Thursday, April 12, 2007

CM PRESS # 119


GARLICH IN THE DAILY PILOT TODAY

Bruce Garlich has a Community Commentary in the Daily Pilot today (4/12), in which he tries to puff up the so-called gang report that the City Council is considering.

Garlich's views are the typical liberal nonsense, but we won't waste your or our time taking them apart line by line.

Instead, here's a quick summary of the reality of the gang situation in Costa Mesa, as we see it, but which you won't read in Garlich's take on this:

1. Costa Mesa's gang problems are largely Hispanic in nature (300 members in 7 gangs). There's also a strong connection with the city being illegal alien friendly.

2. In spite of the Hispanic nature of most Costa Mesa gangs, the report made to the City Council never mentions Hispanics or Latinos or illegal aliens. Not once.

3. The only mention of race/ethnicity in the report is when it discusses a "white" gang. What's odd about this is that the report, itself, says that so-called white gang isn't based in Costa Mesa but that some members may live here and that they're not involved in typical gang crimes that most citizens of Costa Mesa are so concerned about.

Curious. Hispanic gangs are the problem, but the report doesn't mention them by race/ethnicity, while a white gang that is not based here but which may have some members living here who are not involved in the shootings, etc. that we've seen in this city, is mentioned by race/ethnicity.

4. If one wanted to write a report that would be a blueprint to help liberals and liberal causes and charities, this report might fill the bill. If you doubt this, check who is supporting this report--it's many from the same crowd that tried to defeat Mansoor/Leece. Including, as you saw in the Pilot, today, Bruce Garlich.

5. The report appears to hide non-working liberal social programs among some good enforcement plans. Presumably this is an attempt to get the Council to buy the whole thing instead of picking it apart--as they should do.

As we've written before, and also above, if the Council adopts this so-called gang report without making changes to it, they may be actually adopting a bunch of social programs that will benefit illegal aliens, some non-profits, and the libs who tried to defeat Mayor Mansoor and Councilmember Leece in the last election, and who will try to defeat Mayor Pro Tem Bever and other improvers who run in less than two years in the next election.

If you read the gang report with a critical eye you'll probably agree with us that it looks as though it's really two very different reports shuffled together so that the liberal elements are hidden among good enforcement elements.

The CM PRESS believes that many of the enforcement items in the report make sense, but they already seem to be part of normal police work. However, one new "enforcement" item in the report appears to us to be a wolf in sheep's clothing. We're talking about the recommendation that the CMPD should issue citations to students who are playing hooky from school. On its face, this sounds good, but scratch the surface a little and you can see a couple of problems.

Problem 1: It turns CMPD officers into truancy officers for the NMUSD, but they'll be paid from the City's budget. The NMUSD should have its own truancy officers paid from its own budget. After all, school attendance is a school problem, not a city problem. Let's have a proper separation of powers, as they say in the law.

Problem 2: The liberal trick that is hidden in having our CMPD officers issuing citations to truants is that truants and their parents will be offered the chance of paying a fine or doing community service.

You know that most will choose community service. So what's wrong with that?

Just this. Who do you suppose will administer the community service? Right. Charities. Some of the same charities that many believe are magnets for illegal aliens. In fact, the report even names some charities--but, of course, it doesn't mention that some of those associated with some of these charities were involved in trying to defeat Mansoor/Leece. It also doesn't mention that some of these charities don't look like Costa Mesa and mostly serve Hispanics, including, presumably, illegal aliens.

And, with a source of additional clients supplied by the CMPD, the charities will be able to ask for more of your tax money to help hire additional staff to help with the community service they're administering. And, it's probably a pretty safe bet that the additional staff members won't be conservatives who are opposed to illegal immigration.

Thus, our cops will become unofficial recruiters for the charities. Oh, and since the parents of the truants may not speak English, the charities will need more money to teach English to the parents. And, golly, the parents may lack parenting skills, so more money will be needed so they can be taught to be responsible parents and keep their kids out of gangs. And, shucks, kids and parents can't pay attention to what they're being taught if they have empty stomachs, so we'll need to supply food to them. And, gosh, no one can find a good job dressed in gang attire, so we'll have to give them nicer clothes. And, jeepers, these parents and their gang kids won't cooperate unless they trust the police, and they won't trust the police unless the police refuse to turn them over to the ICE agent for deportation. And, what about those teen girls who are getting pregnant? The charities will need to do something about that. And...and...and....

So, the liberal parts of this report, if put in practice, may end up as another pork barrel for charities and illegal aliens and may worsen our situation in Costa Mesa instead of making it better.

We hope the City Council won't be stampeded into approving this so-called gang report as it sits, but will take a cafeteria approach and pick and choose what makes sense.
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WE GET A FLYER FROM THE CITY IN SPANISH (ALSO IN ENGLISH) ABOUT PAULARINO PARK AND OTHER PASSIVE PARKS

We just received a flyer that officially tells us that there will be a public meeting at Paularino School on Wednesday, May 2, 2007 from 7:oo pm to 8:30 pm to "gather input on the appropriate use of Paularino and possibly other City parks, the possible installation of additional landscape elements at Paularino Park and the designation of parks as either active or passive uses."

"All interested parties are invited to attend and provide comments regarding park use. These comments will be presented to the Parks & Recreation Commission."

So, why did the City of Costa Mesa waste the money to print this flyer in Spanish as well as in English? The United States is an English speaking country. Newport Beach doesn't print its flyers in Spanish.

One wonders if an invitation was sent to ICE about this meeting.
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