Wednesday, April 2, 2014

United States Is Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading to Poor, UN Report Charges The UN Human Rights Committee says the U.S. should stop criminalizing homeless people for being homeless.


http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/un-human-rights-committee-united-states-cruel-inhuman-and-degrading-poor
Jerome Murdough, 56, a mentally ill homeless veteran, was just trying to stay alive during a New York City cold snap when he thought he found his spot: a stairwell leading to a roof in a Harlem public housing project. But that desperate act set in motion a nightmare ride through New York's criminal justice system that would end with Murdough dying of heat stroke in a Riker's Island jail cell. New York officials now say the system failed Murdough every which way.
When he was discovered, he should have been offered shelter. When he was arraigned, he should not have been slapped with $2,500 bail. When, unable to make bail, he ended up in jail, Murdough, because he was on medication for a mental condition, should have been monitored every 15 minutes, not left unwatched for at least four hours. It was during that untended time that Murdough, as an official told the Associated Press, "basically baked to death."
remember the term "bleeding heart liberals", that is what those heartless apathetic people occupying our country called those who cared and religious or not followed the teachings of Jesus when it came to their fellow man.  evangelicals don't teach that they start indoctrinating their kids as to how to be selfish.  we have another generation of haters in the oven.
follow the laws that the parties put up and the one's like Beohner said they should be judged on the one's they denied