Comments on: Street People: Human Filth and Real Threat http://www.themartialist.com/2009/17/12/street-people-human-filth-and-real-threat/ For Those Who Fight Unfairly Mon, 30 Aug 2010 10:52:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: addictedtosteel http://www.themartialist.com/2009/17/12/street-people-human-filth-and-real-threat/comment-page-1/#comment-121 addictedtosteel Tue, 17 Aug 2010 21:46:28 +0000 http://www.themartialist.com/?p=266#comment-121 The problems with "aggressive panhandling" [where a beggar presents an aggressive posture and invades your space and / or tries to touch you] is that it puts everyone on the spot. Anyone trained to some degree will respond in turn. Everyone else [usually those who are not involved] - The people with the misplaced compassion [and often a new overwhelming sense of self righteousness to boot] mentioned in the above article then look at you like YOU are the nut. I don't think you're out of line here at all. If some homeless wish to sit quietly with a change receptacle [coffee tin / hat?] and maybe a sign asking for money - I do not have a problem with that - but when it becomes aggressive? Appeasment only makes the aggressor more aggressive. I was returning to my [temporary] house in Northern Iraq when an "aggressive panhandler" stumbled out of an alley way and lunged clumsily at my face, saying something in Arabenglish that sounded like "Ahhh, AMERICA!" I think he was trying to get at my sunglasses and his cheese had definitely slid off of his cracker some time ago. I threw him into the road / oncoming traffic. Am I a bully? Maybe, I mean the reply I left reads a little like "armchair tough guy" talk - but I don't have hepatitis... Never mind the system that failed or whatever crackes anyone fell through. Confrontation or aggressiveness is YOUR problem - and an immediate solution to your protection and well being is essential. The problems with “aggressive panhandling” [where a beggar presents an aggressive posture and invades your space and / or tries to touch you] is that it puts everyone on the spot. Anyone trained to some degree will respond in turn. Everyone else [usually those who are not involved] – The people with the misplaced compassion [and often a new overwhelming sense of self righteousness to boot] mentioned in the above article then look at you like YOU are the nut. I don’t think you’re out of line here at all. If some homeless wish to sit quietly with a change receptacle [coffee tin / hat?] and maybe a sign asking for money – I do not have a problem with that – but when it becomes aggressive? Appeasment only makes the aggressor more aggressive.

I was returning to my [temporary] house in Northern Iraq when an “aggressive panhandler” stumbled out of an alley way and lunged clumsily at my face, saying something in Arabenglish that sounded like “Ahhh, AMERICA!” I think he was trying to get at my sunglasses and his cheese had definitely slid off of his cracker some time ago.

I threw him into the road / oncoming traffic.

Am I a bully? Maybe, I mean the reply I left reads a little like “armchair tough guy” talk – but I don’t have hepatitis… Never mind the system that failed or whatever crackes anyone fell through. Confrontation or aggressiveness is YOUR problem – and an immediate solution to your protection and well being is essential.

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