cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/1387388
https://archive.is/ZZcga#selection-261.0-261.102
Volunteers giving out free meals with the organization Food Not Bombs have wracked up 40 tickets seeking more than $10,000 in fines since March 1, four weeks before visitors began pouring into downtown for the Final Four.
The Houston law they were charged with violating — an ordinance against giving away meals unless you have permission from the property where you’re doing it, even if the property is public — was put in place by City Council in 2012 but largely had gone unenforced for over a decade, municipal records show.
As a society, we’ve made a choice that we should have both indigent people without homes and billionaires who can buy more government representation than the average person.
It doesn’t have to be this way.