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by Kenneth Churchill- Page 19
        Neither the United States Government nor the churches in America invite the homeless to live on the vast open lands they keep empty of people, calling them parks, reserves, or church investments. "Stay off...keep out...swim into the lakes...fly up into the sky." (Darrow 1903) die on the sidewalks, killed by the Freudian gods of the insane asylums.


        When nomads collide, they show avoidance, or fight. But, they must travel until their deaths, when others take their places to do the same thing.


        The homeless recently won Rights of Habitation from an admirable judiciary. Habitation Rights, however, are double talk. They are not Land Rights. Habitation Rights sustain nomadic people between their points of destination. Land Rights grant nomadic people lawful status in existence, based on reality, not myth or illusion. "But the truth-knocks on the door. And so, you say "Go away. I am looking for the truth." And so, it goes away." (Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance)



        You can live in fear of foreclosure and eviction, keeping up payments on mortgaged property or rent, or die, homeless, in the streets. There are no alternatives in between. Yes, industry mass-produces damaged people. Even housed people get damaged. They drive their cars, going nuts trying to keep up and have a home.



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