{"id":1027,"date":"2013-05-30T02:34:48","date_gmt":"2013-05-30T02:34:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huffsantacruz.org\/wordpress\/?p=1027"},"modified":"2013-07-04T19:45:37","modified_gmt":"2013-07-04T19:45:37","slug":"a-modest-proposal-on-homelessness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/huffsantacruz.org\/wordpress\/a-modest-proposal-on-homelessness\/","title":{"rendered":"A Modest Proposal on Homelessness"},"content":{"rendered":"
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NORSE’S NOTES:\u00a0 Dark humor is not dead.\u00a0 The following letter, sent to the Sentinel for publication, was also released to me to distribute as I see fit.\u00a0\u00a0 I haven’t heard anything back from the Public Hysteria Citizen’s Task Farce which met last night at the SCPD station to get a “briefing” from the uniformed harassers of the homeless, but Steve Schnarr’s letter brings a little (bleak) comic relief…A Modest Proposal for Solving Homelessness in Santa Cruz><\/p>\n
> Thanks for your ongoing coverage of the scourge of homelessness in
\n> Santa Cruz, and to our iron-fisted City Council for making their best
\n> effort to drive the undesirables out of town. Unfortunately, despite
\n> their laudable attempts to cut all services and send Santa Cruz’
\n> finest to kick every illegal camper down the road, so far the
\n> transients don’t seem to be leaving.
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\n> We can’t just keep multiplying forever, and expecting to feed every
\n> degenerate who puts out their hand. I submit therefore a Modest
\n> Proposal for solving the problem: instead of feeding the homeless, we
\n> start eating them! I know, some of your readers may find the idea
\n> unpalatable, but I can assure you that even older homebums soften up
\n> nicely cooked slowly into a stew, or baked into a casserole.
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\n> One way or another, it’s clear that our Council has yet to solve the
\n> Homeless Question. The time for band-aid ideas like criminalizing
\n> sleeping and begging is over; what we need is a Final Solution to the
\n> problem. If the liberal vegetarian crowd won’t let us implement my
\n> proposal of Reverse Soup Kitchens, at least can we agree to fence off
\n> an area of the Pogonip for them to free range in?
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\n> For our safety, for our kids, it’s time to take our town back!
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\n> Warmly,
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\n> Steve Schnaar<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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