HomeMy WebLinkAboutPresentation (2)MIAMI CITY COMMISSION RESOLUTION
THIS RESOLOUTION REQUESTS; ONE ACRE OF LAND TO BE OWNED BY 25 HOMELESS AMERICAN
VETERANS, LIVING IN 25 TENTS LAWFULLY, WITH ONE GARDEN; AS A SOCIAL EXPERIMENT; A HOMELESS
LAND OWNERSHIP.
PEOPLE HAVE BEEN REPLACED BY MACHINES. MILLIONS ARE HOMELESS. DUE TO WORLDWIDE
OVERPOPULATION, IT MAY BE REASONABLE TO PRESUME, THAT THE HUMAN POPULATION WILL
ALWAYS BE LARGER, THAN THE TOTAL NUMBER OF BUILDINGS THAT HOUSE PEOPLE. FROM HERE ON;
THE TOTAL NUMBER OF PEOPLE THAT NEED VACANCIES, WILL ALWAYS EXCEED THE NUMBER OF
EXISTING VACANCIES. BEING FORCED TO LIVE WITHOUT SHELTER CAUSES THE NATURAL CONSEQUENCE
OF UN -NATURAL DEATH.THE HOMELESS ARE SURVIVING SOMEWHERE ON THE LAND ANYWAY. IT IS THE
RESPONSIBILITY OF SOCIETY TO ORGANIZE THIS BASIC FACT OF LIFE. THE CITY OF MIAMI FINDS ITSELF IN
ABUNDANT WEALTH AND CAN EASILY AFFORD TO GIVE; HOMELESS AMERICAN VETERANS ONE ACRE OF
LAND. ALL CITIES AND TOWNS OF THE UNITED STATES WOULD BE FREE TO EMULATE THIS MUNICIPAL
MODEL; IT CAN EASILY EVOLVE INTO A VIABLE ECONOMIC DEVOLOPMENT OVER TIME. RECENTLY, THE
CITY OF LAS CRUCIS, NEW MEXICO, CHANGED ITS CITY ORDANANCES TO CREATE THE FIRST LAWFUL
TENT CITY IN THE HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES, CREATED BY AN ACT OF GOVERNMENT, BUT EVEN
THERE, THE'HOMELESS DO NOT OWN THE LAND.
NATIONALY, AMERICAN HOMELESS LAND MODEL WOULD CREATE, ONE HOMELESS LAND
RESERVATION FOR EACH COUNTY OF THE UNITED STATES, WHERE HOMELESS FAMILIES AND
INDIVIDUALS COULD CROSS THE AMERICAN GRID IN SEARCH OF ECONOMIC OPPURTUNITY.
PLEASE SEE:WEBSITE homelesslandmodel.com
THANK YOU FOR YOUR KIND ATTENTION TO THIS LIFE AND DEATH MATTER.
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NEW YORK STATE SENATE
INTRODUCER'S MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT
Submitted .in accordance with Senate Rule VI, Sec..1
(X) Memo on original bill
Memo on amended bill ;
SENATE BILL #: S.
SENATE SPONSOR(S):
ASSEMBLY SPONSOR (S):
ASSEMBLY BILL #: A.
TITLE: Homeless Land Reservation. The homeless will own the land in
common by deed, using a non-profit corp. Each reservation will be between one
and font soccer fields in size, one for each county, determined by the
catchments of area population.
PURPOSE: To preserve the lives of homeless people from untimely, unnecessary
un-required death and for the accruement of resources in order to survive the
elements.
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS: Each county in N.Y.S. shall have one homeless
land reservation wih administrative codes suspended (not void), in order
to preserve life, and to re -organize lives with direction, hope and community.
The State will not mandate persons to Homeless Land Reservations (HLR).
EXISTING LAW: There is none.
JUSTIFICATION: HLR's are intended to ease the burden of eminent death, human
suffering and social detachment.
LEGISLATIVE 1 TORY: There is none.
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS: The State will not provide money or resources. The State
will only apportion land. The homeless must pay a tax to N.Y.S., an amount in
proportion to their income.
LOCAL FISCAL IMPLICATIONS: Locations must not affect the public .visually or
sodally. Land near a county dump, dose to a bus stop, is recommended.
EFrECT1VE DATE:
CONTACT: KENNETH CHURCHILL (631) 569-6802
INTRODUCTION
1. Due to worldwide overpopulation, it may be reasonable to presume, that from here on; the
human population will always exceed the number of buildings that house people.
2. The number of people in need of vacancies will always be larger than the total number of
vacancies.
3. Overpopulation is compounded by enclosement of the land," saying," the people may not use
the land to erect shelter because the land is in enclosement.
