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No On S744 so USA doesn't become a 3rd wld crapzone like CA

    Orange County(SoCal) has picked up  the Los Angeles illegal alien infection with gang stabbings, driveby shootings, packs of roving gangstas.. Even far down in SJC of all places. OC may be even worse than LA inner city as the illegals and their gangsta spawn have emmigrated and spread out all over CA and USA from their original lairs in inner LA,. leaving only the most recent poorest humble immigrants left in the  inner LA stews.

   The OC suburbs are not safe, except for gated, guarded walled-in  communities in which the diminishing OC middle/ upper classes huddle away from the hellish plebian mobs.

   The PC'ed  articles of the LA Time and OC Register regarding illegals and gang crimes are aided and abbetted by the state of CA and even the Obama Adm/ Congress who are now proposing amnesty for illegals, as they only want the votes to stay in power and it does not matter to them if LA/OC are becoming  third world crapzones.  Votes is what matters- just throw freebees at the howling 3rd world proletariat masses  and  keep them in line with gov't handouts and laker games
   
      It matters little to the CA hack politicians that  LA is the gang capital of the USA , that LA has exported it's gangs all over USA, that illegal- alien spawned gang violence accounted for a siginficant portion of the 2600 Homicides in LA County last 3 years,  and even that an occasional innocent bystander gets killed by bullets or hit by a drunken illegal.

     The Liberal Dems see it as small coin in exchange for getting the Hispanic vote and maintaining  their grip on power in CA and the US. It is all about power and control and no matter that CA has a 10 % UE rate. The sufferings of the UE Americans are of little consequence to greedy power hungery liberal Dems as long as the Hispanics keep voting them in.  Just throw them the sham-nesty bone.

BTW Bush Administration  was doing the same appeasement to illegals up to the 2007 amnesty fight before taking a harder line. There are big business/greedy corp Rino Republicrats as bad on the illegal alien problem as the ultra -libs - a  pox on both their houses.  

New improved 'No on S 744 letter' faxed to my Senators

Dear Honorable Senators

Over last 3 decades 10's of millions of illegals have illegally crossed over our porous borders and flooded into LA Region and California. They have committed uncounted instances of document fraud thru use of phony work documents and borrowed Social Security Nos. to obtain work which should go to unemployed American citizens.
I have actual first hand knowledge of the types of fraud and phony green card doc reproduction which took place back in the 80's and 90's here in LA.  Millions of illegals took advantage of the laxity of enforcement of our immigration laws and LA/CA being sanctuary regions to brazenly commit uncounted felonies and frauds in obtaining work permits and benefits illegally.

  In CA we have averaged over 10% unemployment and over 20% real U-6 UE since 2008.
Millions of Native Californians like myself have been economically devastated and have lost jobs or saw reductions in pay and benefits, yet we have allowed illegals to swamp into CA/LA last 3 decades and steal away blue collar and laboring jobs which should be held by the ever growing ranks of unemployed Americans.

Both USA and CA have for too long caved in to the illegal alien lobby/socialist do-gooders, and cheap labor -exploiting corporations in granting freebies and unearned benefits such as free healthcare to illegals and recent green carders. Illegal aliens, visa cheats, and those holding temp visa/ work permits have abused USA's generous immigration policies.  10's of Millions of illegals have come across U.S last 20-30 years and committed serious frauds and abused the generous CA safety net to get free benefits which has in part cause CA to be bankrupt.

 CA was till this year as much as 40 billion in the red and is still largely a 3rd world bankrupt state due largely to providing free benefits to illegal aliens who freeload on the free education and healthcare, meanwhile sending remittances back to their home countries and not providing one cent in taxes to pay into the CA social security net.

 I urge a no vote on S744 immig reform bill, which does nothing but give blanket unconditional amnesty to 11-15 million illegal alien lawbreakers, with false guarantees and promises of increased border security and fencing

NO on S 744 letter just faxed to my 2 Senators & WH

Dear Honorable Senators and my House Rep,

     Americans want to see our immigration laws enforced thru continued ICE Raids, not new legislation that provides citizenship to those who have broken our laws.    US economy is still suffering in a bad depression with 8-10% unemployment. Lots of American citizens are out of work and need assistance. Providing amnesty to illegals is the wrong prescription in a depressionary economy with 15-20% real U-6 UE.
 
     It is just plain wrong to allow amnesty and forgiveness for millions of lawbreaking illegal immigrants who used fake doc's and forgery to get jobs which should go to law-abiding Americans. No amnesty and deport all those who entered here illegally . And shut down that border.  You my Reps need to  wake up and realize that there are millions of UE Americans without work yet millions of illegals who have entered the country illegally last 20-30 years who are now holding  down jobs obtained using fake doc's . Do you stand behind the average out of work Joe Citizen or are a pawn to the big greedy exploiting corporations who prefer paying cheap wages to illegals who BTW also suck gov't benefits and drain the social security net, causing states like CA to be deeply in debt. 


    California has 8-9 % official UE rate, which is a vastly understated stat which does not count the millions of Californian's like myself who have simply quit looking for work, have become marginalized in the heavily immig-overrun California economy  and are thus not counted by CA EDD.  . 
The real U-6 UE rate is well over 20%.  That means nearly one in five Californians are either out of work & officially listed as UE by EDD, quit looking for work, involuntarily UE, marginalized, or reduced to part time work.
       CA also has 3 million illegals. 2 million of those are holding down non-agricultural laboring and blue collars jobs often obtained using fake/phony work documents. 2 Million foreign nationals have displaced 2 million UE California Citizens. Do you represent out-of work US citizens or 2 million Mexican Nationals who have crossed over USA borders illegally and are now  holding down jobs here in California using phony fake work docs.
No other country allows 10-15 million foreign nationals to flood into a country and steal away jobs from American Citizens.  

I urge You to vote no on the S744 blanket Amnesty Bill which is bad for the 30 miilion out of work and/ or underemployed suffering US Citizens

2010 letter used when i fought for AZ SB1070. Posted for 2013 bogus immig reform

I applaud Arizonas tough stance on illegal immigration. It comes a bit  late but at least that state is facing up to the massive problems of illegals invading across the Arizona border and wreaking havoc on law enforcement. We just witnessed the murder of Arizona rancher Robert Krentz, due to the epidemic of crime and lawlessness from the cartel drug wars spilling over into Arizona. Phoenix has has a epidemic of kidnappings & murders by imported Mexican drug mafias, and border agents are getting shot at.
   CA has for too long allowed illegals to roam freely, and freeload on the state's welfare programs thru their anchors. Californians tried to stop this by passing proposition 187 in 1994 but the courts overturned it. 
   No other country allows foreign nationals to enter thru our open borders so easily as the US does. Here illegals are allowed to run free in the streets, commit massive ID/ doc fraud and SS theft in obtaining jobs, and to engage in wholesale criminal activities such as drug rings, human smuggling, auto insurance fraud, EITC fraud, mortage fraud, ect.  
   That time has come to and end with US in bad recession/ depression, and official UE at 10 %, real UE at 17%. US citizens demand that the drawbridge be raised and there be a complete moratorium to any more immigration, legal and illegal, till the UE rate dips to under 6%.  Obama Adm is deporting at rate of close to 400,000 per year: we need to deport a million a year till 20-30 million UE/underemployed American citizens are put back to work.

