In what has been called a “perfect example of anarcho-tyranny,” Prince George’s County, Maryland has taken action against working-class condo owners whose property was destroyed by drug-addicted homeless people, rather than removing the homeless from the condo complex they vandalized, and nearby areas. The County said it “will not ‘criminalize the unhoused'” so the homeless “vagrant camp and open air drug market proceed unimpeded,” even though such activities are illegal. “But when that camp of vagrants destroys the boiler room of a nearby apartment complex,” and cause $5 million in property damage, Prince George’s County officials decide to “evict the residents” because “it is very illegal to live in a building without heat,” notes Blighter.
Eliana Johnson notes that “A sprawling homeless encampment behind a Prince George’s County condominium complex has turned a once-stable community into a drug market & public health hazard. County officials are trying to evict people—not in the encampment, but residents of the complex.”
An observer adds, “The criminals are protected, and the law abiding are tyrannized twice. Once by the criminals, and again by their own government.”
The sign outside the Marylander Condominiums, a 200-unit complex in Prince George’s County, Md., describes it as a “private community.”
But for members of a homeless encampment in the condo’s backyard, the complex also serves as a crackhouse, a bathroom, and the entrance to an open-air drug market, which has become a magnet for organized crime and caused millions in property damage.
Transients break into buildings and smoke crack in the stairwells. Tenants traversing the property must navigate needles, feces, and sleeping bodies as addicts nap half-naked in the hallways and sprawl themselves like welcome mats outside residents’ doors.
Half of the complex has gone without heat since Thanksgiving after vagrants allegedly vandalized the boiler room, causing pipes to burst in several buildings. Some units have lost electricity, too, due to the overuse of space heaters. Though the county instructed those without heat to “vacate immediately” in December, most have defied the order and tried to weather the cold. They say they have nowhere else to go.
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