California As A Third World Country

Written by Dr. Ron Martinelli………(Dr. Martinelli is a renowned forensic
criminologist and retired police detective with the San Jose Police
Department).

I sit in the LAX terminal after concluding business in downtown Los
Angeles for the past two days, I cannot help but reflect upon my
journey from a once California native to a new resident of the Great
State of Texas and why. You see, in my personal and professional
opinion, the once great State of California has in essence has become
a third world country

“The concept of the “third world” has evolved to describe countries
that suffer from low economic development, high levels of poverty and
little to no ability to utilize natural or economic resources.”
French demographer Alfred Sauvey, 1952.

While the reasons for California’s ever-spiraling downwards status
from 1st World economic prominence and prosperity to near 3rd World
malaise are many; I will assert that when you combine uber-liberal
politicians, with rich elitist Hollywood Celebrities, dotcom CEO
billionaires, disengaged millennials and illegal aliens; you in effect
create the circumstances where your city or state becomes a 3rd World
environment.

The process of California’s demise from the “Golden State” to 3rd
World status has been slow but steady; supported and enabled by the
aforementioned actors. While much of the legislated changes for the
worse have been designed and voted in by politicians in Sacramento;
municipal politicians and a complicit uninformed, naive and entitled
voting public must also share blame. After all, when 51% of those on
some type of government subsidy out-vote the 49% of the money earning
and tax paying citizenry, any state is doomed to failure. With
California now a “Sanctuary State” and their libtard Democratic state
legislature pushing for voting rights for illegal aliens, the state
will never recover.

My observations during my short visit to Los Angeles underscored many
of the problems Californians are facing as they follow lemming-like
their Governor Jerry “Moonbeam” Brown, their Democratic legislators
and urban mayors like Eric Garcetti of Los Angeles off the economic
cliff.

Literally nothing substantive is good about L.A. anymore. An
ever-growing homeless subculture populates the downtown area. The
intoxicated, drug influenced, mentally impaired and criminals are
everywhere. They literally surround Civic Center, federal buildings
and courts – the so-called foundations and protectors of the Rule of
Law and society. How ironic to be surrounded by the failures these
very systems, liberal politicians and judges have created. Isn’t
karma interesting to watch in real time?

The homeless, numbering in the thousands, sleep in the shadows of
immense, gleaming edifices owned by multi-billion dollar international
conglomerates and dotcom corporations. Business executives in Brioni
suits and workers quickly pass by the unwashed masses, while holding
their noses to screen out the stench of urine and feces. The obvious
health and safety hazards to the public are too many to count.

Interconnecting Los Angeles city roadways and state highways designed
to transport the commuting, tax paying public to their job sites are a
debacle. The ribbons of roadways are a mess of potholed, weed
infested, trash laden, graffiti vandalized passages filled with
vehicles lined up bumper-to-bumper going nowhere fast. These are your
tax dollars at work. While California voters grumble and groan, in
the end they just seem to accept their fate as one of the prices to
pay for living the California dream.

You see, the working public has no time to get out and protest the
outrageous and constant increases in taxes on gas, municipal services,
vehicle registrations, rapid transit and a bullet train going to
nowhere. Only the unemployed, government subsidized masses have time
to demonstrate in the streets to ensure that their subsidies continue.
Since the liberal politicians in Sacramento know this dynamic and
their power base all too well, the taxation without representation
continues.

I was staying at a hotel near LAX and my mileage commute to downtown
L.A. was a mere twelve miles. However, it took me every bit of one
hour and twenty minutes to arrive at my destination. I then paid $20
for the privilege of parking my car in a public lot. Of course, this
was after I paid $30 a day to park my rental car at my hotel. Nice.
I’m seriously considering Uber next time.

Since I frequently travel throughout California on business, I will
tell you that Los Angeles is a mirror image of all of the other large
urban cities in the state. I have observed similar and even worse
depressed and dysfunctional urban environments in the San Francisco
Bay Area, Orange County, San Diego and a number of other cities

California is rapidly becoming a two-tiered society of the very rich
and the very poor, similar to the 2nd and 3rd World countries I
regularly visit. The middle class, small business owners and the
retired are either being pushed out of state and/or escaping in droves
to such tax free, business friendly and less crime ridden states such
as Nevada, Arizona, Texas and Florida. Lame duck Gov. Moonbeam and
the state’s liberal Democratic legislature know this. They just don’t
care because their power base is now assured. Just ask any of their
castrated, powerless Republican colleagues

There will never again be a Republican administration in California.
The days of Ronald Reagan have long passed. The candidates lining up
for the governor’s race in 2018 are Open Borders and Sanctuary State
advocates Anthony Villaraigosa and Lt. Governor Gavin Newsom.
Governor Brown and his Democratic legislature are pulling out all the
stops creating legislation that will allow illegal aliens in the state
to vote in state and local elections. Republicans, conservatives and
moderates don’t stand a chance.

Here are just some of things Californian’s have done in recent years
to turn their state into a 3rd World mess. Passed Proposition 47
which has since freed tens of thousands of felons from state prisons
and county jails back into communities. Prop. 47 also eviscerated the
parole enforcement agency and created a system where police on the
streets can’t even enforce outstanding felony and misdemeanor warrants
anymore. Police no longer arrest people for being under the influence
of dangerous drugs. What would be the point; it’s just a misdemeanor.
They have reduced the crime of auto theft to a citable misdemeanor.
Steal a car; get caught and get a ticket. Commit non-violent crimes,
get arrested and you are out the same day with a promise to appear in
court that will not ever be enforced. No warrant enforcement,
remember? Amazing!

California’s new “Sanctuary State” status supports and enables its
Open Borders mentality. Police in a number of cities such as San
Francisco, Oakland and Los Angeles are ordered not to assist ICE with
border enforcement. Remember the Kate Steinle murder case where her
five-time convicted criminal and deported illegal alien was acquitted?
Well, that’s the political mentality that created that circumstance.
This is also an excellent example that liberal politicians in
California are willing to sacrifice the innocent to demonstrate that
they support violent illegal alien criminals.

What happens in California’s larger cities filters down to its medium
and small sized cities as well. I recently wrote about the city of
Salinas, CA. that experienced an incredible 150% increase in its
homicide rate from 2014 – 2015 which rated Salinas as one of the
nation’s 30 most violent cities. Fifty percent of all of their
murders were gang and drug related, with the predominate population of
gang members being illegal aliens. I can only wonder how Silicon
Valley dot-commers’ who are paying over half a million bucks for a
home and commute over four hours a day to San Jose like living in that
violent environment?

Which brings me back to why my successful business owner wife and I
escaped to Texas. The state loves us. No commute problems, no state
taxes and we live in an area where there is little to no crime. Our
area just outside of San Antonio some of the best school districts in
the U.S.; high employment, great people and lots of fun things to do.

My wife and I live a great life on a ranch with a river in our
backyard where we can fish, swim, kayak and BBQ with family and
neighbors anytime we want. The price? Less than you would pay for a
one bedroom studio condo in any of the cities in California I’ve
mentioned. New home buyers only need three percent down to purchase a
home and veterans make no down payments. If you are a younger
middle-classer, a small business owner or retired, you’d be nuts to
remain in California.

With California over a trillion dollars in debt and 30% of their
budget going to subsidizing illegal aliens at the expense of
hard-working, taxpayers who have little to no voice on how their state
is run, the state and the majority of their citizens are doomed.
That’s what a two-tiered society eventually creates. One heck of a
THIRD WORLD COUNTRY!

The truth is blatantly obvious… and yet the left STILL turns a blind