Posted on 06/09/2020 10:29:21 PM PDT by TigerClaws
VANITY. I'll post various sources. Here are the demands:
For ease of consideration, we’ve broken these demands into four categories: The Justice System, Health and Human Services, Economics, and Education. Given the historical moment, we’ll begin with our demands pertaining to the Justice System.
The Seattle Police Department and attached court system are beyond reform. We do not request reform, we demand abolition. We demand that the Seattle Council and the Mayor defund and abolish the Seattle Police Department and the attached Criminal Justice Apparatus. This means 100% of funding, including existing pensions for Seattle Police. At an equal level of priority we also demand that the city disallow the operations of ICE in the city of Seattle. In the transitionary period between now and the dismantlement of the Seattle Police Department, we demand that the use of armed force be banned entirely. No guns, no batons, no riot shields, no chemical weapons, especially against those exercising their First Amendment right as Americans to protest. We demand an end to the school-to-prison pipeline and the abolition of youth jails. Get kids out of prison, get cops out of schools. We also demand that the new youth prison being built in Seattle currently be repurposed. We demand that not the City government, nor the State government, but that the Federal government launch a full-scale investigation into past and current cases of police brutality in Seattle and Washington, as well as the re-opening of all closed cases reported to the Office of Police Accountability. In particular, we demand that cases particular to Seattle and Washington be reopened where no justice has been served, namely the cases of Iosia Faletogo, Damarius Butts, Isaiah Obet, Tommy Le, Shaun Fuhr, and Charleena Lyles. We demand reparations for victims of police brutality, in a form to be determined. We demand that the City of Seattle make the names of officers involved in police brutality a matter of public record. Anonymity should not even be a privilege in public service. We demand a retrial of all People in Color currently serving a prison sentence for violent crime, by a jury of their peers in their community. We demand decriminalization of the acts of protest, and amnesty for protestors generally, but specifically those involved in what has been termed “The George Floyd Rebellion” against the terrorist cell that previously occupied this area known as the Seattle Police Department. This includes the immediate release of all protestors currently being held in prison after the arrests made at 11th and Pine on Sunday night and early Saturday morning June 7th and 8th, and any other protesters arrested in the past two weeks of the uprising, the name Evan Hreha in particular comes to mind who filmed Seattle police macing a young girl and is now in jail. We demand that the City of Seattle and the State Government release any prisoner currently serving time for a marijuana-related offense and expunge the related conviction. We demand the City of Seattle and State Government release any prisoner currently serving time just for resisting arrest if there are no other related charges, and that those convictions should also be expunged. We demand that prisoners currently serving time be given the full and unrestricted right to vote, and for Washington State to pass legislation specifically breaking from Federal law that prevents felons from being able to vote. We demand an end to prosecutorial immunity for police officers in the time between now and the dissolution of the SPD and extant justice system. We demand the abolition of imprisonment, generally speaking, but especially the abolition of both youth prisons and privately-owned, for-profit prisons. We demand in replacement of the current criminal justice system the creation of restorative/transformative accountability programs as a replacement for imprisonment. We demand autonomy be given to the people to create localized anti-crime systems. We demand that the Seattle Police Department, between now and the time of its abolition in the near future, empty its “lost and found” and return property owned by denizens of the city. We demand justice for those who have been sexually harassed or abused by the Seattle Police Department or prison guards in the state of Washington. We demand that between now and the abolition of the SPD that each and every SPD officer turn on their body cameras, and that the body camera video of all Seattle police should be a matter of easily accessible public record. We demand that the funding previously used for Seattle Police be redirected into: A) Socialized Health and Medicine for the City of Seattle. B) Free public housing, because housing is a right, not a privilege. C) Public education, to decrease the average class size in city schools and increase teacher salary. D) Naturalization services for immigrants to the United States living here undocumented. (We demand they be called “undocumented” because no person is illegal.) E) General community development. Parks, etc.
We also have economic demands that must be addressed.
We demand the de-gentrification of Seattle, starting with rent control. We demand the restoration of city funding for arts and culture to re-establish the once-rich local cultural identity of Seattle. We demand free college for the people of the state of Washington, due to the overwhelming effect that education has on economic success, and the correlated overwhelming impact of poverty on people of color, as a form of reparations for the treatment of Black people in this state and country. We demand that between now and the abolition of the SPD that Seattle Police be prohibited from performing “homeless sweeps” that displace and disturb our homeless neighbors, and on equal footing we demand an end to all evictions. We demand a decentralized election process to give the citizens of Seattle a greater ability to select candidates for public office such that we are not forced to choose at the poll between equally undesirable options. There are multiple systems and policies in place which make it impractical at best for working-class people to run for public office, all of which must go, starting with any fees associated with applying to run for public office.
Related to economic demands, we also have demands pertaining to what we would formally call “Health and Human Services.”
