MOSLEY OF THE BRITISH UNION OF FASCISTS SAID THAT OF LONDON'S EAST ENDERS POOR AND UNEMPLOYED IN 1933
Hilary Hanson
Sat, September 13, 2025
“Fox and Friends” co-host Brian Kilmeade suggested this week that homeless people suffering from mental health issues who refuse help should simply be killed.
Kilmeade and fellow co-hosts Ainsley Earhardt and Lawrence Jones were discussing the fatal stabbing of Iryna Zarutska, a Ukrainian refugee whose grisly killing on a North Carolina train was caught on surveillance video.
The trio argued that the suspect, who had a litany of previous arrests and had been diagnosed with schizophrenia, should have been taken off the streets long ago. The conversation then shifted to a more general discussion of homelessness and the mental health crisis in the United States.
“This is happening all across the country, and it’s not a money issue,” said Jones, adding that “a lot” of homeless people “don’t want” to get necessary help.
“You can’t give ’em a choice,” Jones went on. “Either you take the resources that we’re going to give you, or you decide that you gotta be locked up in jail. That’s the way it has to be now.”
That’s when Kilmeade floated a more extreme idea.
“Or uh, involuntary lethal injection. Or something,” he said. “Just kill ’em.”
The other two hosts barely react to his remark before continuing their discussion.
Though the segment aired on Wednesday, it went viral on social media Saturday morning. California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D), who has received heaps of criticism for his own policies on homelessness, responded with a biblical quote: “Whoever closes his ear to the cry of the poor will himself call out and not be answered.”
Hilary Hanson
Sat, September 13, 2025
“Fox and Friends” co-host Brian Kilmeade suggested this week that homeless people suffering from mental health issues who refuse help should simply be killed.
Kilmeade and fellow co-hosts Ainsley Earhardt and Lawrence Jones were discussing the fatal stabbing of Iryna Zarutska, a Ukrainian refugee whose grisly killing on a North Carolina train was caught on surveillance video.
The trio argued that the suspect, who had a litany of previous arrests and had been diagnosed with schizophrenia, should have been taken off the streets long ago. The conversation then shifted to a more general discussion of homelessness and the mental health crisis in the United States.
“This is happening all across the country, and it’s not a money issue,” said Jones, adding that “a lot” of homeless people “don’t want” to get necessary help.
“You can’t give ’em a choice,” Jones went on. “Either you take the resources that we’re going to give you, or you decide that you gotta be locked up in jail. That’s the way it has to be now.”
That’s when Kilmeade floated a more extreme idea.
“Or uh, involuntary lethal injection. Or something,” he said. “Just kill ’em.”
The other two hosts barely react to his remark before continuing their discussion.
Though the segment aired on Wednesday, it went viral on social media Saturday morning. California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D), who has received heaps of criticism for his own policies on homelessness, responded with a biblical quote: “Whoever closes his ear to the cry of the poor will himself call out and not be answered.”
Fox host Brian Kilmeade apologizes for suggesting 'lethal injection' for homeless people
David Edwards
September 14, 2025
RAW STORY
Fox News/screeen grab
Fox News host Brian Kilmeade expressed regret for calling to kill homeless and mentally ill people.
In a Sunday appearance on Fox News, Kilmeade addressed the remarks he made last week.
"In the morning, we were discussing the murder of Iryna Zarutska and Charlotte, North Carolina. How to stop these kinds of attacks by homeless, mentally ill assailants, including institutionalizing or jailing such people so they cannot attack again," he said.
"Now, during that discussion, I wrongly said they should get lethal injections," he continued. "I apologize for that extremely callous remark."
"I'm obviously aware that not all mentally ill homeless people act as the perpetrator did in North Carolina, and that so many homeless people deserve our empathy and compassion."
During his remarks last week, Kilmeade said that homeless and mentally ill people should be given a choice.
"Either you take the resources that we're going to give you, or you decide that you gotta be locked up in jail. That's the way it has to be now," he remarked. "Or uh, involuntary lethal injection. Or something."
David Edwards
September 14, 2025
RAW STORY
Fox News/screeen grab
Fox News host Brian Kilmeade expressed regret for calling to kill homeless and mentally ill people.
In a Sunday appearance on Fox News, Kilmeade addressed the remarks he made last week.
"In the morning, we were discussing the murder of Iryna Zarutska and Charlotte, North Carolina. How to stop these kinds of attacks by homeless, mentally ill assailants, including institutionalizing or jailing such people so they cannot attack again," he said.
