Posted on 07/06/2020 10:16:56 AM PDT by John Semmens
On Wednesday, Mayor Jenny Durkan finally ordered police to retake the six-by-six-block square the City had surrendered to protesters three weeks earlier. It wasn't the fact that crimes committed in the zone were up by more than 500% compared to the previous year; it wasn't the fact that residents trapped in the zone were subjected to nightly terror and violence; it wasn't the squalor, garbage, and filth permeating the zone that prompted her decision. It was the fact that City Councilwoman Kshama Sawant led a mob of zone squatters in a march to the Mayor's home that did the trick.
"These people showed no regard for my safety," Durkan complained. "I allowed them to occupy the zone. I looked the other way while they engaged in crude, lewd, and uncivilized behavior. I invented the 'summer of love' meme to cover the savage reality of what was taking place and they returned the favor by threatening me in my home."
Sawant labeled Durkan "a sissy who quakes in the face of the justified rage of an oppressed people. By what right is she entitled to live in peace while others suffer? We made some noise outside her house. So what? At least we didn't drag her out and tear her limb from limb. Nor did we burn her house down. We could've easily done both. Now, after us showing restraint she wants the City Council to expel me for revealing the location of her residence? That's a pure 'white privilege' attitude on her part."
In related news, Sawant blamed capitalism for the shooting of two teenagers in the autonomous zone earlier in the week. A sixteen-year old was killed and a fourteen-year wounded as they tried to enter the zone in a stolen jeep. "Look, if it weren't for capitalism there wouldn't be jeeps or guns," she argued. "At worst, these two youngsters might have been stabbed or clubbed to death if capitalism had never been allowed to bring the innovations that created the motorized vehicle the youths drove and the automatic weapons the CHOP border patrol used to shoot them."
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