August 4, 2025 • 28 mins
The John Kobylt Show Hour 3 (08/04) - Michael Monks comes on the show to talk about a judge upholding restrictions for immigration raids in LA. Radioactive wasp nests were found in South Carolina along the Savannah River. A new California housing bill that Newsom signed cuts the legs out from underneath homeowner's associations. Citations for homeless people at City Hall in Sacramento have skyrocketed under the new mayor Kevin McCarty.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Can't. I am six forty. You're listening to the John
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what you missed. So last Friday, we actually for a
few days we were awaiting the decision from the Ninth
Circuit Court of Appeal. A lower court judge had said
the Trump administration was unconstitutional in their illegal alien roundups
because they were taking people off the street and they
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had no reasonable suspicion whether they were illegal or not.
And there was a lower court judge, Mohammi Usi Mensa Frimpong,
and she ruled the patrols were illegal, and this Court
of Appeals, I guess any unanimous decision, right, I agreed
with that decision. Today you had a press conference about it,
Michael Munks covering the whole story.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Yeah, it was a week ago today that that hearing
took place up in San Francisco, and we talked about
it on this very program. I played some clips from
that hearing. They stream those hearings on zoom. It was
a zoom hearing, and I played for you at that
time a clip from the proceeding that indicated to me
at least that the judges were not buying the argument
from the Trump administration on a very key point in
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this case, which is, are immigration agents targeting people solely
based on their race, solely based on the language they're
overheard speaking, or solely based on the location that they
are car washes, home depot, parking lots, that sort of
thing that does not establish probable cause. And the government
had a hard time arguing the point. So today a
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celebratory press conference of sorts brought on by the ACLU
of Southern California, one of the lead plaintiffs in this case,
and other immigrants rights organizations that are part of this
the City of La, the County of La, other local
cities are also part.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Of this thing.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
The outside and this is what ACLU So Cal Executive
Director Chandra bot Nagar had to say about the government's argument.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
As the court said, if the government suggests, quote that
they are not conducting stops that let lack reasonable suspicion.
They can hardly claim to be irreparably harmed by an
injunction aimed at preventing a subset of stops not supported
by reasonable suspicion end quote, Meaning, if the administration claims
it is not breaking the law, then why is it
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fighting against an order that for visit from breaking the law.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
And so the district court put out a temporary restraining
order that said you cannot just go around and pull
people aside because they're Hispanic, because they're speaking Spanish, or
because of where they are. The government's saying, we're not
doing that. So with the appeals court, the judges asked,
if you're not doing it, how is this temporary restraining
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order harming your immigration efforts? And that to me seem
like the point where they lost right. Did they try
to have an answer to that? They did not have
a sufficient answer in the eyes of these judges. Keep
in mind, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals is the
same court that slapped down Governor Newsom in his fight
against President Trump over the National Guard being deployed here.
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So it's kind of gone both ways on both sides
of these arguments against the Trump administration. On this one,
the White House just did not present an argument that
they are not targeting people based on those characteristics.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
I can just hear I know from reading comments and
just the reactions of a lot of listeners. They'll say, Oh,
come on, if you drive up to a home depot
and there's twenty Hispanic guys loiter and around looking for work,
what do you think they are? If you go to
a car wash, right, and there's twenty young guys there, standard,
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what do you think they are?
Speaker 2 (03:50):
And that's similar to well, if you're driving in a
certain part of the city and you see a group
of guys in general on the corner, they're probably selling drugs, right,
but you can't just go up to them because they're
standing there. Even if you're likely right, you can't do it. Exactly.
That's exactly what this is saying. You have to have
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a probable cause. The government's saying, no, we use a
vast intelligence to let us know where to go.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
But this case was.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Triggered by one guy, Pedro Vasquez Perdomo. He was one
of those three guys you might remember.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Back in June.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
It got some play in the media who was at
a bus stop in Pasadena in front of a donut
shop and they got swept up in this and taken
into custody. They were just waiting on Metro to pick
them up, and he says, the next thing, you know,
a bunch of mass guys who never identified themselves took
us into custody. And so that is what triggered this case.
And these plaintiffs, the ACLU and others, and the local
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governments have presented gobs of folks who have experienced something similar.
The government may have to pivot because this has been
held up at this point.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Right what they can do still legally is.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Have probable cause to approach illegal immigrants workplaces that sort
of thing. If they're able to gather any evidence to
suggest a certain workplace is hiring illegal immigrants, then they
can go in there and investigate.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
But the fashion factory in downtown La exactly, which is
what ignited the riots, ironically, but they were going in
there because they done an investigation into the company's work practices,
who they hired. They had they claimed they were tax
violations going on, but they had all the investigation done,
they felt they had proved their case, and they got
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a judge to sign a warrant letting them go in
right and then arrest who they wanted to arrest. That's right.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
That seemed to be an extreme case because there were
other crimes being committed and there were illegal immigrants allegedly
working there as well. That issue was brought up by
La Worker Center Network executive director Armando Gudino, who spoke
today is celebrating this ruling.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Here's what he said.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
Let me be clear, ice in law enforcement are not
above the law. The Fourth Amendment doesn't stop at the
gates of a car wash, at a garment factory or
in a strawberry field. This case is about dignity. It's
about drawing a line against fear and reminding this country
that immigrants are not the exception to the Constitution. We
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are the living, breathing proof of it.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
So even though there were accinuating circumstances involving the garment
district in that particular case, you can see from these
advocates that they don't agree with that particular raid either.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
Right, but that rate was allowed because if they go in,
let's say they go in to go after management for
their paperwork crimes, through tax crimes. If they find illegal
aliens work there, they can grab those people. That's where
they have a legal pretext to enter the building.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
And I know you got a run, but just by
way of an update or just for planning purposes, this
is a temporary restraining order. The Trump administration could take
this to the Supreme Court to get this overturned so
that they can resume the actions as they were doing them. Otherwise,
they might just wait this thing out because these plaintiffs
want a longer injunction and there's a hearing set for
that back at Judge Frimpong's court here at the lower
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court level, the district court on September twenty five.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
They want a permanent injunction. Indeed, Verry Good Michael a
couple months KFI News when we come back one of
the entities I absolutely despise in life, and I think
most people do. Our homeowners associations with their stupid, obsessive, compulsive,
anal retentive, picky un rules to torture people and extort money. Well,
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who knew there's a new state law that just cuts
the legs out from under homeowners Associations and they can't
torture people anymore with their nonsense. Tell you all about
it and we come back.
