Into Aftermath: Anti-Group-Home Opposition Rises Again in Aspen Hill? (Part IX)

Earlier we covered opposition, in-general, to group homes in Aspen Hill, Maryland; later, we opposition to "scattered site housing" for persons with psychiatric disabilities.

We covered, minimally, an abortive effort to close down one such group home. We covered some background on psychiatric disability and "moral incapacity", and we covered the mysterious phenomenon of people with no known official background pretending to be officials and giving newcomers the "welcome wagon walking-tour of weirdos and wackos" in Aspen Hill. We cover PROFIT as a motive for clandestinely organizing neighbors to the cause of evicting these group homes and their residents.

We also covered the basic elements of where to recruit henchmen and minions, and we covered the strategic and tactical niceties of destroying these group homes and their residents so as to acquire the properties on the cheap to turn them into worker-barracks and flophouses for illegal alien workers, and explored the causes and effects of the housing bubble and consequent crash of the economy.

We laid out a start-to-finish trajectory that starts with a search for higher property values, and then goes outside the bounds of decency -- not to mention outside of a huge variety of law -- sparing no amount of wicked cleverness and despicable sneaking-about in the pursuit of raw greed. The story ends in a place we all know: Aspen Hill, Maryland, with one of the highest foreclosure rates in the State of Maryland.

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We had to digress into blatant -- yet extremely plausible, given the location under discussion -- fiction to carry off our dissertation while providing some much-needed lighthearted entertainment.

What could be more plausibly comical, one might ask, than the thought that someone (or lots of someones) made huge amounts of money -- for a while -- by sneaking around like a character out of Desperate Housewives, with a little comic relief in the form of scary sociopathic bums waging a propaganda war on hapless brain-trauma victims and actually winning? It doesn't get more ridiculous than this, folks, and ridiculous is what makes for a good laugh.

Yet, even in a comedy -- perhaps especially in a comedy -- however successful the villain, eventually they must get their comeuppance. This tradition goes all of the way back to the Greeks. There are some things you just don't do unless you want to offend the gods. One of those things is abusing the mentally ill. They are near and dear to many of the classic deities of many cultures. As classical studies tell us, it is not necessary in most cases for any human actor or actors to rise in defense of the offended gods, though the myths and legends of the Greco-Roman world are rife with such heroes. Rather, the gods reward unsupportable greed in its own special way.

In the classic myths and legends of our founding cultures, the pagan deities rewarded drunkenness with drowning and greed with perverse surplus; King Midas who loved gold was gifted with a magic touch which turned everything to gold... including his children, and his food. He starved amid the greatest wealth in the world amid cold golden statues of his dead family. Comparable cautionary tales abound in other cultures.

In casting out those already afflicted, to increase their suffering and to replace them with an illegally resident population, and in doing it for the money, might be seen by the Greeks as hubris though it might even be an act, as it were, of Atë. Whatever Nemesis may be approaching, perhaps it will come through one of Eris's domains.

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Perhaps their first Nemesis has already come and gone.

Nobody was more likely to fall into foreclosure than the slumlords who bought on speculation and then overcrowded their properties with illegal rentals at occupancy levels far outside of housing code, fire code, health code, and any code of decency.

When you hear a cry for massive taxpayer funded bailouts of those poor poor homeowners, nobody is crying more loudly than the slumlords who lost their asses, as well they should, unless perhaps a louder cry is now coming from those who lived in the properties of the slumlords. They, at least, may hope for a visit from a lesser figure out of legend: Justice. They at least, unlike the people they displaced, are physically fit and not incapacitated by psychiatric disability.

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We don't want to see this story played out again, as fiction or reality.

Thus, we totally support the idea of County ownership of foreclosed properties in Aspen Hill, so long as a very high percentage of those housed in these properties will be persons suffering from incapacitating psychiatric disabilities. We believe that in this new Federal Administration, which is beginning even as I type, will return significant funding and aggressive prosecution of the Americans with Disabilities Act. We believe that pressures from the top down as well as from the bottom up will change the current Montgomery County attitude of favoritism for illegal aliens into a more humane and caring attitude favoring the destitute and helpless, as is and has been required by law.

Otherwise, "All Hail Eris".

Would you rather not forego Greed, and rather pursue Charity?
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