CHAZ wants to be a separate country. Perfect!
OK, we have a couple of hundred folks in the middle of Seattle who have stolen few blocks of real estate and have labeled it an Autonomous Zone. In their minds they have created a separate country within the borders of the USA. To enforce that idea they put up a border made of barricades and placed armed guards at points of entry. I think that is perfect. I think that we should treat them like the different country they want to be, and like all countries we should place reciprocal borders and barriers at those same points of entry. Then, like all borders, we should require documentation, like a CHAZ passport or CHAZ drivers license, from anyone who want to enter / re-enter the United States. Of course, without appropriate documentation people should not be allowed to cross the border. This is actually a pretty simple arrangement that is easily applied to CHAZ just as it is for all other countries.
Being as this CHAZ is another country, management and control of the borders between CHAZ and the United States is a Federal responsibility, not a State or City government function. As such, the relationship between CHAZ and the United States is also a Federal responsibility. Things like import and export taxes and tariffs should be put in place. Contractual arrangements for services and infrastructure such as water, power, communications, sanitation need to be drawn up and executed.
Of course, there is another way to look at CHAZ. That is a containment area. In that containment area most, if not all, of the perpetrators of the theft of the real estate and private property are all conveniently barricaded in to one place. That gives the opportunity to surround CHAZ and take control of all the exit and entry paths. This in turn allows for shutting off power, water, sanitation, communication and food supplies, and then just wait them out. In the meantime, there is plenty of video evidence that clearly shows who were most directly involved in the illegal takeover of that real estate called CHAZ, and arrest them as they try to leave. A few days or weeks of that reality and CHAZ disappears.
The real problems here are not just with those that occupy “CHAZ” but with the incredible failure of the Washington State and City of Seattle political leaders. Such governmental figures have one primary job, to assure the safety, security and livelihoods of their citizens, because without that there is no State or City. In all three of those fundamental responsibilities they have failed on a monumental scale. They have tried to wrap that failure up in platitudes like “summer of love” and “festival like atmosphere” descriptors, but the reality is it’s just an illegal occupation of other peoples property. That wound in the beautiful city of Seattle is allowed to fester by them because they are powerless and witless at being able to act like the public servants they are supposed to be execute their public trust priorities they have sworn they would when they took office.
On the backside of the dumpster fire that CHAZ is I think a few things should happen. First, the perpetrators should be identified and held accountable. Next the City of Seattle and the State of Washington should be sued by anyone who had personal property within the CHAZ boundaries for dereliction of duty and failing to provide them reasonable expected safety and security. Third, both the Mayor of Seattle and the Governor of Washington should be impeached, or forced to resign, for abandoning their sworn duty to the offices they hold.
The Left is such a contradiction to itself, and CHAZ is a great example. It speaks out of both sides of it mouth all the time. If CHAZ occurred by the action of right wing militants they would not be preaching any summer of love bullshit. They’d be having vocal coronaries on every left-leaning media outlet 24/7. They say smart things like “don’t judge all Muslims by the actions of a few”, but then do stupid things when they tell us to judge all police officers by the actions of a few. And then there is Joe. A guy who pushed through some of the most drastic police empowering Federal laws as a Senator, who is now their champion of just the opposite. Really?
There is no doubt that we need to reform or eliminate some police practices and more actively weed out the bad ones. We also need to reform or eliminate some political practices and actively weed out the bad ones. Both are guilty of crimes against the citizens they are sworn to serve.
