It’s time for a federal civil
rights intervention in Portland
by
F. H. Buckley
Original Article
Posted By: Pluperfect,
7/6/2019 4:38:46 AM
The savage beating of journalist Andy Ngo in Portland by far-left antifa rioters last Saturday shocked everyone. Well, conservatives anyway, plus a few honorable liberals. As the police stood by watching at a distance, masked thugs hit him, stole his camera and threw milkshake, rocks and eggs at him. He ended up in the hospital with a brain hemorrhage.
Criminal laws are supposed to deter criminal behavior. But that only works when the criminal gets caught and punished, and when people are permitted to hide their identities behind a mask, as antifa thugs are, no one gets caught.
Sorry, when the police are offered to stand down by the Mayor, and citizens are unarmed to protect themselves, this is what happens.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
udanja99 7/6/2019 7:21:33 AM (No. 115549)
Antifa needs to be declared a terrorist group and treated accordingly. If the local police won’t handle them, send in the National Guard. And do it BEFORE the “protest” starts.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
MOBeef4u 7/6/2019 7:59:41 AM (No. 115576)
"...a few honorable liberals." If such beasts exist they have to be among the rarest creatures in the world. I've seen about as much evidence of their existence as I have for Bigfoot or the chupacabra, probably even less. They must be hanging out with all the "moderate" Muslims who are speaking out against their radical brethren.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
spacer 7/6/2019 8:42:26 AM (No. 115602)
Americans have ceded far to much of our freedoms and rights to the state. Mr. Ngo had every right to protect himself with what ever weapon.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Captleemo 7/6/2019 9:34:55 AM (No. 115632)
Our beloved country is being destroyed from within by people that hate America because they have been taught to by our broken education system. If only we had a conservative party that would fight to take back the education system and for Gods sake do away with tenure.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Strike3 7/6/2019 9:44:12 AM (No. 115637)
The mayor and police leadership should be fired and the citizens should all be subjected to psychiatric examinations. What they have allowed can not be fixed by the feds or anyone else. They might as well build their own gulags and move in.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
JunkYardDog 7/6/2019 9:48:31 AM (No. 115640)
The Mayor and the rest of the Portland city council that stood by and did nothing while Antifa was allowed to to riot and destroy property are equally culpable in their crimes. If it happens again, send in the Guard to arrest Wheeler, the entire city council, and every masked Antifa coward they can get their hands on.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
planetgeo 7/6/2019 10:05:51 AM (No. 115658)
Not just federal civil rights DOJ intervention but a federal law against masked people in public protest groups. What exactly is the asserted reason for allowing that practice to continue? Why would any "peaceful" protest require masked mobs? Unmask Antifa and you end Antifa terror. Citizens with cellphones will quickly be able to do what despicable blue city mayors and cops are unwilling to do...identify and publicize each and every Antifa thug, hopefully for federal arrest and indictment.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
David Key 7/6/2019 11:26:40 AM (No. 115718)
One only has to reverse the question to see how hypocritical the Democrats are. Imagine a group of masked (say white masked to really rev up the libs) conservatives were to beat up and attack democratic candidates, reporters, political headquarters, legal political meetings, destroying property and sending people to the hospital. Does anyone thing the police would have been stood down? Does anyone think a Republican Mayor or political leader would egg them on without consequences? Does anyone think that the MSM would have been howling down the universe decrying the evil, racist, fascist, ___Phobic(fill in the blank), behavior and demanding the heads of the cowardly masked thugs? How long oh Lord shall you hold your justice from the land?
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
HotRod 7/6/2019 12:35:01 PM (No. 115768)
Antifa is no different from the KKK. Hiding behind a mask or a hood amounts to the same thing. Hiding their identity, so they can commit crimes cannot stand.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
bighambone 7/6/2019 12:51:41 PM (No. 115784)
The problem with federal civil rights intervention in Portland and the other West Coast socialist utopias is that when the cases get to the federal courts most would likely be squashed by the prevalent activist liberal federal judges nominated by Clinton and Obama who would rule from their ivory towers in a very predictable and political matter in keeping with the tenets of the Democrat “resistance” that opposes everything that the Trump Administration initiates.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
AntiStatist 7/6/2019 1:50:32 PM (No. 115809)
Why not soldiers such as the 101st like Eisenhower deployed to Little Rock in ‘57? Remove Wheeler and the police chief, any policeman who protests or is known to be a Wheeler flunky and put a general in charge of maintaining order in Portland. Martial law in the city limits until Antifatards are rounded up and hit with domestic terrorist charges.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
DVC 7/6/2019 2:11:03 PM (No. 115823)
Yes, but the FBI is nearly out of the criminal and civil rights business. My friend there says that their organized crime and civil rights staffs are way, way down - almost all effort going into counterintelligence and anti-terrorism.
Of course, the antifa thugs are terrorists, but I really wonder if the FBI has any time to bother with leftists, too busy on other things, including "right wing" problems.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
whyyeseyec 7/6/2019 2:24:38 PM (No. 115840)
@#8 - Why wait until 'next time'? This type of incident has already occurred several times in Portland at the hands of Wheeler. What do you think would have happened had Ngo been a black man with Eric Holder as AG?
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