OPINION: How The Elites Profit from Crime that Destroys People and Communities

Radical restructuring of cities like Burien needs to be stopped. Crime and the destruction of human beings are the drivers for that radical restructuring.

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‍Part Six in a Series on Burien.

Many people ask why crime, especially property crime, is allowed to expand, such as what is happening in Burien. As this is happening, why defund the police? Is this just because of leftist viewpoints? Is there something more?

Since the end of WWII, in the 50s through the 90s, crime has been used as a key part of driving populations from the inner cities to the suburbs, and then in the 1990s till now, driving people back into the apartment-gentrified, destroyed inner cities. The traditional term for this is called “red lining.” An area is set aside where banks stop lending to local businesses and home improvements, at the same time the laws are no longer enforced. The financial profits were massive, but the real economy suffered since this was, on paper, more profitable than the development of industry and manufacturing as the nation shifted to a consumer-oriented postindustrial society.

Over the years, most of the crime has been caused by drug trafficking and addiction. This is the other side of the profits made by the elites. As profits from the drug trade are recycled into the growing offshore financial system, these profits are then used by the global financial elites to leverage making more profits in financial speculation. For example, HSBC bank, the historically lead bank of the British opium trade, was caught laundering tens of billions in drug money. Their punishment was to get a slap on the wrist, and for that, Loretta Lynch, the prosecutor, was rewarded by becoming the U.S. Attorney General.

Today, it is no different. There is a radical restructuring of cities like Burien that needs to be stopped. Crime and the destruction of human beings are the drivers for that radical restructuring. Leftists are merely the useful idiots being used as tools.

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‍Mr. Glumaz is former US Congressional candidate, who has been analyzing governmental systems for over four decades. As a former Marxist and former committed atheist, he brings a unique perspective to societal and governmental structures. His primary concern is Washington State and King County, and he has recently become acutely aware of the unique oppression that Burien, a small business centered community, has been experiencing. The recent lawsuits by the KC Sheriff, homeless and homeless advocates, King County's sanctioned homeless encampment, and the "Raise the Wage Burien" initiative, have caused him to question, "Why Burien?"

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