Wanted: Squatters For Worthington Park Neighborhood
If shortsightedness merited an award Dace Zeps would need one huge trophy case.
Dace Zeps has been President of the Worthington Park Neighborhood Association for three years. In that time she’s seen a lot of homes go on the market in this troubled neighborhood. “I don’t know if they’ve been foreclosed on or what. Empty is empty and that doesn’t do my neighborhood any good.”
That’s why she showed up at a rally Monday for the group Take Back The Land, encouraging the group to focus efforts in her neighborhood. “I got this email from Z! about Take Back the Land campaign. Yeah, I got empty houses in my neighborhood.”
Dace says she wants the foreclosed homes to be bought, but says it wouldn’t hurt if homeless families lived there during the process.
Dace is unconcerned with how a potential buyer could recover damages from homeless squatters if they damaged the property. “That would be dealt with in another venue. You wouldn’t be… Again, another moot question.”
No, in fact it is not a moot point. To gloss over it in such a cavalier manner underscores how careless Zeps is when it comes to squatters. If Dace were my neighborhood association president I would be calling the members for a special meeting ASAP and reminding the president that illegal acts are not what makes for a safe community. Then I would work overtime to see that she was no longer the president. I trust that someone in that section of the city has the good sense to run against her and make sure she is no longer able to undermine the area with such lunacy.
Patrick, open your eyes!
Your logic is valid but not sound. Logically, what you are saying makes sense from a rule utilitarian point of view. The problem is that only complete sheeple are rule utilitarians.
If you saw a baby drowning 6 feet behind a “no trespassing” sign, what would you do? Save it? Let it die? Shoot it? Trespass?
In said example, maybe an illegal act would make for a “safe community.”
In the end, the one getting the short end of the stick would be the banks. I’m all for that!
No, Patrick. Data points to an increase in illegal immigrants being tied to a decline in violent crime.
http://futurity.org/society-culture/drop-in-violent-crime-tied-to-immigration/
Illegal acts are not what makes for a safe community. Illegal Aliens commit an illegal act. Therefore, illegal aliens do not make for a safe community.
There are so many interesting analogies to be made between this issue and the situation in Arizona. You might want to examine your logic on both issues.