I am not a resident of Malibu, but I do have friends that live there and I love the whole concept of the community. I was appalled at the article that Jonathan Shapiro wrote in the Los Angeles Daily News about “Let It Burn.”
Mr. Shapiro, why are you picking on Malibu? It is not nice or neighborly to wish such a horrendous act on a community. There are other areas in our great city of Los Angeles that are not safe places to live. Residents in these unsafe areas have to depend on firefighters or any other means of help to save and rescue them from disaster.
If Malibu is such a “Godforsaken Place,” why is it so desirable, and why do the residents love living there? To wish an area to burn to the ground isn’t a gift from “Mother Nature.” The assessment of “let Malibu burn” is an angry person’s ranting and raving and being very hurtful and insensitive.
Large scale development has all but destroyed every possible beautiful and pristine place in California. Why pick on Malibu? To create a public access to the beaches in Malibu would be opening the floodgates to trashing these beautiful beaches.
Mr. Shapiro, how would you like having people coming to your front or backyard and leaving all of their trash? The “wealthy citizens” of Malibu and their “karma,” who own homes on the beachfront, are keeping these beaches in “beautiful and pristine condition.”
Lois Eisenberg