I won’t even get into the immigration debate here but we just cant afford an endless flood of humanity and expect a finite (and shrinking tax base) to support it all.

Their official position is that the city is not bound by past rulings — only taxpayers are

What that actually means, in effect, is that the city is not bound by any of it’s rulings,, ever,,, only taxpayers are. How can it be read any other way?? Every ruling, once made, is technically a past ruling.
Yeah,, this is why revolutions start. Government saying it is basically,,, god. It can do what it wants, when it wants and the people will do what it wants them to do when it wants them to do it. In other words,, this is the antithesis of what our nation was to be,,, not a people subjected to the whims of a tyrannical government,, but a government for and by the people, a government subjected to the people.

pm123 on July 11, 2009 at 1:05 AM

pm123 paints an unlikely scenario. You ride your bike long enough in parts of Los Angeles and you end up a short headline on the Homicide Blog.

Los Angeles is officially part of mexico.
jukin on July 10, 2009 at 4:53 PM

That is the truth. Yesterday I was traveling cross state and it struck me for the first time that we made the invasion easy.

We were driving from Monterey to pick up our kid at Stanford to bring him home to the Central Valley. Here is a partial list of the towns or cities we passed through.

Santa Cruz
San Jose
Palo Alto
Los Gatos
San Martin
Los Banos
Dos Palos
Merced
Madera
Fresno

No wonder Mexican immigrants feel so welcome. Our cities are named in their native language.

Creative short-term revenue generation through ignoring the law.  If this stands, it will be coming to a local government near you.
Hot Air » Blog Archive » The rogue government of Los Angeles.
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Silverstar, call your family and tell them to move back, pms says its safe.

Hey pms, most Americans enjoy living in clean communities filled with polite, law abiding people, rather than gang bangers and conditions resembling third world countries which describes large swathes of Los Angeles. Just because you prefer the ghetto, doesn’t mean there is anything wrong with those Americans that don’t. And just because one prefers that, does not make them a xenophobe.

Take your narrow little mind back to Kos.

Now how many of us here have been throwing out that “cannard” for the last three or four years? We haven’t a clue what we are talking about. Detroit, Chicago, L.A., ‘Frisco’(bite me San Francisco), Denver, Atlanta.
It used to be that the rural areas were the know-nothings. Now it includes the burbs too. They aren’t Banana Republics, they are Gutter Republics.

SilverStar830 on July 10, 2009 at 6:33 PM

I also grew up in the suburbs of L.A. and have seen a once prosperous and pleasant middle-class area degenerate into a cesspool of crime and gangs due to liberal government and illegal immigration. L.A. has been a lost cause for years. Mayor Antonio Viva-la-Reconquista and his lapdog Police Chief Bratton make their own rules. L.A. City government hasn’t been this corrupt since the 1930s, it’s 100% beholden to the illegals and minority special interests.

In both cases, when we complained, we were told about a labyrinthine procedure by which we could dispute the back-taxes claims. For me, it involved working with a “tax advocate” and digging up a lot of obscure paperwork. For my company, they needed to hire a tax lawyer to file a lawsuit. Unsurprisingly, both I as an individual and my company elected to just pay the amounts they claimed we owed (with interest and penalties) than to go through legal hell to fight it.

Our tax system is a criminal shakedown enterprise, no two ways about it. When profits are good, they try to keep the masses happy by only mostly bilking us. When the squeeze is on, their true instincts come out.

San Francisco is starting to experience the same problems, and it will be the same cess pit that LA has become.

When I was a child, after a good nights sleep and rising early in the morning, on a cloudless day or a day with few clouds I could look out my bedroom window towards the mountains and see the white snow capped peaks of Big Bear and Mt. Baldy. Surrounding the peaks was a deep blue sky, and a warm yellow sun was rising behind the mountains. It is on of my favorite childhood memories. I imagined that heaven must be very similar.

By the time I was a tween, smog had all but erased the view of the mountains and the deep blue sky. Los Angeles had also become the primary destination of Asian migrants in the 70′s and Hispanic illegal immigrants throughout the 70′s and ever since. Black gangs had all but taken over Los Angeles City and the surrounding suburbs. We had moved further and further away from Los Angeles until my parents finally settled on a suburb far from L.A. City proper but still in L.A. County right on the border of Orange County. My parents still live there today.

As I aged beyond the tween’s and into my teens I watched while the population of L.A. County swelled enormously and L.A. slowly but surely degenerated into a cess pit of gangs and horribly run cities that allowed themselvs to complete waste away into ghetto’s and nothing more than clumps of dirt with houses. Much like a cancer, it spread further and further out into the suburbs. It is no surprise that the cities and ‘burbs that began to truly waste away with unmitigated haste were the cities where the minority populations took hold, took over, and finally elected their own as the city leaders.

It may sound racist, and I concede that it does, but the way it ‘sounds’ in no way, shape, or form negates the fact that it is 100% truth when I say these things. L.A. City itself followed by the cities and suburbs surrounding L.A. City completely fell apart and surrendered to gangs and minority enclaves when the minorities took the cities for their own and basically evicted everyone out via crimes and harrassment and predation until every decent human being, no matter their race or heritage, fled to greener and safer pastures.

After many years, the cities and suburbs of L.A. have pretty much cemented their ‘ownership’. In Mexican neighborhoods, don’t you dare go into them unless you are Mexican. You will be attacked. In Black neighborhoods, don’t you dare venture into them unless you are black. You will be attacked. In the Asian neighborhoods, well, you can go into them and do business in their stores but don’t try living there. You will become a pariah and be made to feel so unwelcome they may as well have attacked.

I know these things to be fact. I was born and raised there my entire life until I had finally had enough and left, never to return, except to visit my parents and a few other relatives who managed to buy in to more expensive neighborhoods and are relatively safe and welcome. My brothers and sisters all moved out of state except one. He moved to a relatively safe area of Orange County. Most of my relatives fled Los Angeles as well.

L.A. is a complete cess pit. It once was a beautiful city. It is such a shame.

Hannity is going to try to get to the Mayor on Newcombe’s behalf. That should be interesting.

L.A. Mayor Antonio VivaLaRaza is too busy chasing skirts and doling out tax-funded resources to illegal aliens to have time for Hannity’s TV show.

Hannity is going to try to get to the Mayor on Newcombe’s behalf. That should be interesting.