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Uh oh.  Reality sets in and threatens rainbows and purple unicorn farts in CHAZ.

In addition to still utilizing the city’s power, water, and porta-potties, the occupiers called the Seattle Fire Department after a dumpster fire was started just outside the “Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone” as it threatened to set a nearby building on fire.

Without the presence of police in the area, things can be dangerous for people accused of wrongdoing. In one instance, a young man was accused of stealing a phone from another protester. A crowd quickly surrounded him and tried to interrogate him, with one individual brandishing a baseball bat in the man’s face. The accused thief was clearly frightened and explained he did not steal anything, to which the crowd asked why did he run away.

The situation was resolved after it was discovered the phone was never stolen, but it only came after the man was able to once again run away from the crowd.

Truck drivers say they won’t deliver to locations with defunded PDs (that’s a real drag for ’em, huh?).

But there’s more.

Police have repeatedly said they have “heard, anecdotally, reports of citizens and businesses being asked to pay a fee to operate within this area” while others have complained about armed guards asking to see identification for people to enter their homes, according to Assistant Chief of Police Deanna Nollette.

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One agitator group on Twitter posting photos inside CHAZ showed a list of items needed by demonstrators including cigarettes, tents and bedding.

Aw, say it ain’t so – CHAZ cops demanding protection money.  But wait, there’s more.

But in an ironic twist of fate, a cancel notice may soon be coming for Raz Simone, the “warlord” of the radical Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ) in Seattle, Washington as old homophobic tweets from his Twitter account have surfaced that appear to be legit based on various web archive websites (language warning).

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Here’s the archived version of the above screen grab, available for viewing as of this writing. [there’s more]

Here’s the archived link for one of the tweets in the above four-tweet screen grab.

In spite of evidence to the contrary, Simone is employing the Joy Reid “I was hacked” defense.

Now I couldn’t care less how he views anything, including gays.  But listen, warlord.  The interwebz and its metadata are forever.  You can’t hide behind lies.

So their “hero” of purple unicorn farts, utopia, the grand new society where everything belongs to the cooperative commune, and reparations for all except whitey, doesn’t really fit the narrative.

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!!

Give it another week.  It’ll be like Lord of the Flies.  Porta Potties will be running over, trash will be collecting in the streets, it will stink, it’ll be filthy with flies, fleas, roaches and disease, Coyotes will have begun to encroach to get at the trash, gunfire will be routine, people will begin to complain about the overbearing “justice” of the warlords, they’ll hate the CHAZ police as much or more than the real police, and they’ll begin to go home, one by one, fives by fives.

Raz and a few diehards will be the only ones left, until Raz gets a disease of his own making, and then he’ll wind up in a hospital bed paid for by hard working taxpayers.

Governance is a drag, huh Raz?  You actually have to have the smarts to know how to pull it off.

PJM.

It is alleged that, unbeknownst to Harvard University, beginning in 2011, Lieber became a “Strategic Scientist” at Wuhan University of Technology (WUT) in China.  He later became [a] contractual participant in China’s Thousand Talents Plan from at least 2012 through 2015.  China’s Thousand Talents Plan is one of the most prominent Chinese talent recruitment plans designed to attract, recruit, and cultivate high-level scientific talent in furtherance of China’s scientific development, economic prosperity and national security.  According to court documents, these talent recruitment plans seek to lure Chinese overseas talent and foreign experts to bring their knowledge and experience to China, and they often reward individuals for stealing proprietary information.  Under the terms of Lieber’s three-year Thousand Talents contract, WUT allegedly paid Lieber a salary of up to $50,000 USD per month, living expenses of up to 1 million Chinese Yuan (approximately $158,000 USD at the time) and awarded him more than $1.5 million to establish a research lab at WUT.  In return, Lieber was obligated to work for WUT “not less than nine months a year” by “declaring international cooperation projects, cultivating young teachers and Ph.D. students, organizing international conference[s], applying for patents and publishing articles in the name of [WUT].”

