Quick, you'd better write some angry letters to your congresscritter and make a few more donations to the ACLU 'cause those jackbooted legislators and the Governor Greg "Hitler" Abbot in Texas are finally being forced to act to protect their state capitol from being overrun by homeless drug addicts.

What right do these fascist Texas legislators have to prevent local rule by the mayor of Austin (who likes to travel to San Fran and Seattle and other homeless paradises for more info on how to make Austin into a homeless paradise too)?

Hey. Those homeless drug addicts have rights, too. And they're putting good use to those empty spaces under bridges and between highways.

Okay. I'll give you credit for consistency. I do think you might have a different opinion if you lived near one of these bum-overrun bridges or addict-infested highway medians.

But wait a second...

What about those people with nearby homes and businesses in proximity to these places where the bums congregate to shoot up or smoke crack and then sleep it off before they regain consciousness and go out to engage in panhandling and petty crime to afford their next fix or drink?

What about the property rights of those homeowners and business owners? Don't they have a right to sue the local jackboot mayor and city council for lowering their property values by allowing the entire area to be overrun by bums?

You don't seem to be very consistent here in defending the property rights of local businesses and homeowners in the same way that you were so concerned only 4 days ago with property values for those living near the elderly couple in Florida with the vegetable garden in their front yard. Certainly, the bridges and highway medians and sidewalks and alleys in Austin are public property and are not zoned for any sort of human occupancy or camping. It is, in fact, the city's job to keep people from squatting on public property.

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Sorry. I thought the sarcasm was understood -- coming from me.

I go down to Houston every few months. Situation there is like a zombie apocolypse.

I go down to Houston every few months. Situation there is like a zombie apocolypse.

I kinda wonder if part of this "problem" is related to Austin - and S.F. and Seattle and others - having in mind the upcoming 2020 census. Any way they have to increase the number of congressional seats they have and the electoral votes they have in those states is a plus for someone. In this case, as it is with illegals flooding these sanctuary cities and sanctuary states, it is always the Dems who are running the local gang of pols. Quite often, with the occasional backing of Dem judges in state or federal courts.

I have read that Seattle is stealthily removing a lot of homeless people to get them to go elsewhere but I haven't seen any hard numbers or deep reporting to support that yet.