{"id":8664,"date":"2013-01-31T08:37:16","date_gmt":"2013-01-31T15:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/?p=8664"},"modified":"2013-02-02T12:57:20","modified_gmt":"2013-02-02T19:57:20","slug":"olympia-1-ordinance-too-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/olympia-1-ordinance-too-far\/","title":{"rendered":"Olympia: An Ordinance Too Far?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Mayor’s Ultimatum<\/p><\/div>\n

On 1-8-13, Olympia’s City Council unanimously passed an ordinance banning ‘camping’ (i.e. sleeping) on its public property\/spaces despite unanimous public comment against the law slated \u00a0to \u00a0take effect on 2-8-13. If this story sounds familiar, it’s because it is. Elected representatives continue to stonewall their constituents everywhere in America. It amounts to nothing less than a failure of government.<\/p>\n

That this ordinance was directed at the homeless was transparent and it virtually criminalized an entire class of people in Olympia, by definition. The preening mayor enabled by his fellow council members vacuously boasted of how generous they had been toward homeless issues (while simultaneously grousing about the relatively inferior efforts of their nearby sister cities and the County of Thurston) and openly relished the thought of how his passage of the hateful ordinance was ‘beneficial’ in that he thought it would motivate other agencies and NGO’s to do more.<\/p>\n

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The Least of These<\/p><\/div>\n

Click HERE<\/strong><\/a> for a legal analysis of the unconstitutionality of Olympia’s poverty laws.<\/p>\n

Anonymous sources promise there will be campaigns of civil disobedience in protest of the new ordinance targeting the homeless.<\/p>\n

“You measure democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.” -Abbie Hoffman-<\/p>\n

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The Solution<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On 1-8-13, Olympia’s City Council unanimously passed an ordinance banning ‘camping’ (i.e. sleeping) on its public property\/spaces despite unanimous public comment against the law slated \u00a0to \u00a0take effect on 2-8-13. If this story sounds familiar, it’s because it is. Elected … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8664"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8668,"href":"https:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8664\/revisions\/8668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}