The Real Insurrection

[chaos]

Without a doubt search results are based on the kinds of things one has searched for in the recent past. With that in mind, my first set of results when I used your 'CHOP pictures' produced links to Chinese food restaurants and food chopping pictures. LOL! Only when I added the word Seattle did I get what I think you did and found the photo you posted.

The photo was interestingly titled "How Seattle CHOP went from socialist summer camp to deadly disaster." If I read the accompanying article correctly, the photo you posted was about a month after protesters began camping out there and just before the Mayor issued and emergency order to clear the area (throw the protesters out). No wonder it looked like a pigsty. When a new homeless camp starts up in an unapproved area in Portland, it looks reasonable for about a week. But with all those people crowded together in tight quarters living off fast food and other food castoffs looks as bad or worse. Not to mention the stench these camps must produce...Pot, cheap booze, urine and feces.

I think I originally typed Seattle capitol hill protest. What is interesting is both the photo you posted and the one I did had the very same canopy tents one rents for outdoor garden parties and weddings. When my daughter got married we had several scattered around the backyard....all of them white, of course. Same canopies, less people and more garbage. A lot can happen in a month.

Did you see all the definitions I posted for insurrection? It's amazing how one word can have so many variables. I'm pretty sure if it was an insurrection from a legal standpoint, some of the many would be charged with insurrection as insurrection is a chargeable offence which can result in a fine and up to 10 years in prison. https://www.foleygriffin.com/blog/2021/january/is-insurrection-a-crime-/ It can also be difficult to prove insurrection or sedition.

Someone on Getbig has mentioned Andy Ngo in the past. Maybe it was Matt. Anyway, I had read some of his stuff already particularly about his near death experience. So, if it was as he said, he could still be talking about it 2 years later. An experience like that is hard to forget.

Doesn't matter. In the end it was a violent take over of public streets, neighborhoods and government buildings for weeks that you are defending vehemently, while attacking another group of people for entering a building for a couple of hours. That shows yours and every other leftist in this threads party line hypocrisy.

[Primemuscle]

Doesn't matter. In the end it was a violent take over of public streets, neighborhoods and government buildings for weeks that you are defending vehemently, while attacking another group of people for entering a building for a couple of hours. That shows yours and every other leftist in this threads party line hypocrisy.

Defending vehemently? That's a real overstatement, Chaos. I have posted repeatedly that I abhor the violence and destruction some of these folks have caused throughout the country and indeed the world. As far as I am concerned their right to demonstrate or protest is done and their point is lost as soon as the first act of violence begins.

There are all kinds of groups of people and organizations who get their grievances heard via peaceful demonstrations and protests. Unfortunately, the media doesn't usually give them any notice.

As a union activist, over many years I participated in several 'legislative education days' at Oregon's State Capitol and in D.C. although we've sometimes numbered in the 100's we don't get much, if any press. Why, because we don't yell, throw shit and break windows etc. to get our issues heard. We make appointments with our legislators to discuss our issues. We sit in the Gallery's above the House and Senate floor wearing unified colors and identifying badges, visually and respectfully making our presence known. We testify in committee meetings. In other words we follow protocol rather than violate it.  You'd be surprised at how successful this approach can be.

A non-profit organization representing retirees with PERS benefits that I'm involved in has tried to get a bill passed over the last three legislative sessions. Finally, it appears we were successful.  And we did that not by acting out in violent and disruptive ways, but by lobbying our legislators, contributing to their reelection campaigns and this time with a comprehensive letter writing effort in which over 400 people wrote to their legislators requesting they consider the bill.
   

   

[Dos Equis]

[Dos Equis]

City of Seattle will pay $3.6 million to residents, businesses to settle CHOP lawsuit
Story by KING 5 Staff •

The City of Seattle will pay Capitol Hill residents and businesses $3.6 million to settle a lawsuit brought on over how the city handled the CHOP protest zone in 2020.

In a statement, plaintiff Attorney Angelo Calfo said residents and businesses will be "compensated for the city's mishandling of CHOP that resulted in a significant increase in crime and even loss of life." Additionally, Calfo said the lawsuit exposed a cover-up that high-ranking officials destroyed text communications.

A statement from City Attorney Anne Davison read, "I am pleased that we were able to resolve this matter and turn a page from a difficult period in the city's history."

More than a dozen businesses, property owners and residents sued the City of Seattle in June 2020 for damages. The lawsuit said the city's policies "effectively authorized the actions of the CHOP participants."

The businesses in the suit said they wanted to hold the city accountable for its part in allowing violence, including deadly shootings, assaults, noise pollution, and property damage.

The protests and creation of CHOP followed the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis.

In October, an Office of Inspector General report identified critical errors by the city and Seattle Police Department leading up to and during CHOP. The report found some of their decisions "eroded public trust" and led to "poor policing outcomes."

The city has faced several other lawsuits related to CHOP, including from the family of Horace Lorenzo Anderson, who was shot and killed in the protest zone.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/city-of-seattle-will-pay-3-6-million-to-residents-businesses-to-settle-chop-lawsuit/ar-AA17DnVO?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=54eb9e06c24941838453774250e9e2c1

[Dos Equis]

Hypocrites.

Associated Press—who used capitol riot to redefine 'insurrection'—now OUTRAGED by GOP calling state capitol riots 'insurrections'
by: Libby Emmons 04/29/2023
https://humanevents.com/2023/04/29/associated-press-who-used-capitol-protest-to-redefine-insurrection-now-outraged-by-gop