The Urban Takeover in Seattle and the Media Response

A new low has been reached in the Democrat-led city of Seattle now that the mobs have seized a section of the city, the police have fled and nothing is done to retake the public space. Armed guards, checkpoints and shakedowns of store owners now rule an area of Seattle that is several square blocks.

And our media? CNN and MSNBC seem to be hiding the story. Worse yet, the NY Times has a hagiographic account of it, which has been noted by Fox News.

https://www.foxnews.com/media/new-york-times-celebrates-seattles-autonomous-zone-a-homeland-for-racial-justice

And how is the local media in Seattle reporting it? The two main papers in town have written the below reports as if someone was holding a  gun to their head. The worst is the below article by the Seattle Post Intelligencer.

https://www.seattlepi.com/seattlenews/article/In-the-new-Capitol-Hill-Autonomous-Zone-15330353.php

And below the Seattle Times, slightly less hagiographic:

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/welcome-to-the-capitol-hill-autonomous-zone-where-seattle-protesters-gather-without-police/

And they mock Sean Hannity when he tells us that the American media is dead. Dead and buried, I would say.


In the 1970s, I lived three years in Bangkok while working for DEA. There was no free press, at least as we think of a free press.Twice during that time, we had coups or attempted coups. I distinctly recall how the local Thai newspapers reported a coup that lasted a couple of days before the government forces retook control. As you can imagine, when a coup takes place, one of the first targets is the media. The English-language Bangkok Post was immediately taken over along with the other newspapers. The next day, our delivery of the Post proclaimed the coup as saving Thailand from all sorts of evil and corruption of the ousted government. Then a couple of days later, when the government regained control, the Post (and the other papers) had to explain why they had "supported" the coup. Because they were forced to, the press explained, which was no doubt true.

In the Seattle case, I am not charging that revolutionary forces took over the Seattle papers with guns and forced them to toe the line. It seems our leftist press is all too eager to join the "revolutionaries" and support the takeover of part of an American city.

As I posted this week, almost all of our major cities being implicated by the unrest are run by the Democrats, many, if not most of whom are black-with black police chiefs. I am not complaining about having blacks in high places-far from it- but that alone has clearly not solved the problems of the inner cities with the police.  Seattle has a white female mayor and a black female police chief. Should be no problems, right?

Seattle's leadership has proven incapable of maintaining control of its streets. The governor, Jay Inslee (D), is acting like it is no big deal. It may ultimately come down to the feds to step in. Either way, this situation must not be allowed to continue one more day. No negotiations, either. These thugs should be given two hours to leave or be removed by force and prosecuted.