Dumpster Diving or Illegal immigrants, Identity Theft & Trespassing - Rancho Santa Margarita, RSM, & BRE Properties

Make no mistake by absurdly presuming that these so-called dumpster-diving scavengers are nice people that have just fallen on hard times.  In this scenario, pity is a trap.  Nor presume that they are harmless and just looking for garbage.  

Contrarily, they show to be a fearlessly aggressive and lawless bunch that have absolutely no qualms with illegal trespassing on private property or invading the very boundaries of your home or your right to privacy, even in broad daylight.  These are, without doubt, criminal activities going unabated and most would agree that their continued allowance goes against the very essence of what America claims as one of its most outstanding virtues.

Recently, I completed a documentary film on the homeless and found that most were good people who had fallen upon circumstances beyond their control.  They were not criminals, nor would they even contemplate residential trespassing much less act upon it; they refused to make themselves a nuisance to the rest of society in any way, most refusing to even ask others on the street for change.  They were acceptable enough in their appearance, clean-shaven folk that behaved and addressed their unusual challenge in the same manner that they lived prior to their circumstances: with integrity, considerateness, intelligence and civil mindedness as law abiding citizens. 

Clearly, the dumpster divers addressed in this article are not subscribing to these values by any stretch of the imagination; they are emboldened lawless individuals whose risk to you is only heightened by their knowledge that you have, to date, little meaningful recourse in any attempt to circumvent their activities.  The lawless, confident that they have only a minute chance of being caught, exponentially increase their potential as dangerous characters.

Yes, some may only continue to fish for your social security and credit card numbers, and for bottles and cans, destroying your quality of life and peace of mind at your hard-earned expense and at their gross single-mindedness towards their convenience in spite of you, but only a fool would be willing to risk the wellbeing, if not life, of their child, wife or husband on this wild presumption.  Be warned, many citizens that have confronted these relentless invading hoards of bullies prowling their yards and streets, more times than not, are most often verbally abused and threatened, have their place and vehicles vandalized, and have even been attacked.  Even pointing a video camera in their direction can easily result in the above.  Yet, police only show up -mostly- after the fact and in most part are unable to followup, because no one knows who these people are or where they come from.  Many do not even have license plates on their vehicles and like seasoned criminals they often wear hats, and sunglasses, and many hide their cars around the corner prior to walking onto and/or invading private property.

There is profound wisdom involving accepted standards in safety and quality of life within a community as to why individuals must pass a screening process prior to being accepted into said community, before being permitted to legally tarry amongst others within that said community. 

Respectively, for these same reasons, discerning individuals seek out housing communities that indeed require a background check and screening process of all would-be tenants.  It aids in the assurance of dwelling within a more cultured and/or civilized, higher quality of lifestyle environment, while offering a higher percentage against encountering individuals within the immediate community that might well put a family within a high risk category of being potential victims of crime, especially violent crimes. 

For unknown reasons, trespassing dumster divers are permitted to completely bypass the screening process and loiter within high-end screened properties on the path of screened individuals going to the pool, gym, trash and parking facilities, hence, putting them in a high risk catogory within a low risk neighborhood.  

Bizarre is the only word to describe this twisted reality in RSM, properties like BRE Properties, and in other more affluent neighborhoods in So-Cal’s upper class communities, 

One can't even allow their children out to ride a bike or go to the pool without parents following them about all day. 

When the wife goes to the community gym, is she safe?  Will she get their unharmed?

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What Are the Real Issues?

Residential Trespassing vs Dumpster-Diving Prowlers

This social-political issue entails a solid underlying platform.  Like a political campaign, said issues are often misconstrued and convoluted via fierce wrangling of involved parties attempting to sway and capture constituents for support in order to win.

