FINALLY: Torrance To Enforce Anti-Camping Ordinance Soon

From The Daily Breeze:

Torrance to enforce anti-camping ordinance once temporary housingshelter opens

By KRISTY HUTCHINGS | khutchings@scng.com |

Torrance’s 40-unit temporary housing shelter officially has an expected opening date — June 26 — and with it will come more stringent enforcement of the city’s anti-camping rules, officials said this week.

 It's about time! Of course, if the Supreme Court had done its job and heard the challenge to the awful case Martin v. Boise, we would not have had to daily in this fashion in the first place.

Frankly, it's not a city's job to provide housing at length to every homeless person who wanders into a city. This court-ordered enabling is creating an unsustainable problem in western states.

As site constriction for the Pallet shelter community nears completion, city officials and the Police Department are working to finalize on-site security measures and future police response to homelessness throughout Torrance at large.

A number of residents are understandably upset that the pallet shelters are in District three, right next to the police station, but also near residential areas in the city.

According to some of the city councilmembers, that was the best option in the shortest time possible. There is discussion about moving the pallet homes near the soon-to-be-opened transit center on Crenshaw and Mariposa. In my opinion, having the pallet homes right next to the police department is the best location, since it's easier for the city police to keep an eye on the lot, to maintain security, and ensure that the city will be safe.

Police Chief Jeremiah Hart announced at this week’s City Council meeting that the Police Department will enforce Torrance’s anti-camping ordinance once the Pallet tiny homes are open. The anti-camping ordinance outlaws sleeping on public streets and sidewalks.

 Finally! We need enforcement on this issue in the city of Torrance. There are too many bums, too many homeless who are still camping out in bus stations or in front of public buildings around the city. One homeless guy is constantly hanging out in front of the Torrance Main Library, and he scares the students who go to the library after school.

“Our experience is that we have people who are saying they’re open to services, and we have people who are resistant to services,” Hart said. “When the Pallet shelter is open, the anti-camping ordinance will be enforced by the Police Department (on) those people who are service resistant.”

If there are people who want to be homeless, who refuse to take responsibility for their lives, they are going to have to go somewhere else. This sounds harsh to some people, but the state of California and its rogue courts have started creating a system that enables dependence, homelessness, and the like. This really has to stop.

But People Assisting the Homeless, or PATH, an organization that has helped place 9,000 people into permanent housing since its establishment in 1983, said anti-camping laws don’t target the root issues that lead to homelessness.

“PATH has seen that enforcement rarely ends a person’s episode of homelessness,” PATH spokesperson Tyler Renner said in an email Wednesday, April 13. “Our approach to outreach is person-centered, trauma-informed and relies on building trust.

 No one should condemn people who have fallen on hard times. In some cases, people are on the street because they are running away from domestic violence or abusive parents. But in many cases, those individuals eventually get back on their feet, and oftentimes very quickly. Those individuals who are chronically homeless are either on drugs or mentally ill, and they struggle at greater length to get help, get off the street, and get back on their feet. The last thing that any government should be doing is making it easier for these sick individuals to stay on the street, ruin the quality of life for the community,

“Ultimately, any successful outreach or enforcement efforts,” Renner added, “must be connected to robust resources and lead to long-term housing.”

A 2018 landmark federal court decision in Martin v. Boise ruled that cities could not legally enforce anti-camping ordinances without first providing shelter for their unhoused populations — citing the Constitution’s Eighth Amendment guarantee of protection from cruel and unusual punishment.

It's wrong for a newspaper to engage in "newspeak" and call the homeless "unhoused." Renaming a problem to something more politically correct does not solve the problem. People are "unhouse" when they leave their homes, or when they go on vacation, since they are not in their house. The truth is that people living in the street are homeless. Let's not diminish that reality.

Torrance’s tiny home program fulfills that legal duty to provide some sort of shelter to the unhoused, according to Hart, meaning the city will fall within its rights to enforce the ordinance.

 YES.

Police officers will be directed to offer a spot in the temporary housing program to any homeless individuals they encountered during service calls, Hart said.

 

If a person who is homeless repeatedly refuses to accept services or a place in the program, Hart said, they will be issued a citation or arrested, depending on the situation.

These individuals who refuse to receive help need to leave the city. It's as simple as that. They will not be allowed to camp on people's property or on public property.

