Social Condition Bad. You think?
The BC Progress Report rates our social condition as amongst the worst in Canada.
Of course, all that would be required of the legislators is that they walk 3 blocks off their usual paths to the heart of Victoria which is a living cesspool of inhumanity.
Minister Claude "I never Saw a Government Job I couldn't Milk for Meself" Richmond says that the government is doing a wonderful job closing the gap between the rich and the poor.
Hahahahaha....
2 comments:
Hello David. A small but horrifying story for you, just one of many that I see every week.
There are drug dealer(s) working out of the Lore Krill social housing complex on Cordova (between Abbott and Carrall). (This is hardly news.) Walking to work in the morning, I often see drug addicts queued up at the intercom, trying to get in to get their morning fix.
This morning two addicts, a man and a woman, were at the intercom. The woman had a baby carrier on her back, and, initially, I thought she had a toy doll in it. When its head listlessly lolled back, I realized it was a live baby. It was naked. It's raining, it's three degrees. A blanket is trailing behind the woman, trailing through the puddles and the dogshit and the filth that spreads out from the homeless encampment across from Army and Navy.
Having lived in the DTES for a number of years, I know better than to directly intervene with junkies, especially those that are jonesing for drugs. Verbal abuse is nothing to me now - over the years I have been assaulted, grabbed, followed and threatened. Fortunately two men were nearby, a construction worker and a postman, and they intervened while I walked on. I didn't see what subsequently happened.
So many things bothered me about this vignette. My own cowardice, to start - it disgusts me that my fear for my own well-being is greater than my fear for that baby. But I am also swamped by a sense of futility. What difference would it make to see that the baby was wrapped up in the filthy, wet blanket, when its life is being destroyed, in far more profound and appalling ways, by its junkie mother? Why bother calling the cops - the addicts would be gone by the time they arrived, and what could the cops do anyway?
I'm sending this as a comment to your blog post "Social Condition Bad. You think?".
Yes, I think.
Today on NW (that windbag) was leading a discussion about the 3 churches that want to open at night as shelters for the homeless in Coquitlam, ( I think) The attitude of the callers was appauling and big wind didn't put a stop to it. Finally Lou Sekora called in and said he wants Riverview open. Last Dec. the windbag asked Gordo about opening Riverview and de preem said "NO"
End of discussion. The interviewer didn't have the balls to ask why not. Good expose of Silly Sam's FACEBOOK site in Dec. 7 Courier.
Cheers.
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