The motels are strictly off-limits to any monitoring or media coverage--a major scandal among Homelessness Inc's many. Kevin, I hope you will be able to get a look inside the charnel houses being financed by taxpayers. It's a money-dump for nonprofiteers.
They give service animals to the addicts? It’s unconscionable. I’m sick to my stomach. For the addicts being preyed upon by the supplier and not receiving care and treatment and the poor animals who don’t deserve this and can’t speak for themselves. Disgusting. All of it. Thank you for exposing this terrible situation.
"Zylazine the flesh eating drug. On the streets its known as 'tranq' and is killing addicts."
I say we hold harm reductionists to their credos. The first of these demands that society respect the autonomy of addicted individuals. A fiction, you say? The harm reduction activists who decree state and drug policy through their behind-the-scenes access to lawmakers will never, ever concede that addiction impairs a person's autonomy.
The next diktat harm reductionists hurl at society is "no judgment." If they believed in morality as a valid means of distinguishing right from wrong, which they don't, they'd say that morality is immoral. See, bourgeois morality imposes the will of capitalists, real estate developers and the hard working voter/taxpayers of this city on oppressed victims of society, including addicts. Hence neither the state, nor Multnomah County nor Metro nor the City of Portland should say or do anything that would make addicts feel stigmatized.
Another rule was spelled out in astonishingly unhinged testimony in front of the Seattle city council by someone deep in the harm reduction industrial complex. She let the council members know in no uncertain terms that not everyone measures their success in life by their ability to remain sober. Some addicts like being addicts and that is perfectly OK.
Lastly, harm reductionists believe that it is coercive and a corporatist violation of addicts' precious bodily autonomy for anyone, even the harm reduction missionaries who hand out socks and sandwiches to the newly zombified and the nearly dead to so much as whisper that someone with a drug addiction problem should attempt to go clean and sober.
It is not for anyone, especially not the taxpayers who are hemorrhaging treatment dollars in an attempt get addicts off their streets, to apply any pressure on a drug user to stop using. No, no and no. In the harm reduction community, it is an article of faith as firm as the Catholic belief in transubstantiation that an addict will stop using only when they are ready. It is practically a crime against humanity in the harm reductionists' loopy world view to force an addict to enter treatment "prematurely."
Under the circumstances, the only course of action for the rest of us is to entrust the addicts, together with their seeping and scabbed pustules and rotting limbs, to the tender mercies of the harm reduction high priesthood, whoever they are. It must be done publicly and noisily and must be accompanied by the clear message that since their harm reduction policy enabled this epidemic of flesh eating drugs, it is up to them to fix it. The rest of us can wash our hands of it and focus on keeping innocent and vulnerable cats and dogs out of addicts' hands.
We are all under the thumb of government at this point but one party is more complicit than the others at this point, especially in Oregon. At the very least, vote for balance in the system.
The motels are strictly off-limits to any monitoring or media coverage--a major scandal among Homelessness Inc's many. Kevin, I hope you will be able to get a look inside the charnel houses being financed by taxpayers. It's a money-dump for nonprofiteers.
They give service animals to the addicts? It’s unconscionable. I’m sick to my stomach. For the addicts being preyed upon by the supplier and not receiving care and treatment and the poor animals who don’t deserve this and can’t speak for themselves. Disgusting. All of it. Thank you for exposing this terrible situation.
I agree, animals don't deserve to live in such sickening conditions.
"Zylazine the flesh eating drug. On the streets its known as 'tranq' and is killing addicts."
I say we hold harm reductionists to their credos. The first of these demands that society respect the autonomy of addicted individuals. A fiction, you say? The harm reduction activists who decree state and drug policy through their behind-the-scenes access to lawmakers will never, ever concede that addiction impairs a person's autonomy.
The next diktat harm reductionists hurl at society is "no judgment." If they believed in morality as a valid means of distinguishing right from wrong, which they don't, they'd say that morality is immoral. See, bourgeois morality imposes the will of capitalists, real estate developers and the hard working voter/taxpayers of this city on oppressed victims of society, including addicts. Hence neither the state, nor Multnomah County nor Metro nor the City of Portland should say or do anything that would make addicts feel stigmatized.
Another rule was spelled out in astonishingly unhinged testimony in front of the Seattle city council by someone deep in the harm reduction industrial complex. She let the council members know in no uncertain terms that not everyone measures their success in life by their ability to remain sober. Some addicts like being addicts and that is perfectly OK.
Lastly, harm reductionists believe that it is coercive and a corporatist violation of addicts' precious bodily autonomy for anyone, even the harm reduction missionaries who hand out socks and sandwiches to the newly zombified and the nearly dead to so much as whisper that someone with a drug addiction problem should attempt to go clean and sober.
It is not for anyone, especially not the taxpayers who are hemorrhaging treatment dollars in an attempt get addicts off their streets, to apply any pressure on a drug user to stop using. No, no and no. In the harm reduction community, it is an article of faith as firm as the Catholic belief in transubstantiation that an addict will stop using only when they are ready. It is practically a crime against humanity in the harm reductionists' loopy world view to force an addict to enter treatment "prematurely."
Under the circumstances, the only course of action for the rest of us is to entrust the addicts, together with their seeping and scabbed pustules and rotting limbs, to the tender mercies of the harm reduction high priesthood, whoever they are. It must be done publicly and noisily and must be accompanied by the clear message that since their harm reduction policy enabled this epidemic of flesh eating drugs, it is up to them to fix it. The rest of us can wash our hands of it and focus on keeping innocent and vulnerable cats and dogs out of addicts' hands.
Excellent point about the ubiquitous granting/allowance of service animal to homeless addicts.
It breaks my heart, and not for the people.
However difficult their path, they at least have some choice, something these dogs (and sometimes cats) have no choice whatsoever in.
I can see REWARDING someone in recovery with a service animal once they have shown the ability to be responsible for another life.
I'd like to share this if that's okay...
Check out Kevin’s viral video: https://twitter.com/kevinvdahlgren/status/1609300954112987137
Truly hideous. Why would people do this to themselves? No hope at all?
We are all under the thumb of government at this point but one party is more complicit than the others at this point, especially in Oregon. At the very least, vote for balance in the system.