Free Republic
Browse · Search
Bloggers & Personal
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Antifa Creates Autonomous Zone in Portland after Dem Officials’ Feckless Response to Weeks of Attacks
Red State ^ | 07/15/2020 | Nick Arama

Posted on 07/15/2020 8:14:24 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

AP featured imagePortland Police

Antifa radicals have been attacking law enforcement for over 45 days in Portland, concentrating in the last couple of weeks on the federal courthouse, as we have reported.

This hasn’t been a protest, it’s been a war, with multiple police officers including federal officers injured. On Friday night, they hit a federal officer in the head because he refused to let them into the building to burn it down. He was trying to shut the door to the building, they were trying to stop him and someone whacked him with a hammer.

Then on Saturday, it appeared that federal officers may have hit one of the radicals in the head with a less than lethal munition.

Here’s a sample of some of the “peaceful protest.”

These are the fireworks antifa are using to attack police & the public in Portland. Last night one of their own comrades was injured by their explosive outside the federal courthouse. They rioted for hours and started a fire inside the courthouse. pic.twitter.com/TO1TAoRPsN

— Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) July 3, 2020

This is the aftermath of more than 30 days of antifa rioting in Portland. There are no signs it is slowing. Last night they targeted the federal courthouse, smashing windows & setting fire. The area is trashed w/debris from glass bottles & fireworks used as weapons against police pic.twitter.com/UYGe3DgbVd

— Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) July 3, 2020

The public is fed up with the leftists, even liberal citizens. But what has been the response of the local Democrats in control? Oregon Governor Kate Brown, U.S. Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley, along with U.S. representatives Earl Blumenauer and Suzanne Bonamici – all blamed the federal response and President Donald Trump for the “escalation in violence.” That takes some nerve, when in fact, it’s been radical extremists attacking the federal building for weeks and it’s the feds who should be demanding recompense from the state and the city for the failure to properly protect the building.

The federal officers have every right to defend the federal courthouse from attack but the liberal folks in Portland were more interested in trying to use it to attack Trump then really dealing with the problem.

So what did all that ridiculous pandering do?

It encouraged the radicals to set up another autonomous zone in the park in Lownsdale Square, across from the federal courthouse. They began setting up tents last night, the same area Occupy Portland used in 2011.

From Fox News:

An unofficial Twitter page attributed to a group of anti-capitalist, anti-fascist teens who call themselves the Pacific Northwest Youth Liberation Front said protesters want to establish the Chinook Land Autonomous Territory, or CLAT, in downtown Portland. The Chinook people include several indigenous groups native to the Pacific Northwest.

“People are needed here ALL night long, especially in the early morning! Get on over rn! Bring some tents,” the Twitter page said, sharing an image of a barricade that read “ACAB,” an acronym meaning “All Cops Are Bastards,” and “Black Trans Lives Matter.”

They barricaded the area using “industrial kitchen appliances, road blockades, and flashing traffic signs” and also set several fires. They claim to be fighting for “total liberation” not seeming to understand what country they live in and that everyone already is free. They describe themselves as a “Decentralized network of autonomous youth collectives dedicated to direct action toward total liberation.”

Prepare for CHAZ, part 2.

Barricade at the Chinook Land Autonomous Territory (#CLAT).
People are needed here ALL night long, especially in the early morning! Get on over rn! Bring some tents. pic.twitter.com/cP5cG77m9m

— PNW Youth Liberation Front (@PNWYLF)

July 15, 2020

This is the group seemingly largely behind these actions.

https://twitter.com/FancyJenkins/status/1283371986354237441/photo/1

pic.twitter.com/CejWaN3uOK

— Matcha chai (@matcha_chai) July 15, 2020

But progressive mayor Ted Wheeler is worse than Seattle’s Mayor Jenny Durkan ever was, if you can believe it. He’s allowed Antifa violence for years and they basically have had the run of the city long before the recent riots and violence.

What was the progressive mayor Ted Wheeler’s response to all this?

The best thing they can do is stay inside their building, or leave Portland altogether. Our goal is to end these violent demonstrations quickly and safely. And in the meantime, I asked him to clean up the graffiti on local federal facilities.

