The speaker of the New York City Council is pushing a bill to, among other things, decriminalize urinating in public:

[A] urinating vagrant turned a busy stretch of Broadway into his own private bathroom yesterday – an offense that would result in a mere summons if Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito and her pals get their way. Wrapped in rags and a Mets blanket the hobo wandered into traffic at around 10:30 a.m. and relieved himself as cabs, cars and buses whizzed by between West 83rd and 84th streets on the Upper West Side.

Mark-Viverito in April announced plans to decriminalize public urination along with five other low-level offenses: biking on the sidewalk, public consumption of alcohol, being in a park after dark, failure to obey a park sign and jumping subway turnstiles.

Police Commissioner Bill Bratton — who in the early ’90s implemented a “broken windows” approach to policing to dramatically cut crime — is against the new plan, saying such offenses lead to more serious crimes.

An employee at the Victoria’s Secret, where the homeless man often lounges, said he drives away business. “He curses people out, threatens lives,” said the employee, who works in the lingerie chain’s loss-prevention department.

In liberal ideology, the homeless are among the most virtuous of the favored classes, and they can do no wrong.  How else to explain a policy that will literally turn the streets of New York into a sewer?  And as many of you know, public urinating is often known as the "gateway excretion."  Once public urinating is decriminalized, can public defecating and public masturbating be far behind?  I'm sure families with children will love it – it can create a lot of teachable moments about human biology.

But of course, that's not all.  Imagine if parks are open after dark.  Think of all the drug dealing and armed robberies that will occur.  Imagine if people are allowed to walk around drinking in public – how that will affect violence on the streets.  And now, apparently, people can choose to not pay for subway rides if they are athletic enough to jump the turnstiles!

It's taking New York on the road to Escape from New York.  And as I know that most people in New York are liberals, I couldn't think of a better place to try this kind of social experiment.

What other kinds of experiments do you think NYC would be a good place to try?

a) Release predatory animals – lions, tigers, cheetahs – in the streets of New York to see if they can adapt to liberal society, and send roving teams of social workers on the streets to attend to their needs.

b) Open the cell doors at Riker's Island, the city jail, for a day as an experiment to see what will happen.  Who will leave?  Who will stay?  Will the falsely accused go out and commit crimes?

c) Let diplomatic staff at the U.N. know that under no circumstances will they be prosecuted for any crimes, no matter how serious.

d) Introduce thousands of illegal aliens onto the streets of New York and see if it affects the crime rate, or, if that's already been done, deport thousands of illegal aliens from the streets of New York and see if that affects the crime rate.

e) Require all New York City police on patrol to be accompanied by a representative of the ACLU on their rounds, and see if that has an effect on crime.

To end on a serious note, this is all about depriving us of another of our constitutional rights: namely, freedom of association.  Freedom of association also means freedom not to associate, especially based on behavior, and that is something liberals will not tolerate.  That is why they are forcing Christian bakers to participate in homosexual weddings, forcing companies to hire transvestites, forcing suburban towns to import urban blight, and now, in New York, forcing citizens to endure the antics of drug addicts and crazies – the ones the article called "the homeless."

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