[ April 24, 2024 ]
This is how Democrats roll.
But we have to shelter in place, self-isolate and live under this insane martial-like law.
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Los Angeles votes to let homeless keep tents up during day amid coronavirus outbreak
By Brie Stimson | Fox News
The Los Angeles City Council Tuesday voted to allow the homeless to keep their tents up during the day in an effort to mitigate the spread of the coronavirus.
“The only thing that is worse than having lots of people living in encampments is throwing them out of encampments and making them more vulnerable,” Councilman Mike Bonin said, according to The Los Angeles Times.
Under current law, homeless tents in the city must come down between 6 a.m. and 9 p.m. but it’s not rigidly enforced.
The city will still be able to move tents to clean the street and remove hazards.
Council members also voted to add hand washing stations, portable toilets and weekly showers services to major homeless encampments.
California moving homeless to hotels, in scramble to prevent coronavirus explosion on the streets
The council voted down a measure to stop confiscating belongings from the homeless that exceed 60 gallons.
“There are tons of trash in and around different parts of the city of Los Angeles that I am very concerned about,” Councilman Joe Buscaino said. “That is adding to filth and disease.”
There are about 36,000 homeless within the city limits, about 27,000 live outside of a shelter, according to the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority.
Councilman Bob Blumenfield isn’t sure leaving homeless in tents is the most hygienic solution.
“Someone sheltering in place in an encampment is a recipe for the entire encampment to come down with the virus,” he said, according to The Times.
Officials across the state are also considering temporarily placing homeless into hotels and motels purchased by the state and state-owned trailers.
“This is a serious public health issue and I’m concerned that it is going to have a very devastating effect on the homeless,” Jeffrey Norris, the medical director at Father Joe’s Villages, a homeless outreach organization in San Diego, told Fox News.
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San Francisco Mayor London Breed recently issued an emergency declaration that allowed the city to rent 30 recreational vehicles to house any homeless individuals who have tested positive for the coronavirus. The city is also working to find empty hotel rooms where individuals can quarantine and self-isolate.
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45 Comments
4 years ago
set fire hoses to stun…
4 years ago
This is probably supposed to be viewed as compassionate. Instead it will help spread the virus and other diseases faster. Maybe the goal is to let them get diseased and die? That’s one way to end the homeless problem for liberals.
4 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
….they use them to beat their chests and cry out to make it look like they are compassionate, but are actually the reason of the problem….another scam to get Federal dollars to end up in people’s pockets who con the system.
4 years ago
A homeless advocate — one of the people actually trying to help people on the street — said in a radio interview the other day that the nepotism mayor of LA and the despicable city council are all bought and paid for by the Mexican drug cartels, de-criminalizing drug offenses, including possession of all kinds of drugs AND using/smoking/injecting drugs in public, so not to interfere with the cartels’ business model.
He also said the cartels divide among them control over entire city blocks of homeless — extorting Social Security checks out of old women and men — anyone who is trying to survive in a tent on the sidewalk — in protection rackets threatening their tents and few meager belongings.
The new Mexican Sheriff of LA County released at least 600 inmates Monday and ordered daily arrest rates to be slashed from 300 to 60/day.
This is Liberal/Leftist ideology at its most sick, evil and depraved in the Socialist State of California de Mexico.
4 years ago
Reply to
Chris Wolf
But if you give them a sammich and a ride they vote for whoever you tell them to.
4 years ago
Reply to
Chris Wolf
…and don’t forget, Gaven Nesom is the nephew of Nancy Pelosi….more nepotism has the state going to hell in a hand basket.
4 years ago
The Socialist State of California de Mexico invites and rolls out the red carpet for thousands of illegal, desperate, illiterate people to cross our border EVERY DAY for DECADES.
Then gives them housing subsidies (among three-four dozen forms of charity) for houses and apartments that Americans have been coincidently evicted from.
So their own people– the citizens of their own country — can move out onto the street.
Brown, Newsome, Pelosi, Feinstein, Boxer, Harris, Garcetti, etc, etc, etc: Criminals.
4 years ago
This makes me remember the Frank Zappa line, “Watch out where the huskies go and don’t you eat the yellow snow.”
So finally setting up toilets for them. Clean streets? No more fecal matter to step on – if they use the toilets, but needles are another matter?
Why not appropriate a few unused lots and set up massive military style tents for them. Hire them to clean the streets. Do something other than letting them squat (and squat) on the streets.
So far Bandaid solutions for a problem the state and the city made, and not trying to stop it. The first step would be not to allow the number of squatters to increase.
Its going to be a no win situation no matter what they do for them. So flip a coin and do something. Oh wait, if they do “A” then one group of liberals will complain, and the same will be for plans “B”, “C”, “D”, and so on. But someone has to take leadership.
