Antifa violence erupts outside Hatfield Federal Courthouse in Portland
Pat Droney – Law Enforcement Today March 16, 2021
The following article contains editorial content written by a retired Chief of Police and current staff writer for Law Enforcement Today
Newton’s Third Law says that “for every action, there’s an equal and opposite reaction.” While Newton’s laws apply primarily to physics, they also apply in other areas.
For example, law enforcement funding and crime.
Welcome to Portland, Oregon which is a real life example of Newton’s Third Law in action, where the city council’s action of defunding police has resulted in a 2000% increase in murders.
According to the Washington Examiner, last year Portland, like a number of big cities such as Minneapolis and Seattle to name only a few thought it would be a good idea to “defund the police.”
This was of course in response to the overdose death of George Floyd in Minneapolis last May, which was wrongly attributed to police use of force as an autopsy found.
That was the action taken by Portland.
The reaction?
The once-beautiful northwest city is racked with gun violence, and now Mayor Ted Wheeler is being forced to walk back his support from the draconian cuts made to that city’s police budget.
Wheeler recently requested an emergency funding initiative of $2 million for the police department, primarily due to the explosion of gun violence in that city.
In 2020 at this point in time, Portland had only experienced one homicide. This year? 20 so far, along with 208 shootings…in under three months, or an average of just under three per day.
Last June, Wheeler supported the Portland City Council’s shortsighted and politically correct decision to cut $15 million from the police budget.
One of the victims of that cut was the police unit that investigates gun violence. To the surprise of nobody who possesses more than a few brain cells, that move backfired…bigly.
The immediate result? Portland saw over 100 straight nights of “non-peaceful protests”—riots—last year.
Well, the calendar flipped from 2020 to 2021, Joe Biden found himself somehow getting elected, but one constant remains the same in Portland. Riots. They are back yet again with a vengeance.
Once again, the target of Antifa’s and Black Lives Matter activists is the federal courthouse. Unlike the “insurrection” that took place on January 6, these riots are actually causing enormous amounts of damage to federal property and resulting in scores of injuries to law enforcement officers.
Last July, the federal courthouse was the scene of nightly riots, with some anarchists attempting to torch the building with occupants inside.
Those riots were of course seemingly downplayed by Democrats, who criticized the deployment of federal law enforcement to defend the building and supplement local authorities. For example, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi famously referred to them as “stormtroopers.”
Estimates from last June was that the city had suffered around $24 million in damage due to the riots, with federal buildings sustaining roughly $2.3 million in damage.
Officials in cities such as Portland have quite literally dug their own city’s graves, by giving in to political correctness. It was fairly easy to predict that defunding the police in the midst of ongoing violent riots was a recipe for disaster, and now these cities are paying the price.
People like Wheeler, who lost their spine and refused to stand up to far-left activists, people who consistently throw down with the criminal element, have doomed these cities to becoming versions of the 1980’s cult-classic Escape From New York.
So, who exactly is to blame for the problems in Portland? Wheeler is a Democrat. The entire city council is Democrat, save one independent who was endorsed by the council’s Democratic caucus. Oregon’s feckless semi-dictator governor, Kate Brown is a Democrat.
So who is to blame? We’ll let you do the math.
Interestingly, Joe Biden has sent federal agents to the courthouse to protect the building, yet we have heard nary a complaint from Democrats like Pelosi, nor Brown, who last year accused President Trump of “provoking confrontation for political purposes.”
Currently, Democrats on Washington are once again pushing gun control, and are in part citing the increase in murders as being due to the “easy” availability of guns. Of course common sense dictates that criminals, by virtue of the fact that they are criminals do not obey gun laws.
Further, as the Examiner points out, “guns are exactly as available today as they were before this 2,000% surge in murders.” Further, Oregon, as well as neighboring states such as Washington and California all have strict gun laws.
One of the primary roles of government is the protection of citizens. It’s not embracing the latest “woke” ideology, it’s not kowtowing to political correctness. It is to provide for the safety and security of its citizens.
As we are seeing in major cities from New York to Chicago, St. Louis to Portland, city leaders are failing in their most basic responsibilities.
For Portland, a once beautiful city, the only way to turn things around is for voters to install new leadership on the city council.
They already missed the boat in replacing Wheeler, but given who his opponent was, an avowed supporter of Antifa, he was the lesser of two evils.
