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[Make sure to read Daniel Greenfield’s contributions in Jamie Glazov’s new book: Barack Obama’s True Legacy: How He Transformed America.]
In 1938, New York State held its eighth and penultimate constitutional convention. Little did the various power brokers attending the event know that what they had really accomplished was to fire a bullet that would destroy the City of New York some 85 years in the future.
The state constitutional convention was dominated by New Dealers who were busy inserting their socialist agenda everywhere. The ideal of the American Constitution, that freedom comes from government non-interference, was considered laughably outmoded in a ‘modern’ age..
Instead, Senator Robert F. Wagner, a key New Deal figure, argued that, “the threat to freedom… comes from another source — from poverty and insecurity, from sickness and the slum, from social and economic conditions in which human beings cannot be free.”
The 1938 Constitution threw in a Labor Bill of Rights and Article XVII on Social Welfare. The wording was more aspirational and idealistic than legalistic. “the aid, care and support of the needy are public concerns and shall be provided by the state and by such of its subdivisions, and in such manner and by such means, as the legislature may from time to time determine.”
And no one thought very much about it until 1979 when a 26-year-old leftist lawyer named Robert Hayes sued Gov. Carey and the state on behalf of a wino. The wino, Robert Callahan, a far gone alcoholic who died before the case was settled, became the titular name on Callahan v. Carey which established a ‘right to shelter’ for, in the words of Justice Andrew Tyler (a Harlem civic leader later convicted of perjury for his relationships with gamblers), “homeless alcoholics, addicts, mentally impaired derelicts, flotsam and jetsam”.
Hayes’ argument hinged on the Constitution saying “shall be provided”. The State of New York (meaning the city’s taxpayers) were obligated to fund housing for every single addict and bum.
And that was horribly expensive and difficult until the whole world showed up 44 years later.
Now New York’s liberal elites are arguing over whether the “right to shelter” only applies to New York’s mentally impaired derelicts and addicts or those of the entire world who have been arriving in endless numbers as part of the Biden administration’s open borders policy.
“Never was it envisioned that this would be an unlimited universal right or obligation on the city to have to house literally entire world,” Gov. Hochul protested.
Mayor Eric Adams has claimed that the mass invasion of illegal aliens will “destroy” New York and has begun warning that the city will start expelling single young men from shelters after two months. He has gone to court to suspend the disastrous 1979 ‘Right to Shelter’ consent decree
Legally speaking he’s likely to lose because the city’s radical courts have repeatedly held that everyone has the right to be housed even if it’s a right that has no actual legal basis.
The 1938 constitution simply stated that the legislature can provide for the needy, but each successive progressive constitutional misinterpretation is a deliberate effort to warp it further. New York voters, now long dead, allowed New Dealers to open the gates of hell. Seventies activist lawyers pried it open further and their successors want it to be open all the way.
While Callahan, the bum at the head of the case died, Robert Hayes, the lawyer who brought the case, now heads the Community Healthcare Network which provides health and social services and receives an annual salary of $414,671 with another $42,784 in benefits.
In the face of a mass invasion, Hayes still insists that, “If the governor doesn’t think there’s a statewide right-to-shelter, she’s very, either very ill-informed or frankly derelict in her obligation.”
New York voters and legislators could fix this with a constitutional convention that throws out the New Deal nonsense that the legal requirement of housing everyone in the world hinges on. But then the Democrats would have to admit that their leftist ideology is at the heart of the problem.
An op-ed in the New York Daily News by Dave Giffen, the Executive Director of the Coalition for the Homeless ($248,841 + $77,967 annual salary) and Adriene Holder of the Legal Aid Society ($228,530 + $31,367) once again invoked the memory of Robert Callahan, the long dead wino in whose name the city and must be burned to the ground to accommodate every last migrant.
After two generations of exploiting an alcoholic’s death for power and profit, the homeless industrial complex isn’t done. Its position is literally that New York City must house everyone in the world. New Yorkers, from political leaders down to local residents, have a simple choice: they can either accept the madness of its proposition or wipe out this insane legal theory.
