San Francisco Mayor @LondonBreed said the solution to open drug use was a "supervised drug consumption site" in a new "Linkage Center" downtown.
But when I visited on Friday, I discovered hundreds of addicts & dealers partying & using drugs next to it
And it wasn't just during the night. I also visited during the afternoon. The sidewalk between the "supervised drug consumption site" and the elevator for disabled people to get to BART was so thick with addicts smoking fentanyl and meth, I could barely walk by
"Supervised drug consumption sites" around the world attract addicts. Many don't bother going inside, and just use their drugs outside of it. The dealers follow
The only change I noticed this visit were the new green signs preventing people from taking photos of the drug use 😏
San Francisco's open drug scene has taken over the city's once vibrant theater district. You can see the Tony-winning @ACTSanFrancisco across the street. Would you like to take your family to see "Oklahoma!" in San Francisco?
According to "advocates for the homeless," these men are passed out because they can't afford the rent. It has nothing to do with the fentanyl they smoked or the fact that SF allows this because "homeless advocates" demand that laws not be enforced.
Everything San Francisco's progressive rulers say about homelessness is a lie. They are destroying human dignity in the name of saving it. They are killing addicts & the mentally ill in the name of saving them. They ruined our greatest city in the name of restoring it.
I returned to SF on Friday to search for Korey. He wasn't in the hellscape called Laskie Street. A man told me he had moved to Minna St., where the 16 year-old girl just died.
This is Minna. The mural reads, "Peace. Love. Joy." Typical San Francisco propaganda.
How has Vladimir Putin—a man ruling a country with an economy smaller than that of Texas, with an average life expectancy 10 years lower than that of France—managed to launch an unprovoked full-scale assault on Ukraine?
There is a deep psychological, political and almost civilizational answer to that question: He wants Ukraine to be part of Russia more than the West wants it to be free. He is willing to risk tremendous loss of life and treasure to get it.
"Germany is weighing whether to extend the life-span of its nuclear plants as a way to secure the country's energy supply in the face of uncertainty over Russian gas supplies, the country's economy minister said."
This is clearly a trial balloon: "It is part of my ministry's tasks to answer this question," said Germany's energy minister. "I would not reject it on ideological grounds. But the preliminary examination has shown that it does not help us"
That's obviously ridiculous.
*Of course* keeping Germany's nuclear plants on-line would help Germany.
Keeping Germany's nuclear plants operating would directly reduce how much Russian natural gas it needs. Everybody knows this.
It’s hard to overstate my joy at seeing “San Fransicko” on the best-seller table at @CompassSFO at San Francisco airport!
The book received 5 out of 5 stars from Britain’s @Telegraph, & strong reviews in major newspapers in Denmark & Spain
Local media have all but ignored it
When I walked up to the table, a woman was looking at it
“Great book,” I said, slyly
We were masked so she just said “Oh, it looks interesting.”
Her name is Lynn. She said she was in SF dealing with a family member addicted to fentanyl & living in homeless housing in San Fran
Lynn asked me why I wrote it
“Because I’m heart-broken by the destruction of a city I love,” I told her, “and horrified at the destruction of our shared humanity by the city’s use of mentally ill and drug-addicted people to destroy it.”
People think nothing could have been done to prevent Russia from invading Ukraine, but that's absurd: if Putin thought the costs of invasion outweighed the benefits, he wouldn't have done it. He's a rational actor not a madman. And today it's clear Putin calculated correctly.
After Russia invaded, a few people demanded that Europe stop buying its natural gas, but European utilities snatched up long-term Russian contracts, and the White House said, "Our sanctions are not designed to cause any disruption to the flow of energy from Russia to the world."
People who believe that nothing could have been done to prevent Russia from invading Ukraine thus imply that Russia's chokehold over European energy supplies was inevitable, but it wasn't. Europe could have easily increased, rather than closed, nuclear plants and natural gas
Russia has leveraged an economy half the size of Germany's to end the post-Cold War era and defeat NATO
It did so with aggression, natural gas, & nuclear
America must produce massively more nuclear, natural gas, and oil, or liberal democratic Western civilization is dead
Imagine thinking that the US, Europe, and liberal Western democracies can stand up to China and Russia by becoming wholly dependent on solar panels made by the former and natural gas produced by the latter
It's civilizational suicide
Everyone's been asleep. Time to wake up.
The writing was on the wall years ago
The basic physics of renewables is why they can't work
Imagine making our high-energy capitalist civilization work on energy sources THAT LITERALLY KEPT HUMANS TRAPPED IN POVERTY FOR CENTURIES
Advocates of government-run drug use sites say they will reduce surrounding drug use, dealing, and violence, but San Francisco's experiment shows the opposite, with a homicide, OD death of 16 year-old girl, and the shooting of neighborhood ambassador occurring since its opening
Defenders of @LondonBreed say we just need to give the supervised drug use site time to work, but the open air drug dealing and drug use around the UN Plaza, where the fentanyl & meth smoking lounge is located, has only gotten worse.
"When someone is openly using drugs on the street we're going to give them the option of... treatment... But if they refuse, we're not going to allow them to continue using on the street."