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CHAZ was subject to several murders already, so it's not merely "destruction of property" here.

I presume they changed the name to CHOP because someone told them that creating an "autonomous zone" sounded a lot like insurrection, which is also the kind of thing that feds normally involve themselves with, but it's not like the feds need that as an excuse given that they already have plenty of authority to enforce the law whether or not Portland wishes to do so.

> Where in the Constitution are our rights subject to conditions on behavior?

In the 13th amendment:

"Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."

(emphasis added)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penal_labor_in_the_United_Stat...




I think there's a bit of a mixup here. CHAZ/CHOP was in Seattle, not Portland. The "CH" stands for Capitol Hill, a neighborhood in Seattle.


There was another attempt to set up an autonomous zone in Portland so it seems fair to compare them:

https://heavy.com/news/2020/06/portland-autonomous-zone-decl...




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