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SEATTLE COMMITS SUICIDE -- ALLOWS THE RANDOM EXECUTION OF LAW-ABIDING CITIZENS?

The first duty of government and sworn officials is to provide for the public safety of its citizens. Resources should be allocated based on public safety (law enforcement and fire protection), the public health (emergency responders and acute health facilities), and critical infrastructure (water, electricity, sanitation, communications) -- and these take precedent over all non-essential government workers and discretionary programs.

Any government that does not provide for the maintenance of general order and the safety and security of its citizens should be judged illegitimate and its elected officials replaced.

Seattle City Council President M. Lorena González

“Earlier today, I voted to override Mayor Durkan’s veto of three bills that were passed by this City Council during our summer budgeting process.

“In the wake of a racial reckoning, a $300 million budget shortfall, a pandemic, a climate crisis, a homelessness crisis, an affordable housing crisis, widening wealth inequities, and a lack of federal leadership, our fundamental duty remains: to balance the City’s budget and meet the needs of Seattle’s most vulnerable residents. On this task, the Charter of our City is unequivocally clear. In a year unlike any other in living memory, I am proud of the work Council did under the leadership of Budget Chair Mosqueda.

[OCS: Their fundamental duty is not to advance the progressive agenda, but to maintain general order and an umbrella of public safety and security for ALL residents.

Notice the use of progressive socialist democrat issues and rhetoric: racial reckoning, climate crisis, housing crisis, wealth inequities, and the anti-Trump flavor of the moment, “lack of federal leadership.” It should be noted that federal leadership (the President, the Attorney General, and Homeland Security all were rebuffed when they offered assistance.

In a classic case of progressive projection, it is the local leadership that has failed their citizens by their refusal to maintain general order and the safety and security of ALL residents – not those they consider as the “most vulnerable residents.”]

“City Council’s budget actions over the summer were a starting place to achieve public safety that truly includes and serves everyone, and I stand by the votes and positions I took then. The modest actions that the Council took over the summer were necessary.

[OCS: Explain to me how a summer of rioting, looting, arson, and the mass destruction of public and private property – and ordering the police to stand-aside – achieves public safety that includes and serves everyone?]

Transforming public safety requires us to begin the process of divesting from carceral systems and investing in real community safety centered on harm reduction for the well-being of all Seattlelites, especially BIPOC community members.

[OCS: The correct way you reduce harm and increase the well-being of residents is to lock criminals up, not give them a ticket, and a day-pass to resume their criminal activities. There is no moral or legal justification for treating BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and people of color) individuals any different from any other non-BIPOC individual.]

“It is imperative that our budget makes meaningful community investments to build wealth and security in BIPOC communities; fund a robust community-led participatory budget process; and reduce the size of the police force through out-of-order layoffs and shifts to community-supported public safety programs centered on harm reduction, and a more civilianized E911 response system.

[OCS: It is not a function of a city government to build the wealth of any constituency at the expense of another constituency. When lives are on the line, I do not want community crisis counselors or “touchy-feely” mental health people as my first-responders.] <Source>

[OCS: González is a trial lawyer with a history of suing the police. She was the board president of the state’s leading civil and immigrants rights group, OneAmerica. She chaired the Council’s Gender Equity, Safe Communities, New Americans, and Education committee and served on the Seattle Police Accountability Review Panel in 2007. Her agenda is as one would expect from a progressive socialist democrat pandering to her base.]

Seattle’s priorities: ex-pimps over police…

Seattle hires former pimp as 'street czar' for $150,000 after CHOP fiasco

Seattle is paying an ex-pimp $150,000 a year to act as the city's "street czar" and offer "alternatives to policing" after protests morphed into the no-police-allowed Capitol Hill Occupied Protest.

Activist Andre Taylor is open about his past as a pimp (he appeared in the documentary "American Pimp") and is working with the city of Seattle through his nonprofit, Not This Time. Taylor says he started Not This Time after his brother Che Taylor was killed by Seattle police in 2016.

"Mayor Durkan believes that we have to make deep investments in community – one of the key demands of the Black Lives Matter protests,” Durkan spokesperson Kelsey Nyland told The Seattle Times in a statement.