“It’s important as the chief of police to let everyone know that the direction I’ve been giving staff is that we will follow constitutional policing,” Hart said, “which guarantees the rights of all people — the city of Torrance residents who live in homes and also the people on our streets.”

One question that remains, however, is what the city will do if the new shelter, in a parking lot behind the courthouse at the Torrance Civic Center, is at capacity.

The Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority’s 2020 homeless count survey reported 332 unhoused individuals in Torrance alone — a 106 person increase from the previous year. While LAHSA’s latest homeless count data won’t be released until July, some members of the City Council said they believe the numbers have likely increased in the past two years.

“That’s one of the big concerns that I have about this program,” Councilman Mike Griffiths said. “The fact that our shelter is relatively small in comparison to the unhoused that we know to be in our community —  I’m very concerned that we’re just going to be back to square one.”

The city of Torrance needs to join with other cities and refile a lawsuit to overturn Martin v. Boise.

Anti-camping enforcement will be determined essentially on a case-by-case basis, Hart said during the Tuesday, April 12, council meeting, depending on bed availability at the shelter. Legally, the Police Department cannot cite or arrest the unhoused for camping if there are no tiny homes available.

“The cycle for the Police Department will be to continue to identify people in the city who are homeless and offering them services,” he said, “but there will be no enforcement of the anti-camping ordinance if there isn’t an available bed.”

 This is a real problem. What happens, then, if more people start showing up to the city of Torrance to take advantage of these limitations?

The tiny home program is designed to be temporary, and will be stocked with supportive services to help transition peopls who are homeless into permanent housing, according to Deputy City Manager Viet Hoang.

 This point offers more hope. Not much, though.

“Our hope is that someone can transition from homelessness to permanent housing in the three to six month time frame,” Hoang said, noting that there are various factors that impact that time frame.

 It should not be a city's job to provide everything for the homeless. This is government charity on steroids, and this causes nothing but problems.

“Homelessness is as unique as the individual,” Hoang added. “Some people will need more help than others.

The second challenge, Hoang said, is the actual availability of housing in the area.

Torrance’s programs will focus on transitioning its clients to three types of permanent housing, Hoang said: Reunification with family, permanent supportive housing (with long-term supportive services), and housing subsidies (which could include a housing voucher to help cover monthly rent).

On-site coordinators, who will know the individual’s situation and the resources available to them, will create and manage the housing plans.

Harbor Interfaith Services, a San Pedro nonprofit, was officially awarded a contract to operate the site on Tuesday. The organization will hire a program manager, two intake coordinators/case managers and five resident aides to operate the program on a 24/7 basis.

Those employees will also help program residents access services necessary to prepare them for permanent housing, including for mental health treatment.

Some of those services are:

LA County Department of Health Services will provide ongoing COVID-19 testing and vaccines; the Venice Family Clinic will provide baseline health care services.

LA County Department of Public Social Services will assist with enrollment in financial aid and food stamp benefits.

Volunteers from faith-based organizations will help secure hygiene items and organize social events for residents.

SouthBay Workforce Investment Board will provide life skills, work preparedness  and job search training.

Harbor Interfaith will also hire two 24/7 on-site security guards via the private security company Black Knight Patrol, officials said at Tuesday’s meeting. They’ll be responsible for enforcing all site and program rules, including a nightly curfew.

Besides enforcing the anti-camping ordinance where possible, Hart said, the Police Department will increase its on-foot patrols near Civic Center and potentially use drone technology to monitor the site from above to discourage loitering nearby.

Final Reflection

The homelessness problem has gotten worse in the city of Torrance only because of meddling politicians and bad courts who want to make this problem worse. There is a big industry getting big government money to keep the homelessness problem growing. 

While the pallet homes is a temporary fix, what is needed long-term is a robust effort to push back on the Martin v. Boise judicial tyranny forcing cities to give funds to people who will not get their lives together.

Let's hope that enforcement builds up quickly as serves as an effective deterrent to end the homeless plague in the city of Torrance. It has gotten so bad, so out of hand, that one former resident, who recently moved to San Pedro, informed me that port section of Los Angeles has pretty much eliminated the homelessness problem, and that area looks better than Torrance does right now!

That's embarrassing. Torrance is better than this. We didn't want to turn into Los Angeles two years ago, but now if Los Angeles is looking better, then let's follow their deliberate model and put an end to the rampant loitering and camping on public causeways.

