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Venice Beachhead #205
November, 1987
Page 3
Open Letter to Venice Merchants
YOU CRY OUT TO THE POLICE FOR HELP IN RIDDING YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD OF PEOPLE WHOSE ONLY CRIME IS THAT THEY REFUSE TO LEASE YOUR PROPERTIES AT THOSE PREPOSTEROUS PRICES OR TO HAVE ANY USE WHATEVER FOR THE GREASY FOOD AND SCHLOCKY DREK YOU PEDDLE UP AND DOWN THE STRAND.
YOU DEMAND LAW AND ORDER BECAUSE YOU FEEL THREATENED BY THE PROLIFERATION OF AGGRESSIVE PANHANDLERS AND MENTALLY UNSTABLE PEOPLE WHO LEAVE THEIR BODILY WASTES IN YOUR YARDS (HOW YOU EVER DISCERN BETWEEN THEIR TURDS AND THE FECES OF THOSE MONSTROUS DOGS YOU ALL SEEM TO OWN, WE'LL NEVER KNOW).
YOU FEAR FOR THE SAFETY OF YOUR CHILDREN AND PROPERTY BECAUSE HORDES OF DRUG ABUSERS HAVE DESCENDED ON YOUR COMMUNITY. YOU SHOULD HAVE SEEN THIS GRIM REALITY LOOMING WHEN YOU FIRST INVESTED IN VENICE, REPLACING NICOTINE, CAFFIENE AND ALCOHOL ADDICTED MODERATE INCOME FAMILES WITH MORE UPSCALE SUBSTANCE ABUSERS AND THEIR ATTENDANT LINES OF SUPPLY.
YOU HAVE KNOWN THEN THAT MORE DRUGS ALWAYS ATTRACTS MORE DRUG ABUSERS AND NOT ALL ADDICTS ARE CAPABLE OF MEETING THE DEMANDS OF A BLACK MARKET ECONOMY WITHOUT COMMITTING ADDITIONAL CRIMES. THEREFORE, IF YOU TRULY WISH TO RID THE STREETS OF DEGENERATE JUNKIES, TWEAKS AND FREAKS, WE SINCERELY RECOMMEND THAT YOU START BY FLUSHING THE MORE AFFLUENT JUNKIES, TWEAKS AND FREAKS FROM INSIDE YOUR OWN PROPERTIES.
YOUR SCREAMS ARE HUSHED TO A WHISPER WHEN YOU INDULGE IN ILLEGAL SUBSTANCES OR CHEAT ON YOUR SALES TAXES. WE NEVER SEE ANYBODY RUNNING FOR THE COPS WHEN YOU LEASE UNDOCUMENTED SPACE OR EVICT TENANTS FOR FLIMSY CAUSE JUST SO YOU CAN JERK THE RENTS . NOBODY BLOWS ANY WHISTLES WHEN YOU DRIVE YOUR CARS AND TRUCKS ON OCEAN FRONT WALK AND DUMP YOUR TRASH IN CITY CANS AND THERE IS A DEATHLY SILENCE AS YOU PAY CHEAP ALIEN LABOR UNDECLARED CASH OR RUN YOUR DRUG PROFITS THROUGH YOUR STORE'S BOOKS.
INSTEAD, WE SEE YOU IN ARROGANT DEFIANCE OF THE LAW: PAYING PUBLIC SERVANTS TO LOOK THE OTHER WAY WHILE YOU AND YOUR TENANTS COMMIT HIGH CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS; AND USING THE POLICE AS IF THEY WERE ON YOUR OWN PAYROLL TO SWOOP ON ANYBODY TOO LOUD OR TOO SCRUFFY TO BLEND INTO YOUR UPSCALE AESTHETIC.
THIS IS NOT YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD -- IT IS OUR NEIGHBORHOOD: YOU ARE NOT TRYING TO PRESERVE ANYTHING BUT YOUR RIGHT TO MAKE MONEY AT THE EXPENSE OF OUR RICHLY TEXTURED COMMUNITY. SO WHAT IF YOU LIVE IN A HOUSE YOU BOUGHT HERE TEN OR FIFTEEN YEARS AGO, BIG HAIRY DEAL! YOU'VE HARDLY LIVED HERE LONG ENOUGH TO EVEN QUALIFY AS A LOCAL.
