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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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From the AP via the Washington Times:
They investigated “from a distance”, saw no signs of fire or disorder from a distance, without missing a single donut.
If Best were best, she would have resigned by now in protest.
Julia Duin at GetReligion performed a scouting expedition into CHAZ and came away with some interesting insights. She went to see if religion was missing from media reports because of the classic media blind spot with religion or an actual void in the CHAZ itself. She includes the beat down on the preacher from YouTube but not the red poncho women on fire with the Spirit. From the article:
She wraps her observations thus:
As we have seen in other discussions, the firing lines have formed not so much on race but on culture, with the Communists and Muslims using underclass culture to control their cannon fodder, the sort of person who takes a brick from an agitator with a bag of bricks.
Just for emphasis
I assume this is a hoax. Hard-core leftists tend not to write that coherently, nor to go so long without inserting an obscenity.
I’m sort of looking forward to every white person in CHAZ becoming Rachael Dolezal and the discussion that needs to occur about respecting how people identify
We are post-discussion, Jeff. We don’t do those anymore.
Correct spelling and proper grammar means it is a hoax.
It’s so much worse than a discussion; it’s a conversation.
Especially when by having a “conversation,” the left means their unquestionable views are presented, and everyone else must either agree or just shut up.