Food Pantries Running Dry - Feeding The Homeless ILLEGAL

So there is no food at the food-banks and you can't feed the homeless yourself. So basically people are now left to starve on the street in America!

LINK: http://www.foodnotbombs.net/fnb_resists.html

This Police state wants everyone in jail!






Feeding the homeless is usually seen as a charitable act beyond
reproach. But three members of national activist group Food Not Bombs
found themselves on the other side of the law in Orlando, Fla. Wednesday
for doing just that in a public park, an act that violates a city
ordinance.
The three were arrested for, according to spokesperson for the Orlando police, “intentionally violat[ing] the statute,” which bans
feeding groups larger than 25 people in the park without a permit.
Groups can apply for a permit for each location twice a year.

Douglas Coleman, a spokesman for the group, sees the issue
differently: “They basically carted them off to jail for feeding hungry
people.”


“For them to regulate a time and place for free speech and to share food, that is unacceptable,” he continued.

This entire controversy began when, according to the Christian Science Monitor,
Food Not Bombs began feeding the homeless twice a week in Lake Eola
Park in 2005. After residents began to complain, the city passed the
ordinance in 2006. The group filed a lawsuit disputing the
constitutionality of the law.

When the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta ruled the ordinance did not violate the group’s constitutional rights last June, Orlando city attorney Mayanne Downs
explained that the law was passed “to protect all the downtown parks
from abusive use or overly exclusive use by one party or community.” The
group appealed again, but lost in April.

Keith McHenry,
co-founder of the group and one of those arrested, told the Orlando
Sentinel they planned to keep feeding the homeless without permits.

Some have questioned the city’s decision to enforce this ordinance. Many people have shown their support for the three arrested on Food Not Bomb’s Facebook page. One of the people fed by the group told News13 in Orlando, “They really have been kind of a lifeline.”

Debate over city ordinances is nothing new. Cordova, Ala., Mayor Jack Scott recently
came under fire for refusing to allow FEMA mobile homes in the town,
which was struck by two tornadoes in April. Allowing them would violate a
law meant to keep trailers out of the town, according to the Associated Press. A Facebook page calling the mayor “cruel-hearted” is liked by over 2,500 people.

In a similar head-scratching battle, Linda Downey
was given a citation in May for flying seven flags outside her sub shop
in Crystal River, Fla. A city ordinance allows only three. Downey, who
has two sons in the military, was invited on Fox & Friends, which
asked the question “Owner cited for patriotism?”