IN CASE YOUR VISION OF VENICE GENTRIFIED HAS BLINDED YOU TO THE HISTORICALLY DOCUMENTED FACT: THIS TOWN IS BY DESIGN A WORKING CLASS RESORT COMMUNITY AND YOUR PROGRAMS OF REDEVELOPMENT HAVE BEEN DISPLACING PEOPLE WHO HAVE RAISED FAMILIES HERE FOR FIFTY YEARS AND LONGER.
THERE IS NOTHING OSTENTATIOUS ABOUT VENICE AND THERE NEVER WAS- YOUR HIGH-GLITZ JIMMYZ, POLYESTER MERCEDES JACUZZI IMAGE OF VENICE IS A GRAVE INSULT TO ABBOTT KINNEY AND EVERYONE WHO WAS EVER BORN IN VENICE, BOGIED IN VENICE OR PASSED OUT OF THIS WORLD FROM VENICE.
YOU HAVE NEITHER THE MORAL RIGHT NOR THE LEGAL RIGHT TO LEGISLATE CHANGES TO THIS COMMUNITY STRICTLY TO MAKE IT SUIT YOUR TASTES. MOST OF US WHO ARE NOT NATIVE VENEZIAN MIGRATED HERE BECAUSE WE WERE ENCHANTED BY THE RICH MILIEU AS IT IS. HAD WE DESIRED TO LIVE IN A MORE EXCLUSIVE BEACH COMMUNITY WE WOULD HAVE MOVED TO NEWPORT BEACH OR MALIBU.
SO PLEASE, FOR THE SAKE OF JUSTICE AND THE GENERAL PEACE OF OUR TOWN: CLEAN UP YOUR OWN ACTS, QUIT SNIVELLING AND EITHER BLEND OR BUG OUT!!! .
By Tommy
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This is essentially Tommy's reply to the Times articles he was mentioned in.
November, 1987
Page 3
Open Letter to Venice Merchants
YOU CRY OUT TO THE POLICE FOR HELP IN RIDDING YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD OF PEOPLE WHOSE ONLY CRIME IS THAT THEY REFUSE TO LEASE YOUR PROPERTIES AT THOSE PREPOSTEROUS PRICES OR TO HAVE ANY USE WHATEVER FOR THE GREASY FOOD AND SCHLOCKY DREK YOU PEDDLE UP AND DOWN THE STRAND.
YOU DEMAND LAW AND ORDER BECAUSE YOU FEEL THREATENED BY THE PROLIFERATION OF AGGRESSIVE PANHANDLERS AND MENTALLY UNSTABLE PEOPLE WHO LEAVE THEIR BODILY WASTES IN YOUR YARDS (HOW YOU EVER DISCERN BETWEEN THEIR TURDS AND THE FECES OF THOSE MONSTROUS DOGS YOU ALL SEEM TO OWN, WE'LL NEVER KNOW).
YOU FEAR FOR THE SAFETY OF YOUR CHILDREN AND PROPERTY BECAUSE HORDES OF DRUG ABUSERS HAVE DESCENDED ON YOUR COMMUNITY. YOU SHOULD HAVE SEEN THIS GRIM REALITY LOOMING WHEN YOU FIRST INVESTED IN VENICE, REPLACING NICOTINE, CAFFIENE AND ALCOHOL ADDICTED MODERATE INCOME FAMILES WITH MORE UPSCALE SUBSTANCE ABUSERS AND THEIR ATTENDANT LINES OF SUPPLY.
YOU HAVE KNOWN THEN THAT MORE DRUGS ALWAYS ATTRACTS MORE DRUG ABUSERS AND NOT ALL ADDICTS ARE CAPABLE OF MEETING THE DEMANDS OF A BLACK MARKET ECONOMY WITHOUT COMMITTING ADDITIONAL CRIMES. THEREFORE, IF YOU TRULY WISH TO RID THE STREETS OF DEGENERATE JUNKIES, TWEAKS AND FREAKS, WE SINCERELY RECOMMEND THAT YOU START BY FLUSHING THE MORE AFFLUENT JUNKIES, TWEAKS AND FREAKS FROM INSIDE YOUR OWN PROPERTIES.
