Antifa Erects “Big, Beautiful Border Wall” Around Their Latest Seattle ‘Autonomous Zone’

USSA News ^ | 12/18/2020 | Tyler Durden

[SeekAndFind]

Seattle's "Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone" is back, apparently, after what was previously referred to as CHOP drove headlines this summer after police belatedly moved to dismantle large portions of it. It has managed to survive, in it's current form emerging recently at Cal Anderson Park as more of a homeless shelter occupying a public park.

But the central irony no doubt missed by those advocating it as some kind of model far-Left utopia is that this week the encampment has erected a large "border wall" after the city announced authorities plan on clearing the area.

Newsweek reports Friday that a "border wall barricade has been erected around Seattle's Capitol Hill Organized Protest (CHOP)" just ahead of an expected showdown with police. "Photos shared on social media on Thursday showed the block surrounded by wooden pallets forming a makeshift wall," Newsweek noted.

So apparently Antifa believes not only in borders clearly demarking zones between its claimed territory and others, but is enforcing it with a very literal wall. This from the same people which deem Trump's prior vows to "build the big, beautiful wall" as "racist".

Prior signs put up in front of the "Capitol Hill Organized Protest" or CHOP in June in Seattle, Washington. Getty Images.

Among the "demands" to the city by those inside the camp are that Seattle stop all evictions, and that essentially low-income people receive free housing with no conditions.

Fresh hay on the hillside to deal with that old classic PNW mud problem pic.twitter.com/Xdm0icVNyD — Nikki West (@Nikki__West) December 18, 2020

A similar standoff and 'autonomous zone' is currently the source of controversy and ongoing showdowns with police in Portland.

TRASHED: Here’s another entrance at Cal Anderson Park. Saw people dropping off wooden pallets in pick up trucks. Clearly building make shift wall to keep city crews out during Wednesday’s planned sweep. #seattle #CapitolHill #CalAndersonPark pic.twitter.com/qmfd2bNJyt — Jonathan Choe Journalist KOMO News (@choeshow) December 15, 2020

Seattle's mayor, Jenny Durkan, has described the CHOP encampment as a "political occupation" and has vowed to dismantle it.

Man walks by barricades surrounding homeless encampment on Nagle Pl. Seattle, WA 12/17/20 pic.twitter.com/g4UR5wR5pE

— Nikki West (@Nikki__West) December 18, 2020

Police began entering Cal Anderson Park to evict the squatters on Friday morning, according to multiple reports.

The small tent village and the inhabitants appear to have been surviving on donations. There have been social media efforts urging that supporters go there to drop off food items.

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Perhaps CHOP should consult others with more experience with "the wall"?

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[Regulator]

Turn off the cell towers around them

They’ll starve

[BenLurkin]

Philadelphia had a similar problem back in the ‘85......

[LeoTDB69]

“Seattle’s mayor, Jenny Durkan, has described the CHOP encampment as a “political occupation” and has vowed to dismantle it.”

So the Summer of Love has become a Winter of Discontent it seems.

[SeekAndFind]

RE: Philadelphia had a similar problem back in the ‘85......

So, how did the City of Brotherly Love solve the problem? I don’t see any autonomous zone there the last time I visited ( November 2019 ).

[Deaf Smith]

Where did they steal all the pallets from?

[SeekAndFind]

RE: Jenny Durkan, has described the CHOP encampment as a “political occupation” and has vowed to dismantle it.”

How many times have we heard that before? The fact that she ALLOWED IT TO HAPPEN simply shows how gutless she is.

[South Dakota]

I think Philly killed everyone

[BenLurkin]

They took a direct approach...

[Paladin2]

“how did the City of Brotherly Love solve the problem?”

Fire and Brimstone, from ‘choppers, If I Recall Correctly.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Sweet!

[bigbob]

So they have been paying some attention. Construction skills are obviously not taught at Berkeley.

[LadyDoc]

My relatives lived near there, and that group harassed them and their neighbors...lots of complaints about them, and many feared the thugs from the cult.

