Democrat Officials Discard Americans as Collateral Damage
Investigative reporter Aaron Sibarium has written an extraordinary account of a condominium complex whose residents are enduring hell because the local Democrats have allowed a homeless encampment, a thriving drug market, and foreign gangs to take over the area. This is happening in Prince George’s County, Maryland, which gave Kamala Harris her highest vote-share of any county in the United States: 86%. It appears that the residents of this condominium complex voted closer to 90% for Harris. So, in a very real sense, the residents are living the nightmarish consequences of voting for Democrats.
Sibarium’s detailed description deserves to be read in its entirety because it serves as a horrifying warning of the outrageous harms Democrat politicians are willing to inflict upon law-abiding citizens. If Democrats would do this to Americans who vote exclusively for Democrats, consider what those Democrat politicians would be willing to do to American communities that vote for them only sixty or seventy percent of the time.
Here’s the crux of the story: Relatively poor, non-white condo-owners live in this private complex. A few years ago, a homeless encampment took over the complex’s backyard and transformed it into “a crackhouse, a bathroom, and the entrance to an open-air drug market, which has become a magnet for organized crime and caused millions in property damage.” Vandals routinely break into buildings and smoke crack in the stairwells. Condo-owners have to “navigate needles, feces, and sleeping bodies as addicts nap half-naked in the hallways.” After criminals ransacked the boiler room around Thanksgiving, half of the complex has had no heat. Without heat, pipes have burst in many buildings. Because trespassers are illegally using the complex’s electricity and because private owners have been forced to use space heaters to survive this year’s cold winter, many units have lost electricity, too.
Rather than deal with the homeless, criminal army occupying the complex’s grounds, county Democrats have ordered owners without heat and electricity to vacate their homes. In other words, the Democrats controlling the local government and police force would rather make private homeowners homeless than deal with the dangerous and unacceptable homeless problem that Democrats have allowed to fester right outside those homeowners’ front doors. Sibarium quotes a deputy chief administrative officer for public safety and homeland security as telling condo-owners, “We have to be compassionate,” and a police major as insisting, “We’re not criminalizing the unhoused.”
Just who are these “unhoused” and uninvited “guests”? Trespassers regularly “assault residents, start fires, and relieve themselves in hallways, leaving some carpets with permanent urine stains.” There are drug dealers driving luxury vehicles making drop-offs late at night. Masked gang members patrol the encampment. Prostitutes turn tricks. AK-47s have been found in the nearby woods next to graffitied trees and buildings that suggest the area has become MS-13 territory. Essentially, Democrats have allowed an international gang of narco-terrorists to build a shantytown that provides cover for an open-air market for crack, fentanyl, weapons, prostitution, and who-knows-what-else.
The real estate company that manages the condo complex has repeatedly tried to get police and local officials to address the dangerous crime — and has even “offered to pay off-duty officers to provide private security” — but the cops have no interest in defending the community from well-armed members of MS-13. After failing to convince police and county officials to take any action against the violent criminals who “had effectively colonized the condo,” the real estate company stopped repairing broken door locks because there were simply too many break-ins to repair. When even police officers are “afraid for their safety,” how in the world are residents expected to survive? The local Democrats don’t appear to care whether they do or not.
In fact, Sibarium’s report exposes county officials who are more interested in punishing the residents and the managing real estate company than they are in punishing the criminals engaging in acts of vile barbarism in broad daylight. Democrat officials have threatened to sue the condo’s management for failing to fix the millions of dollars in property damage that the criminal gangs have caused. Permitting and inspections boards have issued “an onslaught of citations” that have essentially bankrupted the condo’s operating budget. So many wires have been installed aboveground either to steal electricity or keep space heaters working that local fire chiefs have hit the condo association with additional citations. Because of the local fines and the complex’s costly disrepair, banks are unwilling to finance any security improvements. The property’s insurance carrier canceled coverage due to “ongoing vandalism.” Building inspectors have deemed many units “unfit for human habitation,” and the county Democrats are trying to enforce evacuation orders against numerous condo owners. Meanwhile, Democrats running the county’s social services division continue to deliver food to the homeless camp, effectively incentivizing all the criminal activity that has destroyed these homeowners’ properties.
A reader responding to Sibarium’s exposé on X summed up the Kafkaesque situation nicely: Democrats “will not ‘criminalize the unhoused’ so the vagrant camp and open air drug market proceed unimpeded…but when that camp of vagrants destroys the boiler room of a nearby apartment complex, they immediately evict the residents bc it is very illegal to live in a building without heat. that would be unsafe. has to be dealt with, we live in a society of laws, you understand.” That’s the Democrat Party’s brand of craziness in a nutshell.
This whole story feels like a microcosm of Democrat Party policy across the nation. Prominent Democrat Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has been encouraging leftist agitators to attend training sessions during which they will learn how to obstruct Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations and “doxx” federal agents. Democrat members of Congress are effectively conspiring with domestic terrorists to endanger the lives of federal officers working to arrest violent criminals. Foreign-born Democrat Congressman Shri Thanedar promised in an open committee last week that Democrats would prosecute Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Rodney Scott for doing his job. In other words, Democrats refuse to arrest violent illegal aliens who have broken into the United States but insist upon arresting federal law enforcement officers for protecting Americans from foreign nationals who wish them harm.
What is the result of Democrat policies engineered to protect criminals? Violent illegal aliens rape and murder young women and girls across the United States. Immigrant populations run billion-dollar social welfare fraud operations in Democrat-run cities such as Minneapolis. During the four-year Biden administration, 8% of Nicaragua’s population illegally entered the United States. Over 7% of Cuba’s population illegally entered the country. Over 5% of the populations of Haiti and Honduras crossed America’s borders illegally. And these are only the official numbers. Who knows how many people made it across without being noticed!
Democrats flew millions of illegal immigrants in the dead of night and dropped them off in unsuspecting communities around the country. Then they sued local officials in Texas and Arizona for trying to protect their own borders. Is there any wonder why an astounding 28% of states’ voter verifications with the Social Security Administration can’t be matched to existing U.S. social security numbers?
When aiding and abetting crime is official Democrat Party policy, elections get stolen. Vulnerable Americans are robbed, victimized, and murdered. Entire condominium complexes are handed over to drug dealers and international gangs. Americans are discarded as insignificant “collateral damage.” When the most Democrat-voting county in America treats fellow Democrats as worthless trash, there’s no limit to how much harm Democrats are willing to inflict upon citizens across the United States.
The upcoming midterm elections later this year matter. Why? Because American lives are at stake. Democrats see the lives of fellow Democrats as expendable. They certainly don’t care about yours.