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Antifa and BLM have broken into Seattle city hall
Despite their mayor @MayorJenny being beyond progressive
They are demanding she resign since she won’t defund the Police
This is the new normal in big cities of America
— E (@ElijahSchaffer) June 10, 2020
https://twitter.com/RosaRey33120220/status/1270133855845056512
Even in the opinion section, only approved thought is permitted.
I have not seen this woke, social justice warrior do anything that deserves an award. Holding the right opinion and expressing it is enough, I guess.
WESTON W. COOPER:
“…Coming from the biological term symbiosis, meaning the interdependence of different species, the Symbionese Liberation Army was a radical leftist revolutionary organization that sought to unify all left-wing struggles under one banner. The Berkeley, California-formed group of mostly upper middle class, educated young whites, led by an escaped African American convict, took the seven-headed cobra as their symbol and participated in a series of high-profile crimes between 1973 and 1975. Most notably, they received intense media coverage for the kidnapping of media heiress Patty Hearst, her eventual transformation into a willing accomplice, and the murder of Marcus Foster, a well-respected Oakland school administrator.
The Symbionese Liberation Army was founded in Berkeley in 1973. By the 1970s after years of mass protests, some on the far left called for a political revolution and began to use terrorism to achieve this goal. Out of this environment, a number of organizations emerged including the Black Cultural Association, a black inmate group active at Vacaville prison. The group brought in white students to tutor prisoners in political science, black sociology, and African heritage.
Soon the group became increasingly political with Black Nationalism as its focus. Donald DeFreeze, serving a sentence for armed robbery, formed a splinter group called Unisight. The young white students from UC-Berkeley who saw all black inmates as political prisoners oppressed by the racist and corrupt American society assisted in his escape in March 1973.
By that summer, DeFreeze and his small group of white supporters had formed the Symbionese Liberation Army to oppose what they saw as an oppressive, racist society. With the slogan “death to the fascist insect that preys upon the life of the people,” the SLA adopted a Marxist platform that included ending racism, monogamy, the prison system, and establishing “homelands” within the United States for groups of color.
Armed with stolen weapons and determined to create a violent revolution, the group on November 6, 1973, assassinated Marcus Foster, a popular Oakland superintendent, for his supposed support of an identification system for students. Rather than igniting a revolution, their actions were met with intense scorn from the Berkeley Left. The group then went into hiding, especially after two members were arrested for Foster’s murder.
On February 4, 1974, the group re-emerged, kidnapping the nineteen-year-old heiress to the Hearst family fortune, Patricia Hearst. On February 12, DeFreeze demanded as ransom that the Hearst family provide for the local poor. The distribution site however quickly became a riot scene as people fought over the donated food.
By April, after numerous failed ransom negotiations, Patty Hearst claimed to have denounced her family and joined the SLA. She appeared on April 15, 1974, in security footage robbing a Hibernia Bank in San Francisco. On May 16, the SLA turned up in Los Angeles when two members were discovered shoplifting, and Hearst shot through the storefront to aid their escape. The next day, the LAPD tracked down the SLA to a house in Compton. In a televised, day-long battle with the police, six members of the SLA were killed. The remaining few, including Hearst, vowed that they would continue the fight and went into hiding until their arrest in San Francisco on April 25, 1975, ending the SLA’s short-lived dream of violent revolution…”
“…Just as the Islamic State (ISIS) claimed territory in Iraq and Syria, antifa militants have claimed territory in Seattle, Wash. According to reports on the ground from The Post Millennial’s Andy Ngo and Townhall’s Julio Rosas, protesters and antifa instigators have seized land in the Capitol Hill area around the Seattle Police East Precinct. Like ISIS, the rioters appear to have decided on setting up a government in their occupied territory, naming it “Free Capitol Hill.”
“Seattle [Mayor Jenny Durkan] is allowing a dangerous situation to fester. [Antifa] militants have taken over & created an ‘autonomous zone’ in city w/their own rules. Police precinct abandoned. Antifa set up barricades to create a border. Calling for volunteers to provide armed guard,…”
Normally I wouldn’t think much of it, but the leadership in Seattle is so bad, so weak, this could get away from them. In case you were wondering:
James d’Orma “Dorm” Braman (December 23, 1901 – August 21, 1980) was the 45th mayor of Seattle, Washington from 1964 to 1969. He was the last Republican mayor of Seattle.
51 straight years of Democrat control in Seattle. Can you tell?
I respect Colin Powell’s service and he’s entitled to his opinion, like every other American. But he hasn’t voted Republican for sixteen years. Apparently John McCain and Mitt Romney were “too extreme” for Secretary Powell. https://t.co/hf2Q14pwqN
— Tom Cotton (@TomCottonAR) June 7, 2020
I like Colin Powell. Unfortunately I see him as a species of Washington Politico. The kind that Trump ran against. This species includes Republicans, Democrats, entrenched bureaucrats, and MSM “journalists.”
This crowd needs to be removed and replaced by a new set of people.
You only need to watch a few minutes of this to understand. Click on the time bar to advance to special race name calling later in the rant. Is this woman a type case of the rioters and looters, maybe not. She is a type case, however. She is upset because she was unable to loot the store.
“…When the terrorists become bored and cease terrorizing, when the flames are extinguished, when those who died in the riots are buried and cremated, when the shards of glass from storefronts are disposed of, and when livelihoods are permanently lost, Democrats will still run the vast majority of the deadliest and most dangerous cities in the U.S.
Death and destruction always follow Democrat policies and culture. Stagnant local economies. Unsafe streets for children. Gun crime. Failing schools. Breathtaking corruption. Problems with the police. Property crime. Poverty. Poor public health. Single- or no-parent homes. All are found in abundance in Democrat-run cities, and found overwhelmingly in majority-black neighborhoods…”
David Solway:
“…We live in an age characterized by belief — that is, belief in things that do not exist, belief in complete figments of unanchored imagination, abstractions that have no contact with or bearing on reality. Call it the age of irrealism, of pervasive virtuality, of estrangement from the objective world.
Consider several popular notions or beliefs, memes as they are sometimes called, which operate as delusions erroneously confirmed as fact.
Do Democrats think this is a good idea? They might.
University of North Carolina students failed at math and statistics at alarming rates so the administration fixed the issue by creating alternate “pathways” to success that are more “applicable and equitable.”
Standards will be lowered until no standards exist and the education is useless but expensive. Are we already there?
William Hale Thompson (May 14, 1869 – March 19, 1944) was an American politician who served as mayor of Chicago from 1915 to 1923 and again from 1927 to 1931. Known as “Big Bill” he is the most recent Republican to have served as mayor of Chicago.
Democrat run for 89 years.
Where is the media? Where is BLM? Where are the riots?
Democrats will go lower and lower, anything to maintain power, including creating special race groups who deserve more than others because of skin color. It is sick.
‘They didn’t protect our people,’ 7-Sigma owner says of city officials.