You Make the Call in Monroe Park:Hobo, Terrorist or Babe?
There have probably been hobos and winos congregating in Monroe Park since who-knows-when, maybe even the Reconstruction Era? No doubt, property-owners and business people in that neighborhood have been plotting to run that same ilk off ever since. Over the years such efforts have met with little lasting success.
Now VCU has adopted that green space, Richmond's oldest public park. And, perhaps a government terrorist alert from the US Attorney's office has just revealed a strategy the university might use to sweep Monroe Park clean of the homeless, er, terrorist elements that lurk there.
Here's a preview of the AP story about that alert: "The warning is similar to one issued by the FBI before July 4, 2004 that said terrorists may attempt surveillance disguised as homeless people, shoe shiners, street vendors or street sweepers. The e-mail stresses that there is no threat of an attack and that it is intended to be 'informative, not alarming.' Homeless people easily blend into urban landscapes, the message said."
Now VCU has adopted that green space, Richmond's oldest public park. And, perhaps a government terrorist alert from the US Attorney's office has just revealed a strategy the university might use to sweep Monroe Park clean of the homeless, er, terrorist elements that lurk there.
Here's a preview of the AP story about that alert: "The warning is similar to one issued by the FBI before July 4, 2004 that said terrorists may attempt surveillance disguised as homeless people, shoe shiners, street vendors or street sweepers. The e-mail stresses that there is no threat of an attack and that it is intended to be 'informative, not alarming.' Homeless people easily blend into urban landscapes, the message said."
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(Credits: Model -- Brett Lewis. Photo -- F. T. Rea)
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