“President Donald Trump recently deployed federal agents to “quell” the demonstrations in Portland “
Ummm...no. They are there to protect federal property that the city refuses to protect
They voted for it. Let them have it.
Good and hard.
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I have no questions on the legitimacy of terrorism - defined in the dictionary as "the unlawful use of violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims". Terrorism is pure evil. Terrorists need to be prosecuted and sent to prison for the rest of their natural lives, or they can be permanently stopped when they attack. They have no legitimacy except in the sense that they are a legitimate threat to all that is civilized and decent.
The “searching” ought to be for the living places of these vermin so that they can be cornered and have the shi....er...Obama beaten out of them.
Rinse, repeat.
What an embarrassing, incompetent city. Two months and still fretting about using force to stop rioting. Pathetic.
“soul searching”.....presumes facts not in evidence.
Searching for something that can’t be found.
And you have no one to blame but yourself ted. All the violence, all the destruction, all the misery, all the bloodshed is on your hands. Now go do the right thing (for once) and kill yourself.
“ small groups of protestors”
Gee, whatever can be done?
Which is more likely? Those businesses will go into great debt and sacrifice to rebuild in the same area?
Or they'll depart to "greener" pastures where the local government supports them and they can turn a profit?
The premise is flawed
Portland has no soul to search
Looks like there could be a heck of a lot of material for a new season of Portlandia.
The peace-loving tree hugging flakes in Oregon and Washington have proven to be the biggest hypocrites in the world.
They’re so concerned with micro aggression but yet they show up at these protests with baseball bats and other weapons. Micro aggression bad. Real aggression okay.
They’re lost souls trying to cling from one cause to the next. They have life better than 99% of the world but yet they angry. They look for any excuse they can to release their pent up anger and they do it on innocent people.
A Federal officer was assaulted by Antifa. There must be arrests for this flony. Also when Antifa membership or those participing in the violence is made public, wonder how many Democrat “elected public officials” will be found to be members.
Also need some creative law enforcement. Arrest the “elected public officials” who gave orders for the police to stand down and charge them with a conspiracy to violate the Federal civil rights of victims and property owners. Lets have a few arrests and an some trials.
So his policies have failed.
Not
Enough
Force
“striking at the heart of Portland’s identity as an ultraliberal haven where protest is seen as a badge of
honor.”
Yeah, how’s that working for you? The criminals do what criminals do.
Notice the restraint on the part of the AP writer: Floyd died, not "Floyd was killed" or "Floyd was murdered".
The writer must be old school. Trial first, verdict later.
Jo Ann Hardesty, the first Black woman on Portland’s City Council, said protesters don’t need to destroy property to effect change but believes the violence is a reaction to a newfound understanding, particularly among white people, about “how abusive the police can be.”
Those are not "protests" those are thugs attacking citizens and destroying other people's things.
This stopped being a protest a long time ago.