Posted on 05/28/2025 2:00:23 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
In Seattle last weekend, violence broke out—not from the pulpit, but from the pavement.
Pastors and churchgoers, gathered for a permitted worship event in a city park, found themselves besieged by a black-clad mob who attempted to tear down fencing, rush the stage, and shout them down.
The attackers were not counter-protesters in any constitutional sense of the word. They were masked militants whose tactics have become a hallmark of Antifa: organized, aggressive, and aimed not at persuasion but suppression.
To their credit, the Seattle police intervened. Arrests were made. Barricades held. For a moment, law reasserted itself in a city too long governed by hesitation.
Bruce Harrell, elected to lead but seemingly content to triangulate, did not respond with praise for law enforcement or a reaffirmation of Seattle’s civic obligations to neutrality and free expression.
Instead, he questioned the Christian group’s presence—why they had been issued a permit and why their event had not been relocated to a “less provocative” area.
Translated: The fault lies not with the mob—heaven forbid—but those who dared to speak within earshot of it.
This goes beyond appeasement or failed civic leadership. The mayor effectively signaled that the rule of law in Seattle is conditional—and that those who assault Christians may expect indulgence, while those who dare to preach in public may expect scrutiny.
Harrell’s statement is a masterclass in moral evasion. It nods toward “anarchists,” then downplays their aggression with sanitized language like “infiltrated” and “disrupted”—as if masked militants had simply wandered in with the breeze.
Rather than commend his officers or affirm the constitutional right of peaceful assembly, Harrell issued a statement directing the Parks Department to reexamine the permitting process and urging the police to produce an after-action report focused on crowd management tactics and the arrests themselves.
The subtext was unmistakable...
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Don’t they have a statue of Stalin there?
Not surprising. Seattle maintains a statue of Lenin in the middle of the city. “The Lenin statue in Seattle is a 16-foot bronze sculpture of the Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin, created by Emil Venkov in 1988. It has been a controversial landmark in the Fremont neighborhood since its arrival in the U.S. in 1993, where it remains privately owned and has sparked debates about its historical significance and appropriateness.”
This is what it was like in Spain before the civil war. The leftist sympathizing government gave a de facto nod to the Red Terror.
Antifa needs to be declared a terrorist organization. Where are Bondi and Patel?
The first time the National Guard is called in to Kent State these clowns, this crap will end. These cowards can dish out the violence, but let a few meet their Waterloo and that’ll put a stop to it.
Federal civil rights laws were violated by Seattle and antifa.
The FBI will investigate.
The FBI needs to crush the city of Seattle and antifa
Antifa began in Germany.
Where is Trump?
He could have the state department designate antifa a terrorist organization
Then came Franco.
And if the left doesn’t stop, they are going to end up with an American Pinochete.
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