Last year, LA shot up in the rankings of the “rattiest cities” from third to second place, and it’s closing in fast on Chicago.
This from frontpagemag.com.
The secret is the fetid filth of the junkie vagrant camps where typhus—a medieval disease spread by rats—made a comeback almost as fast as crime once city officials legalized the ‘homeless’ trifecta of street living, drug use, and shoplifting.
And like criminals and junkies,
the rats have [communists/globalists] on their side.
In short, the comedy of errors:
– Last fall Gov. Newsom signed into law a bill that banned more forms of rat poison after a previous rat poison ban in 2020.
– Rep Ted Lieu of LA and Rep. Adam Schiff of Burbank introduced the Glue Trap Prohibition Act which bans glue traps because they’re cruel to rats. (Lieu serves on the advisory council for the Protection of Animals which campaigns against eating turkeys on Thanksgiving, pony rides for children, and glue traps for rats.)
– Lieu may care about the suffering of rats, but he doesn’t care about human suffering. (He didn’t bother listing the symptoms of hantavirus—for which there is no known cure, typhus, or the bubonic plague: among the rat borne diseases making a comeback.)
– It’s already illegal in California to remove rats from your property. If you trap a rat, you either have to “euthanize” it on the spot or let it go. And rats rights activists are campaigning to expand the ban on ‘trapping’ larger animals like coyotes to also apply to rats which, between the bans on effective varieties of rat poisons and glue traps, would make it impossible to stop the rats.
– West Hollywood, an LA County “city” of 16 blocks at its tallest and 5 blocks at its shortest, where PETA has a great deal of influence, led the way in banning glue traps within the 5 supermarkets in its borders forcing residents to drive 3 minutes extra to the Ralphs on Sunset Boulevard, and what goes in West Hollywood must now also be imposed on all of America by Rep. Lieu.
Further, LA’s love of rats has begun killing man’s best friend. Ever since Los Angeles began cracking down on rat control measures, dogs began sickening. Leptospirosis, one of the diseases spread through the waste of Rep. Lieu’s best rat friends, caused an epidemic among dogs in the county.
Dr. Alan Schulman, a veterinary surgeon, explained:
It’s the rats. They urinate places,
they defecate places, dogs get it from them.
NOTE: In New York City, communists/globalists went one better—killing people to protect rats.
In 2021, former ACORN boss Bertha Lewis pushed through a ban on rat poison.
Leptospirosis cases jumped from 57 in 14 years to 15 in just one year. Over a dozen New Yorkers contracted leptospirosis and suffered from liver and kidney failure. One of them died. The symptoms include fever, aches, and jaundice. Even those who survive can end up with brain damage.
Rather than end the ban on rat poison, Mayor Eric Adams appointed a Department of Education bureaucrat “rat czar” at a salary of $155,000 a year.
The New York Post warned:
[R]ats as big as bunnies are roaming the streets in broad daylight, nesting in trees and chewing through car engine wires.
Mayor Bill de Blasio, Adams’ predecessor, tried to demonstrate there was no need for rat poison by dumping dry ice on rat nests.
[O]nly to have a rat run right through his demonstration.
And:
$30 million was spent when thousands of dollars
spent on rat poison would have done the job.
Without rat poison or traps, state and city governments dump the burden on property owners to practice what they call “prevention and exclusion” by sealing everything.
But rats—like leftists—are able to sneak in through the smallest crack and—like leftists—once they get inside, a dedicated effort is required to get rid of them.
From New York City to Los Angeles to Vancouver to San Francisco, rat poison bans have led to explosions in the rat population. And communists/globalists pretend they had nothing to do with it.
Soon We the People will discover the Left
has designed a way to put rats on the voter rolls.
Final thoughts: Further examples that liberals cannot solve problems. Their insane attempts at solutions create newer, greater problems.