You can blame SARS-CoV-2 on people like him and Anthony Fauci for his gain-of-function research at Fort Detrick and Wuhan Virology Laboratory.

You can find your own way of thanking them.

City Journal.

The city government has not developed a strategic response to the takeover of Capitol Hill. According to one Seattle police officer with knowledge of internal deliberations, the city’s “leadership is in chaos” and “the mayor has made the decision to let a mob of 1,000 people dictate public safety policy for a city of 750,000.” The officer said that Chief Best had dispatched high-ranking police officials to the autonomous zone to establish a line of communication, but the officials were immediately sent away by armed paramilitaries at the barricades. “The tide of public opinion is on the side of the activists and they’re pushing the envelope as far as they can,” said the officer. “It’s not hyperbolic to say the endgame is anarchy.”

Politically, the Seattle City Council has already begun to champion the protesters’ demands. Socialist Alternative councilwoman Kshama Sawant declared the takeover a “victory” against “the militarized police force of the political establishment and the capitalist state.” Three councilmembers have signaled support for a 50 percent reduction in the police budget, with additional councilmembers likely to support a similar policy in the coming weeks. Sawant also opened Seattle’s City Hall—which had been closed by the mayor—to protesters, who immediately occupied the building.

The Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone has set a dangerous precedent: armed left-wing activists have asserted their dominance of the streets and established an alternative political authority over a large section of a neighborhood. They have claimed de facto police power over thousands of residents and dozens of businesses—completely outside of the democratic process. In a matter of days, Antifa-affiliated paramilitaries have created a hardened border, established a rudimentary form of government based on principles of intersectional representation, and forcibly removed unfriendly media from the territory.

As I said before, to me this is easy with any real leadership.  Where do I start?

Trespassing, petty larceny, felonious theft, felonious assault, assault with a deadly weapon, conspiracy to commit crimes, numerous traffic violations, and kidnapping.

But there is no real leadership left.

It just has to do with whose borders, where they are, and who those borders keep out.

So the anarchists are building a… border wall. Okey-dokey. https://t.co/QNTxgVcpHn

— Tammy Bruce (@HeyTammyBruce) June 11, 2020

I think this is actually fairly easy.  If the city decides not to shoot them (which is the approach I would take), they can just cut off power, cordon off the perimeter and disallow supplies, cut internet, cut cell phone service, cut off gas, and cut off water, and as they come out one-by-one, arrest them and put them in jail.  Send the morticians to pick up the remaining bodies of the die-hards.

So either way, shooting them or starving them out, this is easy, and the fact that it hasn’t been done shows that they don’t really want it to end.

They just want to be the police.

Antifa doesn't oppose police. What Antifa, a domestic terrorist organization, opposes is police who are accountable to elected officials and the laws they pass. Antifa's model is the Soviet Stasi of East Berlin: a secret police state run by totalitarians. https://t.co/UOUfiVB2SS

— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) June 10, 2020

Read the whole thread about the things this BLM “cop” is saying he is going to do, and what he’s already done.  I told you this before.

You see, if any in our community really believes that after all of this goes down there will be an end to no-knock raids and police overreach will be reigned in, you are a naive fool.

They intend to evict the few remaining relatively good people left in law enforcement, those who still believe in some semblance of the constitution, replace them with others (MAVNI recruits, La Raza, etc.), and turn the police against you.

That will ensure that (a) you don’t fight back when they confiscate your 401K and retirement accounts, (b) you don’t fight back when they try to confiscate your weapons, (c) you don’t fight back when they enact a bill to tax inheritance, (d) you don’t fight back when they enact a bill for reparations, and (e) you don’t fight back when they socialize medicine.

Do you see?  You didn’t really believe any of this was about the cops, did you?  Tell me you saw through all of this?

And while we’re at it, BLM believes in the following.

“Economic justice for all and a reconstruction of the economy to ensure our communities have collective ownership, not merely access.”

