Homeless Woman Stomped to Death in L.A.

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Her death "highlights the plight of the homeless, and the danger they face every day living, indeed sleeping, on the streets at night," Police Chief William Bratton said.

Gregory Hampton, 52, was being held without bail in connection with the attack, police said. A court hearing was scheduled for May 17.

Councilwoman Jan Perry said she will ask the state Department of Corrections to stop releasing parolees into the area. Hampton has a long record, mostly for property crimes, dating back to 1970, police said.

In Los Angeles County, more than 82,000 people were homeless on any given night in 2005, including about 48,000 within Los Angeles city limits, according to survey by the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority.


Why is anyone homeless in this nation of such spectacular abundance? Could it be our national priorities are FUCKED UP? Yes, I'd say so.

So much for the religion of the most religious industrialized nation on the blue planet. The religious right supported the Iraq invasion, but does not support social programs for homeless and other wise disenfranchised people.
That's why they adore Grover Norquist and vote for Bush. He wants to stop all that unchristian charity and caring for the poor and drown government in the bath tub.

My religious right MINISTER neighbor, who is often bristling with anger, informed me a couple of days after the levees broke in New Orleans that the problem in New Orleans was "they're going to expect us to pay for it"
A minister.
It wasn't the loss of life or suffering that concerned him. It was the money. Though he had Bush bumper stickers all over his enormous fleet of enormous gas guzzlers all through 2004, so I know he didn't mind paying for the preemptive, illegal, immoral occupation of Iraq.

When I walked away form that "conversation" it was with the realization that the right doesn't see us a nation, but as a loose confederacy of states, which is one reason they can shrug off a disaster such as the one in New Orleans. Not their state, not their business. And certainly not their obligation to contribute. Jesus will provide.

These people pose the primary threat to the American way of life. They are much more dangerous than a boatload full of Bin Ladens, though they, like he, justify their mean spiritedness and lack of understanding with perverse theological interpretation.

The right wing has put the homeless on t he street. Their unenlightened self interest is responsible for the implementation of policies that has created such terrible. Wailing despair in America.
And right wing, corporation pandering democrats like Bill Clinton and Barack Obama are responsible for it too.

Death by stomping must be a horrible way to die. Maybe about as horrible as living on the street, as sleeping on the sidewalk.
When I last checked, the Iraq war was costing us 150,000 dollars a minute.