SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — About 50 muddy souls dragged their meager belongings out of a trash-strewn California creek bed Thursday as police and social-service workers began clearing away one of the nation's largest homeless encampments, a collection of flimsy tents and plywood shelters in the heart of Silicon Valley.
The people forced out of the camp known as the Jungle ended up alongside a busy San Jose road, startling passers-by who slowed down to watch.
"People drive by and look at us like we're circus animals," said a sobbing Nancy Ortega.
"People drive by and look at us like we're circus animals," said a sobbing Nancy Ortega.
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What's really bothering her? Being homeless or people looking at her like a circus animal? If it's the latter, then she should have thought of that before carelessly losing her home. I mean, who wouldn't stop and look at a crowd of people lined up along a highway?
Nobody is immune to the heartless actions of those in authority. One would think that the homeless would get some pity and maybe, just maybe a tit bit of sympathy. Yes it may be true that some of these individuals ended in this situation because of abuse of drugs or being abandoned by families because of their actions, but this is not the case for all. They are human beings and they have a right to be treated as same not like savages.
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Nobody is immune to the heartless actions of those in authority. One would think that the homeless would get some pity and maybe, just maybe a tit bit of sympathy. Yes it may be true that some of these individuals ended in this situation because of abuse of drugs or being abandoned by families because of their actions, but this is not the case for all. They are human beings and they have a right to be treated as same not like savages.
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It wasn't pity or sympathy that got them homeless, it was their state of mind that did it, and it's not pity or sympathy that's gonna release them from the prison of their mental state. You need to realize that not all homeless people are innocent. In fact, there was a lady in my building when I first moved in who kept hounding me for money. My answer was no every time but that didn't stop her from hounding me every time she saw me. And it wasn't long after I moved in that she was evicted and became homeless.
And I saw her several months later, which is when she told me what happened. She was strung out on drugs and not paying her bills, and losing her home, a very fine apartment she had at that, is what brought her to her senses and is now pulling herself together to get back on her feet. So you see, with a lot of homeless people it's not a matter of a cruel or heartless authority.
She got what her actions had coming to her.
She had a great apartment in a beautiful clean building in a decent neighborhood and with decent neighbors, that she had no value for and let go over pure nonsense. So she had to suffer the consequences of her actions, which is what we all have to do.
California is one of the richest states in one of the richest countries on the planet. Then on top of all of that the encampment was near Silicon Valley. There the wealth of well paid employees is staggering.
The authorities were accompanied with a over a dozen social workers, police officers, and construction workers. Those construction workers were in charge of dismantling the make shift housing.
Where were those homeless people taken? They were returned to the homeless shelters which is where those people originally walked away from. Therefore, the entire process of their escaping shelters begins all over again.
