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

POSTED BY: REAVERFAN
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Wednesday, July 22, 2020 1:20 PM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.


As far as I can tell, security forces have set up a defensive phalanx around public buildings.

They are NOT chasing protesters around the streets of Portland, kettling them and rounding them up en masse.

And WHY have they set up these defensive positions/

Because of night after night of attacks against the buildings ranging from vandalism (graffitti) to more serious attempts to set fires, and attacks on Portland PD itself.

Now, REAVERBOT CLAIMS that these Federal officers are picking people up off the street without warrant.

How would he possibly know? I've seen arrests IRL, Nobody is waving a hardcopy arrest warrant in the air. Neither it nor I would know from watching any arrest whether there was a warrant or not. You would have to follow the arrestee to detention and check up in the booking sheet why they were arrested. Has anyone done that?

REAVERBOT claims aggression against "peaceful" protesters. But IMHO if you mix yourself in with violent agitators and provocateurs who have been attacking buildings and local PD,and approach a defensive line, well, that's just stupid. When I look at who is "aggressing" the first thing I do is look at who approaches who. The static person is not the aggressor.

REAVERBOT also claims that the Federal officers are operating outside of their jurisdiction and therefore "lawlessly". Not true. They are within their juridiction and therefore are operating under relevant rules and chain of command.

Then, based on a lot of hot air and hyperbole, REAVERBOT calls for revolution.

Sounds not only stupid, it sounds like treason.

*****

I think, if there were real reporters out there, someone should investigate ALL of these claims. Ask witnesses to see if people really were taken off the street, Try and find out the indenties of the arrestees, if any. Where are they presumably being detained? What were they taken into custody for? Are they illegal aliens? Were they caught on camera wielding lasers, or throwing fireworks, or attacking police officers? Were they just innocent protestors pulled off the street at random? Did this actually even happen? (There are no specifics in these stories, AFAIK.)

Look at the arrest records of local PD: how many people have been arrested, and where were they arrested? At the contact line around the Federal Courthouse? Someplace else?

Who is in charge of the Federal officers? What rules are they following? What charges are they empowered to levy?

In any case, I think there is already a formal investigation going on. I await the results.




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Wednesday, July 22, 2020 1:22 PM

THG


Peacefully reaver. Those on the left who believe it's time to do an end run around our democratic institutions, are, wacko sicko's like those on the Trump spectrum you and I complain about.

No shit. If you think it's time for violence we part company now. So far the system is holding and will recover. It will be better and stronger than ever because of recent lessons learned. Protecting and yes, improving those institutions is what I'm about.

T

Stupid people don't know they're stupid, and they certainly don't realize how obvious it is to others.

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Wednesday, July 22, 2020 1:26 PM

THG


Philadelphia DA warns of charges if federal agents commit crimes

PHILADELPHIA — Philadelphia’s top prosecutor has warned that federal law enforcement officers will be charged criminally if they unlawfully assault or kidnap anyone in the city.

https://www.pennlive.com/news/2020/07/philadelphia-da-warns-of-charges
-if-federal-agents-commit-crimes.html


T

Stupid people don't know they're stupid, and they certainly don't realize how obvious it is to others.

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Wednesday, July 22, 2020 1:46 PM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.


Of course.

IF FEDERAL AGENTS COMMIT CRIMES THEN THEY SHOULD BE CHARGED.

BUT SO FAR, ALL I SEE IS VAPORWARE: A LOT OF ALLEGATIONS, NO EVIDENCE.

All of the videos of "police violence" in Portland shows PEOPLE APPROACHING THE CONTACT LINE. Not the other way around. The officers are surrounding Federal property. AFAIK they haven't been chasing protesters thru the streets of Portland.

Hey, I've seen protests where the police were chasing protestors thru the streets, billy-clubbing as they went, shooting real live rounds (Kent State) as well as "less lethal" rounds and tear gas canisters directly at people's heads. I've seen protesters kettled and rounded up en masse and herded into waiting buses. I've seen crowd control police pick out people at random from a group of protesters for a real beat-down. Dragging people by their hair. Spraying a sitting, restrained group of protesters straight in the face with tear gas.

Should be punished.

Is this happening in Portland?



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Wednesday, July 22, 2020 2:00 PM

THG


shoo comrade...

T


Stupid people don't know they're stupid, and they certainly don't realize how obvious it is to others.

