Fullerton’s Big Log
No, it’s not the Fullerton Observer itself, but it is a story related by Stikia Kennedy on that unfortunate publication’s blog. The post seems to have vanished, as is sometimes the case when it suits the publisher/CEO. In this instance it caught the attention of Mr. F.L. Olmstead before it was dispatched; and he sent it to me.
It seems that a local resident named Jensen Hallstrom has been jumping a short wrought iron fence to make homemade repairs to the big slab of redwood dedicated to veterans. It’s in Hillcrest Park not far from the Isaac Walton lodge.
Mr. Hallstrom has been seen at local City Council meetings sharing his personal efforts to repair damaged and missing names. That was was a big mistake, for apparently he has been issued a cease and desist letter from the City, to and from his trespass and his activity.
Ever the intrepid partisan, Shakira Kennedy seizes upon this David and Goliath tale to spin a yarn about it is somehow the result of the ethics of the Council majority, honesty, transparency and yakkity yak yak yak. It doesn’t seem to have occurred to Kennedy that Fullerton parks staff just hates it when private citizens do unsupervised stuff in City parks, and no political interference is necessary. That fight’s been going on for 35 years, without a peep by two generations of Observers.
Anyhow, Mr. Hallstrom should also know better. He got into a squabble with the City a few years back over the impromptu and unauthorized “native garden” he planted along the Hiltscher Trail. This latest effort seems to suggest a fundamental immaturity on his part.
Shiitake Kennedy’s older sister Sharon even put in an appearance in the comments to decry the event and wonder aloud if Jones and Mayer didn’t have anything better to do than to get the City involved in more legal activity in which they get to bill more hours.
Now that’s ironic. Did either of the Kennedy’s raise an objection about the legal costs associated with the idiotic lawsuit against this blog that was approved by a liberal Council majority? Did any Observers call out the enormous waste of legal fees involved in the foolish and Air Combat lawsuit caused by an incompetent Airport Director who couldn’t understand his own lease? Of course not.
Accountability doesn’t apply to the left-leaning Democrats favored by the Kennedy Sisters whose gaze becomes myopic when dealing with the likes of Ahmad Zahra, Jan Flory, Jesus Quirk Silva and their ilk.
Why this post was pulled is anybody’s guess. Maybe it will mysteriously pop up in the Register.
Goddam, these people are obsessed with Jung and “his” majority. They haven’t used the term “Bushala Bloc” lately.
You guys should change your name to “The Fullerton Observer Commentary Blog”. It’d be more fitting
Someone has to call you out for your imbecilities, tender young Elijah.
You like “reporters” who make news rather than report honestly? The Kennedy Sisters, Sharon and Squatch are for you!
Yes they seem obsessed. Sort of like Henry F. Potter versus the Bailey Building and Loan.
It’s gnawing at them.
When you see lies you go after them. Why are you and the Kennedy Twins and Zahra and sweet Elijah so obsessed Bushala?
Jealous of winning?
So why did another “article” vanish? Not the activity of a reputable news source.
Saskia Kennedy magic trick: have AI or a high school student like Elijah Manassero pen an article and pull it because it lacks any factual credibility. Helps validate their bullshit “news for the people, by the people” motto. Unless it is a hit piece on Jung, and then it stays on their headline masthead for a month. LOL. The Observer? What a joke!
Someone has to comment on their fake news because they don’t allow comments on their website. They really believe in the 1st Amendment.
I worry about Jensen.
Hallstrom doesn’t seem to understand that volunteering gets you nowhere with the Fullerton Parks and Rec Department. Yep, been going on since Susan Hunt (another $100,000 per year pension) showed up.
Trying to tie this to Jung, Dunlap and Valencia is just petulant and childish. But typical.
If Skania isn’t trying to make news she’s shouting down public speakers. Just like her sister.
Yeah, that’s a really bad habit these sisters have – interrupting speakers from the cheap seats.
Sharon had an obsession with Tony Bushala for two decades. Now Skatchia has taken it over.
