Posted on 08/21/2020 5:19:32 PM PDT by military cop
The following is a long read but well worth your time. The author is a man of wisdom, integrity and insightful. He has gone to work every day during this tumultuous time in Portland. We owe him a debt of gratitude. ______________
Thanks to all my friends and family who have reached out to me and are concerned about what is going on in downtown Portland. For those who don’t know, I work at the Federal Courthouse in Portland. What is going on here is not what is being portrayed in the media and I want to set the record straight as to what reality is and what I have had to endure.
As I walk the streets of downtown Portland I wonder if it would be better to change its name to Beirut. Destruction everywhere. Businesses boarded up and refusing to open until the chaos is over. Fires and vandalism have destroyed most of the garbage cans, dumpsters, parking meters, business signs, windows, statues, water fountains and anything else in sight. The only thing that is missing are the homeless people. They have fled the chaos because they can’t sleep and are in fear for their personal safety. The public buildings that have served as a point of pride to this city have been desecrated, one of which is the Federal Courthouse.
At the time of this writing all three of the front entrance doors along with adjacent windows have been smashed. These windows are very thick and durable. Several other windows around the building have been broken by wrist rockets shooting large ball bearings, pellet guns or suspected gunfire. The complete circumference of the building is plastered with an unbelievable amount of graffiti on unique stonework that may not be able to be removed and the longer it stays on the tougher it will be to remove. All of the current main floor windows are boarded up with plywood that has been pealed back on occasion to allow windows to be damaged, lighted material to be thrown in or to use the plywood to set a bonfire that destroyed the 110 year old Elk Fountain. All of the access doors have been vandalized or damaged beyond use. Security cameras have been damaged or destroyed. The building has been encircled with a temporary embassy style security fence that has been breached several times in the last couple of days. Arriving to work one can see dump truck loads of garbage thrown over the fence and numerous ash piles where items have been burned. Rocks, bricks, frozen water bottles, cans of food that were thrown at officers the night before are strewn about. Upon entering the building for work, employees have to wade through piles of garbage, human and animal feces, and buckets of urine in the doorways. Unventilated areas retain the odor of CS Gas throughout the day and security officers have to stand outside the entrance to avoid coughing and sneezing from the left over residue. Employees have been videoed, license plates written down,confronted with verbal harassment and threats to both us and our families, demands for personal identifying information,followed from work and some reports have come in about vandalized vehicles at our homes. Metal spikes have been used in an effort to puncture tires of employees or federal vehicles. It is suspected that intelligence files are being compiled on us. When I leave the courthouse I take different routes to my transportation home constantly looking to see if I am being followed.
With all of this happening, the Department Heads and Judges felt it necessary to protect themselves and their staffs by first requesting assistance from local authorities who did little to protect the people and buildings that are within their jurisdictions. With this lack of local concern the last ditch effort was to make a request to Washington DC for federal help. There are currently over 100 federal law enforcement officers officers from multiple federal departments in Portland at this time to protect federal property, federal employees and to perform federal law enforcement functions.
Why is this happening? It is not the BLM movement. It is the total breakdown of leadership in Portland and the State Capital who have allowed a highly organized anarchist element that has been in Portland for years which infiltrates peaceful groups to roam freely with little or no restraint. Governor Brown and the Portland City Counsel have demanded the federal officers leave the city while directing local law enforcement to stop all coordination and assistance of federal law enforcement. I find it ludicrous that people are demanding to have these officers removed or their tactics modified at the same courthouse that is under siege from the same judges whose own safety and staffs safety is benefiting from the presence of those officers. Kate and Ted. I have been a Portland area resident for longer than you’ve been alive. You have failed to protect me and my other Oregon coworkers. That is your SWORN responsibility!!!
Let me transition to the DISHONESTY of the media.
It is DISHONEST to say that these federal officers are troops, Gestapo, storm troopers, or paramilitary forces dressed in military camouflage. These law enforcement officers are from multiple federal agencies and are wearing their actual duty uniforms plus some added protective gear for obvious reasons. Some agencies like Border Patrol do wear camouflage uniforms which are practical for their work environment.
