In my post from yesterday, I explained how needle exchanges and programs that subside drug use and addiction had severe negative consequences for the non-drug users in a community, and that Mike Pence’s lack of support for needle exchanges wasn’t an anti-science position.
Like mana from heaven, this appeared in my news feed this morning.
From Fox 29 Philadelphia:
‘You’re a sneak’: South Philadelphia residents speak out against safe injection site plans
South Philadelphia residents, including city officials, made sure their voices were heard as they opposed plans to open a safe injection site during a Wednesday morning press conference.
Former Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell was among a group of officials who addressed the crowd as they discussed their plans to open a site the nation’s first supervised injection site next week.
In a final ruling Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Gerald McHugh said the Safehouse proposal does not violate federal drug laws because the intent is to save lives, not encourage drug use.
The news article does not do it justice. You have to watch this.
I wanna buy her a beer. pic.twitter.com/T0yziAwULX
— Joel Fischer ?? (@realJoelFischer) February 27, 2020
Holy shit.
That hit home for me. I know Passyunk Ave in Philladelphia. I used to work at the refinery that was were Passyunk crossed over the Schuylkill River. There used to be a great little hole-in-the-wall cheese steak place over on East Passyunk Ave. Not Geno’s or Pat’s, those are famous and always have a line. This place was a little non-descript shop and was fantastic. I haven’t been there in years, but when I was there, the streets weren’t covered with shit with vagrants doing drugs out in the open.
This is what these Liberal policies do. They may appear to be compassionate to drug addicts or the homeless, but they destroy the quality of life of the hard-working, law-abiding, tax-paying people who have to pay for these programs and live in the neighborhoods affected by them.
This woman had had enough and let the governor know that.
I hope to see more and more people respond just like here, and make their voices count on election day.