We demand the hospitals and care facilities of Seattle employ black doctors and nurses specifically to help care for black patients. We demand the people of Seattle seek out and proudly support Black-owned businesses. Your money is our power and sustainability. We demand that the city create an entirely separate system staffed by mental health experts to respond to 911 calls pertaining to mental health crises, and insist that all involved in such a program be put through thorough, rigorous training in conflict de-escalation.
Finally, let us now address our demands regarding the education system in the City of Seattle and State of Washington.
We demand that the history of Black and Native Americans be given a significantly greater focus in the Washington State education curriculum. We demand that thorough anti-bias training become a legal requirement for all jobs in the education system, as well as in the medical profession and in mass media. We demand the City of Seattle and State of Washington remove any and all monuments dedicated to historical figures of the Confederacy, whose treasonous attempts to build an America with slavery as a permanent fixture were an affront to the human race.
Transcribed by @irie_kenya and @AustinCHowe. Special thanks to Magik for starting and facilitating the discussion to create this list, to Omari Salisbury for the idea to break the list into categories, and as well a thanks to Kshama Sawant for being the only Seattle official to discuss with the people on Free Capitol Hill the night that it was liberated.
Although we have liberated Free Capitol Hill in the name of the people of Seattle, we must not forget that we stand on land already once stolen from the Duwamish People, the first people of Seattle, and whose brother, John T. Williams of the Nuu-chah-nulth tribe up north was murdered by the Seattle Police Department 10 years ago.
Black Lives Matter — All day, Every day.
I was there during those riots of the WTO crap. Those thugs tried to stop me from going up to my work one day. I was walking up the street and three of them asked me where I was going. I told them work, what is it to you? They told me I could go no further. I told them to get out of the stinking way or someone was going to get shot, that I had a Glock 40 cal in my coat pocket. They backed up, not knowing if I was fooling or not. I circled around them and went on up to work. No, I had not carried that day, but they were young punks who did not know if this crazy older guy would be armed. But, by cracky the next day I WAS!! And every day after that I stayed armed going to work. I had a carry permit. That was one thing you could get back then if you had no record. I filed for it and had it in a week. So, yeah, I stayed armed. Like today, I am going to the gun shop. They have a new .380 for me that I am picking up!! Then we are going back to the range. We went yesterday for my wife to fire up nearly 60 rounds, till her little hand got sore!!! :-) So, I will try out my new toy today!!! STAY SAFE PATIRIOTS AND STAY ARMED!!!
State and local governments handle this? Are you kidding?
We can already see that the Seattle city government is out to lunch. Besides that nutbag Sawant, there are two others on the Seattle city council who are left wing Marxists. The mayor has likely realized that she is in WAY over her head. The Auntie Faaa demand for her resignation probably sounds pretty darn good right about now.
King County government? Just as bad.
The state? Yeah, right. Commissar Inslee is too busy trying to turn the entire state’s economy into a bag of dog crap so he he can rebuild it into a ‘green’ economy.
Rather than letting this fester through the summer, our President needs to say “enough is enough” and make a few phone calls to that big, beautiful Army base about 40 miles south of Camp Stupid. Activate some Infantry, throw a few tanks into the mix, and sprinkle in some Special Forces for good measure. Roll the entire convoy right up I-5 and knock on their front door. Tell them they have one hour to report to a holding area just outside their little commune for processing. After that, we go in and anything that moves ceases to exist.
Anyone who reports for processing gets tried for federal capital crimes including insurrection and possibly treason, and then execute the lot of them. Televise their executions. Let those who see them know that THIS is what we do those who hate the country they were brought up in, who gave them every opportunity to make something of themselves, but chose to become what they did instead. Hopefully, the message will sink in to those who have similar ideas.
The feds took care of this sort of business in the 60s and the 90s, but not it cannot. Weak. No balls in DC.
Chick Fil A wants us to know that any indication of support for the police was completely unintentional, and they’re very sorry.
https://video.foxnews.com/v/6162980327001#sp=show-clips
FOAD CFA!!!!
They haven’t taken over sh!t.
She needs some serious jail time for aiding and abetting domestic terrorists!
I have relatives on lake Cococalla in Sandpoint.
Thank you for making that more readable!
Perhaps conservatives should issue them some demands and insist they cease in discriminating against conservative people.
Conservatives are becoming a minority. Where are our rights?
We demand...
People in Hell want ice water, don’t mean they’re gonna get it.
What you are going to get is a grave or a prison cell. And...
I DEMAND to know where your grave is so I can piss on it.
If we lived in a normal world, this would be a good thing. We have all the bad guys in one place. It could be the beginning of a good old fashioned siege.
Yes it is - and I was just listening to the Rush show and the guy filling in said that armed Latin Kings are now patrolling parts of Chicago...and the beat goes on....
Our rights went away when we were wasting our freedom typing away on the internets.
Keep it, dumbasses.
Thanks, I really needed a good long laugh this morning.
Post signs telling people to stop being criminals in this area, right now.
Stronger language than Gun Free Zone (which always works.)/s
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