Posted on 06/19/2020 8:31:50 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin
It’s been fascinating – and not in a good way – to see how the mainstream media and Democratic “leaders” like Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan continue to declare that the CHAZ or CHOP or whatever the hell it is called is a “peaceful” place with a “block party atmosphere.” Some in the media have likened it to a “street festival“, while Durkan recently predicted the occupied zone could very well turn into a “summer of love.”
The reality on the ground is actually much different than these gaslighters would like for people to think it is. As my RedState colleagues and I have previously reported, local businesses in the area are being robbed – and their calls to 911 are being ignored. Guns are being distributed to vigilante “warlords” out of the trunks of cars. Journalists are being attacked in broad daylight.
WrongThinkers are mobbed and kicked off the island.
Seattle police chief Carmen Best has bluntly told the media that “Our calls for service have more than tripled. These are responses to emergency calls — rapes, robberies, and all sorts of violent acts that have been occurring in the area that we’re not able to get to.”
It is not a good situation there. Not at all. It’s so bad, in fact, that some people who lived in the area before it was taken over by left-wing anarchists are telling reporters they feel like “sitting ducks”:
“We are just sitting ducks all day,” Matthew Ploszaj told Seattle-based KIRO 7. “Now every criminal in the city knows they can come into this area, and they can do anything they want, as long as it isn’t life-threatening. And the police won’t come in to do anything about it.”
Ploszaj said he called 911 after witnessing a burglar break into his courtyard and steal a bike, the outlet reported. Then he said the dispatcher told him there was “nothing we can do” unless someone’s life is in danger.
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Russell Kimble, who owns an auto shop on 12th Avenue and East Olive Street near the edge of the CHOP, told Q13 Fox that police “would not” respond to a break-in and confrontation at the business.
Best told Q13 that her department received a report and sent officers who “observed the location from a distance.”
She said they saw no signs of smoke or fire or any other signs of “a threat to life safety.”
In other words, police will only intervene when they observe “from a distance” that a person’s life is in danger.
There are also reports of people who have lived in the area for years who have left and refuse to return until someone in the city grows a pair and shuts this thing down.
Unfortunately, it doesn’t look like that’s going be happening anytime soon, thanks to Durkan and other spineless officials who would rather appear “woke” than do the right thing.
This is what life looks like in a “cop-free zone”, and in so-called “progressive” cities led by feckless Democrats. These people are literally doing Trump’s work for him, and they don’t even know it.
Nobody likes thieves and looters.
Even thieves and looters don’t want other thieves and looters stealing _their_ stuff.
I dare them to ask that question in a poll.
“Do you support looting?”
“Do you support theft?”
I just hope they aren’t removing the garbage, because it would be fitting if Rats took over the encampment.
Pro Police communities will be a huge real estate draw.
Welcome to the democrat paradise of Seattle.
Our future if Trump loses this election.
Or rather next time dems take control of the federal government.
Nobody likes thieves and looters.
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I don’t know about that. The media and assorted Democrat politicians seem to be OK with it.
As I said, and as I will not retract, the mayor and governor are completely responsible for all the crimes that take place in this occupied area. They are unindicted criminals.
I want to know where the money comes from to fund the maggot-infested potheads. From mommy and daddy? More likely from you and me.
They walk around like zombies, waiting for one of their kind to do something spectacularly stupid, and then they will all join in. They are living off someone else’s work. This is the idea they seek to impose on the rest of the country. They can’t think: after they take all our money and eliminate us, who is going to work like a sucker to support the slackers?
Or rather next time dems take control of the federal government.
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That will be the end and we will be a one party country. They will controls the elections and will never willingly give up power. Think California.
Do you support ARSON??? The ARSONY isn’t mentioned enough!
So let’s see now.
How many people’s civil rights are being violated by this street rebellion, to say nothing of the property crimes?
Where Oh Where is the great and wondrous FBI in all this?
Much of the stolen loot will end up in landfills. Selling online is time consuming and leaves a digital footprint.
Well, if the cops aren’t going to come when residents call for help, the cops aren’t going to come if the looters call for help. Just saying.
...and just why are you not able to get there?...............
Reality versus the left wing bs:
Seattle police chief Carmen Best has bluntly told the media that “Our calls for service have more than tripled. These are responses to emergency calls — rapes, robberies, and all sorts of violent acts that have been occurring in the area that we’re not able to get to.”
It is not a good situation there. Not at all. It’s so bad, in fact, that some people who lived in the area before it was taken over by left-wing anarchists are telling reporters they feel like “sitting ducks”:
“We are just sitting ducks all day,” Matthew Ploszaj told Seattle-based KIRO 7. “Now every criminal in the city knows they can come into this area, and they can do anything they want, as long as it isn’t life-threatening. And the police won’t come in to do anything about it.”
Ploszaj said he called 911 after witnessing a burglar break into his courtyard and steal a bike, the outlet reported. Then he said the dispatcher told him there was “nothing we can do” unless someone’s life is in danger.
$ORO$..................
Their job is to make sure the laws under their jurisdiction are followed. Why pass any law at any level if it won't be followed anyway? Our entire system of government is failing...
“...after they take all our money and eliminate us, who is going to work like a sucker to support the slackers?”
Excellent points, all. And a major reason I spent my entire working life denying Mother Government the use of my Tax Dollars at every opportunity.
If you want to feel a little bit empowered, educate yourself about your taxes and adjust your payroll deductions accordingly.
Starve the beast! Do NOT give Mother Government the interest-free loan of your dollars throughout the year because you’re a poor planner and can’t live without that tax ‘refund’ (*SNORT*) at the end of the year!
Can’t hurt, might help!
(And, yes. I know there are lots of ‘hidden’ taxes we pay seemingly each day - but learn about those to avoid them where you can, too!)
“...and just why are you not able to get there...?”
Exactly! Didn’t 0bama ensure that all of the police stations across the land were retrofitted with tanks, howitzers, AR-15’s, Shock & Awe, etc. when he was planning for chaos AFTER he left office?
I think he planned poorly, LOL! The cops aren’t willing to round up the citizenry as he was hoping!
I have always wondered why there is no RICO investigation of Soros?
Should read, "an area we choose not to get to".
When one elects leftist government/politicians one should expect they will act as leftists and support the leftist agenda.
The more perceptive but outnumbered voters among them will just have to suffer; as we all will when the "local" situation merges with the "national" situation.
Thanks to our sleeping through the thorough corruption of our "education" system and the MSM, we are going to vote ourselves right into the left's "summer of love".
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