Blade Runner LA with a South of Border Twist

Blade runner scenario for LA,

I just watched Blade Runner for umpteeth time. It depicts a futuristic LA , somewhat Far East influenced. The film's artists got much right, but they factored out the impact of the latino invasion of LA. The film needed to add depictions of futuristic space taco wagons, latino bars, latino billboards, and streets filled by Laltino vendors selling churros, pollos, balloons, flowers, mangos ect. The future of LA say 10 years from now, actutally a reality today, is a completely Latinoized city, a city in which Spanish is spoken at street level but the mid-top level Gov bureacracy, PD and politicians are still doing business in English. 
  As it stands now 70-80% of the cities laboring force is Hispanic. That includes janitors, warehouse workers, shop workers, hotel workers, rest workers, landscape maint, nannies, ect. This huge proletariat population is  easily demagouged by the LA politicians and swayed into voting the far left Democrat agenda.

More blade runner depictions of LA,

     There will be cutbacks/reduction in services, crime will spike, LA RE continues to fall, economy collapses, unemployment increases, good chance of an inner city race riot.  LA is raising fees on everything to make up for it's budget shortfall, and cops will be aggressively ticketing drivers- more Red light cameras  to steal $'s  from citizens.
       LA will be a bad place to reside in next several years unless U are a ghetto punk, welfare sucking illegal, gangbanger, run a business operating in the black market such as salvage yard, a still employed municipal employee able to escape the budget axe, run a mom and pop donut shop or liquor store employing only relatives,or live within the 1 mile-wide coastal ribben fronting Santa Monica Bay.

 Also flourishing in bad times will be llegal- alien imported crime syndicate operations such as human and illegal drug smuggling, warehouse looting, pot growing, meth, money laundering, car theft rings, insurance fraud, phony doc mills, all run  out of some abandoned gutted  REO property in some LA ghetto dump such as Bell, Cudahy, Maywood, SouthGate, Vernon, Hawthorne, Lynwood, Bellflower, Norwalk, Wilmington, Inglewood,  Compton, La Puente, Pacoima, San Fernando, Sun Valley, Florence, willowbrook, watts, harbor gateway, boyle hts, lincoln hgts,el sereno, echo park, china town, Pomona, koreatown, pico union
(short list of some of LA's worst ghetto stews).   

U will also escape the bad times if U are  part of the 2% LA uberweathy  in some exclusive cocooned westside enclave such as Pacific Palisades or Brentwood. Don't believe the posters and cam shots of pristine Malibu beaches and hollywood hills art deco palaces- they are less than 1% of the reality of LA which is mostly a begrimed traffic- choked illegal alien- infested trashed out graffitied ghetto-polis.

BTW 30% of LA City/County population is collecting welfare & other direct gov't benefits. LA is largely a third world ghettoized stew similar to other 3rd world bifercated stews as Mexico City, tiijuana &, Rio, and some parts of it resemble haiti, AFTER THE QUAKE.

Compton Becomes 4th California City to Face Bankruptcy

Compton Becomes 4th California City to Face Bankruptcy

I have extensive knowledge of this derelict municipality located at south end of LA city. The tawdry south LA ghettos merge quite seamlessly with the Compton ghettos. Compton is one of the older inner city LA county burgs, as evident by it's abundant 2500-3000 sq ft teeny home lots with equally puny 900-1000 sq ft homes, most put up prior to World War 2, and many as far back as early 20th century.

Drive thru the Compton's inner core along Compton Blvd or Wilmington avenue, and you see endless rows of bland tenement apt blocks, bleak corner mini-malls, storefront churches, barbers, and a slew of liquor stores with locals and ghetto youth hanging out.  I worked in this hood in 80's and early 90s and there is no more depressing city in CA. Every shop in Compton  has iron-grated windows and wrought-ironwork burglar-proof storefront gratings.  The Compton population back in 80s-90's was almost evenly split between Hispanics and blacks but has trended since then into being a densely-packed latino immigrant zone. Hispanics,mostly recent and older immigrants, now account for 65% of Compton's population.
   The tiny lots and homes of Compton, abundant  in Willowbrook and the area north of Compton Airport, are packed with recently-arrived Hispanic immigrant illegals, as well as older established Hispanic residents. But the cities ruling power structure was long dominated by black politicians, ruling thru nepotism and favoritism, greased by grafts for families and friends of the Compton ruling elite.

COMPTON CRIME STATS:

"Although the U.S. News & World Report does not even list Compton in the "The 11 Most Dangerous Cities" for overall crime rates in the United States,^[35] it contrasts the CQ Press, using data from the FBI's annual report of crime statistics "Crime in the United States 2010," ranked Compton as the 8th most dangerous city in the country.^[36] Statistics will vary depending on how property crimes and violent crimes are weighted in each statistical survey. See Statistical variability."
(wikipedia).

 During the  rein of Mayor Omar Bradley http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omar_Bradley_(California_politician), the city was a cesspit of vice and corruption. It got so bad that the state of CA put Compton's schools in receivership, and the tiny, grossly corrupt gang-like Compton Police Force was disbanded in 2000 and the city's policing was contracted out to the LA County Sheriffs Department.
    I once went into the puny Compton City hall bldg to deliver an item and was able to go direct to the 2nd floor Compton City Attorneys Office without a single security guard checking me. The entire Compton City Hall seemed almost empty and deserted.

COMPTON lies within a dense semi-industrialized hub of south LA County and is astride several major freeways, has direct links to major LA metro rail connections, and is right next to the nationally strategic Alameda Transportation Corridor,  which makes Compton's impoverished, corrupt BK status all the more baffling.  There are large modern corporate parks along the 91 freeway, which marks Comptons south boundary, and in the Rancho Dominguez Industrial District which adjoins Compton at the southeast.

At the western margin of Compton abutting Gardena and the 110 freeway there is the older somewhat rust-belt sem-industrial district running thru the LA old imdustrial strip/corridor- old shops, factories, processing plants, warehouses. ect
Compton, being centrally located amid a south LA semi-industrail hub district and astride the Alameda corrdor to the east, doesn't lack jobs for it's 100k residents, especially in warehouse work and small workshops & factories. Problem is Compton city administration and civic culture is extremely corrupt. The level of civic corrution in Compton reduces it to a 3rd wld cesspit.
   During the nascent RE boom in early- to- mid 2000's LA Times was touting Compton as an emerging LA inner city boomtown, with newly built splashy retail malls & shops along Wilmington Ave/ Santa Fe Avenues, and in Willowbrook . However, when the economy went bust in 2008 Compton's fortunes quicky returned to what they were prior to the 2000 decade, a ragged ghettoized hi- crime zone where blacks and hispanic gangs regularly war against each other.

2016 The Movie, a personal review

      I went to watch the movie '2016 the Movie.', dealing with Obama's early  background and how it may affect his presidential decision-making process. It is not possible to get a thorough review of Obama's presidency in a 1.5 hr movie but I will attempt to provide my own admittedly inadequate impressions from viewing the movie.

