Who Are The Homeless Among Us?

As the Founder and former Executive Director of Victory House Ministries in Pensacola Florida, a 30 unit residential transitional housing facility, I have had a lot of experience with the homeless. I found that most people are homeless because they have been experienced problems and losses and have no home to go to.

There is a small minority that chooses to live on the streets and that have, even if inadvertently, adopted the philosophy of Timothy Leary: "My advice to people today is as follows: if you take the game of life seriously if you take your nervous system seriously if you take your sense organs seriously if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in, and drop out". They are simply tired of fighting a system that has all the cards stacked against them. It's hard to get back up when you are broke, homeless, and without resources.

The vast majority of the homeless suffer from physical and mental disorders. Most people think the main reason for homelessness is alcohol and drugs. But this dismisses the root problem. As a psychologist and a certified addiction counselor who has worked extensively with patients suffering from addiction, I understand that addiction is a result of physical, and or, mental anguish and the resultant attempt to self-medicate.

For years Victory House Ministries was the only facility that accepted prisoners that were released in the state of Florida and Alabama. I found that many of these men were essentially victims of a corrupt justice system.

I hope that we as a people can come to understand the truth about mental health and addiction because EVERYONE will be personally confronted and affected by those that experience these problems at some point in their lives. 

It Is Time To Overthrow Our Corrupt Government!

American independence from a tyrannical government will never be achieved by peaceful revolution. The only option we have for change is a violent revolution in the style of Pancho Villa against the political and corporate masters that have us enslaved. I realize the risk I am taking in making this pronouncement but cowardly acceptance of "business as usual" will never gain the freedom we as human beings deserve.

I understand the risk of being arrested in an attempt to silence me. That is what fascist governments do. However, I am sick of the greedy oligarchs that are bleeding us dry. They must be eliminated!

Please consider the following essay:

Within the United States of America lies a large industrial city that is the sight of one of the world's largest slave labor camps.

Located in and around the center of this city are community settlements where the slaves live.

Each morning the slaves move herd-like from their quarters into the slave labor camps.

Each one is at his or her station by 7:30 AM. Here they report to their master for the day's duties. And here they remain chained until 5:00 PM when they're released to go home.

The slaves have no choice as to how many hours they labor. Sometimes they are required to work overtime until their master tells them they may leave and go home.

Each year the slaves are told when to take their vacations, for how long, and when they must return.

They have little choice as to how much money they earn as they are paid not what they are worth, but what the job is worth.

They are allowed very little time for lunch and coffee breaks during the labor hours.

The slaves will remain in their chains in great fear because the master can punish them with the "firing" or "layoff" whip.

Even some of the older slaves who have been good and faithful have felt the sting of the whip.

Day by day, year-by-year, the slaves toil and grow older until the master decides it is time to release them to the retirement camps where they're forced to sit idle and wait for death.

It's a well-known fact that the old slaves who try to keep working are sometimes whipped with a "stop their-pension" whip.

I've seen many slaves sadly pack their belongings to leave their city in search of a new master, but it is always the same.

There is, however, a ray of hope for the slave.

He or she can buy their own freedom.

The cost is not high, yet it seems high to those who do not have the courage to pay the price.

What is the price?

ONE MUST BE WILLING TO BE THEIR OWN MASTER!

The slave owners will NEVER give up without a fight!