[EdnaMode]

You get what you voted for.

[dinodino]

Elections have consequences.

[V_TWIN]

“There are actually [residents] advocating driving the homeless out of Venice — shipping them off somewhere, which is such a proto-fascist move,” says television writer Evan Dunsky, a 27-year resident of the area. “And then what? Do we have to build a wall around Venice?”

Someone should ask this guy how many of these people he has invited into his home...if only for a hot meal and/or a shower.

[buffyt]

Being an artist, I just had to look up...
The Frank Gehry-designed home of artist John Baldessari.
Frank Gehry designed buildings are “Unusual” to say the least. Very ultra modern, or what people THOUGHT modern would look like in the future, back in the 1950s or so. Really strange buildings. Interesting, thought. Very artsy.

I wonder what will happen in Ca. Clearly it is a battle between working people and idle vagrants.

[ctdonath2]

Make homelessness a viable lifestyle choice, and you get people choosing homelessness as a lifestyle.

[C19fan]

I lived for a year right next to Venice Beach in Marina del Rey. If there was a archetype of SoCal it was there. Now the place is being overrun with vagrants. What a shame but the Limousine Liberals who live there asked for it.

[robowombat]

I cannot begin to express my satisfaction on reading this article and appreciation to the poster. That these leftist sh*tbirds who are responsible for so much of the cultural disorganization and florid decadence that infests contemporary culture are now reaping what they sowed is delightful. That commie turd Vito mortensson and the like may this human garbage invade your property and trash it or turn it into a squat when you are off making a million on some new anti-American piece of celluloid excrement.

[originalbuckeye]

‘Whatever progressive elements were historically here have dwindled, and they’re being replaced by TECH money’

But, but, but Techies are LIBS! Are you telling me that LIBS have had it with the homeless destroying their neighborhoods and their peace??

BWAHAHAHAHAHA!

[C19fan]

"Honestly, I think we are a step and half away from vigilantism," says a talent manager who has lived in the area for two decades. "I feel like this is heading toward a Guardian Angels type situation that you saw in 1970s New York. Someone is going to go out there with a lead pipe and give someone a serious beatdown. It's awful to say, but I don't see what prevents that from happening."

Did this clown ever live in NY? The Guardian Angels made it a point they were not armed and I never heard of one case of a Guardian Angel initiating violence.

[Constitution Day]

“non-domiciled people”

Urban outdoorsmen.

[sparklite2]

They were bums until PC called them vagrants. Then the bums made vagrant a pejorative.

Then the vagrants made vagrant a pejorative so a kinder, gentler, word was needed. We got homeless.

Has homeless achieved pejorative status? Is it time for, as the article uses, non-domiciled people?

[Steely Tom]

[Puts Progressive Ideals to the Test] == [Proves Progressive Ideals to be A Sham]

[48th SPS Crusader]

“It may have been random, but it sure felt targeted and concentrated,” says Osborn

Random?? I am 66 years old owned a couple dozen cars and have never had my tires slashed Random is actually scarier then being targeted. Targeted you can do something about it. Random? I would be looking for a better place to live!

[seawolf101]

Barbra Streisand will be tearing down her fence and opening up her home to the homeless and illegals.

[SoCal Pubbie]

I had a meeting with Gary Foster on the Sony lot about ten years ago. It didn’t go well.

[mac_truck]

Wasn’t there a female television star who recently had the crap beat out of her by a homeless vagrant?

MJ legalization just makes this problem worse.

[CIB-173RDABN]

There is a song lyric that goes “Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose lose”. The “homeless” are the most free people in America.

They have adjusted their lives to live in a world none of us would want to live. Yet they survive because they can pretty much do what they want, including stealing from others, or just destroying property. They have no bills, and they have no responsibilities. If they get sick, the government cares for them. If they go to jail, it is just a minor inconvenience.

The normal rules of society do not apply to them for the simply reason the progressive refused to allow anyone to hold them accountable for their action. With no restraint, why should they obey societal rules. Want to take a dump in the middle of a side walk, go ahead. No one will say anything. Want to walk through a store and take things, go ahead. Even if they call the cops nothing will happen. Want to go sit in a public library smelling like you have not bathed in months (because you haven’t) go for it.

The homeless actually have more rights then the normal tax paying citizen. Since they are not afraid of the law.

Just 50 year ago the bums would have been ran out of town before it got this bad.

[Zathras]

Portland, Seattle and much of CA.
Coming soon to a neighborhood near you....unless you live in a very rich neighborhood.

[V_TWIN]

“I can’t accept the idea that there is an inextricable link between crime and homelessness. It is wrong, it is not backed up by the data, and it leads to bad policy.”

IMO That’s nothing more than a politician trying to hold onto his job right there.

[bk1000]

“It’s the worst human catastrophe in America,”

Where’s that tiny violin? This problem could have been avoided. Entirely engineered, perhaps with good intentions, but that and $4.00 will get you a cup of coffee.Brought to you by “Progressive” policy from the compassionate and tolerant democrats.

[utax]

Serves him right for trying to have a nice vehicle in california without a secure place (e.g. locked garage) to park it at home AND at work (e.g. armed security guards where use of deadly force is authorized).

I learned that lesson decades ago in ventura county. There’s a high concentration and quantity (millions) of low lifes in california.