Repent Even If You Are Not Homeless
A decade before the 2008 Financial Crisis, John Grisham wrote a novel where an eite lawyer in Washington DC turned to be a legal adviser for homeless people and other helpless people.
A homeless man calling himself "Mister" enters the offices of the Washington DC law firm Drake & Sweeney and takes many of the lawyers hostage. Although he is eventually shot by a police sniper and the hostages freed, one of the hostages, an antitrust lawyer named Michael Brock, is concerned by what he has learned and feels compelled to investigate further. He finds his way to the 14th Street Legal Clinic, where he meets Mordecai Green, an advocate for the homeless, who asks him to help one night at a homeless shelter. As Brock's investigation deepens, he finds that his own employer was complicit in an illegal eviction, which eventually resulted in the death of a young homeless family. He takes a confidential file, intending to copy it, but is quickly suspected of its theft. Shocked by what he has found, Brock leaves his firm to take a poorly paid position with the 14th Street Legal Clinic, which works to protect the rights of the homeless. This leads to his wife divorcing him. He admits one of his clients, Ruby, to a therapy class for drug-addicted women, and in the process meets Megan. As Drake & Sweeney comes after Brock with theft and malpractice allegations, the Clinic launches a lawsuit against the law firm and its business partners. Terrified of the certain bad publicity, the matter is settled by mediation and the clinic receives a large payout to be shared with the victims of the eviction. Drake & Sweeney's head partner, deeply troubled by the events, offers to make pro bono staff available to assist the work of the Clinic in fighting for the rights of homeless people. The book ends with Brock taking a short vacation with Megan and Ruby, and them reflecting on their lives.Nobody thinks that this kind of a drastic change in one's career is possible, especially if he is a highly-paid lawyer working in a renowned law firm. However there seem to many lawyers involved in cases related to poor relief in the US.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Street_Lawyer
Homeless Persons Have Rights, Too.
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Homeless ManHomelessness is a serious problem in some areas of the United States. Many state and municipal laws put restrictions on the conduct of the homeless. In many cities, they can't panhandle, loiter, or sleep wherever they want. However, the U.S. government passed legislation in 1987 to provide some specific rights to the homeless as well, under certain circumstances.Some such organizations, including Southern Legal Counsel, seem to be spurred on to their efforts to saving homeless Americans in the wake of the 2008 Financial Crisis.
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The law surrounding the rights of the homeless people is complicated. Plus, the facts of each case are unique. This article provides a brief, general introduction to the topic. For more detailed, specific information, please contact a civil rights lawyer.
http://civil-rights.lawyers.com/human-rights/homeless-persons-have-rights-too.html
SLC's Homeless Advocacy Project is a statewide project to protect and defend the civil and human rights of homeless individuals and their advocates. The Project has two main objectives: 1) combat the criminalization of homelessness and 2) identify and address systemic issues faced by homeless individuals and their advocates that violate their civil and human rights. The Project seeks to address these objectives through the provision of community education and outreach to inform homeless individuals and advocates about their rights, and through legal and policy advocacy including impact litigation. It also provides training and technical assistance for advocates and attorneys.
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National Forum on the Human Right to Housing. On November 8th and 9th, 2009, more than 150 advocates from 20 states gathered in Washington, DC for the 2009 National Forum on the Human Right to Housing. The event was hosted by Georgetown University Law Center, and co-sponsored by the National Law Center on Homelessness & Poverty, the US Human Rights Network, National Fair Housing Alliance, and the National Alliance of HUD Tenants. The highlight of the conference was the National Town Hall on the Right to Housing where advocates presented testimony to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing, Raquel Rolnik, who made the Forum the final stop on her two week fact-finding mission to the United States.
SLC presented written and oral testimony to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on human rights violations that are caused by the criminalization of homelessness in Florida. SLC called for local and state governments to develop constructive alternatives to criminalizing homelessness and to repeal or cease enforcement of such laws and policies. The Special Rapporteur presented her final report about her country visit to the United Nations Human Rights Council in March 2010. Her final report included findings about human rights violations caused by homelessness and a recommendation that the US develop constructive alternatives to the criminalization of homelessness.
http://www.southernlegal.org/index.php/areas-of-service/homelessness/
So then, John Grisham's The Street Lawyer can be regarded as a kind of prophecy for the 2008 Lehman Shock and subsequent global financial crisis, since it was written in 1998.
And also, the Gulf War that started in January 1991 with the Congress of the United States passing a resolution authorizing the use of military force against Saddam's Iraq to liberate Kuwait can be regarded as a kind of prophecy for the 9/11 Terror on the US in 2001.
Of course the death of John F. Kennedy Jr. in a crash of a plane he was piloting off the coast of Martha's Vineyard can be regraded as a kind of prophecy for the assumption of the presidency by Mr. Barack Obama in 2009.
Indeed 10 years ago, a terrible natural disaster occurred as a kind of prophecy for something terrible that should happen in 2014.
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Mar 6:20 For Herod feared John, knowing that he was a just man and an holy, and observed him; and when he heard him, he did many things, and heard him gladly.
Of course the death of John F. Kennedy Jr. in a crash of a plane he was piloting off the coast of Martha's Vineyard can be regraded as a kind of prophecy for the assumption of the presidency by Mr. Barack Obama in 2009.
Indeed 10 years ago, a terrible natural disaster occurred as a kind of prophecy for something terrible that should happen in 2014.
December 26 – One of the worst natural disasters in recorded history hits Southeast Asia, when the strongest earthquake in 40 years, measuring 9.3 on the Richter scale, hits the entire Indian Ocean region, which generates an enormous tsunami that crashes into the coastal areas of a number of nations including Thailand, India, Sri Lanka, the Maldives, Malaysia, Myanmar, Bangladesh, and Indonesia. The official death toll in the affected countries stands at 186,983 while more than 40,000 people are still missing.So, repent even if you are not homeless persons!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004
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Mar 6:20 For Herod feared John, knowing that he was a just man and an holy, and observed him; and when he heard him, he did many things, and heard him gladly.