Posted on 09/21/2022 9:02:50 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
I have watched a lot of local news clips about homelessness over the past few years and this might be one of the best I’ve ever seen. In a little over 7 minutes you get a very up close view of everything that’s going wrong in our cities with the homeless and some insight into why these problems persist despite the pleas of residents for something to change.
This particular clip was created by Fox 11 LA and focuses in on a street in Sherman Oaks. For those not familiar with LA geography, Sherman Oaks is a nice suburban area which is a couple miles north of Beverly Hills in the San Fernando Valley. The San Fernando Valley became sort of infamous in the 1980s for the stereotype known as the valley girl.
Like everywhere else in LA, Sherman Oaks is now home to a significant number of chronically homeless people. These are not folks who just lost an apartment and are struggling to get back on their feet. These are people with mental problems, drug problems, alcohol problems, etc. who have been on the street for years and have no chance of helping themselves to get off it. They live on the sidewalk and the sidewalk is their bedroom and their bathroom.
Paul Scrivano owns the Blue Dog Beer Tavern on Saugus Ave. He showed Fox 11’s Gina Silva video of one man going to the bathroom in a plastic bag and then throwing feces at his car. “Every single morning I’m wiping that off my property before I have to do business,” he said. “Every day is like another adventure of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. It is like a—literally a psych ward,” he added.
Gina Silva actually confronted the man who threw feces at Scrivano asking him why he did it. The shirtless man replied with a series of ailments. But when asked if he needed and wanted help from the city he replied, “You’re bothering me. I don’t need help, he needs help.”
This moment passes by in an instant in the clip below but it’s pretty remarkable if you stop and think about it. A homeless man who is clearly in distress and who is causing distress for everyone around him is telling someone offering to help to stop bothering him. In the imaginary world in which he lives, he’s not the problem it’s the people complaining about him defecating on the street who are the problem.
Asked what should be done about the situation, Paul Scrivano has a clear answer. Pointing to a man sleeping on the sidewalk he said “That person who thinks he works for the FBI and who terrorizes my neighborhood is given the choice as to whether he wants housing or not.” In other words, it shouldn’t be a choice for people who are this far gone. They should be incarcerated or committed to some facility that can help them, not left on the street to pursue their own self destruction.
If the Fox 11 clip stopped there it would already be excellent but it keeps going by pointing out that the LA City Councilwoman who represents Sherman Oaks has been ducking the calls of business owners begging for her help. Nithya Raman also ducked interview requests from Fox 11 so reporter Gina Silva tracked her down at a public event and asked the obvious question: “How would you like it if someone threw feces at you?” “I obviously would not like it,” Raman replied.
But she’s clearly not interested in doing anything about it. Her plan, if you can even call it that, is to fix the root causes of homelessness. “The reality is that people who are experiencing homelessness are still individuals who are there on the streets because they don’t have a home,” Raman said. In other words, we should feel compassion for the people throwing feces and starting fights and making threats, no matter how they behave.
That’s pretty easy to say when you’re not the person being asked to clean up after them day after day. How long would this same homeless man be allowed to camp out in front of Nithya Raman’s house in Silver Lake? My guess is that within 24 hours she’d be using her rank as an elected official to have police move the problem somewhere else. Solving the root causes of homelessness is good enough for her constituents but you can bet that when it came to her home and the safety of her family she’d want swift and immediate action.
And that in a nutshell is how you get every city up and down the west coast facing these same problems. The people actually dealing with it are screaming for help and a lot of local news outlets are reporting on it weekly, but progressive elected officials have decided there’s no point rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic. The only solutions they care about are ones like creating more affordable housing, i.e. solutions that a) have little to do with the actual problems of the chronic homeless (drugs, alcohol, mental health) and b) probably won’t happen any time soon, if ever. By pushing the solutions to root causes off into the future, no one has to do much of anything about the problems right now.
