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Always remember, Operation Valkyrie was an act of sedition.
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The Leaf Blower Dads, too, along with ‘walls’ of lawyers, nurses, teachers, chefs, etc.
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A group of self-identified Portland dads, inspired by the “Wall of Moms” that forms a protective human shield at the front of nightly protests near the Mark O. Hatfield Courthouse, set out to help clear the air at protests by arming themselves with leaf blowers. They are known collectively as “DadBloc” and “Leaf-Blower Dads” and turn up to the protests wearing orange shirts to compliment the moms’ yellow ones. Each night, their numbers have swelled.On Friday, they were joined by other burgeoning groups — the veteran-led Wall of Vets, green-shirted Teachers Against Tyrants, the pizza-box carrying ChefBloc, health-care workers in scrubs and Lawyers for Black Lives, who turned up at the protest in suits and ties.
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"Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum filed a lawsuit on July 17 against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the U.S. Marshals Service, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the Federal Protection Service and their agents. In it, she alleged that federal officers in the city of Portland have acted unlawfully by seizing and detaining Oregonians without probable cause, and she sought a restraining order that would temporarily stop them from using such tactics.
"On Friday, U.S. District Judge Michael Mosman denied that request.
"Mosman wrote that . . . most fundamentally, because it has not shown it is vindicating an interest that is specific to the state itself — I find the State of Oregon lacks standing here and therefore deny its request for a temporary restraining order," he concluded."
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Time to send in some biker gangs
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@Catseye3 said in Police State:
@Jolly said in Police State:
Turns out many of the vets were not vets.
But they are Americans.
Good. Next time identify yourself as a pro football player.
Never trust a liar...
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@Catseye3 said in Police State:
"Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum filed a lawsuit on July 17 against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the U.S. Marshals Service, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the Federal Protection Service and their agents. In it, she alleged that federal officers in the city of Portland have acted unlawfully by seizing and detaining Oregonians without probable cause, and she sought a restraining order that would temporarily stop them from using such tactics.
"On Friday, U.S. District Judge Michael Mosman denied that request.
"Mosman wrote that . . . most fundamentally, because it has not shown it is vindicating an interest that is specific to the state itself — I find the State of Oregon lacks standing here and therefore deny its request for a temporary restraining order," he concluded."
The Feds most definitively have a role in protecting Federal property such as a courthouse, especially when state or local law enforcement cannot or will not protect that property.
People have already been charged by the U.S. District Attorney with arson in Portland. A nice five year sentence may give them time to think about their misdeeds...
Always remember, Operation Valkyrie was an act of sedition.
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@Jolly said in Police State:
People have already been charged by the U.S. District Attorney with arson in Portland.
KEZI.com: "The offices of the Inspector General for both the Department of Justice and Department of Homeland Security agreed earlier this week to open investigations into the tactics of federal law enforcement during the Portland protests." https://www.kdrv.com/content/news/US-Inspectors-General-agree-to-investigate-federal-officers-in-Portland-571882951.html
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I'm actually confused as to the Portland situation. What federal troops are there that have a right to be there? (This is not argumentative, I really don't know.) What troops are there whose presence is at best problematical? Which Trump has solved -- as if by magic! -- by referring to the protesters as 'terrorists'.
Sorry, Donald. Not.
What specific insights have made it to the press from protesters about specifically what they are protesting about, specifically? How many are there? What is the ratio of protester to cop? How many of the protesters are inflicting damage to property, federal or otherwise?
To what degree is the press so bollixing up the coverage that we have no hope of getting a clear picture of what is really going on? If it bleeds it leads, right?
It's a mess, IMO.
But a priority action has to be getting unauthorized federal-level law enforcement out of the area.
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@Axtremus said in Police State:
The Leaf Blower Dads, too, along with ‘walls’ of lawyers, nurses, teachers, chefs, etc.
