When you host the Olympics, one of the things you want to do is tidy up your city just before everyone comes to town. That way people will see how clean and great your city is and will hopefully come back to visit again some day.But it's tough cleaning up a city, especially when smelly homeless junkies are out doing heroin and crack all over your streets. So what do you do when you're looking to cut the homeless problem in your city by 50% by the time the Olympics come to town? Why, you stick said homeless drug addicts on a one-way plane out of town is what you do.
Yep, Vancouver is in the midst of seriously considering a plan to fly homeless and drug addicted individuals out of the city in time for the 2010 Olympics. That's because Vancouver - despite having the reputation of a clean city - has what a U.N. official recently called one of the world's worst slums in an affluent city. And the plan to send people off on planes wasn't cooked up by some nut. It was devised by the Chief of Police, the Civil City Commissioner, and a member of the Vancouver Board of Trade. Classy.
The plan is to collect a ton of donated frequent flyer miles and then "send people back to where they came from." Which I believe would be the gutter...of some other city. Truly a problem solving plan if ever there was one.
And just so everyone knows it's serious, the chairman of the Vancouver Board of Trade has already donated 100,000 miles. Because those miles definitely get to the root of the problem.
If you think this is bad (or maybe you think it's good), Atlanta did something similar in 1996 just before the Olympics. They rounded up as many homeless people as they could find, threw them on buses, drove them to the edge of the city and then threatened them with six months of jail time if they returned. Sort of like Rambo, except no homeless people came back and shot up a police station. Yet.
But hey, at least homeless people in the US and Canada get free plane trips and bus rides when the Olympics come to town. I have a feeling they won't be doing that in China.
-WCK
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The real question is where is Vancouver "outsourcing" these people? China--for a bullet in the head? North Korea for starvation? Bangladesh so they can die in a typhoon? Mexico so they can become mules for the drug trade?
So much for all the Boomers retiring to Canada so they can live in an "enlightened" society.
Perhaps if one were to RTFA they'd notice they were sending people back to their home provinces within Canada, not deporting to other countries.
Vancouver unfortunately acts as a bit of a catchbasin for the rest of Canada, due to the permissive attitude towards drug addicts, the mild winter weather and its location on the western edge of Canada. It's not really fair that Vancouver seems to collect all the scumbags of the country.
It doesn't really mention the olympics either, so I'm not too sure of the tie in there.
I'm not too sold on the whole "ship em back!" approach, but I can't really see it being implemented wholesale anyway. Just some half-cooked idea from the board of trade. Imagine trying to get some cracked up junkie on a plane these days!
I may be going out a limb here, but the sentence about "cutting the homeless problem by 50% by 2010" seems to make it pretty clear that this plan might just have something to do with the Olympics. Just a hunch.
Like you need an excuse to want to get rid of the homeless...
The question is, will incoherent mumbling and solicitation of change constitute a threat to national security?
Wow, people really do care more in those socialist-ish countries.
Interesting, the article on the half-baked plan to ship people out of town doesn't mention the Olympics, yet because in the Seattle Times article it is mentioned cutting homelessness by 50% it is assumed this is the method that will be used?
Even if they wanted to ship 50% of the homeless out of town, there is no way businesses could scrape up enough airmiles to donate to do it. My understanding from hearing them talk about it on the radio here is that it will be the chronic offenders who have warrants outstanding for them in their home provinces. This would be a small fraction of the addicts/homeless who account for a disproportional amount of the property crimes occurring around town.
It's not the greatest idea anyway, but it certainly won't be some kind of mass deportation of the underprivileged. Things are pretty bad here with the property crime and drugs, and the average person wants those issues dealt with. The average person also doesn't give a rat's ass about the Olympics since tickets will be ridiculously expensive, with most of the plum seats going to the organizers and their cronies.
Recently the Olympic organizing committee pissed off nearly everyone in town by asking that people change their working hours in order to reduce traffic congestion.
Should be a great 2010!
man, talk about a fun plane ride!
Well, considering how most of these bums were originally bussed here from Alberta thanks to Premier Ralph Klein, I don't see why bussing a bunch of these assholes back to Alberta would be that much of a problem.
Personally, I think we should just put a bullet into those people. They smell bad and make the skytrain and busses smell like piss
The homeless aren't even people, why does the local government just kill them all to enact its final solution to the problem.
Wow jocks bashing the homeless...shocking. How did you manage to fit that in between drinkning your fuckin protein shakes and gay bashing?
Homeless are people, blame your fuckin useless govn't for turning the blind eye. There is not enough detaox for 1/4 of these people in Vancouver,how the fuck do you expect them to get help?
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