CAN'T BAN THE ACT, WE'LL BAN THE EQUIPMENT

In 2009, the Council shelved a bill that would have outlawed sitting,

sleeping or lying down on a public sidewalk. Earlier this year, the city banned tents ...

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What is it all really about? Hawaii to Host APEC Summit in 2011

Councilwoman Ann Kobayashi, who introduced the bill, said the police can begin enforcing

the bill by just issuing warnings. Meanwhile, University of Hawaii students can help with

the surveying, she said.

The sidewalk proposal is the latest in a series of moves that clear the homeless from public

areas.

Daniel Gluck, senior staff attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union, submitted written

testimony opposing the bill. Not only does the bill violate First Amendment rights

guaranteeing individual liberties, he said, but the measure is punitive toward the homeless.

Kobayashi said the bill is designed to ensure the rights of pedestrians to use sidewalks,

 not to single out the homeless.

http://www.eastwestcenter.org/, www.apec.org

SITTING CAN BE UNHEALTHY

YOU GOTTA SIT UPhttp://bit.ly/b2NZhm

WE'RE NOT SO DIFFERENT,

ARE WE? http://xr.com/y1fm

 

Is THIS Your future? China locks up poor at night

July 15, 2010 by JackBlood  
Filed under Police State

1 Comment

Its not hard to imagine something like this happening in a Country near you! Using something like immigration or "crime" as an excuse…. You get locked up for your "safety" and everyone else moves through continuous checkpoints checking their papers… Keep in mind that China is the new model for the future! ~ (LOL – Here in the US, the Rich lock themselves up in gilded cages, and gated communes – to protect themselves from YOU.)
~ JB
Beijing starts locking poor villages at night
Government cracks down on rising crime in migrant neighborhoods
by CARA ANNA

Lockdowns divide residents at Kalihi public housing

by Dave Young and Tyler Nigut

Due to a recent bout of violence at the Kalihi Valley Homes in Honolulu, the state has imposed a mandatory curfew on the housing project's residents. Not only are the projects in Kalihi affected by the curfew, but a similar rule will be imposed on the Kuhio Park Terrace housing projects, also located in Honolulu.

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Mayor's plan is assault on rights

I am afraid that Mayor Mufi Hannemann is treading in dangerous waters in proposing a plan that would force severely mentally ill homeless people to receive treatment. Is the City and County of Honolulu willing to use the medical profession to deprive people of their liberty, under the flimsy pretext of mental illness?
The plan could allow police who get clearance from a police psychologist to bring a severely mentally ill person to a hospital for evaluation. This homeless person would go through a civil process that would commit them to mandatory outpatient treatment.
Existing laws that allow authorities to impose involuntary outpatient mental health treatment on homeless people is simply a system of social control disguised as treatment. Should forced psychiatric drugging be interpreted as assault and battery or medical treatment?

Hooipo DeCambra
Waianae

Mayor Addresses Issue Of Chronic Homeless

Suggests Involuntary Out-Patient Treatment For Mentally Ill Homeless

Denby Fawcett KITV 4 News Reporter

POSTED: 7:16 pm HST July 14, 2010
UPDATED: 10:19 pm HST July 14, 2010

Currently, Oahu's most severely mentally ill homeless get help only after they've been arrested or they're sick enough to be taken to hospital emergency rooms, but after that, many return to the streets.

Debbie Morikawa, the city's specialist on homelessness, said the problem is there is no continuing care for the mentally ill homeless once they go back to the streets where most of them refuse further treatment.
Police psychologist Michael Christopher said Wednesday, "You can't help someone who is seriously mentally ill if they are living on the sidewalks."
Morikawa said, "Up until now, we have not had any tools to deal with people who refuse treatment, but having something like the involuntary treatment law would mean we would be able to provide services and supports to people on an out-patient basis."
Mayor Mufi Hannemann brought up "involuntary treatment" Wednesday as one of the options under consideration to help Oahu's vagrants and chronic homeless who refuse to leave parks and other public places.
Hannemann said, "There is a solid state law on involuntary mental health outpatient treatment for people with a severe mental disorder that has never been used. We want to tap into that law by pursuing a test case to establish a system."
Under the law, police with agreement and permission from a police psychologist could bring a severely mentally ill homeless person to the hospital for evaluation, and then, through a civil process through family court set up guardianship for the person and mandatory outpatient treatment.

The Obama administration today released a bold plan specifically aiming to end homelessness in America in 10 years, with chronic and veteran homelessness eliminated within 5 years. Officials have simplified applications for students seeking financial aid for college and have improved the ability to quickly identify homeless people with disabilities.