This clip makes me realize how similar the problem of chronic homelessness is to the chronic problems at the border. There too you have people dealing with the problem who are begging for help. But their elected officials are stuck talking about root causes in countries a thousand miles away. And we’ve all seen what happens the minute the actual problems associated with the border turn up on the doorstep of the elected officials who’ve been passing the buck or the sanctuary cities who’ve been encouraging it. Suddenly it’s a real problem and they don’t like that at all.
This clip is more than seven minutes long and if I could I’d make every city council person on the west coast watch it in full.
Newsom-fornia
This is 100% true and massive in certain cities.
Thousands of insane and drug addicts all over the place.
When Rats are in control
Maybe if the people in Los Angeles CARED about the downtrodden, the hungry, the thirsty, and whatever, the problem would be solved.
But NO! They don’t give a crap, and to prove it, they keep voting Democrat.
Why do liberals hate the fact that Trump gave us 4 years of peace, energy independence, affordable groceries, and a safer America?
In economic science, the tragedy of the commons is a situation in which individual users, who have open access to a resource unhampered by shared social structures or formal rules that govern access and use, act independently according to their own self-interest and, contrary to the common good of all users, cause depletion of the resource through their uncoordinated action
Spokane, of all places, is in deep doo doo, sometimes quite literally, with homeless camps all over the place. Our governor, Idiot Inslee, shut down the whole state and those on the lower rungs just slid off. For many of them, it’s their first time homeless and they’re rather embarrassed about it.
Theft has increased, of course, and there are several main streets not safe for a woman alone to drive on. I may never get to Walmart again.
Because they don't think ordinary, normal Americans deserve to enjoy those things.
>> Thousands of insane and drug addicts all over the place.
where a small percentage have legit mental issues. Most are degenerates that should be shipped off to remote camps for civility training.
“Why do liberals hate the fact that Trump gave us 4 years of peace, energy independence, affordable groceries, and a safer America?”
Because they hate us.
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This is just one more snakehead from the Hydra of Destruction that is the transgressive forces of woke communist evil. The transgressives are waging a multifront war against normality and normal people. They have a central belief in the necessity to destroy and demoralize the normal so a new , but undefined, radiant future can be constructed. This is the same belief set that sustained Lenin and Trotsky as they deliberately destroyed almost the entire cultural base of Russia from 1918 to 1922. The goal was destruction, immisiration of the middle and upper middle class, massive downward mobility for the urban population, glorification of criminality and personal viciousness as tools to kill or terrorize the literate middle class. Does this not equate to what we are seeing now, mass invasion by ignorant third world groups with no skills and no cultural connection with America, glorification of the perverted, the morally twisted, the glorifiers of evil and depravity, glorification of the deranged, the insane, the deviant, the vicious and the violent while seeking to deny self defense to the law abiding, productive, hard working and morally honest.
My guess is that Miss Natha Raman is far more invested in Climate Change, White Supremacy and marginalized people of color than she is about bums and bum shit in Sherman Oaks. After all, she lives in Silver Lake (East Hollywood) - a somewhat safer and cleaner part of L.A. with weekly Pride events and daily gluten free and cage free Farmers Markets
Not true. It doesn’t matter how we vote here. With a one party rule they just cheat like hell. We could not even remove Gascon. There were 200,000 more votes cast then were needed to remove him, but over 200,000 ballots were thrown out.
Yea, I remember that...this country is HOSED!
I told him we’ve been through major periods of upheaval in our history and what they generally signify is a change in political eras. The Civil War. The Great Depression.
I told him the worst has only begun. But we’ll get through it, and the America that comes out of the other side of this bizarre period we’re going through is more likely to be a revivalist America than an AOC-Bernie Sanders Woke Soviet America because “there are too many people like us who won’t have this kind of thing.”
He agreed, though he said he was still terrified.
And he should be. Of course he should. The Great Upheaval will bring us to that next era, which will either give us Woke Soviet America or Revivalist America.
McMurphy and the Big Chief would take care of that guy. This is worse than One Flew Over....
Vigilantism is the only answer. One useful item is a water pistol primed to fire that is full of ammonia. A shot in the face will have an interesting effect. Lead, it is true would be better but we are not at that point just yet.
She will eventually die in the gutter and her body used by medical students for chop practice.
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