It is DISHONEST to portray these officers of lacking coordination and crowd control skills. They have had 10 times the crowd control training that I ever had.
It is DISHONEST to say officers are indiscriminately taking people off the streets to detain them illegally. As law enforcement officers they can seize and detain people who have committed crimes after the fact. If a team of officers see someone who appears to be a person who committed a criminal act the day before, they can stop and detain that person and in the case of the recent reports in the media, can contact them and move them away from the crowd that they have just left for their and the detainees safety. It is unknown at this time if they contacted the actual suspect or mistook them for the actual suspect. You have to admit that wearing dark clothing at night with masking would make it difficult for anyone to recognize somebody from a distance.
It is DISHONEST to say that these officers are using overly aggressive tactics and using excessive force. They are stationed inside the courthouse and there rules of engagement are to protect the federal courthouse and themselves if attacked. They only exit the building when attempts are made to breach or damage the building and exclusively stay on that property unless there are specific threats to them outside the perimeter that need to be addressed. And lets face it. Tear gas has been around for decades and should be of no surprise that it is being used for crowd control and officer safety,pandemic or no pandemic.
It is DISHONEST to say that media and legal observers are being targeted for arrest. When a crowd is told to disperse, tear gas has been deployed, and a moving skirmish line has been established, anybody in the path is liable for their own reasons to not comply with orders to disperse. Common sense would say that if there has been tear gas usage every night for 2 months, the next night should result in the same response.
It is DISHONEST to represent Mr Navy as an unsuspecting victim. He heard the orders for the crowd to disperse. He saw the use of tear gas. He saw the approaching skirmish line of officers coming and he chose to stand firm to break that skirmish line when everybody else was retreating. Did he really expect to have a “CONVERSATION” with the approaching officers? I think we are smarter than that. If you stand in the path of a freight train, don’t be surprised if you get hit.
It is DISHONEST to describe what is happening is a “Peaceful Protest” when so much destruction is left behind as a result. I am a Baby Boomer who grew up seeing Martin Luther King Jr marching, sit-ins and other Ghandi-like tactics that were peaceful and effective. Do Peaceful Protestors bring such items to a protest as; rocks, bricks, cans of food, frozen bottles of water, eggs, spray paint, graffiti pens, wrist rockets (hunting-style slingshots), large ballbearings, large marbles, pellet guns, traffic flares, hockey sticks, leaf blowers, commercial grade fireworks, shields, axes, sledgehammers, pry bars, power cutting tools, high powered laser pointers (can burn out a retina in a flash), bottles of flammable liquid, and the list goes on. Do Peaceful Protestors violently act in ways that have injured multiple federal police officers.
It is DISHONEST to portray the federal officers as the BAD GUYS. They have chosen a career to serve and protect the people and property of their cities, states and nation honorably and with diligence.
How can anybody with any common sense think it is OK to destroy a federal courthouse and attack our law enforcement officers??
Chew on that for a while.
Too pissed at MSM, the DNC and the people who empower the Left who are committing this violence to comment.
I see your point, but I disagree.
Regardless of which way the election goes, there will be chaos until inauguration day, and likely much longer.
If Trump wins, the left will go completely violent, or a factor of 10 times what it currently is. If the House flips to R, and the Senate stays R, in theory Trump has full control over what laws are enacted and enforced, and he can then move in to clean up the commies.
If Biden runs an effective vote fraud scheme, CWII may start. This will not end anytime soon or well for the rats.
I recommend prepping and prepping. Now is the time to start hoarding. Don’t wait until the day after election.
There is a news blackout in Portland. If it were not for videos taken by people on the ground there during the violence, the local news would not mention it. If you steer clear of Portland area and suburbs, you are safe and in the sane area of Oregon.
Portland may erupt into a war zone BEFORE the election. Meaning demon-rats vs patriots.
Eugene has issues as well, as one would expect.
Still not dealing with reality. Yes, the local leaders have failed (intentionally), but BLM and Antifa are the ones causing the destruction.
think more tactical...
