Posted on 07/21/2020 8:56:11 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Leftist gaslighting over the deployment of federal agents to address months of nightly riots in the city of Portland, Oregon has reached epic proportions. The New York Times published an article on Friday entitled “Federal Agents Unleash Militarized Crackdown on Portland.” It begins:
Federal agents dressed in camouflage and tactical gear have taken to the streets of Portland, unleashing tear gas, bloodying protesters and pulling some people into unmarked vans in what Gov. Kate Brown of Oregon has called ‘a blatant abuse of power.’
The extraordinary use of federal force in recent days, billed as an attempt to tamp down persistent unrest and protect government property, has infuriated local leaders who say the agents have stoked tensions. ‘This is an attack on our democracy,’ Mayor Ted Wheeler of Portland said.
Democrats’ claims of “unmarked jackbooted stormtrooper thugs randomly rounding up people” stem from the following incident.
(Excerpt) Read more at thefederalist.com ...
I hope these jagoffs get punished in November.
OREGON PING
If you’d like to be on the Oregon ping list, please freep mail me.
Remove ALL Federal funding of anything in Oregon. Send Oregon absolutely nothing. Let their idiot governor squirm when unemployment, highways, etc. all become defunded.
Classic gaslighting indeed.
It is the rioters who have taken to the streets, wear paramilitary clothing, attack loot and destroy and even murder - the only thing they haven’t done is toss people into unmarked vans.
But the tossing is the arresting which is the response to the rioting. You don’t take the effect and make it the cause.
I know what gaslighting is.
Democracy = MOB RULE, so they are correct..................
Democrats are sick psychopaths.
Curiouser and curiouser. Even Alice would say, “You people are crazy. I’m going back to Wonderland.”
Just out of curiosity, since Dimbulbcrats love “democracy” so much, and hate the constitution so much, how would they feel about federal intervention if some city would vote for slavery?
After all, we must do the “will of the people” and let’s say some group in some city would do such a thing?
Of course, we KNOW that they would want to do and we’d agree that federal intervention would be appropriate.
The New York Times is everything but a reliable source for news. They far too often ‘give voice to Stalinist propaganda’....they are a radicalized, marxist, bullhorn—a super PAC for the Democratic Party!
I DO wish that would happen...and I live in Oregon!
Some of these young crackers would be killed outright if the wrong people...people they believe are on their side...picked them up and whisked them away. Usually, they just shoot you where they find you.
Correct. We are no longer a Republic. We are a democracy. Mob rule.
That’s correct! I attended Tea Party marches in DC and we were labelled as “rioters”. As I’m sure most Freepers have seen, we left DC cleaner than when we got there.
Mob rule = ochlocracy (therein, a faction attempts to control established government and intimidate opposition through street violence).
Democracy implies government of, by, and for, a majority of the people writ large. For the small minority factions rioting in Portland and Seattle are enemies of democracy.
The right to assemble is protected.
The right to riot, loot and destroy is not.
Simple.
Yes, marxist mob rule
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