The DA and mayor decided political violence was ok, as long as they agreed with the cause. It really isn't much different than a 50s sheriff in the South looking the other way at Klan violence.
The biggest question to me now is why wasn't the FBI more active in bringing federal racketeering charges against Rose City Antifa and others eng…
The DA and mayor decided political violence was ok, as long as they agreed with the cause. It really isn't much different than a 50s sheriff in the South looking the other way at Klan violence.
The biggest question to me now is why wasn't the FBI more active in bringing federal racketeering charges against Rose City Antifa and others engaged in conspiracy to commit violent crimes. Many former FBI officials have been speaking out to express their shock at this dereliction.
I have been trying to keep up with Portland (and also Seattle and San Francisco) since May, 2020. I do so because I sense what is happening there may be prelude to its nationalization: certain elites seem to think Americans should be punished for cultural and historical sins.
What I can tell you is that there seems/seemed to be a truce among mainstream media to NOT report on Portland and, especially, the existence of ANTIFA. In September of 2020, Nellie Bowles wrote an article in the New York Times chronicling Portland events...which was the first time, I believe, that NYTimes took specific note of going-ons in Portland.
So, if you wanted to keep up, there was Nancy Rommelmann and also Andy Ngo's twitter account....and Ngo is hated by many, maybe vast majority, of mainstream media writers precisely for chronicling the very events that they so wanted to ignore. (BTW, it was Winston Marshall of Mumford & Sons' who quit the group after backlash from recommending a Ngo book.....Barri Weiss spoke to Marshall several weeks ago.)
Great comments dd thanks for posting. The utter failure of solid reporting on Portland is a national disgrace and an international embarassment. American news reporters and agencies have shamed themselves. It's utterly pathetic that a straightforward human interest article like this must be snuck in through the back door of a dissident news/commentary website and even worse that the author potentially puts herself in harms way by publishing it. Most of the traditonal news institutions have either collapsed, been taken over by children or both and they are simply ghosting vital news and information of all sorts. And the ghosting works. Anyone who eats what's on their plate from the mainstream news is by and large ignorant many important happenings and any truly reasoned questioning or opposition of accepted opinion and data. (The highly educated classes seem to be the most susceptible because they are so accustomed to thinking of themselves as well informed.) Meanwhile everyone who questions or so much as raises an eyebrow towards the activists is branded as alt-right. Andy Ngo alt-right? GIve me a break. Steven Pinker a conservative?? Is everyone to the right of Trotsky a conservative now??? This othering, along with twiiter mobbing and cancellation has got to stop. I never thought I would wake up one day in an America where every week proffessors and employees are being fired from their jobs, and ostracized from their community, merely for holding MODERATE opionions. If this does not stop soon the country will fracture and upend geopitical stability throughout the west. This is what the leaders on the left are EXPLICITLY calling for(!) and I am calling on their followers to step back and think more carefully about supporting someone elses bitter and retributive nightmares.
In addition to your recommendations I am extendinng a shout out to European reporter Douglas Murray for his excellent reporting on Portland and other issues.
The DA and mayor decided political violence was ok, as long as they agreed with the cause. It really isn't much different than a 50s sheriff in the South looking the other way at Klan violence.
The biggest question to me now is why wasn't the FBI more active in bringing federal racketeering charges against Rose City Antifa and others engaged in conspiracy to commit violent crimes. Many former FBI officials have been speaking out to express their shock at this dereliction.
I have been trying to keep up with Portland (and also Seattle and San Francisco) since May, 2020. I do so because I sense what is happening there may be prelude to its nationalization: certain elites seem to think Americans should be punished for cultural and historical sins.
What I can tell you is that there seems/seemed to be a truce among mainstream media to NOT report on Portland and, especially, the existence of ANTIFA. In September of 2020, Nellie Bowles wrote an article in the New York Times chronicling Portland events...which was the first time, I believe, that NYTimes took specific note of going-ons in Portland.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/21/us/black-lives-matter-protests-tactics.html
So, if you wanted to keep up, there was Nancy Rommelmann and also Andy Ngo's twitter account....and Ngo is hated by many, maybe vast majority, of mainstream media writers precisely for chronicling the very events that they so wanted to ignore. (BTW, it was Winston Marshall of Mumford & Sons' who quit the group after backlash from recommending a Ngo book.....Barri Weiss spoke to Marshall several weeks ago.)
https://twitter.com/MrAndyNgo
Great comments dd thanks for posting. The utter failure of solid reporting on Portland is a national disgrace and an international embarassment. American news reporters and agencies have shamed themselves. It's utterly pathetic that a straightforward human interest article like this must be snuck in through the back door of a dissident news/commentary website and even worse that the author potentially puts herself in harms way by publishing it. Most of the traditonal news institutions have either collapsed, been taken over by children or both and they are simply ghosting vital news and information of all sorts. And the ghosting works. Anyone who eats what's on their plate from the mainstream news is by and large ignorant many important happenings and any truly reasoned questioning or opposition of accepted opinion and data. (The highly educated classes seem to be the most susceptible because they are so accustomed to thinking of themselves as well informed.) Meanwhile everyone who questions or so much as raises an eyebrow towards the activists is branded as alt-right. Andy Ngo alt-right? GIve me a break. Steven Pinker a conservative?? Is everyone to the right of Trotsky a conservative now??? This othering, along with twiiter mobbing and cancellation has got to stop. I never thought I would wake up one day in an America where every week proffessors and employees are being fired from their jobs, and ostracized from their community, merely for holding MODERATE opionions. If this does not stop soon the country will fracture and upend geopitical stability throughout the west. This is what the leaders on the left are EXPLICITLY calling for(!) and I am calling on their followers to step back and think more carefully about supporting someone elses bitter and retributive nightmares.
In addition to your recommendations I am extendinng a shout out to European reporter Douglas Murray for his excellent reporting on Portland and other issues.