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Seattle Mayor Durkan Again (Not a Parody!)
Where’s my spotlight?
As the number of rioters dwindles to a few with strident demands, the great enabler is taking extraordinary steps to keep the party rolling. With the sharp decline in murders, rapes, robberies, arson, and population that has marked this new phase of the CHAZ/CHOP experience, City Hall released this statement Friday (not a parody) as reported by KOMO News, ABC4, Seattle:
This afternoon the Mayor and City department leaders met with black ministers and some of the organizers to discuss the restoration of the Capitol Hill area and long-term changes to transform policing. The City’s goal remains to allow any individuals to exceed use their first amendment rights while also preserving the public safety of local residents and small businesses. The Mayor suggested a series of steps that she believes can be taken in the coming days, including the removal of the barriers to create more access. She also believes in the planning for some of the long term changes to Cal Anderson including art installations and the community garden.
Over the weekend, the City will continue to dispatch a wide range of social services to encourage those living overnight in Cal Anderson to begin leaving the area or, if experiencing homelessness, to take an offer for shelter. Many individuals have already departed the area to join in community-led events across the City.
For any individuals who have been attending demonstrations and may need City resources, the Human Services Department and Public Health – Seattle & King County have been on Capitol Hill leading outreach efforts with service providers and established a Resource Hub to connect individuals with access to shelter, health care, food resources, access to COVID-19 testing, and mental and behavioral health services. The city will continue to be on site tomorrow.
SPD had no plans to return to the East Precinct this weekend.
It brings tears to the eyes, the tenderness, the compassion, the raw enabling. It’s almost as if the CHAZ/CHOP has become the transcendent moment in the Durkan mayoralty, where she has transformed mere rioting (mostly peaceful rioting) into vacation camp for the fellow traveler and useful idiot. Free boxed lunches by day, murder and rape by night, with robberies and shakedowns 24×7. KOMO News reports:
On the other side of the CHOP, the city held a resource hub for demonstrators and those experiencing homelessness on the grounds of Seattle Central College. The assistance is part of the city’s efforts to assist individuals who have been attending demonstrations and may need city resources, a spokesperson for Durkan said.
The outreach effort was was part of Black Lives Matter Seattle King County Community Health Services Day and included such agencies as Seattle/King County Public Health Department, the city’s Human Services Department and Mary’s Place.
Officials say the city’s intention was to not dismantle CHOP, but provide demonstrators a different way to get help and resources so that they could be in a better position to leave the area on their own.
Because, if I want the pigeons to leave the park, I feed them and chat with them on their behavioral issues while they poop.
But if the national spotlight moves on from CHAZ/CHOP, it moves on from Mayor Durkan, a fate too horrible for her to contemplate.
Published in Policing
It is noteworthy that the First Amendment rights of malignant leftist buffoons supposedly trump all other rights and interests. If CHOP/CHAZ were a right-to-life, immigration enforcement or gun rights demonstration, the cops would have had carte blanche on day one to evict them.
Residents, shopkeepers and citizens entitled to live, work, shop or access public property within the zone and entitled to public services to serve and protect were denied these rights. Suck it up muggles, yokels and proles, I need to bask in my wokeness at your expense.
If politicians like Durkan were around in the 60’s there would still be a small tribe of elderly but hostile, disease-ridden hippies at Woodstock, refusing to leave.
Seattle is beyond saving, I fear. Like San Francisco, it is a beautiful location but that is all it is. Also like San Francisco, it used to be a largely blue collar town. They used to say that, if Boeing sneezed, Seattle would get pneumonia. It was a much better, saner place then.
What does that sentence even mean? It makes no grammatical sense. I checked the source article to be sure there wasn’t a transcription error. There wasn’t.
When your goal is completely incoherent, it is unlikely that your processes are going to make sense.
Democrats aren’t leaders.
Yeah. That was a pretty weak effort all around.
My guess?
“exercise” autocorrected to “exceed use”
At least it makes it into a sentence.
Why do they need art installations? They already beautified the area with graffiti. Probably not a can of Krylon in stock in the CHOP.
So what are the people in Seattle saying?
Currently, 2 lawsuits have been filed against her.
So glad that we are all now so used to “Droidian slips” that we can decipher what a careless Texter probably meant. Proofreading and intelligent communication is no longer necessary. Thanks again, College.
It’s the rope-a-dope strategy gone mad.
There is a small town in Ireland, Ballina that was the largest town near where my grandfather was born. The most common name in the town is spelled two ways . Durkan or Durkin. There are many more with the I than the A. My grandfather used the A. Chances are I am related to the nutcase in Seattle.
You have my deepest condolences.
Thanks, insanity does run in the family.
Priceless!
There is a case for the repeal of sovereign immunity if I ever saw one. Minneapolis, too.
I have talked to my son briefly about the situation as of where it was last week. He has lived in Seattle all of his life, other than a couple of years he spent in Europe. He has deep connections in the artsy fartsy community of dyed in the wool liberals and leftists. His impression from friends of his that actually went into the Chaz/Chop area during its heyday is that all was simply wonderful. My attempts to convince him otherwise were met with rank skepticism. Even Andy Ngo’s commentary on the area got nowhere. I suspect that much of Seattle feels the same. An entire generation that grew up in that city and was subjected to the grotesque perversion that passed for education in Seattle Schools was contaminated to the point that it is nearly impossible to break through the ignorance that passes for savvy among its adherents.
My son is hardworking. He runs a very successful business building custom furniture. He has a prime piece of real estate with a very nice house he recently inherited from him mother. He is to all ways of thinking an intelligent, educated, urbane individual living an essentially upper middle class existence. That he doesn’t comprehend the threat intrinsic to his existence in the behaviors of these lunatics is beyond my ken. I can only reflect back on the absurd social studies classes he had in high school and idiocy of what he was taught, much of which I tried, unsuccessfully, to counter. To a teenage boy, a father’s wisdom and knowledge pales beside that of a hip teacher.
After graduation he started into college, but left after a year and went to Europe. He lived there for two years, then returned, learned the building trades from a master builder, and went back to the University of Washington to complete his degree.
He is not atypical in the Seattle population, and that really worries me. The city is filled with useful idiots, not the least of which is their mayor. The school system went from being among the best in the country in the 1960s and early 70s to being a training ground for leftist ideology fueled by the University of Washington’s School of Education. I don’t see any solution other than allowing it, like an overfilled petri dish to poison itself out of existence or, at least, to the point of seeing its own excrement as something repugnant rather than glorying in it. The big problem is that none of these people have had a sufficient dose of reality to understand where this is all leading. God help them when they do.
The American City as insane asylum. I wonder how long it will be before the mob comes to topple the “art” installations and rip up the “community garden.”
Mayor Ditzy Durkan is roughly my age. I know my cohort; a lot of us never left neverland. Took me long enough.
Nothing to do but wait and hope he learns. I have five kids, three are leftists although one of those is rethinking. The other two are lawyers.
There are two more victims today of Durkan’s incompetence. Fox News reports:
The residents must be truly thrilled by now. I wonder how many citizens of Seattle even know this is going on.