Posted on 06/18/2020 10:46:54 AM PDT by llevrok
In 2016, a group of right-wing extremists took over a wildlife refuge in Oregon. That group believed the federal government was constitutionally required to turn over most federal public land to individual states. After a long standoff of more than a month, federal law enforcement finally moved in and arrested most of the militants.
Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan — a former U.S. Attorney — was absolutely in favor of the government moving in and forcefully ending the standoff. She told NPR in 2017:
DURKAN: If there was ever a conspiracy, this was it.
WILSON: From 2009 to 2014, Jenny Durkan served as the U.S. attorney for western Washington. She says prosecutors will try and argue this wasn’t a political protest.
DURKAN: They did not come with flowers. They came with AR-15s. They did not respect the property. They dug trenches and trashed it. And so I think you take each of their arguments and you show the reality.
Fast forward to 2020. A group of left-wing extremists have taken over public and private property on Seattle’s Capitol Hill. Like the Bundy family and their associates in the 2016 Oregon takeover, the Seattle group is well armed. We’ve seen videos of men with rifles patrolling the area they now call the “CHOP.” The group was first given control of the area by making terroristic threats to burn down the Seattle Police Department’s East Precinct.
As U.S. Attorney, Durkan said when two or more people work together in a lawless action, that is a criminal conspiracy.
Like the Oregon group, the Capitol Hill militants have been spotted with AR-15s. They are not respecting the property. Beautiful, 100-year-old brick buildings in the CHOP are covered with profane graffiti every night.
Durkan remarked that the Oregon militants trashed the property they seized. So has the Seattle group.
But there is one key difference: Jenny Durkan wanted federal law enforcement to end the 2016 standoff. She does not want the same in the city she governs.
In fact, she said of the Capitol Hill group: “Lawfully gathering and expressing First Amendment rights, demanding we do better as a society, is not terrorism, it is patriotism.”
Whether Jenny Durkan wants to admit it or not, the 2016 and 2020 stories, legally, are almost identical. Armed militants illegally take over private and public property.
I’m sure Seattle real estate values are adjusting properly, as are tax revenues. Let King County enjoy the results of their communist votes. I never drive thru there unarmed now.
It was a takeover of GOVERNMENT property, not PRIVATE. When the butcher has the thumb on the scale, it only goes one way.
DK
If you ever want to explain Communism to a dummy, the idea that ‘Communists do NOT recognize private property’ will get your message across.
Whether or not they will mind about giving up THEIR property is yet to be seen.
Mostly though, the people marching and looting don’t have any private property...except maybe their mobile phone and they probably didn’t pay for those.
It’s very consistent. Private property must not exist - it must be seized by the collectivity. Giving it to marxist/leninist groups is OK because they don’t believe in private property either.
Giving it to normal people on the right is no good because they believe in private property.
The criminals who have taken over a part of Seattle have AR-15s.
Hypocrites, and slaves to their ideology.
Double standards or no standards at all.
Like all socialists and communists, they are cowards and aetheists.
5.56mm
Oh I think she’s perfectly consistent.
White conservative man BAD.
White liberal man GoOd
I’m staying at my daughter’s house in Seattle right now. Her husband owns his own business and has been working from home as well as he ~40 employees. He’s also in a CEO group. He said that a LOT of Seattle businesses are going all WFH and even he said he has hired his last Seattle employee - at seattle wages.
He is a liberal, but one thing we agree on - a lot of businesses are going to be either leaving Seattle or keeping their headquarters here, but all their employees will be scattered across the country. One thing keeping him here, personally, is he makes quite a bit of income and Washington is a “no income tax” state.
He may be headed for Tennessee, though. One of my other daughters and her husband did move to Louisville from Seattle and they absolutely love it. He doesn’t earn as much so the income tax was offset by the low real estate and sales tax.
This will be the last of my daughters to leave Seattle. I think other cities are going to be seeing a similar flight, if people are only leaving for more rural areas of the same state. It is very expensive to maintain offices in most cities, especially if this lockdown has proven that you don’t need to.
BTW, one change he mentioned was that if you are in the office it is important to be there before everybody gets in and be the last to leave, even if you may not have much to do that day. Now he works from home and does his work, however long that takes, and spends a LOT more time with his wife and young child. It is a serious quality of life improvement.
You said he’s a liberal, try not to send him here to the South please? We’ve takin ungodly amounts of flack over the years just trying to keep the place decent.
Yeah. There is that. I found out my ex wife was very proud of that daughter for being part of a protest where she wore a pussy hat.
Thanks to my ex, two of my daughters are pretty liberal. My wife, however, raised three solidly conservative kids.
She is one of Soro’s flying monkeys.
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