The Next Big Civil Right: Living On The Street

America's homeless are lawyering up to fight for a "right" to live on the street, your neighborhood and personal safety be damned.

From Fort Lauderdale to Denver to Los Angeles, cities are struggling with a surge in people living in cardboard boxes and doorways. Local lawmakers are trying to ban "camping out" in public spaces and ordering police to clear the fetid encampments.

But lawyers for the homeless are pushing back. They're demanding that "sleeping rough" be legally protected. In Denver, where living on the street is outlawed, lawyers for the homeless want the law changed to guarantee vagrants "the right to use and move freely in public spaces without discrimination."

Outrageously, the Obama administration is siding with the vagrants against local governments. This month, Obama's Justice Department is trying to block Boise, Idaho's ban on sleeping in public spaces. Cities around the country are worried that their own laws may be next.

Not New York. There, lawyers for the homeless are already running City Hall under neo-Marxist Mayor Bill de Blasio. Complaint calls about the homeless are up nearly 60% since he took office. The mayor dismisses that as "hysteria," insisting the majority of homeless "don't bother anybody."

Los Angeles — the homeless capital of the nation — is trying to halt the spread of cardboard shanties. Obamavilles. But the city has lost a string of lawsuits. Amazingly, judges have ruled that the homeless have constitutional rights to sleep in cars and store their possessions, including furniture, on the sidewalk. If police move belongings, they have to store them for 90 days. At taxpayers' expense, of course.

"Whole neighborhoods of Los Angeles are already beset with crime because of the inability of police to cope with mentally ill, drug-addled and criminal transients," says Mark Ryavec, who organized business and homeowners in tony Venice. Advocates have gone to the state legislature to promote a Right to Rest bill similar to the Denver proposal.

Read the rest of the story HERE.

If you like what you see, please "Like" us on Facebook either here or here. Please follow us on Twitter here.