open air drug markets. The 84 00:05:36,199 --> 00:05:42,759 criminality that is bred around these large encampments is that 85 00:05:42,800 --> 00:05:44,680 the other people who are living in this society and 86 00:05:44,680 --> 00:05:47,360 they're playing by the rules. They're not living on the 87 00:05:47,399 --> 00:05:50,000 streets right, They're not abusing other people. They're trying to 88 00:05:50,040 --> 00:05:55,079 just live their lives. They are victimized and they are 89 00:05:55,120 --> 00:06:00,920 paying for all of this. What about them? Don't they 90 00:06:01,000 --> 00:06:05,759 get to have their wishes catered to, like the NGO's 91 00:06:05,839 --> 00:06:09,639 wishes are catered to, or like the unhoused wishes are 92 00:06:10,240 --> 00:06:16,120 are catered to. He goes on to say, my administration 93 00:06:16,199 --> 00:06:19,480 will take a new approach focused on protecting public safety. 94 00:06:20,680 --> 00:06:23,600 I've talked about this in many different ways over the years, 95 00:06:23,639 --> 00:06:28,439 which is this thin line between chaos and order. We 96 00:06:28,480 --> 00:06:31,639 live in a high trust society, although that is fraying 97 00:06:33,639 --> 00:06:40,199 once you abandon that level of trust. Or people don't 98 00:06:40,519 --> 00:06:45,199 wish to put their trust in their government because it's 99 00:06:45,279 --> 00:06:50,040 not fulfilling their side of the bargain, the bargain being 100 00:06:50,079 --> 00:06:54,199 the social compact. I will yield to you, Gov Co. 101 00:06:54,600 --> 00:06:58,079 I will give to you some liberty, and I will 102 00:06:58,160 --> 00:07:02,240 yield to you some of my treasure. I will let 103 00:07:02,240 --> 00:07:04,519 you tax me, I will let you tell me what 104 00:07:04,600 --> 00:07:08,240 I can and cannot do. And I understand that by 105 00:07:08,240 --> 00:07:11,720 giving this up, we all are then enjoying a level 106 00:07:11,800 --> 00:07:15,800 of security and protection so we can engage in free 107 00:07:15,839 --> 00:07:21,920 activity and commerce. And if you govc fail, if you 108 00:07:22,120 --> 00:07:26,199 fail in your duty in your end of the bargain, 109 00:07:26,600 --> 00:07:29,879 then you no longer have the legitimacy because the compact 110 00:07:29,959 --> 00:07:35,800 is now nullified. Trump also directed Bondy to work with 111 00:07:35,879 --> 00:07:39,079 the Department of Health and Human Services, the Department of 112 00:07:39,079 --> 00:07:43,079 Housing and Urban Development, and the Department of Transportation to 113 00:07:43,160 --> 00:07:47,040 prioritize federal grants for states and cities that quote enforce 114 00:07:47,160 --> 00:07:52,360 prohibitions on open illicit drug use, urban camping, and loitering. 115 00:07:52,680 --> 00:07:55,959 What does that mean? Means they're going to direct federal 116 00:07:56,000 --> 00:08:01,639 funds to locations that are actually trying to crack down 117 00:08:01,680 --> 00:08:05,560 on this behavior, the ones that are trying to protect 118 00:08:06,319 --> 00:08:10,600 the high trust, open society that the vast majority of 119 00:08:10,639 --> 00:08:15,839 people yielded their tax money and some liberty to participate in. 120 00:08:17,120 --> 00:08:21,079 He's going to put the emphasis of the federal funding 121 00:08:21,519 --> 00:08:25,560 to those governmental entities that are fulfilling their end of 122 00:08:25,600 --> 00:08:30,839 the bargain. In other words, the order requires any discretionary 123 00:08:30,920 --> 00:08:35,960 grants for substance use, prevention, treatment, and recovery do not 124 00:08:36,200 --> 00:08:41,360 go toward funding drug injection sites or illicit drug use. 125 00:08:42,840 --> 00:08:46,519 It also aims to ban sex offenders who receive homelessness 126 00:08:46,559 --> 00:08:51,519 assistance from being housed with children. Donald Trump, that monster. 127 00:08:53,200 --> 00:08:57,440 Does it want homeless people who are sex offenders to 128 00:08:57,519 --> 00:09:05,120 be housed in shelters with kids? Please, Democrats, please oppose 129 00:09:05,159 --> 00:09:10,679 him on this. Please let this be another one of 130 00:09:10,679 --> 00:09:14,840 those eighty twenty issues where you side with the position 131 00:09:14,919 --> 00:09:18,399 that's only popular with twenty percent of the public. Please 132 00:09:18,480 --> 00:09:20,639 do that, all right? 