This group fed their children uncooked food and the kids wandered around half naked, because the cult leader said that is how people lived in Africa.

The city didn't know that group stored diesel for their generator on the roof, so when the cops set off a non lethal “flash bang” grenade to distract them to get the kids out, the diesel started burning, and those inside started shooting at the cops and firemen, which was why the fire got out of control and destroyed a lot of nearby houses.

The mayor who ordered the raid was black, and I don't remember a lot of protests by the local community.

By the way...this was not a slum but a nice working class/middle class black neighborhood...

And if I remember correctly, the lady cult leader got out and lived.

[notpoliticallycorewrecked]

They must be a bit discouraged tonight. It is raining and windy. Wonder how many have decided to return to the parent’s basement for a warm dry place to sleep.

[HKMk23]

https://www.cat.com/en_US/products/new/equipment/dozers/wheel-dozers/18460666.html

Just one lap around the park with this 112 ton Behemoth oughta do the job.

[nickcarraway]

I thought they were against borders.

[Paladin2]

Yah never know what to believe anymore. But here’s Wiki’s current take:

“There was an armed standoff with police,[9] who lobbed tear gas canisters at the building. The MOVE members fired at them, and a gunfight with semi-automatic and automatic firearms ensued.[10] Police used more than ten thousand rounds of ammunition before Commissioner Sambor ordered that the compound There was an armed standoff with police,[9] who lobbed tear gas canisters at the building. The MOVE members fired at them, and a gunfight with semi-automatic and automatic firearms ensued.[10] Police used more than ten thousand rounds of ammunition before Commissioner Sambor ordered that the compound be bombed.[10] From a Pennsylvania State Police helicopter, Philadelphia Police Department Lt. Frank Powell proceeded to drop two one-pound (0.5 kg) bombs (which the police referred to as “entry devices”[1]) made of FBI-supplied Tovex, a dynamite substitute, targeting a fortified, bunker-like cubicle on the roof of the house.[5]

The ensuing fire killed eleven of the people in the house (John Africa, five other adults, and five children aged 7 to 13). The fire spread and eventually destroyed approximately sixty-five nearby houses. Although firefighters had earlier drenched the building prior to the bombing, after the fire broke out, officials said they feared that MOVE would shoot at the firefighters, so held them back.[5][10][11]

Goode later testified at a 1996 trial that he had ordered the fire to be put out after the bunker had burned. Sambor said he received the order, but the fire commissioner testified that he did not receive the order.[12] Ramona Africa, one of the two MOVE survivors from the house, said that police fired at those trying to escape.[13] be bombed.[10] From a Pennsylvania State Police helicopter, Philadelphia Police Department Lt. Frank Powell proceeded to drop two one-pound (0.5 kg) bombs (which the police referred to as “entry devices”[1]) made of FBI-supplied Tovex, a dynamite substitute, targeting a fortified, bunker-like cubicle on the roof of the house.[5]

The ensuing fire killed eleven of the people in the house (John Africa, five other adults, and five children aged 7 to 13). The fire spread and eventually destroyed approximately sixty-five nearby houses. Although firefighters had earlier drenched the building prior to the bombing, after the fire broke out, officials said they feared that MOVE would shoot at the firefighters, so held them back.[5][10][11]

Goode later testified at a 1996 trial that he had ordered the fire to be put out after the bunker had burned. Sambor said he received the order, but the fire commissioner testified that he did not receive the order.[12] Ramona Africa, one of the two MOVE survivors from the house, said that police fired at those trying to escape.[13] “

[seowulf]

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.”

— Charles Dickens

[jonrick46]

Isn’t all those pallets a fire hazard? Looks to me it is a disaster waiting to go up in a cloud of smoke. Where is the fire marshal?

[Ozark Tom]

Difficult to get out of the middle ground, if somehow that central area were to become ignited. The wall appears flammable also, posing a problem of breaching an inferno to escape an inferno.

Good thing no one has brought a siege-engine, trebuchet, or Greek fire to their castle as yet. Going Medieval!