Rioters are grabbing whatever fencing they can find around downtown Portland to build their own autonomous zone. #antifa pic.twitter.com/K3Pc9bvqGS— Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) June 11, 2020
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Okay. Now what? So Governor Inslee and Mayor Durkan have given them their own little sovereign territory we’ll call Antifaville. Are they going to grow their own food, procreate among each other and live their lives in hallways and lobbies from now on?
One thing I started noticing about 10 years ago is that young people I was hiring had little knowledge of long-term planning. Worse than that, they didn’t want to learn or even think about the necessity of long-term planning. Everything they did was geared to gratifying an immediate need or desire.
So, great! They’ve got this little plot of land of mostly concrete. It’s theirs. They’re not leaving. They’re now an autonomous territory. But what’s their long-term plan? There would be few among them who’ve thought beyond the weekend.
The best plan for our side might be to wait them out until boredom sets in or some new need or desire requires gratifying immediately and they’ll voluntarily leave. That’s the kind plan.
A more effective but harsh plan would be - as someone already suggested - cut the electricity (OMG! My phone is dead! I have to go back to Mommy’s basement now!) Then impose economic sanctions, where nothing new goes into the new territory and nothing but people come out. I’m sure nobody has the stomach for this option, as effective as it would be.
I think the black thug warlord with his band thug enforcers will drive them out pretty soon. I would not be surprised if some people get murdered.
These are a bunch of gamers a lot of them. You’ll see them with “World of Warcraft” and “Call of Duty” shirts riding on their bicycles with their backpacks. If they faced real military most would sh*t their pants. Except for the ones trained by the PKK.
Even more subtle would be to jam the cell phone signals and cut internet access. The chaos would be immediate.
A lot of these people just assume the trucks roll in with the food, the electricity runs, the cell phones operate, and the internet runs automatically. One day without communications and they'll start going crazy.
Cutting electricity would work, but would get backlash from the press. Watching them scream about losing internet access would be funny.