Dori: Teresa Mosqueda thinks it’s okay to scream blasphemies against God

There are a lot of things in the news here locally that just make me furious. The audio that I just have gotten of Teresa Mosqueda leading a protest of Amazon in downtown Seattle on Wednesday makes me incredibly sad for what we are as a region now.

I don’t try to hit you over the head with my Christian faith, but it is a reality that my faith provides the structure and the prism through which I view the world. As far back as I can remember, we had a family Bible on a side table in our living room. The rules were strict — you couldn’t set a glass, or even papers, on the Bible. One of the other rules that was impressed upon me from a young age was the Commandment, “Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord in vain.”

I know it’s very common for people to say, “Oh God.” I don’t do that. From a young age, I always thought that you shouldn’t take the name of the Lord in vain.

At Wednesday’s rally, which opposed Amazon potentially selling facial recognition software to ICE, Teresa Mosqueda led the crowd in a call-and-response, “We stand with you, opposed to surveillance technology, [expletive]it!”

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Would Teresa Mosqueda stand out in a crowd and blaspheme Allah? Would she ever do that, in a million years? No. But it has become so acceptable, so trendy, in a city that has the highest un-churched population in the country, for an elected official to stand up and blaspheme our God.

Instead of making me angry, it makes me horribly sad. It is yet another example of the depths to which we have plummeted with people like her in office. I’m serious, what do you think would happen to her if she stood on the street and blasphemed Allah? Or Buddha? Well first of all, she wouldn’t do it, because she would not want to offend Muslims or members of any other religion, I guarantee you. But Christians?

Oh heck, yes. Absolutely. Anything I can do as a councilwoman to offend Christians, I’ll do it.

More than all that, her arguments make no sense. I wonder if she’s an Amazon Prime member, as she screams about the evils of Amazon. When she watches TV shows in the evening, is she watching them on Amazon Prime? When she wants to order something online, does she order from Amazon? And the yelling about facial recognition technology is nonsense babbling. Casinos have been using facial recognition for years. Police also use it.

Teresa Mosqueda is a reflection of the people who elected her. She represents the people who voted for her, and it’s absolutely disgusting. That is their voices up there. She is a reflection of our city.

Meanwhile, the city that has evolved under the watch of people like Teresa Mosqueda has the worst property crime of any major city in the country, and one of the worst homelessness problems in the nation despite the fact that we spend more money on homelessness per capita than any other city.

We have needles everywhere, trash everywhere. Drug-addicted vagrants attack people like the Pioneer Square gallery owner, the family at the Space Needle, and runners at Green Lake and Golden Gardens. Hey Teresa, why don’t you do something about the drug plague, the people dying on the streets, the crime that is ravaging our city?

And by the way, what kind of gig is that? I’m trying to imagine what kind of job would allow me to go scream, go bay at the moon for an hour in the middle of my workday. That’s proof of what a nonsense job being a city councilmember is. I don’t have time to go scream blasphemies at a building in the middle of the afternoon because I’m actually working.

I’ll tell you what; the further we get away from God, the worse it gets. I know that sets the atheists off when I talk like that. But it’s just an obvious truth looking around our city.

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