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From a software engineer to firebrand socialist councilwoman: Kshama Sawant, 46, helped create Seattle's CHAZ and refuses to let cops into the six-block zone despite Trump's claim the city is being 'pillaged' by 'domestic terrorists'
Daily Mail ^ | 6/13/20 | Andrew Court, Jennifer Smith

Posted on 06/13/2020 5:00:03 PM PDT by Libloather

An software engineer turned firebrand socialist has been named as the leader of a movement which has pushed police out of six-block area of central Seattle, known as the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ).

Indian-born Kshama Sawant, 46, who now serves on the Seattle City Council, is encouraging activists in the CHAZ 'to hold out on giving back the precinct to cops or allowing officers inside the barricaded region', according to Fox News.

**SNIP**

Sawant tweeted Friday: 'Our movement needs to urgently ensure East Precinct is not handed back to police, but is turned over permanently into community control. My office is bringing legislation to convert East Precinct into a community center for restorative justice.'

She further stated: 'The movement has been undaunted in the face of horrific violence from Mayor Durkan's police. Congratulations, solidarity!'

On Tuesday, Sawant used her position as a councilwoman to lead hundreds of protesters into City Hall, where she reportedly unlocked the building and let 300 people stage an hours-long takeover of the building.

The group called upon Mayor Durkan to resign.

Sawant is known for her militant and uncomprising style of politics, prompting one Seattle Times columnist to liken her to the Queen in Alice in Wonderland.

'She had has one answer to every question, and it is always some form of 'off with their heads'', the writer stated.

In 2013, Sawant became the first socialist to be elected to the Seattle City Council. She describes herself as an 'an activist who brings a passion for social justice to her work as a public servant'.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; History; Local News
KEYWORDS: chaz; sawant; seattle; terrorists
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To: Libloather
Indian-born Kshama Sawant, 46, who now serves on the Seattle City Council, is encouraging activists in the CHAZ 'to hold out on giving back the precinct to cops or allowing officers inside the barricaded region

An immigrant from a country that has been held back for decades by socialism should know better. But of course, Democrats fleeing the damage they've voted for in this country don't stop voting Democrat, either - they just babble that they will turn Texas or Tennessee blue after they move. Leftists are incapable of learning.
21 posted on 06/13/2020 5:38:09 PM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: Libloather

“Social justice” means rob and kill white people—just didn’t want any confusion on that point.


22 posted on 06/13/2020 5:44:14 PM PDT by cgbg (Kneeling is a half measure--lefties need to dig a six foot hole and bury themselves in it.)
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To: cgbg

By the time we got to Seattle we were half a million strong...


23 posted on 06/13/2020 5:47:51 PM PDT by Boardwalk
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To: Libloather

BS the Mayor is restraining the police The governor is impotent’

It is way past time for trump to make good own his threat to quell the insurrection not make more statements declaring the obvious. Every statement he makes like this only points out he does nothing. It’s like calling Hillary criminal for 18 months and letting her walk free by appointing a spineless AG

All hat and no cattle.


24 posted on 06/13/2020 5:53:16 PM PDT by stuckincali
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To: Libloather

The people who write headlines for Daily Mail are on drugs.


25 posted on 06/13/2020 5:55:25 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: Libloather

She’s Idiot Sawant


26 posted on 06/13/2020 5:55:58 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici
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To: stuckincali

I totally agree with you—Hellary is a criminal and should be doing hard time.

However, there should be no rush to deal with Chaz.

It is a showcase of leftist insanity that should be used like a club to humiliate Democrats until they bend the knee to us and beg forgiveness.


27 posted on 06/13/2020 5:57:53 PM PDT by cgbg (Kneeling is a half measure--lefties need to dig a six foot hole and bury themselves in it.)
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To: Libloather

Where’s Lon Horiuchi when you need him?


28 posted on 06/13/2020 5:58:16 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: cgbg

the president is showing weakness by making threats and doing nothing.


29 posted on 06/13/2020 6:00:10 PM PDT by stuckincali
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To: Libloather
Was she really a software engineer?

Lot of people running around with that title who couldn't write code worth anything. I do see more and more the term data "scientist" which I'm sure is to avoid scrutiny as to what they actually do.

30 posted on 06/13/2020 6:00:42 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: stuckincali

The President should stop making threats. This will eventually play out. And however it does, it will benefit President Trump.


31 posted on 06/13/2020 6:04:55 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: bgill

“And they want ice, the good kind.”

I think that’s actually in The Declaration of Independence wording. Free Ice (the good kind!) For All!

*SNORT*


32 posted on 06/13/2020 6:05:59 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'hobbies.' I'm developing a robust post-Apocalyptic skill set.)
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To: colorado tanker

to the detriment and loss of the people who live in and have businesses in the area. Politics instead of safety is like politics and not trying to win a war (VN, Desert Storm)

Waiting under three conditions is just wrong as the situation deteriorates.

