CHAZGHANISTAN – Much ado about nothing
First, I think taking over 6-square blocks in the Capital Hill district of Seattle, is “much ado about nothing” to quote Shakespeare. If you disagree, please delete, and move on. To understand read, ponder, and comment.
Yesterday I spent half the morning chatting via email to a whole host of friends around the country. They were all outraged with what is going on in Seattle. I responded to each individually with the following information.
MrsMac and I lived in the Seattle surrounding area from 1980 to ’87. Then a stint of four years in Los Angeles only to return to Seattle for an additional four years. Looking back neither of us would trade those eleven years for anything. With that written we have not been back to the area since 2005.
Seattle is located in King county with a population of 2,233,163 (2019 census). North of this county is Snohomish county with a population of 814,901 and due south is Pierce county with a population of 811.299. Total population of these three Progressive counties is 3,939,363 residents. With the state of Washington having a total population of 7,614,893 residents (Again 2019 census), these three counties make up 52% of the state’s population. Hence, the Progressives run the state.
Starting in the mid 1980’s folks in California, typically west of the I-5 corridor along the Pacific coast, started to migrate north to the Portland Oregon and Seattle Washington area. Real estate in western California was hard to find so the old law of ‘supply and demand’ took over which drove real estate values through the roof. During that period the Rodney King beating happened in 1991 followed by the riots in 1992 post the non guilty verdict of the accused police officers – People were selling their homes as fast as they could and moving north.
People sold their home for $X and then bought a home for one quarter the price in the previously mentioned Washington counties. Once people had moved there, they purchased other houses for investment with their left over California home sale proceeds. Then invited friends and family to join them to see how beautiful the Pacific Northwest (PNW) was. A normal house in let us say the Ballard district that was going for $150,000 in 1990 rose to $500,000 by 2000.
When MrsMac and I moved there in 1980, Seattle and surrounding counties were ‘blue dog democrat’ – Scoop Jackson country. Blue collar, liberal in many ways, yet fiscally conservative. With the immigration from more Progressive California, this slowly change starting in the mid to late 1990’s. The Californians were slowing taking over local political seats and the slow but inevitable Californication of the three aforementioned counties began and continues.
Capital Hill, when we lived there was the ‘Haight-Ashbury’ of the PNW. It is located just east of center city, south of the University of Washington, and West of Seattle University. It naturally became an enclave of artsy-fartsy stores, restaurants, and night clubs to meet the demand of its more Progressive young clientele.
Over a period, this area also became the unofficial capital of the male gay movement for the PNW. When my in-laws from Pennsylvania visited, we always had to spend part of a day in Capital Hill to see all the weirdo’s and freaks, along with shopping in the eclectic shops. It was like going to the side-show of a circus. That was during our two deployments there and remember, we left the Seattle area in 1995-ish for the east coast. Adding a Progressive-Communist mayor and a Progressive out of touch governor to the mix, I can only imagine the Sodom and Gomorrah of today.
Continuing to look at Capital Hill, there was always something going on there. From gay pride parades, men walking around with just leather chaps on to women walking around with 100% see through moo-moos. The streets were often shut down for whatever protest du jour of the day. I could go on and on. So, 6-blocks being taken over by AntiFa, BLM, or John Brown Gun Club is truly a yawner to me and I am sure most of Seattle. To be honest, it does not support the media hype it is receiving today. Locally, I am sure it is just a ‘dog bites man’ versus… a ‘man bites dog’ story.
With that all laid out I am in support of Mayor Durkin to just leave them alone. We give the occupation, now called CHAZ (Capital Hill Autonomous Zone) zero news coverage and they will go away. Mr. Trump…Mr. Barr, it is “much ado about nothing.”
The businesses and folks that live there know this story all too well – They are part of the ‘scene Man’. If not the case, they would have moved decades ago.
Some of my friends point out Malhurn refuge siege or the Bundy Ranch drama where the Federal alphabet soups jumped in; However, as I have already outlined the CHAZ drama is different.
Malhurn refuge siege happened on Federal land. This meant the FBI/BATFE could react to the drama. The Fed’s operate under different rules than a municipality. PLUS, this happened under the Obama dynasty.
Bundy Ranch drama similarly happened against Federal BLM agents (Bureau of Land Management not Black Lives Matter) who were obstructed during their duties. By the way, every person involved in that drama who pointed a weapon at a BLM agent was eventually tracked down and prosecuted. Like the Malhurn refuge drama, this was a Federal not a state or city issue and it happened again under the Obama dynasty.
