Friday, March 14, 2008

CM PRESS # 319

RETURN TO REASONER SHOWS HIS STUFF (LOL)

Here's some more nonsense from this character Geoff West who likes the Westside just the way it is. Of course, he lives on the very far Eastside. His comments are from the Return to Reason Daily Pilot. LINK

Did I mention that West lives way, way over on the Eastside almost in Newport Beach? Probably shops at Gelson's.

I've put my comments in red following his silly and oft repeated drivel.

Geoff West wrote on Mar 12, 2008 8:11 PM:

" Do you see the common thread here? The fellow in question won't be happy until every brown face is expelled from Costa Mesa and his methodical campaign to make them uncomfortable is working now that he has a majority on the city council that supports his anti-Latino plans. The Latinos of our city have not named me as their spokesperson, but someone needs to shine the light on this blatant display of overt racism. (Cont.) "

I RESPOND:Nope. I've never written or said anything about expelling "every brown face." I have written and said that we need to stop being an illegal alien sanctuary city if we want our schools to improve, our home values to increase, our neighborhoods to be safer and our quality of life to be better. I stand by that.

Oh, and the Latinos haven't named Geoff West as their spokesperson? Give them an A+ for that.

Geoff West wrote on Mar 12, 2008 8:11 PM:

" Some of my Latino friends have children in Westside schools, frequently attacked by the fellow in question as under performing,

I RESPOND: The schools in question are under performing and are in danger of being taken over by the state. That's not my opinion. It's a fact and it is based on student scores from the schools.

with his finger squarely pointed at those brown-skinned children.

I RESPOND: Nope. My finger is squarely pointed at illegal aliens. That's also a fact.

Some of those folks used to find work at the Job Center, which served this city well for almost two decades until the fellow in question led the charge to get it closed down.

I RESPOND: I'm happy to lead a charge to put in a new Job Center on the Eastside near where West lives. West should put his own neighborhood where his big mouth is. Don't hold your breath.

Now he complains about loitering day workers throughout the city - the problem the Job Center solved. (Cont.) "

I RESPOND: Again, if West wants a Job Center so badly, let's put one in on the Eastside near where he lives.

I'll even use what West thinks is my "influence" to help make it a reality by circulating petitions in West's neighborhood for such a Job Center.

Also, the reason we have loitering day workers is because the City Council only did half the job on this matter. The Council needs to enact a new City ordinance similar to the one in Orange.


Geoff West wrote on Mar 12, 2008 8:10 PM:

" Some of my friends work in industrial jobs on the Westside in an area where this fellow wants to displace those successful businesses and replace them with high-end homes.

I RESPOND: High end homes on view bluffs? Homes full of tax paying upwardly mobile citizens who will become part of our city and who will support upscale merchants and help turn a downward spiral into an upward one? Who would ever think of something like that? How evil!

Why, we know the best uses for view property--uses that help a city--are industrial buildings pushing their pollution downwind over the homes and schools of the city. Right? Isn't that what we see on the bluffs in Corona del Mar, Newport Coast, and other coastal cities? Oh, it isn't? You mean most enlightened cities actually use their best land for the best uses?

Isn't it interesting that a major Westside Bluffs industrial property owner, who lives in Newport Beach (of course), is also a member of Return to Reason with Geoff West.


Some of my Latino friends have Anglo spouses, something that must drive the fellow in question nuts because he's written extensively about the evils of "blending" of races as he bemoans the disappearance of the Aryan race. (Cont.) "


I RESPOND: "Aryan," eh? Hmmm. Actually, I hardly ever use the word. It has too many negative connotations, and if one uses it, a lot of time has to be given to explain what it means. It's just easier to say European-Americans or whites.

But, Grasshopper, I am ever a patient teacher. So, here's a quick and oversimplified lesson on the word. First, in a modern and loose sense it just means Europeans. In a more ancient sense it was what the European tribes were called who crossed into India thousands of years ago. Interestingly, the present nation of "Iran" was along the path to India. "Iran" means land of the Aryans. Once again, docendo discimus.

And, the disappearance of white folks is a problem. We've become too materialistic, too self-absorbed and too self-indulgent. Maybe we've also become too impotent and too lacking in vigor and the life force itself. And in some cases we've become full of self-loathing and are as dispirited as the American Indians were in the 19th Century. We're afraid to be who we are and constantly apologize for our very existence.

As a result, our birth rate is below replacement levels. That's why Germany and Russia and now the Canadian Province of Quebec are offering money and tax incentives to their people to have more children. People in those countries have decided that dying off is not such a great thing.

In fact, I often write about this in my national essays.
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Geoff West wrote on Mar 12, 2008 8:10 PM:

" Others, because of their position low on the economic ladder, use the services of some of the charities on the Westside of town - those this fellow has targeted for expulsion because he feels they are magnets for undesirables.

I RESPOND: Most of those low on the economic ladder in Costa Mesa are illegal aliens. They're not even supposed to be in this country.

Some of West's fellow Return to Reason anti-Improvers make their livings off the backs of these illegal aliens. Some of them run charities whose own records show that in some cases up to 99% of their clients are Latinos, and common sense tells us that most are probably illegal aliens since the charities don't check for legal status.

If you are an illegal alien in Costa Mesa you can live the good life on very little money by using the charity services that are too concentrated on the Westside. You can get free bags of groceries, free clothes, free medical and dental care, free money to help pay your rent, free money to help pay your utilities and more. Your kids will also get a free breakfast and lunch at school. If you're a citizen and contributing member of society, however, you'll have to pay through the nose for breakfast and lunch for your kids. "Free" is a magnet, folks. It draws people to it.

And, by "free" I mean just to the illegal aliens. You and I are paying for their "free."