Though the right to endeavor towards acquiring a quality of life that nurtures safety and peace is a topic of special concern today, more times than not, when push-comes-to-shove, time and time again history shows that most political platforms sadly boil down to the people verses big corporations’ and/or public officials’ profit margins, not real and specific issues confronting society and our culture.  Documentaries serve as a tool to unravel hidden agendas and the real issues of highly public campaigns.  Some say the issue of scavenging residential trespassers, and “dumpster-diving” as it were, is one of morality also involving racial/cultural and social class issues, while others feel it is an issue of criminality and still others proclaim it’s all political.

A question of morality… Are we our brother’s keeper?  Within a civilized and humane culture, this is certainly a valid point.  Even in Christ’s day the unfortunate were allowed to harvest the corners of the fields, or trash crop, of private landowners but at least it was monitored with allotted timeframes with an accounting for who was lining up to harvest for free that day.  There were clearly rules.  Tenants and/or home owners have a right to know if they are to become forced participants in a shelter outreach program, after signing a lease and/or contract, unknowingly locking them in as unpaid social-workers serving the destitute and lower society at their home everyday without proper security monitoring of transients or the protection of security guards, which they would certainly have at any volunteer program outside their place of residence – which requires signing in with name, address and social security number.

Trespassing: the frontlines of the rule of law in a civilized culture… Police departments across Southern California have gone on record stating that dumpster diving is not a real crime but merely a nuisance complaint that officers cannot respond to because they are too stretched in manpower protecting our cities from “serious” offenses.  Who needs city ordinances or state laws (code 602) after the fact, except perhaps victims of crime, insurance companies, hospitals, newspapers, lawyers, mortuaries and funeral homes?  When did prowling, illegal trespassing on private residential property become something other than a serious offense, especially being that one must trespass deep into private property, even past gated areas, to get access to residential dumpsters and/or trash can. 

Perhaps the real reason for the lack of concern for the protection of innocent people and their property, even in So-cal’s higher upscale neighborhoods is based upon basic economics.  Since there is little chance of securing revenue by fining poor and/or lawless criminals (with little to no property worth putting liens against, should they fail to pay), it is apparently a service with no financial return.  Or, perhaps our law enforcement agencies have been instructed to stand down regarding trespassing laws by high-ranking city officials who have suspicious hidden agendas.

Political Machinations: upholding the most basic of civil rights vs. an invitation to marshal law… Perhaps it’s political.  Are city officials afraid that the world will notice that California appears to house slave-like labor via illegal immigrants from Mexico should they begin arresting people for residential trespassing?  (Payouts from identity theft, and the collection of cans and bottles is an activity apparently necessary to supplement the survival, and/or horrible income of said slave labor.) 

Are they concerned that should they open up a debate for rightly enforcing trespassing laws, their political careers might be in jeopardy?  After all, to date, governing officials have given their stamp of approval of trespassing via their obvious indifference.  Thus, the destitute and lawless, like a pack of wild dogs running amuck in our communities, have free reign to frighten and terrorize local tax paying citizens. 

Are politicians pointedly ignoring trespassing laws, anticipating that denizens of the educated working class will beg for tougher laws in this arena?  In turn, would this trigger the enacting of martial-type law upon scrupulous citizens within their own communities, limiting their ability to travel freely? 

Still, more informed citizens that are pushing for serious reform in the small cities in So-Cal are confident that the trespassing dumpster-diving, scavenging issue is only an indicator of the real issue that’s directly related to the Mexican drug cartel, also involving illegal immigrants, that is taking over our small cities; a disturbing issue that’s increasingly becoming common, yet, unspoken knowledge in Orange County, (i.e., http://www.fulldisclosure.net/Programs/478.php). 

For whatever reason, local politicians aren’t talking.  They continue to avoid one of today’s hottest and most highly debated topics, accommodating dumpster-diving scavengers vs. the enforcement of local and state residential trespassing laws. 