BTW, what is with confiscating their property? That would only lead to more depression, desperation, and violence as a reaction to losing their stuff.
4 years ago
Reply to
stephen5970
…better solution…..send in the Feds to clean out the gangs….then move the homeless out into the country in tent cities where charities can get to them to help and maybe make a difference.
4 years ago
Law abiding citizens have to live under the rules. There are no rules for these thugs. Let them sh!t in the streets and raise hoardes of rats with their garbage, nothing matters. Take a flame thrower to these “encampments”.
4 years ago
what a surprise, they decided to do exactly nothing about the expanding problems.
4 years ago
Gee, L.A. is allowing the homeless to keep their tents up during the day. Has anyone gone through downtown at night and seen if the tents are gone. The homeless, sure aren’t moving their tents at night, or during the day. So this whole idea that they can stay, is just stupid and a verbal shell game on the part of city government. After all, it was because of the city that the homeless even have tents in the first place.
4 years ago
Reply to
santashandler
I remember one time my idiotic friend decided to go to an ATM after dark in downtown L.A. it was an exercise in fear.
4 years ago
Reply to
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
What’s the worst of the two California cities LA or SF?
I always liked the look of California and wanted to visit but to see reports of it sinking to this desperate level is sad.
4 years ago
Reply to
Dave Glynn
Downtown Los Angeles is a pit. I had a friend who lived in one of the lofts that were popular in downtown LA. There was a shoot out in the parking lot below him on a Saturday night, he called 9-1-1 and got a busy signal. By the time the police showed up the victors in the gunfight were long gone and only the dead and dying were left.
4 years ago
Reply to
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
LoL ???? so SF wins by default despite the human faeces (that I have read on here) littering the streets. I’d choose LA for the weather but one of the coastal districts such as Venice Beach or Malibu etc. At least the sea air is fresh and clean.
4 years ago
Reply to
Dave Glynn
Venice Beach is no prize anymore either. I used to know a woman who lived there. There was a god-awful smell coming from her dumpster, the garbage men found out it was a dead body.
The Southern California of the Beach Boys is long gone. It’s now more a gang infested, crime ridden, high taxation, grid-locked hell. I know numerous people who are planning to leave Californication as soon as they retire.
4 years ago
Reply to
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
How did you get on with the interview for the job at the California tourist board the other day? You forgot to mention????
4 years ago
Reply to
Dave Glynn
The ugly truth is the leftist atheists who have run Californication for the last forty years have ruined it. There are entire neighborhoods in Los Angeles and Santa Ana that are run by street gangs.
4 years ago
Reply to
santashandler
I have been to Skid Row many times for ministry. I never see tents taken down, they just mushroom and add more. It is truly a human chernobyl. I can’t see how moving the homeless into hotels will do anything productive, as many are mentally ill and drug addicted. The hotel business would be over. The rooms destroyed, and all regular clientele running away. This is a problem the city does not want to solve. simply, some should be sent to institutions, others to jail/prison, and others to rehab, however that all overlaps.
4 years ago
What do you want to bet that the coronavirus will NOT make the homeless population into a problem that solves itself?
4 years ago
I’m so furious! I cannot take this anymore!
This SICK DEATH CULT of Brutal Low IQ Barbarians from the 13th century(if that) SHOULD NEVER EVER be in our Westernized Societies!!
Why Dear GOD, are these TRAITOR POLITICIANS letting them ALL in to MOOCH & TERRORIZE US!?
I know why… because these SICK EVIL Politicians are getting paid off with BLOOD MONEY & LAUNDERED ILLEGAL Taxpayers MONEY????!
Dirty Money just like the USA politicians have been using to get rich, bribed with & pay off’s for their victims with OUR MONEY/ Tax payers Money to their victims of §€×μ@! Assaut & Worse! They are paid off with our money to keep their mouths shut for being $3×μ@!!¥ / assaulted/ attacked! This has been going on for 30++ plus decades! It is called the, “Slush Fund List!” A few years back we saw the HUGE AMOUNTS paid off secretly with our money… but what was crossed out was the politicians names next to the huge amounts of our tax money that they paid out for HUSH MONEY to THEIR Victims!
I want to know who they are! And are they STILL in our government… Must be because they are STILL hiding it from us!!
4 years ago
What???
36000 homeless in Los Angeles alone?
That’s a homeless city within a city and America’s most prestigious city too.
I’m amazed that this has been allowed to happen. Put them to work building homes for themselves???? and kill two birds with one stone.
