Posted on 06/13/2020 5:00:03 PM PDT by Libloather
An software engineer turned firebrand socialist has been named as the leader of a movement which has pushed police out of six-block area of central Seattle, known as the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ).
Indian-born Kshama Sawant, 46, who now serves on the Seattle City Council, is encouraging activists in the CHAZ 'to hold out on giving back the precinct to cops or allowing officers inside the barricaded region', according to Fox News.
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Sawant tweeted Friday: 'Our movement needs to urgently ensure East Precinct is not handed back to police, but is turned over permanently into community control. My office is bringing legislation to convert East Precinct into a community center for restorative justice.'
She further stated: 'The movement has been undaunted in the face of horrific violence from Mayor Durkan's police. Congratulations, solidarity!'
On Tuesday, Sawant used her position as a councilwoman to lead hundreds of protesters into City Hall, where she reportedly unlocked the building and let 300 people stage an hours-long takeover of the building.
The group called upon Mayor Durkan to resign.
Sawant is known for her militant and uncomprising style of politics, prompting one Seattle Times columnist to liken her to the Queen in Alice in Wonderland.
'She had has one answer to every question, and it is always some form of 'off with their heads'', the writer stated.
In 2013, Sawant became the first socialist to be elected to the Seattle City Council. She describes herself as an 'an activist who brings a passion for social justice to her work as a public servant'.
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She is power mad. Very dangerous.
Thwse people are a damn joke. They’re still getting all the utilities from the state including wireless service and they’re bragging ...they’re idiots.
You ever try going mad without power? It's boring, no one listens to you.
Kshama Sawant: foreigner.
If a city councilman leads an insurrection against the mayor - that’s treason (as well as insurrection)
That should be, at least, immediate removal of that councilman from office!
My guess is many people in that area are not down with the struggle, they will have their homes broken into for food, furniture, space and not be able to do a thing except leave their homes to the mob or start shooting.
After the Seattle Commune is cleaned out or dissipates she should be tried for Treason by a tribunal and hanged. If she does not fit the crime of Treason then the word is meaningless.
Indian-born Kshama Sawant, 46,
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`We have allowed too much immigration and now foreigners are deciding our fate.
These people are being permitted to act like this with absolutely no consequences. So it’s entirely logical for them to continue to act like this, get more so as long as there are no repercussions.
She should learn to code...
It’s going to be interesting as to who will be involved in the first ‘shoot-out’.
I can’t believe one hasn’t happened yet.
We have to wait until the next election for any action against these kinds of problems.
Then it will be the next election that they are REALLY going to do something about it and then.... oh look at the squirrel.
And everywhere there were songs and celebrations.
Damned Irish...
This kind of insurrection was tried by foreigners in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, I believe.
At one time Italians (being Italian descent this pains me), then Germans and I don’t know who else.
Why do these socialists/communists come here to do this.
STAY HOME, Whatever your unpronounceable name is, GO HOME.
She’s probably one of those “brilliant” IT engineers that flooded Silicon Valley.
WE DO NOT NEED THE TYPE HERE.
And, yes, I am being biased. I want people here who love America, not want to destroy it.
So true.
A fact of human nature.
Precisely. The problem is that the left denies human nature. When it does (sort of) acknowledge it, the left firmly believes it can, with the wave of pen, alter human nature.
That silly creation of hers is a dismal failure. Lost their food to the homeless so now having to beg outsiders to bring them some. Can’t grow a garden and they have segregated gardens for blacks only. Have to call in the fire dept. because they aren’t smart enough to put out a contained dumpster fire. And they want ice, the good kind. SMH.
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