Posted on 07/12/2020 1:55:04 PM PDT by John Semmens
A 7-2 majority of the Seattle City Council has pledged to vote for a 50% cut in funding for the police. Council member Kshama Sawant explained that "it turns out that most of what is called 'crime' is just a difference of opinion between the affected parties. These kinds of disagreements are spawned by the rotten capitalistic system foisted on us by white privilege. Since we are going to replace this system with socialism it makes no sense to invest money to fund police intervention into these types of disputes."
The Councilwoman cited the recent Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone as "an example of what a future socialist Seattle will look like. There was no paid police force. Armed volunteers patrolled the streets and implemented enlightened social justice without having the constraint of written laws. I was particularly impressed by the prevailing social rule that white residents were required to give $10 to any person-of-color who asked for it. This demonstrated that a more just redistribution of wealth could be achieved without the expense of a large bureaucracy to effect the transfer."
Sawant's efforts got some encouragement from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif) who called replacing professional police with local volunteers "an interesting experiment. The idea that police should reflexively oppose spontaneous action to redistribute property deserves a more thorough test than what took place over a few weeks in a few blocks of the City. We need to see what people will do when they don't have to fear police interfering with what they want to do."
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Figuring that councilwoman Sawant is probably not very good at arithmetic, perhaps let her know that to get the 50% figure just divide the current budget by 0.5. That should do it.
Cut it 100%. They only protect the rioters and looters, while watching innocent peoples properties being destroyed.
I pray for my dear friends in Seattle, who have worked a lifetime to build something, only to see it ripped apart.
This will be interesting to watch—not very interesting.
Who are these two? Not true Communists? Get rid of them!
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