War on Drugs
Seattle’s Transit System ‘Unusable’ due to Toxic Fentanyl, Meth Smoke
Liberal and progressive city Seattle is literally becoming toxic. Rampant with crime and drugs, it has become impossible for the average citizen to ignore. The Seattle Times reported Monday that local authorities have stated its transit system has become “unusable.”
The Times reported the transit system has become overloaded with reports of toxic fentanyl, meth smoke and volatile behavior. It has created a toxic work environment for employees and has scared off travelers.
In an attempt to turn things around, the city plans to release a new “Safety, Security and Fare Enforcement Initiative” in February. The initiative incorporates surveys and comments from 8,000 people.
The Times reports that plan hopes to improve the dangerous environment, welcome back commuters, but also show compassion to those who are doing drugs, and especially homeless people, as “a necessary step on its journey to becoming an anti-racist mobility agency” according to the King County website.
Complaints of smoke from narcotics use such as meth and fentanyl surged last summer, surpassing complaints about individuals using needles and smoking marijuana. The unarmed security monitors for the metro have zero authority to arrest or remove individuals from public transportation.
The Metro Transit Authority (MTA) has also shied away from using law enforcement against the homeless population after the death of George Floyd, which led to nationwide protests, some of the most violent and destructive of which occurred in Seattle.
Seattle Police Detective Patrick Michaud told the Seattle Times that police officers in the city do not regularly patrol the transit system, and illegal drug use is considered a “lower priority than violent crime.”
Transit operator Erik Christensen has reported six incidents of fentanyl, meth or heroin smokers snice just October. “We just want them off the bus. Just get them off the bus, so we can drive” said Christensen.
In Denver, drug use at the downtown train station was deemed “a lawless hellhole” in December due to the amount of public drug use. The Seattle Times reports “a television newscast aired a worker’s video of defiant users. Police made arrests, and the transit agency closed restrooms after finding traces of fentanyl” in Denver’s Union Station.
Immigration
President Biden Uses Executive Order to Extend National Emergency Orders Made Worse by his Administration
Increased terrorism threats in the last year and the greatest number of illegal border crossers identified on the terrorist watch list have pushed President Joe Biden to extend national emergency orders by executive order. The irony is its policies have exacerbated all threats.
Under the Biden-Harris administration, the greatest number of illegal border crossers on the terrorist watch list have come into the country in U.S. history. Recent arrests “raise serious concerns about the ongoing threat that ISIS and its fanatical supporters pose to U.S. national security, as well as the shortfall in the Biden-Harris administration’s screening and vetting capabilities,” U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security chairman Representative Mark Green (R-TN) said. “The Committee also remains concerned about the threat of a ‘lone wolf’ actor or multiple actors attempting to commit a terrorist attack on U.S. soil.”
In February, Biden extended a national emergency order related to Afghanistan after first issuing it on Feb. 11, 2022. It relates to “the unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States constituted by” turmoil in Afghanistan after Biden relinquished control to the Taliban six months earlier.
The Center Square notes the hypocrisy:
Despite the national emergency, the Biden-Harris administration released 77,000 Afghans into the U.S. through “Operation Allies Welcome” program. The majority weren’t properly vetted, according to an Inspector General report. One of them was recently arrested for plotting an Election Day terrorist attack on American soil.
In September, Biden extended an executive order, “Continuation of the National Emergency with Respect to Persons who Commit, Threaten to Commit, or Support Terrorism,” for another year. It’s been extended since Sept. 23, 2001, when it was issued by former president George W. Bush.
The order declares a national emergency pursuant to the International Emergency Economic Powers Act. It cites “the unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United States constituted by the grave acts of terrorism and threats of terrorism committed by foreign terrorists, including the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, … and the continuing and immediate threat of further attacks against United States nationals or the United States.”
Biden also extended another executive order issued by former President Donald Trump on Sept. 9, 2019, “to strengthen and consolidate sanctions to combat the continuing threat posed by international terrorism and to take additional steps to deal with the national emergency.”
After a U.S. House report highlighted over 50 Islamic terrorist-related cases in 29 states in the last two years and ongoing warnings about potential Islamic terrorist attacks, Biden extended another national emergency related to Syria.
Trump issued the order on Oct. 14, 2019, which Biden extended “to continue in effect beyond October 14, 2024,” the order states.
On October 11, Biden extended additional national emergency orders. One includes Colombia-based narcotics trafficking, which former President Bill Clinton first issued the order on Oct. 21, 1995, in the middle of a decades-long bipartisan “war on drugs.”
“The circumstances that led to the declaration of a national emergency on October 21, 1995, have not been resolved,” Biden’s order states.
“The actions of significant narcotics traffickers centered in Colombia continue to pose an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United States and to cause an extreme level of violence, corruption, and harm in the United States and abroad.”
Biden also extended a national emergency order related to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, first issued by former President George W. Bush on Oct. 27, 2006. Former President Barack Obama extended and amended it on July 8, 2014; Biden extended it through Oct. 27, 2025.
“The situation in or in relation to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, which has been marked by widespread violence and atrocities that continue to threaten regional stability, continues to pose an unusual and extraordinary threat to the foreign policy of the United States,” the order states.
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DOM
February 15, 2022 at 10:25 am
Democrats are ruining their own cities and states. People are leaving them in droves and moving to conservative areas where they know they will be safe. So why do people in these liberal enclaves continue to elect liberal leaders?
TTTCOTTH
February 16, 2022 at 9:04 am
Nothing new here. Seattle died long ago. Downtown is a cesspool no law abiding citizen dares to enter after dark and only by force during the day. This is the end stage of Liberalism.
TTTCOTTH
February 16, 2022 at 9:10 am
“a necessary step on its journey to becoming an anti-racist mobility agency”
Here in a nutshell is why it will never change. Safety should be the primary goal. It’s not.