Just cut off the coffee delivery. They will go feral in a week.
The problem is I don't trust any media outlet to provide accurate reporting as far as "what is really happening" and "fox news" versions.
So long as nobody is getting injured, let it ride. But as I just said, we don't know what is really going on, and it's going to collapse under it's own weight soon enough. The lack of supplies alone will cause it to end. I would give anyone a pass on any non-violent crime.
Quite a lot of photos, videos, and commentary coming out regarding the well stocked food pantry there. There's no shortage of supplies, that just one of the myths that ran twice around the world before actual information could get its boots on. We live in the era of unedited live streaming video, I've posted one link already in the thread. You can literally see for yourself, without anyone filtering what you see.
Tweet About Stolen CHAZ Food May Be Fake
A look inside Seattle’s newly-formed ‘Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone’
Reporting early in the afternoon Tuesday, Nicole also described free food and medical aid available for demonstrators on every corner. Some food and supplies were also distributed to the homeless population in the surrounding area. The group even reportedly organized its own garbage collection Wednesday morning.
Also seen at #CHAZ: The “No Cop Co-op,” a little library, a coffee stand and hot dog vendor
One way to think of it is this: When this started, there was huge, hyperbolic misinformation campaign. Fox news and talk radio contributed quite a bit, but much of it was also just a visceral reaction by a lot of people. It ran wild on social media, really wild. And it was not even remotely accurate. No warlords. No food shortages. No declaration of independence. No checkpoints. None of that. Supplies flow easily in and out, as do people. The outside of the police station is been graffitied, but the interior is intact and the protesters don't enter it. Businesses are open.
What it is, is just Occupy 2.0. My guess is that it will fizzle out due to the leaderless nature of the movement - just as the original Occupy movement did. Without clear leadership, the list of demands may just spiral upwards, getting less realistic over time. People who make wild claims in the name of the movement will not be effectively contradicted by the movement because there will no clear leadership to do so.
So I'm not really defending the movement.
But....
The wildly hyperbolic misinformation campaign against CHAZ infuriated me. A lot of conservative people (including news and talk radio) were spreading wild lies and falsehoods with glee. It disgusted me. And it has not totally let up, still a lot of people really think it is incumbent upon the government to use force to end this - this peaceful protest. They want to kill a whole lot of Americans because they can't be bothered to learn what it actually happening, to think that reports of downtown Seattle under the control of a communist warlord just might be hyperbole.