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A group of self-identified Portland dads, inspired by the “Wall of Moms” that forms a protective human shield at the front of nightly protests near the Mark O. Hatfield Courthouse, set out to help clear the air at protests by arming themselves with leaf blowers. They are known collectively as “DadBloc” and “Leaf-Blower Dads” and turn up to the protests wearing orange shirts to compliment the moms’ yellow ones. Each night, their numbers have swelled.On Friday, they were joined by other burgeoning groups — the veteran-led Wall of Vets, green-shirted Teachers Against Tyrants, the pizza-box carrying ChefBloc, health-care workers in scrubs and Lawyers for Black Lives, who turned up at the protest in suits and ties.
— — — —All that virtue in one place!
OMG
I'm going to swoon!
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@Catseye3 said in Police State:
I'm actually confused as to the Portland situation. What federal troops are there that have a right to be there? (This is not argumentative, I really don't know.) What troops are there whose presence is at best problematical? Which Trump has solved -- as if by magic! -- by referring to the protesters as 'terrorists'.
Sorry, Donald. Not.
What specific insights have made it to the press from protesters about specifically what they are protesting about, specifically? How many are there? What is the ratio of protester to cop? How many of the protesters are inflicting damage to property, federal or otherwise?
To what degree is the press so bollixing up the coverage that we have no hope of getting a clear picture of what is really going on? If it bleeds it leads, right?
It's a mess, IMO.
But a priority action has to be getting unauthorized federal-level law enforcement out of the area.
There is no federal unauthorized law enforcement in the area. The state has no say, when it comes to protecting federal property. And, if a city cannot control its inhabitants, and exists in a state of semi-anarchy, the Feds have the authority to quell that disturbance, whether the city wants them there or not.
Those questions were permanently set red at Appomattox.
Always remember, Operation Valkyrie was an act of sedition.
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@Jolly said in Police State:
And, if a city cannot control its inhabitants, and exists in a state of semi-anarchy, the Feds have the authority to quell that disturbance, whether the city wants them there or not.
What's the authority? And which agencies? "The feds" doesn't mean anybody on one federal payroll or another.
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As for Trump calling the Antifa terrorists? They are.
Google up their handbook and do a bit of reading. They are socialists, perhaps communists, certainly anarchists, and do not mind overthrowing the government by violent means.
Some video for y'all...
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@Catseye3 said in Police State:
@Jolly said in Police State:
And, if a city cannot control its inhabitants, and exists in a state of semi-anarchy, the Feds have the authority to quell that disturbance, whether the city wants them there or not.
What's the authority? And which agencies? "The feds" doesn't mean anybody on one federal payroll or another.
You can use the U.S. Marshals, ICE, Treasury, Secret Service, etc. If Trump wants to, he can invoke the Insurrection Act and send Abrams Tanks, if he thinks he absolutely must.
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@Axtremus said in Police State:
This time, it’s the “wall of vets”, as in military veterans forming a human wall to protect the protesters.
There were only a couple of dozen. About half of those weren't really vets. It takes a true moron to think that out of all the veterans there are there's not a dozen or so true nutjobs who are stupid, and seeing these nutjobs lined up at a riot is significant of something.
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The Portland riots remind me of a scenario, where there are enlisted men/women doing battle, but no officers.
BLM is the convenient rallying cry, and the most violent personalities get to move to the front lines, weilding everything from lasers to metal saws, to setting fires to hopefully burn down the federal building. As one proterster was heard to ask another, "what happens when we get inside the building?" Foot soldiers do not know the answer, and like I said, there are no officers representing the will of the government. So it's cacophony interspersed with a few meaningless chants.
I believe these people represent a huge number of people, who realize that by playing by the rules, they will never achieve the American Dream. And, there is no one, or no political party, that will change the rules of the game, politicians are all in it for themselves for the most part, the power and the money, and hardly any of them regardless of how much they rip off the American people, will see any jail time based on justice.It's a mess. A serious, catastrophic mess, with no leadership to guide the sinking ship, and by extension no officers, with the enlisted unable to make any sense to themselves other than violence.
But I understand there are free hot dogs for protesters. There is that. I always like to focus upon the positive.
