Anarchy is spreading throughout America faster than it ever has before

[kirtland r.m.]

Hot news, just hours old. Anarchy is spreading throughout America faster than it ever has before. Now, an entire 6 block radius in downtown Seattle has been claimed by members of Antifa as an "autonomous zone" — enter it, they say, and you're officially leaving the United States. But what IS Antifa? How are they organized? And WHERE did they learn their tactics? Glenn explains the origins of a new radical left group — the Revolutionary Abolitionist Movement — and how Antifa is learning everything about how to destroy state power from ANARCHY EXPLAINED: The radical left group that’s teaching Antifa how to DESTROY State power https://www.glennbeck.com/theblaze-tv/a ... tate-power

[Chip]

It''s being ALLOWED to happen to make an impression upon the citizens. The government could shut that thing down so fast if it wanted to. Antifa is no match for professionals.

[justme]

Hot news, just hours old. Anarchy is spreading throughout America faster than it ever has before. Now, an entire 6 block radius in downtown Seattle has been claimed by members of Antifa as an "autonomous zone" — enter it, they say, and you're officially leaving the United States. But what IS Antifa? How are they organized? And WHERE did they learn their tactics? Glenn explains the origins of a new radical left group — the Revolutionary Abolitionist Movement — and how Antifa is learning everything about how to destroy state power from ANARCHY EXPLAINED: The radical left group that’s teaching Antifa how to DESTROY State power https://www.glennbeck.com/theblaze-tv/a ... tate-power

6 block radius? Are you sure? That is huge. Remembering that the area of a circle is pi *radius squared, you are talking over 100 city blocks. I think we need to double check your source.

[EmmaLee]

https://www.theblaze.com/news/seattle-p ... ing%20News

JUNE 12, 2020
Seattle police chief says rapes and robberies are occurring in CHAZ area and officers can't respond to them

Seattle Police Chief Carmen Best said violent crimes are occurring within the area of the city taken over by protesters, and officers are unable to respond quickly enough, if at all.

Earlier this week, a group of anti-police protesters took control of a six-block area of the city that has become known as the "Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone," or CHAZ, which includes a police precinct. Officers surrendered the East Precinct and vacated the area. Best would not confirm who gave the order.

"Our calls for service have more than tripled," Best said. "These are responses to emergency calls — rapes, robberies, and all sorts of violent acts that have been occurring in the area that we're not able to get to."

Although President Donald Trump has called for city and state officials to disband the autonomous zone, and the head of Seattle's police union called the situation "absolutely appalling," both Mayor Jenny Durkan and Washington Gov. Jay Inslee (D) appear content to allow the CHAZ to stand unbothered, at least for now.

The protesters are calling for the police department to be abolished, ICE to be banned from the city, and some prisons to be closed, among other requests in pursuit of their vision of racial, economic, and criminal justice equity. Some demands, like free college and the employment of black doctors and nurses, seem unrelated to the original purpose of the protests that occurred across the country.

Inslee said the CHAZ is "unpermitted" but will be allowed to continue for now since it is a peaceful protest. He said he would oppose military intervention by President Trump.

"I spoke with [Durkan] and her team about the situation on Capitol Hill," Inslee wrote on Twitter. "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.

[EmmaLee]

Seattle Police Chief: "Rapes, robberies and all sorts of violent acts have been occurring in the area and we're not able to get to [them]."

[EmmaLee]

https://www.theblaze.com/news/chaz-list ... 270%20days

JUNE 11, 2020
CHAZ protesters release list of crazy demands: Abolish police, close prisons, hire black doctors for black patients, give free college and housing to everyone

A group claiming to be behind the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone — a six-block area in Seattle where armed protesters have ousted police and seized control — have published a list of demands that amount to a strange mix of anarchy and socialism, with some having absolutely nothing to do with police reform.

The CHAZ group's lengthy list of demands was published on Medium Tuesday and makes just one mention of George Floyd, whose May 25 death in Minneapolis spawned nationwide protests over police treatment of black Americans.

Rather than seeking justice for Floyd's family, the demands seek a wish list of anarchistic and socialistic reforms including the abolishment of the city's police department and its "attached Criminal Justice Apparatus," the end to all use of armed force, widespread wealth redistribution, free college — and a bizarre requirement that hospitals employ "black doctors and nurses specifically to help care for black patients."

Here's what they said

"In credit to the people who freed Capitol Hill, this list of demands is neither brief nor simplistic," the Medium post says. "This is no simple request to end police brutality. 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."

Here are some of the items that follow on the list of justice system demands:

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.

