Posted on 07/18/2020 8:31:38 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Oregon's city of Portland is looking more like Caracas, Venezuela by the day, not just in its Marxist ideology, but in its moral rot and physical shambles.
John Hinderaker at Power Line noted a few days ago that he had until recently taken comfort in knowing that his home city of Minneapolis wasn't the worst-run city in America, because of Portland.
But now the blue-city shambles is taking another turn - Portland's leaders are openly screaming for federal law enforcement coming in to protect federal property, such as courthouses, to leave the burning garbage dump that is their city. They'd rather the city be left to fester.
Fox News has a very good report:
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What a dump.
According to Washington Post:
During a video news conference Friday, Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler twice called the federal police in his city President Trump’s “personal army” and said that he is joining a chorus of Oregon’s elected officials in sending a clear message to Washington: “Take your troops out of Portland.”
“This is part of a coordinated strategy out of Trump’s White House to use federal troops to bolster his sagging polling data, and it is an absolute abuse of federal law enforcement officials,” Wheeler said. “As we were starting to see things de-escalate, their actions last Saturday and every night since have actually ratcheted up the tension on our streets.”
There was also this leftist fool:
“I am proud to be among the loud chorus of elected officials calling for the federal troops in Portland’s streets to go home,” Portland Commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty said in a statement shared with The Post on Sunday. “Their presence here has escalated tensions and put countless Portlanders exercising their First Amendment rights in greater danger.”
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So? Let it fester. Leave ‘em to anarchy. Let ‘em show the world what would happen if they should have their way. Let it serve as a warning.
The mayor isn't playing with a full deck.
Time for some of those Portlanders to get outta Dodge.
The governor of Oregon was just as bad:
Oregon Gov. Kate Brown said President Donald Trump, who deployed Department of Homeland Security officers to Portland, "is looking for a confrontation in Oregon in the hopes of winning political points in Ohio or Iowa."
"Now he is deploying federal officers to patrol the streets of Portland in a blatant abuse of power by the federal government," Brown, a Democrat, said in a statement late Thursday.
And here's more overwrought rhetoric from an under-brained Oregon senator:
“A peaceful protester in Portland was shot in the head by one of Donald Trump’s secret police,” Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) wrote in a Thursday tweet that also called out acting DHS secretary Chad Wolf. “Now Trump and Chad Wolf are weaponizing the DHS as their own occupying army to provoke violence on the streets of my hometown because they think it plays well with right-wing media.”
Not sure why my tax dollars should end up subsidizing a gov’t that doesn’t does fulfill its responsibilities to its citizens.
A federal official tweeted this:
“I offered @DHSgov support to help locally address the situation that’s going on in Portland, and their only response was: please pack up and go home. That’s just not going to happen on my watch.” pic.twitter.com/BW8UdbNZ9c — Acting Secretary Chad Wolf (@DHS_Wolf) July 17, 2020
Oregon's U.S. Attorney, a federal rather than state official, had this to say:
“The overarching goal of law enforcement is public protection and, during tense and dangerous situations, de-escalation. Federal law enforcement officers protecting the Mark O. Hatfield U.S. Courthouse and other federal buildings have been operating with those two critical goals. Night after night for the past 50 nights, they have protected the federal courthouse from incursion and fire. They have rebuffed efforts to enter the building by force and have been met with an onslaught of commercial fireworks, laser strikes, glass, mortars, paint, and anything else near at hand. They have endeavored to find the individuals within the crowd who are committing these violent acts and arrest them in a manner that is safe for both the officers and nearby non-violent protesters. In limited instances, their conduct has been questioned and the Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General appropriately opened an investigation into the use of less lethal ammunition directed at a [protester] last week."
What we are looking at here is an unprecedented opposition to any semblance of law and order. Worse still, we are seeing a city and state at odds with federal interests in the most basic of interests, protecting federal property.
We are seeing fantastical narratives from Oregon's mayor in particular, but pretty much all of them.
What would happen if, say, about 400 America loving conservatives staged a coup in Portland seizing the mayor, city council, and police chief, and “appointed” new officials?
Ron Wyden needs to be shot in the head with a rubber bullet too. Maybe it will knock some sense into him. He is totally worthless.
I would opine that the State Police operate at the direction of the Governor, the state-level executive.
So let them. The only way to wake liberals up is to make them live with the consequences of their votes and actions. Trying to fix it for them removes the mess they’ve made and lets them focus on you as a reason to be mad.
I’m okay with giving them what they want.
Portland has seceded from the union and that must not be tolerated.
I look at it more as a kid running off to join the circus or build a cabin the woods. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
Looks like the Governor’s mansion is safe from “protesters”.
So? Let it fester. Leave ‘em to anarchy. Let ‘em show the world what would happen if they should have their way. Let it serve as a warning.
Thats like saying”So its cancer! Let it fester! Show that body whose the boss. Once these assholes are done burning the city down, then move to you in the suburbs, because now they are emboldened as a force. Have the NAZI brownshirts taught nothing on how this migrates from a gang thugs to a party of thugs? If Trump shows willingness to punch back at democrap blackshirts, they have nothing. True you have to use a federal army, but enough is enough, unless you are willing to form a militia?
A Portland Anecdote...My family has been fans of Cracker Barrel since we first went to one while visiting Texas. A couple years ago, Portland opened a couple Cracker Barrels down there. We went to the one in Beaverton then to celebrate my oldest son’s birthday.
My younger son turns 18 on August 1st. He said he wanted to go to Cracker Barrel for his birthday, but he EMPHATICALLY said “I do NOT want to go to Portland! They’re a bunch of anti-Trump idiots down there!” So, we’re going to take a family weekend and drive to Couer D’Alene, Idaho to eat at THEIR Cracker Barrel. (And to check out the area concerning a move OUT of the Supreme Soviet of Washington.)
My younger son votes for the 1st tiume this year and is a staunch Trump supporter and Conservative. I am proud of him.
Better for the mayor to be escorted into the back of a Dodge, like those other antifas.
I was in the Portland area in early March for a quick visit. I wasn’t aware that I needed a passport to go there since it was like visiting a 3rd world nation back then. Cannot even imagine what it is like now.
After I got back and the COVID situation hit, I was repeatedly (at medical appointments) asked if I had visited another country. My reply was “Only if you consider the Portland area another country”. My response was usually greeted with laughter and agreement.
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