These men are heroes. In the town where I used to live, the police would bust up homeless camps multiple times a month, sometimes as often as twice a week or more. People would have as little as 1-2 hours to remove their belongings before they would be slashed or burned. That warning included people who weren't even on site because they were flying signs or doing who knows what elsewhere.

What many people do not understand is that a lot of the homeless do not have any real choice. There are not nearly enough shelters and many are unable to rent even the nastiest apartments or trailers because they have criminal records, often for victimless crimes involving drugs. So they can't rent, they can't camp..... what are they supposed to do?

It makes me angry that more Americans aren't outraged by this. The statistics show that any number of citizens are one or two paychecks away from being on the streets themselves. Surely they wouldn't want to be treated this way, so why tolerate it when done to others?

This sort of law also violates all kinds of rights, both natural and constitutional, and not just those of the homeless people. Just for sake of example, for anybody's who's a Christian, the Bible commands us repeatedly to feed and care for the poor. Preventing a person from doing so is interfering with their free exercise of religion. Or what about the freedom of assembly?