Why am I having flash backs to '80 and '84, except I was in West-Berlin on holiday and not next Portland? '84 even more so, because the ruling SPD & Green party coalition govt of West-Berlin sat on their asses for 3 days before the SPD (the senior partner in the ruling coalition) sent in the riot police. The Green were furious and resigned in protest.

In'80, the SPD & Greens berated the CDU for sending in the riot police immediately to clean the problem up. Then in '84 the shoe was on the other foot.

I'm still convinced to this day, with no real proof - other than that West-Berlin was an occupied city, that the American Military governor of West-Berlin called the Burgermeister - Meisterburger in '84 and told him to knock it off or he will.

What I see here in Portland is '84 all over again, except for the occupied city item. But, if the Feds can send in the army to force Alabama to desegregated the schools back in the '60s, then President Trump can certainly send in the army to clean up this bolshevik scum.

Portland can burn to the ground for all I care. But there are some good people there I know, so I'd rather have the Feds end the current mess there, so that these nice people there can get on with their lives.

Wheeler and Gauleiter Brown can spew all they want, but I've experienced this all before. Same playbook, just in english instead of german.

Will probably go to Portland tomorrow and do some photo journalism of the area - unarmed for my own good. Could take care of a few other things too.

I'll definitely will visit the Federal Court house, since it is the place I swore to defend the U.S. Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic.

Maybe I'll paste U.S. Flag Forever postage stamp on the building too. Only fair - the court house gave me a small flag I still have flying in my house.

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Will probably go to Portland tomorrow and do some photo journalism of the area - unarmed for my own good.

I find it sad that you don't feel you should CCW in a place where you are legally allowed to do so. You should not let anyone intimidate you into not doing so.

I'm done with the stupid shit here.
It's going to be a PITA but I'm actively looking to dump my house and transfer to Central OR as the company has a new shop there and needs people.

It seems that I am not alone, two others in the neighborhood are dumping the house and getting out.
Off to places where the homeless, garbage and all around filth doesn't cover everything.
You can't even vote the assholes out as the people to choose from are all commie boot lickers.

Iv'e been watching this all unfold for decades and am finally throwing up my hands and going elsewhere.
It's a lost cause at this point and staying any longer will just see it devolve even more. I'm not going down with the ship.

I was back east for my daughters wedding earlier this month and was kinda amazed that there were no homeless or any of the shit that goes on around here on a constant basis.
I have been around it for so long that it became normal and just the way it is.
And that's fucked up.
When it starts to get to be normal to have an AR9 in a backpack with a 30 round mag ready to rock, to go to the local store it's time to leave and not look back.

Portland Field Trip report:

I went to Portland early AM - got there at 6:30 AM or so, parked in the Crown Plaza complex for quick Portland egress if required.

I did not carry - too freaking tempting to shoot the bolsheviks; really. Took my D300 and 35 MM lens. Had the 28-200 telephoto, but left it in the car. I'm good enough with the 35mm.

Walked from Market St down to Everett 10th via 3rd St over to 5th and then back up 9th/10th to Columbia / Jefferson and then Market and the off to the Edelweiss - yummy.

Took 204 photos or so. Lots of boarded up stuff with BLM type murals on a lot of it. The Apple store - all glass gone with BLM murals on the boards where the glass used to be. That store front was really gorgeous with the 20 by 30 foot or so solid glass panels. The MS store with its glass all boarded up too. Disgusting.

Basically I saw damage over a rough 12 by 6 square block area. The Federal Courthouse was a war zone - heavy on the graffiti - worked were working on boarding - rebounding stuff. Courthouse was open as I did ask what seemed to the a plain clothed Federal Officer walking toward an entrance - door is boarded too.

City hall lots of cracked /broken windows - saw workers boarding them up. Only real graffiti I saw as "Fuck Ted" and ACAB and a reference for Defend Austin 3 (on a road block thing across the street).

Portland Police complex had graffiti and boards where glass used to be. More on my 10 minute chat with Portland Police Office guarding the employee entrance.

Federal courthouse covered on all 4 sides with graffiti. Really sad, as it is a very nice building on the outside and not shabby on the inside. The park across the street was a mess too - more about my journey in to the bolshevik base camp there.

I saw a number of Jewelry stores badly damaged and boarded as I got to the 3rd and Washington ST. area. Pioneer court house has some graffiti but not too bad when compared to other areas.

Down around 10th (?) and Everett I saw a reference to "PDX Autonomous Zone" on a commercial garage door. I did not really look for the remnants of the zone, which was rapidly taken down by Portland Police as the Mayor was trapped in the zone. You can destroy Apple and Jewelry stores and loot them, but leave Ted's house alone or he will send the Police in rapidly.

Saw a few mural references to - Oscar Grant, George Floyd, Ahamad Arbery, Breonna Taylor, Sean Reed, Sandra Bland, Trayvon Martin and Tamar Rice. 3 of them I know about. Only 2 I'll sympathize with.