"Now, during that discussion, I wrongly said they should get lethal injections," he continued. "I apologize for that extremely callous remark."
"I'm obviously aware that not all mentally ill homeless people act as the perpetrator did in North Carolina, and that so many homeless people deserve our empathy and compassion."
During his remarks last week, Kilmeade said that homeless and mentally ill people should be given a choice.
"Either you take the resources that we're going to give you, or you decide that you gotta be locked up in jail. That's the way it has to be now," he remarked. "Or uh, involuntary lethal injection. Or something."
'Extremely callous': Fox host's stunning comments met with disgust as he attempts backtrack
Image via Wikimedia Commons
Fox News host Brian Kilmeade is facing calls to resign after suggesting earlier this week that the state should execute homeless people who decline help during a live broadcast.
Kilmeade made the comments during a Wednesday episode of Fox & Friends, during which the panel discussed the recent shocking video of the murder of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska aboard a train in Charlotte, North Carolina, by a mentally ill homeless man, which has ignited a flurry of often racist vitriol on the right toward Black Americans and homeless people.
Another of the hosts, Lawrence Jones, claimed that the government has “given billions of dollars to mental health, to the homeless population,” but that “a lot of them don’t want to take the programs, a lot of them don’t want to get the help that is necessary.”
Jones continued: “You can’t give them a choice. Either you take the resources that we’re going to give you, or you decide that you’re going to be locked up in jail. That’s the way it has to be now.”
Kilmeade then interjected with his suggestion that instead of jail, they should be given “involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill ‘em.”
As one X user noted, Jones and co-host Ainsley Earhardt, “[didn’t] even blink an eye” in response to this call for mass murder.
While the claim that homeless people often “refuse” abundant services is a common talking point, it is not borne out by data. According to a report by the National Alliance to End Homelessness in 2023, more than three-fourths of direct service providers reported that they were forced to turn away homeless people due to staffing shortages.
But even in cases where homeless people are offered services—such as temporary shelter beds—and decline them, they often do so not because they prefer to be on the street but because shelters are often overcrowded and poorly maintained, or have restrictive rules that require them to separate from their families, pets, and belongings.
When homeless people are offered permanent shelter, they are comparatively much more likely to accept it. According to one 2020 study from UC San Francisco, 86% of “high-risk” chronically homeless people given access to permanent supportive housing were successfully housed and remained in their housing for several years, a much higher rate than those given temporary solutions.
But as Melanie D’Arrigo, executive director of the Campaign for New York Health, wrote on X, “Universal healthcare, housing, and anti-poverty programs are considered more ‘radical’ on Fox News than mass murder.”
Kilmeade’s calls to execute the homeless were met with horror and disgust from advocates. Donald Whitehead, executive director of the National Coalition for the Homeless, called for Kilmeade to resign.
“It is dangerous. It shows a lack of human compassion and it is really the worst possible time for that kind of language to be expressed,” Whitehead told the Irish Star.
Jesse Rabinowitz, communications and campaign manager with the National Homelessness Law Center in Washington, DC, noted in The Independent that Kilmeade’s comments come as the Trump administration “is proposing government-run detention camps and massive psychiatric asylums” to house the homeless.
In August, the president launched a crackdown against homeless encampments in DC that advocates say has left hundreds of people with nowhere to go and dependent on overwhelmed city services. Meanwhile, his administration and recent Republican legislation have introduced massive cuts to housing funding for homeless people across the United States.
“America’s homeless population includes over a million children and tens of thousands of veterans, many of whom served in Iraq or Afghanistan,” said Rep. Don Beyer (D-Va.). “Nobody deserves to be murdered by the government for mental illness or poverty. These Fox hosts are calling for mass murder—it’s sick.”
Kilmeade apologized for his comment on Sunday, describing it as an “extremely callous remark.” There is no indication from Fox News that Kilmeade will be subject to any disciplinary action over his remarks, which critics found noteworthy given the punishments other figures in mainstream media have faced for saying far less.
Photojournalist Zach D. Roberts pointed out that earlier this week, MSNBC fired contributor Matthew Dowd for criticizing the “hateful” and “divisive” rhetoric of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk shortly after he’d been assassinated.
“On MSNBC, a contributor got fired for lightly criticizing Charlie Kirk,” Roberts said. “Meanwhile, on Fox News, Brian Kilmeade calls for the murder of homeless people for being homeless. Nothing has happened to him. I don’t know if there can be a more obvious divide in politics.”
