Anaheim removes bus benches near Disneyland to keep the public from noticing that the neighborhood around Disneyland is nothing but a ghetto

Mickey-Leaks brings the plight of the homeless at Disneyland on the front pages of the L.A. Times Friday night
 Update July 15, 2017!

It's amazing what one little article on a blog can do to change the public's opinion on an issue that normally goes under the radar.

Our coverage again has caught the attention of the public
On Friday, July 14, 2017, we noticed a huge surge in hits from visitors on our website, particularly tied to this article, but we didn't know at the time what the reason was behind the surge. Today, we found out what caused the massive spike.

Apparently, several homeless advocates organized a leafleting campaign in front of the D23 Expo at the Anaheim Convention Center on Friday and a massive protest outside the Disneyland entrance on Harbor Boulevard Friday night to embarrass Disneyland and city officials on the plight of the homeless around the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, and our article apparently drew the attention of the Southland's largest daily newspaper, the Los Angeles Times, the UK's The Guardian, and a local Orange County magazine, OC Weekly.

Previously, we thought this story would go under the radar of most mainstream news outlets as the initial reports were putting a positive spin on removing the bus benches as a means of "cleansing Anaheim of undesirables."

We, on the other hand, saw this as an affront to one of the most vulnerable segments of society, and went with the story of how Disney and the City of Anaheim were again cracking down on the down and out of Anaheim, just because it was bad for business for tourists to see what actual Anaheimers look like.


Well, it seems we got some notice from many local activists and the mainstream press as this shameful episode has brought a lot of embarrassment to both city and Disneyland officials.

Given the recent shameful history of Orange County's brutal treatment of the homeless, such as in the neighboring City of Fullerton with the police beating death of a homeless man named Kelly Thomas. it's deeply concerning that the City of Anaheim is stepping up its campaign to crack down on the homeless in the Anaheim Resort District. (See Kelly Thomas beating video below.)

The OC Weekly and the Guardian, in particular, also confirmed our claims that Disneyland's unusually low, sub-standard, below poverty wages were directly contributing to the abject poverty and destitution of the local neighborhoods around the Disneyland Resort..

“Disney, we feel, is a contributor to the homeless problem here in Anaheim,” said protest organizer Jeanine Robbins, a longtime local resident. “There are Disney employees who live on the street. They live in their cars. They live in unstable housing.” 

“I see a lot of people living paycheck to paycheck. I see a lot of people living in long-term motels or living in their cars,” said a Disneyland worker, who, like others interviewed for this story, spoke under condition of anonymity for fear of losing her job at Disneyland. She has worked in retail at one of the Disneyland theme parks for over a decade and makes only $12.10 an hour. “I love my job. It’s not the job that’s the problem; it’s the pay.”


 The very public protests couldn't come at worst time for Disneyland and the City of Anaheim as Disney's big cheese executives and the press are in town for the D23 Expo at the Anaheim Convention Center.


Neighboring Los Angeles County recently raised its minimum wage rate to $12 an hour in July, up from the state's minimum rate of $10.50 an hour, while Orange County's minimum wage rate still sags at the bottom of the state's minimum wage rate requirements.


The state's minimum rate will raise to $11 an hour in January and will steadily rise each year until it reaches $15 an hour in 2022. Disney has fought these efforts to raise minimum wage rates, and their efforts are now fully evident with the "ghettoification" of the Anaheim Resort District.


Original Article:

The homeless still hang around bus stops near Disneyland despite the city removing public benches for commuters
What's got to be the biggest public embarrassment for both the City of Anaheim and the Disneyland Resort is their latest move to remove public benches at bus stops near the Disneyland Resort on Harbor Boulevard and Katella Avenue.

Disneyland and the City of Anaheim would like to project the city's image as the
'City of Kindness,' but in reality, it's gained a reputation as the 'City of Crime'
The reason they've had to remove those public benches was because those areas have become public gathering spots for gang members, the homeless, drug dealers, prostitutes, violent criminals and other undesirables who aggressively solicit money from strangers—people that are more commonly known to the public as "Anaheimers."

The last thing in the world that both the city and Disneyland officials wanted visitors to realize is that the entire neighborhood surrounding the "Happiest Place on Earth" is nothing more than one giant crime-infested ghetto for the down and out and those on the fringe of society in the otherwise relatively affluent SoCal suburbs of Orange County. (The other large skid row area of O.C. is, of course, the neighboring City of Santa Ana.)

While many naive tourists to the Anaheim Resort District perceive the main surface streets surrounding Disneyland—namely Harbor Boulevard, Katella Avenue, Disneyland Drive, and Ball Street—to be somewhat clean and somewhat touristy, the truth is that it's all just smoke and mirrors created by the Walt Disney Company and the City of Anaheim to deceive tourists who are not familiar with the area.


In particular, Harbor Boulevard, Katella Avenue, and Disneyland Drive are nothing more than facades meant to disguise what the real neighborhoods of the City of Anaheim near Disneyland are like.

The neighborhoods surrounding the Disneyland Resort are known to be
dangerous gangland areas, home to some of O.C.'s most notorious street gangs
In other words, the fake outward appearances of the main surface streets of the Anaheim Resort District are meant to deceive and distract the public away from the sub-urban blight, known as the impoverished Anaheim barrios.

Any new graffiti or act of vandalism on any building or public landmark is immediately painted over by the city. 

Any "reputed" gang member (designated solely by the police and not by the courts) is instantly arrested on sight if they are found in public in the so-called Disneyland gang-injunction zones.