— Mayor Ted Wheeler (@tedwheeler) July 14, 2020

Unreal. He’s literally blaming the feds for the graffiti the radicals have sprayed on the building everyday. It’s maddening that there are such people in power, destroying what at one point was a beautiful city. You wonder how you get a city like Portland which is a descent into the maelstrom. This is why.

The federal government should send the bill to him.


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: antifa; autonomouszone; democrats; portland
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-44 next last
To: Starcitizen

“PISS” zone, urinate at will.


21 posted on 07/15/2020 9:38:56 PM PDT by Fungi
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 16 | View Replies]

To: SeekAndFind

The leftists want the Federal government to leave Portland. The Feds should do just that, starting with the FAA and Air Traffic Control. That would force all the airports in the area to close. So it’s back to the nineteenth century for Portland.


22 posted on 07/15/2020 9:51:44 PM PDT by reg45 (Barack 0bama: Gone but not forgiven.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: jmacusa

Sounds like “Paul” was a good man. And damn. File a permit for your constitutional right. Wow.


23 posted on 07/15/2020 9:57:56 PM PDT by vpintheak (Live free, or die!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 12 | View Replies]

To: jmacusa

get a pocket gun, and a 12 gauge for your home....then file for a permit. also buy one from a private party/relative.


24 posted on 07/15/2020 10:05:15 PM PDT by davidb56
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 12 | View Replies]

To: jmacusa

” I’m in the process of filing for a firearms permit here in NJ but I doubt I’ll get one. “

Seriously? You need to file for and be granted a permit to purchase a firearm? Isn’t that unconstitutional?


25 posted on 07/15/2020 10:20:42 PM PDT by steve86 (Prophecies of Maelmhaedhoc O'Morgair (Latin form: Malachy))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 12 | View Replies]

To: Starcitizen
Portland Independent Socialist Sector

LOL. I like that. Do you think Trump will give them money to rebuild? 😁🤪👎🤣🤑🥳

26 posted on 07/15/2020 10:28:40 PM PDT by Mark17 (Father of a US Air Force commissioned officer, and trained Air Force combat pilot. USAF RULES)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 16 | View Replies]

To: steve86

Hey. This is New Jersey.


27 posted on 07/15/2020 10:43:18 PM PDT by jmacusa (If we're all equal how is diversity our strength?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 25 | View Replies]

To: davidb56
You have to understand. This is New Jersey, it's not Oklahoma or Virginia. This is the most anti-Second Amendment state in the nation. I should have taken the advice of an old friend long ago. Had an old friend who told me to take a road trip to some state like West Virginia. Go to some quiet little town, buy a local newspaper and look up the classifieds. He said there would more than likely be someone selling a gun. But that was a long time ago. He's passed away and now we're living in ‘’The Twilight Zone’’.
28 posted on 07/15/2020 10:48:52 PM PDT by jmacusa (If we're all equal how is diversity our strength?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 24 | View Replies]

To: Bellagio

Socialists are left wing. And there was nothing National about NAZIism. It was a global totalitarian leftist movement just to the right of Soviet Socialism


29 posted on 07/16/2020 12:25:59 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 18 | View Replies]

To: Mark17

Left-wing shitholes run by socialists don’t deserve bailouts. Let them wallow in their misery.


30 posted on 07/16/2020 12:38:01 AM PDT by Starcitizen (Communist China needs to be treated like the pariah country it is. Send it back to 1971)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 26 | View Replies]

To: Bellagio
The Nazis were indeed right-wing - right wing of the Socialist movement
31 posted on 07/16/2020 2:33:42 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 18 | View Replies]

To: SeekAndFind

“protesters want to establish the Chinook Land Autonomous Territory, or CLAT, in downtown Portland. The Chinook people include several indigenous groups native to the Pacific Northwest.”

Two of the ironies here:

The protestors are not Chinook people.

Mayor Ted Wheeler’s family fortune comes from their lumber companies destruction of old growth forests on Chinook lands, polluting Chinook rivers with paper mills, and he owns expensive and exclusive waterfront home and other property on former Chinook lands.