“New York City cannot single-handedly provide care to everyone crossing our border,” Mayor Adams has argued. “For more than a year, New York City has — largely on its own — provided shelter, food, clothing, and more to over 70,000 migrants who have arrived in our city. We now have more asylum seekers in our care than New Yorkers experiencing homelessness when we came into office. When the original Callahan consent decree came down almost 40 years ago, no one could have contemplated, foresaw, or even remotely imagined a mass influx of individuals entering our system — more than doubling our census count in slightly over a year.”
Socialism never foresees anything. That’s why it’s socialism. Leftists never address their own extremist tendency to adopt ever more dogmatic versions of their ideology detached from any kind of pragmatic considerations. The Callahan decree was unsupportable. It’s taken a mass invasion of illegals to get to the point where the mayor and governor will only critique the original decision for having failed to anticipate the entire world showing up in New York City.
That’s timid and pathetic.
Activists for the so-called homeless have been destroying New York City and other major cities, including Los Angeles and San Francisco, by turning them into massive dumps filled with junkies and crazies, human waste and violent crime. But this is the real moment of truth.
How much destruction will urban residents accept? Will they agree to ‘house the world’?
“House the world” has to be replaced with “Stop the world,” not necessarily following the 1961 play, just the words.
So what happens when there is no more taxpayer money to redistribute to pay for free hotels/motels? Do the owners now host the illegals for free? HOW about if the cartels command the illegals to run drugs or sex traffick? What if the DEA or US Marshals bust some illegals at the hotel/motel……… do they seize the property? Do they kick out all the illegals until the case is closed?
What a damn mess the democrats have created.
This is when the Communism that the Dems are now pushing takes effect and the government would own the buildings and fund it all with our money that the Commies will have taken from us.
Puzzled:
Don;t worry, the President just signed a new executive order giving them greater control over your home. When ten million more illegal aliens come here, there will be no place to put them, so you may be required to take in one or more illegal aliens into your home to care for, at your expense. This way, the state and local governments will save money.
Just think you are reading your newspaper or sitting down for dinner with your family and there is a knock at your door. You answer the door and there are two government agents to drop off an illegal alien for you to take care of. They inform you that since you have and extra bedroom that is not being used, the government is taking control of that bedroom for an illegal that will be staying with you. You are presented with the proper government orders, they leave and you are stuck with a new person in your home. If you complain, they threaten to evict the whole family and take control of your entire home.
Yeah, from the beginning, it irritated me tremendously how math-challenged they were. There are maybe billions worldwide living in poverty who want to come here, less than 200 million American workers, how are 200 million American workers supposed to take care of billions of derelicts? The math just doesn’t work on a macro scale.
But you’re talking logic and math. Didn’t you know that logic is white supremacist and math is racist?
Uh oh. AA is screwed then. 😛
I’m from the government and I’m here to help!
I’m from the government and I’m here to help!
Yes, help an illegal alien take my place.
Yeah, mathematically we’re screwed, along with crime, resources, housing and too many other things to list. It starts with math, though. That alone shows taking in the world’s refuse can’t work.
Did you hear Dianne Feinstein did today at age 90? That means that all this time we thought she was becoming more senile she was actually dying. Leave it to the Dirbagocrats to retain the walking dead up till the last minute and for the corpses to refuse to give up their office.
She did have long life before it turned into a half life, though. Scary that she was making decisions that affect our lives, or she had handlers at the end like Alzheimer Joe.
Yeah, she looked in even worse shape than Uncle Joe. But she went downhill faster.
Yep. I see dolts on TV speculating on the cause of her death. “Hey dumbasses? Have you ever heard of extreme old age?” Nobody lasts forever. It wasn’t anybody on Newsmax or Real America’s voice scratching their heads, it was fake news media trolls shown on those two real news channels to highlight how stupid trolls are. You know, like FPM does.
She voted on the wrong side of every bill that I noticed but she wasn’t a bad person, like most D-Bags are.
Nix that. I just remembered Fiendstain led the effort to prevent Kavanaugh’s appointment to the Supreme Court with that Christine Blatant Fraud smear. She was a piece of shit. It’s just hard for me to look at a doddering old woman without empathy but she didn’t actually deserve any of my pity.
Not that I have any respect for Kavanaugh. just another fake defender of the Constitution who votes against it regularly.
Agree. Also, how were the pyramids and the tower of babel constructed?
