Little over a week since a homeless disabled woman was allegedly ran over by a City of Redding California garbage truck and no more than a hundred feet from where another incredible safety hazard was reported to the Redding California police department yesterday early morning and for almost an hour there was NO RESPONSE !
Now it cannot be over emphasized that this is on a corner and this person was in a very dark colored bag clearly in the path of alleyway traffic, a gruesome horrible mangulation or death to be sure.
Not unlike what witness's to Tina's death described as what looked like a knife right down the middle opening her up. Could she have been murdered then put out into the direct path of traffic in hope of somebody or something running her over covering their nefarious deeds? An unheard of third murder of a homeless soul here in Shasta County?
Please feel free to leave flowers, balloons and other love offerings for Tina's Memorial corner of Outwest Furniture behind Der Wienerschnitzel
Quite a spiritual battle brewing in theses parts, as rumor has it that Redding Mayor and Bethel church connected Erin Resner is purchasing the Outwest Furniture store where outside Tina was allegedly murdered and a beautiful memorial has been constructed.
Yet right across the street is a little Christian church doing exactly the Lords will serving what the world sees as the "Least of the Brethren" filling their physical as well as spiritual needs.
I believe we have a tragic homeless problem, and by police pushing our homeless from downtown to surrounding neighborhoods and greenbelts is no solution at all.
Alleyway Outwest furniture
City of Redding officials MUST declare a homeless crisishere, free up the necessary funds, and prevent deaths like Tina's, and those in the future, even if Redding police will not..
These are chilling words from California Governor Gavin Newsom coming back to haunt the poor and disenfranchised homeless of Redding and the rest of the state of California. Now Governor Newsom says changes are coming for the state's prison and jail system, and it looks like he has been working on it for quite some time. "I have spent the last six or so months, not a gross exaggeration, assembled a team of experts to look at re-imagining a 21st century criminal justice system." "So we're looking at step down facilities."
So one might ask is the recent firestorm of controversy directed at Redding Mayor Julie Winter and the idea of forced incarceration of homeless and conservatorship of their finances part of a much larger plan to have facilities placed up and down the state of California with Redding the far northern planned facility?
Is this a result of Trump looking at crackdown on homelessness as aides visited California?
Something tantamount to a middle ages debtors prison to go with the medieval plagues that are surfacing as well Redding Mayor Winter?
"And as California goes so goes the rest of the nation"....
“We’ll hide the costs of that in our jail budget, in our police budget, in our courts budget and, you know, we’ll make it disappear for today…” This is the criminalization of #homelessness—hiding costs and punting on problems. People are hurting now. https://t.co/kjTsg6Cv0q
Redding Mayor and Bethel Mega-Church Elder Julie Winter recently sent a letter to Governor Newsome asking the State to fund what is basically a concentration camp for the area's three thousand homeless people, where they would be forced to stay until they can somehow manage to become housed and "self-sufficient"
Under this proposal homeless detainees would also be deprived of whatever meager income they may have until the government agents in charge are convinced that the homeless person will only spend their money on what these agents deem acceptable.
The obvious illegalities of her fascist proposal aside, she failed to acknowledge that Redding's rental market is nearly non-existent, and that the local rental vacancy rate was less than two percent even before last year's devastating fires. Nor did she mention that the thousands of Bethel adherents who have flooded the area in recent years are - to a notable extent - responsible for Redding's severe housing shortage. More than a few local families and what are often elderly and/or disabled individuals have lost their housing to crowds of Bethel students, who bring in far more money for greedy property owners than many locals can afford to pay.
This heavy deluge of outsiders into our small city has contributed directly to local homelessness. It has also raised the cost of whatever housing remains, which makes the poor even poorer (and closer to homelessness), and creates a situation where fewer people working in the area's many low-wage jobs can actually qualify for a roof over their heads.
