To Grab Protesters Off Portland Streets
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We cannot give up liberty for security. Local law enforcement can and should be handling these situations in our cities but there is no place for federal troops or unidentified federal agents rounding people up at will.
- Franz Kafka“One of the first signs of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die. This life appears unbearable, another unattainable. One is no longer ashamed of wanting to die; one asks to be moved from the old cell, which one hates, to a new one, which one willl only in time come to hate. In this there is also a residue of belief that during the move the master will chance to come along the corridor, look at the prisoner and say: "This man is not to be locked up again, He is to come with me.”
viocjit wrote:I don't think there are a country better than another...
Hermit wrote:viocjit wrote:I don't think there are a country better than another...
What utter crap. It would take me less than a second to make a decision were I given the choice between living in Australia or North Korea. Not a great deal longer were I to choose between living in Frankfurt/a.M. or Miami, Fl.
chango369 wrote:Trump's Stasi.In the early hours of July 15, after a night spent protesting at the Multnomah County Justice Center and Mark O. Hatfield Federal Courthouse, Mark Pettibone and his friend Conner O’Shea decided to head home.
It had been a calm night compared to most protesting downtown. By 2 a.m. law enforcement hadn’t used any tear gas and, with only a few exceptions, both the Portland Police Bureau and federal law enforcement officers had stayed out of sight.
A block west of Chapman Square, Pettibone and O’Shea bumped into a group of people who warned them that people in camouflage were driving around the area in unmarked minivans grabbing people off the street.
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Federal Law Enforcement Use Unmarked Vehicles To Grab Protesters Off Portland Streets
The_Metatron wrote:Oh, really? What is the telephone number of the agency where those stormtroopers work? Whom would you name in a lawsuit?
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