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Wednesday, July 22, 2020 2:24 PM

CAPTAINCRUNCH

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Quote:

Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:

Below is a snapshot of the lawless destruction and violence of the past several weeks that Department of Homeland Security and its subcomponents of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Customs and Border Protection, and Federal Protective Service have faced:

05/29/2020

Violent anarchists broke a front window at the Hatfield Courthouse.
Violent anarchists graffitied the Hatfield Courthouse.
Overall, the cost of damages on federal property done by the violent mob this first night was estimated at $5,000.

05/30/2020

Violent anarchists graffitied the BPA Building.
Violent anarchists graffitied the Hatfield Courthouse.
Violent anarchists graffitied the Edith Green-Wenell Wyatt Building.
Violent anarchists graffitied the Terry Schrunk Plaza.
Violent anarchists graffitied the 911 Federal Building.
Violent anarchists graffitied the Pioneer Courthouse.
Violent anarchists graffitied the Gus J. Solomon Courthouse.

06/01/2020

Violent anarchists graffitied the Hatfield Courthouse.
Violent anarchists graffitied Terry Schrunk Plaza.
Violent anarchists graffitied The Pioneer Courthouse.
Violent anarchists graffitied The Gus J Solomon Courthouse.

06/02/2020

Violent anarchists graffitied the U.S. Custom House.

06/06/2020

Violent anarchists destroyed fencing surrounding federal property.

06/07/2020

Violent anarchists damaged and breached the fence around the Hatfield Courthouse.
Portland Police were forced to deploy crowd control spray to disperse a crowd that was throwing animal seed at officers.

06/08/2020

Violent anarchists broke a window at the Hatfield Courthouse while pelting the building with objects.
Violent anarchists cut a hole in the fence surrounding Hatfield Courthouse.

06/10/2020

Violent anarchists removed the entire fence around Hatfield Courthouse and graffitied its front columns.
Violent anarchists attempted to remove wooden barriers from a window on the Hatfield Courthouse.

06/11/2020

Violent anarchists dismantled a section of the fence protecting the Edith Green-Wenell Wyatt Federal Building.

06/13/2020

Violent anarchists destroyed the card reader at the Hatfield Courthouse by ripping it off its mount.
Violent anarchists destroyed the fence at the Hatfield Courthouse.
Violent anarchists threw metal pipes at the Hatfield Courthouse, causing Portland Police to issue a disbursal warning for unlawful assembly.

06/17/2020

Violent anarchists graffitied the Hatfield Courthouse.

06/20/2020

Among a group of over 400 protesters marching in front of the Pioneer Courthouse, violent anarchists attempted to cause eye damage to officers with commercial grade lasers.
Violent anarchists graffitied the Gus J. Solomon Courthouse.

06/25/2020

Violent anarchists vandalized an FPS camera at the Hatfield Courthouse.
Violent anarchists breached the fence of the Justice Center, adjacent to the courthouse.

06/30/2020

Violent anarchists ripped down plywood covering the windows at the Edith Green-Wenell Wyatt Building, before breaking the windows.

7/01/2020

Violent anarchists graffitied new plywood covering the windows at the Hatfield Courthouse and ripped down plywood on the other side of the building.
A group of over 200 violent anarchists blocked access to the building and proceeded to launch aerial fireworks at federal property.

07/02/2020

Violent anarchists broke a front window to the Hatfield Courthouse and attempted to enter the building.
Violent anarchists refused orders to vacate the Hatfield Courthouse area, and instead launched fireworks and threw objects at officers, while attempting to cause eye damage with lasers. One explosive firework was shot into the courthouse.
FPS law enforcement officers were forced to utilized crowd control measures for safety.

07/03/2020

After ongoing riots around the Hatfield Courthouse, crowds were dispersed only to make a return later into the night.
Violent Anarchists broke the front window of the Hatfield U.S. Courthouse and shot fireworks into the building.
Violent anarchists firebombed the building. Federal law enforcement extinguished the fire.

07/04/2020

Around 1,000 violent anarchists spray painted, threw rocks, and shot fireworks (including mortar style fireworks) at the Hatfield Courthouse. They also destroyed a security camera at the facility.
A CBP team supporting FPS at the courthouse arrested suspects from the graffiti and camera vandalism incidents.
The mob continued to throw rocks and paint-filled balloons, while attempting to breach the doors.
Teams were forced to utilize crowd control measures for safety.
Multiple individuals were seen carrying rifles, including the driver of a vehicle who attempted to strike a Portland Police Bureau officer with his car in front of the Hatfield Courthouse.