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This executive order from the Trump administration to 154 00:10:29,039 --> 00:10:33,080 the Justice Department to eliminate laws and regulations that prevent 155 00:10:33,200 --> 00:10:38,120 cities from removing homeless people sleeping on their streets, and 156 00:10:38,200 --> 00:10:41,120 also to try to crack down on crime and drug use. 157 00:10:41,960 --> 00:10:44,279 I did see this hang on. Speaking of the crime, 158 00:10:46,759 --> 00:10:53,559 people are celebrating that Baltimore. Violent crime in Baltimore has 159 00:10:53,639 --> 00:11:01,360 plummeted to historic lows. How did that happen? John McCormick, 160 00:11:02,000 --> 00:11:05,679 who is a senior editor at The Dispatch. He says, 161 00:11:05,720 --> 00:11:11,440 I interviewed Baltimore's top prosecutor who defeated the progressive DA 162 00:11:11,600 --> 00:11:14,799 Marilyn Moseby. Remember that woman back in twenty twenty two. 163 00:11:15,279 --> 00:11:18,879 So the top prosecutor asked the prosecutor why the number 164 00:11:18,919 --> 00:11:21,360 of murders hit a fifty year low in the city, 165 00:11:21,720 --> 00:11:25,600 a fifty year low. You know what he said, Now, 166 00:11:25,600 --> 00:11:28,080 this is in Baltimore. This is no right winger, that's 167 00:11:28,120 --> 00:11:35,759 a prosecutor right. Jailing people on felony gun charges seems 168 00:11:35,879 --> 00:11:39,879 far more important than woke policies and life coaches. Oh 169 00:11:39,879 --> 00:11:42,519 that's not a direct quote from him, but that's what 170 00:11:42,519 --> 00:11:46,000 the prosecutor said, was that you jail the people who 171 00:11:46,039 --> 00:11:50,279 have the felony gun charges, especially if they're a criminal 172 00:11:50,679 --> 00:11:55,919 with gun possession charges, because they're a prohibited possessor. Like 173 00:11:56,159 --> 00:12:00,399 the cohort of people that we're talking about are known, right, 174 00:12:00,440 --> 00:12:05,879 These are repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat offenders. It's the same thing. 175 00:12:05,960 --> 00:12:10,679 It's the same thing with with the rash of car burglaries. 176 00:12:10,879 --> 00:12:13,919 My neighborhood just suffered another one. People are all you 177 00:12:13,919 --> 00:12:17,840 know on the Facebook group talking about the latest hit 178 00:12:18,000 --> 00:12:21,200 where some young guy, I'm not sure. I think he 179 00:12:21,639 --> 00:12:24,159 may have been the guy that the Gaston police picked up. 180 00:12:26,000 --> 00:12:29,360 Guy at a rap sheet of like two dozen burglaries. 181 00:12:30,159 --> 00:12:34,919 And the point here, though, is that he's under the 182 00:12:34,919 --> 00:12:39,279 age of eighteen, and they know that they can keep 183 00:12:39,279 --> 00:12:43,799 doing this because there's no punishment. So you have adults 184 00:12:43,840 --> 00:12:47,480 that hire kids, drop them off into neighborhoods. The kids 185 00:12:47,559 --> 00:12:50,440 roll through the neighborhood, popping locks on the door handles 186 00:12:50,440 --> 00:12:52,799 on all of the cars in the driveways. People who 187 00:12:52,840 --> 00:12:55,799 don't lock their cars, they get their cars rummaged through 188 00:12:55,840 --> 00:12:59,159 and things stolen from their vehicles. If you're in a 189 00:12:59,200 --> 00:13:01,559 boding community, I think they just hit somebody or some 190 00:13:01,600 --> 00:13:04,679 community up in like Mountain Island, Lake or Lake Norman 191 00:13:04,799 --> 00:13:07,039 or something. They Oh, I think it was a drift. 192 00:13:07,120 --> 00:13:09,440 The restaurant. Right outside of the restaurant, there's a bunch 193 00:13:09,440 --> 00:13:11,919 of boat slips there. I think they hit those. And 194 00:13:11,960 --> 00:13:14,960 so these juveniles go in, they steal a bunch of stuff, 195 00:13:15,000 --> 00:13:17,120 They bring it back to the waiting car driven by 196 00:13:17,120 --> 00:13:19,879 the adult, and the adults then pawn them off, they 197 00:13:19,919 --> 00:13:24,200 sell them, and they pay the kids out because the 198 00:13:24,240 --> 00:13:27,200 adult knows that if they were to do the crimes, 199 00:13:28,080 --> 00:13:31,759 they would go to jail. If the juveniles do the crimes, 200 00:13:31,879 --> 00:13:34,559 they don't, and they can do them over and over 201 00:13:34,600 --> 00:13:36,039 and over and over and over and over and over 202 00:13:36,039 --> 00:13:37,519 and over and over and over and over and over 203 00:13:37,559 --> 00:13:40,080 and over and over and over again, and they just 204 00:13:40,120 --> 00:13:43,480 get released back to their guardians or their parents, who 205 00:13:43,639 --> 00:13:49,440 obviously have failed in a pretty significant way. But we 206 00:13:49,480 --> 00:13:52,720 don't want to incarceerate a child at the tender age 207 00:13:52,720 --> 00:13:58,320 of sixteen or seventeen, when they've engaged in dozens of burglaries. 208 00:14:00,360 --> 00:14:04,159 We got to rehabilitate them. But we're not. That's the 209 00:14:04,200 --> 00:14:06,919 thing is, we're not rehabilitating them. Are we doesn't seem 210 00:14:06,960 --> 00:14:09,120 like it. It just seems like we're sending a message 211 00:14:09,120 --> 00:14:11,279 that you can keep doing this and when you turn 212 00:14:11,320 --> 00:14:15,840 eighteen records clear, you're fine. All that stuff doesn't matter. 213 00:14:15,879 --> 00:14:23,639 I guess these are decisions, and they these kinds of 214 00:14:23,960 --> 00:14:29,480 ills will persist to the degree that they persist until 215 00:14:29,559 --> 00:14:34,399 people decide they don't want them to persist anymore. Like this, 216 00:14:34,399 --> 00:14:38,000 this is a choice. It's not inevitable. It's a choice. 