[joeysteele]

Originally Posted by Livia

I agree with all that, joey... but the fact is that this is a thread isn't about the government's contribution to the homessness cause, it's about three young female thugs who brutally beat a man for no reason other than he's homeless. Blaming the government and blaming society is just excusing their behaviour and excusing the way they were brought up.

Totally agree, however I have to say, I think when certain groups of people like the homeless and also immigrants and even the sick and disabled are presented as people to be 'demonised' as unnecessary and a waste of resources by those in power ,rather than demonstrating full and committed passion to protecting them and helping them.
Then you will get these mindless people who think they,the homeless are fair game to be 'got' at.

The point is that if Govts. who have the resources, wealth and more to the point power to adddress such issues as homelessness did so, then they would not be seen as such easy targets as this poor guy was possibly
Helping to demonise such people and ignoring such issues or even adding to the problems via policy implemented only fuels the rotten way these 3 girls acted towards this guy.

Of course these girls were 100% wrong and really for me they should be in prison and off the streets.
Compassion and understanding of the needs of the homeless by those in power could just maybe remove the stigma attached to the homeless as being all just simply scroungers as they have done with benefit claimants too.

Homelessness and the issue of it along with others at the bottom end of the scale as many have said on this thread already, is something that needs to be dealt with by those elected to power, doing nothing,like this lot are doing but adding to the problem, will only help very sadly to see more of these mindless attacks on people who are homeless in my view.