Alex Libman at Amphitheater Lakewood

my name is Alex Libman I'm standing here by Lake caros aljo by the amphitheater where I plan to uh sleep tonight right on the stage of the Lakewood amphitheater in violation of uh the ordinances that were passed in this town that uh were essentially essentially intended to Outlaw homelessness and to drive the homeless people out elsewhere passing the book to uh other municipalities or other layers of government and uh so I'm deliberately confronting and violating the those laws because I believe they are unconstitutional they are inhumane and uh there are better ways to solve the problem of homelessness like uh the example of 10th City we had it wasn't perfect but it could have been made a lot better if the government had cooperated with us it uh wasn't costing taxpayers anything except trash pickup it was on land that's not supposed to be developed and U you know now some homeless people that lived in pen City just a fraction of them were given motel rooms at the great expense of the taxpayers which I believe is unfair to taxpayers and uh you know some fraction of the homeless lefts on their own and some of them are doing what I'm doing which is uh you know sleeping on the streets except they're doing it in hiding because you know they can't uh get arrested so I'm uh I'm making a statement by sleeping in places like the Lakewood toown square or the Ampitheater here to uh make a point that uh you know the the issue of homelessness is not going away you know bulldozing Tent City gets homeless people out of sight but not you know they still exist and it's not a good solution for anybody not for the taxpayers not for uh Public Health not for public safety not for anybody so I think that uh we need uh you know uh solutions that are cost effective that are Humane that respect the rights and freedoms of the homeless and uh that is very important because you know that's how tyranny always begins with the most able you know the first some of the first people to be put in concentration camps in Nazi Germany were the homeless you know our butt mck fry and uh you know that that's where it begins we uh have to find a solution to homelessness other than incarceration and other than the current welfare state which uh you know if you add up all government spending for in the name of the poor it adds up to $62,000 per family below the poverty line year so obviously the welfare state is not working we need uh more cost effective more Humane voluntary charity Solutions and uh you know I believe 10 cities are the way forward and so right now we're starting something called the 10 City movement it will have independent chapters in uh every County starting with Ocean County and now we have a second one in Monmouth County and uh we're launching a petition drive to petition the uh County Freeholder to uh you know come to allocate just a little bit of land you know they have a lot of so-called public land that is not being used for anything just to allocate uh some land for a you know a well organized well regulated safe place where homeless people can camp and uh not be arrested and that would be good for everybody thank you for listening