217 00:14:38,840 --> 00:14:40,679 It's a choice people make when they pull the lever 218 00:14:40,759 --> 00:14:44,679 at the voting stations, or fill in the bubble sheets 219 00:14:44,759 --> 00:14:48,879 or whatever, or press the touchpad. Like these are choices. 220 00:14:49,240 --> 00:14:55,679 You elect dumbasses into office, you get dumb assory. This 221 00:14:55,759 --> 00:14:59,519 is all over the country. Trump's order comes after the 222 00:14:59,559 --> 00:15:04,960 Supreme Court ruled last month that people without homes it's 223 00:15:05,000 --> 00:15:09,679 not homeless. People without homes can be arrested and fined 224 00:15:10,279 --> 00:15:13,960 for sleeping in public spaces. In a six to three decision, 225 00:15:14,039 --> 00:15:17,840 the court's conservative justices upheld a ban that was in 226 00:15:17,919 --> 00:15:21,600 Grant's Past, Oregon because, by the way, what was occurring, 227 00:15:22,919 --> 00:15:26,840 I imagine it still is, you've got certain jurisdictions that 228 00:15:26,919 --> 00:15:30,440 will load up their homeless population and bust them to 229 00:15:30,519 --> 00:15:34,759 some other place, some small town on the outskirts of 230 00:15:34,799 --> 00:15:39,440 the county or something. They send them somewhere else because 231 00:15:39,480 --> 00:15:40,960 they don't want to pay for it. They can't pay 232 00:15:40,960 --> 00:15:42,919 for it anymore, so then they send them someplace else. 233 00:15:44,080 --> 00:15:49,399 So you're forcing the law abiding taxpayers to keep funding 234 00:15:50,519 --> 00:15:54,759 these systems that obviously do not work. Meanwhile, they have 235 00:15:54,879 --> 00:16:00,080 to live in a constantly degraded and eroding quality of 236 00:16:00,080 --> 00:16:07,600 of life in their downtowns. This was the Grant's Pass, 237 00:16:07,639 --> 00:16:12,679 Oregon case that prohibits homeless residents from sleeping outdoors. That 238 00:16:12,759 --> 00:16:15,639 was a city ordinance that they did. Homeless residents of 239 00:16:15,679 --> 00:16:17,960 Grant's Pass face fine starting at two hundred and fifty 240 00:16:18,000 --> 00:16:22,639 dollars and jail time for repeat offenses. What was most 241 00:16:22,679 --> 00:16:25,080 amazing was that some homeless people sued somehow or another, 242 00:16:25,159 --> 00:16:28,519 they were able to get legal representation. They and they 243 00:16:28,519 --> 00:16:30,120 went all the way to the US Supreme Court on 244 00:16:30,159 --> 00:16:33,120 it and they lost. But right now, there are more 245 00:16:33,159 --> 00:16:39,320 than seven hundred and seventy one thousand homeless in the US, 246 00:16:39,600 --> 00:16:42,399 so three quarters of a million people. That's according to 247 00:16:42,440 --> 00:16:46,039 an annual count by the Department of Housing and Urban Development. 248 00:16:46,879 --> 00:16:50,399 It was the highest total ever recorded, and it represents 249 00:16:50,440 --> 00:16:56,600 an eighteen percent increase from the prior year. Trump also 250 00:16:56,639 --> 00:16:59,639 signed an executive order directing the National Park Service to 251 00:17:00,000 --> 00:17:04,200 we are all homeless encampments on federal land. Yeah, have 252 00:17:04,279 --> 00:17:06,960 you been? Have you ever been or seen a homeless encampment, 253 00:17:07,960 --> 00:17:14,720 particularly those that are on like public parkland. They're filthy, obviously, 254 00:17:14,720 --> 00:17:15,920 they're living out in the woods. 255 00:17:16,119 --> 00:17:16,359 Speaker 2: Right. 256 00:17:16,440 --> 00:17:21,359 Speaker 1: It's a very difficult existence. This isn't to say I 257 00:17:21,359 --> 00:17:24,640 have no empathy for the people that are in those conditions, 258 00:17:25,839 --> 00:17:28,119 but there are a whole host of reasons why people 259 00:17:28,240 --> 00:17:32,319 end up there. Yes, drug addiction, yeah, people fell on 260 00:17:32,359 --> 00:17:36,200 hard times. Yes, But also there are people, a lot 261 00:17:36,240 --> 00:17:41,000 of them suffer mental health problems, and there are some 262 00:17:41,119 --> 00:17:44,480 that actually just choose to live that lifestyle for the freedom. 263 00:17:46,039 --> 00:17:50,920 There are countless YouTube interviews and documentaries where people go 264 00:17:51,039 --> 00:17:54,759 to these encampments in various places and they interview the 265 00:17:54,759 --> 00:17:57,039 people that live there and you will hear their stories, 266 00:17:57,400 --> 00:17:59,880 and some of them are like, dude, I make money 267 00:18:00,119 --> 00:18:04,240 being here, Like out in California. They get paid and 268 00:18:04,319 --> 00:18:07,440 it doesn't make sense for them to go to work 269 00:18:07,720 --> 00:18:11,359 because they can just keep living the life that they're living, yes, 270 00:18:11,400 --> 00:18:15,880 with its trials and troubles and such, but they get stipends. 