“In early June, she committed in her 2021 budget a $100 million investment in community," Durkan's spokesperson continued. "Andrè spoke with organizers about how to turn activism and organizing into action at the state, local and federal level, and urged individuals to leave Capitol Hill.”

However, Taylor also encouraged CHOP protesters to ask the city for money before agreeing to leave the occupied zone.

“You gotta get something,” he told protesters in a recorded conversation, according to the Seattle Times. “Let me make that happen for you, and then I can bring that back to you. I don’t know, we’ll ask for $2 million. They might give us $1 million, but let’s ask for it. Because the reason why we’re holding that space is not only for George Floyd but for the millions of George Floyds.” <Source>

Unbelievable – dump the police, hire a former pimp and his associates.

Bottom line…

The Mayor and City Council are now on track to craft legislation to defund the Seattle police department, reducing the police force by 100 officers, cutting the salaries of police commanders, and redirecting millions of dollars to other unspecified public programs.

The budget brouhaha resulted in the resignation of Seattle’s first black police chief, Police Chief Carmen Best, who noted, “I believe 100% that they were putting me in a position destined to fail. Cutting a police department that already had low staffing numbers, that was already struggling to keep up with the demand. How are we going to provide for adequate public safety in that environment?”

With leadership like this, we are screwed.

-- steve

“Nullius in verba”-- take nobody's word for it!
"Acta non verba" -- actions not words

“Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.”-- George Bernard Shaw

“Progressive, liberal, Socialist, Marxist, Democratic Socialist -- they are all COMMUNISTS.”

“The key to fighting the craziness of the progressives is to hold them responsible for their actions, not their intentions.” – OCS

"The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane." -- Marcus Aurelius

“A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves, and traitors are not victims... but accomplices” -- George Orwell

“Fere libenter homines id quod volunt credunt." (The people gladly believe what they wish to.) ~Julius Caesar

“Describing the problem is quite different from knowing the solution. Except in politics." ~ OCS

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DEMOCRATS, BLACK LIVES MATTER, AND TEACHERS' UNIONS: AN EVIL CONFLUENCE

There is no doubt in my mind that the Democrats and teachers’ unions are continuing to indoctrinate today’s children rather than educate them resulting in an evil confluence of un-American activities that will eventually destroy our nation and its precious constitution.

Democrats, Teachers’ Unions, Marxist terror group Black Lives Matter organize…

Public Schools Across Country Promote Black Lives Matter, Organize Protests

Public schools across the country have endorsed the Black Lives Matter movement and encouraged teachers, students, and parents to do the same, with some schools organizing their own BLM protests, a Daily Caller News Foundation review found.

[OCS: It is no secret that one of the root causes of illiteracy and poverty is the failure of organized education to educate minorities in Democrat-governed inner cities. Producing decades of functional illiterates who can barely compete against their neighbors, let alone globally.

And, that the unions, teachers, and others are fighting to keep government funding from following students to a decent school of their choice. The unions fear the loss of funding and the type of competition that results when bad teachers are fired, and schools are forced to compete on achievement and demonstrable real-world results, not dumbed-down union-approved tests.]

The Black Lives Matter movement has been linked to 91% of riots across the United States between May 24 and Sept. 12, according to the US Crisis Monitor, a joint project of the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project and the Bridging Divides Initiative at Princeton University.

[OCS: Why would you want violent and vicious thugs to influence the conversation and curriculum in public schools? The only answer that seems to fit one’s observations involves supporting a revolution for political power and the destruction of our nation from within.]

Despite the close links between the Black Lives Matter movement and riots across the country, public schools have been a consistent source of support for the movement.

[OCS: It’s not the teachers or the schools; it is the socialist/communist activists and agitators in the unions that drive this divisive and destructive agenda.]

Buffalo Public Schools integrated Black Lives Matter’s “guiding principles,” which include disrupting the nuclear family, into its curriculum for elementary school students, according to lesson plans obtained and published by Fox News on Friday.

