Written on June 05 2023

The United States should stop sending weapons to

the Ukraine. U.S. weapons will do more harm than good

over there.

Even if the Ukraine and its current leadership

claims that U.S. weapons will be used for

defending the Ukraine only how does Russia know

that future Ukrainian councilpeople and presidents

will not use warehouses full of U.S. weapons

to invade Russia and kill poor Russian civilians?

A medium sized example of the unreliability of groups

of elected politicians is the Los Angeles City Council which

passed 41.18 in 2021 after debating and a councilman who opposed

requiring homeless people to remain standing forever

decided to add in a time limit to each enforcement

zone that does not exceed one year so each enforcement zone

that prohibits sitting lying sleeping and storage of

personal property on the public right of way within

500 feet of its address should expire after only one year

and its signs should then be removed.

Today I discovered signs for a large enforcement zone that

started enforcement on February 03 2022 and should have ended on

February 03 2023 but the signs are still posted on

June 05 2023. ( already 16 months instead of only 12 months. )

The councilman who had opposed permanent enforcement zones

has been term limited out so he is no longer able to remind

the 14 other councilmembers in Los Angeles to vote to

terminate enforcement at locations that have already been

enforcement zones for one year.

The text of L.A. 41.18 includes a one year time limit for each

enforcement zone.

Try to imagine poor civilians in Russia. New elected politicians

in the Ukraine are probably not going to limit themselves to using

vast stockpiles of U.S. weapons only to defend the Ukraine. Many of

the Ukrainians running for office are planning on invading Russia

and punishing Russia with powerful weapons that were provided

by the United States.

Back in 2021 Homeless Americans exercised their right to peacefully

protest against Los Angeles 41.18 and its enforcement zones.

Does Vladimir Putin have a right to protest against the United

States continuing to send weapons to the Ukraine that might be used

by the next group of Ukrainian politicians to invade Russia and

kill poor Russian civilians by introducing a resolution to the

United Nations that requests that the United States stop sending

any additional weapons to the Ukraine?

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Eric Matteson ericmatteson2001@yahoo.com