I once read a sanctimonious and immature op-ed piece which claimed Seattle was:

a pearl of brilliant Blue in an oyster bed of Red ignobility and ignorance. While others in the country slump along, their shoulders burdened by what they’ve electorally wrought, we Seattleites have held our heads high with the knowledge that we stand for all that is sensible and good.

It made me chuckle then and even more so after this story of liberal’s inflated sense of self entitlement. From The Seattle Times:

A South Seattle man accused of threatening to burn the home of an autistic child has been charged with malicious harassment, the state’s hate-crime law. Mark Joe Levison, 48, is being held without bail in the King County Jail. Court records show he failed to appear in court for previous charges.

The night of July 8, Acquinnette Engen said she was sitting on the porch of her home in the 5500 block of South Leo Street after putting her three children to bed. She said Levison began yelling at her from his yard across the street and imitating her 13-year-old autistic son.

Engen’s family had just moved in two weeks earlier, she said. Engen said Levison had previously screamed at the autistic boy when he was climbing a tree.

“I’m not dealing with you,” Engen said she told Levison that night.

“Keep your … son in the house or the backyard like a dog. If you don’t I’ll burn the [child’s bedroom] down,” Engen recalled Levison saying.

Engen’s account was similar to that in charging papers.

“It scared me to death,” Engen said Wednesday. “I was terrified.”

She called police.

Responding officers said Levison smelled like alcohol, charging papers said. Levison told the officers, “I pay $1,000 a month rent and shouldn’t have to see that idiot spinning around and staring at my yard,” charging papers said. Levison was charged July 11.

Levison has a severe drinking problem and like any good liberal the mother of the child wants Levison to “get help’ rather than go to jail, even though”helping” alcoholics never works. They have to help themselves.

But I’m sure the good citizens of Seattle will hold Levison’s hand for him while he uses the other to murder someone.

Exit Question: Why didn’t the Autistic child’s father beat the crap out of Levison when he first started hassling his family? Is kicking a drunk’s ass who’s insulting your wife too “Red State” for him?

h/t Crime Scene KC