I get the impression that Obama seems more aligned with the third world and the world's impoverished 3rd world nations than with the USA and the Western European nations. He appears to be some kind of anti-colonial figure straight from the 50's/ early 60's like Nehru, Nassar, Sukarno, et al, not a President who cherishes deep ingrained American historical traditions and values. I do not think he is very grounded in American patriotic values, or wears them on his sleeve. He was not raised in a  pure American apple pie mileus, being born in Hawaii, which was an American territorial outpost till shortly before he was born there. His father was a Kenyan national, his stepfather was Indonesian, and his mom seemed to be a white anti-colonialist America-hating radical.

     He basically grew up without a steady father authority, and his alcoholic, abusive Kenyan father was a poor father figure with numerous wives & multiple offspring spread over several continents.
      Getting away from Obama's personal life, i got the impression from the movie that he seems quite anti-US military and wants US military presence reduced and US role in world reduced. Not in an isolationist sense but in pegging US downward and more on an even plane with the rest of the world. He does not believe in American military might and USA being the paramount world power- that was one of the movies themes.

   Also from the movie there is no evidence that he has one iota of business training nor background, and though he has his roots in 3rd world slums he grew up in sheltered academia with radical anti-US, anti-colonialist, anti-capitalist college mates and mentors, and never mixed into the real world of ordinary working people.
Scary thought but his background seems like Lenin, wholly absorbed in theory and law books. No real world roll-up-your-sleeves type experience, and not one bit of real world grounded business experience.
 
    The most damaging revelation in the movie is his known ties and long  association with Frank Marshall Davis, a dedicated Hawaiwian-based communist.

   I think that Obama really views American from an anti-colonialist, anti-european slant. Certainly Western European 19th and early 20th century colonialism  has it's detractors and is a controversal subject today but cannot be seen entirely in black & white.  Obama may actually see it in black & white, and view USA as just another corrupt colonial power, no better than the old Soviet Russia, Red China and even WW2 Germany and Japan. Shocking but may be true. That is why he has packed his administration with pro-illegal alien open borders apologists( which is not treated in the movie), in keeping with his conviction that America needs to be a more tolerant society to minorities & recent immigrants, which he may actually view as oppressed by the US/ white European neo-colonial capitalist yoke.

 I gleaned from the movie a view of Obama as a firm believer in radical wealth re-distribution, and the movie gives some evidence that Obama means to tax the US wealthy and middle classes to the hilt in his second term, to not only re-distribute to the nations poor but also to the world's poor.

    The movie's treatment of Obama's actual presidential decisions is given short rather simplistic snapshots( acompanied with graphs) but are fairly damaging revelations.

   All in all a 1.5 hr movie cannot provide much details on a big complex subject like the Obama Presidency but the movie's painstaking research and ample documenting of  Obama's early family background, and especially his patriarcial side, may provide clues as to his drift.

  I was already confirmed in my view of POTUS as a leftist radical long before the movie so i picked up no new revelations. The movie may provide startling revelations for those less sophisticated politically or who have never delved deeply into politics/history via internet or deep reading.
















 



 










  

3rd world Cartel-fornia: Anaheim CA police shooting part 2 protests and riots- commentary

http://www.ocregister.com/articles/dunn-364896-officer-police.html

"ANAHEIM, Calif. –  City officials voted unanimously Tuesday to ask the U.S. attorney's office to investigate recent police shootings, including one of an unarmed man over the weekend, that have sparked four days of protests and a fiery clash between residents and officers.
Police stepped up patrols and some donned riot gears as hundreds demonstrated outside City Hall while many more packed the council chamber inside to discuss the shootings that have stoked anger over a spike in police shootings in the city. On the street, protesters tossed rocks and bottles at police and ignored warnings to disperse, forcing officers to form skirmish lines and fire pepper balls at the crowd.
At least two people were arrested, police Sgt. Bob Dunn said. At one point, police shut down a gas station when protesters were seen filling cans with gas, Dunn said.
The killing of Manuel Diaz, and another man Sunday, have taken the tally of shootings by police officers in this Orange County city to six so far this year, up from four a year before. Five of the incidents have been fatal.
On Tuesday, Diaz's family filed a civil rights lawsuit seeking $50 million in damages from the city of Anaheim and its police department, claiming he was shot while running away, said lawyer James Rumm."


3rd world Cartel-fornia: Anaheim CA police shooting protests and riots- commentary
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Anaheim CA police shooting protests and riots- commentary

Hundreds protest over Anaheim police shootings, city officials call for investigation | Fox News

I have roamed thru Anaheim here and there. It has a dense and growing Hispanic second generation/ anchor offspring population (53% of cities PPL)which is quite brash and loud. There are tawdry illegal immigrant tenement zones at the gritty central and northern edges of the city and where the cities gang problems are most rampant, but Anaheim's Hispanic ppl are now mostly US born second generation. Many are educated and speak English well. Many harbor resentment of the city's power structure and the Anaheim Police Dept, which are still mostly white. This second generation Hispanic crowd. mostly teens and young adults, are the brash and loud elements one saw in the riot clips crowding Anaheim City Hall, demanding justice.

 Anaheim is a fairly large city of 350,000, diversified in racial makeup though Hispanics are now the majority ( 53% Hispanic, 30% white 17 % other races.) Anaheim is not quite the poor ragged 3rd world slum-zone like most inner LA City districts.  It has some diversity in the economy, with a good mix of retail, industry, and tourism (Disneyland). There are large stretches of ghetto tenement zones in the city's old central core areas, and Anaheim has trended recently toward sprouting vast mega-clusters of piled-on apt units and condos, epitomized by the gigantic urban razed re-development zone called the Platinum Triangle( just west of Angels Stadium).  Into these block-like units are packed the cities large population of lower white collar retail and sales workers, as well as lower-working class  immigrant families.

Anaheim has it's tawdry seamy side: seedy corner malls in which you can find  tucked-away strip cubs, bikini bars, endless hotels/motels , and persistent prostitution activity along miles of Beach Blvd to the south of Disneyland.

Anaheim is all in all a bland urban seamless mis-mash of  endless sprawling apt districts and malls galore, with some landmark urban recreational frills like Angels stadium, Arrowhead Stadium (Ducks hockey) , and Disneyland.  But stray a  bit out of this zone even a few miles and you run into older industrial/railroad corridor districts  into which are crowded the cities dense immigrant /illegal immigrant PPL.

 In one of these seedy apt barrio districts Manual Diaz was shot by Anaheim police while fleeing and/ or resisting arrest and/or reaching for a weapon.( It will be a long-drawn out investigation taking a year or likely longer, and the endless lawsuits will take even longer to revolve). Anaheim city, PD, and the majority of Anaheim PPL who want law and order will help bury the shooting investigation, and the band plays on.

I once went to one one these sprawling apt Barrio complexes and saw numerous idle youths, the offspring of immigrant illegals, ganged up around their apt units, not doing much. This is the seeds of trouble- restless congeries of idled teens and  young adults hanging around all day in apt complexes.