07/05/2020

A hostile crowd of about 250 violent anarchists returned to the vicinity of Hatfield Courthouse to vandalize and attack numerous facilities and police, while failing to comply with dispersal order.
Violent anarchists surrounded and blocked law enforcement from the area as extremists proceeded to attack police with thrown projectiles and large mortar style fireworks.
Two Portland Police Bureau officers were injured by the crowd (possible concussion).
Portland Police Bureau took five into custody for directing lasers against aircraft.
Violent anarchists set fires in front of Hatfield Courthouse and Chapman park.
At the entrance of Hatfield Courthouse, Violent Anarchists fired large fireworks and threw other dangerous objects toward the entrance and the personnel protecting it.
The mob was pushed completely out of the area of Hatfield Courthouse; FPS made two arrests during push.
Portland Police made multiple arrests and found a loaded weapon on one subject.
Two more violent anarchists were arrested, and one was found to be carrying what appears to be a pipe bomb.
Violent anarchists assaulted construction crews by targeting them with fireworks while they repaired Hatfield Building.
A joint team had to be deployed to create buffer between violent anarchists and construction crew to protect construction workers.

07/06/2020

Violent anarchists attempted to cause vision damage to personnel with lasers. Five arrests were made for assaulting law enforcement.

07/07/2020

Violent anarchists held a “Night of Rage,” in which a 400-500-person protest devolved into riots, assaulting law enforcement officers and federal property.
Approximately 200 violent anarchists began pursuing law enforcement officers to disrupt enforcement actions, assaulting them with rocks and bottles.
Around 150 violent anarchists in front of the Justice Center began attacking personnel with lasers and peppered the area with fireworks.
Three violent anarchists were arrested for attacking law enforcement.

07/08/2020

Approximately 200 violent anarchists attacked DHS law enforcement officers while apprehending a subject who was wanted for property damage.
One arrest was made after three law enforcement officers were injured.
Law enforcement officers’ personal information was publicly exposed, including FPS, ICE, and CBP personnel.
Violent anarchists continued to attack officers with lasers.

07/09/2020

Violent anarchists attacked DHS law enforcement officers while apprehending a subject who was wanted for property damage.
A violent anarchist graffitied the Hatfield courthouse.
An unidentified subject fired several shots from a gun into the air from the rear seat of a passing white SUV.

07/10/2020

Crowds of approximately 300 violent anarchists vandalized federal property and cameras with spray paint, blocked roadways, and assaulted law enforcement officers.
Three were arrested for Assault on a Federal Officer.
Violent anarchists attempted to ambush Portland Police Department PD during their shift change, but a DHS team was deployed and able to prevent any attacks.

07/11/2020

DHS law enforcement officers supported local police to help a violent anarchist who overdosed.
Four violent anarchists were arrested, including one who attempted to assault an officer with a hammer.
Violent anarchists sieged the barricade of the courthouse and tried to damage it with a large hammer.
A law enforcement officer was assaulted with blows from a hammer. Violent anarchists fought officers while they were arresting those responsible.

07/12/2020

Six violent anarchists were detained and cited.
A mob of 300 refused to comply with directions not to trespass on federal property.
Another mob of 200 individuals armed with sledgehammers, tasers and/or stun guns, gathered in Chapman Park across from the Hatfield Courthouse.
Violent anarchists launched fireworks, threw fecal matter and large objects, and pointed lasers at federal law enforcement officers.
Violent anarchists deployed a plywood blockade while graffitiing the Edith Green-Wenell Wyatt Federal Building, before firing wrist rockets at the facility.
When an arrest team was deployed to apprehend a rioter who encroached on a police barrier and refused to leave, they were assaulted by violent anarchists.
A rioter trespassed on the steps of the Hatfield Courthouse and was confronted by federal law enforcement Officers, then swallowed a large amount of narcotics. Law enforcement called medical services after the individual started to convulse.
Despite more orders to stay off of federal property and to cease unlawful activity, FPS was forced to push back violent anarchists. The Portland Police Bureau declared the mob an unlawful assembly.

07/13/2020
Violent anarchists released personal information of federal law enforcement officers to the public, publishing names of those in Portland.
Violent anarchists continued to assault law enforcement officers with lasers, slingshots and fireworks. Others were armed with sledge hammers, tasers, and stun guns, and dragged flaming debris into the scene.

07/14/2020
Violent anarchists set a container of liquid on fire at the Terry Schrunk Plaza.
Violent anarchists jumped a fence and attempted to breach the Edith Green Federal Building.
Violent anarchists assaulted federal law enforcement officers with cans and other hard objects while they attempted to unblock the entrance of the Edith Green Federal Building.

