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Welcome to the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone, where Seattle protesters gather without police (Now what?)
Seattle Times ^ | 6/10/20 | Evan Bush

Posted on 06/10/2020 11:50:31 PM PDT by Libloather

Welcome to the CHAZ, the newly named Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone, where most everything was free Tuesday.

Free snacks at the No-Cop Co-op. Free gas masks from some guy’s sedan. Free speech at the speaker’s circle, where anyone could say their piece. A free documentary movie - Ava DuVernay’s “13th” - showing after dark.

A Free Capitol Hill, according to no shortage of spray paint on building facades. And perhaps most important to demonstrators, the neighborhood core was free of uniformed police.

**SNIP**

A man passed out flyers calling for a Thursday meeting to help answer the question now lingering for demonstrators.

“I support this, but what’s next?” said Max Hodges.

That sentiment summarizes a cascade of questions demonstrators now face. Autonomous from what, exactly? Who is leading? How long can it last? Is it a distraction from the larger movement for police accountability and racial justice?

Sarah Tornai, a demonstrator leading by microphone Tuesday, called for pragmatic organization so demonstrators remain safe and in control of the area.

“We do not know when the police will arrive to reclaim this space,” Tornai told the crowd.

(Excerpt) Read more at seattletimes.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat; Conspiracy; Local News
KEYWORDS: autonomous; chaz; police; protest; seattle
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To: SanchoP

The base stations that sit at the bottom of the cell towers can be controlled remotely and powered down or turned off.

Or, their opsys can be “reloaded” to do all sorts of things, such as deny access to certain phones in a sector or tell the phones to broadcast at the lowest level of power.
Lots of things. maybe even re-direct all outbound calls to Tom Perez at the DNC...

A short “hack-a-thon” of experts could have a lot of fun in the span of a couple of hours...


41 posted on 06/11/2020 3:01:00 AM PDT by Andy from Chapel Hill ( ERIC CIARAMELLA IS THE OBAMA MOLE HIDING BEHIND THE WHISTLEBLOWER LAWS)
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To: Widget Jr

The courts are likely half shut down by Covid, and the mayor, governor, probably the prosecutor are all hard Left Democrats. You expect a lawsuit to be enforced?


42 posted on 06/11/2020 3:05:44 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Libloather

lots of good info here:

“The leaders of the zone are a suicidal tranny that pretended to kill him/her/itself earlier. Posted a message on twitter saying goodbye. (https://twitter.com/anarchomastia/status/1270483223995224067 (embed)) and a failed rapper nog that looted some ARs from the abandoned police station and threatened to shoot any “nazis” and police.

https://www.reddit.com/r/metacanada/comments/h05abd/actual_drama_the_dsa_in_seattle_seceded_from_the/


43 posted on 06/11/2020 3:09:07 AM PDT by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017))
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To: NTHockey

nothing in/ nothing out. When they do surrender make sure you have a barb wire camp set up with shave their heads, run them thrushowers and have brn barrels ready for all their clothes. Im sure the marines caN give them a few tips on how to clean up and process a few hundred people in short order. Anyone who doesn’t want a haircut and shower can be thrown back into the autofree zone.


44 posted on 06/11/2020 3:14:45 AM PDT by Ikeon (They see me roll'n and they be hate'n. they think Im talkin dirty.)
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To: Libloather

They’ll be there for many months and not a damned thing will be done to stop them.


45 posted on 06/11/2020 3:29:47 AM PDT by ScottinVA (Prayers up for Rush Limbaugh...)
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To: blueplum
Their fearless warlord. From what I hear, he's already flattened a few pals.


46 posted on 06/11/2020 3:52:41 AM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: Libloather
There once was a house (IIRC, it was a "row house") in Philadelphia, PA ...

After several confrontations, the fires resulting left the entire block looking like Berlin circa 1945.

The Philly Police Chief was Frank ...

There was no Federal involvement at all.

Moving on, of course, there as another fire ... Waco ring a bell?

There, via Ms. Reno, beacoup Federal action.

Lessons of History do repeat.