Speaker 5 (07:44):
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Speaker 1 (07:50):
We're on every day from one until four o'clock. After
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I was just a minute ago teasing Deborah. You know,
she's always I don't know I'm going to say where
you're going or when you're going, but at some point
you're going to go on a vacation. And as you know,
i'd call this running joke, except this stunt a joke.
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Terrible things happened to whatever country she goes and visits. Yes,
for example, she went to Scotland, right, and the queen died. Correct,
There's something that happens about once every hundred years. And
there you were, and then you were about to fly
to see Israel in.
Speaker 6 (08:30):
Egypt exactly one week to the day, right.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
And war breaks out. Yes, And you were going to
spend an overnight in Dubai and there was this massive flood.
Speaker 6 (08:41):
Yes, which it's the worst flooding ever.
Speaker 7 (08:43):
It's the worst flooding over I mean, airports are flooding,
and that's just the.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
Last couple of years. Yes, don't forget getting COVID in Mexico,
in Mexico.
Speaker 6 (08:51):
That's right, right, that's right.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
So I'm you know, we're there's actually the state Department
has travel advisories and I'm.
Speaker 6 (08:58):
Going to try and fly under the race.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Okay, here's something that's happening to me. We're going to
go back east later this summer, and we're gonna you know,
I got a place, We got a place in Florida,
and my son lives in North Carolina. So the idea
is go see my son in North Carolina and then
drive down to Florida and stop at some cities that
I've either rarely or never been to, because there's a
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lot of beautiful, smaller cities in the South. One of
it's like Charleston, South Carolina, which I've only seen once,
and another one is Savannah, Georgia, which my wife was
two once and says it's absolutely gorgeous. So I've been,
you know, looking up things to do in Charleston and
Savannah as we as we drive down the coast, and
this story just jumped out at me. Over the weekend,
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they have found radioactive WASP nests it says here in
South Carolina along the Savannah River radio active wasp nests.
This site used to play a major role in nuclear
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bomb production, and it's called the Savannah River Site. It's
a nuclear facility near Aiken, and they produced plutonium and
tritium during the Cold War. Well, they found four nests,
and apparently they haven't done a good job with the
nuclear waste, the leftover nuclear radiation, because they they tested
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the nests and it had had ten They had ten
times higher than the limit allowed by the federal government
for radiation radioactive nests. It was near tanks of stored
liquid nuclear waste. Well, it looks like the liquid leak,
didn't it. They sprayed the nests with insecticide and removed
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them and they had to disposed of them as radioactive waste.
No wasps were found inside, but it means the wasps
are loose, then the wasps may be radioactive.
Speaker 6 (11:10):
Are you still gonna go?
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Well, I'm not stopping in this I'm not stopping in
this town. Wasps are chests.
Speaker 6 (11:18):
Oh, I am terrified.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
My wife once got stung by a wasp. She went
right down. She's got bad allergies when she gets stung
by a beer or a wasp. She's she's laid out
on the ground, like right on the sidewalk. It said
the nests were contaminated with radioactive contamination leftover radiation from
the weapons production era. They claim it was not caused
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by a leak, that it was always sitting there, and
then they found three more nests at the facility. They're
called hot wasps. They could be contaminated, right, Yes, if
you're living in a nuclear nest, you're going to be
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flying around and you can I guess they glow in
the dark at night. You can see them coming from
a couple of blocks away.
Speaker 6 (12:14):
Good that you could see them coming.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Yeah, just walk around with a Geiger counter. As soon
as it starts ticking, you know you're They claim there's
no evidence of public danger. I wonder how many other
stories are like this. So they now four wasp wasp nests.
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That is not an easy phrase to say, four wasp
nests in UH in custody, claiming it's it's it's a
low level of radiation ten times higher than the limits.
So it's not that long. So if if I see
any wasps when they're going on our trip, UH huh,
all right, we come back. Now, I'm going to do
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the homeowners. Were we ever in a homeowners association?
Speaker 7 (13:06):
I I wasn't, but my grandmother was.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
People. Yes, right, homeowners' associations are really deranged.
Speaker 6 (13:14):
They don't have anything better to do.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
They're power hungry, power drunk. Yeah, there's all kinds of
questionable things always happening with the money. Oh yeah, yay.
I've rarely been involved with one, but it's not a
pleasant experience. Well, there's a new California housing bill that
was passed by the state. This is a rare bill
that Newsom signed. Well, they just cut the legs out
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from under the homeowners' associations regarding all the fines that
they could levy for pickyuon violations. Tell you about it.
