MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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Portland Man Charged with Assaulting Deputy U.S. Marshal with Explosive Device During Courthouse Protest
By artappraiser on Mon, 08/03/2020 - 10:41pm |
URL:
https://www.justice.gov/usao-or/pr/portland-man-charged-assaulting-deputy-us-marshal-explosive-device-during-courthouse
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by artappraiser on Mon, 08/03/2020 - 10:48pm
by artappraiser on Mon, 08/03/2020 - 10:49pm
Portlandia, Aug. 5:
Much more on his feed
by artappraiser on Thu, 08/06/2020 - 1:40am
by PeraclesPlease on Thu, 08/06/2020 - 2:00am
Yikes, new WaPo article says at least 70 have been charged by the Feds, including 24 felonies:
Federal officers may be leaving Portland, but federal charges will linger for many
By Adam Taylor, Aug. 5, 11:15 pm
by artappraiser on Thu, 08/06/2020 - 2:18am
Mayor of Portland calls out last night's protesters as having INTENT OF SERIOUS VIOLENCE. And I therefore call the common claim that the violence was all about the Fed goons is BULLSHIT. There's a subgroup of protesters in Portland that are violent anarchists and they aren't stopping because the Feds are not there
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Decent BLM protesters need to be more circumspect about the company they keep. Stop being so naive about the movement being co-opted by anarchist types and dilettantes. Especially with those frigging stupid night protests. Better yet: go home as night falls, agitate from home. All you are doing if you hang with this group is helping "police need to get tougher" political candidates. It's totally counter-productive.
by artappraiser on Thu, 08/06/2020 - 6:53pm
In last tweet above. says it best: "a prop for the re-election campaign of Donald Trump". Is clear to me the Feds were there because DOJ had intel that there were violent anarchists in Portland and highlighting their presence would help Trump. And it's far from kumbaya protests there since they left, that's Dem agitprop. Dems need to Sister Souljah on kind of thing, especially as it coinicides with rising gun crime rates in most big cities. If you thought Bernie bros were bad and helped Hillary lose, you ain't seen nothing. These kind of people WANT Trump to win so others will get angrier and join them in revolution in the streets, bring the whole country down, start year zero rebuild.
by artappraiser on Thu, 08/06/2020 - 7:04pm
Fascinating I didn't know Chomsky told this story and that the Vietnamese felt it but I and many others had figured this same thing out about those I thought heroic and glamorous freedom fighters by, oh, 1973 or so.
So when I see this extremely moronically counterproductive crapola being pushed again by young self-centered elite entitled idiots, it's a real swearing moment.
by artappraiser on Sat, 08/08/2020 - 10:16pm
Undoubtedly it was hard for protesters to admit Nixon was ending the War, pre-'72 election even - much faster than Bush/Obama wound down Iraq/Afghanistan. Bush/Obama also weren't constrained by cross-border attacks - Pakistan, Iran, Syria, Yemen... why not?
Year, US troops, South Vietnamese troops
1967: 485600, 798700;
1968: 536100, 820000;
1969: 475200, 897000; *Nixon takes office, dip
1970: 334600, 968000;
1971: 156800, 1046250;
1972: 24200, 1048000;
1973: 50, 1110000;
Nice summarization on the conditions at the time - Cambodian gambit - 20 mile incursion plus bombing - and the effect at home. What do we think in retrospect from 2020? (Vietnam, Cambodia & Laos largely still not free, but as long as we get cheap Nikes, works for us)
https://www.historynet.com/nixons-cambodian-incursion.htm
by PeraclesPlease on Sun, 08/09/2020 - 1:01am
The violent trolling is still fucking going on. Withdrawing Feds meant little:
Trying to take warring live, it gets real tiresome doing it virtually in mom's basement. Lighting fires, exciting!
by artappraiser on Sun, 08/09/2020 - 4:05am
The mayor called in state troopers:
No doubt Portland police sick of this shit and exhausted. They stop fighting crime, crime goes up, mayor doesn't get re-elected.
Clue that this doesn't have much to do with Black lives mattering, never was, that has been coopted. This is about Portlandia
The point to take away: these people don't want a Democratic mayor re-elected, the more fascistic the gummint the better. More fighting, more support to bring the whole system down,in order to rebuild from year zero. Where's those Moms go anyways? Gotta have Trump goons to get the Moms interested, critical mass.
by artappraiser on Sun, 08/09/2020 - 4:23am
Portland Sat. night & Sunday night, they'e not quitting the same old:
Portland protesters set police building on fire and clash with authorities
Situation declared a riot as police use flashbang munitions and smoke canisters to force hundreds away
By Guardian Staff & Agencies, 9 Aug 2020 15.52 EDT
by artappraiser on Mon, 08/10/2020 - 1:15am
by artappraiser on Mon, 08/10/2020 - 2:35pm