11/7/2023 0 Comments Dont sleep in the subway darling![]() ![]() (Florence Nightingale stands them with a lamp, simpering femininely. It's the very lovely Florence Nightingale as Brian London. Our next challenger comes all the way from the Crimea. ![]() Wiggin: Well done indeed, Julius Caesar, a smile, a conquest and a dagger up your strap. And now your favourite Roman Emperor Julius Caesar as Eddie Waring.Ĭaesar: (Eric Idle, in Waring voice) Tota gallia divisa est in tres partes Wigan, Hunslett and Hull Kingston Rovers. Wiggin: Cardinal Richelieu - sixteen stone of pure man. Richelieu: (Michael Palin) 'Don't sleep in the subway darling and don't stand in the pouring rain'. (Cut to Cardinal Richelieu, he mimes to the phrase from the record.) And we kick off tonight with Cardinal Richelieu and his impersonation of Petula Clark. Wiggin: (Michael Palin) Hello, good evening and welcome to Historical Impersonations. (Caption on screen : 'HISTORICAL IMPERSONATIONS' Fade applause and music.) And here is your host for tonight - Wally Wiggin. When you in the present can make those in the past stars of the future. Voice Over: (John Cleese) Yes, it's Historical Impersonations. Glittery linkman set, showbizzy music and applause.) Nonetheless, the officer on the street always has the power and the choice to deliver respect and kindness where other individuals and institutions don’t.(Cut to historical impersonation sketch. Sometimes these are large issues with broad reach. The officer on the street is often tasked with societal issues that community and government leaders can’t or won’t solve. This much is clear: be cautious about citing or arresting for sleeping on the subway (or sidewalk). The court’s majority and dissenting/concurring opinions are long and speak to other procedural issues. The court observed the “city cannot, via the threat of prosecution, coerce an individual to attend religion-based treatment programs consistently with the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment.” One plaintiff claimed he was forced to listen to religious preaching before being fed at one shelter. Two of the plaintiffs complained they were forced to choose between staying in a shelter – where they would be listening to religious messages and sleeping in room with religious art on the walls – and camping on the streets. The court was careful to observe it was not requiring the city to provide shelters, only barring the city from enforcing the public camping ordinance against the homeless. The court held “the Eighth Amendment prohibits the imposition of criminal penalties for sitting, sleeping, or lying outside on public property for homeless individuals who cannot obtain shelter.” In other words, homelessness can’t be criminalized. Martin and his fellow homeless plaintiffs alleged a violation of the Eighth Amendment prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment. However, if there was space available in the shelters, police could cite or arrest sidewalk campers. ![]() When Robert Martin and five of his fellow plaintiffs were arrested for camping and sleeping on the “streets, sidewalks, parks, or public places” of Boise, Idaho, they sued.Ĭity officials established a protocol prohibiting police enforcement of the public camping ordinance on any night the city’s various homeless shelters-operated by various faith groups-were full. In the Queen’s English, Clark was referring not to an underground train, but to the sidewalk tunnel passing under a British city street. No doubt you remember the 1967 number one hit by British pop star Petula Clark, “Don’t Sleep in the Subway, Darling” (or, maybe not). ![]()
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