We come back.
Speaker 5 (13:45):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM
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Speaker 1 (13:51):
We're on every day from one until four o'clock, and
after four o'clock it's the John Cobilt Show on demand homeowners' associations.
I know many listeners in the area, especially in Orange County,
have to live with these and I remember one day
I was teasing people in Orange County because so many
people live in these beige stucco boxes, and I didn't
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understand why the color of every stucco box had to
be beige. And I started finding out with homeowners associations
that they have spices that go door to door. And
if you put like a flower box on your windowsill, right,
so you have pretty flowers to look at, that could
be a violation and they'll come by and you'll get
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fined like one hundred dollars every day forever. If you
leave your garage door open, that's a fine. If your
kid leaves his bicycle on the driveway, that's a fine.
Speaker 7 (14:46):
Now there is a benefit, though, I'm just going to
say that you're not going to have these yucky, beat
up old cars that just sit in front of your
house forever and nobody.
Speaker 6 (14:57):
Claims them, right.
Speaker 7 (14:59):
That would be cooped up and other unsightly things that
happen all the time in my neighborhood.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
So you're you have the soul of a homeowners association
director only.
Speaker 6 (15:10):
Because of that stuff.
Speaker 7 (15:12):
But if I want to paint my house a certain color,
but also though I really don't want to live next
door to somebody that paints their house hot, pink, even
though I do like hot.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
That's that's one of your one of your favorite coming.
Speaker 6 (15:22):
I know I love hot.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
You're you're famous for your hot pink outfit.
Speaker 7 (15:25):
But I but you don't want to live in a
house next door to a hot pink house.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
Well I would, right, there's probably an interesting woman that
lives there. Well, there is homeowner association. The thing is,
you know, they start out with reasonable rules, but they
quickly get unreasonable and dictatorial. You give people with tiny
brains just a little bit of power. I've seen it.
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I've seen it working here. The people with the tiniest
brains who have a little bit of power are the
biggest pains in the asses in the world. Those people
don't work here anymore. But this homeowners association law took
effect July the first, And now, when you commit a violation,
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I'll give you an example here. They got it. They
got a great story. Jinna Kim homeowners association said she
couldn't fix a doorway inside her condo. So this is
not even hot pink stucco here. Okay, Uh, she did
it anyway. I thought it would be okay. The doorway
completely inside her home, separated an office in a dining room.
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But then the complex's manager peeked into her place through
an open garage door.
Speaker 6 (16:45):
Oh oh, well she should have had her garage door open.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Well, you say, not only could she get fined for
leaving it open, but it allowed this, this spy this Karen, Yeah,
saw the renovation and j got to notice the next day.
It's one hundred dollars fine at first, but then it
becomes five hundred dollars a day, thirty five hundred dollars
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a week forever. Well, that's ridiculous, not easy to fix.
A Well, you have a new doorway. How do you
get rid of that quickly? You don't. But July first,
Gavin Newsom, and this is the first good thing he's
done in the last six and a half years, signed
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Assembly Bill one thirty into law, and now fines are
capped at a total of one hundred dollars, not one
hundred dollars a day, total one hundred dollars. And Kim said,
for years HOA has been able to bend entire communities
to their will on a whim. This stops that. And
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everybody was surprised because they were it was supposed to
be one bill and then the the HOA lobbyist thought
that they had amended it properly, but somebody took the
language out and snuck it into another bill, and the
lobbyists were taken by surprise. They didn't see this coming.
It bans interest and late this on violations. It prohibits Homeowners'
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associations from disciplining homeowners as long as they address violations
before the hearing. And again it's only a one hundred
dollars one time fee. And because the most obnoxious people
in society end up on homeowner sports, they do.
Speaker 6 (18:33):
Yeah, that's no.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
I know it's true. I know it's true. I remember
years ago when I went on about them and making
fun of the base stucco boxes. You know, they started
calling me up. Well, you don't understand though, you know,
you have a lot of crime there, like we don't
have crime here, all right, This is why it's like,
wait a second, you're stopping crime because you don't allow
flower boxes on a windowsill. You're stopping crime because you
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don't allow hot pink on your stucco.
Speaker 6 (18:58):
But again, there are and if it's the examples that
I gave.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
You, well, you know, beige offends me. Why would look
it does.
Speaker 7 (19:07):
If every house is beije and looks exactly the same,
I get it.
Speaker 6 (19:11):
I understand.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
You know what upsets me is conformity. When I see
beij stucco houses as far as the eye can can see,
it's like I start to actually get mad.
Speaker 6 (19:22):
Well, but you don't have to live in that community.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
I know, and I wouldn't, but I'm just seeing it
triggers me. I got upset. I remember one time we
had friends who lived down the block from us, when
our kids are really small. All the all the sons
were friends, and then they moved to Orange County, Lamarata,
and we went to visit them for Halloween. We were
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going to walk this beautiful beij stucco neighborhood because it
was really safe, right, good place to go for Halloween.
And the wife is Asian and we knew she had
an Asian mother. Well, we walked into a bay stucco
house and an older Asian woman answered the door, and
she was very nice and polite, and we went into
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the living girl and sat down with her.
Speaker 6 (20:09):
Oh, I know where this is going.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
It took about ten minutes to realize that's not our
friend's mother. This is not our friend's house, but because
all the homes looked alike and she looked like our
friend's mother. Actually, we did that twice in Orange County.
