Posted on 07/19/2020 5:30:17 PM PDT by Libloather
Peaceful protesters don’t try to burn down federal courthouses or jails or the headquarters of a local police union, nor hurl rocks and bottles at cops, night after night for weeks on end - nor assault a police station: What’s going on in Portland is somewhere between riot and insurrection, and demands a strong federal response even if local officials are in denial.
Antifa types are besieging the Mark Hatfield Courthouse and other federal buildings, as well as the Multnomah County Justice Center. They’re assaulting not just buildings and law-enforcers, but the very rule of law.
Questions do need asking about the feds’ tactics: Does the situation really require unmarked vehicles, and officers working without visible shield numbers or other clear ID or even uniforms?
Yet the answers may be “yes and yes,” if there are real concerns about law enforcers’ personal safety. Recent days have already seen the public release of some officers’ personal info - “doxing” that invites harassment or worse at their homes.
And the basic legal authority for the feds to act is beyond clear: Nightly attacks on the area have proceeded for weeks now, and the efforts to set the Justice Center aflame have clearly endangered the lives and safety of civilians, including detainees in the 700-bed jail.
**SNIP**
But Nancy Pelosi’s response to what’s happening in Portland is completely one-sided, accusing the feds of creating a “banana republic” while ignoring the fact that rioters have an anarchy nation. The attitude of the local Democratic lawmakers is even worse, a complete abdication of their city to violence.
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Are they still referring to them as “mostly peaceful protests” ?
First, if The Patriot Act is invoked, all bets are off, in the field of habeas corpus. They can do anything.
Second. I remind you when GWB signed The Military Commisssions Act of 2996, which is predicated that it stipulates all citizens are afforded status as a suspect of a forthcoming crime.
Now, with that said, I don’t mind antifa thugs being swept off the street, but only those identified as antifa.
They're destroying our city.
I’ve heard 7.62mm clears a mask most efficiently.
Since they all wear black, hoods, bike helmets, etc., plus body armor, and with many carrying weapons of some sort, that makes them easily identifiable. They make it easy for the Feds to round them up. And, since I haven't heard of any actual arrests yet, I'm assuming those detained, are being questioned in order to gather information, and then released. The media hasn't told us any personal sob stories yet, and I'm sure they'd be doing that if these people were found to be mistreated in any way. I just love the way these anarchists, who are so intent in taking our rights away, that the first thing they cry about when picked up is that their rights are being violated.
>>What’s going on in Portland is somewhere between riot and insurrection
To deny it is insurrection is to deny reality.
Media is still claiming that there are good people among the Communist AsF*** AntiFAaaas.
Isn't that what Trump got in a fantastic amount of trouble for? Saying there were "good people" among the protestors in Charlottesville, Virginia?
As far as I am concerned, what is going on in Portlandia is inner-squad practice. The fascist team knows the police are ordered to put up only token resistance. The risk of getting arrested in minimal and even if arrested, the charges will be dropped by the Soros DA.
Don’t kid yourself about what you are seeing. What you are should be looking at is not the fat, ugly, white chicks and soy boys. Those are expendable cannon-fodder - maybe a few will make it to the real team.
What is being practiced in the chaos is logistics, medics, communications, command and control, and especially training of “lieutenants” and “captains”. Letting them function night after night in chaos, dealing with changing situations, worrying about logistics, communications, tactics. I would not be surprised if they are rotating in and out various leaders to have them get experience, and then a debrief each day getting them ready for the following night.
This is not the “varsity team”, this is not even the “junior varsity team”. This is simply the practice squad working on training the support, logistics, and leadership.
If they eventually capture the flag (Federal building), great, but that is not the point of this nightly riot. It is live action training of their leaders and organization.
I was on the phone tonight with a friend who went into Portland to observe last night. He was at the courthouse under siege, etc. No city cops around. NONE! The feds roughed up a few people but no detainees or arrests. They would come out, set off percussion grenades, shoot some rubber bullets and tear gas, tangle with a few of the leaders, then retreat. They did this three times last night.
“I’ve heard that masks also help with the tear gas.”
The eyes.
The media and the Rat leadership (Pelosi and Biden) still won’t apologize to President Trump and concede (A) that he DID condemn neonazis and white supremacists at the event and (B) that he was RIGHT that it wasn’t simply about confederate statues that some good people wanted to preserve all of the statues in this country and that the (militant and Far) Left would someday come for statues of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson and THEY HAVE.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmaZR8E12bs
It is undeniably war.
They been working on secession in Seattle and Portland and we are ‘told’ that if there is a RESPONSE it will be civil war. Already is. Just conceding them “no go zones”.
Pelosi “accusing the Feds of creating a banana republic” and using “storm troopers” -
I imagine if this were going on across the street from her house in San Francisco, she’d be calling for “storm troopers” all right.
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I didn’t think there would be any city police in the area. I’m sure they’ve been told to stand down, and not respond to anything related to the activities of the anarchists. Since it’s a Federal courthouse, I’m assuming they have external cameras positioned around the building so they can see what’s going down outside. Wish I had a view of those cameras. Those little bastards have been assaulting that courthouse for while now. They must be so upset that they haven’t been able to penetrate it. I’d like to see the Feds drop some stuff on them from the roof of the building.
Peaceful arson and peaceful looting.
I think I”m on it.
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