Army Corps Destroys LA Park over Homelessness, Gay Cruising
Absurd, unnecessary social engineering and possibly illegal environmental tactics — that's what some activists and politicians are calling the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' surprise destruction before Christmas of more than 40 acres of prime wildlife and vegetative habitat five miles north of the Getty Center in the Sepulveda Dam Basin.
Facing increasing criticism for bulldozing a cherished bird habitat and wetlands ecosystem spanning 40 football fields — in a city where most wetlands were long ago destroyed — Corps officials insisted the federal flood-control agency had no choice, in part because cruising gay men and homeless campers had flocked there and endangered the public.
Source: LA Weekly. Read full article. (link)
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WTF? I read the story, and there's got to be something more to this that's not being said. Somebody had some reason to do this, and ain't telling. A base of operations for the new antigravity vehicles?
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Maybe there was money left in a budget that had to be zeroed out.
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Or Nero's playing his lyre.