Churnalism at its best.
Should I watch the tape of the meeting? Did anybody yell LOOK AT ME WHEN I TALK TO YOU?
Mrs. Potato Head?
Sasquatchia.
Disappointing to see the poor logic of those who think a cease and desist letter sent by email on april fools is the right way to communicate with an individual who for over ten years has donated their time to volunteer and improve public spaces. The city could have called or emailed me to have a conversation but instead they chose to send a joke of an attempt to criminalize my acts of community service.
see my work for yourself and then make a judgement on how carefully restoring the legibility of the faded names on this memorial to fullerton residents who died in wwii is at all something that requires a legal threat from the city in response
if any of you keyboard critics would get up, go outside for a walk, pick up trash at a park or just be observant and notice/report neglected park features then maybe you’d appreciate my work.
I’ve observed and reported dozens of large, hazardous trees throughout parks and trails in Fullerton over years and have been able to get most of them appropriately reduced or removed in order to mitigate risk to park visitors. these volunteer efforts of mine are valuable to inform city staff of safety issues although I have been complaining about the deteriorating sequoia memorial since 2017 and there has still not been any effort to address it for all those years so i took the responsibility to repaint the names which were faded and illegible.
“ This latest effort seems to suggest a fundamental immaturity on his part.”
Where exactly is this “fundamental immaturity” on my behalf that you seem to find? Funny how the real immaturity here is that this post is just a rant on the observer without focusing on the content of the issue at hand which is clearly negligent park management.
Easy to criticize and scrutinize hardworking community volunteers from behind a computer or your personal blog but did it occur to any of you that i wouldn’t need to do this if the city did not leave this historic monument forgotten and neglected for decades to the point of current deterioration? No other city in southern california has a cross section cut of a 2000 year old giant sequoia on display in a public park. This monument deserves the proper recognition and maintenance as a unique and historic feature of fullerton.
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/18fmLfw_0E48UBsPdc7_hypnk8FoZQVKn
You are immature. The point of this post was really how the Observer used your behavior to slide in a denigration of the council majority.
You can’t seem to fathom why officialdom is annoyed by your persistent trespasses and self-anointed sainthood.
Hillcrest Park has been ignored for 70 years. We all know it.
Why do you call your efforts work. You aren’t a star. Get a damn job.
All the money spent in Hillcrest Park has gone to useless crap like the Unceremonious Bridge to Nowhere; and to build and rebuild Lion’s Field sports stuff.
Hey pal, pretty sure you have misread the room here. From what I know of this blog, there isn’t a person here who would be upset with your efforts. I applaud you and completely align with your giving your time to veterans for one and for your time spent giving back to this city in general.
God bless.
Hey, thank you for your encouragement. Despite the attempts of people to disparage my character because of my volunteer efforts, I know that I’m improving my community in small ways that are meaningful (and at no cost to the city). People such as yourself with words of support help provide the morale for me to continue my work.
Yes and no. We can’t have anybody doing what they want in the name of their own interests.
What if young Hallstrom impales his nuts jumping the spikey fence?
I get your point.
Hopefully he would go home and ice them as would I.
Seems to be a genuine chap.
Now if he only did streets…….
Yes. I would like to see young Hallstrom out there with a shovel and a bucket of asphalt.
Jensen! Get a J-O-B!
Stop the comically sad community tree service superhero crap! Isn’t Target hiring?
This is one of the Observer clowns. Not someone who I would bet represents the core of this group.
Grow up.
Unfortunately, this type of anonymous clown is not uncommon in Fullerton. Funny yet unfortunate how they focus on childish insults instead of actually contending with the substance of these issues. Apparently difficult for these guys to understand that some people can commit themselves to work and devoting free time to volunteer in their community. Nobody is pretending to be a community service “superhero”. Although I do have a strong conviction to help my community in ways that are meaningful, I don’t do these things for recognition or reasons of an inflated ego as politicians do. I just simply give a damn about fullerton’s parks as anybody who loves and appreciates their town could relate to.
