June 16, 2020
They’re already joking about guillotines in CHAZ/CHOP
By Thomas Lifson
It is all too easy to laugh off the insurrectionists that have grabbed a few blocks of Seattle’s Capitol Hill, built border walls, and declared it an “Autonomous Zone,†(CHAZ) now re-branded by at least some there as an “Organized Protest†(CHOP). Such coverage as the MSM has offered, picked up on Seattle’s Mayor Jenny Dunkan’s view, who likened it to a “block party†and predicted “a summer of love.†A cottage industry of progressive media outlets targets Fox News, the only major national outlet that offers extensive coverage, for scorn, and scoffs at the notion that there is anything to worry about. Eric Scigliano in Politico, for instance:
Over the course of two evenings and an afternoon in the zone (plus a night observing a police/protest showdown there the week before), it seemed by turns like a commune (as in Paris 1871), an anarcho-syndicalist and small-L libertarian dream, a ’60s-style teach-in, a street fair and street market, a campout and weekend party, a poetry slam and pilgrimage, a school service day, a mass healing circle, a humbler urban version of Burning Man, and of course a protest rally.
You’d hardly guess all that from the breathless attention Fox has lavished from Day One on this tiny strip of Seattle….
For now, aside from reports of shakedowns of merchants and sporadic violence, the atmosphere seems mostly calm, even festive. Requests for donations of supplies demonstrate that this enclave is far from autonomous and depends on handouts from the society against which it rebels.
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https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2020/06/theyre_already_joking_about_guillotines_in_chazchop_.html
