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A Sense of Doubt blog post #2021 - Saturday 8/29 Portland Protests - one dead
I am postponing the usual COMIC BOOK SUNDAY post to bring you this important news about what's going on in my new home. Though I do not live in Portland, OR, it's about as close as Kalamazoo, Michigan when I lived in Richland, and then I told people I lived in Kalamazoo.
I hope COMIC BOOK SUNDAY will return on September Sixth as there are no more important events (like protestors murdered on the streets of our nation) to share.
Here we are in 2021. That is post #2021 because the year 2020 is not over yet. What this means for me is that my THE YEAR IN NUMBER feature is over as I have surpassed the current year.
Over a thousand Trump supporters with their loudness and big flags and their special brand of crazy were only going to drive around Portland on the HIGHWAYS so as not to enflame tensions with the current protestors of THE STATE OF THE HATE NATION -- Black Lives Matter, Trump is still President, no leadership in the pandemic, etc. -- who have been for the most part peacefully protesting in Portland since the beginning of June except when Federal agents who will not identify themselves as such play Gestapo on the streets, "arrest" (abduct) peaceful citizens exercising their First Amendment rights without due process, and in general make things worse with shows of force that only escalate violence.
But get a few cases of beer in them and some chew, and the right-wing vanguard of the Commander and Chief of the Hate and Fear nation decide it would be a lot more fun to cause some ruckus by driving through downtown Portland, shooting protestors with paint ball guns and pepper spray while being hateful and trying to incite violence.
And so that's what happened. Big surprise.
And someone was shot and killed. It appears that this person was a Trump supporter and an adherent to a FAR right extremist group called Patriot Prayer.
https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2020/08/31/what-we-know-about-patriot-prayer
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/far-right-patriot-prayer-group-says-fatal-shooting-victim-portland-n1238867
I am not happy that anyone was killed, even someone whose beliefs I strongly disagree with. Life is something we must protect. It's sad that this young man was killed.
The blame is surely with the person who pulled the trigger, whomever that may be.
Yet, surely, it seems reasonable to assert that had these Trump supporters not incite violence by shooting protestors with paint balls guns and pepper spray, this shooting and death would not have happened.
And let's be clear. If a pick up truck with some good old boys is driving past where I am peacefully protesting and someone raises what very much looks like a gun and aims at me, I am afraid for my life. Because if I don't know it's a paint ball gun, and it's all happening very fast, and it looks like a gun because IT IS A GUN, then that's FELONIOUS ASSAULT. That is a case of felony assault for which those who committed those crimes should be prosecuted.
They are not as the President called them "great patriots." They are not all peacefully protesting. Those who shot at protestors are criminals.
https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2020/09/trump-says-portland-has-been-burning-for-decades-excuses-supporters-who-fired-paintballs-at-counterprotesters.html
“Portland has been burning for many years, for decades it’s been burning,” he said.
(This is a lie.)
Just remember in 63 days when it is time to vote that these acts of violence are happening in our nation under Donald Trump's presidency not because a democratic mayor and governor in Portland and Oregon will not use excessive force to be fascists but because DONALD TRUMP IS A FASCIST and a failed leader and a bully.
We can do better.
We deserve better.
1 person shot, killed near downtown Portland protests Saturday https://t.co/mcgtveQtsj pic.twitter.com/Q7dCOZu2pE— The Oregonian (@Oregonian) August 30, 2020
One person was shot dead in Portland in a clash between rival protesters. Police, however, did not immediately link the shooting death to the protests https://t.co/ystK7rnNq8 pic.twitter.com/HEzwg2Ui7H— Reuters (@Reuters) August 30, 2020
WARNING: Graphic images here, and I'm only including some lower-res images in the tweet.@SmileItsNathan was on scene when the fatal Portland shooting happened. Here are some images. More in the link and (warning again) they are higher resolution there.https://t.co/ziLgT3SI0B pic.twitter.com/meX5TGXs9k— Mike Baker (@ByMikeBaker) August 30, 2020
1 dead. Our story is updating here.https://t.co/vxK3J0NH2t— Mike Baker (@ByMikeBaker) August 30, 2020
Clashes. Trump people unload paintballs and pepper spray. They shot me too. pic.twitter.com/PwU5pZMLnV— Mike Baker (@ByMikeBaker) August 30, 2020
This isn't the official route of the Trump rally, but there is still an endless stream of Trump vehicles coming in to downtown Portland. pic.twitter.com/h0zg8WMVtg— Mike Baker (@ByMikeBaker) August 30, 2020
With the usual caveat that I'm terrible at crowd estimates, I'd say about 1,000 people are here throughout the parking lot right now and maybe like 1 million flags.— Mike Baker (@ByMikeBaker) August 29, 2020
The current plan is to drive into Portland as a huge caravan at 6 p.m. pic.twitter.com/gJdiuDAKjk
Meanwhile, a crowd is chanting anti-Wheeler and anti-Trump messages outside a building where Wheeler supposedly lives. Three people have chained themselves together inside the lobby of the condo building. https://t.co/H7dtajp68L pic.twitter.com/FbTzkKBQCL— Mike Baker (@ByMikeBaker) August 29, 2020
Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler just sent a letter responding to Trump: "Stay away, please." https://t.co/bIxHrrNgj1 pic.twitter.com/hjB7aghXcB— Mike Baker (@ByMikeBaker) August 28, 2020
Homeland Security Secretary confirms Antifa meets standards of domestic terrorism | The Post Millennial https://t.co/XGuUAxgvN6— Bernard B. Kerik (@BernardKerik) August 30, 2020
Just to be clear, Trump supporters have murdered three more people in a week than Antifa has in its existence.— Tony Posnanski (@tonyposnanski) August 30, 2020
WAKE UP! President Trump is inciting this violence so that he can implement the Insurrection Act right before the election and send the military into Democratic cities to tear-gas voters who he will refer to as “ANTIFA.” #TrumpRiots— Mrs. Krassenstein (@HKrassenstein) August 30, 2020
Rantz: Trump goes to war with organized Seattle Antifa and agitators https://t.co/zl3VuNBaLz— (((Jason Rantz))) on KTTH Radio (@jasonrantz) August 30, 2020
A white supremacist is killed and Trump wants the Insurrection Act of 1807.— Outspoken (@Out5p0ken) August 30, 2020
Protestors are not thugs. Trump supporters are and their leader is a racist, mafia thug.
How about invoking the Defense Production Act and quit violating the Hatch Act and our First Amendment rights.
A little research pulled this up: "The Insurrection Act...10U.S.C.§§331-335. Section331 authorizes the President to use the military to suppress an insurrection at the request of a state government..." In other words, no sitting President can act without the State's invite.— Robert "Rob" W. Powell (@RobWPowell) August 30, 2020
Very fine people. #TrumpKills https://t.co/oJv6ExU1xc— Gerry Conway (@gerryconway) August 30, 2020
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