HINSDALE, N.H.-To those complaining about criminalizing poverty, homelessness and drug use:
Each of you could be helping. Right now. Take in a homeless person, give them "a soft place to land", give them a place to use the bathroom (yours) and a place to store their belongings (your abode).
Concerned that drug users don't have a "safe space" to use drugs? Let that space be your very own yard/patio/spare room. You can watch over them and use the readily available medication to ensure that if they do overdose, you can save their life.
Put your good statements to good use now. Stop asking someone else to do it, and do it now. If you won't do so, ask yourself why. Otherwise, you risk becoming a hypocrite demanding "someone else" do what you're asking when you will not do it yourself.
Sandy Golden
Hinsdale, N.H.
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