{"id":19130,"date":"2022-03-17T03:30:09","date_gmt":"2022-03-17T10:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/politicalhat.com\/?p=19130"},"modified":"2022-03-17T03:30:09","modified_gmt":"2022-03-17T10:30:09","slug":"quick-takes-seattle-madness-handing-over-police-building-to-blm-rioters-magical-floating-indians-segregated-school-board-meetings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2022\/03\/17\/quick-takes-seattle-madness-handing-over-police-building-to-blm-rioters-magical-floating-indians-segregated-school-board-meetings\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick Takes \u2013 Seattle Madness: Handing Over Police Building To BLM Rioters; Magical Floating Indians; Segregated School Board Meetings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Another &#8220;quick takes&#8221; on items where there is too little to say to make a complete article, but is still important enough to comment on.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The focus this time: There is nothing more dangerous than a combination of insane and evil.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;First, a little mood music:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HAixEKnx1i0\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Carrying on\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5372\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/EaglewithFlag.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"203\" height=\"176\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The \u201cCHAZ\/CHOD\u201d autonomous zone that had been set up in Seattle was not in defiance of the elected officials of Seattle, but cam with their blessing. Even the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/news\/seattle-officials-drafted-legislation-to-hand-over-police-building-to-blm-rioters-in-june-2020\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mayor of Seattle<\/a> did her part to help out:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cFormer Seattle mayor Jenny Durkan\u2019s administration drafted legislation in June 2020 that would have transferred the police department\u2019s East Precinct building to a Black Lives Matter organization, the Seattle Times reported on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe legislation was drafted by the Department of Finance and Administrative Services around the same time that protesters calling to defund the police converged on the East Precinct in the wake of riots over the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And yes, it was at the request of the then Mayor\u2019s office:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cFAS spokesperson Melissa Mixon said the mayor\u2019s office requested the draft.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201c\u2018The Durkan administration directed FAS\u2014in its capacity as the city\u2019s real estate and facility management agency\u2014to outline the process to transfer the East Precinct to BLMSKC,\u201d Mixon told the Times.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5371\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"37\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line.gif 500w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line-300x22.gif 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more-->&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Apparently Native Americans are somehow <a href=\"https:\/\/mynorthwest.com\/3341979\/rantz-democrat-native-americans-drown-eons\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">immune to drowning<\/a> and have; according to a Washington legislator from a Seattle suburb, ancient techniques that allow them to float with impunity in water, or something\u2026<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cState Rep. Cindy Ryu (D-Shoreline) is the sponsor of HB 1707, a bill she\u2019s been trying to pass for years. It mandates one to wear a personal floating device while on kayaks, canoes, and stand-up paddleboards. If you violate the law, you\u2019re hit with a citation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cBut the law would not apply to members of a federally recognized tribe.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cShe says they are used to cold water from \u2018eons\u2019 of experience and, she implies, they can\u2019t drown. This betrays national statistics suggesting Native Americans have the highest rate of drowning deaths in the country.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5371\" src=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"37\" srcset=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line.gif 500w, https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/eag_line-300x22.gif 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Nothing says woke inclusion like <a href=\"https:\/\/legalinsurrection.com\/2022\/03\/video-seattle-area-school-board-defends-segregating-student-meetings-by-skin-color\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">racially segregating school board meetings<\/a>!<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cAt a February 10th meeting, the [Issaquah] school board of this Seattle suburb defended tailoring invitations to a recent meeting by skin color. Board president Anne Moore defended the decision from critics, saying that for \u2018people of color,\u2019 being \u2018surrounded by other people similar to them, makes it easier.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;This is all part of the \u201cequity\u201d agenda, wherein:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cAccording to Issaquah\u2019s Equity Advisory Group, \u2018equity means giving special focus to certain groups\u2019 in the name of \u2018targeted universalism,\u2019 a recent \u2018progressive\u2019 trend in institutions that justifies disparate treatment of racialized groups, in the name of equality of outcome.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;TTFN.<\/p>\n<p><meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@PoliticHatBlog\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ThePoliticalHat\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Seattle Madness: Handing Over Police Building To BLM Rioters; Magical Floating Indians; Segregated School Board Meetings\"\/><meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"The focus this time: There is nothing more dangerous than a combination of insane and evil.\" \/><meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/EaglewithFlag.gif\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Another &#8220;quick takes&#8221; on items where there is too little to say to make a complete article, but is still important enough to comment on. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The focus this time: There is nothing more dangerous than a combination of insane and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/2022\/03\/17\/quick-takes-seattle-madness-handing-over-police-building-to-blm-rioters-magical-floating-indians-segregated-school-board-meetings\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5372,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,17],"tags":[19,24,42,69,48,68],"class_list":["post-19130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-progressives","tag-communism","tag-leviathan","tag-mood-music","tag-quick-takes","tag-social-justice","tag-wtf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19130"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19131,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19130\/revisions\/19131"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}