4 years ago
Reply to
Dave Glynn
I hate to say it but, if you saw L.A. now, youd agree its no longer a prestigious city. Its all a Hollywood facade. It would be nice to put them to work, but, according to the city, that would be exploiting them.
4 years ago
Reply to
santashandler
Some people need “exploiting” for their own good.
If the homeless and destitute are allowed to fester they will not just rot themselves but rot every city they take root in. It would be better for them if they were made to build homes for themselves and it would give them a sense of purpose that they desperately need.
Tough love is still love.
4 years ago
Reply to
Dave Glynn
Absolutely agree. However, we have too many lawyers and bleeding heart organizations (including L.A. city government), who kowtow and give far too many privileges to the homeless, to ever make them accountable for themselves. Just a few weeks ago, the city made available to the homeless, daily lockers. Places where the homeless can take their shopping carts and have them stored for the day (not kidding). You know, according to the city, so they can look for jobs. Vomit! So, the idea that the homeless will ever be held to account for themselves, is very remote, at best.
4 years ago
Reply to
santashandler
It’s always the enemy from within that hinders the progress in any democracy and although I believe in the system of democracy as the fairest way to manage our society I am tempted to agree with the dictators of history and make things happen for the common good through sheer force of will where any opposition is dealt with firmly.
Can the two systems work as one?????
4 years ago
Reply to
Dave Glynn
The problem w/dictators is what happens when the good ones die — who fills their shoes? How do you pick the next one and who does the picking? Marcus Aurelius was the best of the Roman emperors, but when he died his son took over and he turned out to be just another tyrant like most Roman emperors were.
It seemed to me the pluralistic democracy of the Athenians was the best form of government — because you couldn’t bribe everyone and if you made a good argument for your legislation the majority of people would vote for it — except maybe in the case of Philip of Macedon. Also non-citizens weren’t allowed to vote in Athens and it was VERY difficult to become a citizen or even a landowner for that matter.
4 years ago
Reply to
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
Dictators always arrive at a country’s weakest point in its history and never last long term.
Draconian dictatorial measures are the best way to help a nation out of a major crisis though.
But overall I too believe that democracy is the best and most civilised system, though to give the vote to some of the lunatics that I’v had to rumble with just seems like madness and a step in the wrong direction. A sanity test for all voters might be a good idea????
4 years ago
Reply to
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
Marcus Aurelius, Philip of Macedon??? For quality like that you’d have to shop at Dictators R Us. And while your there don’t forget Alexander The Great and Oliver Cromwell two more of my favourites. They can keep that bargain basement shite like Hitler, Franco and Napoleon though????
4 years ago
Reply to
Dave Glynn
Alexander the Great was Philip’s son. I don’t know how he responded to public criticism of his policies either. King Philip didn’t seem to mind.
4 years ago
Reply to
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
Every city has its faults and if LA isn’t the US’s most prestigious then which American city is?
4 years ago
Reply to
Dave Glynn
Maybe a city somewhere in AZ or MT. The rot of the degenerate, dying, immoral atheist West is nowhere more apparent than in all the major cities of the USA.
4 years ago
Reply to
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
My dad lived in AZ so that’s definitely on my list of places to visit.
4 years ago
Reply to
Dave Glynn
Even Anchorage, Alaska has problems w/crime, drugs and street gangs now. San Diego might be the only decent city left in Californication at this point and I’m not so sure about that.
4 years ago
Reply to
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
SAN Diego It’s home of the Navy isn’t it?
Maybe they keep it afloat.
Alaska!!!! Toooooo fkn cold for my tastes????
4 years ago
Reply to
MuhamMUDTheFakeProphet
My requirements would be a location with plenty of sunshine and warm temperatures, sandy beaches ,(with pretty women) a pub to watch Manchester United games on TV and a big yard for my scaffolding gear.
Then I’m sold????
????????????????
4 years ago
Los Angeles votes to let homeless keep tents up during day amid coronavirus outbreak
First, they were never made to take down their tents in the first place…..at any time. I’ve seen the photos and films.
Second, They already have a lot of diseases…..some from centuries ago…..people going to work where they camp have to avoid all kinds of diseases in the air and on the ground.
What needs to be done is mental health testing of the people running that town, county, and state.
4 years ago
Reply to
ladywarrior
“What needs to be done is mental health testing of the people running that town, county, and state.” And I know just who can do that: the people who run the city, county and state……
4 years ago
Reply to
santashandler
Lawyers and Judges have to have sanity tests before they can be on the bench or practice law….why not politicians?
4 years ago
I portend a massive crisis in L.A. and S.F.
It will make “ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK” look like “BAREFOOT IN THE PARK.
4 years ago
How generous, how magnanimous, how compassionate, how responsive, how expected. sarc off
