In many European cities they clean the streets and sidewalks every night with water hoses. This serves many purposes, one of which is to keep people from settling in. I often wonder why water isn’t used in Portland to do the same.
This is 2020-21 all over again, at least in terms of City Hall's failure to protect the interests of Portlanders who are under siege by the usual lawless leftist radicals.
In some ways it is worse. During the anarchist war on capitalism (or something) five years ago, mayor Wheeler eventually showed he understood that things had gotten out of hand. That should have been a learning experience that taught elected officials to get on top of the problem sooner rather than later. City Hall's inaction suggests the councilors are more concerned about their standing with the rabble and their allies (Joann Hardesty's white voters?) than their duty to deliver law and order to the residents of South Portland.
At least this time the Multnomah County DA isn't a fellow traveler like Mike Schmidt.
I'm a big chicken for this sort of stuff, so I spent the 4th out on the coast--always nice to be somewhere sane, beautiful, untroubled, tentless, no staggering psychos, no narcissists, no guys with bullhorns, no antifa creatures....just nice people doing nice things. That, and the Pacific, which could care less.
During the Occupy Portland protest in 2011, where anti-Wall Street agitators took over Lownsdale and Chapman squares and established an elaborate camp, a Portland police officer told me that one of the first things protest organizers did was designate certain activists as “security.”
Like the officer noted, “Even anarchists want security.”
Another solid piece of journalism. You know, sometimes I worry about you. Out there, in the thick of it, in the wee hours. I know I could never do that. You certainly have gumption. It was great seeing you at Don's party... and introducing you to Char and David. there is an event I'd love to go to with you. I'll message you about it... :)
Antifa and its anarchist partners first held the Portland ICE HQ on Macadam in Portland hostage in June 2018, deploying the same tactics they're using today. This was a precursor to the 2020 national riots that took 22 lives and caused $2 billion in damage to government and private property. Portland, I believe, is a training ground for the left's protest network of Antifa, BLM, communist and anarchist street thugs who are dispatched around the country to organize and lead Democrat-NGO sponsored riots. Earning from $100-$200 per day to riot, plus the travel expenses paid by leftist NGOs, radicals see it as a fun way to make money while displaying their hate for President Trump and for America.
Ah, yes, Occupy ICE in 2018. Brings back memories. If Portland has become a training ground for the left’s protest network, then the city should abandon its dreams of Major League Baseball. It will be lucky if it can hang on to the Trail Blazers.
Thanks for your report. It’s a good read that captured just how brainwashed and confused these people are — and how stupid Ted Wheeler aided the chaos.
Not just the national media! For a number of years The Times of London has run occasional articles featuring Our (formerly ) Fair City vis-a-vis run-away crime, drug use, anarchy, massive homelessness & entitlement, dysfunctional local government, stupid-ass ideology and all the rest.
In other words, the ToL picked Portland as theIr poster child of failed US cities. Well deserved, I'm sorry to say. --Mrs. L
As always Law abiding, tax paying citizens of Portlandia are the collateral damage of the virtue signal war that occupies the infertile minds of the ruling class and their minions of mental midgets
The folks at Portland city hall care very much about the ICE protests, because they are the sponsors. The enormous force behind illegal immigration comes from our largest corporations in the agriculture, hospitality, retail, construction, food processing, and other industries that require lots of low-skilled, non-unionized laborers who are trapped into silent servitude by their illegal status. These companies break federal law and wreak havoc on local communities while denying legitimate jobs to citizens who should rightly be offered them. We subsidize these corporate criminals by paying for illegal aliens' Medicaid premiums, crime prevention, and other costs inflicted upon us. Enabling all this are their partner criminals, mostly Democrats who prevent enforcement of both federal and local law in return for kickbacks. This is all plainly obvious but somehow we never seem to discuss the source of our immigration problem.
Our insatiable corporate appetite for illegal immigrants: "Walmart Workers Are Suddenly 'Vanishing' And You Will Be Stunned To Learn Why This Is Happening": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2K2_ssSF4qA
Finally, some reporting on the scene after avoidance by the local media. They are as uninterested as city government. To find coverage of the July 4th riot, one has to go to the Townhall website and Andy Ngo on X. If it’s news to Oregonians, it’s there, not on local TV or press. Thanks for this excellent account.
Excellent idea. Here’s why water cannons won’t work in Portland: They’re racist.
During the 2020 riots, then-state Rep. Janelle Bynum (D-Happy Valley) served as co-chair of a special Joint Committee on Transparent Policing and Use of Force Reform. (She has since been elected to Congress.)
In one meeting, there was a discussion about what to do when rioters ignored police commands and kept throwing things, vandalizing and starting fires. Protesters objected to tear gas. During legislative meetings, they would call during the public comment portion and rail against the police.
Sen. Floyd Prozanski (D-Eugene), a member of Bynum’s committee, said he wanted to pose a question to law enforcement about alternatives to tear gas. Speaking from experience, he recalled that back in the 60’s police used water cannons.
