Protests - the next level?

[carlson1]

https://www.oregonlive.com/news/2020/07 ... night.html

46th straight day of protests in Portland.

Wow!

This is the longest they have ever gone getting a steady pay check.

[crazy2medic]

Soros has alot of money!

[philip964]

https://news.yahoo.com/portland-mayor-t ... 48335.html

Portland Mayor joins protestors and has a bad day. Left leaning article.

https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-tr ... teargassed

Right leaning article.

[Rafe]

https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-tr ... teargassed

Right leaning article.

However, when the mayor arrived, protesters immediately cursed him, told to resign, threw things at him, and aimed leaf blowers at his face. He was also hit with tear gas outside the courthouse after the protest was declared a riot and was being cleared out by authorities.

[Rafe]

Can't resist quoting a few lines of what John Farnam had to say about the Portland mayor's visit to his riotous plebiscites:

Portland, OR’s Democrat mayor went out last night to greet his very own beloved Marxist mob, as they were enthusiastically destroying his formally-beautiful city, for the 55th day in a row!

To his astonishment, they turned on him!

I can just hear him shouting at them, “But, but, I don’t understand! I’m on your side. I am one of you! I hate capitalists, police just like you. Why are you attacking me?”

Even worse for his personal reputation in Beijing, Havana, and Pyongyang, Portland’s mayor was forced to make a cowardly, embarrassing, hasty exit, as his “security detail” (composed of city police officers that he says he hates, who are armed with “weapons of war,” which he says he also hates) physically tangle with the still-attacking, enraged, mob.

Seriously, what’s an committed anti-gun, anti-police mayor to do?

[oljames3]

Can't resist quoting a few lines of what John Farnam had to say about the Portland mayor's visit to his riotous plebiscites:

Portland, OR’s Democrat mayor went out last night to greet his very own beloved Marxist mob, as they were enthusiastically destroying his formally-beautiful city, for the 55th day in a row!

To his astonishment, they turned on him!

I can just hear him shouting at them, “But, but, I don’t understand! I’m on your side. I am one of you! I hate capitalists, police just like you. Why are you attacking me?”

Even worse for his personal reputation in Beijing, Havana, and Pyongyang, Portland’s mayor was forced to make a cowardly, embarrassing, hasty exit, as his “security detail” (composed of city police officers that he says he hates, who are armed with “weapons of war,” which he says he also hates) physically tangle with the still-attacking, enraged, mob.

Seriously, what’s an committed anti-gun, anti-police mayor to do?

Well, it seems Portland's mayor broke all of Farnam's Rules of Stupid.

[crazy2medic]

When the Socialist come to power the first ones they ship off to the concentration camps are the quislings that helped them get there!

[philip964]

https://thenationalpulse.com/news/prote ... -portland/

Use of lasers to blind federal agents violates UN weapon convention and is a war crime.

[philip964]

https://www.jsonline.com/story/communit ... 330610001/

Crowd chanting Black LIves Matter attack the home of African American police officer with he and his family inside. The peaceful protestors vandalized the home and fired a shotgun missing the officer by inches.

[philip964]

https://www.dailywire.com/news/report-m ... to-rebuild

Riot wrecked businesses in Minneapolis must pay property taxes on pre riot value before the City will issue a demolition permit to remove damage.

It appears that since this made the news, the mayor has backed down.

https://wccoradio.radio.com/articles/fe ... loyd-riots

[Rafe]

Read the following quotation, and see how current you think it might be:

"Despite our wonders and greatness, we are a society that has experienced so much social regression, so much decadence, in so short a period of time, that in many parts of America we have become the kind of place to which civilized countries used to send missionaries."

I'm rereading Dave Grossman's On Combat...and finding new notes to jot down from it. He used that quotation to open a chapter, and it seemed way too "right now" to appear in the book. So I had to go Googling.

That was written by William J. Bennett, a former U.S. Secretary of Education (1985-88 under Ronald Reagan). It appeared in the March 1998 edition of Crisis Magazine (reprint of his full opinion piece here). He's also written some books that I'll now have to take a look at, among them The Moral Compass (1995), The Death of Outrage (1998), and America: The Last Best Hope (2006).

But, yeah. The quotation is from 22 years and 5 months ago. Compared to what we're seeing today, I somehow remember 1997-1998 as a friendlier, more sane time.

[philip964]

https://www.citizenfreepress.com/breaki ... s-suburbs/

Democrat politician in Minneapolis wants the state burned to the ground and encourages protestors to apparently do so as protest move to the suburbs.

MSM did not pick this up so here is another non MSM story

https://www.theblaze.com/news/minneapol ... -bob-kroll

[parabelum]

Act of domestic terrorism. These anarchist better be dealt with legally before it gets even worse. Hello? Trump administration? You listening????

[LTUME1978]

This belongs to the local and state governments to deal with and they need to do that soon. One of the bright spots of these actions is that it may lead to a lot of folks that used to vote blue voting red out of fear for their safety. If that happens, post election all of this should be brought to an end quickly. If not, we may all get to exercise our Second Amendment rights.

[chasfm11]

This belongs to the local and state governments to deal with and they need to do that soon. One of the bright spots of these actions is that it may lead to a lot of folks that used to vote blue voting red out of fear for their safety. If that happens, post election all of this should be brought to an end quickly. If not, we may all get to exercise our Second Amendment rights.

I wish that I believed that it was possible for the red vote to happen. I'm not sure that the voters in some of the "afflicted" areas can connect the dots that well. I've talked to some of these kind of people. I spoke with one mother who at least said that she would rather see her kids shot than to have to pick up a gun and defend them. There is no way to have a rational conversation with people who think that way. I'm convinced that no coming election is going to solve anything and that that we very well may be defending ourselves afterward. The protests that we've seen to date might be mild in comparison to what is coming.