271 00:18:16,759 --> 00:18:18,559 They know the system, they know where to go to 272 00:18:18,599 --> 00:18:20,480 get food and shelter if they need shelter, and they 273 00:18:20,519 --> 00:18:22,359 know where to get you know, the free medical care, 274 00:18:22,920 --> 00:18:25,839 and then they get stipends to pay for whatever addictions 275 00:18:25,880 --> 00:18:31,759 that they are are suffering with. That's not humane. That's 276 00:18:31,759 --> 00:18:34,519 not a humane system to allow people to continue living 277 00:18:34,519 --> 00:18:37,480 out on the streets, under bridges and in the woods. 278 00:18:39,920 --> 00:18:42,799 So yeah, something different has to be done because whatever 279 00:18:42,839 --> 00:18:45,559 the Left has convinced so many of these governments to 280 00:18:45,599 --> 00:18:49,319 do over the last twenty years obviously is not working. 281 00:18:49,559 --> 00:18:52,279 Here's a great idea. 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This is from Jane H speaking of homeless 309 00:20:33,240 --> 00:20:36,039 Like the man I saw sleeping passed out or maybe 310 00:20:36,079 --> 00:20:39,559 dead on the sidewalk on Woodlawn Road near the KFC 311 00:20:39,720 --> 00:20:44,400 last week midday, pants down around his naked butt is 312 00:20:44,480 --> 00:20:48,880 right there for everybody to see. Is this what democrats want? 313 00:20:49,440 --> 00:20:53,000 It's what they tolerate, and it's what voters tolerate, obviously, 314 00:20:53,720 --> 00:20:57,000 And people drive by and you know, maybe feel bad 315 00:20:57,039 --> 00:21:01,000 for the person and wonder what happened that they would 316 00:21:01,119 --> 00:21:03,559 end up there, and then that's it. And here's the 317 00:21:03,559 --> 00:21:05,279 other thing too, Like you've got people that are you know, 318 00:21:05,359 --> 00:21:10,000 flying signs, they say, which is at all of the intersections, 319 00:21:10,920 --> 00:21:13,200 all of the off ramps and stuff with the signs 320 00:21:13,240 --> 00:21:17,359 asking for money and all of that stuff I've talked 321 00:21:17,359 --> 00:21:19,279 about this before in the past. Have you ever noticed 322 00:21:19,319 --> 00:21:22,279 that there's never there are never two people or three 323 00:21:22,319 --> 00:21:26,640 people at the same spot. I mean, yeah, they would 324 00:21:26,680 --> 00:21:29,839 be at maybe the same intersection, but they're at different ramps, right, 325 00:21:30,880 --> 00:21:32,799 And do they just kind of sort that out themselves 326 00:21:32,960 --> 00:21:35,359 or wouldn't somebody like coming to like, hey, this is 327 00:21:35,440 --> 00:21:37,680 my corner. You don't get to use my corner, this 328 00:21:37,799 --> 00:21:39,799 is my spot. I'm here, right. How come there are 329 00:21:39,839 --> 00:21:45,319 never any fights around these locations. M people control those corners. 330 00:21:46,720 --> 00:21:54,519 There are people that manage that through violence, and so 331 00:21:54,680 --> 00:21:57,759 that's why you get people that like, Okay, I'm allowed 332 00:21:57,799 --> 00:22:01,039 to be there during this time and then I have 333 00:22:01,079 --> 00:22:05,480 to leave. And by the way, I remember there was 334 00:22:05,480 --> 00:22:08,160 a news story done years ago in Charlotte. I believe 335 00:22:08,160 --> 00:22:11,079 it was at this very intersection Woodlawn and I seventy seven, 336 00:22:11,200 --> 00:22:14,160 which has always been sort of a hot spot for 337 00:22:14,200 --> 00:22:18,440 this kind of stuff. But that intersection, there was a 338 00:22:18,480 --> 00:22:22,440 guy who used to fly a sign and some local 339 00:22:22,480 --> 00:22:25,079 TV station like followed him after he was done, and 340 00:22:25,079 --> 00:22:27,640 he walked off and got in a like a big 341 00:22:27,920 --> 00:22:31,880 extended cab pickup truck and they went up and got 342 00:22:31,880 --> 00:22:35,200 an interview with him, and he said he makes I 343 00:22:35,200 --> 00:22:37,720 forget what the number was, but it was it was 344 00:22:37,799 --> 00:22:41,920 like a good salary. Basically he was pulling in forty k. 345 00:22:42,200 --> 00:22:47,359 Let's say, all tax free, working a few hours a day, 346 00:22:48,319 --> 00:22:53,160 making a good living like this. So and they know 347 00:22:53,200 --> 00:22:55,160 if they've got a dog, they get paid more. They 348 00:22:55,200 --> 00:22:59,319 got some kids, they get paid more. Right with the 349 00:22:59,400 --> 00:23:06,039 language on the sign says gets them paid more. This 350 00:23:06,200 --> 00:23:10,440 is not a humane way to address this problem. Letting 351 00:23:10,480 --> 00:23:16,000 people live like this is not humane. There is a 352 00:23:16,039 --> 00:23:19,160 proposal that was moving through the legislature this year, also 353 00:23:19,240 --> 00:23:21,200 in this session. Right now, it's been referred to the 354 00:23:21,240 --> 00:23:25,119 Senate Rules Committee, which is basically where legislation goes to die. 355 00:23:25,200 --> 00:23:27,279 If the leadership doesn't want to move it, it's not 356 00:23:27,319 --> 00:23:29,000 going to move. But it got sent to rules back 357 00:23:29,039 --> 00:23:32,559 in May. It came out of the House and it 358 00:23:32,559 --> 00:23:35,920 would put new regulations and limitations