Anaheim and North Orange County's immigrant population differ a bit from their LA cousins. Here in the North OC they are a bit more sassy, smarter, and bolder than their LA bretherin in the depressed inner LA ghettos. There is a higher quality of work available in the large North OC industrial belts of South Fullerton, East Anaheim Canyon industrial dist, Placentia, and in the old Southeast Anaheim railroad corridor district. These employ large numbers of recent immigrants, including any number of illegals, in such sweatshop industries as furniture making, garment shops, food processing, warehouse, chemicals/ paint shops, pallet & lumber yards, and metals fabrication.

The higher quality and opportunities for work available to immgrants in  the large north OC industrial belt( which runs along a 1 to 3 mile-wide belt along the 91 freeway),  imparts a sense of smugness among these latino immigrants, gives them a highly-developed sense of their perceived rights , and makes them more likely to be aggressively confrontational with the police.


 http://www.ocregister.com/articles/dunn-364896-officer-police.html

San Bernardino seeks bankruptcy protection - latimes.com

San Bernardino seeks bankruptcy protection - latimes.com

 "San Bernardino on Tuesday became the third California city in less than a month to seek bankruptcy protection, with officials saying the financial situation had become so dire that it could not cover payroll through the summer. ...
The unexpected vote came at the suggestion of the interim city manager, who said the city faces a $46-million deficit and depleted coffers."

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Shorthand:
   San Berdoo=San Bernardino City and/ or County of same name

   IE = Inland empire, the regional informal nickname describing entire
          settled region of  San Bernardino and Riverside Counties west and
          south of the SoCal Transverse ranges (San Bernardino Mountains and
          San Jacinto Mountain ranges). e.g., Palm Springs is not part of the IE.  

          Some traditionalists have restricted the term 'Inland Empire' to refer to the
          original old core cities of San Bernardino, Redlands, Riverside City,
          Fontana, and Colton, before the Empire began sprouting endless suburban
          offshoots  beginning in the 1970's

RIP to the San Bernardino i remember back in the 70's. Back then it was a pleasant rural/rurban community of farms, pastures, endless orange groves,orchards, county ranch homes, rustic church steeples, rural pleasant country roads, and the 1/2 mile wide rocky-bed Santa Ana  river, which was still a rugged semi-wilderness bush-lined streambed worth a days exploration. This was how I remember SB  back in the early-mid 70's when i used to visit my in-laws there.

It was not completely idyllic back then.  From May thru October it would be steamy, muggy and hot, with yellowish air due to all that smog rolling eastward from LA into the IE, where the San Berdoo mts would trap it.  San Berdoo had not yet become a dismal derelict impoverished 3rd world destination for millions of LA immigrant illegals and LA ghetto expats fleeing the LA slums to find cheap affordable single family homes, but there was back then signs of barrio poverty in the inner San Berdoo ghetto areas. The great coastal exodus from LA to the IE took place from the 80's all way into the first decade of the 21st century, and reached a peak during the great IE housing boom of  2000-2007.

During that period the formerly rural aspects of San Berdoo, and entire IE, underwent drastic changes, being literally bulldozed and razed into huge new housing tracts and endless retail malls. SB/IE was a developers free-for all, not subject to rigorous environmental reviews nor any type of government planning. I traveled a great deal thru the IE in the course of work duties almost entire decade of the 2000's and witnessed first hand the enviro-devastation wrought by haphazard unplanned, roughshod RE and infrastructure development. The over-crowded LA and OC coasts saw millions of  its inhabitants, squeezed by rising RE prices and tightly-packed LA coastal burgs, fleeing into the still-wide open expansive IE to pick up overpriced, but by coastal CA RE standards, cheaper large single family homes put up in droves all over San Berdoo and Riverside County. They were using liar loans and other RE mortgage trickery/ gimmicks to get into these homes with virtually no down payment and low teaser interest rates, which when the mortgages ballooned, and the Mortgage monthly payments doubled or tripled, they ran into trouble when the enire CA and USA economy collapsed in 2007-2008.

During the 2000 decade San Berdoo and Riverside PPL went up 3x-5x-fold during this period, and home tracts mushroomed like gigantic algae blooms. Problem was there was no jobs/industry diversification at all in the IE. The San Berdoo economy was basically only logistics, trucking, distribution, construction, retail, a few office jobs, and even fewer government jobs. The IE had a flimsly base of economic under-pilling to support such an explosive population and housing growth during this period.

There were scattered pockets of small workshops and corporate semi-industrial tracts scattered here and there, but most of these these firms were only about warehousing and distribution to handle the massive volumes of imports from Asia/China, which were unloaded from LA Ports and initially shipped to gigantic IE warehouses for later trans-shipments all across US via 18-wheelers or less likely, trains.

 There was never any sort of traditional manufacturing of big durable goods at all in the IE . There was the massive iconic Fontana Steel Mill, but that was basially a hulking rust-belt symbol of the long-past golden age of USA/SoCal manufacturing might, dating from the WW2 generation up to the 70s-80's. Rancho Cucamonga did have incipient small-workshop, small business/entrepreneual-level development, as did Upland, Temecula, Ontario, and Moreno Valley, but they were all in incipient embyronic stages and could not be fully expanded-built-up to fill the needs of a rapidly expanding IE for more massive domestic industrial jobs-creating infrastructure development.

This is why San Berdoo filed BK. Simply put, the real basis of wealth-large corporations and large well-tended corporate parks, was never there. lack of large established blue-chip corporations and RE collapsing values doomed the city into a slow bleeding death - the great USA economic collapse of 2008-2012 simply accelerated this trend.

San Berdoo sort of became what we see in Detroit. The tax paying base simply vanished or shrunk. There never was any high-paying unionized middle class-supporting jobs and middle-class factory workers. Ephemeral hi-paying Contruction jobs and hi-flying contracting firms all shrunk drastically during 2007-2010 IE real estate crash.  IE is now all low-paying retail jobs. There is little or no tourism left in the formerly rural, scenic orange grove country, which was virtually all plowed under and replaced by endless brown-stucco-ed home tracts and malls.























  

Grand jury report tells story of Victorville's plunging fortunes - latimes.com

LA Times article on the hi-desert boom and bust community of Victorville, a
microcosm of the BK state of CA

Grand jury report tells story of Victorville's plunging fortunes - latimes.com

Opening intro to LA Times article:

 "Victorville hoped to strike it rich with a new hybrid gas and solar power plant near the old George Air Force Base, buying up homesteads for the site amid the High Desert's real estate boom. The city shelled out $375,000 alone to Chris Massey and his family in 2007 to buy a tiny house plopped on five desolate acres of scrub and Joshua trees — 10 times the property's assessed value."

"Today, the old Massey home sits abandoned, half-demolished by vandals, thieves and the merciless desert sun. The 500-megawatt power plant? It has yet to be built, even after a city agency spent $76 million. The failed project was just one of many financial disasters that had the city teetering on the brink of ruin after the collapse of the housing market in this patch of Mojave, when unemployment shot skyward and city tax revenues fell into the basement, an audit by a San Bernardino County grand jury found."

