We all need sleep, which is a fact of life but also a legally important point. Last week, the Department of Justice argued as much in a statement of interest it filed in a relatively obscure case in Boise, Idaho, that could impact how cities regulate and punish homelessness.
Boise, like many cities — the number of which has swelled since the recession — has an ordinance banning sleeping or camping in public places. But such laws, the DOJ says, effectively criminalize homelessness itself in situations where people simply have nowhere else to sleep.
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http://www.mintpressnews.com/its-unconstitutional-to-ban-the-homeless-from-sleeping-outside-the-federal-government-says/208653/
I would argue that we also have the right to the basics of life: air, water, food, energy, and shelter; and that such things should no longer be traded as commodities.
But you and I know that is not going to happen. We The People now are considered to be a plague on this earth, and the powers that be are going to make us pay dearly for our right to be homeless.
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