Squatters who have taken over Davis Park and the nearby snow dump in Anchorage had weeks of warning that the park was being taken back over by the city, and encampments would be abated. On the day that abatement started, Tuesday, the vagrants began torching it, with multiple fires, in protest.
Anchorage Fire Department said there are “multiple fires through the Davis Park Area. Stay clear of Mountain View Drive while your firefighters continue to work. Orange flames shot high into the trees on what is an area that is prone to wildfires that could endanger lives in urban Anchorage.
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Mayor Suzanne LaFrance has, apparently, lost control of the criminal vagrant population in Anchorage, something she ran on when she filed for office, after having criticized former Mayor Dave Bronson for his “incompetence.” The radical left who support her will not likely hold her accountable as Anchorage heads into the high fire danger season. The Davis Park area has been dubbed by Must Read Alaska readers as SLAZ, the Suzanne LaFrance Autonomous Zone, a lawless place where criminals and druggies rule.
Meanwhile, three Assembly members have filed an ordinance to prohibit the squatting on public land.
Simply confirms my belief that the homeless are all criminals.
Yes, you are a criminal if you are squatting on any property that you do not own. 50 years ago that would have been a ruthless opinion. However, today there are dozens of programs yearning to help. These people refuse help and instead choose a life of crime and squalor.
Fires in a illegal homeless camp, how can that happen? Didn’t our Assembly recently pass an ordinance making public fires ilegal? Undoubtedly LaFrance and her clown show will get to the bottom of this and give the perpetrators a new supply of matches.
Tantrums…
Children throw tantrums.
I would be willing to donate the Park Strip in downtown Los Anchorage for a new homeless campground.
There are very few trees in the area with lots of alcohol beverage supply to medicate the patients and the ASSembly can keep a close eye on their clients from their barstools at Mad Myrnas.
The parkstrip is not worth anything else as it is too close to the downtown zero safety zone that few people find it attractive.
Actually it will be easier to remove all that trash and junk if it’s burned and ashes.
LaFrance didn’t lose control. She never had control and has done nothing to indicate she wanted control. She’s not the right person to control inappropriate behavior among adults… history would indicate that that takes a white heterosexual male and Anchorage didn’t elect one of those.
Setting fires as a protest? Arson is a crime, is it not? These bums who set the fires need a hickory shampoo, followed by a set of chrome bracelets and a long ride to be booked for felony arson. Expect the ACLU and our Assembly to rush in soon to protect these bums’ first amendment rights for this mostly peaceful protest.
Set up a Squatterville next to the Anchorage Dump. Free food, household goods, wood and burn barrels. A Squatters Paradise. For Anchorage Citizens, no Fecal-Urinated streets, no panhandlers, no passed out people, laying around, no explicit sexual activity. The can have their world, and we can have ours. Non Profits can keep them supplied with Booze, Weed, and Tobacco. They would have no reason to leave. On Saturday Night they can mosey over to Ekutna and beg at the New Casino.
These folks should go live a Lafrances home right on her lot.
She could offer bathroom services and feed the dudes as well out her back boor.
Get the rest of her buddy fairies over to help out.
They could all gather round the campfire and sing “Tiptoe thought Two lips…”
Some-Mores work well at these events
Mayor Suzanne LaFrance has, apparently, lost control of the criminal vagrant population in Anchorage, something she ran on when she filed for office. What? She lied? NO WAY!!
The homeless squatters are Democrat at heart. Take something that isn’t theirs without doing the work to build their own lives and when someone who rightfully takes it back, they seek to destroy it rather than give it back to whom it belongs.
Word of advice, defy your local Democrat. Don’t give an inch or else they literally will take a mile.