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Dori: Artesian Commons Park protest shows criminals have taken over the region

Sep 25, 2018, 7:19 AM

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Police had to use flash-bang grenades to shut down a protest outside of Artesian Commons Park in Olympia. (KIRO 7)

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Sadly there have been so many stories lately that reflect the severe downturn of our region in terms of crime. Down in Olympia, there was a riot at Artesian Commons Park.

The city fenced off and closed down the public park over the summer because the vagrants had taken it over. On Saturday, police in riot gear were called out because the homeless were tearing down the fence at Artesian Commons Park. Police had to use flash-bang grenades and PepperBalls to shut down the protest.

The homeless people were “taking back” the public park that was closed down because they themselves turned it into a trash pit of drugs, a den of iniquity. It’s unbelievable how we are allowing the addicts to take over this entire region.

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The fact that we are giving in to drugs by legalizing them in King and Snohomish Counties is terrifying. Look at the gang problem that has resulted in so many murders in our region, several of them just in the last week. Drug money is what fuels the gangs. That’s the reason why there are these turf wars everywhere. China knows that if they want to undermine the United States, they can dump fentanyl in Mexico, knowing that there is basically an unchecked border between Mexico and the United States. So now we have a free-flow of fentanyl across our border.

This is a worldwide problem. Throwing up our hands and saying that we want to attract more addicts to our region than any other place in America is proving to be a disastrous societal approach by our local government leaders to the drug problem. But again, the reason for that strategy is that the more addicted people you have, the more helpless people you have. The more helpless they are, the more they fervently believe that they need government for their livelihood. We’ll build all of this housing for the drug addicts and homeless, and the developers who profit wildly off of that can get our tax dollars in their coffers.

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It is a multi-faceted problem that is all related to terrorism, gangs, and the unchecked thirst for power of our politicians. We see it manifest itself in a 51-year-old gunned down in her clinic in Burien, or homeless people taking over Artesian Commons Park in Olympia. Or in Lynnwood, where a man was brutally attacked at a Subway restaurant.

We have more and more ruthless monsters ruling the streets.

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Dori: Artesian Commons Park protest shows criminals have taken over the region