Prop 36 is an anti-poor people lie
Prop 36. A true double edged sword. It’s a proposition aimed at re-working aspects of a previous law, Prop 47, passed almost 10 years ago, originally aimed at tackling the still major issue of prison overcrowding. Defenders of Prop 47, which include Governor of California Gavin Newsom argue that rolling back those sentencing aspects of the law will bring us back to the overcrowding in prisons, while also highlighting the fact that the California GOP doesn’t actually care about the recovery of the people who will get sent to prison for these minor offenses.
On the flip side, the California GOP and a coalition of law enforcement and business owners would have you believe that by bringing back greater punishments for the minor offenses in Prop 47, it would lower the high retail crimes, and it would take people committing these crimes as well as petty drug crimes off the streets and into prisons and jails.
The reality is that this is a bill aimed at putting more people in prison as some insane deterrent to drug crime, retail crime, and homelessness. This will not stop those crimes from happening. They don’t plan on helping these people, they just want to shove them in cages to be forgotten. I urge everyone to vote NO on 36.
It is my opinion that this attack on the houseless is not random. If you go back to the deportation ofgood manufacturing jobs to countries who could supply cheap labor, and then come forward to the prison profiteers where many companies use prison labor to cut back on wages to increase profits, you can see a major move to use houseless people for this same purpose. The laws they are attempting to enact around homelessness are vague, and don't involve much of a process for the purpose of shaping the narrative so that the public will accept it. I believe this is a deliberate attempt to hide the true agenda of the corporations. It is how they will herd houseless…