Justice Department declares Portland, Seattle, and New York "anarchist jurisdictions"

 

Attorney General Bill Barr. NBC News/AP.

The Justice Department has declared Portland, Seattle and New York City "anarchist jurisdictions". NBC News. The declaration will cause a review of money spent in those jurisdictions. The label was applied due to those cities failing to stop the riots that have devastated those cities. More specifically the order criticized efforts to defund police, failure to charge rioters and the rejection of federal help to bring the jurisdictions under control. Democrats predictably condemned the move. 

My Comment:

A welcome and necessary move to bring these jurisdictions under control. It's been clear for a very long time that these cities have done nothing to protect their citizens for rioters and looters. They are on the same side as the anarchists destroying their cities and it's the least the federal government can do by cutting off their funding. 

The media has downplayed how damaged these cities have been by the riots. Many businesses have been destroyed and several people have died, especially in Portland. The CHAP/CHAZ experiment ended with several people dead, and all of the cities have had an explosion in crimes.  

The cities leadership have had no interest in stopping any of this and they are doing it because of politics. Not only do they support the politics of the rioters, they think hurting President Trump is more important than anything else. They want to portray any effort to stop the rioters, Antifa and Black Lives Matter, as fascist, as if maintaining order and stopping terrorism is fascist, only because they think by doing so they will hurt President Trump. But given the politics of people like Ted Wheeler, he might actually be high on his own supply of nonsense. 

Other cities might qualify for this review as well. It seems as though Washington D.C. is getting off the hook as supposedly their mayor has told President Trump that she would shape up. As for other jurisdictions, I think that Minneapolis probably deserves the same treatment, even though they eventually cracked down after Antifa and Black Lives Matter destroyed a large portion of the city. 

Will this actually do anything to help these cities? I don't know. My guess is that these mayors are so captured by their ideology that they won't change for anything, even if it means their cities have to suffer for it. I mean, that's obvious as their failure to crack down on rioters proves this already. But it will likely place some pressure on these men, especially if President Trump wins his 2nd term (which he likely will).

As for the people that live in these cities, the smart ones are already leaving. The ones that can't or won't will have to suffer. I'd feel sorry for them, but they voted for the mayors and governors that have done this to their cities. 

I do worry about the people that leave. Like the exodus of people from California, the people that flee these areas for their crazy far-left policies then move to new areas and do the exact same thing. I would hope that these people would learn something but experience tells me that they won't learn a damn thing.