Sunday's Tremolo #1

The Common Loon has a call named the tremolo. This "insane laughter", voiced rapidly is an alarm that shows agitation or fear of predators or other loons in the neighbourhood. On Sundays, I have chosen to be opinionated and to share news, policies and or laws that agitate and scare me.

Charity in Las Vegas is under attack. The city where gambling employs thousands, has hooker magazines handed out along the strip to be perused for midnight affairs and makes alcohol readily available from any street corner has chosen to attack soup kitchens that use it's city parks. City residents it seems don't enjoy having to share these green spaces with the homeless. Seeing dirty, troubled and sick people eating doesn't make able bodied men and women feel all that good.

The way a society chooses to help the weak speaks volumes. If a charity like a church or society have manpower and money to aid the downtrodden I can't understand why a fine and jail time would be used against them. A nice meal in the park next to successful men, women, children and Rover helps juxtapose the squalor they live in. The blades of grass have no way of knowing who is using the pitch and further more don't care. People have to try learn to coexist in this way.

Segregation breeds hatred and continues to exploit the paranoia the rich and poor feel towards one another. The homeless never dreamt of being in the state they are in, as children they too laughed and had a dream. Living under a bridge or tented up in the forested outskirts of town wasn't one of them. Forcing them into the one part of town where aid is made available does help them see a doctor and give them a clean bed to sleep in but why limit the menu? Aren't market forces supposed to solve everything? Mobile soup kitchens help the homeless to have options and help in creating a choice that aids to empower the powerless.

By closing kitchen's through fines and the threat of jail will to make it harder to get a meal. The lines it creates at the legitimate soup kitchen won't march the pissed off homeless back into a house and job. A caring heart will. A man, woman, child or Rover with compassion can help and that means sharing a piece of common land.