The founding of any new nation is worthy of note, and so it is with the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone, several blocks of Seattle that have been seized by protesters, Occupy Wall Street types and assorted opportunists. Now it’s up to the citizens of the CHAZ, adapting Federalist No. 1, to decide the important question: whether anarchies of men are capable or not of establishing good government. This week the Seattle police withdrew from their East Precinct in the Capitol Hill neighborhood, after threats that it would be torched....

Source: Wall Street Journal June 11, 2020 23:37 UTC