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How Liberal Portland Became America’s Most Politically Violent City
Politico ^ | June 30, 2017 | Casey Michel

Posted on 07/01/2017 3:59:23 AM PDT by C19fan

On a cloudy day in early November 1979, a caravan of Nazi and Ku Klux Klan members careened into Greensboro, North Carolina, winding toward a local Communist Workers’ Party protest that had gathered in the city to march against the state’s white supremacists. The communists, wearing berets and hard hats, spotted the fleet and taunted the new arrivals with chants of “Death to the Klan!” The KKK convoy slowed, and stopped. Far-left protesters, bearing both wooden planks and concealed pistols, began surrounding the motorcade, beating the doors. As TV cameras rolled, the trunk of a Ford Fairlane, stuffed with shotguns and rifles, popped open. Someone yelled from one of the cars, “You asked for the Klan! Now you've got ’em!”

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TOPICS: Politics; Society
KEYWORDS: 1979; cwp; greensboro; kkk; left; oregon; portland; violence
The Left believes in heavens on earth so those who stand in the way of utopia must be crushed.
1 posted on 07/01/2017 3:59:23 AM PDT by C19fan
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To: C19fan

Odd how “local Communists” wasn’t considered equally atrocious as Klansmen or Nazis.

100,000,000 dead from Communism in the 20th century and they still want to give it another shot.

The Klan and the NAZIs are evil and have blood on their hands but the Communists have far more blood on their hands and are also evil.


2 posted on 07/01/2017 4:11:16 AM PDT by a fool in paradise ( Mr. Comey, did you engage in or know of ANY OTHER leaks?)
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To: C19fan
How Liberal Portland Became America’s Most Politically Violent City

Gee, I think Berkeley is contending for the title this year.

3 posted on 07/01/2017 4:12:41 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: a fool in paradise

“100,000,000 dead from Communism in the 20th century and they still want to give it another shot.”

I think you have misinterpreted the point. The whole idea of communism is that “they” get to pick who they kill. After all, wouldn’t it be just grand to kill all those who are unworthy.*?

*Unworthy=disagree with me.

What they don’t realize is, the first people who are always arrested and executed are the communist useful idiots.


4 posted on 07/01/2017 4:18:29 AM PDT by Gen.Blather
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To: C19fan

Would someone please explain to me why Antifa is not considered a terrorist operation.


5 posted on 07/01/2017 4:53:19 AM PDT by Bodega (we are developing less and less common sense...world wide)
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To: C19fan

Liberals allow minorities to do whatever they want, including waltzing in and taking whatever they want from their White “oppressors.”
Also, liberals take guns away from non-violent people, and deliberately leave them in the hands of violent people, so they can waltz right in and take whatever they want from their White “oppressors.”


6 posted on 07/01/2017 4:57:11 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Acting constantly in contradiction with one's human nature is de facto evidence of insanity.)
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To: C19fan

When will leftists learn they can never please leftists?


7 posted on 07/01/2017 5:08:03 AM PDT by Uncle Sam 911
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Because liberal Portland is ... liberal. And “liberal” = “amoral.” And “amoral” = “willing to be violent to advance your agenda.”


8 posted on 07/01/2017 5:42:59 AM PDT by IronJack
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To: C19fan

Portland, Oregon needs an earthquake to fix it...


9 posted on 07/01/2017 5:54:30 AM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is DEPLORABLE :-))
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To: C19fan
"How Liberal Portland Became America’s Most Politically Violent City"

The title gives the explanation.

10 posted on 07/01/2017 6:00:09 AM PDT by Savage Beast (You can drive coast to coast without ever crossing a district run by Democrats! MAGA = Renaissance!)
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It addition to this latest problem, Portland is a cesspool of the homeless, transients and mentally ill. Certain areas are to be avoided especially at night as a group of us visiting in March found out. We had eaten at a (nearly) deserted Chinese restaurant and were walking back to our lodging when a mentally ill Black man accosted us with verbal vitriol. He followed us threatening us but not approaching to within a few feet. When we didn’t respond he eventually grew tired and rode off on a bicycle.


11 posted on 07/01/2017 6:02:25 AM PDT by CedarDave (Proud member of Hillary's Deplorables class of 2016.)
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To: Savage Beast
The title gives the explanation.

You nailed it. Here's how the article describes Portland:

The fact that Portland erupted as the epicenter in Trump-era political violence in the U.S. is, in a certain sense, surprising. A liberal nirvana, a crunchy, weed-and-hops city where Republicans and plastic bags alike have been all but evicted, Portland has embodied and outpaced many of the urban trends of the early 21st century: gentrification and co-ops, food trucks and footbridges, transitions to a bike-and-pedestrian economy. It is, as a conspicuous show* has encapsulated, a progressive paradise. (*"Portlania")

12 posted on 07/01/2017 6:10:04 AM PDT by CedarDave (Proud member of Hillary's Deplorables class of 2016.)
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To: C19fan

More Portland violence from yesterday:

http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2017/06/violence_breaks_out_at_protest.html


13 posted on 07/01/2017 7:29:58 AM PDT by aimhigh (1 John 3:23)
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I'm no fan of the Klan, but those Commie punks got exactly what they deserved. That same Before and After is the justice today's Antifa punks deserve.

Far-left protesters, bearing both wooden planks and concealed pistols, began surrounding the {Klan} motorcade, beating the doors.

That same before and after is the justice today's Antifa punks deserve. That's why I love when I read of Lefties arming up and marching with weapons.

14 posted on 07/01/2017 8:35:57 AM PDT by drpix
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To: Savage Beast

Yes, it does!


15 posted on 07/01/2017 9:12:52 AM PDT by nobamanomore
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