07/15/2020
Violent anarchists doxed members of federal law enforcement.
Violent anarchists attempted to damage the Hatfield Courthouse by throwing objects at it and spray painting it. Numerous fireworks were also lit.
Violent anarchists trespassed on federal property and destroyed a card reader at the Justice Center.


End of quoted link.


I wonder which date the Gov, Mayor, etc decided to tell Law Enforcement to go away, stop interfering with our vandalizing and anarchy, our assault on Federal property and Law Enforcement officers and agents.

The Doxxers and laser wielders and guns and hammer wielding anarchists should all be thrown in the dungeon.



Holy shit! They used paint filled balloons! Fuggin' run for the hills! Doomsday is upon us!

The phrase "violent anarchist" is used 70 times in the list and yet "injured" only twice. (and claims of assault need to be verified since the source is biased.)

Looking more closely, many of these are for the inhuman and horrifying crimes of:

"Violent anarchists attempted to damage the Hatfield Courthouse by throwing objects at it and spray painting it."

"Violent anarchists continued to assault law enforcement officers with lasers, slingshots and fireworks."
Nooooo! Not slingshots!

Be honest, JSF - you didn't really give a shit about Portland anyway, do you?

MEANWHILE - roughly 1,000 Americans are dying every day from Trump's shit hole, zero "leadership." We'd be much safer with the violent anarchists running things.

But, people are spray painting public buildings, so priorities! (f*cking idiots)

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Wednesday, July 22, 2020 2:29 PM

THG


Good post G. Showing what JSF is concerned about. Paint filled balloons instead of 1000 now dying a day because of Trumps response, or lack there of, to the coronavirus.

Where're back to a thousand a day. It breaks your heart.

T


Stupid people don't know they're stupid, and they certainly don't realize how obvious it is to others.

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Wednesday, July 22, 2020 2:50 PM

REAVERFAN


Nothing Can Justify the Attack on Portland
The question of whether these arrests are appropriate has a clear answer—at least in a nation that purports to live under the rule of law.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/07/nothing-can-justify-
attack-portland/614413
/

Secret police kidnapping people and hauling them away without a word.

That is fascism, but as JSF proves over and over again, that's precisely what JSF wants.

"Violent protesters" (LOL!) are not, and never were the problem.

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Wednesday, July 22, 2020 3:30 PM

THG


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.



T

Stupid people don't know they're stupid, and they certainly don't realize how obvious it is to others.


How It Starts


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Wednesday, July 22, 2020 3:42 PM

JEWELSTAITEFAN


Quote:

Originally posted by 1KIKI:
Quote:

U.S. Customs and Border Protection, however, is under federal authority
Little known is the fact that the USBP has jurisdiction within 100 miles of any external border, and that that area affects roughly 2/3 of the US population.

It's one of those gotcha's that very few people seem to know about.

https://www.aclu.org/other/constitution-100-mile-border-zone

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2020/06/10/cbp-protests-border-
zone-312151


Portland is 60 miles from the western border.

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Wednesday, July 22, 2020 3:50 PM

1KIKI

Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.


For whatever reason, Portland has become the turf on which a proxy battle is being fought by infiltrating groups with various agendas: Antifa, CHAZ, BLM, Boogaloo Boyz, 'large money political donors', and so forth.

And at the moment, the only voices that are being heard are the loudest and most violent, who are ALL pretending to represent the best interests of the people there.

Now, I'm sure there've been plenty of polls asking the citizens at large what they want for their own city, but nobody is publishing them. What DO Portlandians themselves want for their home of Portland? I dunno. Do you?

As to the use of USBP, as I posted AND LINKED above, the USBP 100mi generous area of authority has caused heartburn for both the left and right at various times. But there it still is, ready to be invoked.

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Wednesday, July 22, 2020 5:21 PM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.


From REAVERBOT'S link


Quote:

There will be time to sort out the legalities of the federal government’s actions. The attorney general of Oregon has filed suit against various federal agencies and officers involved in one arrest, arguing, “Ordinarily, a person ... who is confronted by anonymous men in military-type fatigues and ordered into an unmarked van can reasonably assume that he is being kidnapped and is the victim of a crime.” The American Civil Liberties Union has also sued the Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Marshals Service. The chairs of three House committees have requested an internal DHS investigation of the matter. Between these varied proceedings, the Trump administration will have to answer legal questions like whether it’s really okay for unidentified federal officers and agents to patrol streets, and whether an agency whose mission is to patrol the border is properly used without training for crowd control. The administration will also have to justify the propriety of the individual arrests both in any prosecutions of those detained and in any civil suits filed.

But let’s leave the legalities aside for now.




Why would an author, who is hand-wringing about "rule of law", want to set aside discussion of legality?

