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Lester - 71 years old - Redding Homeless One may find themselves asking as of late why is the love in our community growing so cold for the poor, the homeless, what Jesus calls"The Least of these My Brethern  ? Surly no city official would very publicly say in one breath "Nobody tells me what to do" at his last quarterly town hall meeting and yet have the audacity to tell God in the next how His ministries and charities need to be ran and by what amount of love and compassion may be applied to His people? One without a doubt would find themselves very directly opposing the desires and direction of that very same God. Homeless people good, Transients bad Redding California Police Chief Robert Paoletti? For we are directed  quite clearly by his son Jesus Christ that we are NOT to separate or differentiate  who is worthy of His Love   ...and who is not. Who is good? ...  Who is bad...  Who is Wheat? And who is a Tare Redding Police Chief ? ...

At a recent city wide so called Safe City Project , with its leader April LaFrance , and interesting admonition was made, and Tweeted by a Redding Record Searchlight Reporter. With the Good News Rescue Mission being the ONLY nightime rescue mission shelter in all of Redding and Shasta County California this fact, if reported... this crucial Tweet... if turned into a news story would rally the generous and caring community Redding has become, and positive steps surely would be taken that would change the dynamics of homelessness in our community, and quite possibly SAVE LIVES . Not only that, If the facts and truth were released, to be ticketed by Redding Police Chief Robert Paoletti and his department for homeless sleeping now would be more than ever a very real violation of homeless persons civil and constitutional rights. A situation here in Redding already determined to be cruel and unusual punishment in other California cities  by a Judge for the United States Cour...

Its shocking that “Redding’s Good News Rescue Mission turned away 500 people last year.” Especially since City Council member has heard threats of baseball bats against homeless and their camps. Redding California city council person Missy McArthur receives messages from vigilantes wanting to go out into the homeless camps and send them a message with baseball bats. Im getting calls, emails, and on – the street comments about this No.1 issue. Things like : “Let’s take some bats and show transients we don’t want them here.” How does Redding California Police Chief Robert Paoletti respond ? Redding Police release map! Seems a police and city official created dynamic hardly conducive to the health, safety, and well being of our local homeless men and women, as well as the growing numbers of our homeless families, children, and veterans. And the worst part of all is other than a tweet from a so called ” SafeCity ” meeting by a relatively new reporter who momentarily ...

It appears this Christmas season the holiday sentiments  "peace on earth goodwill towards men" we wish to one another does not include our everyday neighbors the poor and homeless we see languishing up and down our streets as if trapped in some kind of modern day World War 2 Bataan "forced" death march. Of course the American Indians and how we "forced" them down far more than one trail of tears as well also comes to mind, a form of torture to be sure. Keep um moving... What a shame on the streets of Redding their poor and homeless are treated just shy of how we treat captured enemy combatants on the streets of Fallujah Iraq. Indeed the Iraqi combatants would receive food and water and shelter. As for Redding and that matter California's growing homeless Families, Veterans, Men, Women and Children...? Keep um moving... We have another phrase Americans hold dear, "Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." Unfortunately ...

I knew Robert when he took refuge under the covered entrance to Trinity Lutheran Church on Hilltop until they kicked him off the property several years ago. I have never witnessed him panhandling. Robert told me he was a Vietnam veteran, who often could be seen with a guitar. Apparently Robert spent the last years of his life sitting in front of the Target Department store. It is my understanding somebody ran over Roberts foot, and infection set in. Folks in Target can tell you more, and they have been nice enough to purchase this memorial stand where this well known and loved homeless man dwelled.   Robert died of esophageal cancer which jives with what the folks told me at Target because they were not sure if it was the cancer or the gangrene or both that killed him. *Folks working at Target gave him things periodically to survive and in the process monitored him. *Folks working at Target noticed he was starting to fail healthwise and called help for hi...

Redding Olympic hopeful Ryan Hall's Bethel Church and Redding California Police join forces to destroy homeless camps, "cut high grass and low hanging branches" to drive them out of hiding. Please listen to the Redding California police chief on KCNR Radio (starting about 1:10 minutes in)...about Bethel church, homeless encampments, and their civil and constitutional rights. It is shocking . Shocking for the fact that a huge Christian  Church is joining forces to help destroy homeless camp areas that they find refuge in. Why are we seeing so many homeless in the downtown area?  because this new police chief Robert Paoletti from Stockton has no compassion for the homeless and is forcing them out of their camps and into the streets, with many reports of their survival and personal possesions illegally thrown away.. If every city in California took his approach, where would the homeless go? Listen to Interview Here "Listen, my beloved bret...