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The City of Seattle Confirms That It Is Lawless
Through a number of citywide policies, the fast-growing city of Seattle has decided that, because more people “of color” than whites skip out on library fines, ride the Metro buses without paying, live in tents on the streets, commit property crimes, and use and deal drugs out in the open, that those crimes and misbehaviors will no longer be punished.
This article on the Fox News Web site details how Seattle no longer enforces its laws, and everyone suffers. This is pathetic.
It’s pretty funny that many wealthy residents of big houses on the east side of Lake Washington are downsizing and moving to pricey condos in downtown Seattle. They should watch where they walk, lest they get tripped up by used needles and human feces on the sidewalk. Luxury Urban Living.
Cross-posted on RushBabe49.com.
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They weren’t free before he died. They were just financed differently. And someone always decides what goes into them.
Probably when the copyright expires.
The one silver lining to this asininity is that The Great Enlightened in Seattle get to live with the consequences of their own foolishness.
Every two years or so I take my son to visit my cousin and her daugher in Seattle and I notice people progressively becoming more agitated with the constant influx of new residents though they generally seem pretty happy with themselves. Last summer my cousin took us on a walking tour of one of the neighborhoods and she ran into a stranger posting signs for some protest or another … they were so excited about it!
I hadn’t noticed any ostensible decay but the building frenzy is unabated … maybe I was just in the wrong neighborhoods. Though it is clear that that their politics, increasingly self-righteous posturing, is unsustainable.
These people are going to face a whiplash that they will be utterly shocked by.
There’s a reason why limo liberalism is so fervent and strident in its compassion for minorities and the homeless – they are isolated from them.
It’s easy to think about them in the abstract, but when confronted with the reality, all their assumptions blow up in their face. Without enforcing the laws that kept do-gooders and troublemakers separate, the do-gooders are going to lose sight of the “good minorities” and the homeless deserving compassion as they get overshadowed by their out of control peers.
And this will ultimately harm the parts of the minority groups that don’t engage in this behavior and have worked hard to be free of the tyrannies that shape their groups’ communities.
Look for an increase in thefts of large HDTVs . . .
If a public display of a cross is a Christian symbol then is nothing on display an atheist symbol????? If not why not?? And seriously every museum of natural history I’ve ever been in is a tax supported Temple to Atheism. So then, rules for thee but not for me.
That’s what voting is for, holding the clowns accountable. If the voters refuse to do their job they have little room to complain.
The two issues that set Seattle residents off are housing density and homeless encroachment. The City is set on up- zoning many currently single-family neighborhoods to allow more multi-family housing to be built. People scream bloody murder, and sometimes they can slow it down. Seattleites cherish their single-family homes with backyards, and are convinced that it is impossible to raise children in multi-family housing (tell that to the residents of New York City or other places on the East Coast). As if there are that many children in Seattle (the city has more pets than kids). Neighborhoods in Northeast Seattle are just now seeing the encroachment of homeless camps, and they are not too happy about it. The City policy is to favor the homeless over taxpayers, demonstrated by the policy of cleaning up the camps periodically, but not moving the residents to shelters or jail unless they want to be moved-most homeless camps are reconstituted within days. I really don’t know what it would take for Seattle to quit electing SJW candidates.
I think it was on one of the podcasts where a guest made a convincing argument atheism was in fact a religion, therefore teaching there is no God in schools was also verboten . . .
And porn; don’t forget that.
The issue is nonsense of course because occasional symbols of Christian faith don’t mean the adoption of Christianity by that government body, and it some cases it’s purely symbolic like Roy Moore’s 10 Commandments in his courtroom in Alabama. I can’t understand how he could have lost that case because no one in their right mind could claim that he was using the 10 as any basis for jurisprudence. It’s a cultural cliche that the 10 Commandments is often a metaphor for “the law carved in stone.”
The citizens of Seattle are the least religious of major cities. Churches are more likely to be used as concert venues and homeless shelters than for worship.
It depends on what the meaning of “worship” is.