JoAnn Hardesty, a devout anti-police zealot would be a good start for people to get rid of. Perhaps a 2,000% increase in murders will be enough to convince residents to change course. The next victim could be them.
Kate Brown mentioned above..is a crypto jew.
Beware of calls for “leaving the union” in certain states….in particular Texas.
It is conceivable that organised jewry may attempt to set up a state composed mostly of Jews…..to act as a refuge should the US implode.
The people who called for defunding the police didn’t actually have the power to defund the police. They don’t even have the power to insist the police remain within the law. So it’s whoever has the power to do this who are doing it, and maybe they made the demands to defund the police through some useful idiots. But anyone who thinks some downtrodden people have achieved this they’ve been dramatically fooled.
Maybe it’s part of the depopulation plan so people who do have some clout – local millionaires, masons, councillors, high-ranking policemen etc – are unable to have investigations launched over the deaths of their loved ones when the cull starts, because vaccines will only pare the numbers and it will have to continue with brute force after that. Or stop, which is unlikely, or be stopped which is still possible.
In Britain it was and is the police who protect the rape jihad, and that would be a legitimate reason to deprive them of money, yet the campaign comes from the opposite and false sentiment, that they brutalise Blacks on behalf of Whites. They should, but do not. The average SJW overestimates anti-Black police brutality by a factor of thousands.
I’ve said it before on here and Lewis Jones highlights it – the police need to go, but not for the reasons the left wants them gone (racism towards non whites).
The police need to go because they’re simply not needed. They don’t protect you. They’re incredibly late if there’s a robbery in your home. They don’t uphold the common law of the land as ‘peace constables’, instead enforce law of the sea as ‘policy enforcers’. They are heavily armed and not a help to the public but a threat. They haven’t any sense, but made up of the left wing – LGBTQ+ and non whites, all with victim complexes and overbearing bullies. Policing to them is not about upholding the law but clicking up arrests for promotions. They protect, as lewis states, the paedophiles and rapists. They don’t arrest those they should and arrest those they shouldn’t. The list goes on. They need to go, all of them,along with the judiciary.
And on the judiciary, think about it? Common law is simple to understand. It’s essentially the 10 commandments. So why 4 years in university? It’s because they learn legality, that is legalese, all past cases of importance and how to deceive in order to gain. And of course, they then go into local, national and international politics.
A common law court is 12 jury made up of honest people and judge – someone with wisdom and intelligence, hence why its an elder. You don’t need pomp. You don’t need people who have studied law. Like the police it needs to be binned, nay, burned and destroyed forever.
I think the more radical elements of Burn Loot Murder, er I mean Black Lives Matter and Antifa should be mowed down in the streets, but I also think f*ck that federal courthouse. The federal government is, as I constantly say, nothing but an out of control criminal cartel and much of the federal court system is a cog in that criminal enterprise. The supreme court refused to even LOOK at any of the overwhelming evidence showing the last national election was rigged and thrown, let alone take the case and rule on it. There was a screaming match in the Justices’ chambers between the few who wanted to look at the evidence and possibly hear the cases versus the sniveling cowards and despicable traitors who were either in on the crime, which was really a treasonous usurpation, or afraid the savages and “woke” anarchists were going to burn and loot more cities. Of course, that’s happening anyway, so… So, yes, f*ck that federal courthouse, f*ck the federal criminal cartel, f*ck the whole crooked system.
Many white people supporting BLM are either deranged, deluded, gullible, cowardly, or some combination of those traits. A lot of them are angry at something, they just don’t have the critical thinking skills to figure out what it is and who has been f*cking them over. Hint, it’s organized Jewry, stupid. I don’t blame people for lashing out at government, as the government is at war with its own citizenry, or the goon squad of the cartel, which is the police in many areas. But you had better be careful which horse you back, and BLM and antifa are not to whom any reasonable person should be hitching their wagon. Because there are plenty of right-minded people who are getting real sick of that sh*t and are going to run that wagon off the road, kill everyone on that wagon, and leave them dead in a roadside ditch on a day coming soon.
“Wokeness” is a dangerous derangement as, again, the “woke” imbeciles don’t have the cognitive abilities and awareness to figure out who their real enemies are. Political correctness is not only one of the lowest forms of cowardice, it is the enemy of truth and the enemy of freedom. Anybody who espouses political correctness should be publicly horse-whipped, tied to a rail, and floated out to sea.
Portland citizens ! You get what you bloody deserve !
No sympathy !