CHAZ In Portland?

BY Herschel Smith
4 years, 3 months ago

News from Portland.

After nearly 40 days of unrest, demonstrators in Portland, Oregon, have successfully evicted law enforcement from a park in the city’s downtown, creating their own “autonomous zone” like the one that was dismantled last week in Seattle, Washington.

“Anti-fascist” protesters have been waging a nightly war against police and federal law enforcement agents in downtown Portland, centered around a federal courthouse that demonstrators were looking to “occupy.” The confrontations gradually became more violent until, in an incident earlier this week, a protester received a gruesome injury from a non-lethal pellet after allegedly throwing a “canister” at federal agents.

Tuesday night, the protesters gave up the fight for the courthouse and instead decided to set up an “occupied” area in the city’s Lownsdale Square, just across the street, according to Fox News.

“Demonstrators began erecting tents in downtown Portland’s Lownsdale Square, across the street from the federal Pioneer Courthouse, one of the federal properties Homeland Security sought to protect by bringing federal officers into the city two weeks ago,” the outlet reported. “A camera at the Portland Standard Building showed protesters beginning to assemble tents late Tuesday night in the same park where ‘Occupy Portland’ set up in 2011.”

The “Pacific Northwest Youth Liberation Front,” an “anti-capitalist” group that the Seattle Times reported Monday has organized and supplied protesters for their nightly attacks on the courthouse, informally announced the creation of an “autonomous zone” Tuesday night and asked for volunteers to staff the area around the clock.

The Portland Police also note that a “couple hundred demonstrators gathered at Revolution Hall in Southeast Portland and marched all throughout downtown Portland before ending their march at Pioneer Square,” where they blocked traffic, set up tents, and began erecting barricades using “industrial kitchen appliances, road blockades, and flashing traffic signs.”

Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler, like Seattle’s Mayor Jenny Durkan, blamed the unrest on President Donald Trump and federal agents charged with protecting federal buildings.

“I told the Acting Secretary [of Homeland Security] that my biggest immediate concern is the violence federal officers brought to our streets in recent days, and the life-threatening tactics his agents use. We do not need or want their help,” Wheeler tweeted earlier this week. “The best thing they can do is stay inside their building, or leave Portland altogether. Our goal is to end these violent demonstrations quickly and safely. And in the meantime, I asked him to clean up the graffiti on local federal facilities.”

The mayor sounds as much like a school child as the rioters.  Imagine the mental gymnastics it takes to allow the rioters to go unmolested, blame it on the victims, and then demand that the victims clean up the mess.

So this is what Marxists do.  When socialism fails in one place, they double-down and try harder.  If it was possible, I’d like to see the feds back off, allow the rioters freedom to do what they wanted to Portland, raise taxes on Portland residents to clean it up after they failed, and then imprison the mayor and city council who let it happen.


Comments

  1. On July 16, 2020 at 9:53 pm, MTHead said:

    One can’t only hope they got their hands on Anne Brown. And all had their way with her.
    How ironic she has to protect her house from BLM trying to burn her out. After Trump pardoned The Hammonds for defending themselves from BLM trying to burn them out.
    The lord works in mysterious ways.

  2. On July 16, 2020 at 11:26 pm, Elmo said:

    Ted Wheeler to acting Homeland Security Director Chad Wolf-
    “Tell your federal agents to either stay in their building or leave. And clean the graffiti off of local federal facilities while you’re at it.”

    I wonder if brainiac Ted Wheeler realizes that the people who put that crap on those federal buildings are the same people who are about to commit sexual assaults and murders in the new autonomous zone that he is going to have to spend oodles of police overtime evicting them from next month.

  3. On July 17, 2020 at 1:58 am, JFP said:

    Teddy Wheels knows. He’s one of them.

  4. On July 17, 2020 at 4:33 am, John said:

    “The “Pacific Northwest Youth Liberation Front,” an “anti-capitalist” group that the Seattle Times reported Monday has organized and supplied protesters for their nightly attacks on the courthouse, ” There it is. Where are the federal charges?

  5. On July 17, 2020 at 7:42 am, Nosmo said:

    Can’t remember where I saw it, but someone suggested moving the present federal presence out of Portland, completely, and taking all the federal monies with it. It’s really a local problem, leave it to the locals to suffer through, or correct, as they choose. While Portlandia is, and has been, a problem, I’m not sure a “fed evac” would do much to rectify the situation.

    What happens when the Portland participants follow the feds to whatever city they move all operations to?

    Kurt Schlicter wrote a 4 book fiction series in which the Lefties owned both coastal strips and Americans owned everything in between (not quite “east of the Five and west of 95” but close, and Matt Bracken had a similar situation in one of the books making up his trilogy). It seems like we’re getting closer to that daily.

    It’s looking like November 4th will be interesting.

  6. On July 18, 2020 at 3:49 pm, penses said:

    Headline:

    Portland Riot Organizer Claims Mission is the ‘Abolition of the United States As We Know It’

    Does not get any plainer than that.

  7. On July 18, 2020 at 5:41 pm, penses said:

    Nosmo said: “It’s looking like November 4th will be interesting” If there is an election. I wonder how the bookies in Vagas are calling it.

    Downtown Portlandia no long exists.

    Andy Ngô
    @MrAndyNgo
    Person brings several katana swords to the violent Portland antifa protest. Other weapons seen on any given night in past 7 weeks include knives, machetes, hammers, crowbars, guns & more. Video by @FromKalen: #PortlandRiots

    Lots of vids you will never see on MSM.

    Knowing Mayor Bottoms would like nothing better than riots and mayhem, the gov’ner of GA has stationed Nat’l Guard units in her city indefinitely.

    Miz Peelowsy has an opinion:
    “Unidentified stormtroopers. Unmarked cars. Kidnapping protestors (ouright lie) and causing severe injuries in response to graffiti. These are not the actions of a democratic republic. DHS’s actions in Portland undermine its mission…Trump and his stormtroopers must be stopped…First Amendment speech should never be met with one sided violence from federal agents acting as Trumps secret police, especially when unidentified. This is disgraceful behavior we would expect from a banana republic–not the government of the United States.”

    Compare that with her reaction to Obama’s storm troopers during the Cliven Bundy standoff in Oregon:
    “I want to thank the men and women of our Federal agencies who’ve restored law to order and remove this radical element from our public lands!”

    “I really do believe that those who are trying to undo this president, those who are trying to destroy me, trying to destroy Michael Flynn — who’s a very good man and great American patriot war hero — I do believe they’re satanic,” Stone tells Just The News in a podcast interview for The Pod’s Honest Truth. “I don’t believe that any of these people involved in my prosecution are really believers in God.” Amen.

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