You do “these things” with good intentions, no doubt; but the lack of awareness is impressive.
If you hadn’t gone to the City Council to share your “work” you could still be doing it unmolested.
Ironic yet another dull take from someone who calls themselves “the fullerton harpoon”.
Please allow me to inform your perspective on myself since you feel so free to speak on my character. I have dealt with many city council members, staff, commissioners over the past 10 years for somebody of my age. I have learned more of this bureaucratic system of city government than I really cared to because I care about my community and recognized my conviction to strongly advocate for improvements to park and urban forest infrastructure throughout Fullerton. I have seen negligence, incompetence, and lack of awareness on behalf of city council, staff, and commissions which I have brought to light by my research which includes regularly visiting parks and trails around Fullerton and reporting many diseased, dying, or dead trees which were overhanging playgrounds, walkways, benches, parking spaces. I do not share this lack of awareness with the city because I actively take on the responsibility of inspecting public spaces to preserve public safety since the city has NO inspection standards for park trees. Through my independent volunteer inspections, I find and report hazardous trees which the city would otherwise not even know about.
Now, what makes you think that you know anything about me or these ten years of my volunteer service? Where is my impressive “lack of awareness”? No amount of stupidity out of city hall surprises me anymore and this is yet another example of poor governance which completely went over your head. I take on a level of risk and vulnerability from my volunteer actions which has been made abundantly clear from the poor leadership seen for years. You should understand that from the bogus lawsuit the city aggressively brought to this blog and lost. But no, you think my actions of community service deserve a legal threat in return. Please reflect on this cognitive dissonance of yours and then get back to me if you can resolve any difference in your logic and acknowledge it. I don’t care to waste my time commenting here to people I don’t even know beyond your usernames but if you think you can publicly speak down on me as if you understand, even in the slightest, myself or my actions then i will be here to offer friendly corrections.
Not only am I abundantly aware of the city’s capacity for foolish decisions, I will defend my position when the city and random bloggers antagonize me with a foolish legal threat and criticisms as if the content of my actions and concerns are not legitimate. Not only do I hold intentions that are based on doing the ultimate good that i can contribute to my community, I carry out every action and effort of mine with careful and thoughtful execution.
Again, another misguided take that I should have just kept quiet about my work so i could “still be doing it unmolested”
What makes you think I have the resources to completely rehabilitate the condition and structural integrity of a 12 foot wide, 2000 year old sequoia slab? I know nothing of how to properly fumigate the monument to kill of the wood-boring pests which have freely tunneled all throughout the slab for decades. Why would I attempt to do advanced restoration efforts like applying pesticides, sanding, sealing when i know nothing of how to accomplish any of that? All I could do is paint in some of the names with the same color of original white paint to restore their legibility so the names could be read. The maintenance of this entire memorial could not reasonably be expected to be carried out in secrecy by one person. Why would you even think to suggest something so ridiculous? My act was a simple gesture to kick off the inspiration for the city to finally intervene and have the monument professionally restored. And the city responded with an unnecessary and antagonistic legal threat instead of just calling me or emailing me to have a conversation in person regarding my actions. How any of you FFFF’ers find this reasonable local governance is what’s really impressive.
That’s a lot of Big Boy words. The end result is the same.
What have you actually accomplished?
Had you gone to the Council with the problem BEFORE you took it upon yourself you’d get a lot more sympathy from some of us.
Anyhow, YOU were not the subject of this post – just an ancillary player.
Write up your story and I will post it unedited. How’s that?
I’ll take you up on that and write up my own story on this if you actually will post it unedited. Big words should deter you from understanding the concepts i’m presenting to you all here. It’s plainly obvious that you chose to take what is a serious issue and reduce it to the usual dribble fixated on your passionate obsession for the kennedy sisters. Yet, you chose as an ancillary tangent to act as if you accurately understood me or my actions in any way. So I commented to correct you and inform readers here what the truth is.