“I’m just wondering, thinking outside the box,” he said. “Have water cannons been considered? I’m trying to think of something that isn’t chemical… .”
He thought ACLU had done some studies on it.
Bynum, who is black, asked, “Are we talking about bringing back hoses and dogs?”
Prozanski, one of Oregon’s most liberal legislators, gave Bynum a long, silent stare.
Finally he said, “I’m not sure who you’re putting that question to. If you’re putting it to me, I don’t find any humor in that one bit.”
“I’m not trying to be funny,” Bynum replied.
“Then why are you bringing it up?” asked Prozanski.
He was trying to find an alternative to tear gas. She was reliving the Civil Rights era as if she had been on the frontlines in Selma, Alabama.
“I’m very concerned, Madam co-chair, by your insinuation that I was saying something that I didn’t say. … I am very, very frustrated about the comparison you put on the table.”
“Is a water cannon the same as a hose…?” said Bynum. “Forgive me for being born in the 70’s.”
She went on about how it left her with a bad picture.
“When I hear water cannons I hear ‘water’ I see hoses. I see dogs. … I apologize if that is not an experience that everyone on this committee has had. … You are not proposing bringing back hoses or bring back water to spray on people?”
Prozanski reiterated that his question was for law enforcement about what else could be used. He said he would not give her a response about bringing dogs back and beating people.
Mention water cannons now, and don’t be surprised if there are objections from certain Portland City Councilors. Never mind that most Portland protesters are white.
I’ve got to say, your work is a sledgehammer of truth against these Antifa/Trantifa degenerates poisoning Portland. You call them out with real journalistic backbone — something this city is severely lacking. Keep swinging.
Check out my 𝕏 account: @RheinDAmacher. I’ve been posting raw, unfiltered footage from the ICE protests here in Portland — the stuff mainstream media won’t touch.
In many European cities they clean the streets and sidewalks every night with water hoses. This serves many purposes, one of which is to keep people from settling in. I often wonder why water isn’t used in Portland to do the same.
This is 2020-21 all over again, at least in terms of City Hall's failure to protect the interests of Portlanders who are under siege by the usual lawless leftist radicals.
In some ways it is worse. During the anarchist war on capitalism (or something) five years ago, mayor Wheeler eventually showed he understood that things had gotten out of hand. That should have been a learning experience that taught elected officials to get on top of the problem sooner rather than later. City Hall's inaction suggests the councilors are more concerned about their standing with the rabble and their allies (Joann Hardesty's white voters?) than their duty to deliver law and order to the residents of South Portland.
At least this time the Multnomah County DA isn't a fellow traveler like Mike Schmidt.
Great street reporting.
I'm a big chicken for this sort of stuff, so I spent the 4th out on the coast--always nice to be somewhere sane, beautiful, untroubled, tentless, no staggering psychos, no narcissists, no guys with bullhorns, no antifa creatures....just nice people doing nice things. That, and the Pacific, which could care less.
After your deep dive into the racist Albina boondoggle, Richard, you definitely earned a vacation from the Portland insanity.
“I asked you nicely, dipshit! Now the entire block thinks you’re an asshole!” He sent three guys to chase after the fellow with the fireworks.”
And just like that, another bunch of radicals reinvent the police, again.
During the Occupy Portland protest in 2011, where anti-Wall Street agitators took over Lownsdale and Chapman squares and established an elaborate camp, a Portland police officer told me that one of the first things protest organizers did was designate certain activists as “security.”
Like the officer noted, “Even anarchists want security.”
Another solid piece of journalism. You know, sometimes I worry about you. Out there, in the thick of it, in the wee hours. I know I could never do that. You certainly have gumption. It was great seeing you at Don's party... and introducing you to Char and David. there is an event I'd love to go to with you. I'll message you about it... :)
Antifa and its anarchist partners first held the Portland ICE HQ on Macadam in Portland hostage in June 2018, deploying the same tactics they're using today. This was a precursor to the 2020 national riots that took 22 lives and caused $2 billion in damage to government and private property. Portland, I believe, is a training ground for the left's protest network of Antifa, BLM, communist and anarchist street thugs who are dispatched around the country to organize and lead Democrat-NGO sponsored riots. Earning from $100-$200 per day to riot, plus the travel expenses paid by leftist NGOs, radicals see it as a fun way to make money while displaying their hate for President Trump and for America.
Ah, yes, Occupy ICE in 2018. Brings back memories. If Portland has become a training ground for the left’s protest network, then the city should abandon its dreams of Major League Baseball. It will be lucky if it can hang on to the Trail Blazers.
From my reporting on Occupy Ice in 2018:
https://www.heldtoanswer.com/2018/07/occupy-ice-a-portland-cesspool/
Thanks for your report. It’s a good read that captured just how brainwashed and confused these people are — and how stupid Ted Wheeler aided the chaos.