I explained to my leftist neighbors that there’s no economic problem illegal immigrants. It’s a political problem. Adams by law has to house them & they can’t legally work for 6 months.
The “migrants” are the most resilient people on earth considering what they had to do to get here. They know how to live on the black market & find shelter legal or otherwise. But why should they if the law requires NYC to provide for them? It’s a political, not economic, problem.
Thanks Daniel to getting the word out.
Yeah, they rent a place and cram 14 more people in.
That’s how it was when my grandparents came here in the 1800s. They’ll do what they have to do … until the can improve their skills and move on up. It’s government that stands in the way … “I’m frond the government and I’m here to help” … the scariest words.
Damn, those typos … wish I could edit.
I’ll be more careful in the future.
A 95 year old veteran of the Korean War is being evicted from his housing to make way for a wet back, if he hasn’t been already.. I notice Adams and Hochul don’t give a shit. Their compassion for citizens has always been feigned.
Hochul and Adams got what they wanted, and now they’re sniveling about it. Breed in San Fran, too, They all got what they deserve. Obviously all that sanctuary city bullshit was just virtue signaling.
Incompetent scum, but we all knew that from the beginning.
Well “competency” depends on what their objective is. If their objective is destroying their cities they seem quite competent in doing so.
Yeah, they’e human bombs.
That’s their objective.
Actually,
I believe it’s theater. This is exactly what their master’s desire. Their part in the play is to act surprised.
Mr. Greenfield, you’re an intelligent man, I’ve been telling you for years at the bottom of all this is ALTRUISM versus RATIONAL SELFISHNESS.
Socialism is based on altruism. Freedom, liberty, voluntary charity, and Capitalism are based on rational selfishness.
Why won’t you listen to reason? At least let a real Objectivist post an Objectivist article, a real Objectivist article, here on your website. Andrew Bernstein or Craig Biddle. Or Michael J. Hurd.
Not Jason D. Hill, I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt, he has tried to gently introduce Ayn Rand’s ideas in a gentle way, but it can’t be done that way. The only way to introduce RATIONAL SELFISHNESS is HONESTLY and CLEARLY and let the chips fall where they may.
Let the Objectivist viewpoint be heard at FPM.
Perhaps there are no Objectivist writers at this site because FPM is not an Objectivist website.
I’ll let you in on something. A website has to appeal to more than just 1% of 1% of the population. And that is why none of your crackpot buddies appear on this site.
I think you already have attempted to represent Objectivism, “honestly and clearly” (not!), on this site and the chips have fallen. No one is buying what you are selling. Perhaps it is because you are a childish religious bigot, a historical revisionist, a narcissist, and a bitter liar.
So drop the “reasonable pose”. After all the vitriol and misery you spread why are you surprised that no one wants to hear your garbage. The number of downvotes you get is the big tell. You do realize that you simply repeat the same copy/paste stuff over and over…..and no one cares.
Oh yeah, nice coup attempt. You just failed at that as well. This isn’t your personal site.
But you could always write an article and submit it. I wonder how different an article would be from your wallpaper posts. You would finally find out how little you really have to say. But an article would mean using your real name and posting a picture of yourself. And that would be the end of your Objectivist grift.
Here’s a suggestion, go find an objectivist website and stop the condescending lectures here.
Objectivists who don’t understand logic 🙂
I have a feeling that malady is more widespread than we can see or that would like to admit.
I see it all around me. You know how it is when you try to educate a Dirtbagocrat or other leftist with facts. They just get angry and even more dogmatic.
The idea that you and your particular belief system, for which you are an absolutely terrible representative, represent ‘reason’, is as much of a fallacy as the idea that Fauci represents science.
You are only as good as your arguments.
“You are only as good as your arguments.” That’s an xcellent aphorism.
Maybe, just maybe, this will be the end of our Objectivist Guru on this site. On the other hand it may anger him so much he doubles down.
I see Greenfield’s comment as a sort of victory.
THX seems to be a fanatic.
“How much destruction will urban residents accept? ”
Those urban residents deserve it all. They are the ones who continued to vote for people who made it a sanctuary city. They are the ones who allowed this to all happen. They are the ones whose vote was just virtue signaling and not doing what is right for the people of their own communities, counties, and state. I really do not care how much they will except, they need all that can be heaped upon them.