Comments: Victorville (VV) is just one of a slew of CA cites ready to follow Stockton into bankruptcy. City leaders say Victorville(VV) won't go 'Stockton' but they like all politicians are masking the real truth. VV was one of numerous SoCal hi-Desert/Inland Empire communities which were riding the crest of the great California RE boom pre-2007.  Desert property was soaring in value. Homes were listing for $400,000 and more for cheaply-built 2 story standard Lennar homes hastily put up in the most wretched scrub/cactus-brush forlorn tracts in hi-desert outskirts of such cities as Hesperia, Lancaster, Apple Valley, Phelan, Bear Valley, Adelanto, and some other faceless desert burgs located on the back sides of the San Gabriel and San Bernardino Traverse Mountain Ranges of Southern California.

Large-scale housing tracts were springing up all over the vast expansive hi-desert scrubland like desert poppies, and cookie-cutter strip malls and retailer giants were blossoming all along Interstate 15.  I witnessed all this thru making 100 or so trips to VV, or passign thru it, on various courier deliveries from 2002-2007.   I saw vast RE contruction tracts springing up all over the Hi desert along Bear Valley Road and Highway 18: the entire CA hi-desert was riddled with realtors/homebuilders offices.

If you: ever have gone thru VV you can easily see that there simply is no real basis of wealth in VV no large-scale manufacturing plants (nor any type of industrial build-up period). It 's basically all RE tracts and shopping malls. The one large- scale jobs creating project, the proposed Inland Energy 500 MG Hybrid Gas/Solar Plant, is dead in the water for now.  Only thing VV has in the way of jobs generation is gov-run facilities such as the VV correctional facility, and a slew of welfare agencies and medical clinics which leech on government handouts.  BTW VV is no tourist draw, though it may snag a few travelers stopping for gas or a quick bit en route to Las Vegas along I-15.  It is flat, dry, searingly hot in summer, and now has 1000's of bargain-basement foreclosed and abandoned properties listed as low as $50,000 for ample 4 bdrm/2 baths on 1 acre lots, a far cry from the halcyon pre-2007 days of Hi-desert homes  pumped up with fake 300% to 500% valuations.

Repeat: VV was never a very attractive hi-desert draw to begin with. It is hot as hell in summer, with no scenic value and endless tacky urban-desert sprawl. Hoards of inner-city LA expats moved to VV to take advantage of cheaper  affordable hi-desert housing, and are now a huge welfare-collecting, gov-dependent class out in the hi-desert. Same thing occurred in Lancaster, Victorville's  hi-desert cousin 50 miles to the west.

 Victorville's civic leaders displayed absolute stupidity in financing municipal projects like drunken sailors pre-2008. The great financial meltdown of 2008 was the final torpedo shot which condemned VV into a permanently listing hulk slowly but inexorably sinking into a bottomless pit of a financial abyss

Legislature approves high-speed rail spending - SFGate

Legislature approves high-speed rail spending - SFGate

 "A divided state Senate approved billions of dollars in funding to start construction on California's ambitious high speed rail line Friday, handing the controversial project $7.9 billion in state and federal money for the first 130-miles of track and a series of local transit upgrades. "

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I won't dwell on the nitty-bitty details but i do want to comment on the first phase of construction- building a 130-mile hi-speed rail line from Bakersfield to Madera. This basically follows the old Highway route 99, which i have traveled numerous times from Bakersfield to as far as Fresno. The route goes thru largely empty central valley farming country with occasional tiny farming communities like Pixley, MacFarland, Earlimont, Goshen, Kingsburg, Tipton, Malaga: some of these agri-map dots consist of just a few agricultural outbuildings, single rest/gas stop, and farm equipment/warehouse/tractor lots. The only communities of considerable size along route 99 are Bakersfield, Delano, Tulare, Visalia and Fresno(combined population approximately 2.5 million). Entire population of the San Joaquin Valley, which this railroad would serve, is approximately four million. The road vehicle traffic along the 99 route is primarily farm trucks, construction trades pickups, straw/hog/chicken haulers, gov utility trucks, with occasional 18-wheelers( Most big-rigs use the faster, more kept-up interstate 5 further west).

In 20-30 trips along the 99 I have never seen much passenger movement. Even in height of summer travel season(June thru August) the weekday passenger volume is fairly light. I have seen some traffic jams out of Bakersfield for a brief couple hrs but otherwise this route 99 is fairly open and lightly traveled, at least on weekdays in summer, when i have observed it. From this observation i can deduce that bullet train travel along the entire route will be extremely under-utilized on weekdays for entire year, and may only see a bit of ridership increase for only three summer holidays.

There is virtually no passenger metro buses plying this route, at least from my observing travel volume along route 99 as i traversed the wide open, empty, baking-hot farmland spaces of the South Central Valley nearly every summer for 30 years on my way to Sequoia/Kings Canyon National Park. If U have ever been to Fresno or Bakersfield it is easy to see why. There is not much worth seeing in either city-neither is what one would call a tourist magnet. Sorry if i am offending Fresno and Bakersfield but i am well-traveled all over CA and am equally harsh on my home region of LA and not much enamored of the Inland Empire.

The 99 route traffic volume is a fair indication of the ridership volume expected when this bullet train is completed. It will be a flat-out failure as far as passenger volume unless CA is planning to sell property and land for pennies and thereby cause a massive Oklahoma-type land rush to fill up all those empty agri-field spaces. Yeah, folks will be grabbing at the bit to move en mass into the frypan-hot, dusty agricultural Central Valley, which features 1930's-era depression-level agri-communities racked by 20-30% level UE.


Very foolish for CA to do initial rail construction along this route. Entire population of the Southern Central Valley( or San Joaquin Valley) is around four million. The two main cities being connected, Bakersfield and Fresno, have combined populations in their MSA (Metropolitan Statistical Areas)of around two million. For comparison the Los Angeles/Orange County/Inland Empire combined MSA has nearly 20 million and the San Diego MSA is 3 million. Or the Las Vegas MSA is over 2 million. Of course it is far easier to bulldoze a High-speed rail route thru flat mostly open agricultural fields with little environmental opposition than putting up an LA to San Diego coastal route, whch would be the most expensive colossel construction project in US history, and would be tied up in infinity by those pesky CA environmentalists

California Goes KAPUT - implications of 2010 Dem election sweep then and now

Post 2010 CA election blues, and what's ahead:

Post CA election blues. I was one of the 40 % who were on the wrong side as the Dems completely swept all CA political offices, and elected re-relected the leftist Dems Jerry brown and Barbara Boxer. After the Nov 2 elections the wind seemed to have been taken out of CA: i even felt a general dampening mood in the streets, as if a stange disease had settled upon CA.

All productive busnesses and middle class productive folks should be depressed and down-spirited by the election results. We all know that CA will see more taxes and fees imposed by the left-wing socialist business-hating green-goon democrat thugsters upon the higher income PPL, while the huge imported 3rd world proletaran welfare-scamming classes pay no taxes.

CA has become a fairly bifurcated third-world banana-republic, with a tiny wealthy elite, a repressive goose-stepping thug-union leftist political ruling elite, and a huge population of poor and welfare dependents. The CA middle class is shrinking and many have pulled stakes and already left for greener pastures in other less-taxed states.

