Heads up potential Seattle visitors! Last week the "May Day Zone" became weapons banned & confiscation, authorized by the mayor's emergency powers executive order.  Makes you wonder -- what would happen in  a real and protracted emergency  Like Hurricane Katrina? Or an eruption in the Ring of Fire?)

Anyway, article from the local news today:

Peaceful protesters said violence perpetrated by a select few wrecked their message a week ago on May Day, but the ...

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