They want your wealth.  It doesn’t belong to God, or to you, or to your family.  They don’t believe that “The good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children.” To them, the only good is in them taking what you have for you and your family.

They also believe in gun control.  Not for them – for you.  You see, they will be the police, you the servant.

Got it now?

It looked to me like his car got mobbed, someone tried to drag him out of the car, and he had to defend his life with a pistol.

I’ll tell you what though, if you’ve never listened to the advice before, you should in this instance: “Stay away from crowds.”

News from the hell hole of Michigan. [there is also this video link]

LOWELL, MI — Lowell Police Chief Steve Bukala has resigned after allegations that he improperly took political positions in Facebook posts that became controversial.

Bukala resigned Thursday, but documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act show that he was going to be fired if he did not resign.

Bukala has been with the Lowell Police Department for more than 24 years and became chief in 2013.

Controversy erupted Tuesday, June 2 when Bukala posted on the department’s Facebook page about four men who were going to “open carry” weapons on Main Street in the aftermath of the Grand Rapids riot May 30.

City leaders said they didn’t necessarily take issue with Bukala allowing the “open carry” participants, but did with one line in the community post.

“We at the Lowell Police Department support the legally armed citizen and the second amendment,” he wrote.

Lowell City Manager Michael Burns later wrote in a disciplinary report that “Social media chatter on this was very hostile.”

Burns noted there were people for and against the chief’s stance, but believed it overstepped bounds and included “unneeded personal commentary and inserted political and debatable issues into a department notice and caused unneeded concern by some city residents.”

In his disciplinary report, Burns noted other recent instances where Bukala also seemed to take political positions, particularly involving Gov. Gretchen Whitmer.

One involved a post on his personal Facebook page that showed Bukala and his wife in front of a Home Depot store. His wife was wearing a mask — due to the COVID-19 threat — but Bukala wore a mask on his elbow.

Another instance involved an email Bukala sent to organizers of a planned caravan for Lowell High School graduates.

The organizers hoped for police assistance with the caravan but Bukala said it might be go against the governor’s stay-at-home order at the time.

In the email, he said he could have one patrol car available for any traffic issues, but anything more might be a violation. He suggested a route off Main Street and noted that it “keeps the Gretchen posse off may back and off the city’s back.”

So he’s realistic, amusing, supports the second amendment, supported open carry for patriots defending their homes and families, and didn’t interfere with open carry.

He had to go, so the city manager, Michael Burns, responded to “hostile social media chatter.”

This sort of thing happens when men self-immolate and become eunuchs.  They do that when they have lost all bearing, have no more moral moorings, have broken their moral compass, and have given up in the face of evil.

City Journal.

On June 1, Fishtown made national headlines when a group of men carrying baseball bats and clubs opted to protect their neighborhood from the looters and anarchists who had trashed Center City. This vigilante group emerged following three days of media reporting that the “protest” was moving into neighborhoods like Germantown, Kensington, and West Philadelphia, along with reports of fires, blown-up ATM machines, blocked traffic, burned buildings, and threats of more violence. For three days, Philadelphians watched scenes of police officers running from rioters as patrol cars were destroyed or set on fire. One report even showed police officers scattering out of the looters’ way, appearing frightened.

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Kenney, relatively distant as the city burned, suddenly emerged from his City Hall bunker and issued a statement. “We do not condone vigilantism,” he said. “We understand that communities desire to protect their neighborhood, and if they want to do that in peace, we would allow it, regardless of neighborhood. But armed vigilantism will not be tolerated moving forward. I am glad police moved in to eventually disperse the group, but I am not happy about how long it took.” The district attorney, Larry Krasner, concurred, describing the videos of men with bats as “disgusting,” though he never alluded to the looters in the same vein.

The chief of police runs from rioters, and finds patriots disgusting.  These are the signs of the times – they will not end well.

Ideological bankruptcy and moral cowardice is the only common element, and the common end will be submission and ultimately death.

The communist revolution is well under way.