The Modern Grace Message is the Gospel from the Beginning (By Pastor Paul Ellis)

What is the Modern Grace Message? by Paul Ellis

This month marks the eight anniversary of the release of my book The Hyper-Grace Gospel. To celebrate the occasion, here is an extract. Enjoy!

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A man once asked me a question: “I want to show my friends that the gospel of grace is not the latest fad. Can you direct me to some early church teachings on grace?”

I replied, “How about the New Testament? Much of what I know about grace comes straight from the life of Jesus and the teachings of the apostles.”

Those opposed to the gospel of grace often dismiss it as the modern grace message. They say it is a passing fad.

It is anything but.

A modern grace message?

What is the modern grace message? It is the ancient and eternal gospel of grace (Rev. 14:6). The only thing modern about it is we are rediscovering what was lost. After wandering in the wilderness of works, we are returning to our New Testament roots.

The hypergrace gospel is no new revelation but an old revelation that has been buried under manmade traditions, religious rituals, and unholy packaging.

Hypergrace preachers aren’t preaching a new and modern grace message, but an old and timeless one.

Is hypergrace Biblical? You better believe it.

In The Hyper-Grace Gospel, I quote from more than 40 hypergrace preachers all preaching essentially the same gospel. It’s the same message from different messengers, which is a sign to make you wonder.

How is it that Evangelicals and Charismatics, Catholic priests and Anglican vicars, rock stars and soldiers, theologians and poets, are all preaching the same message of grace? The reason is we have unearthed the same Treasure.

How is it that pilgrims, all starting from different locations and traveling different paths, have ended up at the same place? We all followed the same star that led us to Jesus. Our baggage may be different, and some of us have more than others, but we have all arrived at the same Destination.

It doesn’t matter where you start. What matters is where you finish.

If you’re digging through religious rubble, keep digging. And if you’re walking through a wilderness of works, keep walking. Don’t stop until you find that Treasure and arrive at that Destination called Jesus.

He is your final port of call. Jesus is your resting place.

Exposing the dangers of hypergrace

The hypergrace gospel is no new message; it is a 2,000-year-old revelation. If you have met Jesus then you have heard the hypergrace gospel.

So what is the danger? What is the error or problem?

The problem is you may have heard some other stuff as well – additional material that was never part of the original message.

If you’re a believer, you don’t need to hear the hypergrace gospel as much as you need to un-hear all the extra stuff that obscures the good news of God’s superabundant grace.

Don't confuse the dirt with the gold.

The grace of God is like nothing on earth. Anything we add to the grace of God only detracts from its sublime perfections.

Extracted and adapted from The Hyper-Grace Gospel.

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If you are looking for something to read with your family this weekend, I recommend my article "Good Friday Timeline" or this Jesus Script.

Happy Easter!

Voice for Choice Action Alert: STOP the CA Immunization Registry and Assault on "Physician Misinformation"

 

AB 1797 will be heard in Assembly Health Committee

on Tuesday at 1:30pm

AB 2098 will be heard

in Assembly Business and Professions Committee

on Tuesday at 9:00am

 

 

Email legislators on the Committees TODAY

asking them to Oppose AB 1797 and AB 2098!

 

AB 1797 Immunization registry, introduced by Asm Akilah Weber would add race/ethnicity to the information recorded in the CA Immunization Registry, would require all vaccines to be entered into the CA Immunization Registry (CAIR).  Schools and other entities would have access to all vaccine records, rather than just those of their students/patients or the particular vaccines required for school, during a public health emergency.  

(https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1797)

AB 1797 will be heard in the Assembly Health Committee on Tuesday, April 19 at 1:30pm.

A Voice for Choice Advocacy sent a detailed letter to the Assembly Health Committee outlining our numerous concerns with the bill.  You can read our letter here: (https://avoiceforchoiceadvocacy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/AVFCA-AB1797-Letter-of-Opposition-Weber.pdf)

AB 2098 Physicians and surgeons: unprofessional conduct, introduced by Asm Evan Low,  would designate the dissemination or promotion of misinformation or disinformation related to the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, or “COVID-19,” by a physician or surgeon as unprofessional conduct, allowing the Medical Board to take action against such physician or surgeon.  Board will base their consideration on “applicable standard of care” and “contemporary scientific consensus” neither of which currently exist for COVID-19.(https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2098)

AB 2098 will be heard in the Assembly Business and Professions Committee on Tuesday, April 19 at 9:00am.

