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Sarah Kincaid's avatar

The first question should how many Sequim City Council members belong, or are sympathetic to, Sequim Indivisible.

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No One Important's avatar

Answer: ALL OF THEM

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CWeber's avatar

All of this is to try to counter the 250th birthday of the US army when on June 14th the continental army was formed. Happens to land on Trumps birthday so they mock the process by calling in "No Kings's day" when in reality it is a defacto anti-Trump rally.

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Len M's avatar

Can only say it’s their right to

Protest, no matter how petty of a message they wish to display.

Sure wish all these people would have spoken up when the 46th President looked like a bumbling fool.

Their hatred is showing exactly what kind of tolerant people they really are.

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Steve O.'s avatar

I was a Marxist fifty years ago. Inside the university I could not wait to debate the subject of Keynesian Economics or the Frankfurt School with any mind that crossed my intellectual territory but none existed. Communists are the meanest predators on the planet. I condemn the actions of Jay Gould and James Fisk but they did not exterminate a third of their country as did Pol Pot.

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Steve O.'s avatar

Capitalists desire physical pleasure and power. Communists crave blood.

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Eric Fehrmann's avatar

Avoid the cool aid stand.

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Steve O.'s avatar

"There's a sucker born every minute." PT Barnum

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Lloyd's avatar

Home depot needs to hide their bricks and spray paint.

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SequimMAGA's avatar

Exactly. Time to lock up items beginning today. If you haven't been out, there are lots of unmarked LE cars just in Sequim. A Suburban truck marked K9 driving around and four police vehicles, plus drone operating at Rail Road Bridge Park. If the "permit" was approved in May or early June the city should have announced it to the public when approved, This last minute announcement is poor governance for the good taxpayers of Sequim.

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MK's avatar

If they feel so passionate about hurling bricks maybe they could get on a free bus and hustle over to PA where they'll be encouraged.

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SequimMAGA's avatar

Boy do I wish I had a Ham radio.

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Steve O.'s avatar

I have deduced from personal experience that the new arrivals to Sequim pay no taxes. As more of them arrive more of us will leave.

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Len M's avatar

Immature children should not be allowed to run around unsupervised! But it’s OK, it’s a BLUE cause, that makes it acceptable.

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Steve O.'s avatar

Do these protestors even comprehend the ideological battle? The democratic party formerly represented the working class in this country. All of those medicare recipients marching yesterday with their signs are receiving the benefits of their 401K's. Does any one of them care about a young working class American family? The west part of this state is more defective than California.

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Teresa's avatar
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Hey Jeff & CCWD posse,

i read a comment last week from a member that a Sequim city park would not “host” or “allow” a *political demonstration.

So now, the City of Sequim, on Government Letterhead.. is “co-operating”

with the “Indivisible Sequim” protest.

Question:

WHY-

is the Clallam County Sheriff Department and the Sequim Police department in compliance with political radicals?

Who is being protected?

Why am I paying astronomical taxes to “serve and protect” tyrannical paid actors?

Where,

“for the LOVE of God”are these adult children’s parents?

Sequim Commissioners, you made your bed, now this will be messy.

So messy.

Turning people against each other for show.

Paying them-

With Tribe

money?

Who is paying for this?

Bill Gates?

Na, it’s the Sequim Community Agenda.

🥸

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Jeff Tozzer's avatar

Great memory, she couldn't hold her event at Carrie Blake Park because it was political, as I recall.

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Kevin's avatar
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Dearest Author, Can you tell me the difference between the City's policy regarding fundraising for partisan groups, and this protest?

Here's part of the previous day's commenters shared email: "Concerning last year's event organized by the Clallam County Democrats, they requested to rent the James Center Bandshell but were unable to do so in accordance with our guidelines. However, they chose an alternative approach by organizing a protected, expressive political rally in the park—an area considered a public space, so such events are constitutionally protected. To facilitate this, they obtained a Special Event Permit. Due to its protected status, we issued a waiver for the Special Event Permit fee."

So, I'm thinking it's not the political affiliation that’s the issue, but whether using City property like the bandshell could be seen as an endorsement or the use of public resources for the purposes of fundraising. A protest in the adjacent public park, with a permit, is constitutionally protected regardless of who organizes it. idk?

What do you think?

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Mimi Smith-Dvorak's avatar

it they are going to get the number of people claimed - usually any city will make the organizers pay for a porta-potty or two.

