1. Let’s add another scenario, which was actually played out: A man frantically begging to be let through, as being late to work would violate his probation and he’d be sent back to prison.

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   1. And if he were sent back to prison, for said parole violation, would Antifa show up to support him?
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      No?

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2. Getting what they voted for good and hard.

   You know if this was a right leaning ‘protest’, they would demand every permit in the world.

   And to Scrappycrow’s comment. And you know the police ‘don’t have the resources’ to call his probation officer to help him out. Just ‘a little bit uncomfortable’.

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3. If protests are “supposed to make people uncomfortable” help the protestors do that by running over them.
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   What? They’re not supposed to be the ones feeling uncomfortable?

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4. 4th and Pine St in Seattle? No surprise there; that’s ground-zero to what Joe Huffman calls “Mugme Street”.
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   If the residents know that area by reputation, you know the cops do, too. But there’s no effort to crack down on criminal behavior there, so it’s also no surprise that the cops would allow Antifa and pro-Hamas “demonstrators” to detain, harass, and terrorize innocent passers-by.
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   To some extent, yes, free speech demonstrations should make people a bit uncomfortable. But there’s a significant different between feeling uncomfortable, and being in objective, demonstrable danger. And that doesn’t even address the disruption to emergency services and routes of travel.

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5. I used to enjoy going to Seattle every few months, and the wife liked the Nordstroms’ Rack downtown.

   Haven’t been there for well over five years, and don’t plan on going back.

   Don’t go north to Vancouver, BC anymore either.

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6. Funny that blocking a cop from going somewhere would produce a different result….

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7. A criminal drug addict in Minneapolis dies while being arrested, and Seattle decides that all cops are criminals and defunds the department.
   And, someone is surprised that cops in Seattle stand by and do nothing when a protest shuts down a street? I’m not.

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   1. Problem is twofold. First, they wouldn’t do anything to help the people trying to get through the protestors. Second, and this is where the asymmetry comes in, if someone had to defend him- or herself, I seriously doubt the cops would shrug and let them go.

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      1. We saw what happened to Andy Ngo in Portland. Does anyone think they would have better luck with the cops in Seattle?

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8. Just one sniper and a few shots would get traffic flowing…

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   1. I’m reminded of the essay “When the music stops” by Matthew Bracken, in his collection “The Bracken Anthology”. Lots of good stuff in there, mostly non-fiction, some short stories. “Prof. Raoul X” and “What I saw at the coup” are short stories, and in typical Bracken fashion both plausible and quite scary.

9. “When the drivers ask the cops to make Antifa let them through, the police give a social justice explanation that protesting is supposed to make people uncomfortable.”
   Meh. Those cops just want to date her.

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