“legal observers”, folks supplying weapons and other gear, media cohorts. extra points for forward observers and shot callers.
Start there.
Next, find some friendlies In the DA’s office or LEOs to leak just enough info on a perp to get doxxed before they get released after arrest.
just my $0.02
jimjohn - OUT
BLM and Antifa do not understand that when the police are eliminated there is no one to stand in the way betweem them and me.
Bookmark.
Not his "work" because he doesn't do that (that would involve actual work) but his organization does. Since Trayvon, St Louis, etc. IMHO.
It's already too late for those who have not laid in sufficient ammo. There are still some guns available but they will do people no good without ammo and there is almost none of the common calibers out there. And there won't be for a long time, you can bet on that.
Regarding "hoarding", I wonder how many people learned anything from the panic driven shortages resulting from virus hysteria? Not many I'm guessing. The possibility of severely disrupted supply lines because of rampant violence is quite real.
One final thought. I honestly believe that Biden cannot win without massive fraud. If he does win, or the Rats use their plan to disrupt the election to the point that Pelosi is installed on Jan 21 (or is it 20?) I have serious doubts that normal people are going to do anything in the way of push back. There will be no mass civil disobedience, only the same submission as with these lock downs. Normals will (eventually) fight back if attacked, but will not go on the offensive to defend their liberty and the Republic. All of these hideous lock downs and despotic regulations have clearly emboldened the leftists in government. To some degree they have and are (again my opinion) deliberately pushing this stuff as a test run for a stolen election.
My opinion for what it's worth.
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If you’d like to be on the Oregon ping list, please freep mail me.
BLL—
See post 4. Cold Heart thinks that Ithaca has competition.
(Cold Heart, BLL runs a ping list entitled “Ithaca is Evil”—I grew up in South Western Oregon, but went to Cornell, and can see the parallels).
Mailboxes too, I presume.
Why is this happening? It is not the BLM movement. It is the total breakdown of leadership in Portland and the State Capital who have allowed a highly organized anarchist element that has been in Portland for years which infiltrates peaceful groups to roam freely with little or no restraint.
The anarchists are the backbone of the Marxist BLM movement.
I believe there is more to it. China wants to crack down on Hong Kong and Taiwan. Iran wants to quash dissidents in their country. I believe they are trying to provoke the president into action in order for them to say, if we are doing it in our cities they can do it too. Foreign money is at work in this push to anarchy.
You have interesting thoughts. I hope your last paragraph (one final thought) is all wrong.
Regarding “It’s already too late for those who have not laid in sufficient ammo.” I’ve pondered myself: “What’s enough?”.
For a young person wanting to join a militia, there is no such thing as enough.
For an older person trying to defend their home, I’d say a hundred rounds or so per gun is more than enough. If an older person is trapped in their home, the best they can hope for is a kill ration of 1:1. Meaning one home invader killed via self defense per person defending the home that will also be killed.
What is sufficient ammo? Well if you have room in your closet for your clothes you don’t have enough ammunition, LOL
An older person should have 100 rounds per gun? There must be a whole lot of old people living in my house. You need a sufficient amount ammunition to be able to continue training while the supply has dried up. As it has now. Obviously you need jacketed ammo for training and self-defense ammo for the rest.
Also, I think it prudent to have more ammo than you think you might need because you could very well need to supply someone else. Which is why an extra gun or two above your own needs is a good idea.
Again, one of my big concerns is that the normal people not going to become proactive until it is too late to do other than defend ourselves. It is the nature of honest, law-abiding, good people to hold off in the hopes that it will not be necessary. And unfortunately that tends to cause us to wait too long.
I would like that gun and that ammunition.
When I was a kid my father was stationed at Quantico Virginia. I remember one Sunday after church he took us over to a range on base and we got to shoot some sort of machine gun on a tripod. I don’t know what the caliber was. But I can tell you for 7 year old kid it was damn cool.
If big cops with batons were allowed to start bashing these domestic terrorist's heads, this sh*t would stop ASAP.
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