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Berkeley business-owners are taking city rot and lawlessness into their own hands
Nypost ^ | 09/21/2024 | Jeff DeMartini

Posted on 09/21/2024 12:29:37 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

Berkeley, Calif., once a bastion of liberal idealism, currently mirrors the lawlessness of the Wild West.

Its streets resemble an open-air drug den, overrun by homeless encampments. Tents block streets and parking, making sidewalks impassable for pedestrians with disabilities.

Human waste, syringes and hazardous materials spill directly on private property and in waterways, polluting them.

Open-air fires in the middle of public thoroughfares offer scenes more reminiscent of the Great Depression than the prosperous, innovative community associated with the Berkeley name.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: California; US: New York; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: anarchotyranny; berkeley; businessowners; california; city; crime; durablemajority; dystopia; gavinnewsom; jeffdemartini; keepvotingblue; lawlessness; newyork; newyorkcity; newyorkpost; singlepartystate; theft
I wonder who these businesses owners voted for? šŸ¤”
1 posted on 09/21/2024 12:29:37 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Couldn’t happen to a better city, It has always been a cesspool, they just weren’t homeless.


2 posted on 09/21/2024 12:35:16 PM PDT by eyeamok
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To: ChicagoConservative27
I wonder who these businesses owners voted for?

You live in Chicago?

Would it be fair for Berkley business owners to assume you voted for the left?

3 posted on 09/21/2024 12:35:48 PM PDT by Angelino97
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To: ChicagoConservative27

poor, poor business owners. victims of their own voting tendencies. thankful to live in a small area devoid of the atrocities wrought by voting for democrats and the resulting FORESEEABLE societal destruction at the hands of their chosen masters. remember friends, “elections have consequences and then everyone suffers the consequences” applies to any community that puts the leftist idea of “Democracy” ahead of the ideals of the founders of this Great nation. a Representative Republic will always, ALWAYS be at odds with the notion of a pure democracy, which is mob rule.


4 posted on 09/21/2024 12:40:39 PM PDT by Qwapisking ("IF the Second goes first the First goes second" L.Star)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

A related about the controversy over the removal of People’s Park

https://news.berkeley.edu/2024/01/03/uc-berkeley-launches-closure-of-peoples-park-construction-site/


5 posted on 09/21/2024 12:41:41 PM PDT by GSWarrior (Don’t ever tell me ā€œit can’t happen here.ā€)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Movie Deathkiss with Robert Kovacs (highly recommended by me):

“So law?”
“No, justice.”


Eye for an Eye: A Novel of Unintended Consequences (novel by Ayn Rand lawyer and close friend Erika Holzer):

“We’re sticklers for justice. You can’t count on the system to provide it.”
(Leader of 12 step grief group of parents whose children were murdered and the killers all are not in prison.)


6 posted on 09/21/2024 12:42:11 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I despise and disdain that stupid cliche “taking the law into their own hands.”

Let’s say the system allows technicalities, suppressed confession and outright evidence of certain guilt and the killer goes free, then kills again and again.

Supposedly wrapping themselves in the flag and bowing at the feet of Lady Justice, this means the people in the SYSTEM are guilty of the deaths.

Perpetuation of the system does not help us. Look at the Trump and all his associates. Innocence against rampant lawfare doesn’t help. Still convicted in the decrepit system.


7 posted on 09/21/2024 12:45:44 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

When you have to sue your own govt to force it to do its job...


8 posted on 09/21/2024 12:52:17 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods (.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“In a Fourth Turning, the nation’s core will matter more than its diversity. Team, brand, and standard will be new catchwords. Anyone and anything not describable in those terms could be shunted aside—or worse. Do not isolate yourself from community affairs. Being ā€œunpluggedā€ could penalize you at a time you might need to know what all levels of government are doing just to meet your most basic of needs. Appearances will matter. Justice will be rough, because society will require more order but have fewer resources and less time to impose it. As technicalities give way, innocent people will suffer. If you don’t want to be misjudged, don’t act in a way that might provoke Crisis-era authority to deem you guilty. If you belong to a racial or ethnic minority, brace for a nativist backlash from an assertive (and possibly authoritarian) majority. At the height of Crisis, you might have to choose between loyalty to the national community and loyalty to your own group. Isolating yourself from people of other races or ethnicities could be risky, because you may need emergency help from people you might now be able to avoid.”