I have a two-fold alternative proposal. Bethel provides no housing for its several thousand "supernatural" students, or the countless other Bethel groupies who invade the area every year. Neither will we be seeing any housing included in Bethel's upcoming $148 million 39-acre mega-church complex. I would suggest that Bethel use some of its $60.8 million annual income to provide housing for its students and other followers, which would free up existing housing for the actual locals, and potentially lower rents.
Secondly, the Redding City Council has chosen to ignore recommendations from Housing First program experts, who made the provable case that supportive housing - however minimal - has dramatically reduced chronic homelessness and improved prospects for the mentally ill/substance-addicted (often one and the same) as nothing else can. It has also saved participating cities millions of dollars a year in the process.
Perhaps Bethel could get the ball rolling on that program locally, since it does little else to help address a crisis it's at least partially responsible for creating except pass the plate on occassion for Shasta County's single vastly over-crowded fire-and-brimstone homeless shelter, with its largely failed punish-the-sinner approach.
Purging its world-wide base of operations of unsightly homeless people has been high priority for Bethel. However, there's a right way and a wrong way, and forcing people into a prison/concentration camp facility until they accomplish the impossible (without the addition of more humane and practical solutions) is definitely the wrong way.
"So the servants of the owner came and said to him, ‘Sir, did you not sow good seed in your field? How then does it have tares?’ He said to them, ‘An enemy has done this.’ The servants said to him, ‘Do you want us then to go and gather them up?’ But he said, ‘No, lest while you gather up the tares you also uproot the wheat with them."
Who could ever have imagined it?
Never before has the prosperity gospel, which contains no wealth at all, would rear its ugly spiritual head in such a fashion from north state political leadership, causing a global international awakening?
And Redding California is ground zero...
Is it possible that in the mind of Redding California mayor and Bethel church leader Julie Winter that to many her plan is illegal, immoral, and down right diabolical?
Holding ppl experiencing #homelessness until they exhibit Mayor Julie Winter’s idea of self-sufficiency is inhumane & hostile.@EricTars said: “Now it seems like what they’re doing is saying that if we can’t put people into jails...we’re going to call the jails something else.” https://t.co/NaIHxedQYS
"Winter drafted a letter to Gov. Gavin Newsom asking that he declare a state of emergency in Redding because of homelessness. The declaration could free up state funds that are typically reserved for natural disasters such as wildfires. Winter says there are about 3,000 homeless people in Shasta County."
Camping in public spaces is already illegal within the city of Redding. The city’s mayor wants to further restrict people from sleeping in the streets by requiring them to stay at a shelter. https://t.co/kxQkSCcYjK
Perhaps we can better understand Mayor Julie Winter through a video.
Take a closer look at the world wide phenomena known as Bethel church, school, and supernatural ministry and ask yourself would you want what many call a cult in your town or city ?
BILL JOHNSON, BETHEL the NEW AGE - Shocking - Kundalini Warning - False spirits - Andrew Strom
“You need to get clean, you need to get sober, you need to demonstrate self-sufficiency. And once you do that, you’re free to go," said Redding Mayor Julie Winter.
"In the letter, Winter requests Newsom allow Redding to take conservatorship of homeless people’s finances if they’re deemed mentally unfit to manage their lives."
One key element that the prosperity gospel leaves out is much of Gods Word, and it seems in the minds and spirit of Mayor Winter and those that attend Bethel it does not matter
"Listen, my beloved brethren: Has God not chosen the poor of this world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which He promised to those who love Him? But you have dishonored the poor man. Do not the rich oppress you and drag you into the courts? Do they not blaspheme that noble name by which you are called?"
Something tantamount to a middle ages debtors prison to go with the medieval plagues that are surfacing as well Mayor Winter?
Is this part of Jesus Christ great commission ? Just who do you "fish" for ? Are you welcoming light of the Christian faith ? Set in the window for all to see? Can you fish with a hammer?
"And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth. Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen."
Even more so is God doing something big in Redding through Bethel Church ?
Oh yes, but will the outcome be what those that attend Bethel church expect?
And will it be forgiven of them for driving those already hurt by the "church" away,
and proclaim an "I told you so" fear further driving a wedge between unbelievers and
the One True Jesus Christ? You will know they are Christians by their Love ...
