Why The Contributor's Lawsuit is Important

I really shouldn't have to explain this. It's called the First Amendment. It's the most endangered amendment along with the second, and now the fourth (thanks to the TSA).

If you don't know THE BILL OF RIGHTS, well, it's time that you learned.

I understand what the city of Brentwood is trying to do - insulate itself from the sight of the homeless on their streets. If you've driven through there, you have seen the McMansions with manicured lawns and decorative desperate attempts to hide the fact that they are actually in Tennessee. You only have to see the names of some subdivisions to prove that: Agin Court, Arden Woods, Barrington Place, Camelot Acres, Governor's Club, Montclair, Taramore Manor, etc.  (Basically, if it sounds like the name of a soap opera, then it might be a subdivision in Brentwood.) But this township is only a couple of ordinances away from DNA testing the dog poop left on its sidewalks. In their attempts to maintain their property values, they have forgotten that the right to call one of their subdivisions "Valhalla" is the same right that protects the homeless man at the corner selling newspapers.  We're all the same in this, dumbasses!

If you are a local, you know that The Contributor gives the homeless who are willing to work a chance to make a real living. Selling The Contributor helps these people get off the street. And, quite frankly, every time I buy one at any given intersection in Nashville, I feel like I'm really helping. It feels good. I hope that Brentwood residents are making an effort to buy The Contributor somewhere else until this lawsuit is over.

To the Brentwood council I say: get over yourself. It's too late in the game to act like this. And think, just think, if you changed your attitudes and decided to help instead of prohibit what amazing things could happen. None of us (not even you) are that far from where those guys are. None of us. Get your head out of your ass and your heart out of your wallet and do the right thing.