Measure B has attracted the same crew of malcontents, misfits and naysayers of the community to be the proponents of this ill-begotten sham. It's become routine in the 35 years that I've lived in Thousand Oaks. I've noticed every issue raised contrary to public satisfaction, civic pride and common sense has attracted the same core group of dissidents as its proponents. If it's a cockamamie, screwball or prejudiced issue, the same crowd led by the same individuals will cloak it in terms of esteem, entitlements or desirability.
If the issue is contrary to the status quo, they want it. Apparently nothing is too good for Thousand Oaks, and that's what they want us to have -- nothing.
Thousand Oaks is not broken. We don't need the Do It Center to fix it. We live in one of the most beautiful, well-governed and managed, best-planned communities in the world. We have clean water and wide, well-lighted streets in well-kept neighborhoods populated by law-abiding, educated and informed residents. We have consistently been shown to be one of the safest cities in the nation. Our schools are Distinguished Schools. Our public safety organizations are highly trained, motivated, ever-vigilant and well led.
We have everything a community needs to be successful. It's no wonder other cities are abandoned by their residents in order to relocate here.
And yet, let someone raise an issue or a vague suggestion of doubt about the suitability of Thousand Oaks and here they go again.
It makes one wonder, "What is their problem?"
Regarding Measure B: "Casablanca," the movie, said it back then, "Round up the usual suspects."
-- Forrest Frields, Thousand Oaks