Martin Sheen homeless enabler

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When the Sheen comes off the rose

Santa Monica had a rash (literally) of homeless people. Beach communities are magnets because they are warm and arty, there is a place to sleep, and so on. The problem was aggravated when Martin Sheen was made honorary mayor of neighboring Malibu, and promptly declared it a "[nuclear-free zone, a sanctuary for aliens and the homeless]", meaning they should all come and live there without harassment.

Neighboring radio stations (and mayors) started getting busses together to ship all the homeless up there to comply with Martin's calls for utopia, which was all very humorous and ironic, and outraged many of the locals. Humorous, not in a "ha ha" sort of way, but in a "careful what you wish for" and bitter irony sort of way.

Those of us who have actually been around homeless (done social work, working in those areas, and so on) realize that there are a lot of different types of homeless. Very few are the "unlucky soles" that the media portrays. Many more are runaways, winos, druggies, a few fakers (there's good money in being homeless), and what seems most common of all is the mentally disturbed. The jumper had been one of the latter, or at least crossed a few of the types including the latter.

In a free society you can't just lock them up because you disagree with their lifestyle choices, or want to debate their sanity because they think different than you. So I see homelessness as a demonstration of freedom, or the costs of it. In Russia they threw them in Gulag's, in other places they are killed or driven off. In America, they live on the beaches of Santa Monica, and basically harass and guilt people into paying for their drug or alcohol habits. Such is life.


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