4. Any person that erects shelter on enclosed land is in violation of the law.
5. Enclosement of the land provided labor to industrial cities since 1634, as a constant economic
institution, by forcing people off of the land into the cities to run machines.
6. The industrial revolution is over in the western world.
7. People have now been replaced by machines and have been forced into technological
unemployment; or cannot meet the demands of highly specialized forms of modern
employment.
S. Large populations of American People have been displaced and exist on the land in violation of
the law.
9. 13 million American Families are in default of mortgage and may soon spill out onto the land.
10. Not one square foot of land has been dedicated to help displaced and homeless persons and
families, yet they all exist on the land.
11. If homeless un-housed people exist on the land then it is the responsibility of society to organize
this basic fact of life.
12. The land is our largest sustainable asset and an operational plan is offered here, in two forms.
13. The Municipal Model.
14. The National Model.
THE NATIONAL MODEL
The national model would be a 21st century economic institution and a civil defense system for
homeless people; intended to balance enclosement with to day reality. Each county of the United
States would have one homeless land reservation owned by homeless people in common. The State
will not mandate persons to land reservations. Homeless families and individuals could then cross
the America Grid, in search of economic opportunity and would not be considered trespassers in
their own country. Each small reservation may or may not evolve into an economic development; a
new small town or new village or hamlet. In this manner we attempt to re -homestead our people.
About 2,500 county reservations in the United States, will have the potential to evolve into 2,500
new towns. The supplies will follow the people. Jobs would be created for craftsmen as reservations
become towns. (if the model works.) County homeless reservations should be within reach of
county dumps to exploit recycled materials. Our Nation began with tents and lean-to's and fire pits
which became village's towns and cities.
County reservations should be mandated by Federal Law. Municipal reservations should be made by
free choice of the various Municipalities.
THE MUNICIPAL MODEL
Each municipality is free to convert municipal land to private ownership for economic development,
(Kelo V. City of New London Ct.) In Woodstock, N.Y. we have petitioned the town board on behalf of
homeless American Veterans; asking for one acre of land to be owned by 25 veterans, Living in twenty
five tents, with one garden. lithe Woodstock homeless land ownership social experiment works; it can
then be evaluated by the New York State Legislature. At interview with former, New York State Senator,
Cecilia Thactyk. The former Senator said, "a model at the local level would be required foundation for
the State legislature to consider state wide county homeless reservations. If homeless land ownership
social experiment succeeds in Woodstock, or elsewhere in Ulster County; then it can be emulated by any
municipality in the United States, as a national civil defense system for homeless American Veterans.
Some part of a homeless population of 115 thousand American Veterans can be served by humanity, to
make better the circumstances of their lives.
CONCLUSION
1. Being forced to live without shelter causes the natural consequence of un-natural death.
2. The national policy of the United States, in regard to homeless people is passive euthanasia.
3. It is time to use our land to help our people survive.
4. Thank you for your kind consideration of this life and death matter.
KENNETH CHURCHILL
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Matt Mercer.41, furule:4y a Malailass resident of Caanp Hope.
ichaard Loper, who has been lutmeless for hair years, sits outside a tern at Camp Hope in Las Cruces, N.M. Aboul 50 residents have lived in
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rough stretch of this city, homeless people
have pitched dozens of le nl:s, ,some nearly
empty and others so padded wall pos-
sessions that their residents are prat:deafly
entombed inside 'Filen, is no electricity,
and the unrelenting winds baiter the tents
so badly that duct tape, used for repairs, is
coveted like bold.
hr other places, makeshift shelters Gha
des one have been discouraged, if not de-
stroyed, In December, a large ear'aaipmela
in Saul Jose, Calif.. kuowu as the Jungle was
cleared because of health and safety con..
cents, in Detroit, officials were keeping
cautious watch on a camp than had recently
:inning up near dowutwwl1.
18nt the nearly'30 homeless People thong
ere of
Camp for Homeless in Las Cruces, NM
Becomes a Hub for Social Services
in the rem city here are welcome to stay.
Local officials allowed the camp i:rr b< sei
up on city -owned property, making an ex -
caption to zoning rules that ban sleeping
overnight, With a $45,000 earmark Prom the
State Legislature, the camp is adding land-
scaping and a new fence.
City officials say the camp has been a
u'anslhrmative force, bringing the home-
less closer to .social services and the pros-
pect of permanent homes, while helping to
clean up an area that had been plagued by
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drugs and violence.
"We were able to loop beyond what the
codes and ordinances say to see; what
needs to happen here," said Gill Sorg, a city
councilor.
