The God-given Ability to Panhandle

[life_boy]

Atlanta has just passed some local legislation outlawing panhandling in some of their prime "tourist areas" downtown. Some protestors are pissed. Elisabeth Omilami (a protestor) says: "The ability to ask for alms is a God-given ability. You can pass laws to protect trees, but what about human beings? God help us

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[anonymous]

its fucking time they did something about that.....there are whole autonomous civilizations of Atlanta panhandlers in midtown, downtown, L5P, etc, etc, that have defied anthropological classification since the days of speculations that the Maori were the lost tribe of Israel.....now wouldn't that be something.....the street urchin beggars (panhandler is too esoteric). We could put them in a reservation and make loads of tax money off of alcohol sales. Anthropology since the fall out from the last days of freewheeling indigenous research of the mid-twentieth century have introspected their gaze into the urban wastelands of diversified post-modern America. The model of compartmentalized cultural stratification could begin again with "natives" of the frontier of the urban wilderness displaced as capitalism gets fresh shot in the arm of indentured (read "slavelike") labor through the emancipation of the green card (whaaa?). Once again a century of paradigm shift, pomp, and ontological anarchy results in neo-victorian age the likes of