MORE GANG GRAFFITI IN KATRINA FOLEY'S NEIGHBORHOOD THIS WEEKEND
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There was more gang graffiti in Katrina Foley's Mesa Del Mar neighborhood in Foley's Mission-Mendoza slum over the weekend.
As of 8 am this morning it was still there. It's all over the place, so if you want to see it, just drive near the slum. It's also on buildings in the Fillmore-Coolidge slum.
It seems that the flowers Foley planted in front of the slum didn't do much to stop the gangs. What a surprise. It seems all the tax money we're giving to feel-good, hug-a-thug programs isn't helping. What a surprise.
Here's the problem with graffiti that Foley and her fou fou Land's End galoshes wearing crew can't seem to understand: The problem is not the graffiti. Graffiti is just the symptom of a more serious problem.
To stop the graffiti you have to treat the disease, not cover up the graffiti so people don't see it.
Look, this isn't difficult. If you have a skin cancer, do you think it goes away because you put a bandaid on it so you can't see it? Wouldn't you rather know about it and treat the cancer, not just hide it?
So long as the Mission-Mendoza slum stands, there will be problems there.
Functionally obsolete slums don't get better with age, folks.
They're not like the wine and cheese at Foley's kumbaya parties for her liberal pals. Functionally obsolete slums get worse with age.
When you hear about some slum areas in some inner cities starting to gentrify and get safer and nicer, what you need to know is that those areas usually have classic brownstone buildings that are capable of being fixed up.
The slums in Costa Mesa are not classic brownstones. They are slab-sided, plywood, cheaply constructed barracks style tri-plexes and four-plexes crowded on to streets like military barracks.
As we've written before, they remind us of the barracks at Parris Island and Gitmo. They can't be fixed. That's what "functionally obsolete" means.
The only thing that can be done is to thin them out or tear them all down and start over with modern low income housing that is not concentrated in one or two areas. Sardine-can slums like the one in Foley's neighborhood can't be fixed.
Foley and her pals think that if we plant flowers in front of the swamp, start charities for the alligators, talk about squishy intervention strategies for the alligators, and do all the other lefty non-working things, that these will solve the alligator problem. It's stupid thinking.
Remove the swamp and the alligators will go away. That's what works.
How many gangs are there in Newport Beach? Oh, perhaps, NONE! How many slums in Newport Beach? Oh, perhaps, NONE! See any pattern there? See any cause and effect? How many examples do you need?
Costa Mesa should not be like Santa Ana.
It should be more like Newport Beach and other coastal communities. Our natural destiny is our geography--our closeness to the Pacific Ocean.
We should stop fighting our geography, and use it to improve our city.
We should reject those who want to make Costa Mesa into an inner city and support those who want our city to look to the sea for our way out of the mess that has been caused by too many lefty and weak sister politicians who have helped stuff Costa Mesa with those things that are now causing our problems.
As you may recall, in CM PRESS # 369, we reported how LISA REEDY, the president of the Mesa Del Mar Homeowners Association, told the City Council that it's not helpful for people to talk about the slum in her neighborhood and that Mesa Del Mar is just one big [happy] community.
Well, Ms. Reedy, what are you doing to get rid of the gangs in your neighborhood? Your PTA level happy talk is useless. Your home values are dropping and your neighborhood has a large no-go zone because of the slum.
Go look at the graffiti this morning, Ms. Reedy, before the city covers it up. Then try to explain to your homeowners why it's there and why it keeps popping up all the time. No, Ms. Reedy, gangs are not commuting to your neighborhood. They live in that slum. They will always live in that slum so long as the slum remains. It is their habitat.
You wonder why no developer has stepped up to build expensive homes on the El Camino Shopping Center site, Ms. Reedy?
It's because it sits right across the street from one of the worst slums in Costa Mesa and that slum is in Mesa Del Mar--your neighborhood.
You may not know this, Ms. Reedy, but we became active in Costa Mesa after a gang attack on someone we know that happened in Mesa Del Mar. Shortly after that, we attended our first City Council meeting and started working to improve our city. That attack woke us up.
Hopefully, Ms. Reedy, you won't have to have that happen to someone you know before you wake up and realize that pretending the slum doesn't exist in Mesa Del Mar is a losing strategy.
Instead of working with your homeowners on ways to get rid of the slum, you seem to be following in the footsteps of do-nothing Foley who would rather do feel-good PC things such as gather food for people in South County or complain about an expensive spa closing at South Coast Plaza.
Because of the size and quality of most of the homes in Mesa Del Mar and the way the tract is laid out, it should be one of the best neighborhoods in Costa Mesa.
Unfortunately, it will never be so, as long as the slum remains.
You have a cancer in your neighborhood, Ms. Reedy. Trying to deny or hide the truth is only going to make things worse.
Stalking is a crime in California and many other states. See Cal. Penal Code Sec. 646.9
According to experts, here are some of the things that mentally ill stalkers do: They fixate and obsess about some other person. They often set up blogs just to harass that person. They often send threatening letters. They will often make hang-up telephone calls to the victim. They will often subscribe to magazines in the victim's name. They will try to enlist others to help with their stalking.