Probably because author has run down the legalities as well, and has a pretty good suspicion that what DHS is purported to have done IS ENTIRELY LEGAL.

Indeed, from the same link...
Quote:

The existence of the department’s authority to protect federal property is uncontroversial. The federal government has the power to defend federal buildings and facilities from civil unrest, and a variety of federal laws protect federal property from attack and vandalism and federal officials from interference with their discharge of the government’s business.


I can't stress enough that an arrest is an arrest, whether it's from uniformed police in a marked car, plainclothes officers in an unmarked car, or officers in fatigues in an unmarked van.

They aren't waving arrest warrants in the air, so nobody knows whether there is a warrant or not. You're read your rights and shoved into a vehicle. You're taken to some sort of detention center and booked. You can be held for 48 hours without charges. You can call your lawyer.

From the same link

Quote:

While this authority certainly extends to the power to investigate federal crimes and arrest those suspected of them, it is not some general authority to patrol the downtowns of major cities and pick up and detain protesters merely because a federal building may be in the neighborhood.
If someone is arrested and charged, the charges won't read "Because s/he was in the neighborhood of a federal building". DHS apparently has it's own intelligence, there should be specific charges attached.

But nobody seems to know who was arrested or what for. There are no names attached to the stories. By now, the process has unfolded and the person(s) have been charged or released. The person's lawyer would have made the arrest and charges public if they felt it beneficial for their client, and any person who was released is free to go to the media.

If that's not what has happened, then it deserves some serious charges against those who made the arrests, because they didn't follow procedure. But the rest is all optics.

*****

If people don't like the laws, the CHANGE THE LAWS. These laws are made and passed by Congress and State Legislatures and reviewed by the courts.

MAYBE NEXT TIME PEOPLE WILL PAY MORE ATTENTION WHEN LAWS LIKE THE SO-CALLED "PATRIOT ACT" ARE PASSED.

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Wednesday, July 22, 2020 8:21 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Quote:

Originally posted by THG:
Quote:

Originally posted by SIGNYM:

Still waiting for REAVERFAN to explain what his heartburn is all about.

So far, it sounds like vaporware.




All this guy did was ask if the feds believed the constitution they swore to uphold permitted what they were doing. Look how they responded to this vet. This comrade sig, this is what reaver is warning us of.

T


Stupid people don't know they're stupid, and they certainly don't realize how obvious it is to others.






lol

That's a false flag video. Either that, or dude wearing the NAVY shirt is a T-1000.

Seriously dude. Are you stupid?

Guy gets wacked with a skull crusher, used two-handed, and the only protection he has is a cotton sweater? Then he gets maced in the face and doesn't even flinch. THEN he walks away and gives two middle fingers?

Guy would have zero use of his arm and he'd have been balled up on the street crying until the paramedics came.



You little LARPing revolutionaries have obviously never had your asses kicked before and have no idea how pain and broken bones work.


Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Thursday, July 23, 2020 9:42 AM

REAVERFAN


It's hilarious seeing 6 talking as if WE'RE the pussies and not HIM.

Project much?


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Thursday, July 23, 2020 11:17 AM

REAVERFAN


Mayor of Portland, Oregon, tear gassed by federal agents
https://apnews.com/edd4ebdd7a245e568da69db38aea04db


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Thursday, July 23, 2020 11:17 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Try reading the comment again, retard. Apparently it went over your smoothbrain.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Thursday, July 23, 2020 12:30 PM

REAVERFAN


Two DHS Officials Apparently Just Admitted Their Troops Have Been Violating the Constitution
https://lawandcrime.com/legal-analysis/two-dhs-officials-apparently-ju
st-admitted-their-troops-have-been-violating-the-constitution
/

Wolf told Fox News host Martha MacCallum on Tuesday night. “Attacking federal police officers–law enforcement officers–which they have done for 52 nights in a row is a federal crime. So, the Department, because we don’t have that local support, that local law enforcement support, we are having to go out and proactively arrest individuals and we need to do that because we need to hold them accountable.”

Anticipatory arrests, of course, are prohibited under the U.S. Constitution.

How is this NOT fascism? Someone please explain.

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Thursday, July 23, 2020 12:33 PM

REAVERFAN


The NRA spent decades scaring Americans into buying their products to use if the government ever sent "jack-booted thugs" to "attack, harass, intimidate law-abiding citizens" and "take away our constitutional rights."

OK, NRA. Now that it's happening across the US, are you saying it's go time?

