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14 Jun 2020, 3:26 pm

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Not necessarily CHAZ, but I have been trying to move to Seattle for years.

The cost of living there has prevented such a move.

But living in chaz is free, they seized all the homes there as government property of chaz. So you just walk in sleep wherever you want, they hand out free food and water too.


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14 Jun 2020, 3:32 pm

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Just gonna leave this here:

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We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.


Also, I work a sh_t job for $10/hr. If they burn this mofo down I haven't lost much.


There really are two sides to every coin. The same Declaration would almost assuredly be used by gun rights people if there's a time in the future when the government would be taking their liberty away in their right to defend themselves. I'm guessing they would argue validity under their interpretation of the same.

Seeing how different groups have different concerns but in both cases being issues related to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness helps give me a well rounded perspective.

Gun rights groups are already called terrorist now when they peacefully assemble. So they’d be definitely call terrorist rebellion if they did this. But if the time comes for a true revolution every gun owner is aware they be called terrorist. The founding fathers were terrorist too according to the British.
I don’t dig hypocrites and that’s what the left media and democrat government in Seattle and Washington are.

And to xfiles. Your post would seem to legitimize the confederacy. See the left says the confederate states and any groups or state has no right to secede from the USA. But now when a leftist group does it they supoort secession. Which clearly runs a mock of their secession is illegal and can’t be allowed argument.

Gun owners wouldn’t want to secede by the way , they’d want a revolution to topple the corrupt government, replace it and restore the constitution.
Chaz wants to be it’s own Separate nation with its own government.
So chaz is the same as the CSA. it’s stopped being a protest, it’s not a revolution.
I’d be fine if they were just like this is a police free zone . But now they like this isn’t part of the USA anymore and appointed w government and enforcers to rule it.


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14 Jun 2020, 3:38 pm

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My personal opinion is that they need to crack down on these protesters and crack down on them hard,the protesting,the riots the looting,it's all out of control.People have made there point on toxic police behavior and now it's time for order.


Well can the government arrest the protesters or give them warning that anyone protesting in the streets after a certain date will be arrested, like give them a week to all clear out?

Since they seceded and it’s approved by the state of Washington, can the government arrest people of a foreign nation in their nation?


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14 Jun 2020, 3:39 pm

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My personal opinion is that they need to crack down on these protesters and crack down on them hard,the protesting,the riots the looting,it's all out of control.People have made there point on toxic police behavior and now it's time for order.


Well can the government arrest the protesters or give them warning that anyone protesting in the streets after a certain date will be arrested, like give them a week to all clear out?


Or, maybe they could listen to them and try and promise to do meaningful change that would meet their complaints. Just feels like that would be better than pretending you understand their complaint of toxic police and not doing anything that will have substantial change.

The protests and stuff are only as bad now because they have done protests before but nothing change. You ignore this one, it is going to be even worse next time, you might even create terrorists that will have to do drastic things to make sure that they are not ignored.

One of their demands is for the whole city to join chaz

Give them thst and next they demand their who state join chaz


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14 Jun 2020, 3:40 pm

If something major happened in CHAZ....trust me, the Seattle authorities would intervene. They would be stupid not to.



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14 Jun 2020, 3:44 pm

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In the DarkHorse podcast above Bret offered an interesting possibility as to what could be happening with respect to the police department in this district where all of the staff took all of their possessions home with them. He was offering the idea that this was something of a deliberate tactic to let this group of people have this particular space so they could run their experiment, the predictable results (ie. lawlessness) would ensue, with the wager that it would look bad enough that it might help stem the tide on the push for no policing.

Any actual push for, literally, no police force and no courts is batisht crazy because it means there's only violence and intimidation to settle disputes. Something Bret suggested was the Ezra Kleinification of words, such as 'they say this but they really mean...' with respect to defunding the police and the New York Times piece suggesting that no - they mean it literally, I think a good way to put it as to why I'd say it would have to be a restructuring, no one with an opinion that anyone would take or listen to seriously would actually mean 'no police' and to the degree one did suggest that they were placating such thinking - assuming such thinking had unwarranted social power for a time being - is they'd simply need to find some way of getting the same thing done while, in word only, 'getting rid of the police'. Anyone whose made any kind of contact with social disorder at a professional level (with adult responsibility in dealing with the fallout) would know that pulling out any policing, and courts, is suicide. It's voluntarily sending your community into one of Dante's infernos similar to a perpetually burning Caracas Venezuela.

The democrat leaders ordered them to leave and stand down. Because they democrats can’t be seen attacking left leaning criminals. It’s is simple as that.
If all gangs in the us claimed to be protesters and for blm all police actions against gangs in democrat cities would stop.
It’s also why you don’t see any of thise happening in republican cities,cause they know the Republican leaders will crack down on it.

