The Denver City Council voted -- unanimously, it should be noted -- to decriminalize public defecation and urination. To make it even more difficult for the Denver Tourism Board, people in the city can camp out anywhere they want (on public or private land), can panhandle, and even block sidewalks and other right-of-ways if the fancy hits them.

Hot Air has the disgusting details:

Democrat Mayor Michael Hancock and city officials explained the new ordinances are designed to protect immigrants — legal and the other kind — from “unintended consequences.” These consequences were fines and longer jail terms, as has been customary in most places for violating the behavioral norms of civilized American society. 

Wait, so what about the unintended consequences of being completely unhygienic? Does the Denver City Council really want its city to become a gigantic toilet bowl? Here's more: 

The extinct ordinances set all violations of Denver’s municipal code as punishable by up to a year in jail and/or a maximum fine of $999. The new rules, which also apply to homeless, establish two classes of violations: Class I offenses with the same fine and a maximum 300 days in jail. And Class 2 offenses such as public defecation, which are deemed mere “quality of life” issues. They now carry no fine and a max 60 days in jail.

Here's an idea that pertains to quality of life: what about port-a-potties? If there are so many people who really need to go to the bathroom, why doesn't the city go to the small expense of actually helping them do that while maintaining their dignity? There's an easy answer to that question: Hot Air calls it the "soft bigotry of political correctness."

Some places might find it acceptable for everyone to live by the established laws and remove those here illegally to begin with and who violate even simple norms of decent public behavior. But due to the soft bigotry of political correctness, assimilation to American standards is set aside as too demanding in the interests of excusing the behavior of some non-citizen illegal residents.

From now on, if you're ever in a debate with a liberal, you have a two-word response: public defection. That should end the argument, since no right-thinking person can think this is acceptable. America was once known as a "melting pot" because people who came here legally could come to this nation and learn our customs. Thankfully, at least at this writing, it is not customary for Americans to relieve themselves on the sidewalk.  

Denver Democrats, however, are working really hard to change that.

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