Well, well, well, what have we here?
Just because I have not been sharing my thoughts here, as usual, does not mean such thoughts have not been shared or been responded to elsewhere.
This happened way back in August....all because of something I wrote after I left a comment on the EverWalk Facebook Group, telling a woman visiting Anaheim, Ca. not to walk along the Santa Ana River Trail due to a massive, drug and crime infested, dirty homeless encampment and mentioned the encampment of illegals in the civic center of Downtown Santa Ana, a Sanctuary City (By the way, in case you did not know it the whole state has since become a "Sanctuary State" thus opening up a whole new can of worms for business owners in the state).
Via Messenger, this was sent me by a white, female, Masachusetts, Far Left Liberal...
LIB -- Kiril....hi, J here from everwalk...wanted to let you know i'm a bit taken back by your comment 'severe homeless'...perhaps it might be a nice idea to bring a case of cold water or lemonade to drink...most often it's mental illness, addiction, bad luck and/or government policies that force a person to live without a permanent home...
I fired back and the conversation went about as well as you would expect...
ME -- J, until 2012 I lived in SoCal all my life and saw how the homeless problem exacerbated since the 70s...my father was mentally ill and if he had lived long enough to see the gutting of the mental health system in the 90s he would have been turned out of a state hospital and been living on the streets...Downtown LA has cleaned up its notorious skid row only a little as it revitalized it's Downtown, but all that did was move the problem to areas it did not exist in before...and if govt. leaders hamper the ability to do something about it, either via the community or law enforcement you have dangerous conditions as reported in articles about this stretch and about the large encampment of illegals in the nearby Santa Ana Civic Center, due to it being a Sanctuary City...I see similar situations cropping up in Houston, where liberal politicians and activism also hamper the ability to solve these problems....I live paycheck to paycheck and support safe walking and cycling initiatives and part of that is encouraging those with the power and resources to effect positive change through cleaning up the problems of encampments and panhandlers (many of whom are just lazy opportunists and not really homeless) for the betterment of all.
LIB -- I have never met a human being who was illegal or illegitimate...those are names people apply...we are on opposite sides of the spectrum...i don't care to speak to someone of your ilk as it is quite a waste of my time...seems you have drunk the kool aid...i wish you well.......
ME after getting home late from a walk I took....
Calm down, my dear....good thing I was out on a 6 mile, calming, relaxing, walk in Hermann Park while everyone
else was losing their minds over 2 groups of idiots in VA.....
My Macedonian father spent 6 yrs after WW2 in refugee camps before being sponsored for legal immigration and spent his first 2 yrs here in migrant workers camps where he learned his first language in America, Spanish, and he built a career and raised a family before mental illness struck the last 18 yrs of his life....all this and more informs my views on immigration...
As for my being an "ilk" you don't know enough about me to make am informed judgement and I have not drank kool-aid since childhood...or THAT brand of kool-aid since I was a Nation, Progresive, New Republic, Ma Jones subscribing former Reagan Democrat who became a Clintonista Liberal from 1990-98, hee, hee.....
That would be like me judging my few Liberal, Gay, and Trans (1 on each side of the transitioning) friends solely on their tastes in politics and how they prefer to make whoopie and who with...we learned to agree to disagree on certain things and focus on things we have in common....
As for where to walk....if you want to virtue signal by doing your EverWalk training along routes that are demonstrably unsafe, either alone or with your children, if you have any, then go right ahead and risk your and their life...just don't expect me to encourage others to do so...or expect me to not take local government and law enforcement to task for allowing formerly safe and family friendly trails to go to hell....
Sincerely yours...a harmless little fuzz ball (who escaped California for the relative sanity of Texas). 
LIB -- you scare me...this is my final response...please do not contact me again...
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WOW.....Someone is badly in need of a Safe Space.....
As a follow-up news has come, this week, that the city of Anaheim and Orange County appear to have finally had enough of this camp of 700 and the one across the river bed, of 400: the small one was removed in October and the larger one is now going to be taken care of as well.
Houston has developed similar issues in the past few years and camps have sprung up under a few freeways, including in Mid-Town and near Minute Maid Park.
I will not get on or off the bus, or train, near the camp in mid-town. It is not even safe to eat at the Jack-In-the-Box, or shop at the Fiesta Market nearby, anymore.
The ACLU is helping fight back against the City efforts to end this activity.
An Ordinance passed in April 2017 then a federal court stepped in the put a hold on it.
In November the Mayor addressed the issue and deep-cleaning took place.
At the end of Dec. a US District Judge allowed the city to restart Homeless Camp enforcement.
I live in Massachusetts and I am guessing this liberal is from Northampton ( about an hour from my home). They have taken steps to be a sanctuary city. You can't please everyone so you are better off to ignore her comments. I think you were right in telling people if an area is not safe to walk, especially with kids.
Posted by: Ellen Pilch | January 25, 2018 at 09:53 PM