http://www.bloggernews.net/12830 High-quality English language analysis and editorial writing on the news. Tue, 14 Feb 2012 19:41:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 http://www.bloggernews.net/12830#comment-794 SolitoN Sat, 09 Dec 2006 18:35:16 +0000 http://www.bloggernews.net/12830#comment-794 If the events actually unfolded that way, and the police officers actually issued a $115 ticket, it's disturbing. We don't live in Singapore guys, nor is anybody interested in importing that aspect of that nation here. Hell, I decided I would never, ever travel there, lest I be executed for doing something I consider benign. It's also possible the politicians who enacted this law put the officers up to it; in their never-ending battle to give good impressions (an impression, by the way, is just that. Is has no depth, and to base judgment upon impressions is poor practice, but I digress), they're willing, cruelly, to further burden the homeless to get votes to stay in power. 'The homeless make people uncomfortable and they look dirty, so let's get them off the street, and where they go, we don't care, but it makes us look good'. I hope that's not what's going through their heads... If the events actually unfolded that way, and the police officers actually issued a $115 ticket, it’s disturbing. We don’t live in Singapore guys, nor is anybody interested in importing that aspect of that nation here. Hell, I decided I would never, ever travel there, lest I be executed for doing something I consider benign. It’s also possible the politicians who enacted this law put the officers up to it; in their never-ending battle to give good impressions (an impression, by the way, is just that. Is has no depth, and to base judgment upon impressions is poor practice, but I digress), they’re willing, cruelly, to further burden the homeless to get votes to stay in power. ‘The homeless make people uncomfortable and they look dirty, so let’s get them off the street, and where they go, we don’t care, but it makes us look good’. I hope that’s not what’s going through their heads…

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