A Voice for Choice Advocacy sent a detailed letter to the Assembly Business and Professions Committee outlining our numerous concerns with the bill.  You can read our letter here:

 (https://avoiceforchoiceadvocacy.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/AVFCA-AB2098-Letter-of-Opposition-Low.pdf)

Take Action TODAY!

1) AB 1797 - Email the Assembly Health Committee Members: Go to: https://secure.everyaction.com/qZSmetPckU-t_iQHhYCZCQ2 

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A Voice for Choice Advocacy has made it easy for you to email the Assembly Members on each of the respective Committees to ask them to Oppose the bill before them.  For legislators to read your email (and not assume it as a mass marketing campaign), it is important that your letter is personalized to your situation, so be sure to outline how AB 1797 and AB 2098 would affect you and your family.  You can use some of the talking points from AVFCA's letters (linked above) but don't copy them!

2) If you are a MD or DO, share this with your colleagues, and ask them to oppose AB 2098

3) Forward this email to anyone in California, especially doctors and parents.  Share this email on social media: https://avoiceforchoiceadvocacy.org/action-alert-ab-1797-ab-2098-hearing/

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Quittin' Cliff Numark Violated Health Freedom, Imposed Vaccine Mandates

Cliff Numark broke his commitment to the city of Torrance. He ran for city council, then abandoned the seat when he was elected to the El Camino College Board.

Then, on the college board of trustees, he had no problem violating the United States Constitution, the Nuremberg Code, and the common law traditions on which our country was founded.

As a member of the El Camino College Board of Trustees, he supported forcing students to be jabbed to enroll in classes.

Check out this report from the El Camino College Union:

The El Camino College Board of Trustees has approved and adopted a new vaccination mandate for all students and employees.

During the Sept. 7 Board of Trustees (BOT) meeting, El Camino College (ECC) President Brenda Thames along with all other BOT members have discussed questions and concerns about what the vaccine mandate will do to all individuals related to ECC.

And what were his thoughts on it?

Although there are concerns about the future of the college, something that the BOT and President Thames are focusing on is the health and safety of the ECC community.

“This is consistent with what many other colleges are doing and there’s a bottom-line issue, this will save lives. Period. End of story,” Trustee Cliff Numark said.

We don't need another micromanager on the Torrance City Council, one who ignores the research, statistics, and science when it comes to illnesses, vaccines, and health choice.

How many tens of thousands of people have died because of this experimental shot? Why would anyone want to deprive students of the opportunity to earn a degree, to learn a trade simply because they would not take a suspicious shot in the arm to stop an overblown virus?

Quittin' Cliff is wrong for Torrance.

Let's not forget the COVID-19 tyranny that the world, and specifically California, had to endure for the last two years.

Numark would be ready to lock down the entire city if there was a hint of COVID-19 issues, some other disease, or some other "crisis."

Say NO to "Quittin' Cliff."

Yikes! Mike Likes Tax Hikes

Councilman Mike Griffiths.

He has been involved in Torrance politics for more than twenty years. Once can go back as far as 2005, when he was seeking to be appointed to a vacant city council seat. He has served a number of times on the environmental and planning commission, too.

Yes, he is very much a part and parcel of the Torrance Way of politics in this town.

And apparently, it has all gotten to his head.

He has a serious attitude problem, to put in mildly: he thinks that he is entitled to his seat on the city council, and that he should be the next mayor.

The truth is that he did not decide against running for mayor because of a death in the family. The truth is that Councilman George Chen has a better following and more political capital in the city than he does.

And is anyone surprised?

Mike Griffiths dragged his feet on supporting a Resolution of No Confidence in George Gascon. His arrogant demeanor with me (and others, no doubt) regarding this matter is just too much to ignore. Like many Torrance politicians who have been part of the establishment for so long, he uses the voters, then refuses to listen to them.

That kind of arrogance hurt him, especially if you visit his Facebook page. People give him a hard time for not supporting the resolution.

But worse than that, rumors persisted out of city hall that Mike wanted to impose a vaccine mandate on all city employees! He had no problem with violating people's health freedom, their bodily autonomy, and for what?

