CHAZ has been renamed CHOP, Capitol Hill Organized Protest.
It is because if they were to be actually taken seriously, their name meant they were committing insurrection. That's a pretty severe federal crime. Governments treat disrespect of government pretty severely. Lese majeste.
The Soyviet Union is already falling apart. It seems they're not as autonomous they they want to appear. When they have a peaceful shooting, the police and the EMTs don't want to go in there. EMTs in particular have rules about going in to a hostile area that hasn't been cleared yet. There are people in CHAZ/CHOP who seem upset that the government of Seattle aren't providing services.
I think this is ridiculous. They are a bunch of wanna-be larp revolutionaries, not the real thing. Their oppression studies degrees haven't equipped them to try to be autonomous. If you really want to set up your hippie commune you don't do it down town, you go out to where you can get large amounts of land for a very low price and set it up there. Some place like Idaho, like Ruby Ridge. Or you go to a remote area in Texas, like Waco.
Speaking of which, the fact that they haven't gotten a severe response is evidence that they aren't being taken seriously.
They aren't serious. They have no idea what they're doing. Their "demands" make it pretty clear.
The segregation going on in the CHAZ/CHOP is laughable.
These kids should be relieved that they aren't being taken seriously.
Eh. Seattle property was too expensive. This will give it the ol' Detroit treatment.