Another Stupid Idea from Our City Leaders !!!!

The latest idea from the idiots is to ban undesirables from downtown. At first glance it sounds OK. I think in reality that is the purpose of the idea, to make it seem as if the council, and mayor are coming up with positive solutions to the downtown problem. Here's an idea, lets just ban undesirables from the whole state, that way we can just do away with the police altogether.

First of all, it's probably unconstitutional to enact such a ban. That in itself should keep the ACLU and the city attorneys busy for several years, and cost us all plenty of bucks. Then we have the problem of jail space...When these undesirable people don't appear in court after they have been ticketed, what will the city do with them? Hell, we can't even put car thieves in jail. There is no money to provide the space!!!

Then, a little known fact is that the police have a hard time giving tickets to minorities as it is. (Racial profiling) Can you imagine the stink it would raise among the "Eugene do-gooders" the first time some poor cop tries enforcing that law on some scumbag of a different ethnicity ? After all, he is only trying to survive the pitfalls of being different. Even worse if he's an illegal just trying to get by.

The mayor did say one thing that was true. (Paraphrasing): " If the downtown becomes active and vital again, the undesirables will leave" Here's a revelation mayor....as long as you continue to clutter the streets with benches, trees, artwork, and such, you will prevent the traffic and parking, that will make the downtown vital, and provide places for the "undesirables" to live and thrive.

Please go look at downtown Salem, and Corvallis. Open streets, with head in parking.

UPDATE (10-23-08) The city announced today that they would implement ban on "undesirables" in the downtown area. People caught breaking the law (dealing drugs, doing graffiti, etc.) would first be banned from the area for 90 days, and if caught again, would be banned for a year. What next? If caught a third time 5 years? and then for life? IDIOTS, IDIOTS, IDIOTS...There are already laws against these behaviors that are impossible to inforce , why the hell will these bums care about being banned from downtown any more than they care about the existing laws???