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Vanity: ANTIFA Has Taken Over Part of Seattle and Issued Demands
VANITY

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.


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To: Hambone 1934

TWO scoops of ice cream!


181 posted on 06/10/2020 1:50:29 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: lonevoice
... used her key to unlock the building …

REALLY???

I would think that NO one had a key and that the night watchman would open the door from the inside.

182 posted on 06/10/2020 1:56:29 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Paladin2

ANTIFA demands ping


183 posted on 06/10/2020 3:50:42 PM PDT by gleeaikin
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To: coaster123
I've got a nice 26 acre property available.

Who would mow the lawn? Not me. :-) I need suburbia.

184 posted on 06/10/2020 4:22:18 PM PDT by Aria
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To: Aria

You’d unlikely fit in.


185 posted on 06/10/2020 4:33:25 PM PDT by coaster123 (Virus = First Plane Strikes Tower)
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To: grey_whiskers

They may just abandon this futile effort in this case...from starving.


186 posted on 06/10/2020 4:35:21 PM PDT by Ronniesque
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To: sickoflibs

If these fools were the only ones who would have to suffer the consequences of such a terrible plan, I’d be fully in favor of giving them exactly what they’ve asked for. Sadly, real people would be hurt by it.


187 posted on 06/10/2020 5:41:35 PM PDT by 2aProtectsTheRest
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To: TigerClaws

That POS Governor Inslee was asked by a reporter today about this outrageous CRIMINAL BLM stunt. Inslee said he hadn’t heard anything about it.


188 posted on 06/10/2020 5:43:13 PM PDT by RooRoobird20
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To: TigerClaws

§2383. Rebellion or insurrection

Whoever incites, sets on foot, assists, or engages in any rebellion or insurrection against the authority of the United States or the laws thereof, or gives aid or comfort thereto, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.

(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 808; Pub. L. 103–322, title XXXIII, §330016(1)(L), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2147.)
Historical and Revision Notes

Based on title 18, U.S.C., 1940 ed., §4 (Mar. 4, 1909, ch. 321, §4, 35 Stat. 1088).

Word “moreover” was deleted as surplusage and minor changes were made in phraseology.
Amendments

1994—Pub. L. 103–322 substituted “fined under this title” for “fined not more than $10,000”.


189 posted on 06/10/2020 5:49:24 PM PDT by tallyhoe
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To: TigerClaws

Among their demands should be “free medication.” I am convinced most of these Antifa types are being clinically treated for mental illness.


190 posted on 06/10/2020 6:14:27 PM PDT by MoochPooch (I'm a compassionate cynic.)
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To: Viking2002

It’d make a good “October Surprise”...


191 posted on 06/10/2020 6:30:32 PM PDT by Does so (Neo-Venezuelans = Democrats = Rioters = Looters)
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To: grey_whiskers

Quarantine the area and let them starve. There’s anybody in the area there by chance of living in that area, sent troops in shoot anybody involved in the insurrection.


192 posted on 06/10/2020 6:32:26 PM PDT by Reno89519 (Buy American, Hire American! End All Worker Visa Programs. Replace Visa Workers w/ American Workers)
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To: Viking2002

Seattle deserves anarchy. Let them enjoy it for a few months. Then, when Trump is ready, place a second set of barricades around the zone and don’t let anyone back it. You can get out, but no admission. Ended in three days without a shot. It might help to cut off the water.


193 posted on 06/10/2020 6:34:00 PM PDT by anton
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To: Aria

It probably isn’t all lawn.

I have half that much and about 50% if it is trees.

(I have a fireplace.)


194 posted on 06/10/2020 6:40:14 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: All

195 posted on 06/10/2020 7:01:59 PM PDT by TigerClaws
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To: anton

And, they need time to let the shine wear off their new skateboard. A couple of murders, robberies, and rapes in the free zone will make the experience less than a Woodstock moment.


196 posted on 06/10/2020 7:02:52 PM PDT by anton
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To: TigerClaws

Policing in the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone by @RazSimone. There appear to be no body cameras, reports, or oversight and accountability. This was an attempt at de-escalation for spraying paint onto a building which resulted in an alleged assault. #chaz #FreeCapitolHill


197 posted on 06/10/2020 7:03:43 PM PDT by TigerClaws
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To: Elsie

I’d be living alone - so too much for me. I’d feel marooned.


198 posted on 06/10/2020 7:18:16 PM PDT by Aria
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To: TigerClaws

The Republic of Manbunistan


199 posted on 06/10/2020 7:23:08 PM PDT by keat
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To: anton

I favor the Escape From New York approach. And there ain’t no Snake Plissken on either side of the barricades. Make ‘em hurt.


200 posted on 06/10/2020 7:31:42 PM PDT by Viking2002 (Why should I walk into the great unknown, when I can sit here, and throw my bones?)
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