UPDATED: Breaking: Antifa Seizes Capitol Hill!
No, not THAT Capitol Hill--Capitol Hill, Seattle :
Just as the Islamic State (ISIS) claimed territory in Iraq and Syria, antifa militants have claimed territory in Seattle, Wash. According to reports on the ground from The Post Millennial’s Andy Ngo and Townhall’s Julio Rosas, protesters and antifa instigators have seized land in the Capitol Hill area around the Seattle Police East Precinct. Like ISIS, the rioters appear to have decided on setting up a government in their occupied territory, naming it “Free Capitol Hill.”
“Seattle [Mayor Jenny Durkan] is allowing a dangerous situation to fester. [Antifa] militants have taken over & created an ‘autonomous zone’ in city w/their own rules. Police precinct abandoned. Antifa set up barricades to create a border. Calling for volunteers to provide armed guard,” Ngo tweeted.
His message included tweets from rioters and pictures of the “Free Capitol Hill” poster on the side of a barricade, along with a map of the area antifa had taken over.
“The Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone. Folks in Seattle have secured six block of city [at the moment], barricaded it, and gotten local businesses and residents to agree to, well, disaffiliate from Seattle basically. It’s a flux state in the making,” Alex Humva tweeted.
Reports have it that the Seattle PD has pulled out of their precinct building there and it has been taken over by Antifa.
When I first read about this I was outraged. Upon further reflection, however, I asked myself--Why not?
Capitol Hill is a densely populated residential district in Seattle, Washington, United States. It is one of the city's most prominent nightlife and entertainment districts and is the center of the city's LGBT and counterculture communities.
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Culture

Large-scale gay residential settlement of Capitol Hill began in the early 1960s. Accordingly, this district is home to a sizable number of gay and lesbian couples making Capitol Hill Seattle's "gayborhood".
It's America. Or Blue America, anyway.
UPDATE: Andrea Widburg at AmThinker has coverage--Watching in real time as Seattle descends into anarchy --which includes this tweet:
This is one of the individuals running the "Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone" in Seattle. No additional commentary from me needed, lol pic.twitter.com/eDYfFQOQLU
— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) June 9, 2020
Will Americans vote for the people behind this, come November?