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 the abolition of imprisonment, generally speaking, but especially the abolition of both youth prisons and privately-owned, for-profit prisons.

The last item on the justice system list goes full-fledge socialist in stating: "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."
At this point in the post, things really get zany as the demands stray away from any form of police or criminal justice reform. Under the Economics section, the post states:

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.

Under the Health and Human Services and Education sections, the demands continue to drift away from anything even remotely related to police and criminal justice reform:

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 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.

And with that, the criteria for utopia are complete.

[EmmaLee]

https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/p ... fc7fadfbd4

24 September 2020
Seattle City Council Moves Forward With Plan To Gut Police Department

On Tuesday, the Seattle City Council voted to override Mayor Jenny Durkan’s veto of proposed drastic cuts to the city’s police department by a 7-2 vote. The cuts to police funding are said to be a “down payment” on the council’s pledge to cut the department’s budget by a full 50 percent over the next few years.

The cuts were originally proposed in early August, causing the city’s first black female police chief, Carmen Best, to resign. Durkan vetoed that budget, saying at the time that the city needed to “make changes in a more thoughtful, deliberate way.”

The cuts include the elimination of 100 sworn officers (32 patrol officers) through layoffs and attrition, beginning in November. Police salaries will be capped at $150,000, with the chief’s salary reduced to $275,000. They also include an end to the Navigation Team — the police department’s outreach to the homeless in the city. In total, this round of cuts amounts to $3 million — a tiny portion of the department’s more than $400 million annual budget.

It is doubtful that the layoffs will begin in November, however, since the proposal calls for giving affected officers and staff a three-month notice.

Council members Alex Pedersen and Debora Juarez were the two dissenting votes.

“Countless videos of black and brown lives lost here in Seattle and across the country shows us that not everyone feels safe in our community, and not everyone is safe,” said Council President Lorena Gonzalez, who voted to override the veto. ["Countless"?? Really?? Unless she means the countless black and brown lives lost due to OTHER black and brown people killing them - then yes, THOSE numbers are almost countless.]

“We cannot look away from this and we can no longer accept the status quo if we truly believe that black lives matter,” Gonzalez continued.

Socialist council member Kshama Sawant credited the Marxist group Black Lives Matter for exerting “ferocious” pressure on the council to override the mayor’s veto. Sawant and Durkan have been at odds since the mayor accused Sawant of leaking her home address to agitators who showed up to protest at the gated home, despite the fact that the mayor had been receiving death threats during the summertime occupation of the city’s Capitol Hill neighborhood.

Both Durkan and Sawant are battling recall efforts at this time.

In a statement, Durkan blasted the council’s vote, saying that the city was ill-prepared to act so quickly and that there was a complete lack of a plan for moving forward. Durkan also claimed that she would not allow the Navigation Team to be eliminated.

“[There’s] a lack of plan on addressing [homeless] encampments across the city if we eliminate the Navigation Team, a lack of plan regarding the specific source to repay a loan, and a lack of plan to legally reduce our force while not jeopardizing a 9-1-1 response. While Council may not be concerned about the details, I am. And they actually do matter,” Durkan’s statement read.

In Seattle, the city council is in charge of allocating funds, but the mayor has discretion in spending.

While Durkan is fighting the proposed budget cuts, she has tried to ingratiate herself with movement to defund the police, recently pledging more than $100 million in grants to organizations that participated in the Capitol Hill occupation this summer. In addition, Durkan has even hired a former sex trafficker to be a “street czar” at a salary of $150,000 to help in the deescalation of violence in the city.

A Black Lives Matter splinter group, Decriminalize Seattle, issued a statement about the veto override, which read, “Today, we are encouraged to see the City Council, emboldened by the support of tens of thousands of BIPOC [Black, Indigenous, and People of Color] community members, resist Mayor Durkan’s bullying tactics and anti-black obstructionism.”

“As we head into the 2021 budget cycle, we expect council members to maintain their conviction, elevate Black lives, and uphold their commitments to divest from policing and reinvest in Black communities,” the group added.

Community business leaders were less enthused with the council’s actions. The Downtown Seattle Association, which represents some 2,000 corporate, non-profit, and residential members, argued that the council’s actions “won’t result in real police reform” and might result in a more dangerous city. [Duh, ya think?]

“The Council needs to listen to constituents from across the city, not just those who choose to gather outside their front doors,” the association said.

The Seattle City Council, and to a lesser extent, the mayor, are capitulating to the Black Live Matter mob to the detriment of their citizens. With government like this, is it any wonder that on Monday the U.S. Justice Department labeled Seattle as an “anarchy” jurisdiction?