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Seattle Mayor Durkan’s ‘Summer of Love’
What happens when a negligent mayor leaves rioters in charge of six blocks of prime urban real estate? Maybe she’s unwilling to protect the citizens of Seattle from the lawless rape and robbery on full display in the CHAZ and jamming her 911 lines, but the Blaze is coming to the defense of the LGBT Capitol Hill neighborhood.
Civil liberties? Forget about it. Free speech? BLM is really weak on the concept. The adventure of one preacher is telling. From the Blaze:
One activist in the CHAZ threatened the protester. In the video, a man wearing a red bandanna on his face can be heard telling the preacher, “You’ll die out here bro. Do you wanna die out here?” The preacher responded, “Sin is worse than death.”
The same people who protested police brutality in the past few weeks, especially chokeholds, were the same ones choking the preacher because he didn’t obey their orders. The preacher screamed, “You’re choking me!”
One person in the CHAZ didn’t believe the street preacher should be expelled from the autonomous zone, and he was immediately called a “[redacted] Nazi sympathizer.”
The man in the red bandanna screams at white people for “not being allies” in the Black Lives Matter movement.
The preacher attempted to go on a stage, but was not allowed. A woman with a microphone asked for “white people who have experience in security, and can maybe talk to this gentleman, it really isn’t the job of the black people to handle this situation.”
The woman asked the crowd to “will him out of here.” She told the crowd, “So please think about him leaving.”
A protester yelled, “TAKE HIS PANTS OFF!”
Several people wrestled the preacher to the ground when he went on a stage in the CHAZ and declared, “This is a Christian zone.”
If this is the Summer of Love, Mayor Durkan should shuck her security detail and spend an evening celebrating with her BLM buddies. Maybe personally canvas any residents that might be left protecting what few valuables they haven’t already been robbed of. She could give Trump the finger for the phone cameras and maybe get lucky by the light of the burning vehicles. The perfect climax to her perfect handling of the situation.
Mayor Durkan’s earlier comments from the NY Post:
Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan on Thursday defended the protesters who have declared an “autonomous zone” on the city’s streets as “patriotic.”
In her remarks to the press, Durkan also said President Trump’s threat to send in federal forces to crack down on the protesters was “unconstitutional and illegal.”
“Unfortunately, our President wants to tell a story about domestic terrorists who have a radical agenda and are promoting a conspiracy that fits his law-and-order initiatives,” Durkan said, according to Patch.
“It’s simply not true. Lawfully gathering and expressing First Amendment rights, demanding we do better as a society, and providing true equity for communities of color is not terrorism. It’s patriotism.”
A keen judge of character, that one.
They all should have listened to the preacher, though. There is justice that is sure as death, and we all meet Him in the end. Even Mayor Durkan.
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Stupid is as stupid does.
That was the word that was the hardest not to use in composing this one.
Sometimes, you just have to roll with the obvious.
Too on the nose.
The forehead has more room for the tat:
Look at that face. The label just screams redundancy.
Still, it might be a warning to others.
Durkan’s calculation becomes clear. The day before her quote above Rasmussen published BLM’s soaring approval stats:
Her statue, when it is torn down, will show a finger raised to determine the wind direction.
The word “negligent” doesn’t describe Durkan. “Complicit” comes a bit closer.
Sisyphus,
We are getting some real news reporting finally.
Journalist Andy Ngo says Seattle’s occupied zone is like ‘Jekyll and Hyde’
Apparently, when the sun goes down the demons come out. There is no police on the street and nobody to call. I was watching a guy on twitter who had his face blanked out and his voice distorted because he was afraid of retaliation. He lives in the zone. He says every night he hears screams outside. He can’t leave they won’t let him.
This idiot Mayor is criminally negligent. This is a nightmare.
Regards,
Jim
Jenny Durkan’s father was a long time Democrat power broker in WA state, so like Pelosi, she took in Democrat ideology with her mother’s milk. In 2009, the Lightbringer appointed her US Attorney for the Western District of Washington, where she served for 5 years.
The political landscape in Western WA is now so deeply inculcated with leftism there was no real choice when she ran for mayor.
The measure of how far Seattle has fallen, in my view as a longtime resident of King County is that ten years ago, a two-term mayor lost his bid for re-election, defeated in the primary, because of his incompetent response to a snowstorm. (!)
Yes, I know it seems ludicrous to anyone who has ever endured winter east of the Cascade mountains, but it doesn’t take a lot of the stuff to paralyse Seattle. It is a city built on hills separated by deep lakes and other waterways.
But as a measure of malfeasance, ineffective deployment of snow removal assets, vs. disarming the police and letting anarchists take over a few blocks of the city? Apparently, for Durkan, it’s “No problem.”
Sweet. I hadn’t thought of it that way. The Chazistas now own a lot of valuable property.
Their course is obvious. They should sell their six blocks of prime urban real estate, building by building. They’d make enough to buy a real commune somewhere. One with a pond. And ducks.
Oh, Good Lord!! This face (along with Governor Whitmer’s) is just not meant to be viewed by small children (and polite society)! Save it for Halloween!!
In the Twitter video I chuckled when the camera panned past the spray painted “end work” sign. Since it has been at least several millennia since God miraculously deposited manna and quail for everyone (and even that required the populace to to “work” by going out and collecting it), only some type of “work” is going to produce the things everybody wants. Clearly at least some in this zone are pretty low on the thinking capability spectrum.
I point out in passing that Mayor Durkan possesses all of the qualifications that Biden has articulated for his vice presidential nominee. What a powerful ticket that would be.
Own is a very strong word. A slave owners’ word. Clearly the moral imperative is to restore Seattle to the Suquamish from whom the area was so brutally and hatefully torn and send the interlopers to refugee camps where they may meditate on their crimes for a few generations. Seattle could become a Mecca for native peoples the world over. Except. of course, Europeans.
I suspect these six blocks and much of the rest of Seattle will experience a sharp and sudden change in their property valuation in the near term and by near term I mean immediately.
You’re letting children set up cities in your city, you’re the grown up.
Stop hero worshipping hippies.
That poll has to be ridiculous , 62% ! , comeaaan , who believes that!
Over at RushBabe49.com.
https://rushbabe49.com/2020/06/15/there-is-no-hope-for-seattle/
Wooden barriers replaced with concrete ones by the Seattle Department of Transportation.
Yeah, I’m thinking she will be cinders. Eternal cinders.
And the people who own property in that zone, do they have any rights? While the city allows their buildings and businesses to be vandalized, are property owners still expected to pay taxes on the land that the city won’t allow then to use?
Yes. And the city council is considering a new “big business” tax, AKA Amazon tax.
Like everyone in Seatlle, Amazon can leave. That is how this works.
I think we need a reverse airlift, and help the trapped get out of CHAZ. Then get them lawyers, and help them file a lawsuit against the mayor and the governor.
That’s Rasmussen, not NYT or NBC or CBS. The 62% have no idea what CHAZ actually is.
Thanks for the link @rushbabe49, great roundup and writeup.
I think we need to give JSOC a go ahead for whatever plan their insidious minds have concocted. With full recognition that Gov. Inslee and Mayor Durkan are batting for the other team. By now I suspect their assets are equipped, trained up, and ready to rock. This is a hostage situation. These are terrorists. America knows how to respond.