Look folks, take a look at what you're paying for your medical and dental insurance and for your groceries. Wouldn't you have more money to spend on new cars if you didn't have to spend all that money?

Maybe you should live the good life of an illegal alien in Costa Mesa. Maybe you should stop being a responsible citizen. Perhaps, you should get over that old fashioned American value of not wanting to use charities. Get on the Costa Mesa gravy train and act like an illegal alien.

And, let me be very clear about this. No reasonable person is opposed to charities that help people who are truly down on their luck. What I'm talking about here are charities that seem to exist to give big salaries and life time employment to their bosses and which pad their rolls with illegal aliens who are often using them as a life style choice.

of my Latino friends like to attend the Orange Coast College Swap Meet, a venue for social interaction and low-end commerce - that very same swap meet the fellow in question unsuccessfully attempted to have shut down a couple years ago because it was attracting more undesirables from Santa Ana. (Cont.)

I RESPOND: Santa Ana found that its own swap meet was hurting local merchants so it closed it down. Then, those sellers and customers simply moved their action to the OCC Swap Meet. Many of the people who live near the OCC Swap Meet remember when it was a true swap meet where you could find bargains from people's attics and garages. That's not what it is anymore.
Now, it's become a Third World Bazaar with professional merchants selling to customers on the two best sales days of the week without having to go through the bother of renting a store, paying staff, paying all the fees and having the city come through and inspect for safety, etc.

It also causes traffic and road wear that the citizens of Costa Mesa must bear.

Geoff West wrote on Mar 12, 2008 8:10 PM:

" Hola, Anonymous "Ron", where have you been - hibernating? Are you new to Costa Mesa? You're correct, I, too, know many strong, resilient Latinos in our city - hardworking folks doing their best to make a good life for their families. Some of them live in apartments in our town - described by the subject of my commentary as "barracks-style" apartments - which the fellow in question has targeted for demolition, perhaps by eminent domain. (Cont.) "

I RESPOND: Yup, we have too many barracks style apartments. Check the number of police calls to them for a clue about why we need to thin them out. They are functionally obsolete and are generally overcrowded with many illegal aliens and other criminals in addition to many of the good, decent folks who live in them. The drive-by shootings in the north part of Costa Mesa last year were all in and around the barracks style apartments.

The Daily Pilot reported on a small fire in one of these barracks style apartments in the Fillmore slum the other day. The CM PRESS was there, by the way. How many people were in the two small units? The paper reported fourteen, but some in the crowd said more were living there.

Our city is stagnating as a result of the status quo establishment that West supports.

West
is a member of Return to Reason. That's the group that supported Mike Scheafer and Bruce Garlich in the last election. Garlich is the guy who said that there's no pollution on the Westside Bluffs. ( Want the truth? Go check out the seven acre site on Monrovia where the dirt has to be trucked out because of the pollution).

I have the public roster for Return to Reason. It is full of the names of industrial property owners and others from out of town and various charity types and illegal alien advocates.


Do you really think West is interested in helping Latinos? Perish the thought. Wouldn't everyone who lives on the Westside be helped if the area improved? Doesn't a rising tide raise all boats?

West even opposes my idea of bringing a college to the Westside. Wouldn't a college help Latinos as well as others? Why does he oppose any meaningful improvements on the Westside? Hmmm?

West lives on the gentrified Eastside almost in Newport Beach, for one thing. He doesn't live where there are killings and drive by shootings and graffiti and helicopters overhead every night. He doesn't shop on streets full of thrift stores, pawn shops, liquor stores and charities.

And, West doesn't get headaches late at night when some factory or factories on the Westside Bluffs crank up their machines and pump chemicals in the air that are quickly blown over nearby homes. His neighbor kids aren't dying because of strange brain tumors that appear to have a link to some of the chemicals in the air and ground on the Westside.

He doesn't have the aforementioned seven acre piece of land in his neighborhood (as does the Westside) that has to have its toxic soil all trucked away to a hazardous waste facility where it will be incinerated so that it can no longer cause cancer and other diseases in people.

His kids (reportedly he has no children) don't go to schools that are in danger of being taken over by the state and where teachers have to devote many hours to teaching basic English instead of teaching citizen kids what most of us learned in school when we were growing up.

But, West, as with the charity bosses and the out of town industrialists and the illegal alien advocates, doesn't want any change on the Westside. He thinks things are just fine...over on the Westside far from his home.

He doesn't want any upscale things on the Westside. No college. No expensive homes on view bluffs. He only wants barracks style apartments, a Job Center, many charities and 60 acres of polluting industrial buildings on our view bluffs. He wants the Westside to remain as it is. He is against change and improvement.

Folks, there are some who want to make the Westside into a new Huntington Park. I kid you not. That's their plan. That's the actual city they've mentioned as their model. If you don't get what they mean, you should know that Huntington Park is not in Huntington Beach, it is in Los Angeles near South Gate and Compton. If you were dropped in either Tijuana or Huntington Park, they'd both look the same. Your clue that you might actually be in Tijuana would be that you'll hear more English spoken in Tijuana than you will in Huntington Park.

Is that what you want? Or, do you want Costa Mesa to be more like its coastal neighboring cities? Why should Costa Mesa be acting like a landlocked inner city? Aren't we close to the ocean and Newport Beach and Huntington Beach?

If you don't want change, be sure to vote for Return to Reason candidates and be sure to tell the present City Council that you don't want real change and that you're happy with flowers on medians and potholes being fixed and that you don't want to see the structural changes that are needed to make the Westside the great part of town that it should be.

However if you do want real change and real improvement, demand that the City Council do more than plant flowers on the medians and fix potholes. Demand that they bring in the structural changes that will make the Westside the bestside.

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