on how, where, and 359 00:23:36,000 --> 00:23:40,960 for how long homeless camps would be allowed. Shelters often 360 00:23:41,000 --> 00:23:43,279 don't have enough room, according to the piece by Laura 361 00:23:43,400 --> 00:23:47,839 Leslie and Mark Bergen at WRAL, and some homeless people 362 00:23:48,000 --> 00:23:53,359 choose to camp outdoors anyway credit where it's due. WRAL 363 00:23:53,400 --> 00:23:57,480 acknowledging that some people do choose to camp outside. Why 364 00:23:57,559 --> 00:24:00,480 Because the shelters usually require that you not be high 365 00:24:00,640 --> 00:24:04,200 or drunk or do drugs or drink while you're on 366 00:24:04,240 --> 00:24:09,880 the premises, and some people choose not to live under 367 00:24:09,920 --> 00:24:15,000 those burdensome onerous conditions. But some residents and businesses near 368 00:24:15,039 --> 00:24:18,720 the homeless camp say that they generate trash and unsanitary conditions. 369 00:24:19,839 --> 00:24:24,599 That's true, they do. They harm property values, and they 370 00:24:24,720 --> 00:24:29,279 drive customers away. House Bill seven eighty one, sponsored by 371 00:24:29,359 --> 00:24:35,839 Representative Brian Biggs from Randolph. Big said local governments don't 372 00:24:35,839 --> 00:24:40,559 know what to do. It's unsanitary. Does this bill criminalize homelessness, No, 373 00:24:40,680 --> 00:24:43,359 he says, it addresses the use of public property for 374 00:24:43,440 --> 00:24:49,839 camping and sleeping without prohibiting homelessness itself. Seven eighty one 375 00:24:49,839 --> 00:24:53,079 would give local governments authority to designate a publicly owned 376 00:24:53,119 --> 00:24:56,359 outdoor space to be used for camping and sleeping, but 377 00:24:56,680 --> 00:25:02,319 only if local indoor shelters do not have sufficient space 378 00:25:02,400 --> 00:25:06,160 to meet demand, and only for one year at a time, 379 00:25:06,200 --> 00:25:09,480 with the approval of state and local health officials. The 380 00:25:09,559 --> 00:25:13,000 site could not be close to residentially zoned areas and 381 00:25:13,079 --> 00:25:17,440 could not adversely affect commercial property or schools. The local 382 00:25:17,519 --> 00:25:20,839 government would have to provide security, it would have to 383 00:25:20,839 --> 00:25:24,000 supply toilets, it would have to supply running water for 384 00:25:24,079 --> 00:25:27,359 sanitation purposes. There is a reason why these laws came 385 00:25:27,400 --> 00:25:34,319 into existence. This is how like the plague spreads people. Right, 386 00:25:35,559 --> 00:25:37,839 all of you lefties that were like wear the masks, 387 00:25:37,839 --> 00:25:42,319 stand six feet apart. You're literally killing grandma. Like that 388 00:25:42,599 --> 00:25:45,200 same reason that you're relying on to make those arguments 389 00:25:45,279 --> 00:25:48,000 is the reason why there were sanitation codes. That's why 390 00:25:48,039 --> 00:25:51,519 you don't get just to poop in the streets, how 391 00:25:51,559 --> 00:25:56,240 you spread disease. It would also the local governments would 392 00:25:56,240 --> 00:25:59,880 also have to offer access to behavioral health services and 393 00:26:00,200 --> 00:26:03,000 enforce a ban on the use of alcohol or drugs. 394 00:26:03,200 --> 00:26:06,880 So this would be the criteria for if you want 395 00:26:06,920 --> 00:26:10,880 to have an open air homeless encampment someplace, If your 396 00:26:10,960 --> 00:26:13,160 local government and you want a virtue signal that you 397 00:26:13,240 --> 00:26:16,279 care more about people than everybody else, and you want 398 00:26:16,279 --> 00:26:20,680 to let people camp on this public property, you can 399 00:26:20,720 --> 00:26:24,440 do so. But here are the rules. You don't get 400 00:26:24,440 --> 00:26:26,759 to let people live in their own filth. You don't 401 00:26:27,640 --> 00:26:30,359 get to let it turn into an open air drug market. 402 00:26:33,759 --> 00:26:38,680 Pretty simple. Otherwise you don't follow the criteria local governments 403 00:26:38,680 --> 00:26:41,759 would be banned from allowing unauthorized camping or sleeping at 404 00:26:41,799 --> 00:26:45,279 any location. Any resident or business owner in the locality 405 00:26:45,319 --> 00:26:47,279 could go to court to force their local government to 406 00:26:47,319 --> 00:26:51,279 take action to disperse any other encampments. The bill would 407 00:26:51,279 --> 00:26:54,559 not apply during state or local states of emergency, though, 408 00:26:55,480 --> 00:26:58,079 which I think is fair. You know, stories are powerful. 409 00:26:58,119 --> 00:27:01,240 They help us make sense of things, to understand and experiences. 410 00:27:01,480 --> 00:27:03,759 Stories connect us to the people of our past while 411 00:27:03,799 --> 00:27:07,200 transcending generations. They help us process the meaning of life, 412 00:27:07,240 --> 00:27:11,160 and our stories are told through images and videos. 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Pete, 431 00:28:11,599 --> 00:28:12,400 how you doing today? 