A recent public exchange in Santa Monica, California illustrated how obstinately deaf public officials are:
An eight-year-old Santa Monica resident caller, via zoom, said “there is something scary happening in our parks. Lots and lots of needles are left everywhere. They can make you sick if you step on them or touch them. I know people need help, but it’s making it scarier for people like me.”
When a Santa Monica public parks commissioner asked if the program could be moved out of a public park, Ferrer said, “We are not going to stop doing needle exchange, it is a proven strategy, it has decades of evidence. We’re not going to stop. I want to suggest that wherever we go with our mobile team there will be complaints.”
When queried if she had ever been to the Santa Monica Parks, Ferrer said, “No.”
Adam and Dr. Drew Pinsky dissected this in their most recent podcast.
Yes. They just don’t care about your little problems. Their magnificent programs are saving the world, you insensitive peasants.
The Globe and Mail had an article on April 28th to the effect that if you owned a second property, you were no longer one of the “Middle Class”. You were UPPER Class, and therefore should be taxed -much- more heavily because the kids can’t buy a house these days.
Essentially, the government should grind you down until you can’t afford that cottage or investment anymore, because fairness.
You do not deserve to enjoy the nice parks if they are needed for drug addicts to get their fix. We will f- up your parks and your children will get needle sticks and diseases, because fairness.
It’s the new Lefty buzzword this week. Watch for it.
If you’re prioritizing addicts ability to “safely” take drugs over safe spaces for kids to play…then you’re not thinking clearly or rationally. There should absolutely be no-go areas for drug use even if you believe in safe supply.
I think safe supply and allowing public drug use is an obviously failed policy. The only place safe supply and drug use should be allowed is in treatment facilities during the rehab dry-out/drug replacement process. The only ones benefiting from the current drug policies are government agencies, NGOs and pharmaceutical companiesis who supply the drugs. Everyone else, society and addicts, suffer.
“I think safe supply and allowing public drug use is an obviously failed policy.”
This is where you have to take the extra step, LC. This creature -is- thinking clearly and rationally. What they are thinking is “maximum disruption”. The policy is working exactly as they intended it to.
They want to destroy you, your home, family, and way of life. This is their chosen weapon. They are not stupid, deranged or incompetent, they are determined and focused.
That’s the step we all have to take in our thinking before we can finally deal with this program of destruction. This is deliberate. They are saboteurs.
Yes, destabilizing and demoralizing society is the unstated goal in most of these crazy policies. And money, of course. There’s nothing kind in keeping addicts hooked on hard drugs. There’s nothing fair about using taxpayer’s money to fund pro-addiction policies that lead to increased crime.
fantom
You just described the trans movement to a T!
How about we send them to a hospital, where they can be on a semi-permanent slow drip of drugs, and they cannot leave until they commit to attempting to get clean?
Build the hospital somewhere outside of the cities…
Yep, many problems could be solved if we just hid the naloxone kits.
As for the politicians, well, until they make things painful enough that the proles start to revolt, they will never stop. Clearly we are nowhere near there yet.
Safe injection, needle exchange, free drugs, naloxone… all they do is prolong the inevitable. Most hard-core drug addicts will f*cking DIE. So let ’em die. Stop trying to save them and prioritize those people who suffer because of the addicts.
Should add that the current drug policies also cause dehumanization of addicts and desensitizing society to their fellow citizens. The media shows staggering addicts without investigating the addict’s life story. The vast majority of addicts have untreated mental illness, a history of being abused, victims of human trafficking and severe emotional trauma like PTSD. These are stories of human tragedies and fellow citizens in crisis.
Why is this important? Dehumanization conditions people into allowing these “burdens to society” to die without feeling guilty – desensitization. Anyone think that that dehumanization/desensitization process will not be expanded to include other groups of citizens – the elderly, the chronically ill, disabled, or even political “enemies of the state”? It’s a dark path they are leading society onto.
I don’t care if you are an addict.
Keep that at home.
The second you start doing addict stuff in public, you become a hazard. In a park, in an alley, on the streets, behind the wheel… doesn’t matter, you’re a hazard to yourself and others. Addicts in public need to be rounded up and incarcerated in a containment and treatment facility. Those who can safely return to society should be let back in. Those that cannot should remain in a controlled environment.
Mic drop.