It’s been 6 days since trump said he would call out the troops. How many days is okay with you.


33 posted on 06/13/2020 6:09:34 PM PDT by stuckincali
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Kshama cares about manmade globull warming:

21 Sept 2014: Kshama Sawant: Speech from People’s Climate March NYC
A day before the largest climate action in history, Kshama Sawant joined Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, activists Naomi Klein, Bill McKibben and Chris Hedges in New York City for a panel discussion to debate the way forward for the environmental movement. Video jumps directly to Kshama, and you can read the speech below...

(excerpts) Our demands to the so called “world leaders” also need to be clear.
We need massive public projects to put an end to fossil fuel as part of a rapid transformation to clean energy, along with a dramatic expansion of mass transit—all of which would create millions of living-wage, unionized jobs...
We must face up to the fact that the so called free market will not be able to end its addiction to fossil fuels, and certainly not at the speed that is required...

It was great to hear Bernie Sanders tonight. There has been some talk about Bernie running for President in 2016, to provide an alternative to Hillary Clinton.
I don’t always agree with Bernie, I’ll be honest—especially his recent positions on US foreign policy. But just for a moment, let us imagine the impact of a well-known and credible independent left challenger of the stature of Bernie running as a challenge to the two parties of big business in the 2016 elections...
https://sawant.seattle.gov/speech-from-nyc-peoples-climate-march//

is she just as concerned about...

17 Nov 2018: NYT: ‘Tell Everyone We Scalped You!’ How Caste Still Rules in India
By Jeffrey Gettleman and Suhasini Raj
The higher-caste men greeted Mr. Sardar with a punch to the face. Then they broke his arm. Then they pinned him down. Mr. Sardar shrieked for help. Nobody came.

One higher-caste man stuffed a rag in his mouth. Another gleefully pulled out a razor. He grabbed Mr. Sardar’s scalp and began to lift and cut, lift and cut, carving off nearly every inch of skin.
“Take that!” Mr. Sardar remembers them saying. “Tell everyone we scalped you!”

Mr. Sardar is a Dalit, a class of Indians who are not just considered lower caste, but technically outcaste — what used to be called untouchable. Bound at the bottom of India’s Hindu society for centuries, the Dalit population, now estimated at more than 300 million, has been abused for as long as anyone can remember...

In late October, a 14-year-old Dalit girl was beheaded by an upper-caste man whose wife said he hated the girl specifically because of her caste. A Dalit scavenger was tied up and fatally whipped outside a factory in May, in a beating captured on video and broadcast across India. In March, a Dalit man was killed by higher-caste men for riding a horse (traditionally, Dalits aren’t supposed to do that)...
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/17/world/asia/tell-everyone-we-scalped-you-how-caste-still-rules-in-india.html


34 posted on 06/13/2020 6:10:18 PM PDT by MAGAthon
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To: Vision
Kshama Sawant: foreigner. <<

Someone should do a “deep dive” into her background.....Im guessing it more interesting then Joe the Plumber...

35 posted on 06/13/2020 6:11:36 PM PDT by M-cubed (The MSM is now the 4th Branch of Government.....)
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To: ChildOfThe60s
The problem is that the left denies human nature.

no ... the problem is that their skulls aren't being bashed in.

and add in a few Kent States for good measure

36 posted on 06/13/2020 6:13:11 PM PDT by bankwalker (groupthink kills ...)
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To: Libloather

So this is what the H1b scabs turn in to.


37 posted on 06/13/2020 6:15:00 PM PDT by bkopto
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To: MAGAthon
According to her official government biography, Sawant was born in Mumbai, India but relocated to the United States in the early 2000s after working as software engineer. 'Upon arriving in the US, the richest country in the world, Sawant was surprised and radicalized by the inequality and poverty that exists here,' the biography reads.

Coming from Mumbai she's shocked at inequality and poverty in United States. Can you wrap your head around that hutzpah? Sounds like an H1-B visa ingrate.

38 posted on 06/13/2020 6:16:26 PM PDT by CaptainK ('No collusion, no obstruction, he's a leaker')
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Yep. A filthy former Indian H1B. Send ALL Indians home. Only a very few become Americans and respect America.


39 posted on 06/13/2020 6:39:54 PM PDT by Starcitizen (Communist China needs to be treated like the pariah country it is. Send it back to 1971)
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To: CaptainK
Coming from Mumbai she's shocked at inequality and poverty in United States. Can you wrap your head around that hutzpah?

Yiddish correction--the term is "chutzpah". :-)

She just misses home, wants more defecation in the street and mass poverty in the city to make her feel more comfortable.
40 posted on 06/13/2020 6:56:21 PM PDT by cgbg (Kneeling is a half measure--lefties need to dig a six foot hole and bury themselves in it.)
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