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Enough is enough is enough ... . ..and it's getting nittier and grittier. Remember thc Dcvclopment Permit Board and the 3 days of hearings.. ovcr the 5-prong proposal to sct up addiction scrviccs'? Remembcr how the so-called Community Alliance has been using intimidation, threats, backroom tactics and slcaq stratcgics but I'm gctting ahcad of myscl f. The problcm: addiction and drugs and safety and health and disease and misery and crime and poverty and kids and seniors and the huge number of people who don't fit into any category other than citizen. Thc problem is also the seeming paranoia, disgust and non-tolcrance that a small number of people with political connections to the NPA and their own monq/class illusions arc trying to infcct thc wholc proposal with. Over two thousand people havc dicd from drug ovcrdosc in the last 8 years. This is outrageous. Kids
are being used as drug mules. are getting sucked into prostitution, are our futurc addicts. The Downtoun Eastside is struggling to change while the rcasons for addiction, be they clear or as murky as the public statements of Alliance snobs, m a k any treatment problematic. There is no magic bullet; but the Alliance has made it clear that they want anjthing and everqdung unacceptable - to them - wiped out. It's diflicult to go ovcr it all again, but that is precisely where the Dcvclopment Permits arc. Once thc DP Board gave unanimous approval to all five parts, there were 30 days in which appeals could be made. On the afternoon of the 30' day there were appeals filcd. Now it goes to the Roarduf Variance. Yes, boys and girls, we havc to do it all ovcr again. The Board of Variance is much more strict in its process, even though the DP Board went out of its way to givc every concession to members of this socallcd Alliance. The purpose is to givc thcm no legal recourse, to cross all 't's and dot all 'i's, but it's also a reflection of the stupidity of their behind-clsseddoors dcniands and threats to City Council and gross exploitation of city bureaucrats. "We will not be drawn into t ~ i n to g solve the problems." "There will be no compromise. We will not tolerate any more services in our (sic) community." "Quit or Die" - a headline for an article sent to evcry Councillor with the written note by Lynne Bqson (onc of about 4 pcoplc calling thcmsclvcs thc Victory Squarc Property Owners Association) saying "many of us feel this way." "Addicts should all be taken to some remote place, like an island." "If I had niy way I'd take every drug user to Crab Park and drown thcm one by onc."