DRAIN THE SWAMP CITY COUNCIL! PUT GANGS ON THE ENDANGERED LIST
Three apartment buildings on Shalimar have just been put up for sale.
The CM PRESS believes that the City of Costa Mesa should buy them, tear them down, and put in more pocket parks, parking or open space.
Remember, a few years ago, the City did buy up one building on Shalimar. The City than razed the building and put in a pocket park where it stood; so there's precedent for the City getting aggressive to improve our city by doing this.
Gangs, no less than snail darters or alligators, need the right habitats in order to thrive. Remove those habitats and they will soon be on the endangered list.
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MORE ON HABITATS FOR GANGS AND CRIMINALS
On page News 14 in today's (1/15) OC REGISTER there's a news item about an elite police force that has started deploying to Rio to combat gangs [Ah, to you know who, that's in Brazil where they grow the nuts]. In time, the force will increase to about 6,000.
Here's the relevant part for Costa Mesa from the report: "Drug gangs control many of Rio's slums and police often enter only in military style invasions."
Connect up the dots. Gangs/slums, gangs/slums, gangs/slums.
If you remove the gangs from the slums (as some libs are suggesting in Costa Mesa), but leave the slums, it would be like removing alligators from a swamp but leaving the swamp.
Soon, the gangs and the alligators will return. Count on it.
Why? Because, dear readers, as we've written before, all living things gravitate to where they are comfortable. Life seeks comfort. Slums are as comfortable for gangs as swamps are comfortable for alligators.
Come on City Council, you have a mandate to improve Costa Mesa. This is no time to sit back and mumble sweet nothings. This is a time for bold leadership. Turn Costa Mesa into the great coastal city that it should be by correcting years of neglect that have led us to our present state.
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