{UAH} DEMOCRATS IN SEATTLE HAVE DONATED 6 BLOCKS TO LAWLESSNESS AS STOCKHOLM DID BEFORE IT LOST CONTROLL OF THE ENTIRE FIRKIN CITY

Seattle’s experiment in lawless self-governance will end in tears

by Washington Examiner

June 12, 2020 12:00 AM

 

Seattle is experiencing a reprise of the gleeful lawlessness that came to define the Occupy Wall Street movement of 2011.

Like the ill-fated political crusade that sprung up almost a decade ago in New York City’s Zuccotti Park, the so-called “autonomous zone” that has taken over a six-block radius of Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood in the wake of the unjustified death of George Floyd will likely end in destruction, tears, and federal intervention should state and city officials continue to handle the matter with kid gloves.

"This is no simple request to end police brutality,” reads the preamble to a list of demands published this week by the demonstrators who established a supposedly police-free zone in the city. “We demand that the City Council and the Mayor, whoever that may be, implement these policy changes for the cultural and historic advancement of the City of Seattle, and to ease the struggles of its people.”

The statement continues, listing increasingly unrealistic demands of city and state officials.

First, it reads, “The Seattle Police Department and attached court system are beyond reform. We do not request reform, we demand abolition.” Second, “We demand the abolition of imprisonment, generally speaking, but especially the abolition of both youth prisons and privately-owned, for-profit prisons.”

The “Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone,” which encompasses a police precinct and now features a makeshift wall that blocks open movement through the area, was seized by a ragtag collection of ultra-left-wing protesters after city officials willingly surrendered the area.

“This is an exercise in trust and de-escalation,” said Chief Carmen Best, explaining the decision to cede territory to protesters.

So far, however, surrendering the precinct has not only emboldened disorder but has also made the situation far more volatile.

On the first night of occupation, for example, a local rapper, Raz Simone, was reported strutting through the zone with an AK-47 and a pistol, screaming through a megaphone, “This is war!” Simone then used his newfound authority as a self-appointed leader of an unlawful movement to order armed insurrectionists to take shifts guarding the zone’s makeshift barricades.

Simone was also filmed allegedly “assaulting multiple protestors who disobeyed his orders, informing them that he was the ‘police’ now, sparking fears that he was becoming the de facto warlord of the autonomous zone,” according to City Journal contributing editor Christopher F. Rufo. “A homeless man with a baseball bat wandered along the borderline and two unofficial medics in medieval-style chain mail stood ready for action.”

Rufo also reports that city officials sent high-ranking police officers to the autonomous zone to “establish a line of communication." These officials were turned away immediately by armed insurrectionists guarding the barricades.

This does not sound like de-escalation. This sounds like a situation that has spun out of control and will only get uglier should city and state officials fail to restore their authority.

If residents of Seattle expect relief from their elected officials, they may have a long wait ahead of them. Mayor Jenny Durkan is too busy squabbling with President Trump, who threatened to take action should she and her officials continue to do nothing about the crisis on their doorstep. And as for Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, he said Wednesday that he had not even heard about the “autonomous zone.” He seemed pretty clueless when running for president in the Democratic primary, but this is ignorance and incompetence taken to extremes.

After weathering much-deserved criticism for being oblivious to the goings-on in his own state, Inslee’s office announced on social media, “I spoke with [Mayor Durkan] and her team about the situation on Capitol Hill. Although unpermitted, and we should remember we are still in a pandemic, the area is largely peaceful. Peaceful protests are fundamentally American, and I am hopeful there will be a peaceful resolution.”

He added, “What we will not allow are threats of military violence against Washingtonians coming from the White House. The U.S. military serves to protect Americans, not the fragility of an insecure president.”

If threats are what it takes for Inslee to take back the city from armed insurrectionists — insurrectionists, by the way, whom nobody would tolerate were they members of a right-wing cause — then perhaps the president should continue leveling threats of federal intervention. The peaceful, law-abiding citizens of Seattle deserve at least that much. They deserve to have back the territories that make up the autonomous zone, which is firmly in the control of protesters, none of whom were elected to any office by any voter.

But if Inslee and Durkan insist on treating the matter as nothing more pressing than a "mostly peaceful" demonstration, then the people of Seattle ought to prepare themselves for the same sort of destructive, violent lawlessness that visited Occupy Wall Street in 2011.

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