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CHRISTIAN TOTO: Norm Dworman Schools Seattle Comedy Club on Free Speech.

Dworman showed sympathy for the duo, but he couldn’t let them go without sharing his thoughts on the responsibilities that come with comedy club ownership.

“You’re obviously nice people, well-intentioned people. You’re in an industry that is about free expression. You’re in an industry that has a history of having landmark incidents regarding free expression that affect the culture. So you chose that industry. You don’t have to live up to that calling … but it’s not like you opened a deli and you found yourself in this.

“You’re becoming a cousin, and you’re nice people and you don’t wanna be, of the people smashing the windows,” Dworman said, noting a recent incident at Berkeley where violent protesters raged against Jewish speakers.

“They started smashing the place up. This is a close cousin of the sentiment that you’re buckling to,” he said. “I can’t sign off on it because it’s wrong. It’s leading the country down a terrible direction with everybody fueled by their certainty that their position is the right one, so right that no one else should even be platformed. And I will smash up Berkeley, and I will riot outside the Comedy Cellar and I will put this comedy club out of business if they should have the nerve, not to endorse a view I do not like, but simply allow that view to be heard.”

Related: MSNBC Legal Lunatic Frets Over America’s ‘Deep Commitment to Free Speech.’

To be fair, it’s always good to see those who view the Stasi in The Lives of Others as the good guys self-identify.

DISPATCHES FROM WEIMAR AMERCA: Seattle activists declare a ‘homosexual intifada.’

Is it possible the Seattle homosexual intifada flyer is meant to envision a world in which gay Palestinians fight back in Gaza? Are they trolling us with their flyer? Not likely. The pro-Hamas faction of Seattle activists has consistently downplayed or ignored Hamas terrorism against Jews because they believe “resistance is justified when people are occupied.”

Generally, Hamas’ dangerous hostility to the LGBT community is ignored. But in the rare instances in which it is not, progressive activists use their hatred of Jews to gaslight. Radical Swarthmore professor Sa’ed Atshan dismissed Hamas and Gazan homophobia as if it’s no different than anywhere else. In an interview, Atshan tries to explain why there’s “queer solidarity” with Palestinians without having to mention it’s driven by blatant antisemitism, historical ignorance, or both.

Atshan noted, “Homophobia is not unique to Palestinian society. It exists in most parts of the world, including in Israeli society, as well as here in the United States.” He even manages to blame Jews for homophobia in Gaza, falsely claiming they participate in a brutal military occupation of Gaza.

“It’s very dangerous to pathologize Palestinian society as uniquely homophobic or that homophobia is endemic to the society without this broader context, as well as without understanding the ways that life under brutal military occupation exacerbates homophobia within Palestinian society as well.

Some broader context:

Palestinian Islamic Scholar Sheikh Yousef Abu Islam: Homosexuals Should Be Thrown Off Rooftops, Stoned To Death; Allah Will Punish Us Like Sodom If We Don’t Fight This Abomination.

What It’s Like to Be Gay in Gaza: Meeting Israelis on Dating Apps, Evading Hamas and Plotting Escape. In a society where homosexuality could be punishable by death, gay Gazans keep their identity secret.

Hamas Executes Prominent Commander After Accusations of Gay Sex.

THE SUMMER OF LOVE CONCLUDES IN A DARK WINTER: Seattle dismantles BLM garden after rampant homelessness, drug use create ‘public health and … safety issues.’

The city of Seattle has dismantled the Black Lives Matter Memorial Garden after rampant homelessness and drug use overran the area, posing significant risks to the public.

In 2020, amid heightened racial tensions and anti-police fervor, Seattle activists established the garden in Cal Anderson Park, located in Capitol Hill, the home of the infamous former Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone. Organizers of the garden claimed it was intended to memorialize victims of police violence and to provide organic food for underserved communities.

However, seemingly from the beginning, the garden has been plagued by violence and filth, creating significant “public health and public safety issues” in the area, a statement from Seattle Parks and Recreation claimed. According to the statement, members of Seattle’s Unified Care Team have conducted 76 tent encampment removals in just the past year alone “to keep public spaces clean, open, and accessible to all.”

The garden has also become a hotspot for illicit drug use, creating other issues for area residents. Other problems in the garden include “vandalism of Cal Anderson public bathrooms” and an infestation of rodents, the statement said.