The camp started as a temporary shelter
in 201i, meant to last through the winter, 1)
now has elevated plots for 60 lents and a
guard house, surrounded by a wire feller:.
Cailerl Camp Hope, the tent city has to few
portable toilets —.. not nearly enough, resi-
dents say ._ 61)1 resirooms and showers
are ,lust a stroll away, to where several
charities have set u11 a strip mall of social
services, including a medical clinic and
soap kitchen, There, social workers try to
connect camp residents with g0vernnlenl
add and low•tncolue housing programs.
Nicole Martinez„ the executive director
of the lbt0sllla Malley Community of ['lope, al
nonprofit that oversees the camp, said spin'
had initially been critical of the effort_ Her
job waste put people into housing; instead,
her organization was patting them in (ems,
"It just fell backward," olio said.
She soon changed her mind.
"1 started to see it brought people to
housing," Ms, Martinez said, "They started
to trust na. They're not just: coming 10 take
Et shower or get their mall. They see us ev.
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him appears o erwhehring.
Prosecutors have said that sur-
veillance images ,'how him at the
marathon pla''ng his backpack
near 8-year- d Martin Richard,
who was ki ed by the explosion.
When he 'as hiding in the boat,
they sai-, Mr. Tsarnaev, angry
about se killing of 1Vluslims in
Iraq nd Afghanistan, scrawled
incr`iinating messages • ("Stop
ki ng our innocent people and
e will stop"), and while recover-
ing in the hospital, they said. he
admitted to the bombings.
The court has summoned an
initial pool of 1,200 potential ju-
'o ;s, all residents of eastern lVlas-
s, , uisetts and far more than for
any :her trial here in memory.
Only those willing to impose the
death pen< y can be chosen, The
trial is expec -d to•take three to
five months.
If there is no plea-"reeneat,
the trial will proceed in two
phases, with the same jury. The
first is to determine guilt or inno-
cence; if Mr. Tsarnaev is found
guilty, the second will determine
whether he is sentenced to life or
death.
"The only interesting qu',ttion
in this trial is whether tl most
odious defendant who c. omitted
the most odious crime ill get the
death penalty," said ichael Ken-
dall, a former fed o -al prnsectitor
in Boston. "Not ng else will be
seriously in di .ate."
h: is chic' sg the sentencing
phase th Ms. Clarke would
make he case to spare Mr. Tsar-
naev's fe.'Typically, her strategy
is to arrow deeply into her cli-
en backgrounds, down to de -
Is like their prenatal medical
story, to humanize them and
a jury understand what led
then. to such horrific acts.
Ms. larks is expected to per -
tray IVIr. fiarnaev, who was 19 at
the time a sd had no prior crimi-
nal record, s Having been ma-
nipulated by Us older brother,
who will be cast as an aggressive
bully and the mas.-.rmind behind
the bombings.
The case would then go to the
jury for sentencing. Death sen-
tences can be hard to obtain; fed-
eral juries have imposed them
only one-third of the time, and
the, jury must be unanimous. And
even though ,jurors must be open
to imposing death, some find that
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ery day. That really established a
rapport we didn't have before"
0n a recent morning, the camp
was near capacity, with 47 camp-
ers (11 of them military veter-
ans), four dogs and three cats,
Ms. Martinez said, reading off a
roster. The youngest person was
18, four credits shy of his high
school diploma, and the oldest
residents were in their 00s,
A stay in a traditional homeless
shelter sometimes comes with
demands that people are unwill-
ing to meet, like early curfews or
required religious services. At
Camp i-lope, alcohol, guns and
abusive language or behavior are
not allowed, and residents Hurst
do six hours of service per week,
usually guarding the camp or col-
lecting donations.
"It got better and better," said
Dother Sykes, who was one of the
camp's original residents. "My
safety is your safety, and your
safety is my safety, so we started
looking after each other.'
Stanley Smith, who is 59 and
also known as Cowboy, was back
for the fourth time and grateful
for a break from life on the street.
"1 can sit back and think, 'What
am I going to do next?"' he said.
"You don't have to worry about
someone coming up and stabbing
you or robbing you."
Las Cruces, about 50 miles
north of El Paso, is New Mexico's
second-largest city, with, just over
101,000 residents, many of whom
work for New Mexico StateUni-
versity or the nearby White
Sands Missile Range. The home-
less here, some of whom have
drifted across the country, say
they have been met with a level
of generosity that they have not
found elsewhere.
"It was the first place I felt hu-
man, that I could move through
homelessness," said Matt Mercer,
41, who was one of the camp's
early residents and now works
for Community of Hope. He lives
in his own home in a trailer park
a short walk away. "This is a very
conscious, compassionate com-
munity."
