"I thank the Lord every day for this place," Mr. Montaner, who speaks His allies – and there are many among the small-craft boaters who launch from Stuart Sorg, a Coconut Grove resident and member of the Miami Waterfront Advisory Boy, that sophisticated, cosmopolitan Mr. Sorg sounds like a real piece from MIAMI, April 11 – A homeless man, Jose Montaner, built a home for himself four years ago on an empty island beyond the Coconut Grove Yacht Club in Miami. A movement is now under way to evict him. "I thank … Continue reading ![](\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/montaner.jpg\")
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\n MIAMI, April 11 – A homeless man, Jose Montaner, built a home for himself
\n four years ago on an empty island beyond the Coconut Grove Yacht Club
\n in Miami. A movement
\n is now under way to evict him. <\/p>\n
\nonly Spanish, said on Thursday, easing into a wobbly kitchen chair on his beach. "Are
\nthey going to leave me here, or are they going to throw me to the wind?"<\/p>\n
\n the marina – say Mr. Montaner is not only harmless but also an exemplary resident
\n of Coconut Grove, a lush, affluent section of Miami where some of its original
\n pioneers settled. Some of the neighboring uninhabited islands are blanketed
\n with garbage, they said, while Mr. Montaner keeps his spotless.<\/p>\n
\n Board, sees the situation differently. He wants Mr. Montaner off the island
\n immediately, especially after reading in The Miami Herald last week that Mr.
\n Montaner had been arrested for minor crimes in the past. "We’ve got to
\n go through that island and disassemble everything," said Mr. Sorg, who
\n has complained about Mr. Montaner to city officials. "This city has become
\n too sophisticated, too cosmopolitan for that type of thing."<\/p>\n
\n of work, doesn’t he? We bet he has some nifty plans on what we could
\n do with ALL of the homeless people in America, if he had his way. Like
\n sending them all to Cuba, to be divided equitably between Castro’s prision
\n system and the holding pens in Guantanamo Bay….<\/i><\/p>\n
\n the New York Times<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"