Community Leaders Refuse to Act Against Residential Trespassing

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Mayor of Rancho Santa Margarita

Mayor Gary Thompson

and Chief of Police Services

BRE’s Chairman of the Board 

Irving F. “Bud” Lyons III

=========================================================================The Community leaders of Rancho Santa Margarita and the VIPs of BRE Properties are by no means the only guilty parties in So-Cal’s near criminal activities against their faithful tenants, home owners and tax paying citizens.  However, they are certainly a perfect example of being, at best,  supremely delinquent in their responsibilities resulting in the support of the rampant illegal and/or criminal trespassing taking place here in Southern California.  This sad state of affairs shamefully puts So-Cal’s core – upstanding honest, hard working and law-abiding citizens who make a vital contribution to their communities - in harms way each and every day.  Their current marketing campaigns that just so happen to dramatically cut their overhead and increase their leisure time, proclaiming that criminal trespassing via dumpster prowlers is totally benign is not to be believed.

The stark reality is that today’s false harmless dumpster-diving persona perpetrated upon the public by the powers that be in fact proves to be a free pass offering a comfortable and save cover for the dreads of society to invade your home, serving as the perfect camouflage for any would-be rapist, murderer, illegal alien, thief and hardened criminal or terrorist who wishes to target unprotected and pacified, unsuspecting neighborhoods. 

It’s an untenable situation for someone to have to live with.  Regarding their dumpster campaigns advocating complete tolerance, do the responsible parties openly expose their children and loved ones to the environment which the photos in this article clearly reveal, an environment that they’ve created via their blatant indifference?  Certainly they would take swift action against residential-trespassers that hide behind the moniker of dumpster-diver.  Isn’t it about time that proper authorities finally close the trap on these invaders, now that the illegal aliens and lawless have all fearlessly come out to feed -upon the wealthier neighborhoods like RSM and others across So-Cal?

Residential Trespassers vs. Higher-rent Neighborhoods in RSM

It is becoming increasingly more difficult in Rancho Santa Margarita, including within one of the nations largest multi-billion dollar property management companies (BRE Properties), to discern just who resides or dominates at your higher-rent apartment homes and communities in So-Cal’s Orange County, especially RSM.  

With the ever-persistent infestation of residential neighborhood trespassers (scavenging dumpster-divers) of monumental proportions, a dangerous element is literally taking over the more affluent neighborhoods in RSM and is turning the streets into an unsafe, unpredictable third-world living environment.  Prior to this recent influx, said neighborhoods were deemed safe and family-friendly, and offered a higher quality of lifestyle should one be able to afford the cost.

The photo gallery above highlights the serious concerns of those paying higher rents hoping to avoid living in bad neighborhoods and begs the question: where do the priorities of city officials and the powers that be lie?  Is the residential trespassing of dumpster-divers in fact just the tip of the iceberg, an indicator of a deeper and much more sinister crime of corruption within the highest offices of city officials and billion-dollar corporations?

Certainly, the photos do tell a most peculiar story.  There is something very suspicious going on in So-Cal’s Orange County, RSM.  It’s not normal.  Professional, family oriented citizens in manicured higher rent neighborhoods seem to have capitulated to strange unknown individuals prowling their front yards and neighborhoods, with police refusing to even respond until after the fact.  In what era has this -every- been the case?  This alone speaks volumes, indeed.   Are the citizens of Sol-Cal and especially in RSM afraid of the illegal trespassers, or the powers that be and/or both?  The debate continues today, while many are quickly waking up to the fact that RSM is not the place to be for quality of life and safety.

Astute citizens pay property management companies and elect city officials who they feel are diligent and qualified to help support and ensure their safety and quality of life.  Regarding the current status quo of the City of Rancho Santa Margarita and BRE Properties, until Election Day and/or until your lease is up for renewal, as of November 2009 to all appearances you’re pretty much all on your own, so strengthen your Neighborhood-watch, hand out the pepper spray and stun guns (with your attorney at the ready should you have to use them) to your women and children, and have the video camera powered up.  The slums are coming to a neighborhood near you,...

…and your family.