Mar 1, 2022Liked by Richard Cheverton, Pamela Fitzsimmons
It would appear many have remembered everything but have learned nothing. I had considered Duop, and her companion, and the two children.
I also considered what little coverage has been given to her murder and to the attendant maimings and mayhem.
It puts me in mind of a hospital billboard I see when going over the bridge to Vancouver. It shows some mushy and bespectacled ginger guy with the slogan: Think with your heart.
Which translates to don't think, feel. Which is the formula that has given us what we have today, leaderlessness, slaughter, and an unnecessary slide further into the abyss. It is what legitimates CRT, Hannah Jones' loopy but vicious history, catch and release criminality, neighborhood squalor, Soros DAs, drug deaths, the mad and the dope addicted crowding our streets and school perimeters, and on and on.
I used to ticket park goers who let their dogs run wild. Of especial concern were the nature parks where, say, the Pacific Giant Salamander among the many flora and fauna native those parks were being destroyed or compromised by lazy, careless, or determined dog owners.
It should have a good opportunity for all progressive Portlanders to practice locally the stewardship of nature that they demanded globally. But, I never met an off-leash dog owner who didn't come off with bitter snark when the leash law was mentioned. When a dog owner was cited she showed up to appeal, sniffled a bit about how unfair was the citation and how it made her feel. The fines were then reduced or eliminated. He who had issued the ticket was not well regarded by either the arbitrator or the dog owner
The damage to the over used or heavily abused parks was and is incalculable.
Portland's approach to law and order seems to be much like its approach to enforcing public welfare statutes in the parks. Do not enforce the law but do think of the feelings of others. Mostly bipoc others, but white others if they live in a tent.
As a notable American racist of years passed observed: "A house divided against itself cannot stand."
We shall not stand much longer. Not as a city, not as a nation.
It would appear many have remembered everything but have learned nothing. I had considered Duop, and her companion, and the two children.
I also considered what little coverage has been given to her murder and to the attendant maimings and mayhem.
It puts me in mind of a hospital billboard I see when going over the bridge to Vancouver. It shows some mushy and bespectacled ginger guy with the slogan: Think with your heart.
Which translates to don't think, feel. Which is the formula that has given us what we have today, leaderlessness, slaughter, and an unnecessary slide further into the abyss. It is what legitimates CRT, Hannah Jones' loopy but vicious history, catch and release criminality, neighborhood squalor, Soros DAs, drug deaths, the mad and the dope addicted crowding our streets and school perimeters, and on and on.
I used to ticket park goers who let their dogs run wild. Of especial concern were the nature parks where, say, the Pacific Giant Salamander among the many flora and fauna native those parks were being destroyed or compromised by lazy, careless, or determined dog owners.
It should have a good opportunity for all progressive Portlanders to practice locally the stewardship of nature that they demanded globally. But, I never met an off-leash dog owner who didn't come off with bitter snark when the leash law was mentioned. When a dog owner was cited she showed up to appeal, sniffled a bit about how unfair was the citation and how it made her feel. The fines were then reduced or eliminated. He who had issued the ticket was not well regarded by either the arbitrator or the dog owner
The damage to the over used or heavily abused parks was and is incalculable.
Portland's approach to law and order seems to be much like its approach to enforcing public welfare statutes in the parks. Do not enforce the law but do think of the feelings of others. Mostly bipoc others, but white others if they live in a tent.
As a notable American racist of years passed observed: "A house divided against itself cannot stand."
We shall not stand much longer. Not as a city, not as a nation.