And anyone who appears to be homeless is quickly and forcibly hussled away and moved to a different, less conspicuous part of the city by a "task force for the homeless," whose outward appearances seem to be completely indistinguishable from that of Anaheim Police Department.

Those two Disneyland gang-injunction safety zone, which we like to call "Disney's Gangland," covers an area that surrounds and completely dwarfs the Disneyland Resort. In fact, Disneyland's gang injunction zones are more than three times the acreage of the Disneyland Resort itself. (See Disney's gang injunction safety zone map on the left.)


The entire Anaheim Resort District is literally one giant police war-zone and ruled under martial law with local residents' civil liberties suspended by local law enforcement officials.


Appearances are quite important to city officials, especially around the Disneyland Resort since they are the city's biggest bread-maker and are literally the 800-pound gorilla in the county with their hands in everything in local politics.

Welcome to Disney's Gangland, the Happiest Hood on Earth! Yo!
But as anyone who has strayed off of the beaten paths of the facades that are the major thoroughfares of Harbor and Katella knows, the local houses, apartments, and other transient residences tucked around the Disneyland Resort are all dumps, dives and shanties where local residents live in abject poverty and undignified squalor.

That's because Anaheim's Resort District serves as one of at least two large designated "skid row" areas for Orange County—the other being Santa Ana, California.

The problem with the homeless at Disneyland had gotten so bad that the city tried to move them all into a makeshift tent city, hidden away from the Resort District, and onto the dangerous river bed of the Santa Ana River near the Honda Center.


City officials were hoping that with one strong rainstorm, all their homeless problems would be washed away in a deluge. Unfortunately for Disneyland, Southern California has been in a drought for some time, so the great flood never came to cleanse away the city's vagabonds.

This is what the real neighborhoods of Anaheim looks like off the beaten paths,
away from the main thoroughfares of the Disneyland Resort and the Resort District
Disneyland, local hotels, and the City of Anaheim have done what they could—short of actually trying to improve these neighborhoods—to spend the money to spruce up both Harbor and Katella to make them look as pristine and presentable as possible to the public for show, but there's only so much you can do to hide the rot that is the City of Anaheim.

It's basically like putting lipstick on a pig.

The reason there is a limit to what they can do is because Disneyland labor practices have depressed wages in the area to the point that anyone working for them cannot afford decent housing, and Disney was never going to lift a single finger to try to improve the lives of those whose community the resort resides in.


Thus, the areas surrounding the Disneyland Resort are nothing but ghettos, serving its only known real purpose as a local source of cheap labor for the Anaheim Resort District to exploit, and that's the way they've always wanted it.


It's a vicious cycle of poverty and serfdom that is very hard to break, and one that was created by design by the Walt Disney Company for its own financial benefit and interests.


This should not surprise our readers since we have pointed out numerous times in the past that there are in fact two major gang-injunction zones on the immediate west and east sides of the Disneyland Resort which have done nothing but jacked up the crime rate all around the Anaheim Resort District. 


Violent street gangs (e.g., Anaheim Jeffrey Street, Southside Brown Demons, Anaheim Varrio Boyz in the Hood, Westside Anaheim, Anaheim Vatos Locos, Southside Krooks, etc.) call the Disneyland Resort their home, which acts as a gathering area to conduct what they call "bidness."


They use the resort as common turf, where gang members from all over the city make their bread and butter dealing drugs, stealing property, burglarizing buildings and cars, pimping, and otherwise creating havoc for the local police.

Meet Anaheim's Jeffrey Street gang, one of at least seven local Disneyland gangs
For some reason, sky-high crime rates seems to go hand-in-hand with widespread poverty and abject destitution.

So the real question on everyones' minds is: Is it safe to be even be on the Disneyland Resort? The answer is: no.

Anaheim Police are frequently called to the resort for criminal complaints of thefts, robberies, hotel room burglaries, car thefts, assaults and other assorted gang-related crimes, so no one is safe. There's even a multi-city police task force, called the Anaheim/Orange County Crime Alert Network, specifically assigned keep tabs on crimes that occur within the Resort District.

The most frequent and alarming types of crimes we are told about involve stroller thefts of personal property inside the parks, counterfeiting cash, breaking into vending machines, and even car theft rings involving the theft of third-row seats of large GM SUV vehicles.

 
   
So clearly, the local Anaheim street gangs and other professional criminals are using the Disneyland Resort as their bread and butter for making a living from their criminal activities.


The area is so notorious for crime that they already have had four serial killers living in the area (Itzcoatl Ocampo, Steven Dean Gordon, Franc Cano and Bob Evans), one mad bomber known as the "Ana-Bomber," and a local ISIS sleeper cell in the area publicized in the news in just the last few years. They don't call it Ana-Crime for nothing!

Who could forget the brutal stabbing of a homeless man named the 'Birdman' a
few years ago right in front many horrified Disneyland guests across the street
from the Disneyland Resort entrance on Harbor Boulevard?
There were even some highly publicized stabbings that were all over the local evening news within the past few years, associated with not only the bus stops but also the streets on the same block as the Disneyland Resort.

This is why the bus benches had to go. They served as public loitering spots for local yocals that became too conspicuously problematic and embarrassing for Disneyland officials who would rather create a different image about the area for tourists.

Disney and city officials would rather not break the illusion—or "magic" as they call it—of Disneyland being the "Happiest Place on Earth," so they do what they can to cover up the unpleasantries of the real world, but it's really all just the same fakery and illusions that Hollywood has always been known for.


If visitors became too aware of how dirty, immoral and poor Anaheim really was, then they might not be inclined to stay in any of the lodging inside the city. And that would be just really bad for business.


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