Lose Your Home, Lose Your Freedom.

      As times get tougher and homelessness increases, the various parts of the state apparatus will do all sorts of things to sweep the homeless under the carpet. There is always an attempt to keep the centre of the city nice and clean to allow business people a pleasant environment to keep the rivers of capitalism flowing.    

      Some years ago in the city of Brazil, because of the poverty, gangs of children lived on the city streets. In an attempt to rid the city of these poverty stricken kids, gangs of vigilantes would kill them during the night. It was stated in various articles that the police were involved in the "cleaning" process, being paid by private companies to do the "cleaning" during their off duty time.

        However in South Carolina they are not quite that brutal, but they are still cleaning the streets of the city by exiling the homeless to a camp, (prison) outside the city.

      "-----In order to accommodate all the homeless people who will now be banned from downtown, the city will partner with a local charity to keep an emergency shelter on the outskirts of town open 24 hours a day. However, it’s unlikely the shelter, which can handle 240 guests, will be enough to handle the local homeless population, which numbers more than six times the available beds.
Homeless people can stay at the shelter, but they’re not permitted to walk off the premises. In fact, Columbia will even post a police officer on the road leading to the shelter to ensure that homeless people don’t walk towards downtown. If they want to leave, they need to set up an appointment and be shuttled by a van.
In other words, the 1,518 homeless people in the Columbia-area now have a choice: get arrested downtown or be confined to a far-away shelter that you can’t readily leave. Jail or pseudo-jail.-----"

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A Nicer City.

They're cleaning the streets of Brazil

the tools,    a knife or a gun,

the contracts out to private tender,

law and order pay for the work to be done.

Well dressed smiling Western gnomes

make the rules so they grow fat,

poverty drives the children from their homes

in the city, seek safety in packs.

Brazil pays homage to Western banks

its industrial might expands

children swell the homeless ranks

their blood on Western hands.

They're cleaning the streets of Brazil

the tools,     a knife or a gun,

the contracts out to private tender,

law and order pay for the work to be done.

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