*”Big words should NOT deter you from the concepts i’m presenting”
Send it in. We’ll publish it.
Fullerton’s “local governance” has never been impressive except for its incompetence. However your eco-vigilantism and self-important behavior makes you annoying.
Should people start enforcing the law because our cops aren’t doing it the way they like?
Why DID you share your efforts with the City Council? To shame the City? You’ve also gone to meetings to attack Jung, as I recall.
Why don’t you get permission first? This is recurring.
Anonymous, if you dare to focus your attention long enough then you will read my prior comments which explain exactly why I did what I did. Also, you guys are so dramatic and embellishing with your vocabulary. How did I “attack” Fred? I reflected on my honest observations and many personal experiences with him where he proved his failures as a leader which “yes men” such as yourself couldnt possibly understand if it broke your disillusioned image of a perfect politician in fred.
Oh, my. So young. So passionate.
And yet you fail to persuade. You’re a grown-ass man. Act like one.
“oh my. so youngso so passionate”
Anonymous, why do you unironically sound like some woman in distress at the thought of people younger than yourself being active in their community? Some of you guys here are just miserable and can’t stand to see community service go without condemnation, exactly like a miserable city administration which attempted to criminalize and condemn my work. Easy to criticize me when you don’t understand the experience of advocating for the maintenance of a historic war memorial for years and still seeing it go unaddressed and rotting, eaten away from beetles, and the painted names fading and unreadable. As I said before, maybe if a family member of yours was on this memorial, you would have a moment of comprehension and understanding of how important yet neglected this monument has been. Continue hating if you’d like but people like you do not deter me in the least.
Go to bed, young fella.
“go to bed young fella”
hey man, not my fault you are too lazy to read my comment and spend a moment thinking critically about this issue that you decided with your own free will to chime in on.
It is my fault thinking you might be capable of actually contending with any point of mine but since it’s your bed time I’ll leave you be.
Hey young fella, no one is required to read your self-absorbed, self exculpatory prose.
Too bad everyone is “miserable” because they can’t get onboard the St. Jensen Express. What a shame.
Hey Jensen,
Didn’t Jung appoint you to the Parks committee? Why aren’t you on it anymore buddy?
He won’t because Jensen knows he was not living here and pretending to.
“Funny yet unfortunate how they focus on childish insults instead of actually contending with the substance of these issues.”
What are the issues?
I clearly stated in easy words what the issue here is multiple times. Negligent park management is the issue. And people without care or concern will say that is how it’s always been so why try to change it. The difference between us is that I am not so easily dissuaded and will continue to advocate and take action to improve parks in Fullerton. How the hell is this something to draw such offense and confusion from you guys twice my age on this blog?
Why is someone being twice your age relevant to anything except an obvious victimhood sense frequently encountered in young adults today – who can’t understand what adult means.
If you couldn’t tell, I mentioned your age multiple times rhetorically to reflect how stupid you guys sound bitching about people younger than yourselves being inherently foolish and misguided. One of the anonymous guys mentioned my age and dedication to my community as a condescending asshole “oh my so young so so passionate”
What kind of grown adult speaks like that to someone younger? is that how’d you talk to a newphew of yours or a son? No, because when younger people get involved with politics, you as an older figure should provide guidance and encouragement to make intelligent choices in the best interest of the community
Although most of what i see here is you guys acting like a bunch of immature jerks ritually making up creative insults and high-fiving each-other in this self-gratifying herd mentality. Wake up, man because i’m sure you are capable of respecting yourself and your community better than whatever you guys call this blog presently. I miss when there were credible authors on this blog like Joshua Ferguson
You don’t know how old anybody is.
Clearly you are self-absorbed.
“Funny how the real immaturity here is that this post is just a rant on the observer without focusing on the content of the issue at hand which is clearly negligent park management.”
Do yourself a favor and search the blog with “Hillcrest.” Fred Olmstead was writing about the dereliction in Hillcrest Park when you were wearing a diaper.