- Strauss and Howe, The Fourth Turning


9 posted on 09/21/2024 12:53:39 PM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Get what you pay for. Effem.


10 posted on 09/21/2024 1:30:58 PM PDT by know.your.why (Floyd)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

What I am about to describe may not work in Bezerkeley, but it did occur in the same insane province of Kalifornia.

Interstate HWY 80 cuts right through the middle of Sacramento, Kalifornia. The sidewalks underneath the overpasses are very, very wide. The transients, and others, little by a lot, put up there tents, tarps, lean-to’s, etc, until it was a massive Conglomerate, a wall of shhhhtuff. When they had completely covered every inch of the available sidewalk, more of their shhhhtuff spilled out into the roadway. This occupation of the large sidewalks, on both sides of the underpass, was duplicated on, at least, ten other underpasses, for about ten straight blocks.

When the disabled in electric wheelchairs and scooters could no longer get to their appointments, shopping, etc, they used the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) , and sued. Apparently the ADA is much more powerful than the Homeless Industrial Complex.

One evening, as I arrived in Sacramento, I noticed that one of the underpasses was COMPLETELY clear. It looked as if they had power washed the entire area. I then drove many blocks, and all the other encampments had also been cleared and power washed. I eventually found articles describing the lawsuit.

This may not be possible in Bezerkeley, but it may be possible where you live.


11 posted on 09/21/2024 1:35:23 PM PDT by Ronaldus Magnus III (Do, or do not, there is no try)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Berkeley (and nearby cities, like Kensington) has some great architecture. Many of the houses are about 100 years old and have some interesting features.

That’s about all that’s going for that area, IMHO. I can say that as someone who used to live there.


12 posted on 09/21/2024 1:37:53 PM PDT by Disambiguator
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Get the “people” dump trucks as used in Soylent Green. Be sure to leave room for DemocRATz. (Gonna need more trucks.)


13 posted on 09/21/2024 1:37:55 PM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: ChicagoConservative27

14 posted on 09/21/2024 2:53:31 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: Disambiguator

Had several friends that worked at Kip’s, a restaurant on Durant Ave. Had an older brother that got his phd in mechanical engineering from UC Berkeley.

The mid 70’s , Berkeley was a good place to get your ass kicked by the cops if you ran afoul of them. The City cops and UC cops would swarm on calls.

Late 60’s , My brothers and I would fish on the Berkeley pier . We would also go to a bookstore on University, Castro’s Books and buy old comic books.
We had a bucket of fish one time and the bus was packed. The AC Transit bus driver looked at the four of us and said , ā€œHell noā€ and shut the door in our face and took off.šŸ˜‚

We were on University one day and saw the National Guard rolling down the street in trucks, they would eventually wind up firing tear gas. Exciting eye witness stuff. Hippies had slingshots made from surgical tubing and were firing chunks of bricks at the cops/National Guard.


15 posted on 09/21/2024 3:28:39 PM PDT by OldHarbor
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To: T.B. Yoits
Furio!

"Stupida fackin' game." (golf)

16 posted on 09/21/2024 3:30:16 PM PDT by Lizavetta
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To: GSWarrior

Is it the same peoples park?

https://youtu.be/05xJk9CnoRI?si=8umDm7SW_NjMdPqY


17 posted on 09/21/2024 8:43:50 PM PDT by vmpolesov
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To: vmpolesov

That’s the one.


18 posted on 09/21/2024 9:21:08 PM PDT by GSWarrior (Don’t ever tell me ā€œit can’t happen here.ā€)
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