Posted on 07/27/2020 3:29:46 PM PDT by libstripper
The party at the Salmon Street Springs fountain, a riverfront landmark in the heart of Portland, was just getting started.
Dozens of drummers beat out entrancing rhythms and a crowd of hundreds danced joyfully as the setting sun cast a soft pink glow on distant Mount Hood. Poster boards bearing the names of dozens of Black men and women killed by police stirred in a gentle breeze as the energy built to fever pitch and more and more people poured into the square.
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I thought "progressive" had something to do with "progress."
Snipers
Shoot at the source of the green lines.
L8r
Oh brother.
Nadler apparently can’t read, so maybe the pictures will help him out.
Well, it beats “It was a dark and stormy night,” but not by much.
Didn’t read it because of AssPress, but I’ll bet it is a flowery tribute to bedlam.
The Story Behind Northern Ireland’s Peace Walls
Belfast is a small city, but it’s demarcated by almost 100 ‘peace walls’ that separate Catholic and Protestant areas.
Once serving as peace-keeping measures, they are now, in a post-Good Friday Agreement Northern Ireland, popular tourist locations. Here’s our brief guide to Northern Ireland’s peace lines.
Peace Wall, Belfast © Nick / Flickr
Inception:
The first of the peace walls were built in 1969 after a series of sectarian riots rocked Belfast. The walls, established as a temporary measure, were a very simple solution to the problem of keeping Republicans and Loyalists apart.
However, due to their effectiveness, they never came down. Indeed, as time went on, the walls got longer and more numerous. While most of the walls were constructed during the early years of the Troubles, around one-third have popped up since 1994 when the IRA declared an effective ceasefire.
One of the most famous peace walls sits between the Loyalist Shankill Road and the Irish Republican Falls Road. Tensions between the two streets have existed since the 1800s, and the Troubles saw a rise in violence in this already violent area. As a solution, the peace wall separating the two popped up. This wall stretches for 800 metres (2,624.6 feet), an imposing multi-level concrete structure.
Peace wall behind the Clonard Martyrs Memorial Garden © Jennifer Boyer / Flickr
The walls are not limited to Belfast, however. While the majority exist within Belfast’s bounds, there are also walls in Derry, Portadown, and Lurgan. The Protestant Corcrain Road and the Catholic Orbins Drive are separated from one another in Portadown, while the Protestant Fountain Estate and Catholic Bishop Street in Derry are also split down the middle.
If the walls were placed end-to-end, they would stretch to over 34 kilometres (21.1 miles), with the longest single wall adding five kilometres (3.1 miles) by itself.
Derry Peace Line © nathaniel stren / Flickr
Evolution:
As time marched on and the violence in Northern Ireland died down, gates began to appear in the walls. Although they still existed, and still segregated neighbourhoods, the walls now allowed passage from one area to another. Police staff some of these gates, and many are closed at night.
In recent years, the peace walls have become part of the fabric of Belfast’s tourism industry. Black cab tours travel around iconic locations in the city, many of which have to do with the Troubles. The peace walls have found themselves on the same route as the city’s most famous murals, which isn’t surprising, as much of Belfast’s wall art is actually on the peace lines themselves.
An anti-racism mural on a peace wall © Paolo Trabattoni /
In February 2016, the wall on the Crumlin Road was demolished, the first wall to come down. However, dozens of these walls still stand across the country. It remains to be seen whether Northern Ireland will ever tear them down. If they do, it’s unlikely to carry the same weight that accompanied the removal of the Berlin Wall.
The destruction of the Berlin Wall was a symbolic gesture, viewed as necessary to reintegrate the city’s population. Northern Ireland’s population, for the most part, has managed to reintegrate even though the walls remain. Having said that, Stormont has committed, by mutual consent, to the removal of all the walls by 2023.
It seems likely that Belfast’s so-called peace lines will come down not with a bang, but with a whimper.
Thanks to Mr. Jeeves for the info re Peace walls in Ireland.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tf531WmU4v9wwTPE4kB2Q5CAdxxqi6Kn6gy1WaOBlFI/edit
Ireland built walls and they worked and some are still there.
How hard would it be to seal off BLM/Antifa areas in Seattle, Portland, Chicago, ????? with our new wall building skills. Then, really make those areas, No Go Areas!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zwkg8wuGhRs
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“...Dozens of drummers beat out entrancing rhythms...”
When the investigators come (who? defunded police? The federal authorities the mayor pushed away?who?) witnesses can say they heard the shots, the ricochet sounds bouncing all around and some claim there was a guy who ran away from behind the wooden fence on the grassy knoll in Portland. Others say no one was shooting there.
Unsolved and unsolvable mystery.
Sniper just put away his "fishing rod" and stuff, got into his truck and went home.
These idiots keep saying “we want the Federal officers to leave”. Well, if you didn’t attack the damn Federal building every night they would never have showed up and if you quit they will leave.
Napalm
Turn a common plastic 5 gallon bucket upside down and beat it with sticks or your hands, pretty amazing sound.
Multipy X 10 or 100, it’s quite memorable for its decibels.
I saw Kodo at Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Gammage Center in Tempe AZ. Awesome
It sounds like the report is full of shit to me. I couldn't bear to open it after reading the excerpt. "Dozens of drummers beat out entrancing rhythms and a crowd of hundreds danced joyfully as the setting sun cast a soft pink glow " gag, puke! Why doesn't the "journalist" just join in the romp through the flowers?
It sounds like the report is full of shit to me. I couldn't bear to open it after reading the excerpt. "Dozens of drummers beat out entrancing rhythms and a crowd of hundreds danced joyfully as the setting sun cast a soft pink glow " gag, puke! Why doesn't the "journalist" just join in the romp through the flowers?
What, you don’t find smelly hippies mindlessly pounding on plastic pails entrancing?
LoL
“Well, it beats “It was a dark and stormy night,” but not by much.”
indeed ... extraordinary fictional bullshit written in the style of a freshman English major snowflake ...
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