The vaccine was experimental at best, and many people suffered terrible adverse side effects from the shot. Why would anyone want to push for a violation of people's health integrity?

And of course, like the majority of the current city council, Mike likes the tax hikes.

He wants to raise the city sales tax because he is too lazy or too beholden to the "establishment" in the city of Torrance to think outside the box and come up with more innovative ways to save money and bring in revenue to the city.

Mike likes tax hikes, and for that, the voters should tell him to take a hike regarding his bid for city treasurer.

Mississippi MassResistance Forces School to Remove Bad Books from Local School District

 Mississippi MassResistance parents force middle school Principal to pull graphic pornographic books from library – after months of foot-dragging by School Board

Books included descriptions of anal rape of a child, bloody suicide, and other horrible scenes

But there is much more work to do there, says mother leading the fight

April 11, 2022

[Caution: Obscene and disturbing material.]

 A Mississippi MassResistance mother reads excerpts from a sexually explicit school library book to the School Board. At left, one of the many books that parents are outraged over.

After months of foot-dragging by their School Board, a group of MassResistance parents in Madison County, Mississippi forced the middle school Principal to take action on extreme pornographic books in the school library. Led by a local mother, parents throughout the community rallied against this outrage.

Several books were immediately removed from circulation pending a full review. And the Principal drastically changed the policy on handling book challenges by parents.

The books, which are in schools throughout the county, sickened many parents. They include descriptions of anal rape of a child, bloody suicide, children masturbating, a mother being raped, and other disturbing scenes. “Looking through these books is so dark, so upsetting – it’s the last thing one would want any child to be reading. How can these books be there?” asked one mother of a child in the middle school.

Months of ignoring the parents

In December 2021, a group of parents addressed the Madison County (Mississippi) School Board with a list of books in the school system libraries that had extremely objectionable and disturbing sexual, homosexual, racist, and anti-American content. As they displayed the list of books at the meeting, the parents implored the Board to remove them from circulation.

 At the School Board meetings the parents displayed a list of the books for all the members to see.

In January 2022, the parents came back, but the Board had done nothing.

In February, the Board said they “would review the books” but had no plans of quarantining the books while under review.

At the March School Board meeting, they said the books are “still under review” but they “need more time.” The books were still on the shelves for the children to check out. The parents were clearly being ignored.

MassResistance gets involved – things start happening!

In early February, the group teamed up with MassResistance. By late March, the MassResistance parent group was ready for a higher level of action.

At the April 4 School Board meeting, the MassResistance parents confronted the Board members about why they had not done anything. One of the mothers read aloud passages from one of the books, “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian” by Sherman Alexie:

Yup, that’s right. I masturbate. I’m proud of it. I’m good at it. I’m ambidextrous. If there were a professional masturbators week, I would win and make millions of dollars. Maybe you’re thinking, “you really shouldn’t be talking about masturbation in public.” Well, I’m going to talk about it everywhere. If God hadn’t wanted us to masturbate, then God wouldn’t have given us thumbs…

“I love that tree,” I said.
“That’s because you’re a tree fag.”
“I’m not a tree fag.”
“Then how come you like to stick your dick inside the knot-holes?”
“I stick my dick in a girl tree!”

The Board members said nothing in reaction. But the looks on their faces showed that they realized that this Mississippi community was not going to stand for it.

Two days later, on April 6, the group posted on social media pages from another of the books, The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. This particular book was in the middle school library. It includes the sodomizing of a boy by a man, the rape of a mother, and a bloody suicide of a father, among other horrific episodes. Parents who saw the excerpts were sickened.

Page 7: Mother is raped. The novel opens with a recount of the rape of a boy's mother. The soldier describes her "surgary c**t."

Page 75 - Boy is raped. Two pre-teen boys are told to hold down another boy while he is raped by a 17-year-old.

Page 78 - Boy bleeds from rectum. The aftermath of the rape describes the "dark stain in the seat of his pants" and the "tiny drops that fell from between his legs and stained the snow black." The boy is bleeding from his rectum.

Page 124 - Father shoots himself. A father finds his dead son and decides to commit suicide by placing the barrel of a gun into his own mouth and blowing his brains out.

When people in the community saw this, hundreds commented and shared it. Many contacted their public officials. The middle school began getting phone calls. The School Board members received emails.

Two days after that, on April 8, the school system relented. The middle school Principal sent the following message to the community:

The parents had made the difference! The job still needs to be finished, but the public officials finally got the message, and now the parents have the momentum.

