A shocking visual representation of radicalized progressive policies. @tarafaul503 were absolutely speechless over the devastation. The land is owned by the state and has been managed by the county. Both notoriously radical. They have knowingly allowed hundreds of
homeless to live in these woods for many years and have completely ignored the destruction. It is both heartbreaking and infuriating. I spoke to former Troutdale Mayor @RandyLauer (population 15,000) that borders the park who expressed his frustration with the county and state.
“Despite their repeated attempts to gaslight the public, the destruction of our natural green spaces and the utter disregard for shared community lands on state and public property is undeniable” As mayor he simply had no authority to do anything, but desperately wanted to.
In 2021 I took the Mayor to thousand acres to show him for himself. He and I desperately try to raise awareness with a public, but the state in the county continued to downplay the devastation. He and I were inspired to make videos after a faithful day only weeks before
when he and I and two other mayors were invited to tour thousand acres with the county. It only took ten minutes for us to know something was wrong. Not only did they not show us and mess and kept us at the very front of both ten perfectly clean camps but they told us
there was absolutely no drug use or children in the area. He and I of course returned soon and proved otherwise. “They are either willfully blind or too ignorant to acknowledge the deeper issue of rampant drug and alcohol abuse -Randy Lauer
Not only that is there’s always been a major criminal enterprise going on in this huge park. This for example example is a massive illegal chop shop.
The only actual enforcement Tara I found was a no dumping sign which it appears was not really read by anybody.
Scattered throughout the thousand acres of chaos are multiple burial sites. I’ve been told by dozens of homeless there are hundreds of people buried in 1000 acres. This makes sense, considering people have been living in there for many years. This two has
been denied by the county, but I highly doubt they thoroughly check the area. In 2021 a young homeless man and his mom walked me through the deep bush and after about a half hour I found multiple holes dug out. To this day, I
have no idea if these are actual burial sites but if not, I’ve always wondered why them dig the holes? There are no official roads in this massive park yet we found abandoned cars. It’s amazing how the people that manage this area would allow even that.
There are always three things you can count on with progressives and the issue of homelessness. They will always exaggerate how many Homeless there are in order to get a bigger budget, they will always
downplay the destruction caused by the homeless and if you ever question anything from them, you’re either a racist or a fascist .
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I tied up emergency service for an hour. While driving home, I heard someone screaming under a bridge. I investigated and found a developmentally delayed homeless woman with some kind of leg injury. I called paramedics and then kept her company until they arrived. She
told me she’s been homeless since she was 17 years old and is now 41. Paramedics arrived, and she became ambivalent whether she wanted to go or not. She crawled out from under the bridge and started yelling at the paramedics. She refused help and limped
away. I tracked her down and she gave me a poor excuse on why she said no. It’s no one wonder emergency services are overwhelmed. I wonder how many people refuse services after they’ve arrived. I don’t regret calling 911 because her leg seemed pretty serious and she requested help. The
Homeless sweeps are big business for the Homeless Industrial Complex. Portland conducted a major homeless sweep yesterday. Approximately 90% of the homeless I observed dragged their tents exactly two blocks away. Three clean teams were involved from three different
agencies, a Portland outreach team and a few police officers. I would calculate the sweep cost about $30-40k when you consider there were at least forty employees involved from various agencies, insurance, dump costs, etc. As for positive results, I saw none other than
the area the homeless were in were now in another area two blocks away. They will remain there for about a week get posted again and three days after that will move back to their original spot. I could not find any homeless people that got indoors. I did observe
Witnessing the anti Trump and anti @elonmusk protest yesterday with @tarafaul503 I realized I was surrounded by thousands of delusional people that lacked any sense of self-awareness, critical thinking or rational thought. Many were just lemmings
doing what everybody else was doing in order to feel connected to their community not to mention the fear of ever having a dissenting voice. Nobody could really explain why they were there or what they were fighting for. All they did was chant the same things over and over again
It was hard to watch and honestly, I felt bad for many of them. There were so many hypocrites too that were demanding loudly that Elon Musk get deported while simultaneously screaming their support for immigration.
Addicted to the streets. Over 60% of the homeless population choose the streets. In fact many have told @tarafaul503 and I they already have access to housing, but still choose to live outdoors. The Homeless Industrial Complex and more specifically the NGOs that benefit
the most from homelessness have
convinced the public and lawmakers that housing ends homelessness. The two biggest reasons for this is either they don’t know the truth because they’ve never actually extensively studied the homeless or they do know the truth, but refuse
to admit it because if they did their billion dollar grift would end. The Housing First model has been by far the biggest moneymaker. Imagine building billions of dollars of housing and giving it to people who do not have to pay rent for life and where half of them still live
I get a lot of hate from Housing First activists because I’m critical of the model. This is why. One of their components is Voluntary Personalized Services. Translation: A person is placed in state/county funded housing for free and often times for life and are
not expected or required to make any changes whatsoever that led them or kept them on the streets. This means other than being indoors, nothing about them has changed. While some do voluntarily utilize services most do not because they don’t have to. And now
that they’re in permanent housing for life they are not required to do anything ever. We are also not preparing the homeless for housing, which means a high percentage of the time they burn out quickly, making it harder for them to to
We found twin autistic children in a homeless camp surrounded by active drug users, trash and uncapped used hypodermic needles on the ground. @tarafaul503 and I stumbled upon the first child eating bark off a tree. He told me it was harmless, but also that he was
hungry. I immediately went and got them pizza which maybe isn’t much healthier than charcoal but at least it’s food. We met their aunt that was very sweet and is working on getting Social Security due to partial blindness and
partial hearing loss. Their transgender stepmom was completely passed out for about an hour, who then finally woke up and accidentally exposed his fake breasts which made one of the boys turn away in embarrassment. With chaos everywhere, we were very concerned with the