is Seattle the new fort Sumter?

[Aegon]

Fox News falls for Monty Python joke in report criticizing Seattle protesters

Martha MacCallum, host of Fox News’ The Story, was covering Seattle’s Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ) for her viewers, which included claims from the cable news channel that there were leadership problems within the organisation. To illustrate this point, Fox News shared a screenshot of a Reddit post entitled “I didn’t vote for Raz”. Raz Simone, a rapper, is the alleged unofficial leader of CHAZ. “I thought we had an anonymous collective,” Ms MacCallum said, reading the Reddit post. “An anarcho-syndicalist commune at the least, we should take it in turns to act as a sort of executive officer for the week.”

What Fox News failed to realise was that this post was a joke that played off a popular scene from the 1975 comedy Monty Python and the Holy Grail. In the scene, King Arthur approaches two peasants who are mud-farming out on the land and announces himself as their king. But Dennis, one of the peasants, informs the dumbfounded king that he and his cohorts have established their own form of government – which results in a debate about who actually is in charge.

“We take it in turns to act as a sort of executive officer for the week, but all the decisions of that officer have to be ratified at a special bi-weekly meeting by a simple majority in the case of purely internal affairs, but by a two-thirds majority in the case of purely external affairs,” Dennis says, a nearly verbatim quote used in the Reddit post.

Hilarious.

[onlinebiker]

I'm being oppressed!

- Dennis
In the mud...

[The Architect Of Fate]

gotta a friend (best man at my wedding) lives 20 mins from there. he said the only black people there are bused in. he said it is all white antifa types, wearing black, or collage age hipsters.

Then your friend is either i liar or imaginary

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Well I for one think the CHAZ is pretty rad. Most of the negative coverage has been entirely fabricated or exaggerated to fit a narrative. According to people who, you know... are actually there...

Indeed

[The Grand Nudger]

No need to choose. I suspect that many of drich's friends are imaginary liars.

[Drich]

@Drich Love how you're equating legitimate protest with your heroes committing treason by opening fire on a frederal installation.

Keep it classy.

how is seizing us sovereign territory a protest? the right to peacefully assemble is a right not over run or over whelm a local police department.

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No one here is condemning CHAZ and im not surprised...

why not?

[The Architect Of Fate]

Well I for one think the CHAZ is pretty rad. Most of the negative coverage has been entirely fabricated or exaggerated to fit a narrative. According to people who, you know... are actually there...

Yeah critics say 

Oh occasionally i fight broke out or there an altrications of some kind . Yeah because that happens anywhere else and considering have tense the situation should be a couple of minor brawls is nothing 

They point to the fact some of them have guns . Funny how that not a problem when right wingers do it 

They point to an altercation with a journalist who CHAZ argues was the one who got aggressive   

They point to a dude ASKING that people give ten dollars as if that intimidating 

They point to them trying to enforce some kind of law .But during protests milita's do that all the time .

And need i point out this is all stuff (yes cops have extorted money from people ) that cops have during the protests .I guess none of this is bad if you have a badge and are agent of the state .

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how is seizing us sovereign territory a protest? the right to peacefully assemble is a right not over run or over whelm a local police department.

Nope still a protest

[Drich]

Bet the cops will be more violent than they were with those insane hillbillies that holed up a few years ago.

it wont be cops.. they have stand down orders from the mayor. they even tried to go in with tear gas and the mayor pulled the police back. Trump said if the local government will not secure the city he would with the 101st airborne.

That is union soldiers marching on confederate democrats

[The Architect Of Fate]

it wont be cops.. they have stand down orders from the mayor. 

Good

they even tried to go in with tear gas and the mayor pulled the police back.

Yay more chemical warfare 

 Trump said if the local government will not secure the city he would with the 101st airborne.

He won't 

That is union soldiers marching on confederate democrats

That's your delusion

[Drich]

I really can't imagine even Trump sending in tanks to 'forcibly take back' six blocks currently being occupied by people with the nerve to point out that the system is broken. The LAST thing he wants this close to the election is the inevitable comparison to Brezhnev and the Prague Spring.

Boru

would need tanks just a few truck loads of soldiers who will go systematically building to building clearing and detaining anyone after a lawful order to leave has been issued. I think the only think they are waiting for is to declare these people terrorists so they can strip them of their right and let them cool off a gitmo.

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The reality is that people are protesting and will probably continue to protest all the way to elections because Trump is incapable of calming down people and let alone making any changes. So this is actually the collapse of Trump's presidency.

And on the other hand, you have people like Drich who can't wait to take out their guns and start shooting at people. They can't wait for some bloodbath, and Fox news, along with Trump, are feeding them with paranoia to do it. Like in this case they are creating a picture like Chaz is this scenario out of Mad Max.

lets see how long they last after they've been declared terrorists. and have you not see the video of their little antifa enforcers... they are the ones armed with literal police assault rifles from when they took the station. main dude has a mp-5 sub machine gun/full auto holding an ak 47 (super easy to make full auto) handing out ar-15s to kids.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCdia9rUFhU

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

I really can't imagine even Trump sending in tanks to 'forcibly take back' six blocks currently being occupied by people with the nerve to point out that the system is broken. The LAST thing he wants this close to the election is the inevitable comparison to Brezhnev and the Prague Spring.

Boru

would need tanks just a few truck loads of soldiers who will go systematically building to building clearing and detaining anyone after a lawful order to leave has been issued. I think the only think they are waiting for is to declare these people terrorists so they can strip them of their right and let them cool off a gitmo.

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The reality is that people are protesting and will probably continue to protest all the way to elections because Trump is incapable of calming down people and let alone making any changes. So this is actually the collapse of Trump's presidency.

And on the other hand, you have people like Drich who can't wait to take out their guns and start shooting at people. They can't wait for some bloodbath, and Fox news, along with Trump, are feeding them with paranoia to do it. Like in this case they are creating a picture like Chaz is this scenario out of Mad Max.

lets see how long they last after they've been declared terrorists.

Trump has already declared them ‘terrorists’ and they’re still there. 

Nice ‘research’.

Boru