The heavy, oppressive, leftist public-union government thugsters will keep on strangling CA and extracting oppressive taxes and fees upon the few remaining Productive hard-working Californians. That is the unalterable rule and nothing can change it.

The only thing left is to avoid the system, or scam it by becoming a CA entitlement grifter, if u are not yet an official entitled CA welfare dependent. Either you are a beneficiary of CA welfare payouts or a payer. The majority who vote and keep the CA Dems party in power are the receivers and beneficuaries of CA generous welfare entitlement payouts such as illegal aliens, scamming anchor offspring of illegals, scamming CA Works recipients, medi-cal recipents, home-care aide grifters, supplemental SS grifters,ect.

Update: CA has already cut billions from welfare/entitlement payouts due to tough budget problems but, as i long predicted, the shrill cries from CA Government leftist policy wonks for more taxes are already echoing clear across CA's vast landscape. 2012 will witness a bevy of proposals for more taxes, or CA wil fall into the sea or burn up in some greek-type financial inferno. A least that is the cassandra predictions.

Occupy LA Plans to 'Occupy ICE' at Downtown Federal Building: Immigrant Crackdowns to be Protested

Occupy LA Plans to 'Occupy ICE' at Downtown Federal Building: Immigrant Crackdowns to be Protested


Looks like there will be a little-publicized march by pro-illegal alien activist groups this morning starting at 11:30am at Olivera st and ending up in front of ICE building in DWTN LA. This is several blocks east of the original OWS camp at City Hall Plaza Park. I have closely followed the LA OWS rallies and while the OWS hard-core have up to now conducted their rallies separate fron the pro-ilegal alien activist groups, it appears from this article that an open undisguised merging of OWS and pro-illegal alien rights coalitions has occurred.

News report from LA Weekly,

'OWS L.A.'s City Hall encampment might be a thing of the past, but the occupiers continue to return to their Civic Center home for "general assembly" meetings and protests. Today, DEC 15 at 11:30am, demonstrators warn, the tents will return to the neighborhood, this time in front of the downtown federal building(ICE) that's just around the corner from Occupy's former City Hall residence. The target of their ire? Immigration and Customs Enforcement. They're calling it "Occupy ICE." And not the kind rednecks smoke, either....'

'The groups involved, including Good Jobs LA, several SEIU locals, ANSWER Coalition, CHIRLA (Coalition for Humane Immigrants Rights of Los Angeles), and the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor AFL-CIO, claim in a statement that ICE and the Department of Homeland Security have been "doing the dirty work of wealthy corporations by targeting hardworking immigrant families.'

'Quote from writer,
'Huh? We're a little confused. We thought the 1 percent liked their baby sitters brown and their Walmart workers browner.
We guess their point is that the heat put on the allegedly undocumented and the people who look like them results in downward wage pressure (scratches head).'

'Here's what organizers say:
"... Immigrant workers are part of the 99% ... The activists say that ICE agents are doing the work of the 1%, attacking workers like janitors who have sacrificed and struggled in efforts to turn poverty level jobs into good jobs."

'Mike Garcia, president of SEIU United Service Workers West:
"The 1% profits from fear. The fear of not being able to find a job. The fear of losing your house that you have worked hard for. And, the fear that immigrant workers feel that they may be separated from their children. But, we refuse to be afraid. We are going to fight back."

'Starting at 11:30 a.m. demonstrators will march from Olivera Street (at 845 N. Alameda St.) to the federal building at Los Angeles and Temple streets. They promise 2,000 workers will show up and that there will soon be "tents in front of the downtown federal building, which houses local ICE offices.'


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County Federation of Labor, downtown federal building, Good Jobs LA, immigration, Occupy ICE, Occupy LA, SEIU

OWS attempted shutdown of Long beach port - observations

Report on Long beach Port attempted shutdown by OWS. I drove down to the protest start location at Harry Bridges Park. I had no problem getting there. Access to harbor area was very easy coming down Pico ave and transferring to Harbor Scenic Drive. Inbound truck traffic seemed very light Time 7:30 AM

It was raining steady in Long Beach as i entered the area of protest. Encountered a small group of hard-core OWS protestors numbering no more than 100-200, clustered at corner of harbor plaza drive and harbor scenic drive. The anarchist element was there and some of them were just starting to leave the area to march down S. harbor scenic drive toward SS Marine terminal at south end of Pier J. There were 20-30 PD cars and motorcycle cops at that intersection keeping the OWS crowd within bounds.
It was not an overly big crowd of OWS there- the rain and dismal cold day and early morning 5 am monday meet time likely kept the crowd small. Tiime now 8:00 am

I left area to attempt to find parking nearby so i could watch protest on foot or by bike but everywhere in dwtn LB/harbor area there is no free available parking. In Entire dwtn LB area you have to pay for parking and I do not like paying for parking. If the weather was dry and sunny i would have parked several miles away, out of the DWTN LB restrictive parking zone and rode my bike to the OWS protests but it was raining and i don't ride my bike well in rain.

After looking for parking and driving a bit i returned at spot of protest to observe from my vehicle. It appeared that port traffic outbound was a bit clogged and tied up by protestors and by PD roadblocks and traffic diversions. I was held up about 10 minites by one traffic seizure which was right at Queen Mary parking entrance and exit. The halt was only 10 minites however and the outbound port truck traffic again moved. There was a 2 mile-long backup of inbound big-rigs coming off the 710 freeway and backed up along S harbor scenic drive but that is nothing unusual on a Monday morning for LOng Beach Port inbound truck traffic. From my observation the 710 long beach freeway truck traffic volume was unusualy light for a Monday starting work week.

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Report summation- the small band of protestors numbered no more than 400 tops and there were 50-60 cop cars and 50+ motorcycle cops in my immdediate viewable vicinity. At least 200 and likely far more Long beach police personnel plus other Fed/State/local law enforcement agencies enveloped & smothered the port protestors. I even saw 2 unmarked but ominous black vehiciles( Feds. DHS?) observing/ photographing the protestors from a nearby bridge.
As the entire LB port protest group was happening at the huge Pier J shipping terminal and entire LB/LA ports have 12 terminals this protest will not shut down entire port, not even close. They may delay or perhaps block truckers entering/ exiting Pier J terminal but that will be at most a several hr delay for truckers. As the ILWU union is not a participant there is no way to shut down entire port operations by a tiny band of 300-400 protestors. They could attempt as a last ditch drastic move to lay down and block incoming trucks at several vital trucker ingress roads but that is a federal violation of impeding interstate commerce and subject to immediate arrest and removal of protestors on the spot. I do not see that as happening today.

Update: at 1:00 pm i went back to Port of Long Beach Harbor's huge shipping terminal at Pier J to check on progress of OWS port protests. I did not see any sign of the protestors anywhere, even at the original Harry Bridges Park start point. The entire Huge Pier J complex seemed rather empty of trucks or activity except at the Pier J south entrance, where there was a two-block long line of trucks waiting to enter south pier entrance at end of South Harbor Scenic Drive. Police presence was fairly light as well but there were a few squad cars posted at strategic intersections along vital port roads. I apparently had missed the real action early in the morning, in which a small band of 200 or so protestors had marched to Pier J South entrance to block the entrance. Some arrests had taken place and the PD had rounded up the protestors and moved them back to an impound location near the park. All this had taken place between 5 and 7 AM before i got to the scene at 8 am. I looked at LA Times pictures of port protest and they make out the crowd to be bigger than it actually was, due to up-close picture crowding, but the active picketing crowd was never larger than 200 or so any any time. By 1 pm the entire Pier J port complex was cleared and port was operating normally.

