Seattle is quickly becoming a hellscape. Then again, what do you expect when you elect a mayor who was only able to live on her own because Mommy and Daddy paid her a healthy allowance? Champaign socialism is a thing, folks.
But while most of the city likely opposes the border wall, at least one neighborhood seems to think walls serve a benefit.
In particular, they're hoping the barricades they built will keep their neighborhood safer.
Residents in a troubled Seattle neighborhood have begun erecting large homemade barricades across residential streets after a surge of gun violence left many fearing for their safety.
Neighbors living near Aurora Avenue say repeated shootings, alleged prostitution activity and late-night chaos have pushed the community to a breaking point.
Following another burst of gunfire over the weekend, frustrated residents took matters into their own hands by physically blocking off nearby roads in an effort to keep traffic and suspected criminal activity out of the area, Fox 13 reported.
Videos circulating online show multiple streets partially sealed off with piles of dirt, chunks of concrete and mounds of gravel. Other barriers were built using corrugated metal panels arranged to resemble oversized raised garden beds stretching across the roadway.
The silver-colored structures were positioned to prevent ordinary vehicle traffic from entering residential blocks. Residents also added red-and-white reflective hazard tape along the corners and placed a bright red crate on top of the barricades to make them more visible to approaching drivers at night.
Some critics dismissed the effort as ineffective, with one observer describing the makeshift street closures as “Tylenol for stage four cancer.”
Honestly, I don't think these barricades are going to be super effective, either, but it's better than nothing. When the government fails to protect its citizens, the citizens can and will start doing what they must to protect themselves. It's just that simple.
Of course, my distrust of my government's ability (to say nothing of its desire) to protect me and mine is why I own guns. It's also why I've pondered how to keep people out of my neighborhood unless they belong there, should it ever become necessary.
In 2020, the Summer of Love was at the height of fiery but mostly peaceful "protests" throughout the country, but Seattle was known for the Capitol Hill Occupy Protest, or CHOP. Then, "protestors" took over several city blocks in Seattle, barred law enforcement or any local authorities from entering the zone--it was originally called the Capitol Hill Autonomist Zone, or CHAZ--and that held firm for weeks.
Most in the city seemed just fine with that, but a neighborhood just trying to keep violent thugs out of their neighborhood is some kind of problem?
Honestly, this probably isn't going to do all that much, but it's nice to see that at least some people in Seattle think walls are a good idea. Now, if they'd quit voting for socialists who destroy their cities with terrible policies, a lack of desire to do anything that looks like enforcing the law, and a complete lack of understanding of even basic economics, they might not need them.