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/01/two-decades-wayne
-lapierre-saying-hyperbolic-things-about-guns/318915
/

The NRA has also spent decades claiming that nobody to the left of Pinochet is "law-abiding" so I wouldn't hold your breath.

I mean, just read the rhetoric these mouth-breathing wing nuts are using. BLM protesters are "terrorists", "thugs", "insurgents". It's all there in the conservative subs and all over orange man's twit feed. They've literally stated that people protesting for policing reform are calling for the complete destruction of the United States, and that graffiti being sprayed on a building is a heinous enough crime to justify the deployment of 100's of unidentified officers, illegal detainment, and the employment of riot control measures like tear-gas on unarmed crowds.

It's a cult, and the NRA is a big part of it. They helped launder Russia's money for the Republican party. Don't expect rationality or a sense of their own hypocrisy to move them.




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Thursday, July 23, 2020 12:46 PM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.


YOU'RE A CULT MEMEBER, REAVERBOT.

You say the stupidest and most treasonous things!

Instead of frothing over what other people say, why don't you pay attention to the lies and hyperbole running out of your own keyboard?

Yanno, add some sanity to the discussion instead of agitating for revolution.

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Thursday, July 23, 2020 12:50 PM

REAVERFAN


The ignorance is astonishing.


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Thursday, July 23, 2020 1:10 PM

SIGNYM

I believe in solving problems, not sharing them.


Black female Angela Stanton King apparently doesn't know that Islam does not allow statues of, or ANY human representation of Allah, Mohammed etc because it considers that to be idolatry.

She had to be corrected by a white male. Proving that ignorance and education know no racial or sexual bounds: you can find ignorant people among black females, and smart people among white males.

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Thursday, July 23, 2020 1:49 PM

REAVERFAN


Leaked documents reveal DHS spread a viral far-right Facebook conspiracy to local cops that claimed anti-fascists used a satirical “protest jobs” website to pay rioters and plan acts of violence at anti-police brutality protests
https://mainernews.com/satirical-protest-jobs-website-was-source-of-of
ficial-warnings-about-leftist-violence
/

Fascism 101: When the truth doesn't work for you, just lie...

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Thursday, July 23, 2020 5:21 PM

REAVERFAN


The Republican silence on what's happening in Portland is jarring
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/meet-the-press/republican-silence-wha
t-s-happening-portland-jarring-n1234684


If you’ve followed American politics over the last 10 years, you might be surprised that Republicans are more outraged at Liz Cheney than they are federal armed agents that just tear-gassed a city’s mayor.

What happened to “Don’t tread on me”?

What happened to states’ rights?

What happened to freedom of speech and assembly?

It’s easy to understand in our current politics why elected Republicans aren’t speaking out against the Department of Homeland Security forces in liberal, urban Portland. (Sen. Rand Paul is one exception.)

But if you lived through the Obama Era, this Republican silence is jarring.

And the next time they’re out of power from the White House, it will only undercut future efforts by them to decry federal overreach.

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Thursday, July 23, 2020 5:44 PM

1KIKI

Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.


As to what's going on in Portland at the local level ... it's complicated.

And everybody's got their own spin on it.


Mayor of Portland jeered by crowd, tear-gassed by federal agents as protests rage
Los Angeles Times|12 hours ago
The mayor of Portland, Ore., was tear-gassed by the U.S. government late Wednesday as he stood at a fence guarding a federal courthouse during another night of protest against the presence of federal agents sent by President Trump to quell unrest in the city.
https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-07-23/portland-oregon-
mayor-jeered-tear-gassed-federal-agents-protest



Portland mayor tear-gassed by federal officers during chaotic protests
USA Today|7 hours ago
Ted Wheeler was tear-gassed along with a crowd of protesters after he tried for hours to calm activists.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/07/23/portland-protest
s-mayor-warns-somebodys-going-die/5487981002
/


Portland's Mayor Is Tear-Gassed By Federal Forces On Another Night Of Protests
NPR|3 hours ago
"It was not great," Mayor Ted Wheeler said. "It makes your eyes really burn." Protesters railed against federal agents' presence in the city — and repeated their call for Wheeler to resign.
https://www.npr.org/sections/live-updates-protests-for-racial-justice/
2020/07/23/894591409/portlands-mayor-is-tear-gassed-by-federal-forces-on-another-night-of-protests



Mayor of Portland tear gassed by federal agents, riot declared
ABC News on MSN.com|6 hours ago
boiled over again Wednesday night as federal agents sprayed tear gas into a crowd that included Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler. Wheeler, according to ABC affiliate KATU in Portland, was likely hit with the chemical agent. "Oh, for sure, he got gassed.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/mayor-of-portland-tear-gassed-by-fed
eral-agents-riot-declared/ar-BB175MNS


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Thursday, July 23, 2020 5:58 PM

1KIKI

Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.


