She thought she was helping a family in need; instead was enabling addiction.

Nancy was being compassionate, but, as one recovering addict asked, “How compassionate is it to let somebody just shoot dope for the rest of their lives?”

@NancyRommpalomamedia.com/post/the-bad-m…
Government sanctioned drug use sites are being justified as compassionate, but are they getting people into recovery or just enabling addiction?

michaelshellenberger.substack.com/p/san-francisc…
Didn't Portugal just legalize drugs and de-stigmatize their use?

No

"There are a lot of myths about the Portugal model. We do not normalize"

Portugal arrests people using heroin in public

San Francisco is normalizing & enabling fentanyl use in public

San Francisco has taken over a public plaza to create a taxpayer-funded and city-staffed "linkage center" where people are using and dealing drugs

SF is trying to normalize fentanyl use

SF has turned over United Nations Plaza to a violent foreign drug cartel
For decades San Francisco liberals rightly promoted "livable and walkable" cities and downtowns

Now, it's dangerous to walk through one of the city's main plazas, U.N. Plaza, because of armed & violent drug dealers

D.A. @chesaboudin won't prosecute & @LondonBreed is giving up
I documented the city-sanctioned drug dealing with @lwoodhouse who has been in war zones including El Salvador

I've been in war zones in Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala, and Congo since 1988.

SF's UN Plaza is scarier than any war zone except for Congo.
We saw police, which should have made us feel safe, but they didn't. Why?

Because the sanctioned nature of the open drug dealing suggests extreme levels of corruption and rot.

Why are @LondonBreed & @chesaboudin allowing a violent foreign drug mafia to operate with impunity?
I have no evidence of financial corruption, just ideological corruption

DA @chesaboudin says that the drug dealers are victims

In fact, we know for a fact that they make thousands of dollars a month that they wire to families back home
The dealers have little to worry about. San Francisco taxpayers are subsidizing their business by housing, paying, and feeding addicts, who come from around the US to enjoy the high-potency and low-cost fentanyl and meth the city provides.
I believe people, including young women and children, should be free to walk down EVERY sidewalk in every city

They cannot do so today in the city that spent decades promoting itself as the most livable and walkable cities in America

San Francisco is a national shame

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More from @ShellenbergerMD

Jan 24
We deserve what we tolerate

How much more will we tolerate?
We trust people who do what they say they are going to do.

We trust people who care about us as ends, not means to an end.

We trust people who we think have the courage, heart, and brains to do what’s right.

Do we trust our leaders?
Is it really so complicated?
Vast majority want

- Livable & walkable — and safe & clean — cities

- Cheap, clean, and reliable energy

- Good quality & cost-controlled health care, including mental health care, for all

- Everyone does/pays their part; no freeloading

- Freedom
Read 9 tweets
Jan 23
San Francisco Mayor @LondonBreed last month said she said would crack down on open drug dealing.

But yesterday two undercover reporters witnessed brazen drug dealing, as well as drug use, at the city's official, and illegal, homeless "Linkage Center."

michaelshellenberger.substack.com/p/brazen-drug-…
The law allows for reporters to record videos of people in public spaces and the Linkage Center is located in San Francisco’s (public) United Nations Plaza

The article includes photos of the person seen selling drugs and of city contractors observing him inspecting his money.
One of the two brave reporters who reported on San Francisco's illegal, city-funded, supervised drug dealing and drug use site is @JennyGShao

All photos of the illegal activity were pulled from her video.

Please consider following her as thanks for risking her safety.
Read 22 tweets
Jan 22
Many blame trauma for rising addiction, homelessness & drug deaths, but child abuse has declined as all three grew worse.

While addicts are disproportionately victims of trauma, many were also “victimized” in being shielded from the consequences of their destructive behavior.
There are two things going on here

There is, on the one hand, the same increase in coddling, overprotective behavior we see in other domains of life, eg parenting, schooling

There is, on the other, a deeply ideological anti-system (eg socialist, anarchist) ideology at work
Proponents of the former turn into the latter with sufficient training, and then turn around and prey on high-empathy individuals who tend toward coddling/overprotection

In a sense, this is the central dynamic of progressivism, of the rad Left bullying milquetoast liberals
Read 17 tweets
Jan 22
"It can’t be that mentally ill people sometimes need to be forced to enter in-patient care. That image ... is too brutal for the public. Much better to let the homeless die slower deaths in public, overdosing on the sidewalk." — @NellieBowles @bariweiss

bariweiss.substack.com/p/tgif-three-m…
"It can’t be about drugs, either. It can’t have anything to do with new, stronger meth circulating in homeless encampments. If that were the case, it would mean drug dealers needed to be arrested, and that’s a big no-no....
"Drug dealers are often victims themselves, as San Francisco’s District Attorney said in a town hall. Drug dealers need mindfulness training or meditation apps. Progressive district attorneys argue that jail doesn’t even work anyway."
Read 6 tweets
Jan 21
Did you see this viral video of looted packages & trash stolen from trains in Los Angeles? Have no fear! Gov. @GavinNewsom helped clean it up, and now he's announced a new task force.

Because what California most needs right now is a janitor as governor & and another task force
Clarification: It's a *multi-agency* task force. Gov. @GavinNewsom really means business this time, guys!

losangeles.cbslocal.com/2022/01/20/gov…
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Jan 21
The security guard was attacked by the pit bull after he tried to give Narcan to its owner, a man who had OD’d. The guard “sustained serious injuries” SF Library tells me. “The patron was uncooperative & argumentative.” He was cited and released. There will be no consequences.
“People do drugs, watch porn, jerk off,” said an employee of SF Library. “The crazies attack staff. There’s fights. Staff doesn’t feel safe or that management is doing enough to protect them.”
“They don’t call the police because the bums & addicts are gone by the time the cops arrive, if they even do arrive. The main issue for the employees is staff safety.”

The employee asked that their name not be used.
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