EATING ONE’S OWN: ‘SEATTLE MAYOR CALLS FOR INVESTIGATION AND EXPULSION OF UNHINGED SOCIALIST COUNCILPERSON’ – COMRADE MAYOR WANTS FELLOW RADICAL’S HEAD ON A PLATTER! WHAT’S GOING ON?
It is always the case that when one lies down with rabid dogs one wakes up with fleas. This is just the nature of the beast, in a manner of speaking. So much more so when the beasts are of the two-legged kind and are wedded to a toxic mixture of socialism, Marxism, and communism. Simply put, wherever its roots are implanted, death and destruction follow in its wake. This is a historical fact and it is not up for debate.
That being established, the Mayor of Seattle and the Governor, Jenny Durkan and Jay Inslee, respectively, couldn’t be more to the left, that is, even if they fell off the same cliff. Hand-in-hand.
Yes, there are many like-minded comrade duos, Governors and Mayors, across America. As millions upon millions have witnessed, the wreckage in their states and cities is beyond repair.
Even so, when it comes to self-interest, well, the pendulum has a habit of swinging the other way, especially, when one’s survival is at stake.
In this regard, bear in mind that die-hard Jenny was ALL-IN in her support of domestic terrorists overtaking downtown Seattle! Yup, the twit opined: Don’t worry, be happy, it will be the SUMMER OF LOVE!
The bluest skies you’ve ever seen in Seattle
And the hills the greenest green in Seattle
Like a beautiful child growing up free and wild
Full of hopes and full of fears
Full of laughter full of tears
Full of dreams to last the years in Seattle
In Seattle
So Perry Como sang in the late ’60s. Now it seems the days of beautiful children growing up free and wild are returning to Seattle. Like other American cities over the last three weeks, Seattle saw protests rapidly become violent clashes with police. This ugliness waxed and waned for a fortnight until police withdrew from their East Precinct Building, effectively ceding the surrounding area to the protestors. Barriers were erected around it by activists who initially christened the new territory the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ), and later renamed it the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest (CHOP). As their quasi-manifesto of June 9th put it, they had “liberated Free Capitol Hill in the name of the people of Seattle.”
Now a tense and potentially dangerous stand-off has developed. What does the city administration intend to do? On June 11th, the Democratic mayor of the city, Jennifer Durkan, was interviewed on CNN by a sympathetic Chris Cuomo. Cuomo began by asking if Durkan had lost control of her own city’s streets.
Durkan: We’ve got four blocks in Seattle that you just saw pictures of that is more like a block party atmosphere. It’s not an armed takeover, it’s not a military junta. We will make sure that we can restore this. But we have block parties and the like in this part of Seattle all the time… There is no threat right now to the public and we’re looking, we’re taking that very seriously, we’re meeting with businesses and residents…
Cuomo: The counter will be block parties don’t take over a municipal building, let alone a police station and destroy it, basically thumbing their nose at any sense of civic control. Do you believe that you have control of your city, and that you would be able to clear those streets? Because you haven’t.
Durkan: We do and the chief of police was in that precinct today with her command staff looking and assessing on operational plans. But we saw that it was a point of conflict night after night between the police department and protestors and we wanted to de-escalate that and what we decided was the best way to do that was to re-open the streets, and that in itself ended up with some ramifications for the precinct, to remove anything that was valuable out of that building. But we will make sure that all of Seattle is safe. We take public safety seriously… We have to acknowledge and know that we have a system that is built on systemic racism and we have to dismantle that system piece by piece.
Durkan went on to add:
During this time a number one priority every American city has is to protect the First Amendment right. Our country was born out of protest. The right to gather, the right to protest, the right to challenge government when it is wrong, is our most fundamental constitutional right. It’s a reason it’s the First Amendment. And as a mayor of this city I will do everything to protect that right and balance the public safety. I think not only can we do both, I think we have to do both.
Indeed, that was then, that is, until her comfy home became the target of their rage! But there’s more…much more….read on….
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DAILY/HEADLINES | July 1, 2020
After initially passing off CHAZ/CHOP as an innocuous dance party, Seattle mayor Jenny Durkan is now calling for the communist utopia to be dismantled after a series of shootings have taken place there and citizens are pursuing legal action against the city for letting the cesspool grow.
The mob, of course, is now turning their rage toward Mayor Durkan. Led by open marxist city councilor Kshama Sawant, the horde descended upon the mayor’s home to protest on Sunday. This has now prompted Durkan to call for investigating Sawant’s ties to the terrorists and the rumors that Sawant was the one who unlocked the doors to city hall to let the terrorists take over the building a few weeks ago. Durkan is calling for the possible expulsion of Sawant from the city council.
The Seattle Post Intelligencer reports:
Mayor Jenny Durkan in a letter Tuesday called for the Seattle City Council to investigate councilmember Kshama Sawant, accusing her of taking actions that “undermines the safety of others.”
“As leaders of the City, it is incumbent upon all of us to bring people together in one of the City’s most challenging times,” Durkan wrote in the letter addressed to Council President M. Lorena González. “However, I have deep concerns about the continued actions of a Councilmember that I am requesting that you and the Council exercise your duties as described below.”
Durkan also accused Sawant of encouraging people at a rally to “illegally occupy City property, the East precinct, at a time the City has been trying to de-escalate the situation and ask individuals to depart because of violence in the area.” Protesters have been occupying the area around the East Precinct, known as CHOP, for weeks now after Seattle police earlier this month left the building and let protesters move freely throughout the area. The city has said SPD will be returning to the building, but has not given a definitive timeline. Some protesters have pledged to remain in the zone until their demands are met.
Other actions Durkan brought up included accusing Sawant of leading a march to her home even though her address was “protected under the state confidentiality program” and of using her office to promote a ballot initiative. Sawant has for the past several months been holding rallies and events around her Tax Amazon movement.
In the letter, Durkan notes the council can “punish or expel a member for disorderly or otherwise contemptuous behavior.”
“The City Council may choose to ignore and dismiss her actions, but I think that undermines public confidence in our institutions,” Durkan said.
In response, Sawant on Tuesday afternoon went after Durkan, saying her leadership has failed working people and communities of color across the city. Sawant called the mayor’s letter an “attack on the grassroots campaigns we’ve participated in and helped lead…and the progressive victories we have all won together.”
“In reality, this is an attack on working people’s movements, and everything we are fighting for, by a corporate politician desperately looking to distract from her failures of leadership and politically bankrupt administration,” Sawant said. “Our movement will respond accordingly: we will fight with even greater unity and determination.”
Meanwhile, Seattle city council president Lorena Gonzalez blames the CHOP/CHAZ shootings not on the radical leftists who are doing the shooting, but rather “unscrupulous gun dealers”: “This is not being caused by a zone, a specific zone within our city, this is frankly being caused by unscrupulous gun dealers who allow far too easy access to weapons that are then utilized by people in this way.”
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INEXORABLY, EATING ONE’S OWN
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