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Fury at the man behind illegal artist enclave where up to 33 died in fire: Organizer of
dailymail.co.uk ^ | 12/4/16 | Myriah Towner and Regina F. Graham and Jenny Stanton

Posted on 12/04/2016 9:16:47 AM PST by ColdOne

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Did people with the city take bribes to let this place stay open?
1 posted on 12/04/2016 9:16:47 AM PST by ColdOne
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To: ColdOne

No, if you are hippie, no law. That place is complete lawless. Scary to go.


2 posted on 12/04/2016 9:18:00 AM PST by jennychase
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To: ColdOne

Not a single concern for the dead. That’s liberalism for you.


3 posted on 12/04/2016 9:19:05 AM PST by reaganaut (Yes I am female, yes I love guns, yes I carry and yes I reload and handload my own ammo.)
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To: ColdOne

When I grow up I want to be an illegal artist and live in an enclave.


4 posted on 12/04/2016 9:20:48 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (Abortion is what slavery was: immoral but not illegal. Not yet.)
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To: ColdOne
I am an artist. There are several places like this in my city.
5 posted on 12/04/2016 9:23:17 AM PST by wintertime (Stop treating government teachers like they are reincarnated Mother Teresas!)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Yes. Obamacare frees you up to do that! At least that’s what San Fran Nan told everyone.


6 posted on 12/04/2016 9:23:52 AM PST by americas.best.days... ( I think we can now say that they are behind us.)
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.Derick Ion Almena has been identified as the operator of the Ghost Ship venue and Satya Yuga Art Collective where a fire broke out Friday night He wrote: 'Everything I worked so hard for is gone. Blessed that my children and Micah were at a hotel safe and sound' 'It's as if I have awoken from a dream filled with opulence and hope.... to be standing now in poverty of self worth,' he continued

What a narcissistic piece of trash.

Not a word about all those died horrific deaths in that fire. Just whining and moaning about his loss.

7 posted on 12/04/2016 9:24:07 AM PST by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith...)
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Illegal artist? I don't think so.

But....There are plenty of spaces that rent to artists that are illegal. There are several in my city that I personally know and have visited or worked in.

8 posted on 12/04/2016 9:24:54 AM PST by wintertime (Stop treating government teachers like they are reincarnated Mother Teresas!)
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To: reaganaut

The photographs of the interior of this hole scream one word, “Firetrap”.


9 posted on 12/04/2016 9:25:02 AM PST by laconic
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To: americas.best.days...
"Yes. Obamacare frees you up to do that! At least that’s what San Fran Nan told everyone."

Yup. She wants you to pay them to do nothing.

10 posted on 12/04/2016 9:30:25 AM PST by blam (Jeff Sessions For President)
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To: laconic

Yep. A old warehouse filled with a maze of highly flammable decor, not one smoke detector, sprinkler, exit sign, etc. in sight. Apparently only one homemade pallet stair case. The people to escape that death trap are really lucky.


11 posted on 12/04/2016 9:30:48 AM PST by matt04
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The City of Oakland bears much responsibility. City officials were well aware that this inherently unsafe building was being used as a residence and a site for big parties or “raves”. For whatever political reason, these officials refuse to enforce the law. The building was neither vacated nor sealed. It will be interesting to see in the coming lawsuits just who was making money and who was receiving “political donations”.


12 posted on 12/04/2016 9:31:15 AM PST by allendale
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Did people with the city take bribes to let this place stay open?

Apparently, the place was owned by an elderly Vietnamese man. His daughter would show up once a month to collect the rent and residents were instructed to tell her they only worked, not lived there. At one point electricity was illegally pilfered via extension cords from an adjacent structure.

13 posted on 12/04/2016 9:35:31 AM PST by Drew68
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“Apparently, the place was owned by an elderly Vietnamese man. His daughter would show up once a month to collect the rent and residents were instructed to tell her they only worked, not lived there. At one point electricity was illegally pilfered via extension cords from an adjacent structure. “

Under the law, he’s the one who’s really on the hook here. But where has the city ( and the Fire Department for sure) been? I own a commercial building in the SF Bay Area and I can tell you that I routinely get inspections from the Fire Department in the city where the property is located, and so do each of my tenants individually.


14 posted on 12/04/2016 9:49:36 AM PST by vette6387
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'Everything I worked so hard for is gone. Blessed that my children and Micah were at a hotel safe and sound'

Oh my God. Yeah, that's what you say to the parents of the kids who died in your warehouse. Damn...

15 posted on 12/04/2016 9:52:32 AM PST by A_perfect_lady
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To: ColdOne

http://heavy.com/news/2016/12/derick-ion-micah-allison-facebook-post-ghost-ship-fire/

This guy, Derick Ion and his wife, Micah, are a couple of disturbed people.


16 posted on 12/04/2016 9:53:05 AM PST by SE Mom (proud Screaming Eagle mom)
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To: ColdOne

Everybody wanders about their future method of dying. Fire has got to the worst.


17 posted on 12/04/2016 9:54:24 AM PST by umgud (ban all infidelaphobics)
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I’m not understanding why 2-3 days after the fire a mere 20% of the building has been searched. Which means 24 corpses have been found in a mere 20% of the building. It doesn’t seem all that large a building.

I can’t recall an event here in the 45 years I’ve been out here something killed 24 people, the notable exception being the collapse of the Nimitz Freeway during the 1989 earthquake.


18 posted on 12/04/2016 9:56:17 AM PST by Attention Surplus Disorder (Apoplectic is where we want them!)
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“There are plenty of spaces that rent to artists that are illegal.”

Back when Baltimore was selling row houses for a dollar, an artist friend of mine bought what had been a small warehouse that had been converted to a home. He gutted it back to the warehouse dimensions, except for a small part he kept as “living quarters”, to satisfy the terms of sale, and used the rest as a studio for his larger projects. He also rented out studio space. He never got it up to code, and the houses on either side remained abandoned, so he knew it was just a matter of time before a fire did the urban renewal that the city didn’t want to do.

He eventually moved out because of the regular break-ins and squatters who moved in when he went somewhere to teach workshops or do installations.


19 posted on 12/04/2016 9:59:46 AM PST by VanShuyten ("a shadow...draped nobly in the folds of a gorgeous eloquence.")
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Not a single concern for the dead. That’s liberalism for you.

In fairness, he may not have known at the time of the tweet that anyone died in the fire.

20 posted on 12/04/2016 10:12:32 AM PST by justlurking (#TurnOffCNN)
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