Man is such an interesting, silly animal.

Protestors have taken over what, 6 blocks in Seattle, and have claimed it is an Autonomous Zone free of police. The right as lost its mind over this with the president threatening federal intervention in what is clearly a city level issue first and at best a state level issue, unless of course the old chestnut about states rights only apply to issues near and dear to the heart of the right, which of course we all know is oh so true...

Any way I read this hilarious tidbit about the situation...

"Mr. Moore said the experiment in a place without police could work.

“We are trying to prove through action and practice that we don’t need them and we can fulfill the community’s needs without them,” he said".

That speaks volumes about the thinking, such that it is, going on in the minds of the protestors. Yes, it can work...as long as the police are outside the 6 block perimeter preventing anyone bent on doing so from stopping the protest themselves. It can work as long as the police protect the supply routes and the utilities coming into the area...shut the water and food off and things end very fast and very badly.

The protestors are convinced they can survive with only a few like minded individuals bent on doing so. It is exactly the mind set of the right who were put off when Barrack Obama reminded them they didn't build that on their own. Man is a social animal....we may be able to survive at a basic level on our own but given a choice most will join whatever band of people will have them because we are a social animal. I know the right will reject this out of hand as will the left but this is a pretty good indication of how like minded the two sides are and how the gap between them is merely semantical in nature.

So what to do? I know many of you would like nothing better than federal troops marching and gunning the protestors down like vermin. Better yet is to simply ignore them....they aren't revolutionaries...they are people with time on their hands on a lark. The protest isn't sustainable...wait them the freak out....listen to their demands, pay lip service to finding answers and in a few days they will turn on one another and suddenly remember they have pressing business elsewhere. Over reacting will only lead to more of the same and will harden their resolve. If you ruin their futures by either shooting them or crippling them or charging them with the crimes they are no doubt guilty of some will become sure enough problems we will have to deal with time and again....simply pretending to pay them the minimum of attention will frustrate them and quicken the demise of their "movement"....

SO some will ask "what about the property owned by others" and that is, indeed, very sad....but it also makes the point that the property owner indeed did not "build that"....only society allows ownership of anything other than one's mind.....everything else we own is attributable to our collective effort to ensure we can indeed possess something other than our thoughts....