Sit on this Washington sidewalk and face a $1,000 fine plus 90 days in jail

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Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2018/04/09/sit-on-this-washington-sidewal.html

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Who needs Cards Against Humanity when you have laws against humanity?

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When this was tried in Seattle proper, they called them, “civility laws”, which tells you all you need to know about government civility.

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Sit/lie laws nothing new, sadly. SF has one, although it’s basically unenforced. Turns out that it costs a lot of money and takes a lot of police resources to jail homeless people. Doesn’t stop people here from demanding that it be enforced.

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Opponents of the law says it’s a violation of human rights.

Huh? Thanks for your concern, but you don’t understand - I’m a white male. My rights will be just fine.

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And if one has no legs?

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I’m sure it’s enforced, just arbitrarily and as a pretext for stop and frisk style searches of POC nd the homeless.

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How noble the law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike from sitting on the side of the street.

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What a weird law. I mean, it just calls for people collapsing of exhaustion, “needing a sit-down of a few minutes, no, no need for an ambulance” to flout the law to the point of absurdity.

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Just how nice is this sidewalk, anyway?

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The local jail just might be nicer, when it’s below freezing out. This is Washington, not Mississippi.

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If ever there was a time to see how far you can push citizens arrests against the wealthy and their children. When they complain they can be briefly reminded of zero-tolerance policies and police overreach in low income schools.

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That’s not the Monroe I used to know back in the 80s.
I’ll bet Duvall has changed too.

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Mount Vernon, WA, not that far away from Monroe, has a small sculpture park downtown with built-in steps/benches for sitting. However,. the homeless prefer to congregate along the River Walk; where the benches and scenery are nicer.

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In Monroe? Not so nice, actually.

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Makes me ashamed to be a Washingtonian.

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In Monroe? Mostly rubble.

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Duvall had exploded is the past 10 or so years. The taxes are low and many Microsofties are priced out of Redmond these days.

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Does it have a Starbucks yet?

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It’s Washington. EVERYTHING has a Starbucks.

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