Posted on 07/04/2020 10:30:13 PM PDT by rintintin
THE SEATTLE COMMUNE is no more.
Declared three weeks ago by radical leftists as CHAZ, the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone, rechristened CHOP, the Capitol Hill Occupation Protest, the six-block enclave inside Seattle ceased to exist July 1. The cops shut it down.
As Marx said, history repeats itself, first as tragedy then as farce.
If the Paris Commune of 1871 is the archetype, that mass uprising and swift slaughter of the communards who rose against the regime, what happened in Seattle is the farce.
Police Chief Carmen Best, who opposed Mayor Jenny Durkan’s surrender of one of her precinct stations to the mob, explained in exasperation why her cops finally acted:
“Enough is enough. The CHOP (had) become lawless and brutal. Four shootings — two fatal — robberies, assaults, violence and countless property crimes have occurred in this several block area.”
The shooting death of a 16-year-old and critical wounding of a 14-year-old on Monday finally forced the mayor’s hand.
Some journalists touring the CHOP had burbled on like Lincoln Steffens on his first trip to Lenin’s Russia, “I have been over into the future and it works!”
They wrote of “peaceful” meetings, “documentary screenings” and “concerts.” Best was more hardheaded about what she found after recapturing the CHOP: “After walking through the area I was stunned by the amount of graffiti, garbage, and property destruction.”
Apparently, however, Mayor Durkan does not want posterity to forget the glory days of what she had predicted would be a “summer of love.”
Writes The Washington Post:
“Durkan called for charges to be dismissed against those who were arrested for alleged misdemeanors ... The mayor also said that Seattle arts and parks departments would preserve a community garden and artwork and murals that protesters created within the zone.”
Hard to believe. ...
(Excerpt) Read more at unionleader.com ...
Dagnammit — it’s not the idiots in the streets — it’s the corporate Marxism that’s facilitating if not directing the assault.
yes they are winning right now....I am hoping that most people will have a huge backlash and re elect Trump.....
“If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.”
—Thomas Sowell
“Are uncivil protests and mob violence winning?”
Nope
They have never won in this America
They have yet to awaken the sleeping giant
filled with a terrible resolve.
True and every day they keep thir shit up they stir the giant. I for one am growing weary of their crap.
There’s always a first time.
I agree and I’m a pessimist...they’re losing it’s easy to tell by what they pivot to and away from. Aka cnn etc
I’m reminded of the 60’s. Hippies
living in communes amid filth and
flies, stoned out of their gourds.
History is impossible to erase for
those who lived it. I thank god
every day that I had parents who
truly cared. I stand ready to
defend that value.
The mayor is clearly braindead
I remember once, back in the mid 80’s when my father and I shared an apartment in the D.C. ‘burbs, Buchanan called on our home number, looking for Dad. Dad was about to interview him on his radio show. Very polite man. Back in those days, I thought he was a ‘clock’s right-twice-a-day Paleo-Con’. In the last decade or so, I find how much more and more I agree with his POV now.
Selling baby parts, taking over and destroying police stations, multi tiered justice, a coup d’état. Need more?
Same thing happened in the 60’s. The country woke up in 1968. Will it happen again? I’m not optimistic. The anarchists seem to be taking over this time.
It is obvious they are winning. No one except a few scattered civilians & occasionally police and occasionally Federal law enforcement are standing up to them. They are walking all over law enforcement: local, State & Federal; since LEOs are not supported by politicians. They are blocking interstates, roads to national parks & assaulting civilians in the Federal District of Columbia. They are using threats of violence across the country, still, to get their way.
l8r
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, penned a similar thought during the days of the Stalinist “mobs”...
“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?… The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin’s thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If…if…We didn’t love freedom enough.
And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation…. We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”
BLM = self-admitted trained marxists. Trained by who?
Yes, I agree. Maybe the giant is showing signs of stirring from his slumber. Tell me again, how it ended, the last time someone awakened the sleeping giant. 😁
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