PROBLEM STATEMENT 1, ECONOMIC CHALLENGES
“As the country fails to provide money for housing, and as essential funds are cut from social services, the amount of money spent to jail people for “quality of life” crimes increases.”
“The legal challenges resulting from criminalizing homelessness have proven costly for both homeless people and for those who prosecute them.”
PROBLEM STATEMENT 2, SOCIAL CHALLENGES
Social challenges that the United States faces include false fears created by social exclusion, loss of access to employment, family and friends by arrests or incarceration for “quality of life” offenses and costs of incarceration to taxpayers which affects the cost of living due to increases in taxation.
PROBLEM STATEMENT 3, POLITICAL CHALLENGES
Political challenges that the United States faces includes these rights of The Oppressed that are violated regularly by law enforcement, namely
• The 1st Amendment (see Appendix One, page 73) by prohibiting or limiting panhandling,
• The 4th Amendment (see Appendix Two, page 73) by the seizure or destruction of homeless peoples’ property,
• The 8th Amendment (see Appendix Four, page 74) by prohibiting sleep and other necessary activities in public spaces, and
• The 14th Amendment (see Appendix Five, page 74) by discriminatory enforcement.
Local ordinances discriminate against and criminalize the lives of homeless people, thus often violating state, local, and federal constitutions, which in turn expose city governments and law enforcement to civil liability.
PROBLEM STATEMENT 4, INDIVIDUAL CHALLENGES
The struggle to survive on the streets is discouraging, depressing, demoralizing, and frightening. Once the homeless have a criminal record for “quality of life” violations, it becomes difficult for them to get a job or to qualify for housing. Many homeless people lose all their possessions when they are arrested. Others, as was in my case, lose all sight of any purpose for existence. Homelessness is also dangerous. When I was homeless, I was attacked by two individuals who made clear their intent to dissect me. The man used a shovel to do the cutting while the woman used his cane to knock me out. During the time that we lived in our tent up the hill, I had made an oven where we burned our trash and cooked our meals. Their intent was to place my body parts in the oven and burn them to the point of being unidentifiable. Once they had accomplished this, they hoped to take off with my car, and sexually enslave my wife.
The police there in Victorville, California, did absolutely nothing, even though they had every opportunity to capture the two right then and there before I was rushed to the hospital. To this day, as far as I know, the police up there mingle casually with them, while knowing that they are wanted for attempted murder and assault with a deadly weapon. The woman is said to be an informant for the Victorville Police Department and the other is said to be a provider of illegal substances to the users among the Victorville Police Department. Being so impoverished, how can I afford justice?
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STRENGTHS AND CORE COMPETENCIES
STRENGTH OF THE ORGANIZATION
The Organization will succeed as the result of the human resources being properly placed and utilized. The SIT Program will lift up The Oppressed as they become very valuable human resources, providers of material resources, and expressions of spiritual resources to the community that previously wasted such valuable resources.
The SIT Program will manifest the fact that those who are among The Oppressed will lose all reasons for panhandling. The SIT Program will place SITPs among the working and desirable class again and restore their dignity.
While the government has programs such as Welfare to Work to help citizens get off welfare and back to work, incentives are lost as the result of the cost of living increasing exponentially to pay for these government programs, other programs, and the continued increase in the minimum wage compared to the average income. In a way, the SIT program becomes a type of socialist program reform with a representative yet representative government of its own. It focuses on the acquisitions of living versus the cost of living. It focuses on human worth in terms of being part of a nucleus, not in terms of how much money one makes.
The SIT Program, however, seeks to bring people of all ages together to form communities that thrive on united efforts and tribal-like relationships that hold participants together to maintain their self-sustenance and industry and continued training in various areas of survival, including ambassadorship in the event that there should be any activities with foreign countries or a need to be represented before the Congress of the United States or even with local leaders.
Small Children
The SIT Program takes away limitations on education and encourages small children up to age seven to advance intellectually without becoming victims of child labor abuses while yet learning a myriad of possible trades by the time they are legally allowed to work.
Children
The SIT Program provides an environment for children between ages eight and 11 to learn to express themselves effectively for positive growth toward the utilization of their interests toward a possible career by means of receiving personal responsibilities in The Organization community that they live in.
Adolescents
The SIT Program provides a safe haven for those entering puberty to utilize the training as children and youth and to deal with their changes in a healthful way without fear of unhealthful social interaction with regard to their physical transitions, especially as regards their hormones. While adding more community responsibilities that help them understand the transition and to prepare them for what in most communities in the United States is called adulthood. Please note though that, in The Organization, this group of adolescents is given the same rights as any other adult to the extent of the law. In the community, this age group also is given the privilege to vote and engage in leadership responsibilities as well, including as C/Ms when they prove to be ready for such responsibilities.
Adults
The SIT Program will help adults take part in their own progress through assisting others with their progress, thus creating a healthy, but seemingly monstrous cycle. New skills will be acquired through training; mandatory leadership roles will provide greater perspective on the SIT Program; and required participation in The Organization community that the participant lives will bring in funding and other resources to keep the SIT Program going. The nature of the SIT Program should help The Organization communities to continuously thrive, grow, remain self-sustaining; relieve taxpayers of government burdens; and assist sponsoring communities in their image which is destroyed by the sight of domestic terrorists who mark their territory with graffiti and thereby shame their parents and those who associate with them and by the smell and sight of the quality of life imposed upon The Oppressed who has no other means of survival than panhandling, prostitution, prostituting their children, and engaging in illegal activities that include illegal substance dealings and then relieving themselves in public places (see VII. Operational Plan, for the Nature of the SIT Ministry). |