Final thoughts: Fighting the “groomers” in their midst

As the lead mother told a local radio show, there is also some reaction on social media that is truly frightening. There are “groomer moms” in the community who are angry that these books are coming off the shelves. They are defending this disgusting pornography in the children’s library. They want this material to be available for kids. One mother who is a Girl Scout troop leader said she wanted to see the list so she would know which books to go and buy for her children. (And we’ve seen that same thing across the country. These people seem demonic.)

The MassResistance mother continued:

Why is talking sexually in the workplace considered sexual harassment to adults, but talking sexually to children in elementary school considered “essential” to liberals? These people want to normalize sexuality in children and pedophilia as soon as they can.

And as we’ve observed before, there is a larger problem in the schools that must be addressed. Normal people would not bring books like these into any school or allow them to stay there. It pains us to say that around the country, sexual deviants have been attracted to and – recruited by – public schools and libraries. So while many books should be removed, the adults who oversaw their inclusion should be fired. Otherwise, this abuse will continue in one form or another.

[Note: The public library in that same Mississippi county is in the eye of an even bigger MassResistance book storm – which we will be reporting on in an upcoming post!]

   

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Revolt Against the Mouse: Disney Pays the Price for Going Woke

REVOLT AGAINST THE MOUSE Our campaign against Disney has put a price on woke capital.  Two weeks ago, amid the controversy about The Walt Disney Company’s opposition to Florida’s Parental Rights in Education Act, I released exclusive internal videos from Disney that revealed the company’s plans to inject gender ideology into its children’s programming. The videos drove the news cycle for more than week, generated billions of media impressions, and shifted the national debate about public education and gender ideology. More importantly, my team helped connect the story to public policy, using it as a supporting narrative for activism against woke capital. The goal was to force Disney to pay a price for transgressing the values of middle-class families and forcing left-wing gender ideology onto children. And the early evidence suggests that this campaign was a smashing success. Here are some of the outcomes: • Ensured that congressional Republicans will not vote to extend Disney’s copyrights on characters such as Mickey Mouse when they expire at the end of next year, delivering a multibillion-dollar intellectual property loss to the company. • Inspired multiple Disney employees to speak out against the company’s left-wing sexual politics, putting a countervailing internal pressure on executives. • Sparked grassroots demonstrations at Disney’s theme parks in Orlando, Florida, and Anaheim, California. • Strengthened the position of Gov. Ron DeSantis and Florida Republicans, who courageously stood up to Disney and passed the Parental Rights in Education Act. Following the anti-Disney backlash, some Florida legislators are even considering eliminating Disney’s special exemptions and tax breaks within the state. We are building a new model of conservative activism: waging narrative and symbolic warfare, mobilizing grassroots parent-driven protests, designing robust policies to change incentives, and supporting strong leaders who are willing stand with families against hostile and nihilistic elite institutions. As always, this activism depends on your support. Please consider becoming a $5 or $10 monthly patron and help strike a blow against woke capital. Share Tweet

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Election 2022 Sales Tax Scam: The City of Torrance Has Enough Reserves

On March 21, 2022, I wrote to Torrance City Manager Aram Chaparyan regarding the state of the city's finances. I was aware that the city reserves had drastically reduced to $500,000, in large part because previous city councils had continued to spend money that the city simply did not have.

The city manager responded:

The city's current balance in general reserves is

$22.6 Million!

The city is no longer in financial arrears!

There is NO NEED for a sales tax increase. NONE!

Check out the link and the report on Page 24 whicht city manager Chaparyan cited:

FY 2021 – 22 MID-YEAR BUDGET REVIEW REPORT

Here's a closer look at the table above:

With the most realistic projections considered, the city will have a reserve of $36,277,155!

That's a considerable amount of money on hand for the city!

So, in other words, the city of Torrance does not need to raise the sales tax. The argument that Los Angeles County might want to raise the sales tax is a hollow scare tactic at best. Los Angeles Unified tried to raise the property tax rates four years ago, and that effort failed massively.

The Board of Supervisors cannot muster the political capital to force up sales tax rates in the first place, since so many Los Angeles County residents are struggling from paycheck to paycheck as it is.

