Ghettoization.
Spring has sprung in southern California and what a time to be alive. Bear’s breeches and sea lavender scenting the air, that golden sun staying up later and later, warmth and joy super spreading. Time to be outside. Time to go to the beach, flap a towel and bathe.
Except possible war is brewing between towel flappers and southern California’s largest city as a Los Angeles councilman recently proposed that the city’s homeless should be temporarily housed at three local beaches: Dockweiler, Fisherman’s Village in Marina del Rey and Will Rogers beach.
Anyone with access to the news knows that homelessness has reached a crisis in Los Angeles. City streets, particularly downtown, have become choked with tents, cardboard lean-tos, shopping carts everywhere.
A disaster.
But the beaches, warm and joyful, are right there with lots of comfy sand and parking lots too. That’s exactly where councilman Mike Bonin has motioned to move the homeless, putting them in tiny homes and tents, much to the chagrin of some.
Sunbather Marcella Debidda, frustrated, told ABC 7 news, “Did anybody ask the homeless what the best place was? Because I mean, as a society we make assumptions all the time about what is best for people without asking people. And one would argue, it’s beautiful. But I’m sure it’s cold at night and it’s not necessarily comfortable and there is no shelter when it rains. I think we can go back to history and every time people have been confined and put in ghettos there wasn’t much improvement.”
Jessica Rogers, who lives in Pacific Palisades just up the hill from Will Rogers Beach, added, “At this particular time when our economy needs it the most, this is an area that is of tremendous value. So this motion causes us a lot of concern for the safety of not only the homeless that are here and could be affected by this high traffic along PCH, along with the safety of the community of LA who comes to enjoy this beach.”
Don’t you love when people care, first, about the homeless? Not wanting to put them in ghettos, keeping them safe from traffic etc.?
I am looking forward to hearing the World Surf League’s solution to the problem, anyhow.
Buy a buncha these,
put ’em out in The Desert,
let pep’s have a home out there in the boon~ies!
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Will Rogers beach, eh?
here’s some arse-hole, name of Chris, in a vid i shot recently
right by Thee Bel Air Bay Club, at Will Rogers Beach:
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F**K these whacked-0ut kooks,
send ’em inland to The Desert!
Haha, Completely agree! Freedom, freedumb, fear, feardum. Id venture to say the campers of Kakaako have relocated to East Village, Downtown SD
The English had a great solution to all this way back in the 1700s: Transportation.
If you were homeless or a drunk or a debtor or a pickpocket or a forger or a thief.
If you were a 12-year-old girl who stole a ribbon worth two shillings.
You had four choices: Public flogging, thrown into Bridewell Prison to die of typhus, public execution.
Or Transportation.
Sent in chains across the Atlantic to frontier penal colonies in Virginia, Georgia and Maryland.
England shipped 150,000+ to the New World and then when they lost the Revlutionary War, they shipped them to Australia.
18 months in chains: England to Brazil, back across the Atlantic, under Cape of Good Hope, hook into the Roaring Forties and if you lived, turn left and up to Sydney.
And because of that, we have Tom and Nick Carroll and some other good blokes.
It works!
Ship ’em!
The PBS series “Prairie House” was mental. This project would be must watch TV.
Unfortunately my county is infested with Gwyneths. You could read an ad on Craigs list for a garage sale and they make it seem like a once in a lifetime visit to see King Tuts burial treasure.
Basic law of economics. If you want more of it, subsidize it. If you want less, tax it. There’s no consequence for living on the street (or in the river bed, or wherever). Bleeding hearts think their “kindness” towards the “unhoused” is enlightened compassion, but it’s actually vapidly ignorant cruelty. It’s like the disaster going on at the southern border. Incentivize dangerous behavior and you’ll get more of it; there’s current 18,000+ migrant minors being held in
cagesoverflow facilities right now, when the peak of the Trump admin was 2,600. That’s almost 7 X more children that have been raped and abused and human trafficked, based on “good” intentions of inviting them to make a perilous journey. The bougie woke wear their virtue signals as if a fashionable scarf, and then panic when they get choked by it.Good plan! Slab City by Salton Sea is a model for that. Plenty of space in the desert for a giant encampment. Allow any and all drug activities. Instead of burning or destroying confiscated drugs from the border, just deliver them all to the encampment. The only rule would be that they cannot leave unless they want to get treatment.