Speaker 6 (20:31):
Yeah, don't you read an address?
Speaker 1 (20:35):
We went, We got invited to a party. We went
to the party and they had ballet and they parked
our car and we were dressed up, and we walked
in and they handed us a glass of wine. And
we started milling about looking for the friend who invited
us and couldn't find them, and just started asking around. Realized, oh,
wrong party. Twice in my life, both times in Orange County.
Speaker 6 (21:01):
Wow, that's all I can say.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
It's I don't know, is it me or is it them? No?
Speaker 7 (21:05):
I mean I know there are some houses seriously that
look exactly the same. But you have to look at
the address so you don't make that mistake.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
I got No. One of my family members lives in
a I mean, it's a nice neighborhood, right, All the
homes look alike. Every time I go visit. Not every time,
maybe about half the time. I pull up to the
wrong driveway, get out of the car, start walking up
to the wrong house. That's three times.
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on the iHeart app. Boy Oh Boy, one idiot after
another has been running Sacramento. Their old mayor was Darryl Steinberg,
who is just a steaming pile, and he used to
be the Senate leader. The new mayor is a guy
named Kevin McCarty. And I bring them up because Steinberg
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used to allow mental patience and drug addict vagrants to
sleep on city hall grounds overnight, so then everybody worked
at city Hall and Sacramento had to step over all
the needles and feces and dying bodies every day. Steinberg
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didn't seem to care how terrifying that might be. Or
maybe government workers or such zombies they don't notice. I'm
convinced a lot of government workers are on or on
Sentinel anyway, because they're they're usual, they always seem to
be in a stupor. So then you know, the homeless
got attracted. All the vagrants came to city Hall and
they would hang out all day and all night on
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the streets nearby and the park across the street. No
whole neighborhood was destroyed by Steinberg's policy. So a new
guy comes in, Kevin McCarty, and he's got a new policy.
The vagrants, the mental patients, the drug addicts cannot sleep
outside City Hall anymore. I have a new ordinance, no
homeless drug addicts between nine pm and six am. This
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is from California Globe dot Com Katie Grimes because McCarty said,
cleaning up after the drug addicts and mental patients cost
taxpayers three hundred and fifty five thousand dollars a year
just for sleeping on the city hall property. And so
this sounds great, right, McCarty is undoing a really stupid idea.
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It's going to save a lot of money. Except they
don't send the homeless for mandatory mental health and drug treatment.
They just tell them, you know, get off by lawn basically,
So now they're going to be wandering around all the
local streets. Now that they invited a whole community, they're
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going to be wandering around all the local streets and
the businesses and in the parks, and sometimes they wander
into neighborhood homes. There's nothing in the ordinance that sends
them forces them into treatment. Now, you know what's amazing.
For all the lobbying and bribery that goes on, businesses
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in all these cities seem incapable of bribing the mayor
and the city council with enough money to get them
to toss these people once.
Speaker 6 (24:42):
And for all.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
You know'll build some kind of asylum and take them
there again, forced treatment. I will say this till I
drop dead. If they don't mandate force treatment, this is
never going away. Never. And Steinberger was mayor for quite
some time, and he never did anything about the mentally ill,
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drug addicted population that lives in the streets, even though
you know, when he was in the Senate he was
very proud of his millionaire's tax. It added an extra
percentage point on wealthy people income text and the money
was supposed to go for mental health treatment. And I
remember a few years later they had all this money
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sitting in various accounts, and much of it wasn't spent
because they didn't know what to spend it on, because
back in two thousand and three, two thousand and four,
they didn't have this problem. And there's a councilwoman up
in Sacramento named my Thang, and she was against the change.
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She was against this new Mayor Kevin McCarty's ordinance to
get the homeless off city hall property. And she said,
this policy does not build housing. This policy does not
treat the health of our neighbors. Oh man, that's Garcetti language.
Our neighbors, Yes, our fellow Angelinos. This policy does not
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address the root causes of the crisis, all true. But
the root causes of the crisis are mental illness and drugs.
So you have to force them into treatment, right, police,
police use the police, round them up at gunpoint if necessary,
and put them in vans and lock them up and
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treat them. It's the only thing that'll work. We've done
ten years the other way and they won't do that,
which is fascinating. Of course, I don't know if there's
enough mental health professionals and drug addiction professionals that exist
to staff these would be facilities, but they never build any,
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they never staff them. They and we know why because
they don't actually care. Eventually, all the people sleeping on
City Hull are going to die. They're gonna die of
their drug addiction and mental illness. They're gonna there's I'm
sure they're carried off regularly. This is because the whole
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industry is meant to enrich nonprofits, where most of the
major players in any nonprofit are making well into six figures,
and there's just lots of money for everybody. And you know,
when when when something doesn't happen for ten years, you
have to say why. I mean, everybody knows it's mental
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illness and drug addicts, so why don't we put them
into treatment? Force them into treatment. Everybody goes silent, Well, no,
you don't do that because that would get them off
the streets, make some of them better. That ends the racket.
Then no more money for the for the nonprofits. So
the scam goes to live another day. I don't know
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when the public figures this out. Public's largely scrolling. All right,
we come back, We've got Conway next, and then we
have Michael Krozer right now with the news live in
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what you missed. So last Friday, we actually for a
few days we were awaiting the decision from the Ninth
Circuit Court of Appeal. A lower court judge had said
the Trump administration was unconstitutional in their illegal alien roundups
because they were taking people off the street and they
(00:42):
had no reasonable suspicion whether they were illegal or not.
