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Every year the Preble Street Resource Center hosts a "Candidates Breakfast". This Monday October morning the candidates for city council took questions from consumers there. One question may interest the greater community. Paraphrased here it is: [Great there's growth in health care/education, biotechnology, and housing stock INCLUDING affordable housing. Not so great that homeless consumers are vulnerable to expanded research industries. Your candidates breakfast question is: Do you think the city needs a human-rights ordinance protecting the privacy rights of Portlanders?]...Councilor Duson seeking re-election answered this. Basically she said there's already enough law in place to protect privacy rights, however, she'd be willing to help with specific concerns of the questioning consumer. By disregarding the need for a new human-rights ordinance and then by making it a personal focus, Councilor Duson implied the question was flawed by alleged mental illness and that human-rights violations by biotech companies don't deserve council attention regarding a subpopulation (homeless/poor). Irony alert! Extreme privacy invasion is part of the system's way of "helping" those deemed mentally ill - whether or not there is mental illness! That means you're vulnerable too. And city council recently unanimously approved the PSRC's censorship palace known as the Florence House. That development will house female consumers currently staying at the PSRC's Women's Night Shelter. Not everyone in the community is for it. But it's a done deal now. Council's final vote helps in the creation of a slave camp for future women already enslaved by system-sponsored 24/7 privacy invasion. But we'll just call that new world order gig "social work"! Research galore will go in inside the Florence House. It's not like any of these women can find an apartment with ease, after some of their former landlords unfairly evicted with criminal intent to set them up for future failure. Poverty for the tenant; big politics/money for the agencies. Amazing what gets called "medical". Portland has a problem. It thumps its collective oh-so-diversity elitist chest thinking that privacy invasion doesn't undermine the civil-rights movement.