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Teresa's avatar

💥💥

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Steve O.'s avatar

LOL we will witness a form of psychoanalysis called sublimation. These fossils will dance and scream on the corner of Washington and Sequim, the cars will honk and that satisfies their super ego.

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DeborahL's avatar

In my next door app, one of the women commented on the gathering protest. Said it was going to be like it was in the sixties and seventies, when she participated, it made her feel so good. Boy, that did explain why I saw so many gray-haired men and women, (women more), the last time they protested in Sequim and PA a couple of months ago. Wow just wow.

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Steve O.'s avatar

I think that the protest was an example of a prominent mental catharsis.

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Steve O.'s avatar

Emotional memory controls the brain.

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Sarah Kincaid's avatar

You are not allowed to have political meetings on city property. Apparently this does not include leftist groups.

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Kevin's avatar

It just seems like constitutionally protected rights might be different when they're rights for lefts and not rights for rights?

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MK's avatar

The Sequim City Council embodies that definition. I bet they don't stop holding their meetings.

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NorTexWarrior's avatar

😂😂😂😂

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Robert James's avatar

I guess the main drag isn't city property?

Orange/Blond man Bad!

GO MAGA! GO TRUMP! GO DOGE! GO ICE!

The LE are eating this up...lots of new toys to try out!

BTW, protests are never effective at changing anything until they go off the rails, then more police state activities are justified... but justice itself is not.

This is NWO in action.

LE tries to stay neutral but of course this is Blue-State LE so don't expect any common sense justice.

The America we thought we knew is gone forever.

Seattle DEI police chief says the violence and rioting are 1A protected.

We ARE in the (shadow) of LA, Portland, Seattle.

Best of luck, everyone!🤪

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Robert James's avatar

It's local but the dots connect all the way to Agenda 21+++...long time coming!😊

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SequimMAGA's avatar

Riddle me this. Why are so many youth on the trail with masks or wool hat in June? Did college let out? This afternoon one bicyclist was wearing a fully covered face mask (including his eyes) saw him from Rail Road Bridge Park to Robin Hill Farm Park. Baggy light colored clothes. Baggy pants with pockets. Yellow helmet. Is this typical bike gear in Sequim? Then a similar guy was wearing a stocking hat with full face sunglasses on Carlsborg Road. Now add the fact that there were four police cars present, operating drones? at Rail Road Bridge Park made my situational awareness today even more curious. Keep your cameras on.

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Teresa's avatar

thank you.

stay vigilant -

pray for our small community- it is being dismantled and not many are paying attention.

🙏🏼🇺🇸

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Sarah Kincaid's avatar

I no longer walk on the trail in that direction, not safe.

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Steve O.'s avatar

If the area is not safe why pay tax?

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Steve O.'s avatar

What good is a government that won't protect citizens?

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Kevin's avatar
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Riddle me this, Sequimps. Took the trail today between Kitchen-Dick and Robin Hill noticed three individuals moving backwards along the path. Not stretching. Not exercising. Just walking… backwards. One had earbuds, another had what appeared to be a body camera affixed to his chest like some sorta of suspicious teletubby, and the third kept scanning the tree line, like he was expecting something or someone to appear. None of them spoke. None of them acknowledged anyone passing by. They were just out in public.

Their clothes were nearly identical: gray fleece jackets, a logo that suggested North Face but was something else entirely, no identifiable identifiers, no distinguishing features. Uniformity without explanation. Each one subtly adjusted their position, stepping off to the side, turning ever so slightly, just enough to keep from being photographed head-on. Like they were avoiding documentation. Or trained to. Trained to do(d)ge, maybe?

It got even weirder by the new Dungeness Levee, low flying drone activity again. No markings, no public notice. Equipment truck parked near the access gate with no visible contractor license or county tags. One man standing nearby wore a vest that read “Ecological Recovery Protocol Phase III" or maybe it was Border Patrol agents inspecting the new border between trust(ed) land and untrusted land? No record of that phrase exists in public grant databases. BELIEVE ME.

Has walking in public changed so much? Or are we looking at something else entirely? Field observation? Compliance drills? Baseline behavior modeling?

Public space no longer feels public when no one looks like they belong in it. This didn’t feel like a normal day on the trail. It felt like watching something being tested, and we weren’t supposed to notice.

Stay sharp. Because when you look away that's when their test begins.

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SequimMAGA's avatar

J.A.

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Alwynn's avatar

I always carry on that trail, always.

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Teresa's avatar

there was a time when you walked into a bank like that.. and it was over.

now.. old and young.

- pink tata hats and all.

It is theater at it’s best.