Spoke for about 15 minutes with a Portland Police officer, who was guarding the employee entrance to the Police building. Gave him a quick view of what I'd see and think. Asked him if he was on OT and had a nice chat. Told him I'm well versed in how these protestors work - having experienced it all before 40 years ago. He told me that this Bolshevik group has a go-fund me page with 700K in donations. I know these groups are well funded. So PDX Police is giving intel briefings. He told me the media is no even close to telling the whole story - just their slanted view. Agreed with this giving him some personal examples. He told me that the wacko Portland city council woman walks around with her protection detail, but do not care of the officer safety or anyone else's (based on here defund the Police mantra).
He agreed on the excessive force on George, but we agreed on the idiot who resisted arrest, grabbed and fired a taser at an office. He office told me that a taser use had been ruled as use of deadly force by an officer, but not when the fool used a taser on the office. I did not know about the former ruling.

I could see the events are taking a human toll on the officers in a lot of ways. Getting stabbed in the back by the politicians are to protect the general public from this shit seemed really painful. He wished Portland Police could do what the Feds are doing - he seemed ok with the federal police force actions. He said these protestors are not in to deescalation. Wished him well and moved on.

Entering the Bolshevik staging area at the park across the street from the Federal Courthouse. I guess there were perhaps 20 people there most were sleeping or resting on the ground. A couple were preparing to receive supplies. I took pictures as I walked thru - most of the photos were of the graffiti on the ground.

No one seemed to pay any attention to me, until I wanted to take a picture of on other side of the statue there (it had 1492 on it) and some bolshevik was standing next to it. As I raised my camera to take a picture, he turned around and yell at me not take a picture of him. I said ok, just get out of the way I do not want your picture anyway, just of this side of the statue.

I then continued to egress the area, at flank speed as he yelled ' hey I wanna take your picture.' Yea, right - kept moving at flank speed ready for full speed should the need arise - quickly. I avoided the area on my way back up to Market St from Everett street and hour or so later. I did want to take a photo of something that was being posted as I entered the zone, but, since I do not desire the Para - Einstein Genius designation on this board, I by-passed it by a few streets to the west. Guess Portland Police has been told 'hands off' on this staging zone.

Overall I spent abut 2 hrs overing 12 x 6 block or so area. Glad I went - the chat with the officer made it more than worthwhile. Plus him getting positive feedback from a citizen helped him too.

Noticed that Fox12 here today had a slightly different take on that crap, from what they showed over the past week. So, perhaps there is a turning tide? Channel 2 is pretty much commie and channel 6 (CBS) and 8 (NBC) I guess too.

The amateur protestors are done. Now it's the professional's & plain criminals with some useful amateur protest idiots running the show. I was watching the footage today more closely - and these protestors are well equipped and trained to deal with tear gas. I'm surprised they are not tossing Molotov Cocktails - like they did in Germany in the 80's. At least I've not seen direct video footage via the lame stream media.

I have no plans to go there when the action really goes. I want to avoid the Einstein Genius designation.

Finally took some time to review the photos in a bit more detail. Why do I feel like Nicholson in One Flew over the Cuckoo's Net? It's like walking around in an open air insane asylum, reading the stuff these nut cases put on the murals.

There is a lot of glass intact above the mural's that cover the bottom 10 or so feet of the Apple store front, but upon review I see damage above 10 feet, so I am guessing the damage is much more severe behind the plywood covered mural facade.

Also, it looks like the bolsheviks are using the 3 parks across from them the Mark O-Hatfield US Federal Courthouse and Portland Police / Detention building next door as well as another Federal budding next to these, as stage areas. They sell Riot Ribs for food - saw 3 or 4 barbacue's for this purpose. Confirms these folks are in to Rioting not protesting if there is any doubt. Media of course does not show this.

Lots of graffiti on the street level at the lownsdale park that I went thru across from the court house, which also had lots of street level graffiti. Found some more at Terry Shrunk Plaza (a park too) 1 or so block north of this 3 park complex - directions / assembly point stuff it looked to me. There are some serious logistics backing this effort up. Not sure how the Feds can deal with this - since Portland Police is currently neutered by Wheeler and company. The Feds are more or less limited to the Courthouse area, although they have ventured beyond in unmarked vehicles.

I missed the County courthouse and the Gus J Solomon US courthouse to see if there was damage there. Looking at the map I see I could have gone to the waterfront and see what the Portland Police Memorial looks like.

I felt safe during the day down there, even unarmed. The unter-sturmbannfeuhrer at lownsdale park who wanted my picture as an afterthought was the only concern and I got out of that quickly enough.

Wheeler is not spineless. He knows exactly what he is doing as does Gauleiter Kate Brown. This is what makes them so dangerous. They are Obama disciples of the first order.

So are the federal PD going out to random areas of the city to patrol or are they just staying at the federal building in Portland?

the Portland mayor got gassed...

https://www.npr.org/sections/l...er-night-of-protests

Letter should end like this one

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Originally posted by ThankGod4Sig:
So are the federal PD going out to random areas of the city to patrol or are they just staying at the federal building in Portland?

Their presence and efforts, is to protect Federal property, there's no reason for them to go beyond.


The Federal courthouse (Mark O.Hatfield) is located in a large civic center, with all the various state and federal buildings surrounding a central park, think The Mall in DC. Portland City Hall is on the other side of this park from the courthouse, city and state officials know exactly what's been going on, its on their front doorstep.