47 OR FIGHT

Florida Becomes the Third State with Homeless Hate Crime Protections, 47 to Go  http://xr.com/72vt

by Josie Raymond

Maryland, Maine and Washington, D.C.

Vernon says,
IN HAWAII THE PERPETRATORS WILL HAVE TO GET IN LINE BEHIND THE STATE AND CITY/COUNTY

NESTOR STANDS TALL

AMONG BS ARTISTS

Posted on: Thursday, February 11, 2010

Shopping cart, tent bills advance

 

 By Gordon Y.K. Pang     http://tiny.cc/r7v5a

Advertiser

Staff Writer

 

The parks are accessible, but maybe not acceptable.

 

Homelessness is not acceptable

to sane and caring people. But some others who claim

to be speak for tourists, (really residents and business owners)

decry the presumed obstruction of shopping carts and tents.

 

This is from the same mental giants that outlawed tents at night

when no one is around and most people are are not in the park,

and made sleeping at night in the park illegal, when most people

are asleep. DUH.

 

Nestor Garcia has the gumption to stand alone and call spurious

legislation, designed to penalize and outlaw what homeless people

do and what they use, what it is.

 

His lesser colleagues have again shown there sly and crafty cowardice.

MUFIKINS LOWERS THE BOOM

NO SHOPPING CARTS IN CITY PARKS SIGNED BY MUFI HANNEMANN

 

 

I sent my information to the Mayor of Honolulu and have yet to receive a response from anyone.

 

I also sent acomplaint about my backpack and HPDs handling of the case, or I should say, mishandling. No response from CITY HALL OR HANNEMANN. 

 

 

yinsay@aol.com

The 4th Amendment to the Constitution
From:	yinsay@aol.com
To:	mayor@honolulu.gov,complaints@honolulu
Date:	Tue, Aug 18, 2009 11:04 am

Why there is a shopping cart on the lawn of the State Library.

 

THIS GUY, I LIKE

HE'S GOT THE GUTS TO SAY WHAT ALOT OF OTHERS ARE THINKING.

That's entertainment!

Hey VERNON,
There has been a new response posted to the following discussion on Change.org:
Hawaii's Homeless Are Leavin' on a Jet Plane

----------------------------------------------
They should send all the homeless to kaho'olawe island and let them eke out a living there. We could do helicopter drops of grain like in those UNICEF commercials. Give them some fishing poles and shovels. We could also do some kind of reality show of this and air it on OC16. Now that is what I call a solution! Oh BTW the show could be called "SURVIVOR KAHO'OLAWE" . All the Ad revenue could be used to pay for the helicopter and food.

OR ...

We can buy them and when I say "them" I mean all of them a free ticket to some unpopulated island in the pacific somewhere. We do have the Compact of Free Association with Micronesia. Send all those micros back home. Let's take care of the KAMA'AINA first. We can't even do this. I mean how does these "homeless" micros get public housing ahead of Kama'aina in need of public housing.

posted by brad yamamoto

HONOLULU CITY COUNCIL - CUTTING FOOD SOURCES

The City Council knows that most meals for the homeless, those with shopping carts included, are served in the parks. Yet they seek to close the park to those with shopping carts.

It's amazing the number of rules in the ordinace,
especially, those I see transgressed almost daily.
People conditioning surfboards, skateboarding,

(park employees) killing birds,

smoking marijuana,  drinking and getting loud (police coming out of the sub-station and asking them if they are OK) children out and about at 2:00am

- not homeless -

and being cussed at by the "adults" that have
charge of them, etc. I mean, there ought to be
a law. Y' na amean?

Vernon Balmer Jr.

VERNON'S ONE

But you won't find his story here.

Homeless share view of Waikiki as paradise - Hawaii News ...

Feb 16, 2010 ... Hawaii Newspaper - Hawaii coverage and reports on news, sports, ... HOMELESS IN PLAIN SIGHT. Homeless share view of Waikiki as paradise ...
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By the numbers: Who are Waikiki's homeless? - Hawaii News ...

Feb 16, 2010 ... Hawaii Newspaper - Hawaii coverage and reports on news, sports, ... HOMELESS IN PLAIN SIGHT. By the numbers: Who are Waikiki's homeless? ...
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RAMMING A SHOPPING CART BILL

UP THE HOMELESS SPHINCTER  

UP THE HOMELESS SPHINCTER  If we can't outlaw homelessness we'll make what they do illegal We're the

The Honlulu City Council is

quietly attempting to pass a bill

that will add a ban on shopping carts

to park rules.

