[Fwd: Neighborhood Protection Act]
Graeme Bacque (gbacque@arcos.org)
Mon, 18 May 1998 17:26:19 -0400
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> Date: Wed, 13 May 1998 07:37:09 -0400
> From: Gary Morton <command@interlog.com>
> Organization: Ciitizens on the Web
> To: Bob Olsen <bobolsen@aracnet.net>
> Subject: Neighborhood Protection Act
>
> Bob - can you send this out to people in poverty groups. etc?
> **from Citizens on the Web News
> http://www.interlog.com/~cjazz
>
> A Neighborhood Protection Act is to go to the Harris cabinet
> (government of Ontario) within a
> month. This is a made in America law that would target squeegee kids,
> street prostitutes, crack houses and aggressive panhandlers. This made
> in the USA idea leads to martial law type sweeps. Innocent people are
> harassed and jailed. This type of law and order increased the prison
> population in the States by a multiple of 5. Citizens must act to oppose
> this and especially the idea of the Cabinet making these sorts of police
> state decisions when the demand comes only from American experts and not
> the public.
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>
> Attack on Squeegee Kids a War on Youth Culture and the Poor
>
> Tuesday, May 12, 1998
>
> Tories may join squeegee fight
>
> By JEFF HARDER AND ROBERT BENZIE,
> TORONTO SUN
> Attorney General Charles Harnick and Mayor Mel
> Lastman may join forces to wipe the streets clean of
> squeegee kids.
>
> Lastman's office wants to crack down on the
> window-washing panhandlers and Harnick is ready to
> help.
>
> It is something that needs to be controlled, he said at the
> Legislature yesterday. "I'm not sure we have that means
> of control, so I'm prepared to listen to the suggestions the
> municipalities have."
>
> Lastman said squeegee kids "intimidate people."
>
> His officials are working on measures to tackle the
> problem, but it's a major challenge.
>
> The mayor stressed street kids shouldn't have to scrub
> windows to stay alive.
>
> "We're looking into different things we can do ... like what
> kind of jobs we can create for them," he said.
> .............................................
>
> Bob Olsen Toronto bobolsen@aracnet.net (:-)
>
> Please note my change of address to bobolsen@aracnet.net