In closing, (insert pronoun here) Federal Authorities, stay away from this drama in CHAZGHANISTAN. Let the city and state deal with it and the media will move on to a different drama to blame Trump on.
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I couldn’t agree more. I hear many who say that it needs to be taken over with force. I will fall back on Napoleon’s comment of, “Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake”. I think it will eventually implode because they won’t know how to end it properly and it will linger too long. With the publicity it’s getting, they will feel obligated to keep it going. They will then wish for hostile take over to save face. I’ll say, just sit back and watch. It’s the Occupy Movement 2.0 which was a flop.
Right on Brother.
Just follow the script from Golding’s, Lord of the Flies
73 & God Bless
I relocated from the East Coast to southern Oregon in the 1989 to work for a manufacturing company in the Seattle area that produced saw blades and served the primary and secondary wood industries. I called on sawmills in Oregon and sold products and services direct to them. All was going well then the spotted owl fiasco hit and in one month I had 29 of the sawmills I sold to close, many to never reopen.
At the time they were having issue sin the manufacturing facility so they transferred me to the Seattle area because of my background in manufacturing to take over the plant in . Because my wife and I preferred country living and even in 1991 you couldn’t find country right around Seattle we relocated southwest of Graham, WA in the shadows of Mount Rainier and I made the long commute into the Seattle area and back every day.We lived there until 1998 when we relocated to SC and I started a company with a partner who had worked for the Seattle company in outside sales in the southeast. The wood industry was moving and we moved with it.
The folks where we lived in WA were good down to earth folks. You are correct in that a lot of them still were liberal leaning socially but otherwise fairly conservative. To be honest we didn’t even go to Seattle except when we had visitors come out from the east coast who wanted to go in and see the sights.like Pike Street market and of course the Space Needle. Seattle was a loony tunes place even back in the early to late 90’s. I agree with you that anyone still living in Seattle either enjoys watching the “scene” or are a part of it or they would have moved years ago. As for taking that part of Seattle back by force, let them have it.
sawman,
thank you for taking the time to read and then comment about your experience living in the PNW. Graham WA.? Man O’ man, that was quite the hike to and from work.
Unfortunately, things do change and for the most part not for the better. I was saying to MrsMac just the other day, enjoy what you have today as it may not be here tomorrow.
73 & God Bless Brother
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This article is tripe, a false path that forgets the facts. The riots in Seattle that proceeded the occupation were very violent. The National Guard was continually pushed back to the Precinct when they were told to pack it in. The desertion was a political decision, the occupation of Crapitol Hill was implemented against the will of the occupants, they are being occupied unlawfully. Much more can be said, but the Author of this fiction should find a job telling us the advantages of the German occupation of Warsaw, Jewish ghettos in Germany, Pol Pot’s benevolences, or Mao’s charitable giving.
Carter, I am the author of the “tripe” that you write of.
You criticize my overview of the area and opinion of just leaving the scum alone, yet fail to offer your suggestions of what should be done. Please share with the AP readership what you would do. Remember, you have to deal with a Progressive mayor, governor, along with with a media that supports any anti-Trump movement.
Thank you Brother for reading and commenting.
73 & God Bless
Mac, your article is filled with particulate, offering reasoning’s as mental bubble gum. I live here, the Mayor made a shit hole out of this City and the area should at any cost be dismantled, services restored, and charges brought against these people… including the Mayor and the Governor. By discussing grey areas and history people are set off on rabbit paths for resolution. Your specialty seems to be disinformation, I’m not buying it.
Read this from a National Guardsman:
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/shocking-eye-witness-account-whats-really-happening-during-seattle-riots
Carter,
So you live in the Emerald city…Cool.
Your solution was, “…this City and the area should at any cost be dismantled, services restored, and charges brought against these people… including the Mayor and the Governor.” That response is clearly brilliant. You put a whole lot of intellect into that plan. And who is going to do what you suggest?
Please continue to prove to all AP readers your unparalleled intellect.
Peace Brother…
CHAZ is the business WA state and Seattle. If they are cool with it, and the voters are, it is none of our damn business. The retarded response is to send in Federal Troops. Ever seen the movie “Black Hawk down”? Yeah, it would be like that on steroids.
I fucking hate WA/OR/CA. The correct response is to cut all funding from the Federal level to these communist shit-holes. If our Feds don’t, that means the Feds are FOR THE COMMUNIST REVOLUTION. You fund it, you own it.
We’re in a long-term war, a hybrid-war of attrition. Fly-over country will have to cut all aid and commerce with the communist coast or lose.
THAT is where the war will be won.