 

At their website you can see how much and

what they spend money on, besides reeming

the homeless.

Honolulu City Council 530 S. King Street, Room 202 Honolulu, Hawaii 96813 Fax:  (808) 768-5011       The nine councilmembers, each elected from one of Oahu's nine separate geographic districts; for a term of two or four years, make up the City Council.    District 1 - Todd K. Apo Ewa, Ewa Beach, Honouliuli, West Loch, Kapolei, Kalaeloa (Barber's Point), Honokai Hale and Nanakai Gardens, Ko'Olina, Nanakuli, Wai'anae, Makaha, Keaau, and Makua.  (808) 768-5001   tapo@honolulu.gov        Expenditure Report  (Current FY09-10)       Expenditure Report  (FY08-09)       Expenditure Report  (FY07-08)       Expenditure Report (FY06-07)       Expenditure Report (FY05-06)   District 2 - Donovan M. Dela Cruz Mililani Mauka, Wahiawa, Whitmore Village, Mokuleia, Waialua, Haleiwa, Waimea, Pupukea, Sunset Beach, Kahuku, Laie, Hauula, Punaluu, Kahana, Kaaawa, Kualoa, Waiahole, Waikane, Kahaluu, Ahuimanu, and a portion of Heeia.  (808) 768-5002   dmdelacruz@honolulu.gov       Expenditure Report  (Current FY09-10)       Expenditure Report  (FY08-09)       Expenditure Report (FY07-08)       Expenditure Report (FY06-07)       Expenditure Report (FY05-06)   District 3 - Ikaika Anderson Waimanalo, Kailua and most of Kaneohe.  (808) 768-5003    ianderson@honolulu.gov       Expenditure Report  (Current FY09-10)   District 4 - Charles K. Djou Hawaii Kai, Kuliouou, Niu Valley, Aina Haina, Wailupe, Waialae-Iki, Kalani Valley, Kahala, Wilhemina Rise, a portion of Kapahulu, a portion of Kaimuki,  Diamond Head, Waikiki, and a portion of Ala  Moana.  (808) 768-5004   cdjou@honolulu.gov        Expenditure Report  (Current FY09-10)       Expenditure Report  (FY08-09)       Expenditure Report (FY07-08)        Expenditure Report (FY06-07)       Expenditure Report (FY05-06)   District 5 - Ann Kobayashi A portion of Kapahulu and Kaimuki; Palolo Valley, St. Louis Heights, Manoa, Moiliili, Mc Cully, Kakaako, and a portion of Ala Moana and Makiki.  (808) 768-5005   akobayashi@honolulu.gov       Expenditure Report  (Current FY09-10)     District 6 - Rod Tam A portion of Makiki, Downtown Honolulu, Punchbowl, Liliha, Pauoa Valley, Nuuanu, Alewa Heights, Papakolea, Kalihi Valley, and a portion of Kalihi.  (808) 768-5006   rtam@honolulu.gov       Expenditure Report  (Current FY09-10)       Expenditure Report  (FY08-09)       Expenditure Report (FY07-08)        Expenditure Report (FY06-07)       Expenditure Report (FY05-06)   District 7 - Romy M. Cachola A portion of upper Kalihi, Kapalama, Palama, Iwilei, Kalihi Kai, Sand Island, Mapunapuna, Airport, Hickam, Pearl Harbor, Ford Island, Aliamanu, Salt Lake, Foster Village, Stadium and Halawa Valley Estates.  (808) 768-5007   rcachola@honolulu.gov       Expenditure Report  (Current FY09-10)       Expenditure Report  (FY08-09)       Expenditure Report (FY07-08)        Expenditure Report (FY06-07)       Expenditure Report (FY05-06)    District 8 - Gary H. Okino Fort Shafter, Moanalua, Halawa, Aiea, Waimalu, Pearl City, Pearl City Peninsula, Seaview, Crestview, and Waipio Gentry.  (808) 768-5008   gokino@honolulu.gov       Expenditure Report  (Current FY09-10)       Expenditure Report  (FY08-09)       Expenditure Report (FY07-08)        Expenditure Report (FY06-07)       Expenditure Report (FY05-06)   District 9 - Nestor R. Garcia Waikele, Waipahu, Village Park, Makakilo, Kunia, and Mililani  Town.  (808) 768-5009   ngarcia@honolulu.gov       Expenditure Report  (Current FY09-10)       Expenditure Report  (FY08-09)       Expenditure Report (FY07-08)        Expenditure Report (FY06-07)

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