“Disappointing to see the poor logic of those who think a cease and desist letter sent by email on april fools is the right way to communicate with an individual who for over ten years has donated their time to volunteer and improve public spaces.”
Who asserted that? A misdirection right off the bat.
My father enlisted in 43 at 16 years old.
Can you imagine young Elijah doing the same?
Yeah, me either.
I could not myself imagine the experience of enlisting let alone at 16 years old.. that’s why I respect and appreciate the courageous people such as your father and those 55 men on this world war II memorial who sacrificed their lives. If the author of this post or any of the anonymous critics of my actions had a family member’s name on this memorial, maybe they would also be concerned with the years of neglect that has resulted in the monument’s long-term deterioration.
Not the point.
No, I understand that your point is to disparage people half your age who you find “too radical” and misaligned with your views and values. My point is that beyond the petty insults and routine squabble of this blog, there are issues which have gone unnoticed and unreported on for years such as this memorial which I have taken the responsibility and action of spreading awareness and making some of the faded names legible. Your point and contribution to this conversation was to compare your father to somebody who you wish to ridicule. My point is that the city is neglecting historic monuments so i am intervening after years of unaddressed complaints while this thing rots forgotten and left abandoned without any maintenance. See the difference between our points, Brian?
Yes, you are a regular Don Quixote. This is a psychological issue.
My post was only marginally tangential to you, and all about a disappearing article on the Observer blog that turned your tale into an attack on the City Hall.
You want to make it about you.
You should comment on the Observer blog where contradictory “views and values” aren’t permitted.
Oh, you can’t. The post is gone.
The post was taken down because I wanted to clarify my actions in an article of my own authorship which i’m currently writing. I felt that the initial article left out some details that were important for readers to understand. And since this is an issue that is affecting me personally, I do want to make it about myself because I am valuable to my community and I can do much more positive work locally if the city would actually collaborate with myself instead of antagonizing, ignoring and deflecting my concerns over the years. Maybe if you took another moment to try to understand the subject at hand, you’d see that this is an attack on me from the city. Specifically, from Fred Jung and Stephen Bise. I know that this couldn’t concern yourself any less but it’s just to remind you of your ironic double standard here.
Aha. Finally. Just as I suspected.
You suspected nothing because you didnt care to do any research or thought on this issue before you spoke. This is an issue reflectant of a malicious city administration which antagonizes the community by serving a dedicated volunteer for ten years (a third of my life so far) with a cease and desist order when an agreement and resolution could have been achieved through a simple meeting in person and conservation. But the city does not want to converse with me because a select few councilmembers and staff are hurt in the ego when i spread awareness of their negligence and so they have routinely ignored my public input. But that doesnt make me give up on trying to make positive changes. I don’t expect you to understand this.
I suspected that the Observer sisters pulled that dumb post because one of the parties requested it. Totally unprofessional but, whatever.
Join Fullerton Heritage. Or start a group called Friends of Hillcrest Park. It’s not as easy as jumping a fence but you might get results.
Anonymous, I tried bringing my concerns multiple times to Fullerton Heritage. They have been consistently uninterested in my suggestions. I have started community groups but i don’t want anyone else to bear legal risk for my actions so some things I do alone such as painting the faded names on the sequoia memorial and replanting the forgotten and abandoned memorial tree to James H Hunter on the east side slope of the “lower picnic area”.
Aw, nobody wants to play with Jensen. Try Ahmad Zahra. He likes to try to stir up controversy.
Ahmad, as other council members has ignored most all of my concerns which i have brought. Also, what is up with some of you guys and the baby talk? “aw, nobody wants to play with Jensen”
Who’s unsupervised child am I speaking to here?
You’re acting like a child whose parents overindulged him, hence the baby talk.
How many crying towels do you have?
Elijah doesn’t figure in this.
Elijah would be curled in the fetal position on the floor after being forced onto the bootcamp bus.
I apologize to this blog.
Clearly I was wrong.
