Three cities have been designated “anarchist jurisdictions” by the Justice Department which it claims would justify withholding federal money because they failed to control protesters and want to re-evaluate the policing in the United States and make appropriate modifications to their responsibilities, both their actual ones and those assigned to them by society by default.
Obviously, not denying First Amendment rights comes at a price.
Those three Blue cities in Blue States are New York City, Portland, and Seattle.
US Attorney General William Barr explained the decision this way,
“When state and local leaders impede their own law enforcement officers and agencies from doing their jobs, it endangers innocent citizens who deserve to be protected, including those who are trying to peacefully assemble and protest. We cannot allow federal tax dollars to be wasted when the safety of the citizenry hangs in the balance.
It is my hope that the cities identified by the Department of Justice today will reverse course and become serious about performing the basic function of government and start protecting their own citizens.”
Armed militias entering state houses while legislatures were in session in support of racism, white supremacy, and the Second Amendment with nothing done about it, and with the president cheering them on encouraging them to rebel against the governors for following his own recommendation, don’t equate with anarchy to Barr.
Considering that New York leads the nation in sending more taxpayer dollars to the federal government, with a big chunk being generated in New York City, and like the other 8 Blue states in the same position, gets less than a dollar back for each paid in, while Trump red states get as much as $8 back for each dollar paid in, I would suggest that Seattle, Oregon, and New York City put their federal tax dollars in escrow, where it is clear they are not keeping and spending it, until the dependent red states begin feeling the loss of income and implore the Trump administration to relent so they can, again, start getting money from these “anarchist jurisdictions” to survive.