There is no reason to raise up the sales tax. What it really amounts to is that a majority on the city council is too lazy, too incompetent, or just plain indifferent to the needs of the residents in the city, and would rather gouge taxpayers instead of offering creative solutions to increase revenue.

Say NO to any sales tax increase!

Jenna "Karen" McKee: Pervert, Cyberbully, Disgrace to the City of Torrance

Just as there are creepy teachers indoctrinating and poisoning the minds of unwilling or unwitting students in the classroom (who are a captive audience, and therefore cannot avoid the indoctrination), there are creepy, perverted activists who want to groom children to be harmed, abused, exploited by this LGBT agenda.

One of them is a Torrance native named Jenna "Karen" McKee.

Notice the communist flag behind her in the photo above.

Apparently, she is A-OK with the mass murder of hundreds of millions of impoverished people around the world.

She has quite a disturbing bio listed on her Twitter page:

If it's not clear what her problems are, here's a meme with her bio:

She has some, well, let's just say  ... very sad, hateful views:

anyway fuck the troops

— 🌙jenna♏️ (@CumboyBebop) April 3, 2022

She likes to use the "f-word" a great deal. As stated above, she is quite a pervert.

She thinks that babies can be racist:

do you think babies are racist??

— 🌙jenna♏️ (@CumboyBebop) March 30, 2022

Seriously ...

She also supports the sexual mutilation of minors:

About to cause a ruckus at my local school board meeting! I’ll keep you all updated pic.twitter.com/CoO92s90Ht

— 🌙jenna♏️ (@CumboyBebop) March 22, 2022

Transgenderism is a mental illness. Children who struggle with gender dysphoria need help, not more enabling to be abused. Karen thinks it's great for children to be abused.

Creepy Karens like Jenna McKee need to be kept as far away as possible from children.

They are perverts, and they are predators pushing evil designs on innocent children.

Torrance, California is better than this. Torrance is "The Balanced City," and someone as mental unhinged and imbalanced as Jenna "Karen" McKee has no business pushing her hate in school boards and onto children.

She also feels the need to showcase her self-loathing. She knows people are exposing her:

Umm frog and toad are LITERALLY gay communist lovers 😐😐😐 it makes perfect sense! pic.twitter.com/auGz7InltW

— 🌙jenna♏️ (@CumboyBebop) August 4, 2021

"Frog and Toad are gay communist lovers" .... really. Sick and demented. Once again, she shouldn't be around kids ... or adults for that matter.

Sadly, she paid a visit to the Torrance Unified School Board in March, 2022:

She knew that I was attending the school board meeting, but she stayed away. She had to, since the shame of her crusade to promote child abuse against children would have gone public right then and there:

Context https://t.co/g6BDcu5YHs

— 🌙jenna♏️ (@CumboyBebop) March 22, 2022

The only context that matters is that she is sick, demented, disturbed, and quite a cyberbully. Of course, like all LGBT bigots, she loves to play victim: all while victimizing others, of course.

I guess I live in her head rent-free. There must be a great deal of space up there, since the only things she obssesses on are how to destroy children, how to pervert society, and how to abolish any form of law enforcement.

At the Torrance School Board meeting, she was determined to make sexual exploitation and abuse of children acceptable, calling it "diversity, tolerance, inclusion, etc."

Notice that her shirt was not visible during her public comment before the Torrance School Board. She is so ashamed of her own child-hatred, that she didn't want the school board members to see her shirt.

Why are sick people like this allowed in public forums like school boards? What would parents think if someone like this walked into the meeting, advertising the promotion of gender mutilation onto children?

If you see Jenna McKee near a school or a student, tell her to get away as soon as possible. Make a loud scene if necessary. She should be exposed, shamed, and excoriated from the public because of her vile hatred of children, biology, and the natural facts of marriage, life, and family. 

MassResistance Helps Hawaii Group Stop Bad Anti-Family Bills in State Legislature

 

MassResistance helps Hawaii parents stop terrible anti-family bills in State Legislature

Bills that would (1) push extreme LGBT agenda in schools and (2) criminally punish parents who complain

Plus a bizarre pro-LGBT school resolution dies in the Hawaii House of Representatives

The right strategies from MassResistance made the difference, says local leader!

April 4, 2022

 There were continuous protests by parents in downtown Honolulu near the State Capitol.

Two of the most radical bills we’ve ever seen were introduced in the Hawaii legislature this past January. Quickly gaining momentum, both quietly passed in the House in early March. They needed to be stopped in the State Senate!