And there was a lower court judge, Mohammi Usi Mensa Frimpong,
and she ruled the patrols were illegal, and this Court
of Appeals, I guess any unanimous decision, right, I agreed
with that decision. Today you had a press conference about it,
Michael Munks covering the whole story.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Yeah, it was a week ago today that that hearing
took place up in San Francisco, and we talked about
it on this very program. I played some clips from
that hearing. They stream those hearings on zoom. It was
a zoom hearing, and I played for you at that
time a clip from the proceeding that indicated to me
at least that the judges were not buying the argument
from the Trump administration on a very key point in
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this case, which is, are immigration agents targeting people solely
based on their race, solely based on the language they're
overheard speaking, or solely based on the location that they
are car washes, home depot, parking lots, that sort of
thing that does not establish probable cause. And the government
had a hard time arguing the point. So today a
(01:47):
celebratory press conference of sorts brought on by the ACLU
of Southern California, one of the lead plaintiffs in this case,
and other immigrants rights organizations that are part of this
the City of La, the County of La, other local
cities are also part.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Of this thing.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
The outside and this is what ACLU So Cal Executive
Director Chandra bot Nagar had to say about the government's argument.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
As the court said, if the government suggests, quote that
they are not conducting stops that let lack reasonable suspicion.
They can hardly claim to be irreparably harmed by an
injunction aimed at preventing a subset of stops not supported
by reasonable suspicion end quote, Meaning, if the administration claims
it is not breaking the law, then why is it
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fighting against an order that for visit from breaking the law.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
And so the district court put out a temporary restraining
order that said you cannot just go around and pull
people aside because they're Hispanic, because they're speaking Spanish, or
because of where they are. The government's saying, we're not
doing that. So with the appeals court, the judges asked,
if you're not doing it, how is this temporary restraining
(02:53):
order harming your immigration efforts? And that to me seem
like the point where they lost right. Did they try
to have an answer to that? They did not have
a sufficient answer in the eyes of these judges. Keep
in mind, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals is the
same court that slapped down Governor Newsom in his fight
against President Trump over the National Guard being deployed here.
(03:15):
So it's kind of gone both ways on both sides
of these arguments against the Trump administration. On this one,
the White House just did not present an argument that
they are not targeting people based on those characteristics.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
I can just hear I know from reading comments and
just the reactions of a lot of listeners. They'll say, Oh,
come on, if you drive up to a home depot
and there's twenty Hispanic guys loiter and around looking for work,
what do you think they are? If you go to
a car wash, right, and there's twenty young guys there, standard,
(03:49):
what do you think they are?
Speaker 2 (03:50):
And that's similar to well, if you're driving in a
certain part of the city and you see a group
of guys in general on the corner, they're probably selling drugs, right,
but you can't just go up to them because they're
standing there. Even if you're likely right, you can't do it. Exactly.
That's exactly what this is saying. You have to have
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a probable cause. The government's saying, no, we use a
vast intelligence to let us know where to go.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
But this case was.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Triggered by one guy, Pedro Vasquez Perdomo. He was one
of those three guys you might remember.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
Back in June.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
It got some play in the media who was at
a bus stop in Pasadena in front of a donut
shop and they got swept up in this and taken
into custody. They were just waiting on Metro to pick
them up, and he says, the next thing, you know,
a bunch of mass guys who never identified themselves took
us into custody. And so that is what triggered this case.
And these plaintiffs, the ACLU and others, and the local
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governments have presented gobs of folks who have experienced something similar.
The government may have to pivot because this has been
held up at this point.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Right what they can do still legally is.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Have probable cause to approach illegal immigrants workplaces that sort
of thing. If they're able to gather any evidence to
suggest a certain workplace is hiring illegal immigrants, then they
can go in there and investigate.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
But the fashion factory in downtown La exactly, which is
what ignited the riots, ironically, but they were going in
there because they done an investigation into the company's work practices,
who they hired. They had they claimed they were tax
violations going on, but they had all the investigation done,
they felt they had proved their case, and they got
(05:37):
a judge to sign a warrant letting them go in
right and then arrest who they wanted to arrest. That's right.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
That seemed to be an extreme case because there were
other crimes being committed and there were illegal immigrants allegedly
working there as well. That issue was brought up by
La Worker Center Network executive director Armando Gudino, who spoke
today is celebrating this ruling.
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Here's what he said.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
Let me be clear, ice in law enforcement are not
above the law. The Fourth Amendment doesn't stop at the
gates of a car wash, at a garment factory or
in a strawberry field. This case is about dignity. It's
about drawing a line against fear and reminding this country
that immigrants are not the exception to the Constitution. We
(06:18):
are the living, breathing proof of it.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
So even though there were accinuating circumstances involving the garment
district in that particular case, you can see from these
advocates that they don't agree with that particular raid either.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
Right, but that rate was allowed because if they go in,
let's say they go in to go after management for
their paperwork crimes, through tax crimes. If they find illegal
aliens work there, they can grab those people. That's where
they have a legal pretext to enter the building.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
And I know you got a run, but just by
way of an update or just for planning purposes, this
is a temporary restraining order. The Trump administration could take
this to the Supreme Court to get this overturned so
that they can resume the actions as they were doing them. Otherwise,
they might just wait this thing out because these plaintiffs
want a longer injunction and there's a hearing set for
that back at Judge Frimpong's court here at the lower
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court level, the district court on September twenty five.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
They want a permanent injunction. Indeed, Verry Good Michael a
couple months KFI News when we come back one of
the entities I absolutely despise in life, and I think
most people do. Our homeowners associations with their stupid, obsessive, compulsive,
anal retentive, picky un rules to torture people and extort money. Well,
(07:32):
who knew there's a new state law that just cuts
the legs out from under homeowners Associations and they can't
torture people anymore with their nonsense. Tell you all about
it and we come back.