Put them in a secure facility, and give them as much drugs as they want. When they OD… to bad so sad.
“Too” bad Joe, not “to” bad. Basic English from Grade 1 or so. I expected better of you.
Trump has already dropped that mic.
He has publicly stated, without stuttering or mealy mouthing that the homeless (and drug addicts … most are one and the same) should be taken out into nice communities in the desert … isolated from the normally, functional, human culture and society … and let them do whatever they want … in THEIR parks … set aside and dedicated to THEM … and no one else. Certainly no children.
We’ve run this experiment with child molesters too. We’ve run them out of town into remote isolated communities … farrrrrrr away from any children… or parks … or schools.
We simply cannot allow the FRINGE of society … to rule society. This vector will not end well.
As an aside, does the woman live in secure gated community?
Curious to know?
If not, she can blather on.
If yes, she should be exposed to ridicule to no end.
If the needle “exchange” programs are truly exchanging needles as opposed to simply distributing them, why are so many needles found lying around in public places? Shouldn’t they have been returned to a proper disposal place as part of the “exchange”?
The blatant lying is what really gives away the complete fraud that these “harm reduction” programs are.
Forgot where I first heard it and as counterintuitive as it may seem the best rehabs are in prison, there’s even waiting lists among inmates to get in. Robert Downey jr. credits prison for saving his life and this from a Betty Ford frequent flyer. Makes perfect sense when you give it a little thought. Doing a three year stretch gives you ample time.
Alas…we’ve let social studies majors run the health show and this is what we get. As Phantom and others have pointed out perhaps it’s intentional…designed specifically to suck out your soul. They don’t want us to have nice things.
Scholar said, “The notion of the most extreme manifestation of poverty is homelessness. Evicting people from outdoors who have landed there because of inequities is a very convoluted system, related to racial dynamics.
Anyone who speaks in convoluted sentences like this chock full of woke ideology with no basis in fact, should NEVER be given POWER over anything. Let alone get hired in the first place. And how did she find the nexus to “race” ? I’ve been on the streets and beaches of Venice … immediately south of Santa Monica … and the vast majority of the homeless drug addicts are all “W’s” … same with Santa Monica.
Yes … we’re evicting dangerous people practicing their dangerous behaviors from the Parks, Schools, and Beaches. I have a LOT more to fear from encountering these people on the beach than did encountering a family picnicking on the beach during COVID. Hmmmm … but Gavin Newsom “evicted” safe people from the beaches … evicted them from the outdoors … and they posed NO harm to me whatsoever. Crazed, desperate, homeless addicts pose great harm to everyone.
“If the needle “exchange” programs are truly exchanging needles as opposed to simply distributing them, why are so many needles found lying around in public places? Shouldn’t they have been returned to a proper disposal place as part of the “exchange”?”
In the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver they stick them into telephone poles and then snap them off, so never brush up against them if you can avoid it (the addicts have also stolen all the ground wires off the poles as high as they could reach, so a car accident or lightning strike may be interesting, to say the least).
Yes, all the people employed in the Poverty Industry ™ here love the so-called ‘safe injection’ sites? You know who doesn’t love them? The normal working class people who actually LIVE THERE. The people who get their cars and homes broken into on a daily basis.
The ground wire on those poles isn’t work much as it’s just steel wire, and looks to be worth a whopping $0.08 per pound at BC scrap yards…
I don’t know why anyone would be found in Downtown Eastside willingly.
“The ground wire on those poles isn’t work much as it’s just steel wire, and looks to be worth a whopping $0.08 per pound at BC scrap yards…”
No, I think those are the guy wires, the steel ones. The ground wires *were* copper (running down the pole and into a ground rod at the base) but they are all gone now. You can see where they were snipped strand by strand with sidecutters (NOT an easy task, since today’s copper is not as pure and sift as it once was) to get the 6-7 feet of copper to sell.
They’re not “deaf.” They detest normal people and want them destroyed.
If the addicts were exchanging the needles they wouldn’t be in play grounds would they liberals? Liberal upside down loopy logic or lack there of, the first rule of addiction is “Do not enable the addict” and the left can’t violate that rule often enough.
Remember kids, addiction is now a “disease”.
To which, I have always called BS! It’s a choice, with consequences, every time. How and why you got there matters not.
Yes, I am in recovery.
Wish you the best. Stay hopeful.