The Innocent Pay the Price for Corporate Cronyism

The gang problems at Dodger Stadium are problems that have come home to roost, and unfortunately it is (again) a private citizen that must pay the price and not the politicians and the wealthy who caused the problem.

Most people do not know the history of that stadium – but Latino gangs taking it over is just reconquista in action!

You see, that area where Dodger Stadium stands was once a Latino Barrio, declared a “blighted slum” by the feds and seized, literally kicking and screaming from the residents one house at a time under eminent domain!

“Aurora Vargas, 38, kicked and screamed as sheriff’s deputies hauled her from her family’s home by her arms and legs. Her mother, Avrana Arechiga, threw stones at the officials as the rest of the family cursed at the men. Above the violent tableau, a soldier’s uniform hung off the porch. A sign affixed to it read, “My husband died in WWII to protect our home.”

“The “melee,” as the Los Angeles Times called it on its front page, erupted when dozens of deputies, accompanied by an armada of moving vans, arrived to forcibly evict the Arechigas from their home in the Chavez Ravine neighborhood of Los Angeles, a “poor man’s Shangri-La” tucked into the hills near downtown.

It was May 8, 1959, 10 years after President Harry Truman’s Fair Deal set aside federal funds for the clearing of slums and the creation of public housing in the name of urban renewal. Los Angeles, under the leadership of Mayor Fletcher Bowron and the City Housing Authority, was one of the first cities to apply for assistance, securing $110 million from the federal government to create 11,000 new units of low-income housing as part of an ambitious plan to redevelop and modernize the sprawling, ramshackle metropolis.”...See More Here

The seizure was not eventually to be for public use – but was bought by the local LA politicians from the federal government, and given to the O’Malley family for $1.

O’Malley wanted to build a stadium for the soon-to-be-imported Brooklyn Dodgers.

Just another example of the problems caused by government being able to seize private property for other, more powerful private citizens.

The very property on which the New York Times now sits, was seized from its previous owners by government.

In many cases the use of eminent domain is Corporate Cronyism at its very worst, and an inconceivable mis-use of government power!

Our Founding Fathers would not recognize what we do in their name.