No need to apologize for being one of the few sensible people here. Although, you were wrong that “there isn’t a person here who would be upset with your efforts”
because jumping the fence and painting the names, and advocating in public comments has obviously insulted and upset quite a bunch of grown men on this blog
Where else do you think you were wrong? I assume you mean a complete reversal from you saying “I applaud and completely align with your giving time to veterans for one and for your time spent giving back to this city in general. god bless”
so quick to take offense to my comments and flip flop on the sincerity of your prior statements
how are you at all preserving the integrity of this blog by “apologizing” that you were wrong? do you not see the faulty logic and immature behavior on display regularly here? It was not always like this when there were other authors some years ago. A community volunteer spends their time to improve public spaces and it couldnt go without this blog bastardizing the issue instead of focusing on what’s really important here which is the restoration of this memorial. I thought you understood that, Fullerton troll.
You have become very tedious in your continued victimhood. Grow the fuck up.
If you were not a miserable, selfish prick, you’d see the real victims here are the 55 men, residents of fullerton, who’s names were fading on a forgotten memorial. I’m a victim of comparatively lesser significance due to receiving an antagonistic legal threat from the city, who apparently finds no fault or accountability in allowing the memorial to be abandoned for years in the first place. How is any of this confusing you?
Grow up you silly little boy. You are not the center of the universe.
Well, I don’t think i’m the center of the universe although you sure are giving me a lot of your attention and time but until you have anything worthwhile to contribute to the conversation, feel free to just stop replying, nameless commenter
Aw, you love it.
You and Oliver and Elijah and that funny little dude with the giant Connor Traut button should form a club.
Don’t forget Steven Sherry and that Jozef Maldonado guy.
Fullerton Boohoo. The Next Generation
You are NOT a victim except in your own self-righteous fantasy.
Young Jensen likes to play outside the lines, but then cries when he is held accountable for his actions.
This IS fundamentally immature behavior. He should quit crying and accept the consequences of what he has done.
As for the Kennedy sisters, this is just more evidence of crafting their narrative for politcal purposes.
Hey, anonymous commissioner who likes to hide behind a username. You can’t even take accountability as an individual to put your name where your mouth is. Nobody is crying except for you elders clutching your pearls at the thought of community service going unpunished. What I am doing is spreading awareness on poor local governance which you could not care less about a deteriorating world war II memorial in our historic hillcrest park. You are as shameless as you are anonymous. Why don’t you stand by your empty words and post your name?
Oh no. The Great Jensen Hallstrom, hero of the new generation. A real leader. But zero followers.
So your tactic when you can’t actually hold a decent discussion/debate is to attempt to sarcastically glorify your opposition and then deliver a half-assed attempt of an insult.. ok
not sure what your point is anymore because you don’t really have any real conviction or care for what you say here. Good luck with that, man. All of you guys could actually have useful conversations here if you wanted to
There’s nothing to debate. You broke the rules and you got served notice. The story is a nothing story except that others can use your naiveté (if it really is that) for politcal purposes. You are so caught up in martyrdom routine you can’t even see that.
Go join Fullerton Heritage and start an historic monuments committee and do it right without jumping a fence?
Fullerton historian, if you understand city politics, then you’ll understand that I actually did for years talk to council members, staff, residents about this issue and still no action was taken so i decided to take the responsibility of a simple gesture to get attention and interest on the memorial. I already stopped jumping the fence since the legal threat. Also, By the way, I only jumped that fence twice and spent about 2 hours each time carefully painting the names back in. How people want to hate on my actions more than the city’s decades of neglect here is just fascinating.
Good for you. You can get your badge.
Of course I understand city politics.
If you are not jumping the fence anymore then tear up the City’s letter and move on.
Then what would become of Skittles Kennedy’s use for the story?
I’m not jumping the fence anymore but i’m going to continue to strongly advocate for the complete restoration of the memorial and hold that the city does not need to threaten and antagonize community members to come to a mutual agreement or resolution.
Good for you. But try to connect the dots between fence jumping and cease and desist letters.
