Comments on: Judge denies request to shorten rope barrier at La Jolla Children’s Pool

By: Cheri Aspenleiter

Cheri Aspenleiter — Sun, 31 Mar 2013 15:36:42 +0000

You claim to be a medical doctor? Whom do you treat? Did you take the vow to support the infirm and the disabled? Or did you skip that part? Children’s Pool was built for ” the infirm and for children’. When people can safely enter the sea and experience it as was the reason for the breakwater, then they come to appreciate and love the ocean and all its creatures, they then become stewards of them. You and the ill-informed Marine Mammal experts, who are not local it seems are causing the seals to become sick and starved. Have YOU done any research as to the seal’s food supply being depleted due to their over population? What would cause a sea lion to climb dozens of stairs cross a street and seek shelter in a human beach chair at a hotel? Starved creatures have strange behaviors. C.P. is clearly not a healthy environment for the seals and as a result for people. It is becoming a dead zone. You have caused me to have to crawl under the gate, and to have to drag a crippled man under it. There are many disabled people shut out of this experience built for them. And for an M.D to cause this terrible treatment to disabled is shameful. The seals like the disabled people, by the way and we love them, more than you do as we actually care for them and respect them far more than you do. You are in this for money not for protecting the environment. I do not consider you an environmentalist, in fact just the opposite. I am a true environmentalist as I am right in there with them and can see that the food source is devoured, and that disabled people are being excluded who would also become stewards for the ocean if allowed to experience it.

By: Cheri Aspenleiter

Cheri Aspenleiter — Sun, 31 Mar 2013 15:15:48 +0000

Yes it has been decided before the Mayor was elected, he has been taking donations to his election from the Friends of the Money/Seals. The Mayor did not even know that sharks eat seals. He has done NO research on the Trust or the resulting unbalance of the underwater ecology, that is now causing the seals and sea lions to starve; The beach to be polluted, and the Children prevented from their trusted area, and for disabled people to be prevented from safely entering the sea. Please think of the good of the whole.

By: Cheri Aspenleiter

Cheri Aspenleiter — Sun, 31 Mar 2013 15:03:59 +0000

What the courts and the attorney for Friends of Money . hiding behind seals failed to consider and I am ashamed to write this: The Deputy City Attorney left out the importance of access for disabled people, especially wheelchair swimmers who have NO other safe access to enter the water, without surf, boards, and kayaks threatening their lives. C.P, was specifically designed for “the infirm”and of course for Children. Children have no spokesperson to protect their rights to Children’s Pool. I am ashamed of the courts and really of the way our country ignores Children’s rights. This wall took ten years to construct and had overwhelming support for its original uses as a bathing pool for humans. To amend a dead woman’s Trust and add the use of Marine Mammal Park with feces, urine and afterbirth to the legal and constructed use of a pool for children and the infirm who’s immunity may be strong was morally and ethically wrong, and is incredibly disrespectful to La Jolla’s major benefactor, Ellen Browning Scripps. And then to top it off the gate to the first ramp used for decades for the infirm and for parents with small children has been closed and locked. My good friend who is also disabled and must live in a wheelchair had to be carried down the steep staircase to the water, recently, where the Breakwater allowed him safe and protected entry to the water . He was not able to simply go through the gate as is legal and correct to the historic use of the Ramp already there!! And he asked politely for the 24 hour guards to please open the gate for him. They refused to a crippled gentleman! And he had to be taken out of his wheelchair and be dragged on an old tarp under the gate. Shameful for San Diego and for La Jolla and for Friends of Seals who have supported the over population of seals, to their detriment and pollution of this sacred human ocean swimming pool . The Seals are starting to starve, thanks to the efforts of Friends of Seals and the Courts, and the Marine Mammal Protection Act acting NOT in the best interests for the seals or people. The mussel population has depleted, fish are all but gone, lobsters gone, abs gone, the underwater ecosystem is so unbalanced due to improper management including Sea World’s interference in the natural life cycle of the sea and releasing seals here creating ,a terrible imbalance that taken its toll on the ocean, and all mammals, including crippled children and adults. It is shameful and I believe criminal as well to add a use to a Trust and the only ocean swimming pool in the Continental U.S. that was not and IS not compatible. Please support the complete restoration of Children’s Pool and the proper management of the seals and sea lions, that may just mean relocating them as was already set up a few years ago just across the way to a much safer and the original rookery – Seal Rock and Shell Beach . The rip tides there are unsafe for human entry and perfect for Seals. There has been no good faith at all , and no logic for the last many years of this breaking of the Trust. “TRUST” look up the word in the dictionary and remember what it means. The lifeguard tower and shower remodel must be suspended until ADA access is written into the blueprints “to the high water mark” as per current ADA Law. Please do not allow this important ADA law to be ignored as the City is doing. Yet another ethical and criminal mistake by The City of San Diego. This could be the best and possibly the only ADA Ocean Swimming Pool in the World!!! Think what that would do for the merchants and every single business in San Diego and especially the hotels and all the other businesses in La Jolla. Parents with crippled children and adults who live in wheelchairs would Flock to San Diego especially for swimming at Children’s Pool, not just one of the many attractions added to their vacations , a quick stop to look at the seals and people fighting. Disabled swimmers may even move to our city because they can swim in the ocean in safety. And the seals would always visit of course. The Marine Mammal Protection Act has failed the pinneped population in La JOlla and no studies were conducted this many years , which is also sham

By: cyberKICK

cyberKICK — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 23:14:12 +0000

How exactly was justice served when the case hasn’t been heard yet?

By: cyberKICK

cyberKICK — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 06:18:44 +0000

Nothing was decided yet, except that he is going to hear the case.