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# Venice What’s the agenda?
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/venice-whats-the-agenda-editor/
- Published: 2002-10-05T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T00:46:26.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Opinion, Venice, #archive-import, Homeless

*By Julia Reeves Santa Monica Why we ‘whine and bicker’ about the homeless Editor:*

As I have been observing the homeless situation, and reading the various articles and letters appearing in the Santa Monica Daily Press and other local newspapers related thereto, there has been a feeling throughout it all which I could not shake. There has been an undercurrent which I have been feeling about those who support and back the homeless rights issues. It is a rather frightening sense that there may be support from groups who have their own, less than noble, hidden agendas, and that they are using homeless rights issues as a shield, as well as to incite. It’s been intuitive to a very large degree, but, more recently I have read things in print which tend to lend credence to my suspicions and validate my feelings of fear. I wonder if anyone else feels the way I do?

I cannot be more specific because I do not have facts to support what it is that I have been feeling, but, let it suffice to say that there have been published words of rather powerful figures of late that have alarmed me.

And, that along with my instincts give me reason to be concerned.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on October 5, 2002.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/100502.pdf?ref=smdp.com)