Sex Offenders In Homeless Shelters

I was going to post this to the homeless blog but that thing needs cleaning up. People must be going there for a guide to homelessness and they get homeless related gang stalking rants, bitches and humor. I really have to clean it up and make it more true to its title. I made this vid upon seeing a newspaper article (The Herald of course) that seemed to scream from the front page that sex offenders were in homeless shelters and..gasp! roaming Boston's streets at night. First of all you've got sex offenders roaming Boston's streets in three pieces suits, badged, blue uniforms or whatever else take your pick. But for now, lets focus on the ones who are stupid enough to get caught or don't have money to pay off authorities: registered sex offenders.

Most homeless people have known about this for years. It's one of those things you need to know to survive the environment. Besides, you can just sense that many of the people in that environment are sleazy. It's obvious. And in places like Pine St and St. Francis House, it's glaringly obvious. In fact, alot of homeless men who want to help women will tell them this fact just so they know whats in the men's section. Not that there arent female sex offenders or male's accomplices in the women's shelters as well. But I suppose society is less afraid of females roaming the streets at night than males. http://www.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view/2011_0327sex_fiends_sheltered_by_loophole_affected_neighbors_join_forces_with_authorities_to_seek_solution/srvc=home&position=0 And that is what the article said. 'Roaming the streets of Boston at night!'. Firstly, if it's the shelters you're complaining about, then wouldnt they be in a shelter at night and not roaming your streets? Secondly, Boston has always been a city with a seedy underbelly, and in the USA's urban areas in general, one should be aware of what is 'roaming the streets' at night anyway. Duh. Especially in the northeast. The beauty of Boston is that there is a nice old school system still in place here that sort of makes up for the corruption-as-part-of-system way things are run. There are so many students and so much of value here, so many people of value that you're safer here than in alot of other cities. The key to the northeast has always been to use your smarts. The shelters and the cops have known about this for years. Its one of the demographics that makes going to homeless shelters uncomfortable. And there are many demographics in the homeless scene. I dont know the purpose of this story, most likely politically or financially motivated. The article had this little map of the shelters.

What I hate about the information manipulation concerning the homeless is that one minute it's little violins and heart string pulling (which is all thought stopping rituals and tactics to brainwash you into giving, just like those starving kids overseas ads) then its vilification of the same scene and people. I want my book to illustrate to Joe and Josephina Public that there is gross misrepresentation of the homeless in the media..in any source of information for that matter. Only recently did I see one article out of Spare Change where one woman speaks of how the system should change to be more productive and manage resources more efficiently. And its in a newspaper no one who matters is going to read, realistically.

The greatest infringement on our human and civil rights as American citizens being 'homeless' people is that we have no representatives from our own group. Also, all information concerning us is made by and put out by people other than us. We have no representation and no peers to be judged by if you will. The society we live in, through management of information, has complete control of our lives, until we become 'normal' again- which means getting housing. Which is total bullshit. From what I have seen, only traveling kids and train hoppers have any sort of scene of their own to speak of that is self policing or can represent themselves. There needs to be places for independent, high functioning persons whom, for whatever reason are not focusing on housing at this time but need shelter for health reasons or to work on gainful and meaningful work or projects.

America tends to treat homeless people like goldfish. They will over feed them with resources and coddling until they bloat and then with a major cultural change, as during Bush recently, the system and the public starves them out and demonizes them. Its seems our rights are CULTURALLY intact not by laws on the books. This also needs to change. The problem is for us to get to this before the fake reps do. For instance since we are as of now still misrepresented or represented by people in the system, if I write this and they want to maintain control, they simply use the system in place to lift these concepts and this info, and co opt it or put it forth in a manner that makes it firstly look like thier ideas and secondly, doing so would ensure they maintain the control already in place. This is the greatest challenge.

Its not obvious to the public that homelessless is an industry and its full of white collar criminals at that. If you want to vilify people, vilify the aggressive panhandlers not all panhandlers. Vilify the people who cant behave in shelters and make everyone else miserable not everyone in the damn shelter. None of us who want to be under the radar or live peacefully in society or are trying to accomplish something want to deal with the idiots who bring the rest of us down and make us look bad to the public. But we are forced to due to the way the system is set up, which seems to be that homeless people are treated as prisoners or institutionalized persons without any sort of court order or cause. Constantly representing us as helpless in a Judeo-Christian manner to gain charity as well as alternately vilifying us is politically and financially motivated. This allows the human and civil rights violations to continue so that anyone poor and houseless who needs shelter due to weather conditions etc is then pushed into an institutional environment when this is not at all necessary.

Various excuses are made by the criminal companies involved such as guilt trips about getting a free ride when in fact often these places are private companies getting state and federal funding for each homeless person to stay at a shelter or program. Or that its a temporary situation so its not supposed to be comfortable. This is how dumbed down Americans are about thier civil and human rights. People in the USA now accept lawlessness as a normal part of life especially in the lower classes. The list of intimation by shelter staff is a long one and its all in the interest of having to deal with many different demographics, with little staff as well as ensuring that the homeless people frequenting shelters never question the system nor try to improve conditions.