47 posted on 06/11/2020 4:07:45 AM PDT by jamaksin
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To: Libloather

I’m lurking on a thread and they are saying that Trump skeered Raz and he’s decided they’re not autonomous any more they’re American again. Still unclear if he’s abdicated his warlord throne.
“Trump defeated the entire country of Chaz with one tweet”
‘Chaz has border guards. AOC will be pizzed’
‘if they leave Chaz and enter the USA, do they have to quarantine for 14 days?’ (the comments are killin me lol)

- oh, and, he’s under contract with Warner Records (or Productions or whatever they call themselves these days) under the ‘300’ label?

I see a deep pocket windfall in the future of the Seattle residents that have been bothered by this crew


48 posted on 06/11/2020 4:50:01 AM PDT by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017))
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To: 21twelve

Too bad. I wish they would announce a free fire zone and fire away with 105s.


49 posted on 06/11/2020 5:05:01 AM PDT by Mouton (The media is the enemy of the people.)
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To: Mouton

Please, oh please, 155s served shake ‘n bake.


50 posted on 06/11/2020 5:08:20 AM PDT by Repeat Offender (While the wicked stand confounded, call me with Thy saints surrounded.)
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To: jamaksin

I was just watching some old videos of the Move thing in Philly. One couple told how they wanted to do a “bug-bomb” to get rid of the critters in their row home.

Except when they told the adjacent home (Move group) about it, the Move folks (radical ‘back to the Earth’ types), started a fight, drew guns, etc.

Lots of the folks in the neighborhood didn’t like them or their tactics. It would be nice to think that the few sane ones in the Capitol Hill neighborhood would put an end to it - but I doubt that will happen.

Let it descend into chaos and it will sort itself out.


51 posted on 06/11/2020 5:15:39 AM PDT by 21twelve (Ever Vigilant. Never Fearful!)
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To: datura

With suppressors. I don’t like loud noises.


52 posted on 06/11/2020 5:38:37 AM PDT by captain_dave
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To: Ikeon

Yes, real easy with a 4” fire hose. Non-lethal and very little cleanup. Haircuts can be given by barbers at MCRD Parris Island and San Diego. Clothes can be dumped in used 55 gallon blue formaldehyde barrels.


53 posted on 06/11/2020 5:39:03 AM PDT by NTHockey (My rules of engagement #1: Take no prisoners. And to the NSA trolls, FU)
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To: Libloather

We don’t know when police will come to retake the area,but I hope they hurry up because we don’t have a freaking clue.


54 posted on 06/11/2020 5:45:36 AM PDT by ballplayer (By)
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To: Widget Jr

“This farce collapses when people run out of food and business owners start filing lawsuits.”

It will certainly end when the business owners start shooting.


55 posted on 06/11/2020 5:47:38 AM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: Libloather

It’s not autonomous. But then 50% of Americans don’t know wht autonomous means. Free means someone else paid for it. That makes it dependent on someone. Dependent is NOT = autonomous.


56 posted on 06/11/2020 5:51:10 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Never forget Justine Damond, murdered by a NON-WHITE, NON-CHRISTIAN cop. (Oh, and no riots))
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To: Wayne07

“This is the private army of the democratic party. The mayor wants them there, or else the police or national guard would have moved them out.”

That’s a fact.


57 posted on 06/11/2020 5:51:22 AM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: Libloather

Let them turn this autonomous zone into the expected sh*thole, it will destroy the Democrat Party who wholeheartedly support the anarchy by doing nothing.


58 posted on 06/11/2020 5:52:44 AM PDT by 1Old Pro (#openupstateny)
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To: doc maverick

“Then load them onto tramp steamers headed to Wuhan.”

Ah, tramp steamers. Some of my favorite books as a kid were novels about tramp steamers, especially those written by Howard Pease. Fun reads!


59 posted on 06/11/2020 5:54:06 AM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: zipper

“...broadcasting megadecimal-loud sounds around the clock...”

Send in the Ice Cream Trucks!


60 posted on 06/11/2020 7:04:27 AM PDT by castlebrew (Gun Control means hitting where you're aiming!))
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