Speaker 5 (07:44):
You're listening to John Cobelt on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (07:50):
We're on every day from one until four o'clock. After
four o'clock John cobelts Show on demand on the iHeart.
I was just a minute ago teasing Deborah. You know,
she's always I don't know I'm going to say where
you're going or when you're going, but at some point
you're going to go on a vacation. And as you know,
i'd call this running joke, except this stunt a joke.
(08:13):
Terrible things happened to whatever country she goes and visits. Yes,
for example, she went to Scotland, right, and the queen died. Correct,
There's something that happens about once every hundred years. And
there you were, and then you were about to fly
to see Israel in.
Speaker 6 (08:30):
Egypt exactly one week to the day, right.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
And war breaks out. Yes, And you were going to
spend an overnight in Dubai and there was this massive flood.
Speaker 6 (08:41):
Yes, which it's the worst flooding ever.
Speaker 7 (08:43):
It's the worst flooding over I mean, airports are flooding,
and that's just the.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
Last couple of years. Yes, don't forget getting COVID in Mexico,
in Mexico.
Speaker 6 (08:51):
That's right, right, that's right.
Speaker 1 (08:53):
So I'm you know, we're there's actually the state Department
has travel advisories and I'm.
Speaker 6 (08:58):
Going to try and fly under the race.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
Okay, here's something that's happening to me. We're going to
go back east later this summer, and we're gonna you know,
I got a place, We got a place in Florida,
and my son lives in North Carolina. So the idea
is go see my son in North Carolina and then
drive down to Florida and stop at some cities that
I've either rarely or never been to, because there's a
(09:21):
lot of beautiful, smaller cities in the South. One of
it's like Charleston, South Carolina, which I've only seen once,
and another one is Savannah, Georgia, which my wife was
two once and says it's absolutely gorgeous. So I've been,
you know, looking up things to do in Charleston and
Savannah as we as we drive down the coast, and
this story just jumped out at me. Over the weekend,
(09:46):
they have found radioactive WASP nests it says here in
South Carolina along the Savannah River radio active wasp nests.
This site used to play a major role in nuclear
(10:08):
bomb production, and it's called the Savannah River Site. It's
a nuclear facility near Aiken, and they produced plutonium and
tritium during the Cold War. Well, they found four nests,
and apparently they haven't done a good job with the
nuclear waste, the leftover nuclear radiation, because they they tested
(10:35):
the nests and it had had ten They had ten
times higher than the limit allowed by the federal government
for radiation radioactive nests. It was near tanks of stored
liquid nuclear waste. Well, it looks like the liquid leak,
didn't it. They sprayed the nests with insecticide and removed
(10:58):
them and they had to disposed of them as radioactive waste.
No wasps were found inside, but it means the wasps
are loose, then the wasps may be radioactive.
Speaker 6 (11:10):
Are you still gonna go?
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Well, I'm not stopping in this I'm not stopping in
this town. Wasps are chests.
Speaker 6 (11:18):
Oh, I am terrified.
Speaker 1 (11:23):
My wife once got stung by a wasp. She went
right down. She's got bad allergies when she gets stung
by a beer or a wasp. She's she's laid out
on the ground, like right on the sidewalk. It said
the nests were contaminated with radioactive contamination leftover radiation from
the weapons production era. They claim it was not caused
(11:46):
by a leak, that it was always sitting there, and
then they found three more nests at the facility. They're
called hot wasps. They could be contaminated, right, Yes, if
you're living in a nuclear nest, you're going to be
(12:06):
flying around and you can I guess they glow in
the dark at night. You can see them coming from
a couple of blocks away.
Speaker 6 (12:14):
Good that you could see them coming.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Yeah, just walk around with a Geiger counter. As soon
as it starts ticking, you know you're They claim there's
no evidence of public danger. I wonder how many other
stories are like this. So they now four wasp wasp nests.
(12:41):
That is not an easy phrase to say, four wasp
nests in UH in custody, claiming it's it's it's a
low level of radiation ten times higher than the limits.
So it's not that long. So if if I see
any wasps when they're going on our trip, UH huh,
all right, we come back. Now, I'm going to do
(13:02):
the homeowners. Were we ever in a homeowners association?
Speaker 7 (13:06):
I I wasn't, but my grandmother was.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
People. Yes, right, homeowners' associations are really deranged.
Speaker 6 (13:14):
They don't have anything better to do.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
They're power hungry, power drunk. Yeah, there's all kinds of
questionable things always happening with the money. Oh yeah, yay.
I've rarely been involved with one, but it's not a
pleasant experience. Well, there's a new California housing bill that
was passed by the state. This is a rare bill
that Newsom signed. Well, they just cut the legs out
(13:37):
from under the homeowners' associations regarding all the fines that
they could levy for pickyuon violations. Tell you about it.
We come back.
Speaker 5 (13:45):
You're listening to John Cobels on demand from KFI AM
six forty.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
We're on every day from one until four o'clock, and
after four o'clock it's the John Cobilt Show on demand homeowners' associations.
