Homeless people are under the oppressive condition however the government can't just sacrifice them but it can punish them.
That is, Hackney Council's new "Public Space Protection Orders" proposal pretended to give police and council officers the power to ban "anti-social" activities such as sleeping rough or begging.
Those who breached an order could be issued with a £100 fixed penalty notice or a fine of £1,000.
It is an utter imposition of the local council's power over those under severe oppression and distress.
Their suffering belongs to the state under a game over the right of its marginalised group being transformed into citizens merely for punishment and humiliation.
The Public Space Protection Orders is a penalty over one's condition suffering - it is a fine over the disempowered for being disempowered.
This act allows power to fragment the homeless into sub-humans punishable for the state of utter misery.
Thus, such attempt to a policy such as The Public Space Protection Orders can be seen as something that will make life in overall restored and cleaner as it is seemly acting under the justification of punishing the oppressed under a political instrument.
The homeless people are being reduced to - less than the bare - under a state's restriction over their life to be in certain places.
Furthermore, it is a lazy, uninformed and violent way to simplify such complex issue.
Homelessness in the UK is sometimes directly linked to people sleeping rough.
However, those people sleeping rough are only a partial representation of the problem of those without secure accommodation.
That is, there are also some people that are staying in emergency hostels, there are refugees and there are people that are not sleeping rough but do not have any permanent accommodation such as people staying temporarily with friends, squatting or as part of a travellers community.
There are a wide variety of reasons why people become homeless such as, relationship break down, domestic violence and substance misuse, people that are released from prison, people that are released from psychiatric institutions, people in debt, children that are institutionalised as asylum seekers and refugees.
Therefore, homelessness in the UK goes beyond those people living on the streets and it has much more complex structural roots and it should not be used a mean of punishment as the Hackney Council's new "Public Space Protection Orders" attempted.
Given that, this administration of human suffering can only be achieved through strict management of disciplinary acts such the Hackney Council's new "Public Space Protection Orders" attempted.
Are not the homeless oppressed enough? The Hackney Council should not punish people over their miseries.
Arguably, there is a control of activity, there is a control over the bureaucracy for homeless people to access medical care and there is a control how homeless people access housing.
There is a controlled suffering and now a 'tax' over that suffering.
This act is demonstrating that some people and groups are in practical terms seen to have less right to life and even the bare life.
Arguably, the current seemly unconnected series of policy such as "Public Space Protection Orders" towards homeless people are reducing them to sub-humans with a validation stamp by the state.
That is a design of human suffering and a mocking of human distress and this is a violent attempt of normalisation of human suffering.
If the system doesn't allow a space for critical reflection of its oppressive means that system needs to be challenged.
Hackney Council is this the best policy for the homeless that you had to offer?
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