Communitarian Super Heroes!

This is not a prank story. It really happened.

Police alerted to 'superheroes' patrolling Seattle

By CASEY MCNERTHNEY
SEATTLEPI.COM STAFF

Seattle police say a group of self-described superheroes have been patrolling the streets at night trying to save people from crime. They call themselves the Rain City Superhero Movement and say they're part of a nationwide movement of real-life crime fighters.

The national website -- cited in a police bulletin sent to Seattle officers Wednesday -- states

"a Real Life Superhero is whoever chooses to embody the values presented in super heroic comic books, not only by donning a mask/costume, but also performing good deeds for the communitarian place whom he inhabits."

Police say the "costume-wearing complainants" are lucky they haven't been hurt."

http://www.seattlepi.com/local/430430_super19.html

I don't know about you, but this story may be the first time we've found something referring to communitarian that just made us laugh. Sure hard to explain anti communitarianism in this context.

How bizarre that the neighborhood in the article is where we lived and started the ACL, back before anyone knew what communitarian places were. And it sounds weird but I doubt this brave masked crusader meant to say "whom" because he thinks a communitarian place is a person, I'm assuming he meant "which." I do wonder where he learned to use the word communitarian place. Maybe we should track him down and arrange a secret interview.

I know my 3 year old grandson would think it's a great idea! He plays Batman all the time.

Well duh, went and read their website and not laughing as much anymore. It's all tied to their belief in "community service." They're tools for the evolving collective... and that's not funny at all. So much for my looking at the brighter side of life. :)

Rebuilding communities with buldozers instead of bombs

Attention all Intl Communitarian Carpetbaggers!

American cities left wide open for razing and rebuilding!
The "Broken Window Theory" goes full throttle!

"US cities may have to be bulldozed in order to survive"

"Dozens of US cities may have entire neighbourhoods bulldozed as part of drastic "shrink to survive" proposals being considered by the Obama administration to tackle economic decline." http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financetopics/financialcrisis/5516536/US-cities-may-have-to-be-bulldozed-in-order-to-survive.html

Use of dialectical reasoning is absolutely essential to your success:
"The real question is not whether these cities shrink – we're all shrinking – but whether we let it happen in a destructive or sustainable way," said Mr Kildee. "Decline is a fact of life in Flint. Resisting it is like resisting gravity."

The Communitarian Theme Song
by Niki Raapana
dedicated to the memory of Michael Jackson

%.. and it's one, two, three,
what are we working for?
don't ask me I don't give a hoot,
next stop is filled with loot!
five, six, seven,
open up your city gates!
ain't no time to wonder why
cause WHOOPEE we all gonna buy!

Come on developers,
don't be slow,
let's shrink wrap America agogo.
Plenty green Ameros to be made
supplying sustainable principles
in the shade,
so put away your pride
and scrawl up your deal,
it's gonna be one heck of a steal!

Be the first one on your block
to have your home replaced by a rock!%

Thanks for sending this Bobby. Does anyone have the list of all 50 cities designated by Brookings?

Hugh Sisley-- no doubt about it, THIS is what will happen to Hugh Sisley's properties in Northeast Seattle! Of course the land is only "returned to nature" in these plans for a VERY short time. As with the little "park" they made out of Edna Stoughten's property on the corner of NE 50th and Brooklyn, within a few years her property was part of the block size building that replaced the Ford Dealership (and I do believe it was the Johnson Partnership that found Edna's demands that she had the right to keep her house for UW grad students a barrier to community development.)

Update on the Hugh Sisley properties in Seattle

Somebody from the City of Seattle looked up Hugh Sisley and landed on the ACL's Dawson lawsuit page. I followed the City's search and landed on a Ravenna neighborhood blog which has all the latest news from Roosevelt. http://www.glennaroberts.com/ravenna-park-north/

Apparently, Hugh Sisley actually got the 99 year (triple net) lease he insisted was his right. He never became a "willing seller."

On Tuesday, May 26th, at 7:30 PM in the Roosevelt High School Commons, the Roosevelt Zoning Committee will hold its regular monthly meeting with a difference. A large turn out is expected. Main topic for discussion is the recent application for zoning changes by the Roosevelt Development Group, a private developer, which has leased the Hugh Sisley properties for 99 years. Seattle's Department of Planning and Development is requiring an Environmental Impact Study to be done on the project.

The Department of Planning and Development must be what the DCLU is called now. And check it out, Hugh's developers, the Roosevelt Development Group, says they want to go up 160 feet! (The zoning in 1999 was NC30) Hugh always said he would get paid by the foot going up and by the foot going down. I haven't read all the posts yet, but the blogger referred to the transit line as approved. So, what a trip, ten years later it's all coming down exactly the way Hugh wanted it to. Amazing. Even though he used all my background research and hard won PDAs and still refuses to pay me for any of my contributions, I can't help but be happy to hear that he won.

Assistant City Attorney Darby DuComb said on the stand during my eviction trial that my research and participation in Hugh's affairs was a main reason the City changed its tactics against Mr. Sisley. Does this mean that there IS a way to stop the takings? What did Hugh and his lawyers eventually do that freed up the properties enough for a development group to lease it? Hugh was never concerned about anyone but himself so it would not occur to him to share his success story with other property owners facing the same communitarian land grabs. Hugh was a pilot test for public nusiance abatements, it was implemented in 1999 when the City claimed control of a milewide radius around each new transit station (called Station Area Development).

I still can't imagine how he skated past the whole Keith Gilbert arrest and conviction for illegal arms sales. Is Bob Nelson still working behind the scenes for Hugh's lawyers? Is Abby?