Mayor Jenny Durkan has been doing her best to downplay the danger of having an autonomous zone in the middle of Seattle, suggesting it wasn’t much different from a summer block party. Then, over the weekend, three people were shot in two separate incidents and one 19-year-old died from his injuries. Now Mayor Durkan is singing a different tune. She announced today that it was “time for people to go home.”
So now the mayor also agrees that CHOP is not a good idea. The trouble here is that the mayor probably doesn't get to decide this. Quite obviously the members of CHOP have barricaded themselves off, they have armed patrols, and don't appear in any hurry to disband their little experiment. I am not sure why the Mayor believes what she says will really matter much in the grand scheme of things.
Perhaps had she agreed with the police chief upfront and not ordered police to abandon the area (thus creating CHAZ/CHOP) none of this would have happened. But the Mayor and the rest of the CHOP apologists may now find out that keeping an area secure is way easier than retaking an area that you've already lost. How do you begin to retake this area without enormous amounts of violence and confrontation.
It's not just that people have been shot, someone was killed, fights are breaking out, there are complaints of thefts, and all sorts of other social problems. Everyone seems to forget that these children (for the most part) do not own any of this property and the rightful owners of the property in question are being deprived of one of their most basic liberties: to be allowed to have and use what they bought and paid for and not just have it taken from them.
The first responsibility of any government (local to federal) is to protect it's citizens. In this case, the people who live, work, and run businesses in this area are fundamentally left without any such protection. Moreover, the decision not to protect them was made completely out of political considerations and in direct contrast with those basic responsibilities.
So the next question is what now? If the mayor actually believes that this will disband peacefully, then she probably has another thing coming. Does she have the fortitude to take it back by force when the community leaders fail? Doubtful. I strongly suspect we will see another classic display of feckless liberal leadership in times of crisis that has become the staple of 2020.
May we live in interesting times.
5 comments:
what?
i thought this was another "summer of love" "peace and harmony" "i'd like to buy the world a coke" thingy?
can't the radical left stick with a narrative for more than 15 minutes?
trying to keep track of these numbskulls and their latest bullshit is exhausting.
hilarious video at the link...
Savanah Hernandez
@sav_says_
White BLM supporter tells Hispanic Trump that he is oppressed, so the Trump supporters asks for reparations
https://twitter.com/sav_says_/status/1274440731361456129
Thinking about holding your Fourth of July blowout in New Jersey? Better think again.
The Garden State is the least patriotic state in the US, according to a new ranking released Monday by financial advice Web site WalletHub.com.
Measuring 13 metrics on military and civic engagement — including veteran residents per capita, percentage of adults who voted in the 2016 presidential election and rates of volunteerism — the study ranked Jersey dead last among the 50 states.
But flag-waving New Yorkers shouldn’t get too smug, as the Empire State finished next-to-last in the ranking.
On the left coast, California finished 48th to round out the bottom three.
New Hampshire — whose state motto is “Live Free or Die” — came in as the most star-spangled state of all, followed by Wyoming and Idaho.
https://nypost.com/2020/06/22/new-yorks-neighbor-is-the-least-patriotic-us-state-study/
excellent, as my retirement plans are in NH.
rrb said...
hilarious video at the link..
libs want to pay "reparations" from other peoples money. Just an attempt by them to buy votes.
I want some reparation from all the colleges that taught all these fool kids out marching and rioting. While raking in billions if not trillions.
libs want to pay "reparations" from other peoples money. Just an attempt by them to buy votes.
Just ANOTHER attempt by them to buy votes.
the left is consistent in one regard. everything they do, every move they make is focused on a path to power. there's no amount of other people's money they won't spend and there's no limit to the divisiveness and sheer destruction they'll cause in our society in pursuit of that singular goal.
they are, in a word, EVIL.
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