432 00:28:12,559 --> 00:28:14,680 Speaker 1: I'm all right, so do I hope you don't mind, 433 00:28:15,039 --> 00:28:18,039 but I have to vet you just to make sure 434 00:28:18,079 --> 00:28:21,240 you actually are Mayor Gray from Tiga K. So who's 435 00:28:21,240 --> 00:28:23,720 your mayor pro tem? Who's your mayor pro tem? 436 00:28:24,519 --> 00:28:27,279 Speaker 2: Well, at first when I was elected, my mayor pro 437 00:28:27,359 --> 00:28:31,000 temp was Tom Heislip. Now my mayor pro temp is 438 00:28:31,039 --> 00:28:31,720 Carmen Miller. 439 00:28:31,880 --> 00:28:34,240 Speaker 1: Okay, he passes. All right, I believe you're the mayor 440 00:28:34,240 --> 00:28:37,720 of Tika k all right. Nobody would know those names 441 00:28:37,720 --> 00:28:40,759 except the mayor of Tika k Okay. So yeah, so 442 00:28:40,839 --> 00:28:41,880 what's up? What's going on? 443 00:28:42,839 --> 00:28:44,839 Speaker 2: Well? I was, I was listening to you as I 444 00:28:44,920 --> 00:28:46,920 do every day. Thank you for what you do, Pete. 445 00:28:46,960 --> 00:28:49,599 You put on a for Riffy shows a lot of information, 446 00:28:49,799 --> 00:28:55,720 so great job. With the with the homeless encampments and 447 00:28:56,039 --> 00:28:59,680 the homeless problem that we have around the city of 448 00:28:59,680 --> 00:29:05,039 tu Kay adopted an ordnance that for hibbits homeless encampments 449 00:29:05,640 --> 00:29:09,000 as such in our city limits. Uh. So just wanted 450 00:29:09,000 --> 00:29:10,680 to throw it out there. If anyone from any of 451 00:29:10,720 --> 00:29:15,559 our local cities or or anyone from council or other 452 00:29:15,599 --> 00:29:19,440 folks having this problem, just give me a call. You 453 00:29:19,480 --> 00:29:22,039 can look me up, Google me. But we have an 454 00:29:22,119 --> 00:29:25,279 ordinance already on our books that we've approved that prohibits that. 455 00:29:26,599 --> 00:29:29,440 And it's just we were having a little bit of 456 00:29:29,480 --> 00:29:30,039 an issue. 457 00:29:30,200 --> 00:29:30,480 Speaker 1: Uh. 458 00:29:30,559 --> 00:29:34,119 Speaker 2: And with that, we like to be proactive on everything 459 00:29:34,160 --> 00:29:36,920 that we do in the city, and we made it 460 00:29:36,920 --> 00:29:39,200 to where you cannot do that in our city and 461 00:29:39,240 --> 00:29:42,160 that that would be you will be subject to arrest 462 00:29:42,200 --> 00:29:42,759 and removal. 463 00:29:43,359 --> 00:29:44,880 Speaker 1: How long ago did you do that? 464 00:29:46,599 --> 00:29:48,000 Speaker 2: Uh? What was that last year? 465 00:29:48,160 --> 00:29:52,640 Speaker 1: Okay? As has anybody like threatened litigation or court challenges? 466 00:29:53,440 --> 00:29:56,359 Speaker 2: No? No, Basically, we just want to keep our city beautiful, 467 00:29:56,400 --> 00:29:58,799 We want to keep it safe, uh, and we want 468 00:29:58,799 --> 00:30:01,400 to keep it to wear our businesinesses and our residents 469 00:30:01,480 --> 00:30:03,759 can can go and and and do as they please, 470 00:30:04,319 --> 00:30:06,599 uh and not be inhibited by a bunch of trash 471 00:30:06,640 --> 00:30:08,720 and a bunch of stuff that we don't need there. 472 00:30:09,240 --> 00:30:12,440 Uh you know. I we pride ourselves in t K 473 00:30:12,599 --> 00:30:15,079 of being the save the city in South Carolina. We 474 00:30:15,119 --> 00:30:19,319 pride ourselves on being a clean city and a city 475 00:30:19,359 --> 00:30:22,359 that we take care of each other. Uh. In that 476 00:30:22,880 --> 00:30:25,599 if we do have some folks that that that are 477 00:30:25,880 --> 00:30:29,119 you know, are homeless and and they're not able to 478 00:30:28,759 --> 00:30:30,759 to to have a place to live, we try to 479 00:30:30,799 --> 00:30:33,039 work with those folks as well. And like to give 480 00:30:33,079 --> 00:30:34,960 a shout out to the folks down at pilgrims In 481 00:30:35,039 --> 00:30:37,559 and in rock Hill. They do a great job with 482 00:30:37,640 --> 00:30:41,240 those folks. So if if anyone is looking, are in 483 00:30:41,359 --> 00:30:46,400 need of a of a place to stay, and you 484 00:30:46,440 --> 00:30:48,559 know the great folks down at Pilgrim's In they do 485 00:30:48,599 --> 00:30:51,920 a great job. They also have some some work programs 486 00:30:51,920 --> 00:30:53,839 and everything as well to help folks get back on 487 00:30:53,880 --> 00:30:57,160 their feet. The Family Promise of York County also does 488 00:30:57,200 --> 00:31:00,240 that as well. So just wanted to give an, you know, 489 00:31:00,319 --> 00:31:03,000 just a little shout out to those folks. If you 490 00:31:03,000 --> 00:31:05,599 find yourself in those needs then that would in need 491 00:31:05,640 --> 00:31:09,960 of some help, you know, best thing to reach out 492 00:31:09,960 --> 00:31:13,200 to your local church. Those folks can can point you 493 00:31:13,200 --> 00:31:14,920 in the right direction, they can give you the help, 494 00:31:14,920 --> 00:31:18,559 and they can pray for you, which is a big thing. 