I guess it make sense, if they start fining food not bombs for giving out food the group might start looking for alternatives.
this post was submitted on 15 Feb 2024
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A rebrand to “Food or Bombs”
Food and bombs
Food not. Bombs.
food not? bombs!
Bring back the old "Work, bread, or lead!"
Nah. This is just a Sword of Damacles suspended over the organization's head. They'll keep coming back and issuing new tickets under new rules that have to be re-litigated. And folks doing food distribution will spend more and more of their time in court proceedings rather than doing the thing they signed up to do.
Then everyone just waits with baited breath for a judge to decide "Actually, this arcane interpretation of a rule about a rule about a legal decision about a rule means we CAN fine you $10,000 for every crumb dropped on the sidewalk" and that raises the stakes until the organization is smothered to death.
This is basically what they said outside the courthouse. The failure to find a jury just causes the case to be reschedule, but every fucking TIME they hand out food, the cops come around to fine them. It is genuinely disgusting. The DAs don't even bother to be prepared with their motions.
Fuck this country.
and then a courthouse blows up
"you made your choice"
"What are they gonna do? Bomb us?"
- Guy who got bombed
Protip: instead of being up front about your views, pretend to be 
, then refuse to convict.
Look! The indomitable human spirit! This species is widely believed to be extinct in the wild, yet it perseveres!
This is awesome though I needed a win for humanity this morning.
We can't hand out food? Looks like you're choosing bombs.
Quick reminder that the FBI surveilled FNB on grounds that FNB could be ecoterrorists
That's what ecoterrorism is? Sounds pretty based.
NOT bombs. Right there in the name
moments for my 
soul, thanks
Average law in US "democracy"
cw: homophobia, religion, sa
The USA is Sodom and Gommorah, but not in the way you might think I mean it
I'm not a fundamentalist or anything, the stories in Torah are for the most part just stories, some are fucking bizarre, some are pretty awful and some can resonate.
Sodom and Gommorah has always been one of my favorite Torah stories, and also I fucking hate America, so have a bit of info dump on the fusion of two of my special interests.
I'm not the first bozo to make this point either but here we go.
Lots of people read the Sodom and Gommorah story as being about "the sin of homosexuality", especially Christians. but early Jewish texts generally state that the city got destroyed because of how horrible these people were to anyone coming to town.
I'm cribbing notes from Wikipedia to make a point, but let's pick some choice ones
The Sins of Sodom and Gommorah
Harshly punishing victims for crimes that the perpetrator committed
If you've ever been a victim of any crime in America you know exactly what I mean
Forcing an assault victim to pay for the perpetrator's "bleeding"
The citizens also regularly tortured foreigners who sought lodging
Reminiscent of every hog in america braying for blood of immigrants rn, and America's views on immigrants/asylum seekers in general. Are the kids out of the cages yet, Joe?
The provision of bread and water to the poor was a capital offense
They're not executing Food not Bombs comrades ofc but the crimes for aiding people who need help in our society get harsher and harsher. Like the laws against providing migrants water, laws against feeding the homeless, laws against bail funds etc.
Other commentary
Ezekiel says the same thing about (6th century BCE) Jerusalem:
Only this was the sin of your sister Sodom: arrogance! She and her daughters had plenty of bread and untroubled tranquility; yet she did not support the poor and the needy. https://www.sefaria.org/Ezekiel.16.49
Here's also an essay on (2006) Jerusalem along the same lines that Keshet (jewish LGBTQ org) has up.
me trying not to be a doomer
God tells Abraham he won't nuke the city if there are at least 10 good people in it.
A lot of times when I look up and see all the horrible shit happening on a daily basis on any sort of scale big or small, like the genocide in Gaza, or cops pissing in children's free breakfasts or pouring bleach on food meant for the homeless, I think of this story.
Obviously God isn't gonna come down and destroy humanity, or America, or whatever. But a lot of the time I start to think humans honestly shouldn't exist.
People that do food not bombs, people that help eachother in general, all the people out there doing mutual aid work - they're always around somewhere, and that gives me the hope to press on as well.
If shit hits the fan, there's gonna be 10 people out there in the streets fighting the good fight. Maybe I can find them and be the 11th.
You can't just nullify that!
Do Americans living in rural areas have more success with this kind of thing?
I'm asking because in the case of my country this sort of thing is a lot easier to do in rural areas in connection to leftist groups or the Catholic church. Sometimes both. But the police in urban areas do the same thing as they do in the OP.