32 posted on 07/16/2020 4:13:12 AM PDT by Montaignes Cat (HER)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Zathras

Not surprising or new, the same radical youth of the late 1960s violence moved to these areas and are the allies of the international socialists still intent on implementing destruction on our constitutional republic. This is the last hurrah for these seniors, male and female, although their young followers and even children, see S.F. D.A., have been positioned to allow and support this mess. The Cold War never really ended, like burning roots in the forest the just smoldered until this flare-up.


33 posted on 07/16/2020 4:46:35 AM PDT by JungleGoat77 (.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 14 | View Replies]

To: Bellagio

NAZI is acronym for National Social German Workers Party. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazism
People say they were right-wing, but I think they were only right in respect to their competition the communists, who were farther left.


34 posted on 07/16/2020 4:50:42 AM PDT by JungleGoat77 (.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 18 | View Replies]

To: Bellagio
HISTORY 101:

N.A.Z.I. = National German Socialist Workers Party

This Socialist party embraced the basic tenants of leftism and initially allied with their fellow leftists, the Russian Communists, until Hitler's ego led him to renege on their alliance.

NAZI Socialists are just one branch/brand name of Marx's tree of leftism that also includes communism, fascism, progressivism, etc.

Remember...you cannot spell N.A.Z.I. without the word Socialism

35 posted on 07/16/2020 4:55:56 AM PDT by newfreep
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 18 | View Replies]

To: JungleGoat77

https://socialistproject.ca/2018/05/where-are-the-riots-of-yesteryear-remembering-may-1968/
“his month marks the 50th anniversary of the wave of radical revolts and revolutionary uprisings that startled the world in 1968 and which – although ultimately crushed by the forces of reaction that dominate the world to this day – left in its wake rights so fundamental that we tend to take them for granted today – for example sexual freedom, civil rights for African-Americans, and women’s equality. Yet a half-century later these hard-won rights are under attack, and people are once again rising to defend them.”


36 posted on 07/16/2020 5:06:19 AM PDT by JungleGoat77 (.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 33 | View Replies]

To: JungleGoat77
People say they were right-wing, but I think they were only right in respect to their competition the communists, who were farther left.

The only difference between Nazis and Communists are that Nazis are *national* socialists, and Commies are *international* socialists.
37 posted on 07/16/2020 5:13:31 AM PDT by Antoninus (The press has lost the ability to persuade. They retain the ability to foment a panic.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 34 | View Replies]

To: Antoninus; MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
Max, correct me as needed please.

The only difference between Nazis and Communists are that Nazis are *national* socialists, and Commies are *international* socialists.

Actually no....The "Communist Internationale", ie. COMINTERN, was quickly overtaken by the Moscow which controlled major policy, financing, infiltration and espionage efforts.

One of the conditions of FDR recognizing the USSR was the cessation of the subversive activities of the COMINTERN, to which Stalin quickly agreed.

However control of the COMINTERN units passed to the KGB and GRU, Soviet Army intelligence. At which point the hard core publicly quit the various national communist parties and went dark resulting in parallel organizations, but both controlled from Moscow.

The openly declared com-parties received their marching orders via the KGB at Stalin's command, while the GRU operated their agents, who remained unknown to the various national party leaders.

Diana West's books, ' American Betrayal' and 'The Red Thread' deals with this issue with research including post USSR collapse release of some of the KGB files.

There are numerous youtube videos of her presentation to various conservative forums. She's easy to listen to.

38 posted on 07/16/2020 5:42:15 AM PDT by Covenantor (We are ruled...by liars who refuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern. " Chesterton)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 37 | View Replies]

To: SeekAndFind

I think better name for this area would have been Chinook Land Idiots Territory


39 posted on 07/16/2020 5:56:58 AM PDT by KosmicKitty (Who stole my tagline? It was here yesterday.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: JungleGoat77

Disgusting bastards.

Everything backwards. THEY are the ones defiling rights. Even such obvious natural rights as right to property including bodily safety.


40 posted on 07/16/2020 7:24:12 AM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 36 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-44 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
Bloggers & Personal
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson