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Dispatch from the War Zone of Seattle
This Fox News Web Site story today is just priceless. The Mayor,a white, homosexual, female Jenny Durkan, has been “demanded” to resign by avowed Socialist City Council-creature Kshama Sawant. Yeah, as if Durkan takes orders from the Clowncil! Sawant let demonstrators into City Hall because in her view it “belongs to the people”.
“Protesters” Storm City Hall! Those same protesters took over the Seattle East Precinct, making a 6-block “police-free zone”.
And now this, from MyNorthwest.com. It seems that the so-called “demonstrators” on Capitol Hill (above) are armed, and now establishing checkpoints around the neighborhood, and attempting to extract “protection money” from local businesses. How is this helpful? With no police, this is what you get.
Here are some quotes from another article on the KOMO Web site, about the “protester-occupied Autonomous Zone” near the Seattle Police East Precinct on Capitol Hill.
After Seattle police boarded up and abandoned the east precinct, a story started to spread that protesters with guns had broken in and were occupying the building. This is false. [emphasis mine]
Now, just think about the bolded statement above. The Seattle Police have abandoned their precinct station, and basically surrendered to the Occupying Force of Protesters. What, exactly, does this say about the Police of the City of Seattle, whose job it is to protect the citizens of the city. This is appalling! In my opinion, this reflects the known fact that the city government of Seattle does not support its police force, and has not done for many years. They are the descendants of 1960s radicals who think of police as “pigs”.
However, armed citizens are patrolling the streets around the police station. It’s also true that rifle-toting citizens have set up checkpointsand may be restricting who goes in and out.
Does this sound like a revolution to you? An entire neighborhood of the city patrolled by armed “citizens” who probably do not live in that neighborhood.
And the truth actually gets even worse.
“We have heard anecdotally reports of citizens and businesses being asked to pay a fee to operate within this area,” Nollette said. “This is the crime of extortion.”
“The collective believes in the diversity of tactics,” said protest organizerDae Shik Kim Hawkins, Jr. “I think a lot of different coalitions and efforts are trying to achieve a very similar goal.”
Police said they are reaching out to these leaders so they can move back into the east precinct without inciting more civil unrest.
What does this sound like to you? To me, it sounds like, again, the Police have surrendered to the Protesters, and have to ask their permission to move back into their precinct house! The Protesters’ Goal is a Police-free city.
I have changed my mind about this being fun for us non-Seattleites to watch; it is now scary, and horrifying. I feel sorry for all the business owners whose establishments were burned or looted during the so-called protests over the death of a career criminal in Minneapolis. And I feel bad for all the citizens who are being prevented from returning to their homes, by armed thugs at checkpoints.
Hey, “protesters” and “demonstrators” in Seattle. Be very careful what you wish for, you might just get it. I wonder how criminal gangs and drug-pushers feel about Leftist wimps who pull the police from the streets in favor of social workers? We may be about to find out.
[originally posted over at RushBabe49.com]
Published in Policing
I have a feeling that the news we’re getting out of the zone is very selective.
I was just quoting what I heard a white person in the CHAZ say, Everything here is free right now.
It’s been many hours since then, I imagine there is less supply, thus more demand, and things are still free?
kek
I divorced my iPhone.
kek.
There is the argument that, by their own statements, they’re not part of the US anymore. If that’s true, the fire department doesn’t owe them anything. Now whether letting the place burn is the right or best thing to do is another question. But it would be a logical consequence of their own declarations.
I first saw it in World of Warcraft (online MMORPG). There are two factions, Alliance and Horde; when you play an Alliance character, any Horde character’s speech is rendered as jibberish except for ‘LOL’ which comes out as ‘KEK’. This predates Pepe the Frog memes (the game started in 2004), but not ancient Egypt.
Also some GOOD science fiction movies.
Well at least in the Senate there’s only 99 competitors. Add in the House, and she’d have to compete against real prizes such as Maxine Waters.
Restaurants, bars, grocery stores… they don’t produce their own stuff. The supplies will be exhausted, probably within just a few days.
One of my older brothers, who lives in rural Idaho, doesn’t seem to think anything serious is going on, anywhere.
My other older brother lives in Seattle, and I’m certain voted for Inslee and Durkan. Frankly, even if Antifa and/or BLM or whoever showed up at his house and demanded that he and his family leave because they were taking custody of it for the people or whatever, I couldn’t rustle up any sympathy.
I expect that, like any “good” leftist, he figures only OTHER People’s Money – OPM – would be taken and used for the “causes” he supports. They never think that THEIR OWN money – or their homes, or their very lives… – might be at stake.
Does Rise of Kingdoms have a Capital Hill Autonomous Zone added to their available civilizations yet?
But, Wouldn’t it actually have to be a civilization, to qualify?
I hope some Civ-type game puts one in but that it lights on fire before you can conquer it.