I live near a sanctuary city and even though i know that it will effect me i say flood them all. Send so many illegal aliens to them that their systems are overwhelmed and are broken. It is obviously going to take a lot of pain for these idiot, bleeding heart, liberals learn just exactly how stupid their ideas are.
The dominion voting machine programmers are the ones to blame.
Those too but don’t underestimate the stupidity of New Yorkers. I figure people in places like the Bronx and Brooklyn tend to be more sensible.
No, just share the blame. Those that employed them to control the election, or should I say cheat us out of the election, are the primary ones to blame. Dominion is the outfit of crooks they hired to get the outcome they wanted.
That’s a good point. The Dominion machines didn’t walk there on their own.
It doesn’t matter with regards to the money required to maintain the upkeep of the illegal aliens in NYC. It will come out of your pocket, whether you live in NYC or a deep red state in the interior.
The mayor will bitch until the federal government provides a bailout. That means you will be paying.
I’ve been homeless. At no time did I expect any municipality to provide for my shelter. I would have been and still am offended by the notion that the government must provide me or anyone with shelter.
Money quote: “The ideal of the American Constitution, that freedom comes from government non-interference…”
Indeed.
No US citizen should be compelled through taxation to provide for anyone else, legal or otherwise. If individuals wish to provide for the homeless, they can donate to charities.
Here’s another irritating fact:
“…has begun warning that the city will start expelling single young men from shelters after two months”
Well why only ‘single young men’? I have no problem with people getting married and having children, but why is that some sort of shield to prevent you from bearing the consequences of your actions? People should not form families and have children if they do not have adequate resources to take care of them until the kids reach adulthood.
No person should be allowed to suck at the tit of government, single young men, families, US citizens or illegal aliens.
So you were homeless and lifted yourself out of it? I know what that’s like. What a slog.
It sickens me that all these wet back, criminal invaders get a free ride. Luxury hotels, food, cell phones with service, and so on.
And no women don’t deserve special treatment and neither do families with children. Deport them all.
Yes, some stupidly vote for these leftist policies but please don’t forget vote fraud! The results of algorithms that have been reported in NY counties look very “ fishy.” We don’t know how people actually voted.
I also caution against geographic hate or urban vs country hate. There are a mix of people everywhere. NYC is huge with politically conservative-voting neighborhoods bigger than many other cities.
We need to renew and rebuild our borders and our undivided patriotism.
Brilliantly done Daniel, and very illuminating. Bravo. New York has always been a blind spot for me, having never spent any real time there, but this is another in a very long line of examples of how constitutional law and socialism were never designed to work together and even the slightest, possibly well-intentioned taint of it in the mix is enough to ruin the entire recipe.
Interesting too, that the social justice “heroes” in this case (as is ALWAYS the case) are the one’s actually cleaning up; a BLM founder (a self-described Marxist) secretly buys a $6 Million estate with donation money and socialist Bernie Sanders (who’s never accomplished anything in his life other than grifting) has 3 homes and a net worth over $3 Million. Same song, different verse.
The concept of socialism is appealing to the lowest common denominator of society by design…and that design is deviously brilliant, for while it touts a “Robin Hood” message of robbing the rich and giving it to the poor, it’s a sucker’s play every time with the real world reality of Robin making off with the loot.
I hope Texas lies to the illegals (Why would it be illegal to lie to an illegal?) and sends every one of them to NYC.
And the Washington District of Corruption, Chicago, Detroit. Atlanta, Philly and other racist cities.
“Does NY have to house the world”? Evidently so – they VOTED for it! NOW, does the US have to house the WORLD? NO!! Our Constitution DOES NOT REQUIRE IT! NY’s STATE Constitution requires it so let THEM enjoy, but the US has NO REQUIREMENT to LET THEM IN!
Just like “globull worming”, this is a HOAX that the DEMOcrats use to destroy Our Nation!
When PRESIDENT TRUMP regains his RIGHTFUL PLACE, he should END ALL discussions of “globull” and end the funding of it! Every Gov’t ee dedicated to “climate” or “trans” should be defunded – including all the “Admirals and Generals”!!
Cloward-Piven in action. Mark Moss has a disturbing and excellent video on his youtube channel.
