 All right. Let's talk about CHAS, which is the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone, which has been declared by demonstrators originally from Black Lives Matter, who knows who's running it these days, in Seattle. So it's a section of Seattle, six blocks. Basically, it's a police-free zone. The members of the people occupying CHAS have declared it a police-free zone. It used to be, have a Seattle police station called the East Precinct in the six blocks over there, and the police abandoned it, just like they did in Minneapolis, just like they done in other places around the country. They abandoned it. Protesters were going to storm it, or protesters were going to protest. That's out of it. So police decided to leave it. They boarded it up, literally, boarded it up, and left. And as a consequence, there are no police in that area. The border of these six blocks has been, I guess they put barricades across them. These protesters, whoever it is inside this, they are people with guns patrolling these barricades. It's hard to tell. The news sources differ. Some news sources are saying people can just walk in and out, nobody cares. Some sources are saying some people have asked to show IDs. The protesters are saying they've got guns because they're afraid white supremacists are going to come. I guess they was shooting by against the demonstrators in Seattle earlier this week, so they're saying white supremacists are going to come, so this is to protect themselves. It basically, from first-hand accounts, it seems like it's like one big fair that people are just hanging out there and street vendors and people are just going in and out out of curiosity. Seattle's still under lockdown, so a lot of stores, they have not opened up. They're still boarded up. Just people walking in and out and hanging out, and the police are not allowed in. I don't know what that means. I don't know what would happen if police actually walked in, but police seem to not be going in. State leaders don't really know what to do with us. Originally, the governor, Jay Inslee, didn't even know what was happening, and they might have made fun of him. Then the mayor, she has basically said, this is cool, great, isn't this wonderful? She said, it's one big block party. Let them do it. What the hell? She said, at some point, she even said, they might abandon the area for the summer and let people just do their thing, and she said, it'll be like the summer of love. It'll be a summer of love out there. So the mayor seems to think this is cool, a bunch of hippies occupying the place. Now, some video where some rapper declared himself the police and harassing people and so on, I haven't really found any solid sources about what's going on in terms of that, if that's continuing, if that's real or not. Also, there were some rumors that the people with the guns were shaking down businesses, local businesses, and again, the police chief in Seattle has said that they've heard that that's a possibility, but they have no evidence that it's actually true. I don't know if you guys know, but the city council in Seattle is nutty left, super left. Explicit socialists were elected to the city council in Seattle. People who ran on as socialists were elected. Wouldn't be surprised if this was another city that decided to do away with police or at least have an experiment with six blocks where there is no police. And the city of Seattle, like much of the left is just, particularly the radical left, the anti-police, the anti-warler police in society, which is to protect us, to protect individual rights. They think that people left free, I did a show on this, people left free of the institutions that oppress them, like the police, would not commit any crimes. And, you know, this is like a little utopian anarchistic village for them. And they are just abandoning any responsibility that they might have for the protection of the citizens within that community. So far, we haven't heard of any extreme violence so far, we haven't heard, but the police chief, I did read a story, now the police chief is very unhappy. She like, she, and I think she's black or Hispanic, I can't tell, and it's not really important, but in these days these things seem to gain importance. She wants to go in and retake her own. She wants to go in and retake it. And the mayor won't let her. And she mentioned the fact that, you know, they might be rapes going on, and they might be, you know, all kind of other crimes being committed in this zone. And she can't respond because she wants a precinct back. And as long as the precinct is not back, then, you know, she feels impotent and she can't respond to potential violence in CHAS. Now, we don't know of any violence yet other than the one video that was circulating in CHAS, but any, you know, who knows what's going to happen? Nobody knows. Trump, on the other hand, has said he's going to send in federal troops. He wants to retake it. If the mayor doesn't retake CHAS, he will. Again, using, I guess, the Insurrection Act as his excuse, really, I mean, under the Insurrection Act, the president, I'm reading this from an article, the president may intervene when requested by state's legislature or governor if the legislator cannot convene. The legislator has not asked him to intervene, to suppress insurrection. In this case, there's neither rebellion nor request. The Insurrection Act also allows for unilateral action in the case of unlawful obstruction, assemblage or rebellion against the United States. And again, you know, there's no challenge to federal authority in the Six Block protest. This is a local issue. And look, I think it should stay a local issue. If the people of Seattle have voted a particular city council in with a leftist agenda that doesn't believe in policing, doesn't believe in its responsibility to protect the rights, policing is a duty of the states, not the federal government, predominantly unless you violate federal law, then the people of Seattle should suffer the consequences. Maybe next time they'll elect better people. The federal government