It’s all about Pr especially during an election year where democrats can’t afford to lose any votes. I’m glad my city is Republican and as such the protests have stayed outside our border and kept to the democrat city connected to us.


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14 Jun 2020, 3:49 pm

How would people feel if all the people who live and work there bought guns and took it back?


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14 Jun 2020, 3:52 pm

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If something major happened in CHAZ....trust me, the Seattle authorities would intervene. They would be stupid not to.

They’ve already stated they won’t unless someone calls. This includes rape.
The police can’t see inside and the people inside are keeping control of messages going out.
Some reports of extortion happening but again police are ordered to stand down and let the people inside do whatever they want


Thought they were trying to get stuff like this to stop?


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14 Jun 2020, 5:59 pm

Watch what happens when there’s a murder.....or if somebody reports a major crime to the authorities.

I’m sure some residents of CHAZ are tired of all the constant noise day and night there. I would be,



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14 Jun 2020, 6:14 pm

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Watch what happens when there’s a murder.....or if somebody reports a major crime to the authorities.

I’m sure some residents of CHAZ are tired of all the constant noise day and night there. I would be,

They didn’t have a choice in joining chaz in first place. It was forced on them by outsiders.


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14 Jun 2020, 9:52 pm

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Well the thing about defunding police departments is I think it will do more harm than good, and a lot of other people probably think that too. So I thought the reason why they didn't listen to protester's demands before was that it would do more harm than good. Or at least come to some sort of compromise rather than defund departments in every city in the country almost.


What do you think defund the police means?

Have you perhaps heard of sentences like education has been defunded before?


Oh okay, well why do they want the stations defunded? Are they loosing money on their taxes by funding the police?


Look, you did not actually answer my question of what you think defund the police means, only that you implicitly think it means stop giving any money to police at all so they will fall apart. Not everyone is understanding the word "defund" the same way.

This goes directly against how people have been saying for a very long time that education is getting defunded, not that it not receive no money but that it has been receiving less to the point it has been made less effective. You will probably get some that are so angry over how police are that they are full on sick of the institute at all, perhaps want something fresh without the baggage. But the majority want it defunded to the point that they are not going around with dangerous weapons like hammers just looking for nails that they harass and kill. From what I have seen the American police have refused to change themselves to not be more sensitive to the needs of the people, so either scale them back so through defunding so that they are not just harassing people, or divert funds not only to places like social programs that would do more than scary people with itchy fingers and guns but to something else that can do better for non violent calls that police are put on. A random police officer should not be making checks on people that suffer from mental illness and could be helped more by people who can talk them through things rather than hit them with a taser.

All of those things are actually really reasonable rather than thinking that people calling for defund the police are literally saying there should be no law enforcement. Perhaps should be worded a better way, it has been a rather quick call and clearly not something focus tested in how it sounds, but it is the emotions of those affected by police brutality and thus should hold consideration for change. Do have any idea what percentage of an area's budget goes to the police and how it is one of the only government programs that receives consistent funding increases to match inflation?


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14 Jun 2020, 10:00 pm

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One of their demands is for the whole city to join chaz

Give them thst and next they demand their who state join chaz


I am going to assume that you are using a straw man to say that a consistent demand of people protesting is that want their own city. Either you are doing it to yourself or you are buying into biased media that is telling you that protestors want to make their own chaz utopia. Stop being a big baby in assuming protestors are selfish people aiming to conquer their own land and call for your politicians to listen to protestors and actually do something.

Not to do anything while they are sick of injustice is only going to make them have to make things as uncomfortable as possible that they are listened to. Put yourself in their shoes for once and think outside of your bubble that everything has always been great. That is called empathy.


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15 Jun 2020, 2:15 am

Bradleigh wrote:
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Well the thing about defunding police departments is I think it will do more harm than good, and a lot of other people probably think that too. So I thought the reason why they didn't listen to protester's demands before was that it would do more harm than good. Or at least come to some sort of compromise rather than defund departments in every city in the country almost.


What do you think defund the police means?

Have you perhaps heard of sentences like education has been defunded before?


Oh okay, well why do they want the stations defunded? Are they loosing money on their taxes by funding the police?


Look, you did not actually answer my question of what you think defund the police means, only that you implicitly think it means stop giving any money to police at all so they will fall apart. Not everyone is understanding the word "defund" the same way.