RE bubble collapse pre-2008 in LA ghetto areas

This is a look back at fraudulent bubblicious prices pre-2008 in some really nasty LA ghetto zip codes. These are some of the poorest impoverished neighborhoods in US and are 90% populated by minorities and recent immigrants, including illegals. As you can see on the chart, there were already price declines of from 16% to 50% in home prices YOY from peak 2007 prices to mid-2008, the time i wrote the list. And this was just the start of the great SoCal RE bubble collapse. Today the average prices in these hoods is $200,000; perhaps $250,000 for the slightly better hoods. Prices have fallen 100-150% or more in vitually all the listed zips. Today they have scarcely budged from their lows and foreclosures are on the rise again.

Occupy Wall St movement and their ultra-left radical allies decry big banks as being the sole cause of rampant foreclosures in LA inner city areas. In fact it was local neighborhood homeowners, local realtors, local mortgage brokers, local speculators and the homeowners themselves who drove the 200-300 % markups in the LA ghettos. Examination of foreclosure lists back then and even today will reveal a majorty of the foreclosed-upon have Hispanic names. These Minorities and other ethnic minorities, including Blacks, constitute the overwhelming majority in these listed LA zips, and are the ones you see marching at take-back foreclosure rallies and protests against the villanous banks. Google Refund LA and who backs them. It is a coalition of radical groups composed of minorities, similar to ACORN's composition.

It was not solely the big banks who caused the price runups in the LA inner ghettos but local RE speculators who were in fact minorities selling/reselling/ buying homes on margin, and reselling those homes at ponzi-ed prices, then buying higher priced properties in a speculative frenzy for speculative porposes. At every step in the RE sales they took out massive HELOC's, or re-financed each time, and took out yet another HELOC. I delivered and passed thru all these zips in 2004-2007 and saw all the speculation, re-models, teardowns and rebuilds occurring in these ghetto hoods, and marked for sale at %300-%400 markups. Tiny 700 sq foot crackshacks with 1 bdrm/1 bath were listed at $400,000, even $500,000 in such ghettoized ratholes as lennox and Compton.


The list below was written in mid-2008, before the great fall 2008 financial meltdown, of which the SOCAL/LA RE bubble collapse was a harbinger and symptom

These are a few selected areas, maybe 20-30% of the total inner ghetto zips and the ones i have some familarity with. My inclusion of these particular ones is because these are where mortgage fraud was running most rampant, and these contain some of the nastiest gutted hoods in america. Bell and Maywood are for all intents and purposes controlled by the 18th st gang lock stock and barrel. Where mortage price specualtion and fraud activity was the highest you will see the steepest drops in YOY drops. LA inner city price run-ups were in mnay cases based entirely upon fraudulent appraisal and subsequent 200-300% markups. They should revert back to under $200,000 when the smoke clears.

City/ Zip/ # homes sold/ home prices early-2008/ % price drop from peak 2007

Bell 90201 5 $420 -11.6%
Huntington Park 90255 5 $385 -16.3%
Inglewood 90301 2 $400 -22.3%
Inglewood 90302 4 $450 -25.6%
Inglewood 90303 5 $295 -49.1%
Inglewood 90304 1 $417 -16.2%
Inglewood 90305 3 $469 -20.6%
LA 90011 5 $360 -18.2%
LA 90018 4 $343 -43.6%
LA 90047 17 $350 -26.7%
LA/View Park/Windsor Hills 90043 8 $363 -30.3%
LA 90062 9 $380 -23.4%
Long Beach 90805 17 $378 -16.3%
Maywood 90270 2 $325 -29.3%
Norwalk 90650 30 $352 -27.8%
Pacoima 91331 17 $320 -37.9%
Paramount 90723 9 $260 -46.8%
San Fernando 91340 2 n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a
Wilmington 90744 5 $355 -20.7%
Winnetka 91306 11 $360 -35.7%

Random thoughts on occupy wall st movement

The occupy movement seems to have mushroomed all over the USA in many towns, cities and communities. The Occupy folks have disjointed and incoherent messages but the messages seem mostly to be about corporate greed and corporate influence in politics. Virtualy all messages also rail against the 1% superwealthy and how they should pay their fair share. I cannot even unravel the other messages which are mainly ultra- left and even veer toward outright soclalist/communist slogans.
This tough economy has indeed bred a growing discontent among many Americans but where does OWS fit in?. It is obvious that many Americans are being ground down and feel dispossessed and left out in the depression- level UE economy but is OWS a harbinger of this growing discontent or is it just a small minority of spoiled college- educated hippies with worthless humanities degrees.

It is obvious that OWS is angry at 'the system'. Is it corporate greed? Corporate domination of America? It is Capitalism? It is corrupt politicians? The messages are somewhat confused and muddled. Is it the growing disparity between the tiny minority of superrich and the rest of the 99%?. If they want to complain about the super-rich why are they not raging against hollywood and sports mega-rich superstars? Where is the middle class in all this?

We are indeed faced with a catastrophic economic meltdown,the worst since the 1930's Great Depresion, but it is not easily resolved by simpistic rants against the rich. Any radical wealth redistribution schemes will only result in totalitarian class warfare disasters like the world witnessed in Red China and the Soviet Union in the 20th century. There the proletariat 'will to power' became a crushing monster which eliminated all 'class' enemies of the state, often by murder and the gulag. Is that what OWS wants?.

Occupy LA update Nov 24 2011

It looks as if LA City will actually shut down Occupy LA within a week and likely sooner. On Thursday the City posted notices against overnite camping at City Hall. That indicates formal/legal intent to evict, sort of like a 3-day eviction notice



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Update on situation at OWS-LA Camp: The camp is poorly situated to have much effect on LA City operations and business activity because most LA pedestrian activity, shopping,and dining occurs well south & west of camp, along 6th st, at fashion district, along/atop bunker hill district, and along Figueroa St. The only way OLA can effect disruption is by going out of their camps to disrupt business activity elsewhere, say along Figueroa st where the big LA mega-corporations, banks and shops are located. Arco Plaza could be a inviting target but it takes a bit of legwork, negotiating arduous stairways and plaza terraces to get to main plaza. Always you have to deal with legions of low- payed mainly Hispanic & African-American security guards posted at every stairwell, building entrance, and behind office bldg desks. OWS-LA would have to deal directly against mostly minority security guards who are barely getting by and have families to support. Another words, OLA disrupts & clashes directly with low-payed 99 per centers

OLA is the most poorly situated large OWS camp in USA and poses little problems in the mammoth, spatially spaced-out and vertically imposing LA dwtn district. They might occasionally get help from the real disrupters, the big LA CA labor unions who can really organize an effective dwtn protest with powerful union muscle like the SEIU and Teachers Unions. However, these unions dislike clashing/confronting the powerful LA police union representing LAPD, who are a legionary imperial guard which protects the powerful city business interests , as well as the sleazly LA politicians who really don't give a crap about OLA but only about maintaining thier power and offices.