YOUR SCREAMS ARE HUSHED TO A WHISPER WHEN YOU INDULGE IN ILLEGAL SUBSTANCES OR CHEAT ON YOUR SALES TAXES. WE NEVER SEE ANYBODY RUNNING FOR THE COPS WHEN YOU LEASE UNDOCUMENTED SPACE OR EVICT TENANTS FOR FLIMSY CAUSE JUST SO YOU CAN JERK THE RENTS . NOBODY BLOWS ANY WHISTLES WHEN YOU DRIVE YOUR CARS AND TRUCKS ON OCEAN FRONT WALK AND DUMP YOUR TRASH IN CITY CANS AND THERE IS A DEATHLY SILENCE AS YOU PAY CHEAP ALIEN LABOR UNDECLARED CASH OR RUN YOUR DRUG PROFITS THROUGH YOUR STORE'S BOOKS.
INSTEAD, WE SEE YOU IN ARROGANT DEFIANCE OF THE LAW: PAYING PUBLIC SERVANTS TO LOOK THE OTHER WAY WHILE YOU AND YOUR TENANTS COMMIT HIGH CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS; AND USING THE POLICE AS IF THEY WERE ON YOUR OWN PAYROLL TO SWOOP ON ANYBODY TOO LOUD OR TOO SCRUFFY TO BLEND INTO YOUR UPSCALE AESTHETIC.
THIS IS NOT YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD -- IT IS OUR NEIGHBORHOOD: YOU ARE NOT TRYING TO PRESERVE ANYTHING BUT YOUR RIGHT TO MAKE MONEY AT THE EXPENSE OF OUR RICHLY TEXTURED COMMUNITY. SO WHAT IF YOU LIVE IN A HOUSE YOU BOUGHT HERE TEN OR FIFTEEN YEARS AGO, BIG HAIRY DEAL! YOU'VE HARDLY LIVED HERE LONG ENOUGH TO EVEN QUALIFY AS A LOCAL.
IN CASE YOUR VISION OF VENICE GENTRIFIED HAS BLINDED YOU TO THE HISTORICALLY DOCUMENTED FACT: THIS TOWN IS BY DESIGN A WORKING CLASS RESORT COMMUNITY AND YOUR PROGRAMS OF REDEVELOPMENT HAVE BEEN DISPLACING PEOPLE WHO HAVE RAISED FAMILIES HERE FOR FIFTY YEARS AND LONGER.
THERE IS NOTHING OSTENTATIOUS ABOUT VENICE AND THERE NEVER WAS- YOUR HIGH-GLITZ JIMMYZ, POLYESTER MERCEDES JACUZZI IMAGE OF VENICE IS A GRAVE INSULT TO ABBOTT KINNEY AND EVERYONE WHO WAS EVER BORN IN VENICE, BOGIED IN VENICE OR PASSED OUT OF THIS WORLD FROM VENICE.
YOU HAVE NEITHER THE MORAL RIGHT NOR THE LEGAL RIGHT TO LEGISLATE CHANGES TO THIS COMMUNITY STRICTLY TO MAKE IT SUIT YOUR TASTES. MOST OF US WHO ARE NOT NATIVE VENEZIAN MIGRATED HERE BECAUSE WE WERE ENCHANTED BY THE RICH MILIEU AS IT IS. HAD WE DESIRED TO LIVE IN A MORE EXCLUSIVE BEACH COMMUNITY WE WOULD HAVE MOVED TO NEWPORT BEACH OR MALIBU.
SO PLEASE, FOR THE SAKE OF JUSTICE AND THE GENERAL PEACE OF OUR TOWN: CLEAN UP YOUR OWN ACTS, QUIT SNIVELLING AND EITHER BLEND OR BUG OUT!!! .
By Tommy
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This is essentially Tommy's reply to the Times articles he was mentioned in.
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