Its way past time to end the lefts perversion of compassion and get help for the seriously mentally ill
Bronx Rep.Ritchie Torres got it 100% right this month when he slammed progressives for their “perversion of compassion” in allowing vagrants to haunt our transit hubs and streets.Particularly those who are mentally ill and in need of help.They make life miserable — and dangerous — for everyone.
Including themselves.Progressives think they’re being kind, considerate, compassionate to these troubled people.Civil libertarians think they’re protecting their freedoms.Many of them truly believe they’re doing the moral thing by letting these people fester.They’re horribly wrong,It’s not compassionate to let to someone sleep on the floor of Penn Station or to permit violent ones to attack innocent people.It’s not compassionate to let druggies shoot up and pass out on the streets.It’s not compassionate to leave a woman, who appeared to have a walker and is thought to have been homeless, defenseless on an F-train while another psycho fatally lights her on fire, as a suspected illegal, drug-addled, homeless Guatemalan immigrant did Sunday morning.That attack shocked the entire nation.Need more? How about the shouting maniac who stabbed a straphanger watching Netflix in an unprovoked attack on board a Brooklyn train?Just how many of these such incidents will it take for state lawmakers to ditch their perverse “compassion,” get some real help for these people (whether they want it or not) and keep violent ones away from innocent New Yorkers?Do they really want to leave it to the Daniel Pennys to deal with more Jordan Neelys?Last week, The Post saw first-hand the uphill battle faced by the city’s late-night outreach teams trying to remove troubled vagrants wandering the 34th Street Herald Square Station’s underground wasteland: Of 96 individuals encountered — many of them struggling with serious mental-health issues — only 16 agreed to go to a shelter or be hospitalized.Why were 80 allowed to refuse assistance when they obviously needed it? Th...