BTW, please video tape this event and make it available to other gated communities as an example of strength of self-preservation and rejection of urban vice too easily available to the public (think of the children!).
Invite the local rescue, fire, and police departments to witness (for safety too), and then cook them some hot dogs and burgers.
"...people will realize that the gates are an anathema to a democratic, open society,..."
Translation: "privacy is antithetical to the collective good."
Sounds like a group of neo-socialist busybodies to me.
They are not vandalizing anything or making any noise.
Yeah. That's right, man. Expensive neighborhoods should be open to all the hoodlums, addicts and other assorted trash, so they can walk right in and see how the other half lives, maybe learn a lesson from it (or, failing that, make off with some of that excellent loot).
Methinks he doth confuse cause and effect. People want to live in gated communities largely because they're scared.
That said, I'm no great fan of them.
Vandalism, arson, operating an incinerator without a permit, and and air quality violation. 25 years and a $50,000 fine, minimum.
How dare these people choose to construct a defensive perimeter! What's a garage door without tags and graffiti?
I myself would never want to live in a gated community, but why do these morons care if someone does?
"Walling off one section of the city from another section is not the right solution," said a Heavy Trash member who identified himself as Jake, an inner-city developer. "It's hard enough breaking into a house these days without having to scale a wall first."
It also cites poet Robert Frost: "Something there is that does not love a wall/That wants it down ..."
That line by Frost is from The Mending Wall. The last line of the poem is: 'Good fences make good neighbors.'
Urban planners? Architects? Designers?
They're the one's directly responsible:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1391852/posts?page=3#3
They need to prosecute those people for defacing public property.
No doubt it will invoke a free speech debate, but there is a line. A rock thrown through a window is a form of speech too; it is still illegal.
I'm sure there are plenty of ordinances, most written by "urban planners," that can be invoked. It would be fun to see these idiots hung from their own rope.
I agree with the protesters. It makes much more sense to put the walls around the ghetto, instead. And lock the gates. ;)
What's wrong with gated communites?
Oh wait, I know, gang thugs can't get in to graffiti and commit crimes and illegal aliens can't sell their crap up and down the street in a shopping cart, right?
I want a moat.....filled with deep water infested with alligators and piranha.
These fools would bring the REAL blight that encompases the rest of the world into our daily lives.
I remember one airport conversation with a vistor/tourist leaving the usa. he said the biggest surprise he had about the USA was how CLEAN our cities are. (!)
These hippies will not be happy untile the whole world is poverty squalor ruled by a USSR style elites.