Fortifying Sovereign American Citizens with Common Sense, Liberty & Freedom
The turmoil, disorder, and irrationality that’s rampant in several major cities governed by Democrats in the United States—such as New York, Chicago, San Francisco, and Los Angeles—are well-known. Although Seattle is smaller and lacks the same level of recognition as its larger counterparts, it exhibits a level of chaos and dysfunction that rivals, and perhaps even surpasses, these other left-leaning cities.
The radical left-wing leadership in Seattle has created an atmosphere in which law-abiding citizens are mistreated and perceived as criminals, while actual offenders and drug users are permitted to operate freely throughout the city.
The cities referred to as “blue cities” are, in reality, deeply red municipalities governed by extreme left-wing radicals with Marxist and socialist ideologies.
In their zealous pursuit of converting Seattle into a liberal “diversity utopia,” these radical leftists have only succeeded in creating a dystopian environment filled with homeless encampments scattered throughout the city. The city is adorned with bizarre graffiti, reflecting its dysfunction as it descends into a state akin to a third-world cesspool of poverty and crime—an alarming departure from the once-beloved image of the “Emerald City.”
In a counterproductive move to intensify an already problematic situation, Seattle’s leadership has allowed the influx of thousands of Illegal Aliens from various countries, which further burdens essential city services. What could possibly go wrong? The city’s socialist welfare approach is rapidly dismantling what was once a thriving community for living and working. This represents a significant injustice to the law-abiding citizens who now live in fear for their safety.
The leftist extremists currently influencing Seattle and King County are also undermining the entire state, including Eastern Washington, with their reckless and irrational policies that contradict reason and common sense. Spokane has recently chosen a mayor with radical leftist ideologies who is proposing extreme measures that encroach upon private property rights in favor of her unrestrained socialist welfare agenda.
Additionally, this radical leftist movement has spread like a disease to other counties in Western Washington, which are now in agreement with the policies that have contributed to the deterioration of Seattle and King County. They are promoting their Marxist-globalist Agenda 2030, which seeks to further erode private property rights in surrounding counties by enforcing tighter land control through a corrupt corporate-government agenda. For instance, certain varieties of pocket gophers, recognized as rodent pests, are being used to inhibit a property owner’s ability to use their land, subjecting them to significant fines and/or imprisonment.
The conditions in Seattle have become so alarming and unmanageable that many property owners, who feel they have lost control of their properties to criminal influences and are concerned for their personal safety, are urgently seeking to flee the turmoil and distress associated with the city’s current state of insanity.
Washington’s chaotic and troubling circumstances have been mirrored in Oregon, where most counties in Eastern Oregon have voted in favor of secession from the state and joining the more rational and conservative Idaho. Concerned citizens are now taking matters into their own hands, as the left-leaning officials they elected do not represent their views and treat these law-abiding, tax-paying residents with contempt.
A significant number of people are leaving Washington and the entire West Coast (Washington, Oregon, California) as a reaction to what they consider left-wing tyranny, marked by draconian regulations and heavy taxation that have severely affected private property rights in these states. The leaders of these large cities, seemingly indoctrinated by Marxist ideology, exhibit no respect for private property, resulting in a challenging environment for ordinary citizens who wish to live free from the burdens of an intrusive government.
It is truly unfortunate that the left-wing leaders and the uninformed electorate who elected them in these communist-leaning cities, like Seattle, remain oblivious to the detrimental impact of their actions on the freedoms and liberties of sovereign citizens. They will only realize the consequences of their misguided policies when they are confronted with the foolish harsh realities they have created.
The destructive fire in Los Angeles illustrates the high toll that can result when extreme left-wing ideologies are allowed to dominate a community.
The account that follows offers a disconcerting and revealing insight from a Seattle resident and property owner who has reached their limit:
Did you know Seattle’s legal system has become so absurdly dysfunctional tenants can now effectively stop paying rent and get away with it by leveraging tenant protections to legally steal from their landlord? Then our city council complains about landlords when theft and crime forces us to raise rents on our good tenants because the bad ones are simply not paying rent and in most cases we can’t even evict them.