Squealer Wheeler was trying become a victim:




Link to original video: https://youtu.be/jKsWInY5vHY

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Originally posted by az4783054:
the Portland mayor got gassed...

https://www.npr.org/sections/l...er-night-of-protests

The crowd turned on him, which I'm not seeing in the news. He was attacked last night, but it wasn't by the Federal agents. Video below starts getting spicy at 0:19. NWS for language and, I guess, violence:

A better view of how the night progressed from Stupid to Ignorant and then seeing the crowd turn / attack him here...

https://www.breitbart.com/poli...tear-gassed-by-feds/

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Originally posted by P220 Smudge:
The crowd turned on him, which I'm not seeing in the news. He was attacked last night, but it wasn't by the Federal agents. Video below starts getting spicy at 0:19. NWS for language and, I guess, violence:

This is all I needed to see. Can't tell you how good it felt watching the tears run down his face as he beat feet and was escorted out of the area by his taxpayer funded, five person, armed, security detail. Nah, he's not a moron. Nah, not at all.

As some folks here know, we have spent around a month or so every year, except this one, in Oregon, for almost twenty years now. As a state in the PNW, it has everything we need and want in one compact locale and we have endless happy memories of the times we have spent there with people we love.

We got an email last night from one dear friend, who is shortly to marry yet another close buddy of many years' standing, and it makes horrific reading. They have just moved out from a beautiful apartment in the woods in the hills to the west of Portland, to a single-level house adapted for his wheelchair needs in Tigard. She has been a professional police social advisor for the last 30 years, and is totally heartbroken with what the last few weeks have brought to their home town.

Friends, there is nothing peaceful about what these scum are doing to the city we love. The wanton destruction is on a massive and on-going scale.

That's all I'm going to say now, since I'm a furriner and should not really be expressing any kind of opinion over your affairs.

Thanks for the first-hand report, icom.

Tony.

Going back to the original letter...

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The state of a city reflects its leadership

The reverse is even more true. The elected leaders reflect the city. Look at Portland, Seattle, Chicago, New York. These imbecils got elected.

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Originally posted by corsair:

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Originally posted by ThankGod4Sig:
So are the federal PD going out to random areas of the city to patrol or are they just staying at the federal building in Portland?

Their presence and efforts, is to protect Federal property, there's no reason for them to go beyond.


The Federal courthouse (Mark O.Hatfield) is located in a large civic center, with all the various state and federal buildings surrounding a central park, think The Mall in DC. Portland City Hall is on the other side of this park from the courthouse, city and state officials know exactly what's been going on, its on their front doorstep.

Excellent. thanks. I figured they we not just going out and about, and hanging at the federal buildings.

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Originally posted by ThankGod4Sig:

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Originally posted by corsair:
Their presence and efforts, is to protect Federal property, there's no reason for them to go beyond.


The Federal courthouse (Mark O.Hatfield) is located in a large civic center, with all the various state and federal buildings surrounding a central park, think The Mall in DC. Portland City Hall is on the other side of this park from the courthouse, city and state officials know exactly what's been going on, its on their front doorstep.

Excellent. thanks. I figured they we not just going out and about, and hanging at the federal buildings.

You can see from the video P220 Smudge posted, Wheeler walked a single-block. From protest site (Fed Judical Bldg) across the park, and into the Portland Building (city admin), one, single block, Wheeler went from protest site to refuge.

Hope that photo op was worth it Ted, got a taste of hanging out with your constituents.

My wife's ancestors came to the Willamette Valley in 1847 and homesteaded on the banks of the Willamette River. One homesteaded north of what is now Salem and one in what is now downtown Lake Oswego.

She still has elderly relatives in the Portland area. We arm up when we visit them. We only go in the morning and leave Portland by early afternoon.

We avoid downtown Portland at all costs. We used to go to restaurants and entertainment venues in downtown Portland frequently. It has been over three years since we have been to our favorite restaurants or entertainment venues.

We loved San Francisco, Portland, and Seattle visits in the past. Now we avoid them like the plague.

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Going back to the original letter...

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The state of a city reflects its leadership

The reverse is even more true. The elected leaders reflect the city. Look at Portland, Seattle, Chicago, New York. These imbecils got elected.

I honestly think some of these mayors won’t be after their handling of 2020 at large. Wheeler tried to ingratiate himself to a political movement that would like to eat him alive. Same with Durkan of Seattle. Tim Eyman has a petition for her recall and he’s pretty fired up about it. Hopefully it gets the signatures to make it happen, and it just might. Plenty of people are fed up and both sides are less than pleased with that vile bitch - the left because the Seattle police still exist, even if just as a concept now, seemingly.

Yesterday, KIRO had a livestream that said it was a press conference about his gubernatorial campaign, and two minutes into him absolutely savaging the leftists and socialists, KIRO cut the feed to a shot of the Space Needle flying the Kracken flag, without comment or apology. I watched it for several minutes in disbelief, wondering if they would go back to him or even apologize for technical difficulties, but nope. They aren’t even pretending anymore.