495 00:31:19,279 --> 00:31:21,960 If you need any help, really you need to have 496 00:31:22,079 --> 00:31:25,880 the Good Lord for it and he'll provide. So just 497 00:31:25,920 --> 00:31:29,039 wanted to get that out to everybody information and stuff. 498 00:31:29,240 --> 00:31:32,200 If some of the local municipalities need that information. It's 499 00:31:32,200 --> 00:31:34,680 on our website. You can go and look that order. 500 00:31:34,720 --> 00:31:38,839 It's up. No problems, but it's worked well for us 501 00:31:38,880 --> 00:31:41,200 and with those folks that we do find in need, 502 00:31:41,559 --> 00:31:43,400 we do help those folks to get to where they 503 00:31:43,440 --> 00:31:46,880 need to go to fine help and working with Amy 504 00:31:47,200 --> 00:31:50,359 and other folks around York County. So just encourage everybody 505 00:31:50,359 --> 00:31:52,480 to reach out to the resources that you have around 506 00:31:52,559 --> 00:31:53,000 you well. 507 00:31:53,039 --> 00:31:54,240 Speaker 1: And it was one of the things. One of my 508 00:31:54,279 --> 00:31:56,680 first jobs I ever had was at my local church. 509 00:31:56,720 --> 00:31:59,200 I was like fifteen years old. I was answering phones 510 00:31:59,240 --> 00:32:04,400 and stuff in the rectory after hours and stuff, and 511 00:32:04,839 --> 00:32:08,440 people would come up and seek money from the church. 512 00:32:08,559 --> 00:32:11,279 And I heard all sorts of stories from people that 513 00:32:11,319 --> 00:32:13,799 were trying to get me, this fifteen year old kid 514 00:32:13,880 --> 00:32:16,720 working the phones, you know, to give them checks. And 515 00:32:16,759 --> 00:32:19,000 I was like, I can't do that, I said, But 516 00:32:19,039 --> 00:32:20,880 I can call down one of the priests and they 517 00:32:20,920 --> 00:32:24,640 can talk to you. And what the priests had and 518 00:32:24,680 --> 00:32:27,279 what the church had done was they had partnered with, 519 00:32:28,039 --> 00:32:30,839 you know, local shelter. They had a deli down the 520 00:32:30,960 --> 00:32:33,200 road that they would give vouchers to so they could 521 00:32:33,240 --> 00:32:35,920 go get food. And I was amazed. Is where I 522 00:32:35,920 --> 00:32:39,880 first learned in these first interactions that so many of 523 00:32:39,880 --> 00:32:41,920 the people that came in, they were asking for the money. 524 00:32:42,200 --> 00:32:46,160 When given the opportunity for the services and for the 525 00:32:46,200 --> 00:32:48,559 food that they claimed they need the money for, they 526 00:32:48,599 --> 00:32:50,960 refused to take the vouchers. They refused to go to 527 00:32:51,000 --> 00:32:53,359 the shelter. They didn't want that. They just wanted the 528 00:32:53,400 --> 00:32:56,839 money and they didn't want those services. 529 00:32:57,279 --> 00:33:01,400 Speaker 2: Yes, sir, those folks are out there. It's unfortunate that 530 00:33:01,480 --> 00:33:04,000 day they would rather, you know, have a hand out. 531 00:33:04,319 --> 00:33:07,119 I'm one of those guys teaching man to fish. Yeah, 532 00:33:07,240 --> 00:33:09,759 so you know, I just want to encourage everybody to 533 00:33:09,759 --> 00:33:11,839 reach out to you to your local churches, reach out 534 00:33:11,880 --> 00:33:15,640 to your local folks, and and if you want help, 535 00:33:15,720 --> 00:33:18,680 it's out there. You just need to reach out to 536 00:33:18,720 --> 00:33:20,599 folks that can put you in touch with folks that 537 00:33:20,680 --> 00:33:23,799 can help you. There's a lot of programs that we 538 00:33:23,880 --> 00:33:27,440 have to help folks that are had had a hard time. 539 00:33:27,960 --> 00:33:30,160 And I remind all of my folks too. Hey, folks, 540 00:33:30,200 --> 00:33:32,519 you know what, by the grace of God, we're able 541 00:33:32,559 --> 00:33:35,519 to to park ourselves underneath the rooms. We're able to 542 00:33:35,519 --> 00:33:38,839 be safe, and we're able to do what we do 543 00:33:38,920 --> 00:33:42,079 every day. There's folks out there that there one pay 544 00:33:42,160 --> 00:33:45,119 check away from being being out of their homes or 545 00:33:45,400 --> 00:33:46,119 out of their car. 546 00:33:46,640 --> 00:33:46,839 Speaker 1: Uh. 547 00:33:46,880 --> 00:33:49,960 Speaker 2: You know, but would in that keep your head up, 548 00:33:50,079 --> 00:33:54,079 keep going. Uh. Things get better, But do reach out 549 00:33:54,119 --> 00:33:57,720 and do and and do seek that help. It's out 550 00:33:57,720 --> 00:33:59,799 there for you if you need it and you want it. 551 00:34:00,319 --> 00:34:03,279 Another thing for our veterans, you know, we've got our 552 00:34:03,359 --> 00:34:07,640 Veterans Association as well. You know, veterans, if you're within 553 00:34:07,680 --> 00:34:09,920 the sign of my voice and you need help, you 554 00:34:09,960 --> 00:34:12,920 can reach out to our Veterans Association. We are there 555 00:34:12,960 --> 00:34:16,199 to help any veteran that is in need. Uh. And 556 00:34:16,599 --> 00:34:20,239 we've got programs throughout the federal government has programs throughout 557 00:34:20,280 --> 00:34:23,760 the nation to help those folks. And especially when you're 558 00:34:23,760 --> 00:34:25,719 a veteran, you don't need to be sleeping on the street. 