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A remarkable and nightmarish scene playing out in Portland should terrify anyone who cares about the US constitution

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Saturday, July 18, 2020 9:01 PM


Trump administration
Camouflaged federal agents have descended on Portland. Trump's DHS is out of control

If Venezuela or Iran were perpetrating this nightmare, the US would stand against it. Instead, officials are promising more
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jul/18/portland-oregon-
federal-officers-trump-department-homeland-security


The incidents being described sound eerily reminiscent of the CIA’s post-9/11 rendition program under George W Bush, where intelligence agents would roll up in unmarked vans in foreign countries, blindfold terrorism suspects (many of whom turned to be innocent) and kidnap them without explanation. Only instead of occurring on the streets of Italy or the Middle East, it’s happening in downtown Portland.

Virtually all of Portland’s local leaders, as well as Oregon’s leading representatives in Congress, have condemned the situation and called for an investigation. But so far, DHS and the Trump administration do not seem deterred.

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Saturday, July 18, 2020 9:25 PM


‘It was like being preyed upon’: Portland protesters say federal officers in unmarked vans are detaining them
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/07/17/portland-protests-fed
eral-arrests/

Trump continues his mindless fascism.

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Saturday, July 18, 2020 9:37 PM

Acting secretary of homeland security Chad Wolf traveled to Portland this week to supervise the federal actions there, and he sharply criticized local law enforcement for not getting tough with “violent anarchists.”

Wolf told Fox News on Thursday night that he offered law enforcement assistance to the mayor and local leaders but was asked to “pack up and go home,” which he said is “just not going to happen on my watch.”

Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler called the federal agents Trump’s “personal army” and said they should leave the city.

“This is part of a coordinated strategy of Trump’s White House to use federal troops to bolster his sagging polling data, and it is an absolute abuse of federal law enforcement officials,” Wheeler said.

www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/portland-officials-decry-aggr
essive-tactics-of-federal-agents-in-their-city/2020/07/17/ae5dbf18-c871-11ea-8ffe-372be8d82298_story.html


The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Saturday, July 18, 2020 9:50 PM

They don't want the feds there because it'll prove they can't keep their own residents safe. It's hard to feel sorry for the people who voted for the government they now have, if you voted for these people, you've gotten what you deserve.

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Saturday, July 18, 2020 9:57 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by whozit:
They don't want the feds there because it'll prove they can't keep their own residents safe. It's hard to feel sorry for the people who voted for the government they now have, if you voted for these people, you've gotten what you deserve.

You proved the point that Trump is attacking "anarchists" to raise his poll numbers with people like you. Trump isn't doing this to "help" the people of Portland. He helps himself.

Democratic Gov. Kate Brown called Wolf's visit "political theater from President Trump" and said he "is looking for a confrontation in Oregon in the hopes of winning political points in Ohio or Iowa."

The state's four Democratic federal lawmakers also sent a letter this week to Wolf and U.S. Attorney General William Barr to oppose the federal deployment in Portland.

https://kval.com/news/local/governor-calls-federal-presence-in-portlan
d-political-theater-from-president-trump


The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Saturday, July 18, 2020 10:02 PM

lol

Portland has been a nightmarish scene for years now.


Democrats love to tell you that you have a freedom to speech but you have to live with the consequences.

Well...


Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Saturday, July 18, 2020 10:03 PM

He's not concerned about the polls either.

They couldn't be further from reality if they were on Narnia.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Saturday, July 18, 2020 10:03 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by whozit:
They don't want the feds there because it'll prove they can't keep their own residents safe. It's hard to feel sorry for the people who voted for the government they now have, if you voted for these people, you've gotten what you deserve.

The residents are quite safe. The only threats to them are from Trump's Gestapo.

Keep licking that boot.

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Saturday, July 18, 2020 10:05 PM

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
lol

Portland has been a nightmarish scene for years now.


Democrats love to tell you that you have a freedom to speech but you have to live with the consequences.

Well...


Do Right, Be Right. :)

Portland is and remains a very nice city.

I don't see Democrats abducting people off the streets for expressing their views.

All I see are Trump thugs doing that.

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Saturday, July 18, 2020 10:58 PM

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