“You need to get clean, you need to get sober, you need to demonstrate self-sufficiency. And once you do that, you’re free to go," said Redding Mayor Julie Winter. https://t.co/fioiwerFSv
A spike in unsheltered people camping along Shasta County’s Sacramento River has the mayor of Redding requesting a “low-security facility” in which to round them up and detain them involuntarily. https://t.co/YtL9ZQe7dW
From legal threats to repeated cries of "Help me!" at last night's meeting, the Redding City Council is facing backlash over a letter then-Mayor Julie Winter drafted about homelessness a few weeks back: https://t.co/ooHztiqcyr
Year after year, a farce of political action takes place at the Redding Martin Luther King Center. A hypocritical fallacy of local political, religious, and non profit leaders trumpeting social action, under the guise of the hopes and aspirations of Martin Luther King Jr's "beloved community"
Unfortunately year after year, a beloved community that never includes Redding and Shasta Counties increasingly oppressed and criminalized homeless population. Of course I suppose one cannot be as vocal about such a marginalized community, when one sits in a MLK Center building bought and paid for by the City of Redding some years back. The same city of Redding that fights homelessness by closing public restrooms and shutting off public drinking fountains during scorching summer days
I suppose one cannot still be vocal when the very instruments of Redding homeless oppression are in attendance patting the flesh, shaking hands with those who show themselves subscribing to the ideals of MLK,s beloved community, but stand in stoney silence in the face of those Redding police who tear the very fabric of the "beloved community" dream criminalizing homelessness and making it a crime.
Redding Police Officer Sam Llamas
Now this certainly on the day was brought up to Action News Now and KRCR TV News reporters on the scene. And one would think that life's reality and circumstances of those affected would make such news observations keenly felt. Does not the ravages of homelessness cross all cultural and racial divides?
KRCR TV News Reporter Sade Browne
One could only imagine today if Martin Luther King Jr was alive and in attendance of such a local Redding gathering what he would say to such a Redding Police officer, or Mayor, whose persecution of those who find themselves in homeless poverty surely would feel the same spiritual verbal lashing rebuke that the stone silent religious leaders would find themselves under, for being homeless should never be a crime.
Redding Mayor Kristen Schreder
We find ourselves under such conditions ever more grateful to the convictions and courage of Martin Luther King Jr., and even more so to our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, who's atributes year after year have been absent from Reddings MLK celebrations, as well as those that they consider the least of the brethren as MLK's vision of a beloved community. It appears the Redding Martin Luther King Center is nothing more than a political subdivision of the City of Redding.
Redding Mayor Rick Bosetti, Redding Police, and Record Searchlight Photographer at the take back the park event.
Many caring and compassionate individuals feel that local media has been creating as of late a dynamic that have folks hating the people who are being oppressed in our community and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.
The Redding Police Officers Association who wants the community to take back South City Park from the homeless and transients who use it daily and give it back to families, hosted a daylong event Saturday that was marred by controversy, injury, and a lack of public attendance.
One must ask themselves, where do folks relieve themselves at this event, as the only public restroom was locked up tight and unusable for both event goers and homeless alike, a taste of what it is like in much of the downtown Redding area.
Much has been spoken of in the Redding area of the sex trade, and teen girls being forced to provide sex for pimps in the Redding California community. There are approximately 1.7 million homeless teens in the U.S. Often times young vulnerable populations of homeless teens can be found and targeted by these pimps in exactly where the Redding Police Officers Association wants to shoo them away from .... South City Park.
As a community, do we want to take back the park back from them? Is that the best we can do ?
Creating and spinning the dynamics of fear, unwarranted generalizations, and pushing the demonization of a population with no voice of their own spiritually weakens and degrades the community at large.
Perhaps the Redding City council and Police Department needs to rethink taking back anything from the homeless including their tents, sleeping bags and other personal possessions and survival gear and consider returning what you have taken for years now that may very well assist in their coming out of homelessness... Their dignity
