Seattlers

The early days of hippiedom were like very groovy.  In those days the joke about if you didn't like cops call a hippie, was true.  If you ran across another guy with long hair that you didn't know he would give you the shirt off his back, he would share his dope, he would give you a ride in his Volkswagon bus. And you would do the same of him, because you were like brothers Man. 

It didn't remain that way, shit happened, new people who weren't all that into peace and love joined the movement, likely some of the original peace and love lovers became less into it.  You began to notice that your brother was no longer as willing to give you the shirt off your back so you weren't as quick to give yours.

Something like that is likely to happen to the Seattlers, in addition they are getting a lot of flak from Trump and the Foxies.  The local authorities are divided, and doubtless they are thinking of upcoming elections.  I think originally it was ceded because the powers did not want to have an ugly incident and they figured in the long run it was probably easier to just cede the land peacefully and eventually take it back the same way. 

Being that they are all lefties of different stripes I am surprised that Beagles is rooting for them.  Does he sense, like the poet, a rebirth of wonder?


Just heard a report on NPR about the pandemic in Alabama, Florida, and Michigan.  Alabama and Florida are in terrible shape, their rates are soaring and their Trumpist govs are saying oh, this is just due to increased testing which is demonstrably untrue, but being Trumpists they have left the surly bonds of truth behind,  One of the things that might alarm Beagles in the swamp is that in those two states it is rapidly moving into rural areas.  But luckily he is living in the domain of Gutsy Gretchen and due to her exercise of emergency powers (though Beagles may decry her methods, I don't think he can decry her results) the outlook is much more sanguine in the Wolverine State.


Oh and just now there is a report on NPR about the Seattlers.  Indications are that there is friction within.  Black Lives Matter.  They have no official leaders and no nailed down platform, which is fine if you want to get a good turnout for your march, but not so good if you want to run a piece of land.  It's kind of like those anarchists in the Spanish Civil War, whose ideology is pure, but they are just not so effective.  I'll admit that I haven't been following the situation closely and I will be giving it more attention


That was indeed a draft that I thought I had lost so I started another.  It was a little complicated to delete and I moved on to something else.  I'll take care of it this morning before I go out to the balcony and the newspaper.