Community members who break laws and trespass. You conveniently left out that part, Jensen.
If you were on the commission, why didn’t you get more done and address the WWII memorial then? Seems like you had a chance to make a difference. Did you Jensen? Cause if you were doing such great community service, why are you not still on the committee? The council people who you are at odds with still are on council. What happened to you? The WWII memorial is not your personal Eagle Scout project. It is public property and you don’t have the unilateral right to improve it just because you feel like it. There are big liability concerns, which I am sure that letter you received from the city explained. But like every young person, you have been emboldened to feel that it is OK to just do whatever you feel like, the adults be damned right. That is nonsense! That memorial is not yours to improve or save. Let the experts do it and stop your trespassing. And so you know, this is my real name.
“Let the experts do it and stop your trespassing.”
Or don’t do it at all.
Again, what makes you think you understand anything about my work on the commission and in the community? For the time I was on the parks commission, my focus included improving tree management through the updated urban forest master plan for which i had much input regarding improved standards for tree inspections, pruning, and plantings, ect. I was also dealing with the city arborist at the time, Roger Cardenas, who was making poor decisions, damaging our parks by having many healthy, mature trees cut down out of fear of risk that could have been easily mitigated with structural pruning. Adlena Park and Valencia Park were especially affected by the rushed removals of healthy, mature trees.
I used my time as a commissioner to advocate for the betterment of my community. I was at the same time talking to staff and council about the deteriorating memorial and did not bring it to commission because i was focused on a litany of other issues around town that were concerning the active mismanagement of park trees.
“Cause if you were doing such great community service, why are you still not on the commission”
Because despite a select number of my suggestions actually taken seriously, most of my concerns went right over everybody’s head such as the numerous times I mentioned that the city has not designated even just one of it’s historic trees even though there has been an ordinance to accomplish just that for over 30 years which has never been utilized. How could you not be discouraged when bringing forth so many observations and recommendations that were routinely ignored by staff and council, and other commissioners at times such as the likes of the anonymous parks commissioner who tried to weigh in on this with a comment earlier.
“The memorial is not your public eagle scout project”
“that memorial is not yours improve or save”
so you are wrong on all fronts, putting up bogus arguments as if i ever suggested that I could “save” or make this a personal eagle scouts project on my own. What I did was simply paint in fading names which were completely illegible. And, speaking of this publicly got enough attention from the city to stop ignoring my concern and address it so as long as the memorial gets restored, I am happy because, Bob, what you don’t understand is that i’ve done more for Fullerton’s parks than you could wrap your mind around (and at no cost to the city) so before you try to speak again please remember that you have no idea who I am and the pride that i hold for my community. I have “owned” that memorial more than anyone in recent history by being the only person to commit a few hours for a simple gesture of painting faded names to inspire the attention on the memorial for it’s full restoration. You obviously didnt listen to my public comments. I have only jumped the fence twice to paint the names carefully for about two hours each time. I haven’t continued since because I never intended to attempt to restore the memorial in any of the meaningful, skilled sense that would require a professional wood worker and pest control expert. All of you guys just jump so quickly and lazily to assume things that you do’t truly understand at all.
People like yourself, Bob, would prefer a boring reality where nobody would ever take action in their community and public spaces go neglected and abandoned without attention or intervention or even acknowledgment by anybody
Maybe you’d recognize how foolish it is to point your ire and disdain on somebody who actually gives a damn to do something that they feel is important. If you had a family member on this memorial, you might actually consider simply thanking me for possibly restoring the legibility of the name of your father or an uncle. But i’m sure your cognitive dissonance would still upset you because I hopped over a fence to do it.
Good Lord, kid, take your pill.
Nah, i’m good. Unfortunately, there’s not a pill to cure whatever your problem is. Sorry that my volunteer service upset you so much
Your volunteer law breaking? Not so much. Simmer down young tadpole.
I don’t think you are “good.” You seem like an earnest, sincere guy, but you lack of perspective is obvious.
You need a job, dude.