Image via Wikimedia Commons
September 14, 2025
COMMON DREAMS
Fox News host Brian Kilmeade is facing calls to resign after suggesting earlier this week that the state should execute homeless people who decline help during a live broadcast.
Kilmeade made the comments during a Wednesday episode of Fox & Friends, during which the panel discussed the recent shocking video of the murder of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska aboard a train in Charlotte, North Carolina, by a mentally ill homeless man, which has ignited a flurry of often racist vitriol on the right toward Black Americans and homeless people.
Another of the hosts, Lawrence Jones, claimed that the government has “given billions of dollars to mental health, to the homeless population,” but that “a lot of them don’t want to take the programs, a lot of them don’t want to get the help that is necessary.”
Jones continued: “You can’t give them a choice. Either you take the resources that we’re going to give you, or you decide that you’re going to be locked up in jail. That’s the way it has to be now.”
Kilmeade then interjected with his suggestion that instead of jail, they should be given “involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill ‘em.”
As one X user noted, Jones and co-host Ainsley Earhardt, “[didn’t] even blink an eye” in response to this call for mass murder.
While the claim that homeless people often “refuse” abundant services is a common talking point, it is not borne out by data. According to a report by the National Alliance to End Homelessness in 2023, more than three-fourths of direct service providers reported that they were forced to turn away homeless people due to staffing shortages.
But even in cases where homeless people are offered services—such as temporary shelter beds—and decline them, they often do so not because they prefer to be on the street but because shelters are often overcrowded and poorly maintained, or have restrictive rules that require them to separate from their families, pets, and belongings.
When homeless people are offered permanent shelter, they are comparatively much more likely to accept it. According to one 2020 study from UC San Francisco, 86% of “high-risk” chronically homeless people given access to permanent supportive housing were successfully housed and remained in their housing for several years, a much higher rate than those given temporary solutions.
But as Melanie D’Arrigo, executive director of the Campaign for New York Health, wrote on X, “Universal healthcare, housing, and anti-poverty programs are considered more ‘radical’ on Fox News than mass murder.”
Kilmeade’s calls to execute the homeless were met with horror and disgust from advocates. Donald Whitehead, executive director of the National Coalition for the Homeless, called for Kilmeade to resign.
“It is dangerous. It shows a lack of human compassion and it is really the worst possible time for that kind of language to be expressed,” Whitehead told the Irish Star.
Jesse Rabinowitz, communications and campaign manager with the National Homelessness Law Center in Washington, DC, noted in The Independent that Kilmeade’s comments come as the Trump administration “is proposing government-run detention camps and massive psychiatric asylums” to house the homeless.
In August, the president launched a crackdown against homeless encampments in DC that advocates say has left hundreds of people with nowhere to go and dependent on overwhelmed city services. Meanwhile, his administration and recent Republican legislation have introduced massive cuts to housing funding for homeless people across the United States.
“America’s homeless population includes over a million children and tens of thousands of veterans, many of whom served in Iraq or Afghanistan,” said Rep. Don Beyer (D-Va.). “Nobody deserves to be murdered by the government for mental illness or poverty. These Fox hosts are calling for mass murder—it’s sick.”
Kilmeade apologized for his comment on Sunday, describing it as an “extremely callous remark.” There is no indication from Fox News that Kilmeade will be subject to any disciplinary action over his remarks, which critics found noteworthy given the punishments other figures in mainstream media have faced for saying far less.
Photojournalist Zach D. Roberts pointed out that earlier this week, MSNBC fired contributor Matthew Dowd for criticizing the “hateful” and “divisive” rhetoric of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk shortly after he’d been assassinated.
“On MSNBC, a contributor got fired for lightly criticizing Charlie Kirk,” Roberts said. “Meanwhile, on Fox News, Brian Kilmeade calls for the murder of homeless people for being homeless. Nothing has happened to him. I don’t know if there can be a more obvious divide in politics.”
Justice Sotomayor Blasts 'Unconscionable' SCOTUS Ruling Overturning Homeless Rights
The 6-3 decision "permits punishing homeless people with no access to shelter for sleeping in public," Sotomayor said in her dissent.
By Sebastian Murdock
Sotomayor also pointed out that punishing homeless people for sleeping outside with fines and jail time often doesn’t have the intended effect of deterrence.
