Re: “SPD interim Chief Barnes’ defiant words put city at risk” (June 12, Opinion):
Sakara Remmu, in a visitor column, excoriates interim Seattle Police Chief Shon Barnes for feedback made lately during which he confirmed a willingness to be jailed if opposition to federal intervention prompts such retaliation.
Remmu’s op-ed closes by stating Seattle stays “alarmingly weak.” To what, I ask? Federal overreach? Residents exercising their rights? I don’t know as a result of the author makes this ominous assertion absent additional clarification.
If the suggestion is we must always bow right down to excessive measures now being initiated by President Donald Trump in Los Angeles, this strikes me as ethical cowardice. City cities in blue states can’t acquiesce to this type of federal intervention with out risking dropping our freedoms. Remmu appears to suppose all shall be proper so long as we don’t kick the bear.
That is the 250th anniversary of the battles of Harmony and Lexington and of the beginning of the Siege of Boston. We’re lucky John Adams et al. didn’t imagine Boston was “alarmingly weak” and that the very best plan of action was to lie low and never danger scary King George.
Steven Ainsley, Bellevue
