Clulusion-The Sinister Fusion of Cluelessness and Collusion

November 21, 2016

Judgement

If we make it through this Thanksgiving week without a flood of car traffic invited to park outside our front door to donate to a charity scam it will be the first time since I have been in my home. Our HOA has forced the homeowners here to host a donation drop off in the fire lane of our private property for the entire time I have lived here, almost 15 years. Literally thousands of cars have passed by my front door to leave junk, or food, or volunteer hours preparing food for the public for a fake charity.  The HOA board  has a fiduciary (legal) responsibility to protect the property value of the corporation, but they see fit to use our property to show off their own fake philanthropy to the neighborhood.  They operated these scams all year, and solicited donations in various ways.  They used the US Postal service to solicit funds from the neighbors, which was incredible.  Holidays were special times when we had non-stop cars drive through and park for hours to donate to the charity scams.

The most amazing feat they accomplished was to go to court and get a restraining order from a city court judge.  They told him they were “giving back” and need to restrain the people who live here and own the driveway with the fire lane they occupy from stopping the charity scam donations or food prep.  We tried for years to stop it through our official Tucson Police Department neighborhood watch, but the cop was in favor of both filling the fire lane with cars, and inviting the public to drive through this driveway we have to pay to pave in order to keep the white collar criminals happy.  She did not even know them, but wanted, in general, to make this a shittier place to live.  She encouraged the HOA board to trash the environment and break federal revenue law.  It seems she was just untrained or not paying any attention. There was no way to know what she was thinking because she simply refused to respond when we reported the crime.  She was able to influence the whole city government to refuse to enforce the fire lane law here for reasons known only to herself…or more likely to nobody, since it was a mindless clueless action. Cluelessness is contagious and soon the whole city government was too clueless to even collude with each other.  They had manifested the ultimate willfully blind untrust.  They unknowingly were the biggest promoters of obvious crime in front of all of us in the area.  They stuck to their guns for more than a decade, and last night there were 4 cars in the fire lane and 1 in a neighbor’s driveway without permission.  If a fire had broken out they had blocked people into their garages who would be trapped while the fire truck would be blocked.  They don’t see any reason not to expose us to that kind of risk.

After being forced to live with this full time donation drop off site in my front yard for years, the neighbors and I petitioned the newly elected mayor, who is a lawyer.  He refused to respond, and in fact since the first petition in 2013 he has not been willing to respond to the citizens here who petitioned his office to halt the charity scam activity that freaked the whole neighborhood out. His office thinks it has a right to remain silent while refusing to give us any law enforcement services for more than a decade.  They are not trying to refuse to perform. This is the extent of the ability they have.  They send out a cop to promote charity scamming and filling the fire lane of the property with as many cars as possible, and then refuse to respond when we ask for at least a clear fire lane.  No can do. I have pointed out the total number of nights our fire lanes have been clear in the last 15 years.  The number is stuck at 6 nights total.  They passively aggressively pretend that this law enforcement task is impossible for them, so they can’t do anything to improve this situation.  They manage to keep the fire lanes clear downtown.  They do know how to write these expensive tickets.  They prefer to ignore the issue. They have fully trashed our hood as well as trust in the police with their actions.  I still can’t get them to repair the damage because it would include admission of an error.  They are sticking with deeper clulusion.  This is why we can’t have nice things.