should not engage. It's going to lead to nothing here if they did and I can't believe they would. But if they did, it's not clear it's constitutional, it's not clear it's not violation of law. Beyond that, the people of Seattle would rebel against it, or at least some people in Seattle. It would go, you'd have this conflict between the state and the federal government. Over what? Over six blocks. This is not the first time this has happened. These kind of co-ops that have declared themselves independent. I remember when I was growing up in Israel, there was an area in Israel which declared itself independent. Nobody took it seriously. Everybody knew that if a real crime was committed, the police would go in. But, you know, they pretended that they were an autonomous region within Israel and they, you know, was run by a bunch of hippies. I'm sure the same thing happened in the United States in various places. People pretend, people like to play pretend, particularly people detached from reality as these people in chairs must be. They've got a long list of demands. Basically, they're calling for dismantling capitalism and dismantling the police and basically handing over, handing over everything, handing over the apparatuses of power to even more extreme leftists than what you have in Seattle already. It is nutty, it is stupid, it is ridiculous. Yes, they're walking around with guns, but I don't remember any conservatives complaining about people walking around with guns when they were doing some protest of the lockdown. And all these protesters, every time I read a story, they're claiming that Second Amendment rights. So, those of you who are big Second Amendment people can't, just because you don't like the politics of the people carrying the gun, doesn't mean they don't have a right, I guess, to carry gun. Washington is an open carry state, so you can carry gun in open, right? So, they've got semi-automatic weapons open walking around. So, it is a nutty situation dominated by nuts, by people who have no respect for the rule of law, by people who have no respect for the system of government we have, people I've been talking about all week, people who have no respect for the legitimate powers and role of the police, people have no respect for their own government, but I'm not sure you should have much respect for your own government in Seattle. And who are taking the law into their own hands, it should be not allowed, the Seattle police should go in, they should take it back, they should take their precinct back, they should never have abandoned it, nothing good comes from police, abandoning precincts out of fear from a mob, nothing good. Now, I love Seattle, Seattle is a wonderful city, it's a beautiful city, I have a lot of friends who live in Seattle, a lot of people who listen to this show, I'm sure, in Seattle. And I love Seattle is a wonderful place, but it's a wacky place, its politics are crazy. And again, like Minneapolis, they have elected a city council filled with, you know, extreme leftists, a mayor who has obviously longs for the 1960s and heapied them and wants a sum of love, a sum of love. So, it's sad, I feel sorry for the people living in those six blocks, although I saw some interviews with them where they don't seem to mind, but it's hard to tell, are they saying that because they want to be politically correct, or are they saying that because they really don't mind, I just don't know. Somebody says, Seattle has no state income tax like Puerto Rico, no Puerto Rico has state income tax, oh my God, Puerto Rico has very high state income tax. Puerto Ricans have some of the highest taxes anyway, what Puerto Rico doesn't have is it doesn't have federal taxes, Puerto Ricans don't pay federal taxes, but they pay through the nose, state taxes, corporations, personal. I have a special category where I pay no federal taxes and very, very, very, very minor state taxes, but most Puerto Ricans pay very high taxes, state. All right, let's see. I'm just looking to see if there's any questions here about Chaz. No questions about Chaz, so we'll go on. I mean, I find the whole issue not that interesting. I find it funny that Donald Trump, the president of the United States gets upset about something like this. I find it ridiculous that the right is going apoplectic about it. Yeah, I mean, it should be stopped, it should be controlled, it should be, I mean, you should make as much fun and ridicule the city government of Seattle and the state government of Washington for allowing this to happen and for keeping hands off from it, but, you know, it's not like changing. By the way, the two other cities, I think Portland and Nashville, some protesters tried to create their own Chaz and they were shut down by police there, so that was not allowed in Portland and Nashville, so good for them for not allowing this nonsense. I guess there's vegan food in Chaz, somebody says, yeah, you've had something about, there's a vegan food festival in Chaz, so if you're into vegan food and you're in, it's just the whole thing is just hippie leftist silliness and anarchy and it'll descend into, you know, something bad will happen there and the police will have to go in and retake it or the police will just get tired and they'll go in and retake it or the people who live there will ask, beg the police to come and save them from this nonsense and they'll go in and retake it, so one way or another, this will not last, I don't think, very long or maybe it'll last and it'll become a Seattle tourist attraction where everybody kind of winks and blinks and pretends that it's an autonomous zone but it's really just a tourist thing for Seattle, who knows exactly how it evolves, either way it is not the beginning of the revolution, either way it is not the beginning of the end of civilization, what is happening in Chaz, it's just an example of the impotence and the pathetic nature of these city governments in these rapidly leftist areas and it is a case where people are suffering the consequence of the people they elect. 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