Mighty Michigan reports this was done under the masquerade of “equitable changes.”
The full ordinance can be read here.
‘This change could lead the city down the disastrous path blazed by places like San Francisco whose residents rebelled after quality of life crimes were ignored,’ Mighty Michigan added.
City Attorney Clyde Robinson said these acts “are still a violation of our ordinances it just no longer carries a criminal sentence.”
But business owners in Kalamazoo are not happy about this move.
People have to clean up where they have defecated right in front of your door of your business. We can’t have that downtown.
Becky Bil, owner of co-owner of Pop City Popcorn, said, noting that are some rough and shady characters in the area who will surely exploit this law, causing less people to want to pass through the city.
I think it would probably allow people to think they can do what they want and not get in trouble for it. I think it’ll take away the consequence and that’s the concern.
Now you’re taking some of the discretion out of their hands, where if someone is doing a blatant violation, they should have a harsher punishment than someone who simply is doing it out of an absolute need.
Monte Janssen, owner of Youz Guys Dogz, said
Mighty Michigan concludes,
In fact, the city’s new-found leniency ignores the historic success other cities have had when they got more aggressive in combating public urination.
Those with longer memories than the Kalamazoo City Council recall that cracking down on low-level offenses—loitering, subway fare-jumping, and public urination, for example—not only fail to improve quality of life but offenders often turn out to be involved in more serious criminal behavior.
Ignoring common sense and historic successes to advance new-found theories in policies and political agendas has been disastrous in cities across the country like San Francisco, Chicago and Portland.
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.
Lamentations 4:5
‘Merika baby!
One by one, the cities across this once blessed land are now being utterly defiled from coast to coast, border to border, state to state, county by county. Now we get to let these filthy reprobates crap over everything, do not have to face jailtime and fees, and then the people trying to live a peaceable life have to cleanup someone else’s ‘mess. America the Beautiful: the song for people who eat dirt; of days gone by.
[20] But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt. [21] There is no peace, saith my God, to the wicked.Isaiah 57:20-21
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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God’s judgement is getting harder and harder! What a fitting metaphor for America: poop and pee in the streets, because that’s what America has been reduced to for the passed hundred or so decades: A TOILET!
“Power of pride,” well let’s see if your “power of pride” enjoys cleaning up the droppings of some heathen or drug addict.
“Alright you wanna reject me and my word the King James Bible? You wanna reject me and my word in exchange for organized religion and traditions of men and your sins? Alright then America, FLUSH!”
So much of these things are like cookie cutter repeats of those nations in Africa & Asia where the antichrist UN commie/fascist corporatist globalists worked their plan with the IMF. Even the debt thing, the destruction of supply chain & agriculture, family….demoralization. I wonder if they had these sorts of demoralizing laws, or whether it was informal because they didn’t have the biblical underpinnings in their laws since the UN & Rome would not permit it? Many missionaries wondered why the nations they served were set up & prepped to fail, while we know now much of what was going on because of FOIA requests & so forth.
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I do know that witchcraft filth was promoted similar to this in the gangs they used in the central & south American, and in Africa & Asia, the islands of Oceania, some of the Caribbean isles etc to war against & rob their own people due to the ill-gotten gain promised them. Firsthand & documented accounts.
It was also showing up in the behaviors of certain people using the hospitals like vacation spas on the State dime, often due to horrific sinful behaviors which were State promoted…..terrorizing & abusing the staff with vileness that’s almost inexpressible, & threatening lawsuits etc….tying peoples’ hands with the so-called HIPPAA privacy laws while admin often knowingly let it happen. Purposely crapping their beds, spreading it around…laughing at staff, refusing to use the toilet…making it more than difficult for them to do their jobs: purposely for vile kicks & thrills. I thought it was devil possession with some of them & was shocked what the hospitals were allowing to be done to their staff.
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God saw, & sees that, too. And not all of those people were wicked or lost, or anymore deserving of such behavior than those chortling over such things.
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The mercies of the Lord are new everyday & endure forever for his people who have suffered such things, & he has his ways of humbling the proud who think they know more than they do, who refuse to be sober: like making them suffer those things themselves.
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He just might be displeased with those who so rejoice, & turn from that to bring out the rod on them if they’re his!
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Pr 24:17 ¶ Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth, and let not thine heart be glad when he stumbleth:
Pr 24:18 Lest the LORD see it, and it displease him, and he turn away his wrath from him.
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Amos 5:18 Woe unto you that desire the day of the LORD! to what end is it for you? the day of the LORD is darkness, and not light.
That’s awful!
Those patients doing such disgusting and reprobate behavior like that, they have rejected the Lord and are totally sold out to Satan. They’re going to become statistics: whether it’s the death shot kill off, the Time Of Jacob’s Trouble, war, energy crisis, economy collapsing, or whatever, they’re going to become statistics!
Why are we even here anymore?
Haha! That’s a terrific question.
Well, while we’re here, let’s use that time to repent of our sins and every time we sin, repent immediately, read the King James Bible, ask God for mercy, and do what we can for him so that we all you and I included can be caught up when the catching up happens.
Sorry, but I find it particularly humorous that happens to be “KalamaZOO,” Michigan. Can’t you just see it? “Come on, son, mom and I are going to take you to the zoo today.” Little Jimmy gets in the car, and they drive for a while. They exit the car and as little Jimmy gets out of the car; he steps in poo. He looks around at the downtown streets and says, “Dad? I thought you were taking me to the zoo!” Dad says, “Why, we did, son! This is Kalama ZOO!! Breathe deep. Don’t you smell the stench of urine and fecal matter? See all the animals flinging their poo at each other?”
What a tragedy.