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Fifth Column
Mercer: Scenes From The Sacking of America
2020-06-14
[American Greatness] A mere day on, and the City of Seattle was de facto occupied territory, fallen to the "peaceful protesters"—the same counterculture media darlings who’ve been sacking cities across America.

The rabble—Black Lives Matter sympathizers, which, as police arrest records show are almost entirely locals—were further roused by Seattle City Council member Kshama Sawant, formerly of Mumbai.

The pied piper Sawant led the "peace makers" to occupy City Hall in downtown Seattle, on Tuesday, June 10.

The altercation between Council Member Sawant and Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan gives new meaning to the "broad" sweep of ideas in this dysfunctional city. Sawant, a socialist, called on Mayor Durkan, a progressive, to resign over abuse of power (what power?) and systemic racism (a meaningless abstraction). This, as the city was being sacked.

SURRENDER MONKEYS
As of this writing, the Seattle Police have surrendered without defeat.

Seven blocks of downtown Seattle, renamed the "Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone" (CHAZ), have been appropriated by the "Peaceful Ones," with the imprimatur of the mayor and her police chief. Now loosed on the public, these buccaneering entrepreneurs are reported to have set up checkpoints to shake down residents who imagine they may come and go. Not in this satrapy!

On the positive side, Seattle now has that shithole-country vibrancy.

President of the Seattle Police Officers Guild, SPOG, penned an open letter to lunatic Mayor Durkan, pondering how he would fulfill his sworn oath of office to protect lives and property without so much as tear gas.

He got his answer. America got it, too. Across the United States, the message to law-abiding Americans from city, town, and county council members as well as other legislators came loud and clear: You’re on your own. Neither police nor politicians are coming to protect what’s left of your businesses or your banal, bourgeoisie little life.

Last I looked, there were 400,000 "guardian angels" in private security toiling to make up for the South African state’s failure to protect its people. Every year, millions in taxpayers’ money are forked out to private security firms in order to protect the new South Africa’s police stations. South Africa’s protectors, in other words, can’t protect themselves. Will Seattle’s neutered policemen be investigating this option? Is it time for them to cut the shafted taxpayers loose? Let us go private?

When all is said and done, the George Floyd riots are a law and order event. Nothing else matters in the overarching context of a failed state, in which ordered liberty is dead, and the law-abiding are utterly forsaken, even vilified.

Yes, victims are now villains and villains are martyrs.

Unbeknownst to Nikolas Fernandez, a gainfully employed security guard, the Capitol Hill district of Seattle now belongs to the "peaceful protesters." Fernandez dared to drive in that district, only to be mobbed by the barbarians and in the struggle forced to shoot an attacker. Legacy media quickly turned the narrative on its head. Fernandez, whose brother is a policeman, had invaded "peaceful protester" turf. His attacker took a bullet for peace. The attacker is now a hero.

KNEELING NINNIES
Next came the national kneeling. Once again, Washington state led the way. On June 1, after hundreds of looters ransacked major shopping malls in Bellevue, including the spectacular Bellevue Square, that city’s police chief, Steve Mylett, knelt down like a girl, instead of standing tall like a man for law and order.

Related: Gunman [Nikolas Fernandez] at Seattle protest claims he feared for his life. Others paint a different picture
Man Who Shot at Seattle Protester Charged With First-Degree Assault
Posted by:Besoeker

#6  Thanks to COVID I dont even have to go to Seattle to work anymore. Silver lining indeed!
Posted by: CrazyFool   2020-06-14 12:21  

#5  Decided prior to the riots (when it became OK for bums to freely camp anywhere) to aviod spending any time or money in Seattle. Only have to pass through to get to airport or visit kids/grandkids. No more Mariners games or weekends doing 'big city grown up stuff.'
Posted by: USN, Ret.   2020-06-14 09:41  

#4  Steve Mylett, knelt down like a girl,

That offends girls everywhere. A girl these days would have kicked the shins of anybody telling her to kneel.

Who wrote that thing about 'we take the spines out of men and expect them to walk upright', or something like it ? Clever guy.
Posted by: Dron66046   2020-06-14 09:35  

#3  Not spending money in blue cities is actually much easier than not spending money on all the polluted online streaming media garbage. And the latter really isn't all that hard.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2020-06-14 08:51  

#2  Some perspective; the author is an American and daughter of a rabbi. They now live in Texas (if he is still living). They were formerly residents of South Africa.
Posted by: Besoeker   2020-06-14 07:50  

#1  Mercer: Scenes From The Sacking of America's Cities

FIFY. Some day when academia is burned and rebuilt someone may have the guts to write a thesis on the consequences of importing votes for power with 'free stuff' was unsustainable. The more you subsidize the more you get.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2020-06-14 07:33  

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