Thats why OWS-LA has been allowed to stay at their camp so long. They are regarded more as a minor pestilence/nuisance/embarrassment to LA City and its politician hacks. What really concerns LA City officials and depts are the negative enviromental effects & health/sanitary hazards of OWS-LA. There is no doubt that if the OLA camp was regularly sanitized by LA's health dept it would be allowed to stay. As I have documented all over my blog, LA is a fairly dismal crapped-out third world ghetto-hole anyway so OLA camp really does not mar LA's image in any way. It is solely the issue of health and sanitation which is determining factor over whether LA will or will not evict OLA

It looks as if LA City will finally quit playin games with OWS-LA and we will see OLA camp shut down very soon, perhaps as early as this weekend.

A non-polemical observation of OccupyLA

Preliminary observations of the Occupy LA movement on a Thursday Oct 20 2011. A few polemics mixed with simple descriptions of OLA, it's campsite at LA City Hall, and it's relation to the surrounding LA dwtn landscape.

Abbreviations
(OLA) OccupyLA
(CH) LA City Hall
(Camp) tent city put up around CH
(LT) Little Toyko
(LA) City of Los Angeles

I parked my truck at a convenient fee parking site at Alameda and first st and took my 10 speed bicycle to the OccupyLA site at Main and first st. Biking thru dwtn LA not as problematic as i thought. Traffic in LA Dwtn Civic Area was fairly light. There were police units here and there but not a big presence. The OLA camp itself occupied a narrow green strip at north side of CH and the main south plaza side of CH, which fronted First St between Main and Spring St.

The camp was actually fairly well kept up & not the dirty Pigsty hovel viewed by many commentators on other OWS sites. The entire OLA camp( tucked beneath CH) is overshadowed & surrounded by some large Government agencies such as the massive Parker Center( LAPD), US District Courthouse, General Services, LA Transportation dept, Edward Roybal Blvd, and a host of other massive Gov agencies.

There is a long line of sidewalk food courts set up along both sides of main st next to the OLA camp, and right between the main CH bldg and the adjoining CH annex or East Bldg. Included is a long line of vendors selling fresh fruit. There is also a hamburger/ hot dog stand set up at corner of main and First , complete with heavy-duty portable oven and other grill equipment. These sidewalk food stalls/stands are something normally seen in third world cities and is evidence of LA being transformed into an immigrant-inundated 3rd world megalo-polis.
I had no trouble passing thru the south side OLA camp. It was a collection of mostly youthful folks of all races. I saw idealist hippies reviving the 60's and hippy commune living. Also young beatnick anchor brats of latino immigrants, a few bandanna-clad anarchists, a few older LA street homies & homeless, teenage runaways, even a few high school ditchers. Did not see a lot of over 40 folks. Signs were everywhere and even posted on tents facing the sidewalks. They spouted a variety of leftist slogans which made absolutely no sense and are indeed quite irrelevant in a gritty, illegal alien-overrun ghetto-polis like LA which is already a socialist- welfare city pandering to 3rd world immigrants and illegals.

There are virtually no shops around LA Civic Center for the kids to walk too but the LA Dash Bus System makes it easy to get around LA dwtn very cheap( last time i did the dash bus ride it was a quarter a ride). The closest collection of shops & eateries is in Little Toyko, which is about a block away from south side camp. I don't know if LT will be a Merchant- rich target if the OLA anarchist elements go berserk but LT has lots of low paid(and rather fat) private security guards and has guard kiosks situated at all entrances to the malls.and shop galleries.

It's quite odd to see this OLA camp enveloping CH. LA City DWTN is mostly about really tall fortess-like bldgs and not easily accessble to the public. And Los Angeles gets fairly ragged and impoverished a few blocks north, east and south of OLA camp as you head South toward the old seamy LA industrial district or north into Chinatown or Oliveras St district. A 3-4 block walk south toward the decrepit produce/ warehouse district and you run into legions of homeless.
Directly west of CH along Temple ave or First st it's all hi-rises & apt/condo bldgs, with no shops. South & West of CH more tall inaccessible hi-rises till you get to pedestrian-clogged 5th & 6th streets .

LA dwtn has no main accessible focal point for protestors to mill with the general public, except maybe Pershing Square. CH itself is a monumental, early 20th century fortress of a building as are most other adm blgds around Civic Center. These bldgs are difficult of access as you have to go thru platoons of low-paid security guards( entire LA dwtn has a small army of mostly young low-paid hispanic security guards working in nearly every dwtn bldg).

Summation of OLA: they are camped in a zone literally walled off & hemmed in by LA Civic Center hi-rises ( including the ominous spanking new state-of-art LA Police Headquarters bldg just a block away to the east) and with sporadic interactions with dense dwtn LA pedestrans & crowds. Very poor cramped site for getting out their message, foolish as it is.


This preliminary post on OccupyLA will likely expand and i will insert additional observations and make a few changes to the post to keep pace with the OLA movement, or add some polemical insights onto post. (I may also add more to my observations of OccupyLA in a future separate posting)


NOV 24th 2011 update on situation at OWS-LA Camp: The camp is poorly situated to have much effect on LA City operations and business activity because most LA pedestrian activity, shopping,and dining occurs well south & west of camp, along 6th st, at fashion district, along/atop bunker hill district, and along Figueroa St. The only way OLA can effect disruption is by going out of their camps to disrupt business activity elsewhere, say along Figueroa st where the big LA mega-corporations, banks and shops are located. Arco Plaza could be a inviting target but it takes a bit of legwork, negotiating arduous stairways and plaza terraces to get to main plaza. Always you have to deal with legions of low- payed mainly Hispanic & African-American security guards posted at every stairwell, building entrance, and behind office bldg desks. OWS would have to deal directly against mostly minority security guards who are barely getting by and have families to support. Another words, OLA disrupts & clashes directly with low-payed 99 per centers

OLA is the most poorly situated large OWS camp in USA and poses little problems in the mammoth, spatailly spaced-out and vertically imposing LA dwtn district. They might occasionally get help from the real dirupters, the big LA CA labor unions who can really organize an effective dwtn protest with powerful union muscle like the SEIU and Teachers Unions. However, these unions dislike clashing/confronting the powerful LA police union representing LAPD, who are a legionary imperial guard which protects the powerful city business interests , as well as the sleazly LA politicians who really don't give a crap about OLA but only about maintaining thier power and offices.

Thats why OWS-LA has been allowed to stay at their camp so long. They are regarded more as a minor pestilence/niusance/embarassment to LA City and its politician hacks. What really concerns LA City officials and depts are the negative enviromental effects & health/sanitary hazards of OWS-LA. There is no doubt that if the OLA camp was regularly sanitized by LA's health dept it would be allowed to stay. As I have documented all over my blog, LA is a fairly dismal crapped-out third world ghetto-hole anyway so OLA camp really does not mar LA's image in any way. It is solely the issue of health and sanition which is determining factor over whether LA will or wil not evict OLA