Again this year, we packed up the picnic gear and headed over to Bellevue Downtown Park for the fireworks show. They set off the fireworks literally right over your heads, across the street from the roof of the Bellevue Square parking garage. This year, it was especially crowded, due to the celebration of America’s 250th Birthday. For me, this year’s celebration was marred by a frisson of fear, given all the violence taking place across the country, mostly by Leftists and Muslims. The East Side of Lake Washington and its cities like Bellevue, Renton, Kirkland, and Woodinville are filled with foreigners, many of whom work for the tech companies that have opened offices all over the place. Here are some photos of the surroundings at the park.
The park was filled with Indians, and the blankets around the spot we eventually found was mostly Indians and Asians. There were hijabs everywhere, and many obviously-African Muslims. My apologies, but I am becoming more and more uncomfortable around foreigners; the Seattle area is a big Sanctuary for illegal migrants from all over the world, and they feature prominently in the crime statistics.
Here’s an example of the mood. The announcer was speaking about the World Cup soccer tournament which was still in progress in Seattle. The American team was scheduled to play the next week, so in order to rouse up some vocal support, he tried to get a big USA! USA! USA! chant going in the crowd. He tried twice, and both times it fell flat. No one in the huge crowd seemed interested in shouting for the American team, or was it America they didn’t want to shout about?
In spite of that, the day was not too warm, the Bellevue Youth Symphony played well, if not enough amplification, and the fireworks did not disappoint.
And, some photos from around the park.
Hubby and I both took pictures of the downtown buildings, pleasantly surprised by how well our phone cameras captured the lighted buildings. There were no incidents at the park, and we breathed a sigh of relief as we made our slow way back to our car.
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I am with you on the discomfort level with certain co-residents of our home towns. Our part of the DFW area is heavily populated by the same groups you referred to above, and over the past ten years or so I have been increasingly apprehensive about their growing numbers and apparent cohesion. I was raised on the MLK “content of our character” way of thinking, and the overt hatred now being shown to people like us (and to our black and Hispanic neighbors who are nearly all patriots) is jarring, to say the least, especially coming from demographics who, statistically speaking, are majority government-dependent. Knowing what we know today about the massive fraud in places like Michigan, Minnesota, and California, it’s impossible to believe it is not also going on in primarily “red” states like Texas. So it gets me wondering how much USAID money bought all those nice big vans, SUV’s and pickups I see these folks driving around here daily.
I can’t help being suspicious and cynical nowadays. Isn’t that sad?
Yes. Most of the Indian techies are or were H1b entrants. Microsoft is laying off Americans and hiring cheap foreigners in their places. Someday I am going to sit quietly outside my local Costco and record all the foreigners coming and going. Few speak English among themselves.
we were there as well. To be fair – the acoustics and amplification were horrible. Unless you were directly in front you couldn’t hear anything. So people around us on the far side of the park started joining in the “USA! USA!” chant but it died out quickly even in front of the speakers. We couldn’t hear what they were saying but honestly they didn’t sound motivating at all.