One such principle included in the lesson, “Black Villages,” calls for “the disruption of Western nuclear family dynamics and a return to the ‘collective village’ that takes care of each other.”

[OCS: According to the socialists and communists, the nuclear family and individual morality must be destroyed in favor of the state, which controls and confers all rights, privileges, and benefits.]

The president of United Teachers Los Angeles, a union representing 30,000 teachers, announced in June that the union board had voted to support disbanding the Los Angeles School Police Department in solidarity with Black Lives Matter.

[OCS: In a school system where disciplinary problems abound and many inner-city teachers are afraid of their students, we have the unions putting children and teachers at risk from out-of-control adults, gangs, and students, both past and present.]

“We should be actively promoting Black Lives Matter,” United Teachers Los Angeles President Cecily Myart-Cruz told EdSource in an interview the same month.

“We need to have a set of demands that dovetail with Black Lives Matter. We have to have massive political education,” Myart-Cruz said later in the interview when asked what her plans were for the union.

[OCS: There it is, a blatant illustration of indoctrination over education.]

“People will say, ‘Not all police are bad,’ but we’re not talking about that,” she continued. “We’re talking about racism as a social construct, systemic and institutional racism, and wrapped on top is white supremacist culture, which is the dominant culture.”

[OCS: These people are teaching students and others to become racists. Promoting class and race warfare in the classroom and attempting to urge children to indoctrinate their parents. In a classic case of projection, you can see that the real institutional racists are the teachers’ unions that control the educational institutions – from kindergarten through graduate school.]

How can this unionized systemic racism continue to exist?

The simple answer is the students and parents like their individual teachers while ignoring the systemic generational racism promoted by their teachers’ unions. If a parent or teacher complains, they are bullied into submission. Union representatives continually monitor teachers for compliance with the program. Lesson plans are carefully scrutinized for "deviant" history and scientific thought.

It’s not about race, it’s about revolution – and Blacks continue to be screwed…

Why would any responsible individual, who happens to be Black, allow themselves to be shamed or coerced into devolving to the lowest common denominator by honoring criminals, miscreants, and others who refuse to take responsibility for their actions?

Statistically speaking, a responsible Black individual is more likely to be accosted by another Black individual than a White police officer. So, why would any responsible individual denigrate law enforcement that keeps the community safe in favor of criminals, gang members, and thugs who disrespect and destroy the community?

How can any responsible individual justify sinking to the lowest common denominator to assist a group of self-serving individuals in marketing their personal brand or un-American political agenda?

It seems that those who proclaim a position of leadership or appear to act as spokespersons for an entire race are doing a great disservice to responsible individuals by racializing everything for personal position, prestige, and profit.

Or, in the words of Booker T. Washington...

“There is a certain class of race-problem solvers who don’t want the patient to get well.”

“There is another class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs — partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.

Booker T. Washington
(1856-1915) African American political leader, educator, and author

Why would any responsible individual allow themselves to be represented by the Democrats, the party of slavery, segregation, Jim Crow, and the KKK? The party that actively opposed civil rights legislation? The party that has governed the inner cities for decades, mismanaged billions of dollars, and has left these areas awash in illiteracy, poverty, disease, and criminality?
The party that denied a building permit, with the loss of millions in tax revenue and hundreds of jobs, to a company that refused to support a union funding the party’s politicians?

And, the greatest tragedy of all perpetrated by the unions is the systematic racism and poverty that results from a low-quality education, Refusing to hold teachers, administrators, and regulators responsible for decades of functional illiterates and denying parents the option of sending their children to better schools. A party and union who believe they own the students -- and funding. And, they want to control the entire country.

Bottom line…

The unions are becoming more militant. They are afraid of charter and private schools, which highlight their abysmal performance. They are scared of funding models where funds follow the student to the school of choice rather than accruing to the local school system. And they are deathly scared of video instruction where parents can see what is being taught to their children. They are down with the revolution and have hitched their star to the radical progressive socialist democrats.

It is time to stand up for yourself, your family, and the children – reject the racism of teachers’ unions and their radical Democrats cohorts.

Vote for life and freedom, not death and slavery.

-- steve