This goes directly against how people have been saying for a very long time that education is getting defunded, not that it not receive no money but that it has been receiving less to the point it has been made less effective. You will probably get some that are so angry over how police are that they are full on sick of the institute at all, perhaps want something fresh without the baggage. But the majority want it defunded to the point that they are not going around with dangerous weapons like hammers just looking for nails that they harass and kill. From what I have seen the American police have refused to change themselves to not be more sensitive to the needs of the people, so either scale them back so through defunding so that they are not just harassing people, or divert funds not only to places like social programs that would do more than scary people with itchy fingers and guns but to something else that can do better for non violent calls that police are put on. A random police officer should not be making checks on people that suffer from mental illness and could be helped more by people who can talk them through things rather than hit them with a taser.

All of those things are actually really reasonable rather than thinking that people calling for defund the police are literally saying there should be no law enforcement. Perhaps should be worded a better way, it has been a rather quick call and clearly not something focus tested in how it sounds, but it is the emotions of those affected by police brutality and thus should hold consideration for change. Do have any idea what percentage of an area's budget goes to the police and how it is one of the only government programs that receives consistent funding increases to match inflation?


Sorry, I didn't mean to not say that I read what you meant. I did read what you meant when it comes to defunding. However, these protesters demands seem to go beyond what your definition of defunding is. Some of the demands have called for all African-American convicts who have been given a prison sentence, to be released from prisons around the nation for example. Was this part of what you mean, when you meant in terms of defunding?



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15 Jun 2020, 2:31 am

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Sorry, I didn't mean to not say that I read what you meant. I did read what you meant when it comes to defunding. However, these protesters demands seem to go beyond what your definition of defunding is. Some of the demands have called for all African-American convicts who have been given a prison sentence, to be released from prisons around the nation for example. Was this part of what you mean, when you said defunding?


I think that you watched a bias news source that went out to find the craziest protestor possible.

What I have seen are calls for retroactive freedom from laws like non-violent drug convictions like weed, phony charges like resisting arrest when someone does not want their head thrown into the pavement, and a strong look at cases where police may have planted evidence on people (especially black) that have them sentenced, which happens shockingly often and only has anything happen when one gets sloppy enough to get caught doing so. Clearly a broad repeal of all sentences based on the race of the person is ridiculous, but an effort should be done to clean things up.

If the person who seemed to be proposing it was smart, they might also do so because of regardless of how common sense and reasonable something is, conservatives will always make them compromise with a stance of do nothing or make things worse, that it often makes no meaningful change. This is why Obama barely actually accomplished anything because he gave into concessions on everything. While Trump has no intention on conceding to anything that he can't even stop these protests without threatening to send in the army and teargas peaceful protesters and priests to get a photo op in front of a church to virtue signal how great of a person he is.


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Oh okay, perhaps I watched a bad news source on it then. However, how does defunding the police increase make a difference when it comes to weed charges, or investigating when people may have been framed in crimes? I don't understand how defunding them will change those problems.



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Bradleigh wrote:
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One of their demands is for the whole city to join chaz

Give them thst and next they demand their who state join chaz


I am going to assume that you are using a straw man to say that a consistent demand of people protesting is that want their own city. Either you are doing it to yourself or you are buying into biased media that is telling you that protestors want to make their own chaz utopia. Stop being a big baby in assuming protestors are selfish people aiming to conquer their own land and call for your politicians to listen to protestors and actually do something.

Not to do anything while they are sick of injustice is only going to make them have to make things as uncomfortable as possible that they are listened to. Put yourself in their shoes for once and think outside of your bubble that everything has always been great. That is called empathy.


That’s assumes they’re all from Seattle it since many are staying in hotels during day or night whatever their shift would seem to point they aren’t,
Also the city isn’t theirs anymore then when I live is my city and I can therefore dictate on everyone else how it’s run.

Standard leftist argument strategy, anyone who disagrees with me is strawmaning or racist.

They stop being protesters when they seceded from the nation after forcibly taking land.

Rest aired if this happen in the city I live I. I’d be calling on our leaders to out end to it and restore order.
Do you even care about the people who live there being terrorized?

I bet you’re one to call police when your neighbors play music really loud after 10 pm? Imagine it being 24/7 and there’s no help to come.

Maybe you’re the one buying into biased media?

I don’t have empathy for criminals who hurt others and break laws.
I write my congressmen and sign petitions that if passed would bring real change within hurting others. My personal freedoms are under attack constantly in my state but we don’t take control over sections of cities and demand we be allowed to secede from the USA because of it. We peacefully protest then go home and we pass out ball out petitions and mail our politicians.
Those thousand people holding that area hostage would be better off standing at corners all over the city getting petitions signed.

What change is their all night partying getting?
Has Seattle banned no nick warrants like thst city in Kentucky? Have they got choke holds banned? No nothing.

Would you be as ok if it was proud boys holding section of Seattle saying they secede and want the whole city under their control? Would they still be protesting?
I already know your answer. Your biased cause these are leftist but I bet you wouldn’t accept this from any non left leaning groups.


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