The takeover of city-owned property including a six-block stretch which includes the Seattle Police East Precinct is a glaring depiction of a hostile takeover having nothing to do with corporate suits salivating for ballooning bottom lines. No, this situation in Seattle is being portrayed the world over, and it is outright ugly.

Plenty has been written about the “Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone,” or simply CHAZ, and TV broadcasts supplemented by social media posts are rife with utter upheaval and arrogance generated by anarchists and violent miscreants hell-bent on getting their own way: they’ve demarcated public territory as their private homestead and impromptu earmarked a Seattle police station as their “community center.” Signage declaring “cop-free zone” and “ACAB” and several other less than delightful statements are posted throughout CHAZ.

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Speaking of ample writers reporting on this surreal episode in modern-day America —perhaps oddly appealing to “Mad Max” fanatics, only it’s real— there is a brief video circulating the web of a young man who says he resides within the six-block zone Antifa claimed as theirs. The abject fear in this guy’s voice denotes the depth of terror on the ground in and around CHAZ, so much so that his image is blurred and his voice intentionally distorted so that he is not recognized by CHAZ radicals who, upon his return to his Antifa-infested residence, may inflict physical harm or worse. Watch and listen to this man’s testimony:

Dear Mayor Jenny Durkan, this man does not seem like a willing participant having fun in your so-called “peaceful block party.” The reality is some elected officials have been failing the communities over which they govern. This citizen conveys sentiments denoting what many Democrat-operated jurisdictions offer: Misery.