Homeless Are Not Harmless

My hometown of Lakeland, Florida, is invaded by bums. Of course, the politically correct word is "homeless." But a bum by any other name is still a bum: freeloader, scoundrel, tramp, hobo, vagrant, idler, drifter, loafer, and so forth.

Social gospel ministries - Talbot House and Lighthouse Ministries - invite them here offering free food, free shelter, free clothing, free medical care and other handouts.

A few weeks ago, a bum threatened me with bodily harm. So, I sent the following email to city officials...

Bums threaten Lakeland’s public health and safety.

Recently, bums threatened me with bodily harm. When I walked out of a Lakeland store, a bum asked for money. A woman squatted on the ground beside him. I said, “No. I’m going inside to report you.” He came into the store and threatened his “old lady” was going to beat me up.

The Lakeland community of bums is a mob involved in theft, drug use, trespassing, extortion, fraud, intimidation, disorderly conduct, disturbing the peace, assault, and other criminal and dishonest acts. The bums are a mafia with the intent to rob us of the general peace and public safety of Lakeland.

And bums threaten our public health. They show open contempt for us and defecate in public: human feces was in front of Dixieland Post Office. Their filthy hands and clothes can spread hepatitis, tuberculosis, body lice, and other infectious diseases. Social workers, homeless shelter employees, church folks handing out food, store employees, and others are at risk for infection and spreading it in our community. Bums put us at risk by touching anything contaminated by their filthy hands or clothes.

Bums have no rights to endanger Lakeland’s public health and safety.

Many years ago, I observed a murder trial. The victim was a local "homeless" man who lived in his van. He and the defendant met at Talbot House. The victim was robbed of a huge roll of cash and murdered. At the trial, it was brought out that the victim was on welfare and dealt drugs; and since his necessities were provided by this "ministry," he spent his money on drugs, prostitutes, and other sins.

I am acquainted with a retired nurse who volunteered at Talbot House. When we lunched together, she said it was nice to talk with someone who wasn’t constantly saying, “The first time I was in jail...the second time I was in jail...the third time I was in jail...”

The bum community is a community mafia criminal enterprise. Bums are an association of individuals bound by close ties of fellowship and capable of any crime. They are a band of outlaws living a state of warfare with organized social life, owning no restraint but their own inclinations, and with total disregard for the rights of property; what they need, they take. For example, they walk into stores and boldly shoplift knowing that employees are too intimidated to do anything.

What do you think the bums in Munn Park sit around talking with each other about? The Bible? No! They take over the Park and claim it as their own daytime hangout to discuss their dishonest and illegal acts with other criminals.

They sit around laughing that they have hoodwinked churches and professing Christians into winking at their criminal acts and supporting them – gangsters – with free food, clothing, shelter, and medical care and so forth!

In short, bums associate with each other and discuss the common goal of criminal profiteering. This lawless gang – a mafia – unite together in refusing to work and burden Lakeland with their criminal acts.

This gang of criminals is a constant menace to the peace and well-being of Lakeland.

Karen Pansler Lam, J.D.
Liberty Advocate

http://www.libertyadvocate.com/

A city official replied, “Would Jesus meet and talk with them or avoid them?”

Here is my answer...

“Would Jesus meet and talk with them or avoid them?”

Jesus repeatedly said: "Follow me." So, if we follow Jesus through the Scriptures, clearly even though the disciples had a money bag, neither Jesus nor His disciples ever went about feeding the poor, including the lazy and criminals. Unquestionably, Jesus could have done so as evidenced by feeding the multitudes more than once. In other words, Jesus Christ could have miraculously fed all the poor and hungry.

In fact, John 6 records Jesus rebuking the people for seeking Him for bread:

26 Jesus answered them and said, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Ye seek me, not because ye saw the miracles, but because ye did eat of the loaves, and were filled.
27 Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for the meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him hath God the Father sealed.

Clearly, Jesus reproved the multitude for following Him because He fed them on several occasions. Jesus made it very clear that His ministry did not consist of handouts. His ministry was concerned with their spiritual needs, not their physical needs.

Feeding the lazy – including criminals – is to disobey the Biblical command...

For even when we were with you,
this we commanded you,
that if any would not work,
neither should he eat.
2 Thessalonians 3:10

If we encourage the lazy and criminals by giving them free food, free clothing, free shelter, and free medical services, then we disobey the Biblical command and are partakers of their evil deeds.

We are to preach the Gospel to the lazy and criminals, and encourage them to repent and become God-fearing, hard-working citizens.

Unfortunately, Rick Warren has brought religious communism into the church and portrays Jesus as a social reformer, not our Saviour. Communism is what cult leader Jim Jones and Southern Baptist Rick Warren have in common:

Jim Jones provided shelter for the “needy.”

In 1959, Jones’ church joined the Disciples of Christ, and was renamed the Peoples Temple Christian Church Full Gospel.

In 1960, the Temple opened a soup kitchen for the poor, and expanded their social services to include rent assistance, job placement services, free canned goods, clothing and coal for winter heating.

Later, Jones and his church were praised for aiding the cities’ poorest citizens, drug addicts, and the homeless. The Temple established strong connections to the California state welfare system. In the 70s, the Temple owned and ran nine residential care homes for the elderly, six homes for foster children, and a state-licensed 40-acre ranch for developmentally disabled persons.

And the Temple’s public profile was further elevated when Jones was appointed to the Indianapolis Human Rights Commission.

Are you beginning to see the numerous similarities between Jones and Warren?

Warrenism is the abolition of poverty, unemployment and social classes, and the sharing of all the wealth of the world community. This is to be achieved by ensuring an adequate minimum for all, and to limit within reasonable bounds the degree of inequality above this minimum. A minimum standard of living – hence, global government welfare where the productive nations, such as the United States, provide for the lazy persons and lazy nations – the “needy.”

In sum, like Jim Jones, Warren realized the way to achieve social change in America was to mobilize the people through religion. And Warrenism is a cult with an overtly political message of global communism.

Like Jim Jones, Rick Warren has beguiled and bewitched many professing Christians into blindly joining his cult of religious communism disguised as Christianity.

Jones did not reveal his gospel was actually communism until the late 1960s.

Now is the time for Rick Warren to openly admit his social gospel is actually Global Communism.

Read the entire article:

Warrenism: Rick Warren’s Religious Communism

http://www.libertyadvocate.com/Warren's%20Religious%20Communism.htm

“Would Jesus meet and talk with them or avoid them?”

Jesus Christ came not as a social reformer, but a Saviour. He came to preach repentance...

Let him that stole steal no more:
but rather let him labour,
working with his hands the thing which is good,
that he may have to give to him that needeth.
Ephesians 4:28

The Lazy Poor Pt. 1
http://www.libertyadvocate.com/Lazy%20Poor%20Pt.%201.htm

http://www.libertyadvocate.com/Lazy%20Poor%20Pt.2.htm

Shame on the Idle Poor!

http://www.libertyadvocate.com/Shame%20On%20the%20Idle%20Poor!.htm

The Great Commission is not to go into all the world and feed the lazy. The Great Commission is a spiritual mission....

Go ye into all the world,
and preach the gospel to every creature.
Mark 16:15

Karen

My dear friend, Communism has infiltrated the church. There is no Biblical command to feed the lazy and criminals.