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All That CHAZ

Crime has always functioned as a kind of tax on the poor. So, one year on, ‘Defund the Police’ sounds only more absurd.

Jonah Goldberg
May 26, 2021
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Seattle’s abandoned Third Precinct during the CHAZ occupation. (Photograph by Toby Scott/SOPA Images/LightRocket/Getty Images)

Hi all,

We’re coming up on the one-year anniversary of the founding of the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone, or CHAZ.

As I wrote last year, I loved CHAZ. It was a spontaneous radical anarchist community that shared a nickname with the …

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