BTW, as far as I can tell, the mayor is getting criticized by businesses for letting the riots go on, by some groups for being the puppet of 'big money donors', and by rioters for letting the police 'over-police' and use teargas; while at the same time he's protesting the federal presence.

It's a good thing there's a mayoral election coming up so people can vote on whether or not he's overall representing their interests. The populace needs to have their say, instead of having outsiders driving the narrative.

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Thursday, July 23, 2020 10:33 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Quote:

Originally posted by SIGNYM:
YOU'RE A CULT MEMEBER, REAVERBOT.

You say the stupidest and most treasonous things!

Instead of frothing over what other people say, why don't you pay attention to the lies and hyperbole running out of your own keyboard?

Yanno, add some sanity to the discussion instead of agitating for revolution.

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If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake

#WEARAMASK




Let him talk.

He's red pilling Ted.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Thursday, July 23, 2020 11:02 PM

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Thursday, July 23, 2020 11:09 PM

REAVERFAN


Quote:

Originally posted by 1KIKI:
BTW, as far as I can tell, the mayor is getting criticized by businesses for letting the riots go on, by some groups for being the puppet of 'big money donors', and by rioters for letting the police 'over-police' and use teargas; while at the same time he's protesting the federal presence.

It's a good thing there's a mayoral election coming up so people can vote on whether or not he's overall representing their interests. The populace needs to have their say, instead of having outsiders driving the narrative.

I'd really like to see a quote from a "rioter."

Tell us all about these "rioters." I'm all ears.

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Thursday, July 23, 2020 11:30 PM

1KIKI

Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.


Quote:

Originally posted by reaverfan:
I'd really like to see a quote from a "rioter."

Tell us all about these "rioters." I'm all ears.


from my links:


Thousands are still in the area after the riot was declared
"You need to be doing more than you are doing. You say you are doing stuff. We haven't seen it," activist Teal Lindseth, 21, told him Wednesday night.


But a google search under her name with the word portland also comes up with this

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/federal-crackdown-in-portland-ree
nergizes-protesters/ar-BB172hrT




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Friday, July 24, 2020 5:49 AM

SECOND

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


Speaking in a telephone interview on Fox News, Trump began by saying he was ready to dispatch "50,000, 60,000 people" into American cities. But eventually he upped the figure to 75,000 -- but said it would require local authorities asking for help.

"We have to be invited in. At some point we'll have to do something much stronger than being invited in," Trump said. "We'll go into all of the cities, any of the cities. We're ready," he added.

Deploying 75,000 officers would mark a significant portion of all federal officers in the country. According to a 2019 report from the Bureau of Justice Statistics, there were approximately 100,000 federal law enforcement officers in the entire United States in 2016, the last year for which data was available.

More at www.cnn.com/2020/07/23/politics/trump-federal-agents-us-cities/index.h
tml


Sending 75,000 out of 100,000 officers is Trump promising the equivalent of pointing a gun at his own head. I certainly hope he goes all the way, before the election, and pulls that trigger. The mess he'll make will be spectacular!

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

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Friday, July 24, 2020 9:41 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK


More evidence that Marcos is Second's sock puppet, above.

You'll notice that Ted posted an image about wearing masks which is unrelated to the topic and a regurgitation about how these are peaceful protests in the first page. Then a blank message with his insulting signature in the second page.

Then he wrote this on the third page:

Quote:

Originally posted by THG:
Peacefully reaver. Those on the left who believe it's time to do an end run around our democratic institutions, are, wacko sicko's like those on the Trump spectrum you and I complain about.

No shit. If you think it's time for violence we part company now. So far the system is holding and will recover. It will be better and stronger than ever because of recent lessons learned. Protecting and yes, improving those institutions is what I'm about.



Since Ted refuses to watch anything that isn't Legacy Media, he doesn't actually see what any of these people are actually about.

Thanks to Second, via his sockupuppet, Ted is learning now.



No Justice, No Peace, Ted.



1st Amendment:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.




And my thinking is that there will likely be a day when people need to shower the tree of Liberty with blood, just like our Forefathers predicted.

But today isn't that day. Marcos and his people think that it is.

Fine, I guess, but they need to realize that it's an act of war. They don't get to do it and then cry that they're the victims after the fact. Actions have consequences. Large actions have large consequences.

