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Originally Posted by kmom2
They need the National Guard to restore order! People's lives are literally at stake. People need to get to doctor's appointments, chemo, dialysis, work, etc. The streets can't be clogged up with mobs, and city buildings can't be occupied like this.
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It's been a long time since I lived in Seattle. I lived on Boren Ave for a few years when I first moved there, so I went to Capital Hill for my groceries, and I used to work at a bar there after they moved from their downtown location. A lot of people frequented "The Comet" on Capital Hill, (not where I worked), which is/was a dive tavern, but where you'll hear the most insane talk you've ever heard by these types of people.
Anyway, 12th and Pine used to be on the edge of a black neighborhood. Don't know if it is still like that. It's just a few blocks up from Broadway, but once you left Broadway, it wasn't but just a few blocks to walk until you reached the black neighborhood area.
It was also where a police precinct was located - the bar that I worked in was right around the block from that precinct. I know that area very well - as it was when I lived there.
The main street of Capital Hill, Broadway, had the community college, a handful of grocery stores, some restaurants, and little shops that sold beads, trinkets, incense, etc. Most of the hospitals are on First Hill - Boren Ave, which is not considered Capital Hill.
There are ways around their little zone, thankfully, but it still stands that if someone just outside that zone had a heart attack or whatever, and needed an ambulance, these people have blocked off what could be a direct route to that person and then back to the hospital.
Seattle has, for some time now, tied the hands of the police behind their backs. All of those tent cities? When I lived there, the homeless were not allowed to prop up tents, and were often moved out of the area by police, so that everyone could enjoy down town, and especially West Lake Center.
Now? They don't allow the police to do jack all. 3rd and Pine is a notorious intersection where you can find the most trouble you want in downtown Seattle after nightfall, and it's even worse, today because the police haven't been allowed to do anything.
Closer to the piers and Pioneer Square, it gets worse with the homeless people. That was true back when I lived there, and appears to remain true to this day. And then, you will find tent cities along the I-5, which were not there when I lived there. The first time I saw that, I was in complete shock. Nothing like that ever existed in the decade I lived in Seattle.
It's disgusting what the city leaders have allowed to happen to that city. It was always over priced, and it always had its problems with homeless, and it was filled to the brim with "anarchists" (they like to call themselves but they are not anarchists, they are for chaos), who spouted stupid comments like "Why do you think they call it HIS story?" You could not go to a single house party anywhere without some drunk guy, always a guy, who you didn't even know, intruding into your life and telling you that you, as a female, should understand how bad you have it because you're a female. Every. Fricken. Time.
A lot of what these sjws are doing today is of no surprise to me, because I've been hearing it since I lived in Seattle - long before the rest of the country was hearing it, and long before it became main stream. It's not new to me at all.
Keep in mind, these are the same types of people who trashed businesses in down town Seattle when the WTO was having a conference there. Back then, the news actually reported on their hypocrisy, and did not side with them, making excuses for them. I remember the photo of the "anarchist" who was trashing on...I think it was the Hard Rock Cafe, can't remember, while wearing nice, clean, new looking Nikes. But, you know, "F Capitalism!!"
Those are the parents of the new batch of idiots in Seattle right now. I know how their parents thought, because they loved to tell you all about what they thought. They talked a lot about "needs", as in "you don't need...." whatever it was that they didn't like, all the while drinking their Rolling Rock beer and smoking a cigarette. Yeah, tell me more about how I live for my "wants" and not "needs".
And cultural appropriation? They have the gall to talk about that now? How many white people did I see wearing dread locks back then? Or the Rastafarian hats? STHU about "cultural appropriation".
The entire city has been one fat cess pool of hypocrites since before I ever moved there, and nothing has changed.
I went to college in Seattle - and rest assured, the brain washing about "white guilt" and how all whites are racists, and how everything is the fault of evil white people, and how white people have no culture....we were absolutely taught that back then. None of this is new.
No, many people do not condone what they are doing right now, but I can assure you that a lot of people do, because this type of mentality has been an ongoing thing in Seattle for a very long time. And that's the problem.
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