There's a suburb of Sacramento called Citrus Heights.
One street in a particularly tough and run-down section of Citrus Heights is called Sayonara Drive. It's been a blight for many years, and I'm really surprised it hasn't burnt down to the ground yet.
The city has gated all but one access street leading into Sayonara Drive, and it's been that way since at least the mid-1990s.
When I lived a few blocks away from there, the Sacramento County sheriff's helicopters were constantly over that neighborhood, damned near every night, searchlights combing the ground.
I've walked through that neighborhood, but I also was deployed to Baghdad's Green Zone. I'd take a dare to walk through the neighborhood of interest in this thread in a New York Minute, no problem. Been there, done that.
Funny thing is with respect to Sayonara Drive, there was no mention of the War on (some) Drugs, nor was there much outcry about the constitutionality of walling off a community. My gut feeling was that the populations of Citrus Heights, Roseville, Carmichael, Sacramento, and Orangevale probably felt it was a good way to force the targeted neighborhood to wither and die off, while keeping the kudzu effect localized and in check. So it's really nothing new. Not necessarily right, morally or ethically, but it's what the community decided to do, so vote early and often if you want to see that change.
I'm going to ignore CaSD's posturing for now. He's already admitted (online, no less!) that he likes to annoy folks, and I see he's good at it. However, for the sake of a publically-visible Armed
Polite Society, let's keep this discussion rational, without the double-dog-dare bravado and thread veer, ok?
