The Boulder City Council seems to think the homeless are genetically modified people, weatherproof and hardy. Folks who've adapted to outdoor survival after years of exposure. Maybe the alcohol helps.

That is certainly what the camping ordinance says. It was passed by the council and backed by the City Manager Jane Brautigam. Homeless means what it says: no roof, no bedroom, no bed, no much of anything.

No problem, says the council through its camping ordinance. You can sleep anywhere on city property, just don't camp. That means don't use shelter. In the words of the law, " 'shelter' includes, without limitation, any cover or protection from the elements other than clothing." Shelter is thus anything other than the clothes on your back. No sleeping bags, blankets, pillows, umbrellas. And when it rains? No sleeping under overhangs. They don't want the homeless to go soft on us.

Had the council merely wanted to eliminate tent cities it could have interpreted "shelter" narrowly: tents, tarps, structural elements. But it wanted its pound of flesh, pushing homeless people to their genetic limits. I resist making comparisons to certain tests performed on certain populations during WWII, but attorney David Harrison did not hesitate to call it "cruel and unusual punishment, a violation under the Constitution's Eighth Amendment." Harrison is a lawyer with a fine nose for injustice. He took the case of one David Madison, awakened before dawn on November 24, 2009.

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