Posted on 07/27/2020 7:57:32 AM PDT by knighthawk
Oregon's U.S. Attorney Billy J. Williams told The Oregonian over the weekend that Portland officials were engaged in "nonsensical, political theater" by banning city police from working with federal law enforcement and swore that the federal government would not be abandoning any of the federal buildings in the city.
"Anyone who thinks we’re just going to give up the courthouse, Hatfield, Pioneer (Courthouse) or any other federal facility downtown, that’s not going to happen," Williams said in the interview, according to the paper. "We’re not leaving."
For two full months, protesters have demonstrated nightly outside Mark O. Hatfield U.S. Courthouse, attempting to set the courthouse on fire, vandalizing the building, and throwing knives and using fireworks against federal law enforcement sent to defend the building. The unrest has come as similar protests have raged around the country, aimed ostensibly at bringing about racial justice and defunding police departments in the wake of the death of George Floyd in late May while in the custody of the Minneapolis Police Department.
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Why aren’t you part of the Resistance? Sanity? You believe in facts over truth? How quaint.
OREGON PING
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Just put the welfare office in there.
Take all buildings and employees out of Portland. Move the welfare office miles away.
Portland has seceded form the Union. Portland is no longer America. Citizens of Portland have forfeithed their right to call themselves Americans.
Portland should re reduced to territorial status with no right to be a part of the American governance, no congressional representation, no Senators.
Mark O. Hatfield
There is a blast from the past.
“Move the welfare office miles away.”
No, move it right next to the Mayors Office or better yet the Gov Mansion.
Portland police have been prevented from making arrests even when crimes are comitted in their presence. However the Feds are making some arrests when they witness crimes on Federal property. It would be interesting and enlightening to learn the backgrounds and where these mostly white protesters live. Suspect most do not live in Portland or even Oregon. Suspect their travel and living expenses are being paid and they are receiving a salary of sorts. These riots are not only being protected by local marxist Democrats, but they are being financed.
My Socialist sister, living in a Portland suburb, insists the ‘PROTESTORS ARE PEACEFUL’!! It is the Fed agents causing the problem!
You can tell her that having seceded, Greater Portland is no longer America
Quite a statement from the USA. Wonder if it is a form of baiting the anarchists? Was his home secretly surrounded by Claymores?? Hope so. Having a few Apaches on call would be nice too or A-10s.
Nothing would please me more than to see Mayor Ted Wheeler frog marched out of City Hall and into a Federal lockup.
Even business owners whose stores are vandalized are not angry or indignant when they are interviewed on local TV, just disappointed, and say they support protestors.
When do we effectively recognize a “political theatre” that foments burning, looting, economic chaos and murder also serves to define “political enemies” - with the very sense and purpose as our founders had in mind when they used that term in our Constitution and as it found its way into the oaths of most, if not all, federal officers?
please, let Portland burn if they want but let my dtr get her house sold first....
She is too late. She is caught in the current of history that is destructive to goo Americans.
people and businesses need to start filing law suits against the protesters, the organizations behind them, the city, etc. Hit them where it counts, their pocketbook.
"Fake News" also includes what they leave out.
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