Nowhere to go now

Dear activist media, your lies of omission and commission have burned a bridge with me. In areas where recent protests have erupted, you have silenced the voices of fearful residents, parents of murdered children, and small business owners whose livelihoods have been destroyed by looting and arsons. Only a tiny treasured few friends believed my reports of what was going on in my city because your message of ‘mostly peaceful protests’ is too powerful to contradict. Most friends assumed I was somehow affected by ‘right-wing’ propaganda, a thought that persisted even when I told them I was there. This is what initially made me realize how cruelly you twist the narrative when truth doesn’t fit your agenda. Who can go against your narrative when you are flanked by the entire Democratic Party.

By not capturing the reality of what is going on in the cities, by telling all the liberals in the entire country that there are no bad actors, aside from cruel police officers, you are misleading everyone. This causes pretty much anyone who did not get caught in the crossfire of a protest to assume unaccountable police officers are the only dangerous elements. You leaving these people defenseless to address the other dangerous elements that are constantly accompanying the peaceful protesters (which in itself is a weird gaslighting, because if the ‘peaceful protesters’ don’t call them out, or at least speak against it amongst your journals, then aren’t they basically allies of the violence, therefore complicit?) when i attended the protests on May 30th, I encountered a ‘social justice warrior’ jumped my case for taking videos and furled her fist at me as I watched people in black pounding through windows like rabid creatures, stealing loot with blind looks in their eyes. And even speakers screaming at us for not doing more to help the BLm cause made anyone feel preemptively deserving of any violence that might befall them. After two months of being pounded with fake news, I started thinking maybe my memories were exaggerated. Only recently did I have the wherewithal to check the police report for the day I attended the protests and once again reminded of the chaos. Here I was able to confirm the number of Molotov cocktails that were thrown into cars, the number of small businesses that were destroyed that day, the number of businesses destroyed by looting. After a couple months, I thought I surely must have misremembered things, considering the fact you did not even report at all the worst day in Seattles history for as long as I’ve lived here. You are making people believe we need no safety force, and the ones stuck living in these areas are forced to buy weapons as their only way to have self defense. This ironically will work against your agenda of deweaponizing everyone. To push the defund and the disarm agenda is the most farcical and cruel agenda I could ever imagine. Forces people such as myself, a single woman living in the city, to feel totally alone and defenseless, waiting for the day when some violent person (in the name of protesting) attacks me in public. The worse part might not stop with the attack. It might stop with me being blamed or told I somehow deserve it for not being ‘woke’ enough. After all, as I saw recently on one of your headlines, why would 17 journals lie about something? The answer of course is that you are a many tentacled hydra, but all part of one beast.