Yet, it is scary.

Mental.

Mental.

Mental.

Social Engineering.

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Geoff Fox's avatar

Interesting that someone from Port Angeles filed for the permit. No resident from Sequim -now why is that?

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SequimMAGA's avatar

And the American Legion has their event I think tomorrow, too.

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Geoff Fox's avatar

Well someone from the sanctuary city to the east (PT) can come here and commit mayhem, and Sequim is an equal opportunity employer. So PA, to the west, "send us your best to commit mayhem". Let's see June 14 our American Flag Day!!! Let's hope we see more of those than the Commie flag and the LA flags of protest that sure look like flags from south of the border. American History assignment Read what the Governor of Florida (Ron DeSantis said about these protesters and how he sees the rights of his voters when it comes to protesters.

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SequimMAGA's avatar

Add Florida Brevard County sheriff, too

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Mark Swanson's avatar

Whew, thanks for the heads up, Big Guy. We usually do our grocery shopping — much of it at Costco — on Saturday but we snuck it in Friday afternoon, instead. So much better than having to contend with the TDS from aging former hippies and the newer zippies (Gen Z hippies) along Washington in Sequim.

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Denise Lapio's avatar

I like "Zippies"

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Sarah Kincaid's avatar

I live in Jenny's Meadow, not going to be a good day.

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Mimi Smith-Dvorak's avatar

So, they're in protest of King Kamehameha 1 (King of Hawaii)? Tomorrow is the big event in Hawaii -- with the parades, hula festivities, lei draping of the statute. I find this distressing.... on the 153rd annual King Kamehameha Day holiday.

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Diane Maikui's avatar

If the local government is biased one way or another, you bet they'll issue the permit on the sly.

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No One Important's avatar

How to make friends and influence people. The residents of this town are not going to be happy.

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Teresa's avatar

Dale Carnegie

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sue coffman's avatar

Thanks for the headsup, Jeff. We weren't planning on being in Sequim today, but now I'll make sure we aren't, haha

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Michael Heath's avatar

Could it be that the sick politically brainwashed fools who are orchestrating this grossly unpopular "event" have actually coordinated the entire thing with the criminals in the city government who actually WANT there to be a huge disruption of everyone's lives~? What about the tourists who come here to get away from the insanity in the big cities so that they can enjoy our otherwise peaceful community? I thought that the tourists' needs were of utmost priority to support our businesses and to re-fund the tax monies that the criminals in government management have stolen~? 2,000 creepy pink & green haired clowns with metal "bedazing" the many holes in their heads who don't know what sex they are in Sequim? Barnum & Bailey would be SO proud~! Ha~! Well, I seriously doubt that we have that many local morons, but how "nice" of them to volunteer all of the business bathrooms and parking facilities for their use~! We are going to need a frickin' "menu" to be able to keep track of all of these corruptions and underhanded dealings of the few usual psychopathic suspects who love to destroy our community and everyone's peaceful enjoyment who lives here~! HA! Well, the joke is on them, because we here have well planned to COMPLETELY avoid any need to enter Sequim or any city this weekend for that matter~!!! OK, you "ladies" who have some sort of problem with the vast majority of Americans who you completely ignored for the past 4 years when they had extremely serious & valid concerns, can enjoy your little "fuss" but you make sure to keep it peaceful without causing any property damage and stay out of the roads because most Americans are sick & tired of your corrupt unconstitutional BS~! Oh, and pick up your trash when you leave because you have already trashed our community and country more than enough as it is~! Sincerely laughing at you lunatics who would not know the truth if it ran over you~! Mike

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jeff swegle's avatar

The timing and discreet details sounds like a radical libtard event.

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SC's avatar

Its got a " food drive" cover. But I would think that if someone drives up in their tesla truck with 30 cans of tuna to donate they will more than likely be leaving with spit on thier windshield, if not worse.

A poor man in my neighborhood (who enjoys his tesla truck) had been being tormented on his way to work everyday by somebody in a subaru. Being flipped off and honked at for weeks. Then one day he had enough, flipped them off back. They proceeded to ram his truck off the road. Here in sequim!

Complete strangers. It's so sad how ugly everyone is. I've warned everyone in my immediate family to avoid the area tomorrow. It's not worth it.

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Joe L Givens's avatar

Ram me off the road and I will be firing back in self defense!

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SC's avatar

He did reply in a self defensive manner. I won't go into detail, but after initially being arrested he was released after footage from his dash cam proved the Subaru driver was and had been the primary aggressor

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