559 00:34:26,039 --> 00:34:27,840 You need to be taken care of. And there are 560 00:34:27,840 --> 00:34:30,719 programs out there and help that you can get to 561 00:34:31,320 --> 00:34:34,320 help you out with anything that you need. So yeah, 562 00:34:34,400 --> 00:34:40,039 you know, I find it very very disappointing to me 563 00:34:40,440 --> 00:34:44,079 that we're taking care of of everybody else but our veterans. 564 00:34:44,360 --> 00:34:48,159 Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree, I hear you. Uh, Mayor, I appreciate 565 00:34:48,159 --> 00:34:52,239 the call. Thanks for thanks for joining. Yes, sir, all right, 566 00:34:52,280 --> 00:34:54,519 take care of all right. So that's the mayor of 567 00:34:54,599 --> 00:34:59,599 t Chris Gray. This is Tara. Hello, Tara, welcome to 568 00:34:59,639 --> 00:34:59,960 the show. 569 00:35:01,000 --> 00:35:04,159 Speaker 3: Hey Pete. So, when my kids were in high school 570 00:35:04,159 --> 00:35:06,519 in Myers Park, one of the guys that was doing 571 00:35:06,599 --> 00:35:10,280 like an eagle scout something whatever, but he observed and interviewed. 572 00:35:10,559 --> 00:35:13,880 You know, the guys that are on Billy Graham coming 573 00:35:13,960 --> 00:35:17,360 off from the airport and then thereby that Marshals and 574 00:35:17,559 --> 00:35:20,440 there's there's like eight off them. One lady sits there 575 00:35:20,480 --> 00:35:23,519 with her diapers on in a wheelchair. YadA yah. They 576 00:35:23,599 --> 00:35:27,320 parked their van at that Marriott courtyard and they all 577 00:35:27,360 --> 00:35:29,599 got together, said we'd interview them, and he said the 578 00:35:29,639 --> 00:35:33,440 same thing, why should we work. They lived in a 579 00:35:33,480 --> 00:35:37,400 house together, eight of them on Lake Norman, Nice and 580 00:35:37,840 --> 00:35:40,920 I think somebody took it to the news one day 581 00:35:41,000 --> 00:35:43,320 he said, why should we work, why should we pete 582 00:35:43,360 --> 00:35:46,599 pay the government when this has happening. So what that 583 00:35:46,639 --> 00:35:48,679 guy said, who I want him to run for a 584 00:35:48,719 --> 00:35:54,480 governor of North Carolina please, is if you want the help, 585 00:35:54,639 --> 00:35:58,119 it is there. Yeah, everywhere you turned there was work. 586 00:35:58,400 --> 00:36:02,239 If you decide you don't want it, even veterans, and 587 00:36:02,320 --> 00:36:05,159 I have veterans in my family and they're not homeless. 588 00:36:06,519 --> 00:36:08,800 The help is there, but you have to want it. 589 00:36:09,239 --> 00:36:12,800 With anything. It is there so much. I live in 590 00:36:12,840 --> 00:36:14,760 a place where they feed them three times a day 591 00:36:14,760 --> 00:36:17,679 and I still see needles, I see people dead. I 592 00:36:17,719 --> 00:36:21,480 see it's horrific, but it's you know. 593 00:36:21,960 --> 00:36:26,199 Speaker 1: It's not humane or whatever. Yeah, no, it's not humane. 594 00:36:26,000 --> 00:36:29,880 The allowing people to live like that is not a 595 00:36:30,000 --> 00:36:31,159 humane response. 596 00:36:32,000 --> 00:36:35,320 Speaker 3: So absolutely I had to teach my children that because 597 00:36:35,400 --> 00:36:37,679 he's like, let's give him cigarettes, let's give them food, 598 00:36:37,679 --> 00:36:40,199 and then he got spin on from giving a guy 599 00:36:40,280 --> 00:36:41,440 some crackers one day. 600 00:36:41,719 --> 00:36:42,000 Speaker 2: Yeah. 601 00:36:42,280 --> 00:36:44,880 Speaker 1: Oh, I've had my wife and I have had my 602 00:36:44,920 --> 00:36:47,920 wife will like she works in uptown Charlotte and terror, 603 00:36:47,920 --> 00:36:50,599 I appreciate the call, but as she works in uptown 604 00:36:50,639 --> 00:36:54,320 and she's given people food, but like she's coming home 605 00:36:54,320 --> 00:36:56,199 from lunch she didn't need her whole lunch, and they're like, hey, 606 00:36:56,239 --> 00:36:57,400 do you have any money. She's like, well you can 607 00:36:57,440 --> 00:37:00,800 have this food, and like she's been rejected, like I 608 00:37:00,840 --> 00:37:03,800 don't want that. I'm not gonna eat that. Like okay, 609 00:37:04,719 --> 00:37:07,000 all right, that'll do it for this episode. Thank you 610 00:37:07,079 --> 00:37:09,079 so much for listening. I could not do the show 611 00:37:09,079 --> 00:37:11,599 without your support and the support of the businesses that 612 00:37:11,719 --> 00:37:14,800 advertise on the podcast, so if you'd like, please support 613 00:37:14,800 --> 00:37:16,480 them too and tell them you heard it here. You 614 00:37:16,519 --> 00:37:19,119 can also become a patron at my Patreon page or 615 00:37:19,239 --> 00:37:22,840 go to thepetecleanershow dot com. Again, thank you so much 616 00:37:22,880 --> 00:37:29,320 for listening, and don't break anything while I'm gone.