It’s all the interesting, unusual, culturally-diverse people you meet there.
We all know that San Francisco has a terrible, awful, horrible, homeless problem with homeless people sleeping everywhere. One homeless man set up camp across from a Catholic grade school. It would have been a curiosity except for the signs he hung outside of his tent.
“Free fentanyl 4 new users” and “Meth for stolen items.”
Joseph Adam Moore served six years for unlawful sex with a 12-year-old girl and was accused of having sex with a 15-year-old girl just a month after getting out of prison. But his probation deal did not include staying away from schools. So he camped directly across from Stella Maris Academy and began to host parties of stoners — much to the neighborhood’s dismay.
“Some of these people brought barbecues, a beach umbrella, and even a dune buggy that sat on the pavement,” said Nathaniel Weiner, a neighbor. “They’re ‘creating a Burning Man-style party’ in a quiet residential neighborhood where people are just trying to live their lives.’”
Note that I haven’t even used the word “police” in this piece. Apparently, the only law Moore is violating is the one about public camping. The cops are hamstrung by about a thousand rules and regulations regarding the treatment of the homeless; they can’t be forced to go anywhere or do anything; they can’t be forced into a mental health facility; they can’t even be forced to go into a shelter.
Dan Noyes, a reporter for ABC7 in San Francisco, had an enlightening interview with Mr. Moore.
Moore says he’s lived across the school for two years and that his signs offering free drugs are no joke. He told Noyes “he’s just passing on the drugs that other people give him, in exchange for blankets and supplies he provides.”
Moore: “So they bring me trash that they’ve scavenged, things that they think are valuable, or they give me some of the drugs that they have, which I don’t do.”
Noyes: “You’re exposing grade school kids to this? This is not right. You know that?”
Moore: “No, no, it’s shallow.”
Oh, absolutely. Wouldn’t EVER want to be perceived as “shallow,” you know. Or “unevolved,” or lacking in empathy for the “less fortunate” who have been “victimized” by our rapacious “capitalist” system. Why, that would be just awful. After all, a mentally-ill pedophile dope-slinger says so.
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I’m reminded of the way it was Vs the way it is (and shouldn’t be).
When I was around 7-8 there was a mentally disturbed man of around 25 living with his preacher father that had moved in down the street. He would come out on his front porch naked during the day. My dad along with a couple other adults went down to discuss this behavior with the father. They put up a for sale sign the next day and moved out shortly after. Years later I was told the men that had the discussion just flatly stated they would kill the boy if he comes outside naked again. No cops involved, problem was solved, or moved.
25 years ago I had a neighbor with Poison Ivy growing in his trees along the road, a lot of Poisin Ivy. I and my children are all very allergic to the stuff as are many people. I asked nicely that he take care of it, with no result. After a week went by I went out at 3am and soaked it all with roundup for poison ivy, which also killed a great deal of the grass in his front yard. He accused me of doing it. I just smiled.
We have problems because we accept them. Don’t accept them.
A little Panamanian Noriega treatment should cure that ill