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Forgotten - July 27-04

The weather has turned to hot and warm for a few days and the homeless make a profit out of the sun to take a sleep. A sad document of our modern civilisation. A world where some have so much and don't know how to spend it and what to do with it and others are banned to live this kind of life.


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Lou Giroud28-Jul-2004 08:22
What Thofte says here might be right in someway and matches those who are in the scene since years. They do not want to come back and for most of them it is a no return way.
But, why didi this happened. Most lost there jobs, had no help and support at the moment they needed some and why ?

Simply because they do not come from a country of the third world, because they are not from a different religion that brings people to scream for racism and intergrity.
Why do foreigners comming out of other countries like black africans and muslims who are not even willed to work or do something get sugar blown in their ass when they show up in Europe and the local born people who need help to get out of the shit have no support to garant them a minimum of existance. They are just the lazy bastards and nobody will scream for racism, nobody will fight for religious integrism and nobody will give them an appartment and money support free of charge.

This is indeed where the problem is and why it hurts to see such things. On the other side, tose people here will certainly be grateful and say thank you for any help while the others spit at your back and show you the stink-finger and ask more and not even stopping to ask locals to convert to there culture, language and religions and all this beside of a highly increased criminality rate.

Many countries in Europe sit in the shit now with that kind of politics and they cannot afford anymore the payment of sickness charges, pension founds go down, ordinary people are at the edge of existance and getting more and more poor and so on, just to support all this. But, every child knows and can calculate that 100 working people cannot afford to support 500 non working and this where ever they come from. So, in the future Europe needs to act or continue it's suicide called "acceptance and free hospitality".

Switzerland was in this situation in the early 70 ies and then in 75 made the big cleanup. The whole world screamed for racism and integrity but today, Switzerland accepts just the amount of foreigners they can garant a work for. And since then, the Swiss economy is booming, the country is clean and they have less problems with criminality.

Karen Leaf28-Jul-2004 02:26
Powerful image, Lou. Brings up very intense emotions, without clear cut resolutions. There's a thin line, sometimes, bewtween the 2 worlds.
Guest 28-Jul-2004 01:14
I like the photo, nice and sharp in the sun. I see this guy enjoying a nap in the sun at last after weeks of rain and bad weather. I think the question about the homeless is a complex one; there's a different story behind every person, psychological and social problems and oftentimes there's alcohol and other abuse mixed in. There are probably different institutions for these people in different countries offering treatment and shelter. Some are good, some are bad and some times the homeless doesn't want to be treated or follow rules... and coersive treatment is a bad thing if it isn't absolutely necessary...
In the old times, people who were different, found a place somehow in the local community, but I don't think life was better for poor people then, living meagerly at the bottom of society forced to stay in 'poor houses'...
Robin Reid27-Jul-2004 13:31
Evocative!!
Christin Tröger27-Jul-2004 13:02
Very touching.
Gary Blanchette27-Jul-2004 12:52
My Pastor told me once, if I'm not a part of the solution, I'm a part of the problem. Not to stereotype, but I think if we wait for the "rich", these people will die in the streets.
Chris27-Jul-2004 12:50
This picture is a sad comment on life - but some street dwellers choose to live like this...
Larry Ahern27-Jul-2004 12:49
Sad indeed. I myself have been on both sides of that coin. Honestly I'm not sure which is better.