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I don't think Seattle's CHOP (née CHAZ) is very relevant here — it was a protest occupation, more in common with Occupy Wall Street than a serious attempt of an
by news_to_me 6y ago
I don't think Seattle's CHOP (née CHAZ) is very relevant here — it was a protest occupation, more in common with Occupy Wall Street than a serious attempt of any kind of secession. (Of course, participants' own ideas for what it should be were varied.)
- maest 6y agoI think what set CHOP/CHAZ apart was that they actively tried to self police. Violence monopoly is a common definition for a state. I don't recall Occupy Wall Street having their own policing task force (maybe they did and I'm misremembering).