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Protesters collar a street preacher in the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ), Seattle, Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ), June 13, 2020
"An anarchist is someone who doesn't need a cop to make him behave," American anarchist Ammon Hennacy once wrote.
Based on the scenes playing out in Seattle's Antifa-occupied 'autonomous zone', Hennacy was dead wrong.
A ragtag collective of Antifa types, anarchists, socialists, and 'Black Lives Matter' activists have occupied a six-block area around an abandoned police precinct in downtown Seattle for a week now. Roads into the 'Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone' (CHAZ) have been blockaded, and the would-be revolutionaries inside have set in motion a bold experiment: to prove that a cop-free society, based on "mutual aid," can sustain itself.
Sunday night seems to have proven otherwise. When the owner of an auto shop in the zone found a man attempting to light his business on fire, he detained the culprit, or so he
told a crowd gathered outside.
However, rather than let their comrade be handed over to law enforcement, the crowd set about pulling down the fence around the lot, in a bid to free the thwarted arsonist.
"The police won't come," the owner told a cameraman. "The fire department won't even come. This is really bad for business.
Covid was bad enough, and now this stuff basically put the icing on the cake."
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