I just fire sold one of my largest building on Aurora Ave N Seattle for seven figures less than it should sell for because I’ve come to realize I can’t offer my tenants safe housing in this insane legal environment where the Seattle City Council has passed tenant protections which are insulating criminals from accountability at the expense of all my good tenant’s safety.
Over the years we have quite possibly housed hundreds of previously homeless individuals and by doing so have gotten a glimpse into a profoundly broken system full of tax payer funded waste coupled with bad policy which has in return exacerbated the problems our city has been trying to solve. This largely self inflicted spiral has accelerated in recent years where we now not only have more homeless than ever before but under the guise of new tenant protections, dizzying complex laws have been passed that have effectively shut down our courts in King County with gridlock so we can’t even evict tenants who don’t pay rent or are dangerous. Tax payer funded attorneys, including the Housing Justice Project are defending pimps, drug dealers, violent tenants and those that choose not to pay their rent from well intended landlords merely trying to restore safety to their buildings; local political leaders’ toxic rhetoric have driven away much of the scarce talent and experience within our police department, local government, and I’ve come to the sobering realization that providing my good tenants with safe housing is untenable in this broken city. The housing first model where tax payers provide free housing to junkies and mentally ill, and then insulate them with bullet proof tenant protections have wrecked safe housing for the large majority of good tenants who deserve safety but can’t get it in Seattle.
In recent time this story got very personal. When my own well-being and those around me were put at risk, merely for being a landlord in Seattle, I pursued every legal pathway and while my expectations were not high, I was profoundly disappointed by the utter incompetence and failure at every level of Seattle government. From our city council who have ostensibly been involved, to our absent police depart whom were consistently MIA and rarely even showed up let alone enforce life threatening circumstances, to our broken courts and our dysfunctional Seattle prosecutor’s office who can’t even coordinate with law enforcement to avoid losing critical documentation required to prosecute. Never would I have imagined that police would refuse to arrest tenants whom attack their landlord on camera and violently chase their landlords around the property; or refuse to arrest non tenants who break into empty units (on camera), change the locks and arbitrarily declare themselves tenants insulating themselves from accountability under the endless tenant protection laws so the police will not arrest them or in many cases even remove them. Court ordered restraining orders have proven to be useless in Seattle even when violent offenders publicly announce their intent to kill their landlord and take actions to inflict harm on camera. When no contact orders were chronically broken the police were useless and rarely even respond. When they did respond, for weeks they could not even find the court order in their system so did nothing. After weeks when it finally appeared in their system allowing for an arrest then the prosecutors couldn’t even find the required documentation of service by law enforcement precluding them from prosecuting. I’ve learned the police, courts, and entire system can’t be counted on in Seattle. Temporary relief was only provided through a crisis line where a judge signed off on an involuntary hospitalization. But the individual was promptly released to pursue their reign of terror. After inflicting untold carnage on the community such violent offenders if lucky may be arrested only to be promptly released, or as I’ve been warned by senior law enforcement non profits will pay their bail as a form of charity so they can be quickly released back to the streets to continue their reign of terror. You can live in Seattle and not see this underbelly of our disjointed system but when targeted by someone with nothing to lose you can only brace for a roller coaster of utter madness. Seattle has a reputation for dysfunction, and I’ve personally learned that it’s much worse than I even realized.
For my own safety and sanity I’m divesting from Seattle. I am so disappointed in our new city council. Some of them have acknowledged the profound problems that exist with their housing policy that foster crime, and yet they still have not made the bold changes needed to stabilize rents and hold criminals accountable. Shame on them. Shame on our feckless police department who act more like social workers then serious law enforcement. Shame on our courts, judges and commissioners who refuse to hold dead beat tenants accountable and allow evictions continuances to drag well over a year while small landlords go bankrupt. I’m sorry for the rant but I am so profoundly disappointed in our city. When are those of us that play by the rules, pay our taxes, and pick up our own trash going to get the representation in Seattle?
Very interesting piece.