I know many listeners in the area, especially in Orange County,
have to live with these and I remember one day
I was teasing people in Orange County because so many
people live in these beige stucco boxes, and I didn't
(14:14):
understand why the color of every stucco box had to
be beige. And I started finding out with homeowners associations
that they have spices that go door to door. And
if you put like a flower box on your windowsill, right,
so you have pretty flowers to look at, that could
be a violation and they'll come by and you'll get
(14:35):
fined like one hundred dollars every day forever. If you
leave your garage door open, that's a fine. If your
kid leaves his bicycle on the driveway, that's a fine.
Speaker 7 (14:46):
Now there is a benefit, though, I'm just going to
say that you're not going to have these yucky, beat
up old cars that just sit in front of your
house forever and nobody.
Speaker 6 (14:57):
Claims them, right.
Speaker 7 (14:59):
That would be cooped up and other unsightly things that
happen all the time in my neighborhood.
Speaker 1 (15:05):
So you're you have the soul of a homeowners association
director only.
Speaker 6 (15:10):
Because of that stuff.
Speaker 7 (15:12):
But if I want to paint my house a certain color,
but also though I really don't want to live next
door to somebody that paints their house hot, pink, even
though I do like hot.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
That's that's one of your one of your favorite coming.
Speaker 6 (15:22):
I know I love hot.
Speaker 1 (15:23):
You're you're famous for your hot pink outfit.
Speaker 7 (15:25):
But I but you don't want to live in a
house next door to a hot pink house.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
Well I would, right, there's probably an interesting woman that
lives there. Well, there is homeowner association. The thing is,
you know, they start out with reasonable rules, but they
quickly get unreasonable and dictatorial. You give people with tiny
brains just a little bit of power. I've seen it.
(15:52):
I've seen it working here. The people with the tiniest
brains who have a little bit of power are the
biggest pains in the asses in the world. Those people
don't work here anymore. But this homeowners association law took
effect July the first, And now, when you commit a violation,
(16:14):
I'll give you an example here. They got it. They
got a great story. Jinna Kim homeowners association said she
couldn't fix a doorway inside her condo. So this is
not even hot pink stucco here. Okay, Uh, she did
it anyway. I thought it would be okay. The doorway
completely inside her home, separated an office in a dining room.
(16:38):
But then the complex's manager peeked into her place through
an open garage door.
Speaker 6 (16:45):
Oh oh, well she should have had her garage door open.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
Well, you say, not only could she get fined for
leaving it open, but it allowed this, this spy this Karen, Yeah,
saw the renovation and j got to notice the next day.
It's one hundred dollars fine at first, but then it
becomes five hundred dollars a day, thirty five hundred dollars
(17:10):
a week forever. Well, that's ridiculous, not easy to fix.
A Well, you have a new doorway. How do you
get rid of that quickly? You don't. But July first,
Gavin Newsom, and this is the first good thing he's
done in the last six and a half years, signed
(17:30):
Assembly Bill one thirty into law, and now fines are
capped at a total of one hundred dollars, not one
hundred dollars a day, total one hundred dollars. And Kim said,
for years HOA has been able to bend entire communities
to their will on a whim. This stops that. And
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everybody was surprised because they were it was supposed to
be one bill and then the the HOA lobbyist thought
that they had amended it properly, but somebody took the
language out and snuck it into another bill, and the
lobbyists were taken by surprise. They didn't see this coming.
It bans interest and late this on violations. It prohibits Homeowners'
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associations from disciplining homeowners as long as they address violations
before the hearing. And again it's only a one hundred
dollars one time fee. And because the most obnoxious people
in society end up on homeowner sports, they do.
Speaker 6 (18:33):
Yeah, that's no.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
I know it's true. I know it's true. I remember
years ago when I went on about them and making
fun of the base stucco boxes. You know, they started
calling me up. Well, you don't understand though, you know,
you have a lot of crime there, like we don't
have crime here, all right, This is why it's like,
wait a second, you're stopping crime because you don't allow
flower boxes on a windowsill. You're stopping crime because you
(18:56):
don't allow hot pink on your stucco.
Speaker 6 (18:58):
But again, there are and if it's the examples that
I gave.
Speaker 1 (19:03):
You, well, you know, beige offends me. Why would look
it does.
Speaker 7 (19:07):
If every house is beije and looks exactly the same,
I get it.
Speaker 6 (19:11):
I understand.
Speaker 1 (19:12):
You know what upsets me is conformity. When I see
beij stucco houses as far as the eye can can see,
it's like I start to actually get mad.
Speaker 6 (19:22):
Well, but you don't have to live in that community.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
I know, and I wouldn't, but I'm just seeing it
triggers me. I got upset. I remember one time we
had friends who lived down the block from us, when
our kids are really small. All the all the sons
were friends, and then they moved to Orange County, Lamarata,
and we went to visit them for Halloween. We were
(19:45):
going to walk this beautiful beij stucco neighborhood because it
was really safe, right, good place to go for Halloween.
And the wife is Asian and we knew she had
an Asian mother. Well, we walked into a bay stucco
house and an older Asian woman answered the door, and
she was very nice and polite, and we went into
(20:08):
the living girl and sat down with her.
Speaker 6 (20:09):
Oh, I know where this is going.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
It took about ten minutes to realize that's not our
friend's mother. This is not our friend's house, but because
all the homes looked alike and she looked like our
friend's mother. Actually, we did that twice in Orange County.
Speaker 6 (20:31):
Yeah, don't you read an address?