A few years ago, the city's pa-
tience had worn thin with the
homeless people who had taken
over the area surrounding the
charities' offices, in an industrial
pocket in the south-central pact
of the city, 'The informal encamp-
ment had become dangerous and
difficult to control.
New businesses have moved
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A homeless resident•of Camp 1-lope visits a donation center to pick up a pair of shoes. Charil
nearby have set up a veritable strip mall of social services, including a clinic and soup kitchen.
in, and Nathan Small, the city
councilor who represents the
area, said that maintaining good
relationships with them would be
critical to the success of the pro-
gram. "The biggest challenges
are ahead of us,' he said.
The problems that brought res-
idents hero have not disap-
peared. One resident tends to
sneak away in the afternoon and
stumble back drunk. Others have
been expelled for smoking mari-
luaua, and hypodermic needles
have been found on tent plat-
forms. Tammy Nettnay — who
described herself as a recovering
drug addict:, a prostitute and a
felon several times over -- con-
fessed at a weekly meeting of res-
idents that she had gotten drunk
twice at the camp But, she said.
proudly; when someone. gave her
a parcel of methunphetaomne,
once her chug of choice, she
threw it away.
"It's not that 1 want to be here,
I need to be here," said Ms. Nett -
Tammy Nettnay, who described herself as a recovering chug ad-
dict and felon, attending a meeting at a homeless outreach cen-
ter. "It's dot that I want to be here," she said, "1 need to be here:
nay, 48, who came from El Pas
November. (Mr. Sykes, an
friend, told her to cone.) "I do
have any hopes and screams n
It's just clay by day. I need Goo
show me what to do."
At meetings held every Tr
clay morning, a host of iss.
comes up: Friction betw,
those who collect money from
government each month t
those who do not. Gossip. 1
Nettnay complained about
portable toilets, which could
a scrub.
After being homeless for 2:
his 70 years, Mr. Sykes hat
place of his own, as well as a
harvesting pecans. The Chan
however, has brought a probl
he did not expect. "The worse:
emy, 1 found out, was deal
with the isolation," he said. "VI
munch gets wandering to
things."
To keep that from happen
he visits Camp Hope often, ht
lug friends and ferrying them
doctor appointments or to p
up cigarettes. When Mr. Syl
arrived here a few years ago,
carried only a backpack. Dur
•a recent visit, he pointed 12
gleaming cream -colored sedan
the parking lot "Now, I'm rid
in a Buick!" he said, bursting i
a cackle, as if he could not qu
believe how things had turf
out.
Georgia Y ' lice Chief on Leave After Shooing ofHis ,r '" fe
isy SHAMLA 4ZEWAN
The police chief of an Atlanta
su ' shot his wife early on
New Year •ay, telling 911 oper-
ators that it was accident, off'
cials said. The victim,
McCollom, 58, was in critic
dition, and the chief, W' lam G.
McCollon, was place on admin-
istrative leave.
Chief McCollo . of Peachtree
City called 011 ortly after 4 a.m.
to report th. shooting, Lt. Mark
Brown of se Peachtree City Po-
lice Department said at a news
co rence Thursday afternoon.
Mfulrgaret McCollum was airlifted
to the Atlanta Medical Center. No
arrests have been made.
tails sucli t:he nature of Ms.
McColl( s injuries, but said that
the noting occurred in the bed -
in of the couple's home The
spokeswoman, Sherry Lang, said
the chief had been interviewed
and was "fully cooperating."
Ms. McC'ollom, a nurse, had yet
to be' rviewed.
"The mitt, '"Ports that we got
from the 911 call r ' that the
chief had shot his wife act' al-
ly twice," Ms. Lang said. "As a re-
sult of our preliminary interview
we have found that he shot In
only one trine." .
114s. Lang did not immediately
respond to an email asking
whether drugs or alcohol were in -
shooting, chef
told 911 operator
an early I190l111111
previous el otings involving the
chief. P :die records show that
i - 4cCollom was licensed as a
earns instructor in Florida.
Chief tvicCollom is a Wyoming
native caho spent much or his
long law enforcement career it)
Florida beach coulmunitieo. 00'rv-
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rabbi who served
chaplain at the Dell
each Police Department. 'Tl
divorced in early 2014, An earl
marriage, to lViargaret Al
Morse, ended in divorce in 11
Is not clear whether she is
wal o who was shot,
Allot .r news article said tl
he resign(. from the Toque
Police Depart). <it in 20111 to
turn to Wyoming 10 51'e for
ailing sister.
In 2012, he joined the Nacho
City Police Department in a ne
ly created position, assist
chief to Chief 11. C. Clark, w
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