It is beyond me why Texas does not hand out to all migrants a slick travel brochure telling them where sanctuary cities are and explain what riches it is their legal right to receive in New York. And then purchase a large fleet of busses to form convoys to those places; a thousand or two a day, delivered to New York, Washington DC and so on.
It would not be long before the madness ends.
Texas is the key and should be stopping the migrant camps. This is a National Security issue for Texas and America, and its being ignored. There may never be another fair election. to change anything…so the thinking of Republicans doesn’t fit the times, they’re waiting until the country is irreparable.
Yes, Eagle Pass needs to be militarized. Fuck the federal government and its welcome mat.
And meanwhile the border is wide open and the Democrats want to build or set up Democrat Registration Booths/Stands at the Borer to register all those new potential voters
I heard they’re just flying them in. So building a wall is nice but not if US govt flies over the wall!
Hochul is clearly brain dead and doesn’t understand basic math. We’ve been inundated by these illegal marauders, at least 8,000,000 so far. New York’s fair allotment would be about 470,000 illegal aliens, yet has received only about a third of that so far. Hochul, prepare for another 325,000 to reach your ‘fair share’, the metric by which communist democrats always measure everything. Why should the rest of the country have to support and care for your ‘fair share’ of illegals?
When one declares the live in a sanctuary city this is what you get.
Keep shipping illegals to every sanctuary city until every square foot of New York City’s Central Park is covered in tents, until every square foot of Chicago’s Grant Park is covered in tents, and so forth. Fill up their green spaces! Let leftists rot in their destructive policies.
Yep, and don’t forget the National Mall. 200 busses and a slick travel brochure in all languages explaining the rights and benefits await them in those locations.
Just one or two months and it will bring the madness to an end.
And the Dems and kiss 2024 good bye.
Is it rational to destroy the country that had a balanced system of government, and to replace America’s workers with foreigners and take away jobs from American families? We all know the answer. Bankruptcy becomes a way to bind future generations to government dependency and to weaken America in the world at large.
This UN building would be a good place to house American citizens and veteran’s that are homeless
Aren’t human beings fascinating? Isn’t life, from
divine twinkles of pre-uterine existence to eternal souls beyond the grave, fascinating?
Isn’t it fascinating how some human beings devise and construct certain situations and how others react to those situations?
Isn’t it fascinating how those humans who create these situations, cynically know how others will react – or not react- and predicate creating the situation on that knowledge?
Isn’t it fascinating that some humans are incorrigibly bad, others are truly good and the rest are immorally or amorally disinterested and selfishly detached if not affected directly?
Isn’t it fascinating that in April, 1938, when this NY constitutional convention met, the ovens were warming up in Europe and the Evian conference attendees decided in July, 1938 that there would be no safe haven for Jews fleeing certain death from Germany and Austria, to any of their 32 countries, including the US and Britain, except for the Dominican Republic.
“Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free“.
The operative word in that magnificent sentence is “breathe” – to literally stay alive.
Isn’t the difference between the world of 1938 to the present, and New York City, 1938 to the present, fascinating?
Why does the UN world, with very few exceptions, persist in denying the Jewish people their one and only, God approved, safe haven in Israel?
New York City is not saving people from gas chambers.
But the people who set this crisis in motion have counted on an emotional response that is totally out of context. It’s cold hearted manipulation and an absolute mockery of the Holocaust.
There are good solutions; but it seems they are going to have to come from a non political sector; because – surprise! – it is the political sector that has created the crisis.
But isn’t it fascinating how some human beings have conceived and executed crises, with active and passive support of a lot of people, and no resistance from a lot of apathetic people, to destroy America?
Wait until millions and millions of migrants continue to arrive in America, the government will require homeowners, who have room; to take in migrants at your expense. Don’t laugh. Biden signed an executive order recently, whereby in an emergency, if a family has stocked extra essential supplies, the government can enter your home to take some of those supplies to be use for other people who need them. Now think about this. What to prevent the U.S. government from expanding on that idea by requiring you, in an emergency, to take in one or more migrants in a emergency.
Remember, what the WEF said “you will own nothing, but be happy.” You have to assume your home will be taken away from you in an emergency. We are losing more and more of our freedom.
“Does New York Have to ‘House the World’?”
Yes.
Yes they do.
Screw New York.
Forever.
FJB