In one example, Sotomayor cited a case out of Nashville in which a man experiencing homelessness for 20 years was arrested 198 times and had over 250 citations.
“When an outreach worker tried to help him secure housing, the worker had difficulty finding him for his appointments because he was frequently arrested for being homeless,” Sotomayor said.
Because of his numerous arrests for sleeping outside, the man’s case worker eventually made him a T-shirt that read “Please do not arrest me, my outreach worker is working on my housing.” Once he’d finally secured housing, the man “had no further encounters with the police, no citations, and no arrests,” Sotomayer said.
In a hearing on the case in April, Sotomayor didn’t mince words about what a lack of compassion for people experiencing homelessness might ultimately lead to.
“Where do we put them if every city, every village, every town lacks compassion and passes a law identical to this, where are they supposed to sleep?” she asked. “Are they supposed to kill themselves not sleeping?”
The 6-3 decision "permits punishing homeless people with no access to shelter for sleeping in public," Sotomayor said in her dissent.
By Sebastian Murdock
HUFFPOST
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor gave a blistering dissent of Friday’s ruling that will give local governments the ability to punish homeless people for sleeping outside.
“The only question for the Court today is whether the Constitution permits punishing homeless people with no access to shelter for sleeping in public with as little as a blanket to keep warm,” Sotomayor said in her dissent.
In a 6-3 decision, the conservative-majority court overturned two decisions from the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals granting protections to homeless people from punishment for sleeping outdoors.
The decision, Grants Pass v. Johnson, will make it easier for states and cities to ban homeless people from sleeping outside while punishing them with civil fines and even jail time. In the ruling, authored by Justice Neil Gorsuch, the court concluded that “generally applicable” laws like those against camping could not qualify as “cruel and unusual punishment.”
In her dissent, Sotomayor called the new ruling “unconscionable and unconstitutional.”
“Sleep is a biological necessity, not a crime,” Sotomayor said. “For some people, sleeping outside is their only option. The City of Grants Pass jails and fines those people for sleeping anywhere in public at any time, including in their cars, if they use as little as a blanket to keep warm or a rolled-up shirt as a pillow. For people with no access to shelter, that punishes them for being homeless. That is unconscionable and unconstitutional.”
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor gave a blistering dissent of Friday’s ruling that will give local governments the ability to punish homeless people for sleeping outside.
“The only question for the Court today is whether the Constitution permits punishing homeless people with no access to shelter for sleeping in public with as little as a blanket to keep warm,” Sotomayor said in her dissent.
In a 6-3 decision, the conservative-majority court overturned two decisions from the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals granting protections to homeless people from punishment for sleeping outdoors.
The decision, Grants Pass v. Johnson, will make it easier for states and cities to ban homeless people from sleeping outside while punishing them with civil fines and even jail time. In the ruling, authored by Justice Neil Gorsuch, the court concluded that “generally applicable” laws like those against camping could not qualify as “cruel and unusual punishment.”
In her dissent, Sotomayor called the new ruling “unconscionable and unconstitutional.”
“Sleep is a biological necessity, not a crime,” Sotomayor said. “For some people, sleeping outside is their only option. The City of Grants Pass jails and fines those people for sleeping anywhere in public at any time, including in their cars, if they use as little as a blanket to keep warm or a rolled-up shirt as a pillow. For people with no access to shelter, that punishes them for being homeless. That is unconscionable and unconstitutional.”
Sotomayor also pointed out that punishing homeless people for sleeping outside with fines and jail time often doesn’t have the intended effect of deterrence.
In one example, Sotomayor cited a case out of Nashville in which a man experiencing homelessness for 20 years was arrested 198 times and had over 250 citations.
“When an outreach worker tried to help him secure housing, the worker had difficulty finding him for his appointments because he was frequently arrested for being homeless,” Sotomayor said.
Because of his numerous arrests for sleeping outside, the man’s case worker eventually made him a T-shirt that read “Please do not arrest me, my outreach worker is working on my housing.” Once he’d finally secured housing, the man “had no further encounters with the police, no citations, and no arrests,” Sotomayer said.
In a hearing on the case in April, Sotomayor didn’t mince words about what a lack of compassion for people experiencing homelessness might ultimately lead to.
“Where do we put them if every city, every village, every town lacks compassion and passes a law identical to this, where are they supposed to sleep?” she asked. “Are they supposed to kill themselves not sleeping?”
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