Dear Editor, I am really surprised to read Cynthia Walker’s
column asking that those stealing the shopping carts should be held
accountable!
PD Responds to Call for Help in Intolerable Case of Gilroy ‘Audio-Terrorism’
Dear Editor,
I am really surprised to read Cynthia Walker’s column asking that those stealing the shopping carts should be held accountable! Doesn’t she realize, once a criminal, always a criminal, and it is up to us law-abiding, taxpaying citizens to pay for their mistakes?
Did anyone notice the smile on the face of the woman pushing the stolen shopping cart?
I have come to the conclusion, once a criminal, always a criminal, because I now live by criminals. They break the law almost every single day. I have worked with the city to try to keep my neighborhood from being taken over by crime and I’ve had quite a bit of help from Rachel Munoz, from the Neighborhood Task Force.
However, one city department told me that I was using their office to harass my neighbors. This was “after” they had responded to my complaint and found these people were in violation of the city codes! The neighbors were asked to correct the problem – and they did, for a few days, then they decided they didn’t have to follow the law. Hmmm, once a criminal, always a criminal. Why should they have to follow the law?
Yes, I could call the department and complain and, if I’m going to save, the once quiet neighborhood I bought into several years ago, maybe I should. However, I’ve decided to make a call to the police only when it affected my family. Today, was the day. Although the police have been out here several times asking the same offenders nicely to turn down their music, today they decided it was OK to break the law once again. They cranked up their music to the point that it vibrated my windows and shook my chandelier, “audio-terrorism” at it’s finest! I still didn’t pick up the phone, until they decided to broadcast profanities into my home.
I was very pleased to see the police arrive in a matter of minutes. The criminals said “I’ was the problem. The police officer explained to them that the amplified noise was in violation of Section 21007 of the California Vehicle Code and, I believe I saw him hand out a ticket. They argued that I called the police every time they break the law. How rude of me as a neighbor! The police officer very graciously left them with, something like, “well, stop breaking the law and maybe she’ll stop calling the police.”
You see, once a criminal, always a criminal. Everyone else is wrong and they are right. Everyone should have to pay for their violations in the form of damaged eardrums and higher fees to shop. Maybe a few tickets will change their mind? Speaking of tickets, why aren’t we handing out tickets for those shopping cart thieves?
Susan Hamilton, Gilroy
BART Drain: When Will the Taxpayers Demand Public Transit Fiscal Efficiency?
Dear Editor,
Regarding “BART Drain: Pour It Down” the Dispatch editorial any form of transport that is conceived insolvent, born bankrupt, operated with unremunerative fares failed from inception won’t fail.
Like all the other socialist transit modes – Amtrak, Caltrain and Lite Rail conceived in the Marxist-Leninist philosophical model – it was, and is, a Frankenstein that never should have been inflicted upon us. Free enterprise transport has its flaws, but all of them combined never have, and never will, equal the damage inflicted by the Soviet-style systems we inaccurately call “American” public transit.
Joe Thompson, Gilroy