Jensen has Hero Syndrome. Nobody is thanking him because he is only a legend in his own mind.
Something is seriously broken in Jensen’s cerebrum.
Oh wow, Jensen — truly inspiring stuff. Nothing says “humble community service” quite like hopping fences, ignoring basic laws, and then delivering a TED Talk in the comments about your own greatness.
On behalf of Every Person in Fullerton, thank you for your heroic commitment to… checks notes… doing whatever you want and then writing 12,000 words explaining why that makes you the main character. Truly, we were all just sitting around waiting for someone to bravely combine trespassing with a superiority complex.
Also appreciate the subtle touch of calling everyone else lazy while simultaneously turning a cease-and-desist into a full autobiographical trilogy. Bold strategy.
But seriously — thank you for reminding us all that rules are optional when your sense of self-righteousness is strong enough. The fence never stood a chance.
Oh Jensen, thank you. Truly. Fullerton has been wandering aimlessly for decades, just waiting for one guy to vault a fence and appoint himself Director of Everything.
Nothing says “I don’t do this for my ego” like writing a novel-length comment explaining, in excruciating detail, how you alone understand governance, public safety, historical preservation, and apparently the inner workings of everyone else’s character. It’s honestly impressive—most people need a whole committee to reach that level of self-importance.
And the best part? Breaking the rules, getting called out, and then immediately pivoting to “I’m the victim here.” A masterclass. Really. If irony were a city department, you’d be running it too.
So again, thank you for your service—specifically your service to your own reflection. Fullerton may never recover from the loss of your unsanctioned fence-hopping era, but we’ll try to carry on somehow.
Thank you dear Savior for your sacrifice. Jensen Saves.
Hey, I wrote detailed explanations of my actions and motivations. Yet, all you childish, nameless bunch can do is is insult me for answering and addressing every question and insult thrown my way?
You guys are the true victims here, wasting your potential as part of your community to belittle and ridicule community volunteers so I treated the losers here exactly as you all act with each dull comment and each habitual, shallow insult which you think actually makes anybody feel smaller than yourself. Why don’t any of you offer to meet me in person? We might have a more productive conversation that way than over comments on a blog. That is, if any of you actually care for any of these community issues any more than just another opportunity to bully and whine about everything you don’t like. I care more about the substance of the issues presented here than whatever you clowns say on an online comment. If any of you actually care to stand by your words, stop hiding behind anonymous comments or let’s talk in person since you are all clearly so shaken up by my actions.
Your attempts to cast me as a crazy, self-righteous, “savior” with a “superiority complex” are because you can’t actually hold a real argument and so you project ideas of grandeur, a glorified vigilante, a mentally-unstable young antagonist menacing around the community, menacingly. Just because you can’t actually think critically about this situation any more than your attention span will allow.
Hero complex — not superiority complex, different diagnosis.
However, you do exhibit several conditions clearly defined in the DSM-5-TR.
The drama of the angry man is that he has a lot to say but he’s rarely heard. The easiest way to be loved is to be lovable. Bon chance.
Stop it ya boob. These people are just having fun with you complete lack of humor about yourself.
Here is a list, in alphabetical order, of Jensen’s friends and people who like him:
Alright. That’s enough.
Agreed.
This blog attacking Jensen is truly sad considering this blog, in several ways, used to be on his side on many issues.
The trail improvements were a net positive and arguing that he shouldn’t do anything to mitigate risk to the city is precisely the argument used by the city to make things worse for all of us.
The take *should* have been that the Observer, like always, missed the boat here and Jensen would have been better off making sure his work couldn’t be tied to him because the city will always punish people for making them look bad – especially since the Cease & Desist tactic is exactly what the city did this blog.
“Do nothing because the city should be doing it” is not a take I’d have ever expected from FFFF.
You could try actually READING the post instead of making this man into a blog victim. He came to this site and effectively hijacked the post to make it all about himself when the post was about the Behavior of the Observer sisters.
Sorry. No Sale.