Help my friends PLEASE!!! NOW URGENT!!! / Discuss

www.ipernity.com/home/colso [deleted] says:

Dear Mayor Miller,

thank you very much for your reply on my email from 6/18/2006. I am hopefully waiting for your update and I hope, too, that your decision in this tricky situation will be in behalf of Mr. Gardiner, whom I don't know personally, but through the report of his friends, and some video interviews at the internet.

I have visited your website, and recognized that you met His Holiness the Dalai Lama two years ago. I have had the great honour to meet him, too, as a former representative of the protestant church of cologne, several years ago. I totally agree with his statements, published at his public talk at the SkyDome in Toronto, April 25, 2005, "the power of compassion", and several times in his countless speeches, he took the view that we have to support any own initiative of poor people to organize themselves.

As I was told by his friends, Mr. Gardiner has built himself an "alternative housing", which means, that he is not homeless anymore. Please take care, that he never will be again... As well as in Germany, social systems are beginning to collaps worldwide. I am convinced that we cannot afford to put people who organize themselves into social services, unless they call for it. As I heard about, Mr. Gardiner doesn't expect any additional help, except for the permission to live where he lives. Why not take his own initiative as a shining example for "alternatives to dependency of administrative social support"?

I am looking forward to receiving an early reply,

With best regards

Yours sincerely

Dr. Soenke Behnsen
Originally posted at 2:33PM, 26 June 2006 PDT (permalink)
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