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New Law In London Would Fine Homeless £1,000 For Sleeping Outside Or "Loitering"
The homeless people in Hackney, London are facing expulsion from the street due to a new law will allow the police to give out fines and other legal penalties to homeless people who are found loitering, begging and sleeping in commercial places. This “Public Space Protection Order” which was introduced by the council of Hackney will place a fine of £1000 on homeless activities. The order has been met with numerous criticisms...
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Good, good. Excellent policy. Next we could reinstate debtors' prisons. Then we can start putting mentally ill in chains, public executions and really just keep moving backwards into the Bronze Age till we're stoning people to death for blasphemy. Or adultery. Or homosexuality. Or any dissent of any kind.
"The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread." French novelist Anatole France, The Red Lily, 1894.