I don't believe I have seen a single post in support of this huge victory for the Left. Come on guys, Antifa actually forced a police precinct to EVACUATE and they have walled off 7 city blocks and literally created their own country! Surely there has to be some enthusiasm from our Leftist Trump hating USMB members.
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MarathonMike
I was also looking for threads on CHAZ but found them closed or outdated.
Protesters in Seattle have taken over a six-block area near the police department's East Precinct. They are calling it an "autonomous zone."
www.npr.org
Here is a NPR take on what is going on.
Here is a similar protest that took place in Houston in 1996, where APV residents
refused eviction because they were fighting in court to defend their rights to enforce
contracts and subgrant agreements under HOPE VI HUD reform legislation that
recognized their democratically elected tenant council as having input in all decisions
in development of the historic public housing and surrounding nationally registered district:
More on Freedmen's Town, the settlement around the APV housing complex,
where both sites are separate Nationally Registered Historic landmarks:
The curious and devastating issue to me is that
when BLACK residents had rights under federal laws to defend their
historic housing community and campus plans from eviction and demolition,
the Democrats in charge were on the side of the City and Corporate developers
who abused the Public Housing Authority and Federal Courts to
force the residents out. They even hired lawyers to LIE ie commit PERJURY
by misrepresenting to the Judge and Court what their "restoration" plans were.
The plans to destroy the entire complex, then to change that to 2/3 destroyed
and 1/3 preserved was still destroying the Residents' plans, passed under the
HOPE VI HUD reforms
www.campusplan.org
www.emilynghiem.com.istemp.com/FTJuly/APV-campus-principles.jpg,
And their false "expert witness" testimony misrepresented the historic
gravesites they denied were under the ground below the APV complex,
thus requiring more skilled archeaologists in African American history to preserve.
None of this was brought out in court, and the residents had no legal resources
or political support to appeal, and fight against Corporate developers who ran
the City of Houston and decided which Democrats would get to keep which offices.
Had this case been in the media today, maybe those residents would stand a chance.
So that's the biggest slap in the face, to me!
When people WITH NO DIRECT CLAIMS of govt abuse, use "collective punishment"
against "policy brutality in GENERAL" to seize property they didn't pay for,
and the police and Democrats support this claim as a VALID protest and demand for restitution.
What does this say about a REAL case of restitution?
Where residents were robbed of their rights by legal abuse of Govt, Court and Federal Authority
and abuse of taxpayers money to forcibly evict residents to destroy a nationally protected historic site
the residents planned to preserve as a landmark, and a sustainable campus AS WRITTEN INTO FEDERAL LAWS
the corrupt officials violated instead of defending?
That is almost unreal to me.
I just wish whatever support the people in Seattle have, for doing things ILLEGALLY and saying that's "patriotic"
why not support the people in Freedmen's Town who had the law on their side, and were
defending rights LEGALLY but got bulldozed over by bureaucrats and corrupt Corporate interests
abusing public authority and resources to violate rights, seize property and destroy it.
Even though the federal subgrant agreements authorized "community input in all phases of development"
which the city authorities ignored and deliberately censored and destroyed by eviction and demolition.
Both APV and Freedmen's Town are national historic registered landmarks --
to Freed Slave history and Black church history,
and Military WWII and Civil Rights history.
Where is the support to save THAT district for Black leaders and ownership
and reparation to Blacks for slavery and political discrimination?
Only when White Antifa get involved, then they hijack the issue for their benefits?
What about the Black leaders and residents who didn't break any laws, but defended their rights properly?