Here's your post below , I had to dig it up. You can defend it all day long. Doesn't matter to me. Bottom line, what a crock of **** the post was. Your neighbor (TEXnSeattle) called you Husker for Brains in the thread. Forgot about that one.
Enjoy your family night game of checkers this weekend.

I'm co-hosting a chess tournament this weekend & next, myself
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My eldest son visited Chaz yesterday and confirmed how little most on this thread knows about it.
It wasn't dangerous, there were no walls or warlords, no ID was required. He didn't see any armed guards.
It was every bit the block party that's been described. As he described it I imagined Haight Ashbury in the 60's. LOT'S of weed, art (good and bad), music (live bands playing) but ultimately a community trying to cope. Many businesses were open in this 6 block area. The autonomous zone is really only in the streets/park. My son said it doesn't appear that anyone has taken over any buildings. Heck, they self policed looters trying to break into the police station a few days back. I suspect this will end as the energy wears out, peacefully.
Get out of your information bubble, especially FoxNews. Reading that you'd expect it to be Escape From New York. Rather, it's an Occupy Wall Street with a lot more weed.