Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler has gotten tough when it comes to dealing with what has become a semi-permanent class of protesters in his city. Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan is getting out; she recently announced that she won’t run for reelection….
It’s Saturday, May 30, 2020, and thousands of protesters glut the Seattle streets. By mid-afternoon the mob grows to more than 10,000 Black Lives Matter activists, Antifa thugs, and anarchist shock troops. What starts as largely peaceful demonstrations descends rapidly…
It’s finally over. Barring any suicidally brave protesters, the Capitol Hill Occupied Protest (CHOP), formerly known as the Autonomous Zone (CHAZ), is no more. Following almost a month of inaction and apologetics, Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan declared the self-proclaimed territory…
History might not quite repeat itself, but it certainly does offer reboots of past classics. This week’s debut of the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone, a six-block site of an anarcho-communist insurrection in Seattle in which an armed cabal of Antifa…