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Homelessness Has ‘exploded’ in this California City, Making it the ‘Land of Milk and Fentanyl,’ Activist Says
Fox News ^ | August 5, 2023 | Jon Michael Raasch

Posted on 08/06/2023 10:00:09 PM PDT by nickcarraway

Oakland has created an 'unlivable' situation for residents as homeless population explodes, activist says

Open-air drug markets, narcotic tourism, rampant theft and lax camping regulation have made Oakland "unlivable," a neighborhood advocate told Fox News.

"Oakland and San Francisco have become the promised land of milk and fentanyl, and people are coming here," Seneca Scott, founder of Neighbors Together Oakland, told Fox News. "People who are homeless in Oakland now typically are not from here. They're drug tourists."

Recently, people have been flocking to "Fentanyl Island" a patch of land between 7th St. and Brush St. in West Oakland which Scott describes as an open-air drug market that is home to dozens of burned-out vehicles. "They're coming here for the safe and easy access to their drug of choice and the ability to also steal to support those habits, because there's no rule of law."

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: anarchotyranny; california; crime; culturerot; drugs; dystopia; gavinnewsom; homelessness; newsom; newsomfornia; oakland
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To: nickcarraway

I guess California was just practice for Newsom.


21 posted on 08/07/2023 1:09:39 AM PDT by Irish Eyes
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To: nickcarraway

Sounds like “Hamsterdam,” in “The Wire.”


22 posted on 08/07/2023 2:52:30 AM PDT by Repeat Offender (While the wicked stand confounded, call me with Thy saints surrounded.)
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To: frank ballenger

The truth is that Oakland downtown has been unvisitable for decades.


23 posted on 08/07/2023 4:16:00 AM PDT by Bookshelf
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To: nickcarraway
There are some really super expensive areas of Oakland.

Those areas are up in the hills. All it will take is another fire like the one in 1991 to devastate them. They won't have the services to respond like they did in 1991.

The homeless are good at starting fires...

-PJ

24 posted on 08/07/2023 4:23:47 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too ( * LAAP = Left-wing Activist Agitprop Press (formerly known as the MSM))
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To: dfwgator

CA went to all mail-in for a reason.


25 posted on 08/07/2023 4:25:56 AM PDT by mewzilla (We will never restore the republic if we don't first secure the ballot box.)
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To: Allegra

I used to live (and work) just outside Modesto and Oakland was always considered a dump. Locals called it the Oakland Gun and Knife Club.


26 posted on 08/07/2023 5:11:26 AM PDT by LouAvul (Daniel 4:17: "..the most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever He will.." )
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To: nickcarraway

That’s what you get when you enable crime and drug use.

But brain dead liberals claim they are trying to help people.

They are only helping people destroy themselves. Then they can virtue signal that they are innocent and take no blame for what they caused.


27 posted on 08/07/2023 6:08:40 AM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus.)
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To: pepsionice

Well, it sounds like they were testing torture methods on the rats and mice, sleep deprivation, etc., no viruses. I don’t know if I believe that though, unless the sleep deprived rats were intended to be the threat, once they were released.


28 posted on 08/07/2023 9:38:35 AM PDT by Eva
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To: nickcarraway

I keep reading all these articles about all the Fent that has be caught. Enough to kill a city, state the entire country. I have yet to be offered to by any. Granted I’m old. In the early 90s went to neworleans and was offered MJ, coke and heroin in the first 45 minutes. Now I get offers for AARP. OLD SUCKS. I don’t believe the Fent fear that’s being generated.


29 posted on 08/07/2023 10:09:45 AM PDT by wgmalabama (Censored !)
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To: Bookshelf

Even wearing a kevlar vest and metal helmet?
Bad place to be.


30 posted on 08/07/2023 10:25:56 AM PDT by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: nickcarraway

Fentanyl is doing a good job of removing undesirables from our midst.


31 posted on 08/07/2023 1:00:51 PM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Militia to the border! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: JimRed

So you applaud the Chinese govrnment?


32 posted on 08/07/2023 1:40:20 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: Bookshelf

My dear Dad lived on Osean Avenue and commuted to Cal-Berkeley as a young man before he was eligilbe for the war. I don’t know what to say about this article, other than it’s amazing that this is still called America. In the words of David Bowie, “This is not America”.


33 posted on 08/07/2023 3:11:54 PM PDT by scottinoc
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