That would be an incredible social experiment. Air drop pallets of confiscated drugs to anybody that wanted to live there. Set up cameras all over the place and have a reality show to fund the living expenses.
Wonder how it would end up? would people just gorge themselves on drugs and be happy to live at slab city cut off from normal society, or would they get tired of it and want to leave?
I can picture the speed users being happy taking bikes apart, or trying to build the most powerful spotlight known to man so they can see coyotes in the desert.
The alcoholics would be dead in two years.
That would be an amazing to watch. In addition to taking apart bikes, the tweakers could be given rolloff dumpsters full of electronic waste so they can take apart old cd and cassette players, vhs tape machines, all that good stuff at their disposal to make something equally useless.
LGR! Hows everything?
Remember to do the used needle shuffle! Some butthole was planting razorblades in the sand at Bonita Cove park Mission Bay a few years ago. Slightly better than a used aids/hepatitis syringe but still a really fucked disturbing thing to do.
I’m in support of moving all the homeless and mentally ill to the beaches. Growing up surfing in a rough NJ casino town, we had years of homeless and mentally ill being bussed into town from Philadelphia and let me tell you, it did wonders for line up crowd control… Regular stabbings, car jackings, robberies will give the VAL rolling up in his 100k+ sprinter second thoughts before pulling in to town for a surf…. If you’re willing to pay the price of getting car jacked or robbed by knife just to get a surf in, you’ve earned your spot in the line up IMO.
If you build it, he will come.
NYC, by way of militant homeless “advocacy” groups encourage the mentally ill and chemically dependent to come and sleep on the streets, no questions asked.
It’s like giving someone with a brain tumor aspirin and telling them to walk it off.
COVID has only exacerbated the mental health crisis as services have been shuttered and the non-stop fear porn has thrown those teetering on the edge all the way over it.
We need facilities and involuntary commitals not more people sleeping outside without being treated.
huge homeless problem in Los Angeles requires a solution
Mike Bonin has been the biggest blight on the Westside of LA since his election. He sits in his house in the Palisades, where he doesn’t have to deal with the repercussions of his shitty policies. Meanwhile, the rest of us have been watching/dealing with Skid Rose (aka Skid Row West for the uninitiated) 5x in size over the past year and half. Bonin needs to pound sand.
Unfortunately, the homeless problem has been exponentially exacerbated by the absolute bullshit notion that the high price of of housing is what causes homelessness. A massive percentage of homeless people need to be on psychotropic medication, but California will not allow family members, friends, etc. to commit a person to enable them get mental health treatment. On the way to the arvo yesterday, I passed two obviously schizophrenic homeless people. It is sad because medication could help them, but they will not seek it on their own or check themselves into a hospital or even accept a motel room because they are schizophrenic and avoiding such things is a symptom of schizophrenia.
LA is WAY worse now than it was 10 years ago. It’s kind of crazy how intense it is,
San Bernardino has tons of open housing ever since the mortgage explosion. There used to be entire neighborhoods that were empty. That might not be the solution because who wants to live in San Bernardino but it was crazy.
When I lived SoCal point adjacent, there were always homeless people sleeping on my floor or in my driveway when there was swell. I survived. I say send them to visit the so concerned lady in Palisades. She sounds like she could use a good rogering.
i couldn’t give less of a fuck about the sunbathers; it’s the beachcombers for whom i lament
Bingo.
If people in SoCal want to be homeless, they can stay in a camp in San Bernardino, not at beaches amidst multimillion dollar houses.
Have you met my good friends Dunning and Krueger?