Long Beach Breakwater Stupidity

Stupid is as Stupid Does

Back in August I wrote a rather neutral piece on the Long Beach Breakwater Controversy.  Apparently Sink The Breakwater didn’t appreciate the neutrality of the article because they chose to ignore it in their most recent article.  Instead they chose to chastise an Alamitos Beach Market Report that I wrote.   Ironically a link to the neutral article is front and center in my article, had they chosen to follow it.  The article also included an open invitation to the August 6th meeting at the Borders bookstore in Downtown Long Beach, you are very welcome for the free and unsolicited publicity.   Sink The Breakwater didn’t even link back to the article which they so frivolously ridiculed and used pictures from my article - without permission, which is customary practice in the polite cyber world as the nice folks over at The District Weekly will tell you. 

The article that I wrote discussed the reason the breakwater was originally built back in 1949, the stance of some of our local politicians, the reasoning behind the removal of the breakwater, funding for a breakwater reconnaissance study and a plug for the Long Beach Surfrider meeting on 8/6/07.  Also missed was further mention of the Long Beach Breakwater issues that were mentioned in another article of mine; Long Beach Alamitos Peninsula-Property Encroachments and Market Report. 

I have a message for the folks over at Sink The Breakwater

The Long Beach Real Estate Home Blog site gets between 2000 and 3000 browser hits per day, it is widely read and sits at the top of the search engines for almost every conceivable search that has to do with Long Beach and Real Estate related subjects.  That is a huge lot of hits in case you don’t know that.  Why would you want to irritate me?  Don’t you think it would have been wise to explore this further before attempting to tear a market report, of all things, down and attempt to use it to your advantage? 

You title your post Selling the “Good Points” as if there is something wrong with that.  Don’t you think Long Beach has “Good Points”?  If you don’t think so, then exactly what the hell is it that you are trying to save?  Had you bothered to ask you would have discovered that I absolutely love the idea of removing at least a part of the breakwater and allowing the natural tides to clean out our bay. 

What the people at Sink the Breakwater are missing is that the Long Beach Homes sitting along the ocean are lived in and owned by real people who matter also.  When they start to consider that any decisions made must consider the people and the property as well as the ecological, economic and recreational benefits perhaps they may begin to make some headway into a happy middle ground that may just suit everybody involved.  Attempting to shove your ideas down peoples throats without consideration for their homes and businesses will never bode well. 

As far as the mention that there are 62 luxury condos for sale as of 9/29/2007, that is true, as my market report stated.  Although, that is not an overabundance of properties available in an area with such dense demographics.  The Long Beach Breakwater had no bearing on that market report, are you just grabbing at straws now?  That reeks of desperation.  You should be seeking allies, not irritating people. I could have been a very strong ally.  2000 to 3000 hits a day reaches a very large audience.  Oh well…..Stupid is as stupid does…

Posted on November 4, 2007 by Laurie Manny