• Bill HB 1697 would have required public schools to teach children that homosexuality, transgenderism, etc., are normal and positive behaviors. Schools must “destigmatize” and include “positive representations” of “lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer or questioning, intersex, asexual, other sexual orientation and gender identities.”
  
  It would also have required the Hawaii Department of Education (DOE) to train teachers how to instruct children on LGBT topics.
• Bill HB 2125 would have criminalized parents who complain to teachers or their School Board. Its intent was to silence parents who object to Critical Race Theory, graphic LGBT topics, Covid mask requirements for children, etc. It would have created a new criminal offense: “Harassment of an education worker” with punishments of fines and jail time.

It would have dovetailed with existing statutes to include “harassing or insulting electronic communications.” Thus, sending “insulting” emails to your School Board member (or posting criticisms on social media) could get a parent in legal trouble.

These bills were heavily pushed by the Hawaii Department of Education, other leftist government agencies, special interest groups, various radical teachers, and left-wing activists.

Outrage across the state – parents organize

The outrage against these bills across the state was fierce. Two parents, Art and Peggy, formed a fast-growing statewide group, Fathers and Mothers for Children, to mobilize people against these two bills.

On March 7, 2022, the group held a rally against HB 1697 at the Hawaii State Capitol in Honolulu. Over 100 people attended. It was a rousing event, and included speeches by prominent pro-family leaders and a State Representative.

 State Rep Bob McDermott, a pro-family fighter in the legislature, addresses the parents' rally.

A week later, on March 14, the group organized a march through the streets of Honolulu to the State Capitol. Hundreds of people participated. When they reached the Capitol, there was another rally with several local speakers.

 Protesters march through Honolulu to the State Capitol on March 14.

 A family makes a statement outside the Capitol.

They continued holding protests every few days.

MassResistance gets involved

MassResistance is no stranger to Hawaii. Back in 2009, we helped stop a “civil unions” bill in the Hawaii Senate. (Even the Boston “gay” newspaper complained about MassResistance’s involvement there!)

In 2013, MassResistance worked with Hawaii activists in a huge battle to attempt to stop “gay marriage” from being imposed by the Legislature.

We are still in touch with many of the activists we worked with back then. So on March 10, 2022, one of them – Susan – contacted us for some strategic help.

After studying the situation, including the fact that both bills were now in the State Senate, we advised Susan that the group should immediately: (1) get politicians who are currently running for office to show up and publicly support the parents; and (2) target the districts of the Senators who are pushing the bad bills.

They took our advice. Here’s what Susan told us on March 25:

We used those two suggestions. We got politicians involved and I think that is what helped get the word out to a larger group. Candidates running for office did come and they participated in our events. We had a candidate for Governor and a very popular candidate for Lt. Governor show up and both spoke. And we singled out three districts that we targeted for rallies and sign waving.

Victory: Both bills were stopped in the Senate!

And everyone’s hard work paid off! On March 24, both bills failed to move forward in the Senate and are now dead. It happened very quietly. The parents had to call the Capitol to get the official word. “I imagine that there will be efforts to resurrect these bills next year but we'll be watching,” Susan told us.

A bizarre House resolution also dies

There was also a bizarre resolution in the House of Representatives that almost passed. It had no legal implications, but it still promoted a very dangerous policy.

HCR 138 stated that Hawaii’s “educational materials and practices do not reflect the range of gender expressions and sexual identities that exist” and that “teachers do not understand diverse gender and sexual orientations.”

Therefore, to fix this “problem” the resolution requested that the Hawaii Department of Education create a “student-led working group” to find ways to push LGBT subjects more directly in Hawaii’s schools. That would include “peer to peer sexual health” – which usually means homosexuals grooming other children.

Since the House had earlier passed the two anti-family bills, our side was not confident we could stop this, either. But it seems that the resolution got tripped up by the growing parental outrage. Though it had already passed one House committee, on April 1 it quietly died in another House committee.

Final thoughts

A big contribution that MassResistance makes around the country is to help parents with an aggressive and effective strategy to achieve their goals. Most parents have a lot of great energy for fighting the Left’s horrible attacks on their children, but little experience in the right way to go about it. The Left usually comes in with a wealth of experience and tactics. We help to bridge that gap!

   

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