Posted on 08/09/2020 12:04:45 PM PDT by Libloather
Following an investigative report the paper of record has revealed that business owners who were stuck in the Capitol Hill Organised Protest ‘aren’t so sure about abolishing the police’. No sh*t Sherlock.
The New York Times has done something distinctly out of character and actually produced some decent journalism. Taking a break from getting editors sacked for allowing Republican senators to write op-eds and forcing out the few remaining sane people on their staff for not quaffing the identity politics Cool-Aid enthusiastically enough, they dispatched a reporter to Seattle to pick through the remnants of the CHOP, a month after it closed.
The Capital Hill Organised Protest, formally CHAZ (Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone), was the area of the city that, for 23 glorious days, declared independence from the United States. A bunch of Black Lives Matter and Antifa radicals hoofed out the police and decided to try and run the area as some sort of Marxist utopia. What they actually established was a gang run hellhole that made the Wild West look like Switzerland.
**SNIP**
The land of soy milk and honey was disbanded on July 1 and was duly eulogised by the usual suspects as basically an extended block party. A month on, the NY Times finally got around to sending a reporter to speak to the people who lived and worked in the area before the protestors moved in and produced an admittedly excellent piece of reportage on the situation. It was headlined, ”Abolish the Police? Those Who Survived the Chaos in Seattle Aren’t So Sure.” The piece, as journalist Michael Tracey observed on Twitter, would have been dismissed as right-wing propaganda just a month ago and shows that this little experiment in anarcho-communism was a million miles away from paradise.
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And the three youths that were shot and killed in cold blood? Another in a vegetative state? NYT not interested in that? The mayor doesn’t seem to be. The murderers are still at large and the community is protecting them. Might even be still marching with one or two. A father in San Diego is still waiting for answers.
AHA!! I had no idea what those initials represented until now! Okay, I'm the Russian who singlehandedly influenced the election. Can I do one more? Please?
'Sounds awkward...Better to have written...
"The New York Times has finally awakened to the fact...."
What’s annoying as hell, is why the country has to suffer, innocent lives get disrupted, capital vaporized, and livelihoods destroyed for brain dead liberals to finally, learn the basic facts of life. How long did it take the average conservative to predict disaster for the CHOP? Ten minutes for the slower among us? It takes the progressive scum weeks or months to learn the obvious, AND basic life lessons like this are forgotten within a year. Then its Back Jack, do it Again....
Ironically it was “The Summer Of Love’’ that killed the Haight-Ashbury.
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