Speaker 1 (20:35):
We went, We got invited to a party. We went
to the party and they had ballet and they parked
our car and we were dressed up, and we walked
in and they handed us a glass of wine. And
we started milling about looking for the friend who invited
us and couldn't find them, and just started asking around. Realized, oh,
wrong party. Twice in my life, both times in Orange County.
Speaker 6 (21:01):
Wow, that's all I can say.
Speaker 1 (21:03):
It's I don't know, is it me or is it them? No?
Speaker 7 (21:05):
I mean I know there are some houses seriously that
look exactly the same. But you have to look at
the address so you don't make that mistake.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
I got No. One of my family members lives in
a I mean, it's a nice neighborhood, right, All the
homes look alike. Every time I go visit. Not every time,
maybe about half the time. I pull up to the
wrong driveway, get out of the car, start walking up
to the wrong house. That's three times.
Speaker 5 (21:31):
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(21:58):
on the iHeart app. Boy Oh Boy, one idiot after
another has been running Sacramento. Their old mayor was Darryl Steinberg,
who is just a steaming pile, and he used to
be the Senate leader. The new mayor is a guy
named Kevin McCarty. And I bring them up because Steinberg
(22:23):
used to allow mental patience and drug addict vagrants to
sleep on city hall grounds overnight, so then everybody worked
at city Hall and Sacramento had to step over all
the needles and feces and dying bodies every day. Steinberg
(22:45):
didn't seem to care how terrifying that might be. Or
maybe government workers or such zombies they don't notice. I'm
convinced a lot of government workers are on or on
Sentinel anyway, because they're they're usual, they always seem to
be in a stupor. So then you know, the homeless
got attracted. All the vagrants came to city Hall and
they would hang out all day and all night on
(23:07):
the streets nearby and the park across the street. No
whole neighborhood was destroyed by Steinberg's policy. So a new
guy comes in, Kevin McCarty, and he's got a new policy.
The vagrants, the mental patients, the drug addicts cannot sleep
outside City Hall anymore. I have a new ordinance, no
homeless drug addicts between nine pm and six am. This
(23:28):
is from California Globe dot Com Katie Grimes because McCarty said,
cleaning up after the drug addicts and mental patients cost
taxpayers three hundred and fifty five thousand dollars a year
just for sleeping on the city hall property. And so
this sounds great, right, McCarty is undoing a really stupid idea.
(23:50):
It's going to save a lot of money. Except they
don't send the homeless for mandatory mental health and drug treatment.
They just tell them, you know, get off by lawn basically,
So now they're going to be wandering around all the
local streets. Now that they invited a whole community, they're
(24:11):
going to be wandering around all the local streets and
the businesses and in the parks, and sometimes they wander
into neighborhood homes. There's nothing in the ordinance that sends
them forces them into treatment. Now, you know what's amazing.
For all the lobbying and bribery that goes on, businesses
(24:32):
in all these cities seem incapable of bribing the mayor
and the city council with enough money to get them
to toss these people once.
Speaker 6 (24:42):
And for all.
Speaker 1 (24:44):
You know'll build some kind of asylum and take them
there again, forced treatment. I will say this till I
drop dead. If they don't mandate force treatment, this is
never going away. Never. And Steinberger was mayor for quite
some time, and he never did anything about the mentally ill,
(25:07):
drug addicted population that lives in the streets, even though
you know, when he was in the Senate he was
very proud of his millionaire's tax. It added an extra
percentage point on wealthy people income text and the money
was supposed to go for mental health treatment. And I
remember a few years later they had all this money
(25:28):
sitting in various accounts, and much of it wasn't spent
because they didn't know what to spend it on, because
back in two thousand and three, two thousand and four,
they didn't have this problem. And there's a councilwoman up
in Sacramento named my Thang, and she was against the change.
(25:51):
She was against this new Mayor Kevin McCarty's ordinance to
get the homeless off city hall property. And she said,
this policy does not build housing. This policy does not
treat the health of our neighbors. Oh man, that's Garcetti language.
Our neighbors, Yes, our fellow Angelinos. This policy does not
(26:13):
address the root causes of the crisis, all true. But
the root causes of the crisis are mental illness and drugs.
So you have to force them into treatment, right, police,
police use the police, round them up at gunpoint if necessary,
and put them in vans and lock them up and
(26:35):
treat them. It's the only thing that'll work. We've done
ten years the other way and they won't do that,
which is fascinating. Of course, I don't know if there's
enough mental health professionals and drug addiction professionals that exist
to staff these would be facilities, but they never build any,
(26:58):
they never staff them. They and we know why because
they don't actually care. Eventually, all the people sleeping on
City Hull are going to die. They're gonna die of
their drug addiction and mental illness. They're gonna there's I'm
sure they're carried off regularly. This is because the whole
(27:18):
industry is meant to enrich nonprofits, where most of the
major players in any nonprofit are making well into six figures,
and there's just lots of money for everybody. And you know,
when when when something doesn't happen for ten years, you
have to say why. I mean, everybody knows it's mental
(27:39):
illness and drug addicts, so why don't we put them
into treatment? Force them into treatment. Everybody goes silent, Well, no,
you don't do that because that would get them off
the streets, make some of them better. That ends the racket.
Then no more money for the for the nonprofits. So
the scam goes to live another day. I don't know
(28:00):
when the public figures this out. Public's largely scrolling. All right,
we come back, We've got Conway next, and then we
have Michael Krozer right now with the news live in
the CAFI twenty four our newsroom. Hey, you've been listening
to The John Cobalt Show podcast. You can always hear
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