Posted on 10/15/2022 9:17:22 PM PDT by NeverCheney
Bill Walton is challenging San Diego city hall to get a grip on its homeless crisis.
Walton, a progressive Grateful Dead enthusiast who is hardly a Rush Limbaugh acolyte, has called out San Diego mayor Todd Gloria in multiple forums.
The website Voice of San Diego documented several letters that Walton wrote to Mayor Gloria on the issue, including one where the NBA and broadcasting legend said he was assaulted.
“Once again, while peacefully riding my bike early this Sunday morning in Balboa Park, I was threatened, chased, and assaulted by the homeless population, in our Park,” Walton wrote Aug. 28. “Once again, you’ve done, and continue to do, nothing.”
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Forget it about it Bill, it’s California. Don’t go to that park, you only incite these poor unfortunates. Pass Bill the bong. Chill.
“progressive Grateful Dead enthusiasts” never understand cause and effect.
He does not appear to have connected this problem to the liberal philosophy to which he adheres.
In other words, fix the problem but let’s all stay lefty’s.
Who was the basketball star who said he wouldn’t play in a pickup game with Clarence Thomas?
In the view of the left, the rights of people to live like animals in city parks supersedes the rights of the citizens who pay for those parks to use them.
Clearly this is nonsense.
Bill needs to understand the people doing this are doing it on purpose, across the country, in a coordinated manner, in conspiracy to deny rights and freedom to ordinary peaceful citizens.
Forget it about it Bill, it’s California. Don’t go to that park, you only incite these poor unfortunates. Pass Bill the bong. Chill.As humorous as you think that might be, it's exactly the attitude that perpetuates the problem for everyone.
It's akin to laughing and making jokes about Biden. As long as it's thought to be funny, no one will take it serious enough to do something about it.
If Bill wants to fix the issue...get elected mayor, ensure the city council is also reading the same page, and put up a $25 a day camping fee on city property. Failure to pay? You confiscate the guy’s tent or RV, and give them ten days in the city jail (no chance to shoot-up or to get their daily high). Make San Diego a undesirable place to be homeless.
Sounds like life in Johannesburg.
Isn’t Ann Coulter A Grateful Dead enthusiast?
I don’t know.
If normal people found themselves without a place to live due to financial reasons, medical bills, high rent, etc., they'd be in a shelter, going to a job, and saving their paychecks to get into housing. Or they'd relocate to someplace more affordable.
Vagrants, criminals, addicts and the mentally ill don't and won't do that. The leftists relentlessly frame it as a homeless issue to keep the proposition/referendum money flowing to "create housing", which they know will never happen due to zoning and regulations.
“Walton, a progressive Grateful Dead enthusiast...”
I guess he doesn’t understand that it is NOT POSSIBLE to be ‘progressive’ without allowing the streets to be flooded with ‘the homeless’ (mainly druggies and felons).
You wanted Marxism, this is the road you take, Bill.
Who wants to bet ol’ billy here votes straight democrat taliban party?
Walton’s treading dangerous ground here. He’s about to match up to the old definition of a conservative: “a liberal who’s been mugged.”
If that is all that characterizes the man's existence, why are hearing about him?
Use the EPA Run Off Water regulations, just collect the samples and test for fecal matter, those camps of homeless have to be a massive generator of the material. Then sue under the EPA laws. Sick one against another.....
The side effects features of socialism were never supposed to be felt by him...those were just something endured by the proles.
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