Reading Seattle outlets. The public has turned against the protest after buildings were set on fire.
Targeting and damaging residential buildings is unconscionable and inexcusable
the huge groups you see are peaceful. Then those guys go to bed and the dead enders start ing with the fence every night which provokes the tear gas, pepper balls and flash bangs. They tore down a big section of fence last night which got the Portland police to respond and clear everyone out for a couple hours. Basically everything after midnight is bull and counterproductive for the protesters.
For the most part he is correct. In general once the sun comes down the trouble makers come out.
There are multiple livestreams every night. I predict pretty much the same thing will happen tonight so just search for "Portland" on YouTube and filter for live. If you need the individual Facebook accounts of the streamers they are aggregating, that will take some work.
I don't have time to watch live streams and Disney cartoons.
I guess no link then.
Repugs dubya/ head created DHS as Federal Police Force, Los Federales
Trump’s Dangerous Attempt to Create a Federal Police
the creation of D.H.S. gave the President vast new powers.
What the Administration is doing is finding this other way to go at it, which is through the protection of federal facilities and monuments.
And they do have legitimate authority to protect those facilities.
they still have to adhere to the Fourth Amendment and First Amendment protections and civil liberties, and so one area where we’ll probably see some legal activity has to do with potential civil-rights violations.
They cannot, in the course of carrying out their lawful function, violate people’s civil rights—that in itself would be a violation of federal law.
That’s different from sending officers or agents out into the streets of Portland to detain or arrest people.
So that’s where I think the boundaries of what they’re doing start to fall apart.
The purpose of the department was really to protect against terrorism.
over time, it fell into being the largest law-enforcement force in the country.
there are more than sixty thousand of them.
you layer on top of that two things.
One,
there are very, very weak internal controls within D.H.S. itself.
There’s no coördinating mechanism for oversight and accountability. Each agency component has its own different oversight functions, but there’s nobody coördinating that at the secretary level.
And then
you layer on top of that the high turnover in political appointees and
the President having gutted the Senate-confirmed leadership of that department.
And you end up with a politically malleable leadership willing to use this robust law-enforcement force and capacity.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and...federal-police
Thanks, Osama bin Laden!
Why are they wearing helmets and carrying shields?
what is your understanding of what happens in Portland every night?
Fox News?![]()
Violent law enforcement
Even the people just do enting the events wear helmets and gas masks because they are routinely shot and gassed by the feds.
"It's not us, it's them"
All came in the same bus
No way to know if they are the same people though. Insinuating they are completely separate groups is just cool narrative.
I'm sure more than a few could be picked out by the equipment they are wearing or using. The feds are definitely keeping track so you can ask them.
Or post your cool narrative about spontaneous leaf blower generation, for example.
Ofcourse. Responsibility falls on the protesters to control their movement and thus perception
I checked out an Antifa reddit group and someone posted this exact caution. They were down voted and told they are part of the problem.
Prove it
Prove your claim they all came on the same bus.
The hundred or so guys who come with the same shields and leaf blowers and helmets every night are different from the thousands who stand there until a little after sundown and leave.
It's so simple anyone can understand it.
So it's impossible to return after dark with different equipment, and we can now ask the feds. Cool cop out after playing the "no true Scotsman" fallacy and subsequent red herring.
Prove they all came on the same bus. Cool cop out abandoning your claim and demanding I prove a negative.
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