Why not in Ballard? Ballard is not special.

It appears btw that this gent was born and raised in Ballard.

If you hate the “bad” bums being in the area don't stop giving to the food bank; get after local law enforcement to do its job and punish law breakers until those people are gone. Screwing all of the unfortunates because some bad people use the same service strikes me as clearly un-Christian (I'm an atheist, but those who advocate this can't rightly be called Christians) and patently Orange county.

As for the hammock/safety net argument, Mexico has neither, and I don't want to live there.

Yes, the are and it will become more and more this way across all Seattle. This is a city that shall reap what it has sowed.

You don't really get it. Pastor Steve is doing what he wants when he wants. He's using his flock as sheep submissive to his shearing.

If more people at the church walked out and stopped giving this fraudulent priest money he *might* be slowed down a bit, but he'd keep right on sucking the life out of Ballard.

It has also occured to me that if more people in Ballard attended Our Redeemers, then more of us would have a say in what Pastor Steve's agenda seems to be.

Homeless? Well, problem solved for the scum Swalwell.

I think that if we put pressure on the mayor and the City Council to pass anti-panhandling laws, like they did in Tacoma, a vast majority of the “problem vagrants” would disappear, once their source of income dried up.

Oddly enough, in the Great Depression, when there was literally no breadwinner in one quarter of families, you did not see this kind of activity in Ballard. (according to my Mom, and other sources.) People were willing to work at just about anything. In fact a great many of our public parks were built by the “homeless” and the unemployed as part of the CCC. Do we see the “homeless” of Ballard helping out in our parks? No, we see them making our parks unfit for our families…bums sleeping in the parks, drug deals, needles, vomit, beer cans, human waste, prostitution…all of these things have come to our neighborhood, courtesy of those who would make all our residential neighborhoods a “homeless haven.”

The time has come for the people of Ballard to band together and say “enough is enough.” We're tired of making Ballard the “Skid Road North Annex”.

These creeps are rapidly destroying this neighborhood and I wish there was something, ANYTHING we could do to stop them – but it seems that there are to many people that just want to make our neighborhood a magnet for the bums (not the homeless, the BUMS), bend over backwards endlessly making excuses, and do everything possible to enable them. Shameful.

It is so sad to watch this neighborhood turn into a dystopia.

I think all of us in Ballard/Greenwood/Phinney are fed up with importing criminals into our neighborhoods.

And I am also happy he is behind bars. I hope he goes to jail for a loooong time… I believe the 'three strikes” law applies here.

So that's 1 child rapist, 1 arsonist.

Thanks Pastor Steve, you've done so much for the community, why don't you take a long break.