Posted on 02/07/2018 10:38:12 PM PST by qaz123
When Mike O’Brien, Ballard’s Seattle City Council member, biked up the Ballard Bridge last Thursday night, he counted five tents camped under the north ramp.
He went back Tuesday, and those tents were gone. The underpass was fenced off, and workers were drilling holes to put up a 10-foot-high spiked fence to prevent homeless people from camping there.
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When officials start bitching, tell them that since they're such vocal supporters of open borders and sanctuary policies, that you it's unimaginable to have, a fence to keep people out from under the bridge, where they want to seek sanctuary from the cold and rain.
Sanctuary cities should remove all fences from the rich areas of town...
They must want them crapping on the sidewalks downtown. Not.
Read this earlier this evening. Priceless. The same people that want sanctuary for illegal aliens, don’t want border walls, are themselves building fences to keep people out.
We both know they won’t be sanctuary cities much longer, if that happens.
I lived in Seattle for a decade and loved the place but the politics went from liberal to loopy to Communist, and I'm glad I'm out of there now. But Seattle has, despite the liberality, always had very ambivalent, and at times a rather hostile reputation toward the indigent population. You can read hundred-year-old stories about the cops rousting the bums from Pioneer Square. Strange times.
Re: “They must want them crapping on the sidewalks downtown. Not.”
Downtown is already a public sewer, especially around the Courthouse and the adjoining park, which are both just a block away from the central Police Station.
No effort to enforce the law at all. People sleeping on the Courthouse sidewalk. Courthouse bathrooms closed to all except juries, lawyers, and court personnel.
A couple years ago I went downtown for a dental appointment around 7 AM. A young woman in high heels is walking about 20 feet in front of me, focused on her phone. Suddenly, she lets out a high pitched yelp and starts doing ballet leaps around the perimeter of an 18 inch puddle of diarrhea right in front of Macy’s main entrance. I still LOL every time I think about that.
Thumbs Up!
Seattle’s Tent City is growing while foreclosures by fraudulent debt collectors continue unabated.
Many of the homeless have jobs and educations, are living in their cars if they have a car, or in RVs.
Fences don’t work.
The other day I saw a guy running out of the dollar store with a big bag full of merchandise and Dollar Store employees running after him into the parking lot screaming. So I got in my car and followed him. The guy walked near a patrol car about four blocks from the dollar store. I pulled up to the patrol car and pointed out the guy who had just robbed the dollar store. The police officer was doing some type of work on his computer. He replied to me, “Can’t you see that I am busy right now?” He refused to do anything at all.
This was in Auburn which is South of Seattle, but this is somewhat typical of the police attitude in the Seattle area.
I also lived in downtown Seattle for years, and Pioneer Square was SCARY as hell sometimes! Beautiful city...whacked out people are RUINING it.
So rich Republicans can suffer????
That fence has made that location a real beauty spot. I might get on a train, no wait a minute, forget that idea.
I live in the Seattle suburbs - if I had realized how liberal it was (and would become), I'm not sure I would have taken a job here 25 years ago.
They just don't get it.
Spend more money on children's parks - get more families.
Spend money on more runways - get more airlines.
Spend more money on nice bike trails - get more bicyclists.
Spend more money on homelessness - get more homeless.
The Seattle 2018 budget includes:
City spending on programs that address homelessness to $63 million, a nearly 40 percent increase over four years ago and $1.3 million for a safe-injection site for drug users.
Oh - Spend more money on drug users - get more druggies.
Good news whenever commies get their a taste of their own crap.
They had an apartment building in Pioneer Square where the druggies could come and do their drugs!!! Overdose Central!! DUMBASS or EVIL??
I guess it made life easier for the Harbor View ambulance drivers to pick them up.
I thought Seattle libs insisted that fences were raysis.
Some enterprising freezer should start renting ladders in the area.
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