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Those are our opinions. Thanks for reading them.
They're not like the wine and cheese at Foley's kumbaya parties for her liberal pals. Functionally obsolete slums get worse with age.
When you hear about some slum areas in some inner cities starting to gentrify and get safer and nicer, what you need to know is that those areas usually have classic brownstone buildings that are capable of being fixed up.
The slums in Costa Mesa are not classic brownstones. They are slab-sided, plywood, cheaply constructed barracks style tri-plexes and four-plexes crowded on to streets like military barracks.
As we've written before, they remind us of the barracks at Parris Island and Gitmo. They can't be fixed. That's what "functionally obsolete" means.
The only thing that can be done is to thin them out or tear them all down and start over with modern low income housing that is not concentrated in one or two areas. Sardine-can slums like the one in Foley's neighborhood can't be fixed.
Foley and her pals want the city to rush to cover up graffiti, lest the Stepford People wake up and realize there are some serious problems in Costa Mesa and demand real action and real improvement.
They don't want citizens to see the graffiti and realize the con job that they're being sold by Foley and her hug-a-thug crew of incompetent boobs whose answer to gangs and crime is to hide the problem and then give more of your tax money to their charity boss pals who will come in with the latest non-working plan to solve the problem and who may just end up making the problem worse.
If you have a swamp, you'll have alligators.
Get rid of the swamp, and the alligators will leave all on their own accord.
Foley and her pals think that if we plant flowers in front of the swamp, start charities for the alligators, talk about squishy intervention strategies for the alligators, and do all the other lefty non-working things, that these will solve the alligator problem. It's stupid thinking.
Remove the swamp and the alligators will go away. That's what works.
How many gangs are there in Newport Beach? Oh, perhaps, NONE! How many slums in Newport Beach? Oh, perhaps, NONE! See any pattern there? See any cause and effect? How many examples do you need?
Costa Mesa should not be like Santa Ana.
It should be more like Newport Beach and other coastal communities. Our natural destiny is our geography--our closeness to the Pacific Ocean.
We should stop fighting our geography, and use it to improve our city.
We should reject those who want to make Costa Mesa into an inner city and support those who want our city to look to the sea for our way out of the mess that has been caused by too many lefty and weak sister politicians who have helped stuff Costa Mesa with those things that are now causing our problems.
As you may recall, in CM PRESS # 369, we reported how LISA REEDY, the president of the Mesa Del Mar Homeowners Association, told the City Council that it's not helpful for people to talk about the slum in her neighborhood and that Mesa Del Mar is just one big [happy] community.
Well, Ms. Reedy, what are you doing to get rid of the gangs in your neighborhood? Your PTA level happy talk is useless. Your home values are dropping and your neighborhood has a large no-go zone because of the slum.
Go look at the graffiti this morning, Ms. Reedy, before the city covers it up. Then try to explain to your homeowners why it's there and why it keeps popping up all the time. No, Ms. Reedy, gangs are not commuting to your neighborhood. They live in that slum. They will always live in that slum so long as the slum remains. It is their habitat.
You wonder why no developer has stepped up to build expensive homes on the El Camino Shopping Center site, Ms. Reedy?
It's because it sits right across the street from one of the worst slums in Costa Mesa and that slum is in Mesa Del Mar--your neighborhood.
You may not know this, Ms. Reedy, but we became active in Costa Mesa after a gang attack on someone we know that happened in Mesa Del Mar. Shortly after that, we attended our first City Council meeting and started working to improve our city. That attack woke us up.
Hopefully, Ms. Reedy, you won't have to have that happen to someone you know before you wake up and realize that pretending the slum doesn't exist in Mesa Del Mar is a losing strategy.
Instead of working with your homeowners on ways to get rid of the slum, you seem to be following in the footsteps of do-nothing Foley who would rather do feel-good PC things such as gather food for people in South County or complain about an expensive spa closing at South Coast Plaza.
Because of the size and quality of most of the homes in Mesa Del Mar and the way the tract is laid out, it should be one of the best neighborhoods in Costa Mesa.
Unfortunately, it will never be so, as long as the slum remains.
You have a cancer in your neighborhood, Ms. Reedy. Trying to deny or hide the truth is only going to make things worse.
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STALKER NEWS
(Our new feature about the mentally ill stalkers among us)
Judge gives mentally ill stalker of Uma Thurman probation. LINK
Conan O'Brien's stalker a Catholic priest. LINK
Stalking is a crime in California and many other states. See Cal. Penal Code Sec. 646.9
According to experts, here are some of the things that mentally ill stalkers do: They fixate and obsess about some other person. They often set up blogs just to harass that person. They often send threatening letters. They will often make hang-up telephone calls to the victim. They will often subscribe to magazines in the victim's name. They will try to enlist others to help with their stalking.
# # #
Those are our opinions. Thanks for reading them.