Portland is the laughing stock of national media. Hard to get businesses to come or stay. The city is deteriorating.
Not just the national media! For a number of years The Times of London has run occasional articles featuring Our (formerly ) Fair City vis-a-vis run-away crime, drug use, anarchy, massive homelessness & entitlement, dysfunctional local government, stupid-ass ideology and all the rest.
In other words, the ToL picked Portland as theIr poster child of failed US cities. Well deserved, I'm sorry to say. --Mrs. L
As always Law abiding, tax paying citizens of Portlandia are the collateral damage of the virtue signal war that occupies the infertile minds of the ruling class and their minions of mental midgets
Wow. That is like the quote of the DAY. It is Perfect. LOL... :)
The folks at Portland city hall care very much about the ICE protests, because they are the sponsors. The enormous force behind illegal immigration comes from our largest corporations in the agriculture, hospitality, retail, construction, food processing, and other industries that require lots of low-skilled, non-unionized laborers who are trapped into silent servitude by their illegal status. These companies break federal law and wreak havoc on local communities while denying legitimate jobs to citizens who should rightly be offered them. We subsidize these corporate criminals by paying for illegal aliens' Medicaid premiums, crime prevention, and other costs inflicted upon us. Enabling all this are their partner criminals, mostly Democrats who prevent enforcement of both federal and local law in return for kickbacks. This is all plainly obvious but somehow we never seem to discuss the source of our immigration problem.
Our insatiable corporate appetite for illegal immigrants: "Walmart Workers Are Suddenly 'Vanishing' And You Will Be Stunned To Learn Why This Is Happening": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2K2_ssSF4qA
"Who Is Really Behind our Illegal Immigration?" https://daveziffer.substack.com/p/who-is-really-behind-our-illegal
Thanks for posting this, Pamela, and all the time and effort it required.
Finally, some reporting on the scene after avoidance by the local media. They are as uninterested as city government. To find coverage of the July 4th riot, one has to go to the Townhall website and Andy Ngo on X. If it’s news to Oregonians, it’s there, not on local TV or press. Thanks for this excellent account.
Nothing a fire hose couldn’t stop.
Excellent idea. Here’s why water cannons won’t work in Portland: They’re racist.
During the 2020 riots, then-state Rep. Janelle Bynum (D-Happy Valley) served as co-chair of a special Joint Committee on Transparent Policing and Use of Force Reform. (She has since been elected to Congress.)
In one meeting, there was a discussion about what to do when rioters ignored police commands and kept throwing things, vandalizing and starting fires. Protesters objected to tear gas. During legislative meetings, they would call during the public comment portion and rail against the police.
Sen. Floyd Prozanski (D-Eugene), a member of Bynum’s committee, said he wanted to pose a question to law enforcement about alternatives to tear gas. Speaking from experience, he recalled that back in the 60’s police used water cannons.
“I’m just wondering, thinking outside the box,” he said. “Have water cannons been considered? I’m trying to think of something that isn’t chemical… .”
He thought ACLU had done some studies on it.
Bynum, who is black, asked, “Are we talking about bringing back hoses and dogs?”
Prozanski, one of Oregon’s most liberal legislators, gave Bynum a long, silent stare.
Finally he said, “I’m not sure who you’re putting that question to. If you’re putting it to me, I don’t find any humor in that one bit.”
“I’m not trying to be funny,” Bynum replied.
“Then why are you bringing it up?” asked Prozanski.
He was trying to find an alternative to tear gas. She was reliving the Civil Rights era as if she had been on the frontlines in Selma, Alabama.
“I’m very concerned, Madam co-chair, by your insinuation that I was saying something that I didn’t say. … I am very, very frustrated about the comparison you put on the table.”
“Is a water cannon the same as a hose…?” said Bynum. “Forgive me for being born in the 70’s.”
She went on about how it left her with a bad picture.
“When I hear water cannons I hear ‘water’ I see hoses. I see dogs. … I apologize if that is not an experience that everyone on this committee has had. … You are not proposing bringing back hoses or bring back water to spray on people?”
Prozanski reiterated that his question was for law enforcement about what else could be used. He said he would not give her a response about bringing dogs back and beating people.
You can read more about Bynum and that exchange here: https://portlanddissent.substack.com/p/janelle-bynum-thanks-herself
Mention water cannons now, and don’t be surprised if there are objections from certain Portland City Councilors. Never mind that most Portland protesters are white.
A perfect scene/scenario for the 2025 season of Portlandia
Agree. Or "stink water," invented in Italy as I recall. Great stuff and it works. LOL...
Hey Pamela,
I’ve got to say, your work is a sledgehammer of truth against these Antifa/Trantifa degenerates poisoning Portland. You call them out with real journalistic backbone — something this city is severely lacking. Keep swinging.
Check out my 𝕏 account: @RheinDAmacher. I’ve been posting raw, unfiltered footage from the ICE protests here in Portland — the stuff mainstream media won’t touch.