COSTA MESA CITY COUNCIL--STOP PUSSYFOOTING AROUND
There's a column in the Daily Pilot today about how things have "changed" after the shooting death of a man on Baker Street last year.
The Pilot reported that the shooting location is on the Westside. Wrong.
It's actually just west of Fairview Road and across the street from Halecrest--where Libby Cowan lives. This is ironic, because Cowan, who used to be on the City Council, often denied we had gangs in the city and implied that citizens who complained about gang members in the neighborhood were racists and didn't like Hispanics who were just making fashion statements.
After Cowan's comments, the CM PRESS started calling gang members "fashion models."
According to the Pilot, the shooting "[R]oiled the community with racial tension." Baloney. That's typical crap from the Pilot. They're as wrong with this nonsense as they were wrong about the location. There was no such racial tension. There were, however, calls from citizens for the City Council to stop pussyfooting around and start getting to the root causes of such shootings.
The Council didn't listen. They're still pussyfooting and looking for work-arounds rather than getting to the root cause of our problems.
Citizens bright enough and open minded enough to look at facts point out some commonalities in many of our problems in Costa Mesa involving gangs, our high serious crime rate, and our other social problems:
1. Most, if not all, of the gangs in Costa Mesa have a nexus with illegal immigration. These gang members have been welcomed into this city and enabled by local lefties who keep funding charities and other services for them and who try to make life as comfortable as possible for illegal aliens while sticking it to the good, decent citizens of this city.
2. Most of the violent crime; gang and otherwise, and the social problems that we see in this city come from just a few slum areas: A. Shalimar; B. Mission-Mendoza; C.Fillmore-Coolidge; D. A several block area around Hamilton Street west of Harbor and east of Placentia.
So what does the City Council do to solve our problems? Do they move to get rid of these slums or at least thin them out by buying up buildings and putting in pocket parks or much needed sports fields? Nope. They hire more gang officers.
This is a work-around--it's reactive rather than proactive. It doesn't get to the root cause of our problems and remove these root causes.
Here's what the Council should do: Remove the habitat for these gangs--the slums--and their "food" sources--the tax payer funding of their support organizations in Costa Mesa. Then, illegal aliens and their gangs will move elsewhere. Santa Ana is right next door, and illegal aliens can find less expensive housing and many social services to help them live the good life there.
All living things tend to move to where they are comfortable and they try to avoid places where they are uncomfortable. Right now, Costa Mesa is far too comfortable for illegal aliens, their gangs, and their violent criminals. And, they are ruining our city and turning it into a new Santa Ana.
Here's another example of a work-around that the City Council recently did and which we reported on previously.
The problem: Abandoned shopping carts from supermarkets.
The citizen friendly solution: Have the supermarkets install devices to keep the shopping carts on the premises and have the CMPD cite those who steal them.
What the City Council actually did (the socialist solution): The Council is using $40,000 per year of your tax money to supply a valet pickup service of these carts to return them to the supermarkets. What kind of message do you think this sends? Right...
"Come on in illegal aliens. The Costa Mesa City Council wants you to move here. Shop at our supermarkets and take your groceries home in stolen shopping carts and then leave them on our sidewalks. The City Council will see that they're picked up and returned to the supermarkets."
"Is there anything else we can do to make you feel comfortable in Costa Mesa, illegal aliens? What? Oh, you'd like Katrina Foley to have a cleanup of your Mission-Mendoza slum? Maybe have some flowers planted? Build some fences? Paint some buildings? No problem. We'll do that on August 5, 2007. We do want you to feel welcome in our neighborhoods."
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