Naturally, “Seattle Bulldozed Its Communist BLM Garden [and] Liberals Are Reacting Exactly How You’d Expect” (Video):

In a surprising move, the city of Seattle decided to remove the community garden co-op that sprung up following the riots of 2020 and the creation of the “autonomous zone.” Now, liberals can’t cope with the reality that it’s gone.

But why? The message of the left in 2020 was any property memorializing the past misdeeds of out-of-control totalitarian leftists was fair game for destruction, no matter what strange misbegotten notions true believers had of any historic significance. Why should the memorial for CHAZ be treated any differently?

OH, SEATTLE! Watch This Wacky Home Invader Guzzle Gasoline as Police Move in to Make Arrest.

It’s unfathomable why anyone would do that to himself. “Swallowing gasoline can cause a wide range of problems for your vital organs,” advises Healthline. I can’t imagine it tastes very good, and it can produce miserable symptoms such as difficulty breathing, burning pain in the throat, abdominal pain, vomiting, loss of vision, convulsions, and loss of consciousness.

Obviously, there was a mental crisis in progress. Perhaps this burglar attended the same wacky class as David DePape, the 42-year-old who broke into Paul Pelosi’s house, also wielding a hammer. At any rate, his thirst for petrol seemed unslakable:

Officers gave multiple commands for the suspect to exit the vehicle, but he refused and continued to consume more gasoline. With the suspect endangering his own life and the hazard the gasoline created, police broke the driver side window and removed the man from the driver seat.

The suspect resisted officers while they pulled him out of the vehicle, but he was eventually taken into custody. Seattle Fire provided aid to the suspect at the scene.

To boldly go where one Korean War veteran has gone before:

AND THEN THERE ARE THE UNELECTED CROOKS: ‘Criminals Are Running This City’: Veteran Seattle Cop Resigns With Scathing Letter.

“Their absurd policies have turned Seattle into a playground for anarchists and criminals, and they seem utterly unconcerned with the devastating consequences of their actions,” wrote Jessica Taylor, who joined the force in 1998 and resigned last week. “If you haven’t noticed, the criminals are running this city.”

Taylor refused to fill out a standard exit form and instead submitted the 15-page letter to chief of police Adrian Diaz, who she says “has brought this department and this city to its knees,” adding that the department “has transformed into a cesspool of corruption.”

Diaz and other city leaders prioritize “playing politics and pandering to radical ideologies rather than genuinely serving the city’s and its residents best interests,” Taylor said.

The worse, the better.

HMM: In historic procedure, donor liver protects heart transplant. “Doctors in Seattle are reporting a history-making case in which a patient received two donor organs, a liver and a heart, to prevent the extreme likelihood that her body would reject a donor heart transplanted alone. In this innovative case, the organ recipient’s own healthy liver was transplanted, domino-like, into a second patient who had advanced liver disease. . . . Rodriguez’s case was unprecedented in two ways: Her own liver was healthy, and she received a donor liver only to mitigate the near-certainty, in her medical team’s opinion, that her body would immediately reject the donor heart she desperately needed.”

GOODER AND HARDER: Mail Delivery Halted for an Entire Zip Code in Seattle. “Some south Seattle residents are claiming a significant ‘mail fail’ is occurring as the United States Postal Service (USPS) has halted mail delivery due to a rise in recent vandalism and theft. A sign at a nearby U.S. Postal Service office in Columbia City is telling residents in the ‘98118’ zip code to pick up their mail in person at an annex office, located at 5920 Martin Luther King Jr Way South.”

Plus: “Property crime has been on the rise in the Seattle area, in the Northwest, and kind of across the country — and mail theft is unfortunately one of those areas that have been targeted significantly with that uptick in crime.”

THINGS ARE SO BAD IN SEATTLE: That public transportation system officials have had to install Fentanyl detectors because the fumes are getting to drivers. Washington Free Beacon’s Susannah Luthi reports at least 50 bus drivers became so sick from the fumes that they had to stop and seek emergency medical treatment.

“The city is installing the detectors as part of a University of Washington study whose researchers hope to ‘better understand drugs that are being smoked on the buses and trains.’ Symptoms of fentanyl exposure include dizziness and breathing difficulties,” Luthi writes. Which makes one wonder, what else is there to understand – the fumes are evidence of illegal drug use and passengers doing so should be arrested and punished.