THE VIEW FROM HERE – Historians will no doubt have tons of theories about Los Angeles’ demise. Of course, then it will be too late. In fact, now it is too late to avert the evil decree. As with most significant events, the wretched state of Los Angeles has multiple substantial factors. One of the most important is its form of government.
Los Angeles’s government is a feudal society divided into fifteen fiefdoms where the lord or lady (councilmember) is total ruler. While Europe in the middle ages had inherited rulers with their overthrows and decapitations only to be followed by subsequent overthrows, etc., Los Angeles has peaceful changes in the fifteen lords and ladies. Nonetheless, succession is controlled by behind-the-scenes power mongers; LA’s elite and Wall Street. Jan 6th showed that we are not that immune from violence determining who shall govern.
Any councilmember such as Huizar, Englander, and before them Richard Alarcon, will be prosecuted on bogus charges in order to protect the grandiose corruptionism of the LA City Council. The political sin of all three was the same: interfering with the corrupt Los Angeles city council’s One And Done Rule. Alarcon’s first error was rejecting developer bribes for his Valley District 7. Under Los Angeles City Council operating rules, each councilmember will have any project which he places on the city council agenda unanimously approved. A councilmember who refuses to accept bribes halts this developer corruption at its inception. Worse yet, councilmember Alarcon publicly questioned the corruption at the City’s Planning Department. At the June 19, 2012, city council hearing on Garcetti’s Update to the Hollywood Community Plan, he asked the representatives of the Planning Department, “Couldn’t the city redo the Hollywood Community and the 30 community plans which will use it as a model based on accurate data?” When the department’s representative said “Yes, they could all be done based on accurate data,” the assistant city attorneys swarmed Alarcon, telling him to be quiet. Then, Councilmember Eric Garcetti (CD 13) demanded that his Hollywood Community Plan be unanimously approved forthwith with false data and all its other defects. The entire council voted yes…