This is the result of decades of not keeping score in sports and giving kids safe spaces until they are adults in college campuses. It's also the result of failing to teach civics in public schools anymore, and doing a terrible job teaching history.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Friday, July 24, 2020 9:44 AM

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Friday, July 24, 2020 9:45 AM

REAVERFAN


Quote:

Originally posted by 1KIKI:
Quote:

Originally posted by reaverfan:
I'd really like to see a quote from a "rioter."

Tell us all about these "rioters." I'm all ears.


from my links:


Thousands are still in the area after the riot was declared
"You need to be doing more than you are doing. You say you are doing stuff. We haven't seen it," activist Teal Lindseth, 21, told him Wednesday night.


But a google search under her name with the word portland also comes up with this

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/federal-crackdown-in-portland-ree
nergizes-protesters/ar-BB172hrT




So, you've got nothing. Thanks.

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Friday, July 24, 2020 9:48 AM

REAVERFAN


Quote:

Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
More evidence that Marcos is Second's sock puppet, above.

You'll notice that Ted posted an image about wearing masks which is unrelated to the topic and a regurgitation about how these are peaceful protests in the first page. Then a blank message with his insulting signature in the second page.

Then he wrote this on the third page:

Quote:

Originally posted by THG:
Peacefully reaver. Those on the left who believe it's time to do an end run around our democratic institutions, are, wacko sicko's like those on the Trump spectrum you and I complain about.

No shit. If you think it's time for violence we part company now. So far the system is holding and will recover. It will be better and stronger than ever because of recent lessons learned. Protecting and yes, improving those institutions is what I'm about.



Since Ted refuses to watch anything that isn't Legacy Media, he doesn't actually see what any of these people are actually about.

Thanks to Second, via his sockupuppet, Ted is learning now.



No Justice, No Peace, Ted.



1st Amendment:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.




And my thinking is that there will likely be a day when people need to shower the tree of Liberty with blood, just like our Forefathers predicted.

But today isn't that day. Marcos and his people think that it is.

Fine, I guess, but they need to realize that it's an act of war. They don't get to do it and then cry that they're the victims after the fact. Actions have consequences. Large actions have large consequences.

This is the result of decades of not keeping score in sports and giving kids safe spaces until they are adults in college campuses. It's also the result of failing to teach civics in public schools anymore, and doing a terrible job teaching history.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

Your ignorance is on full display here. Your cognitive decline continues to accelerate.

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Friday, July 24, 2020 9:53 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Quote:

Originally posted by reaverfan:
Your ignorance is on full display here. Your cognitive decline continues to accelerate.



Before I run out and take the Dementia test that Biden is afraid to take, I'll wait and see what Ted has to say.


In the mean time, please keep speaking on this issue, Second. The people need to hear straight from the horses mouth instead of the lies the Legacy Media tells.



Or maybe you'd like to argue any of that point? With facts. LOL. I'm just joking. There is no way that you can argue that point.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Friday, July 24, 2020 9:55 AM

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Friday, July 24, 2020 9:56 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Are you trying to flood this thread with bullshit now so my message gets buried?

I can keep posting it. You're not here 24/7, and you can't bury the signal.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Friday, July 24, 2020 10:20 AM

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Friday, July 24, 2020 10:37 AM

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The Lead Federal Agency Responding to Protesters in Portland Employs Thousands of Private Contractors
Congress needs to shine a light on the use of private security firms, including ‘Blackwater’ legacy companies, in Trump’s response to ongoing civil rights protests
https://medium.com/@wkc6428/the-lead-federal-agency-responding-to-protesters-in-portland-employs-thousands-of-private-db137349f8b0

What has not been reported widely in the media, however, is the fact that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) unit that is coordinating the “crowd control” effort — an agency called the Federal Protective Service (FPS) — is composed largely of contract security personnel. Those contractors are being furnished to FPS by major private-sector security companies like Blackwater corporate descendant Triple Canopy as well as dozens of other private security firms.
In fact, FPS spends more than $1 billion a year on these contract security guards who are authorized to conduct crowd control at federal properties, such as those in Portland. And, based on available photographic and document evidence, it appears those private contractors are now part of the federal force arrayed in Portland and are likely to be part of the federal response President Trump has promised to stand up in multiple other cities, including Chicago, Detroit, New York, Philadelphia and other urban centers led by Democratic mayors across the country."

It's hard to imagine a more literal example of fascism than using private resources to execute the Government's monopoly on legitimized violence.

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Friday, July 24, 2020 11:58 AM

REAVERFAN


Philly officer who pepper sprayed peaceful protesters charged with assault
The Philly district attorney said the officer did so "without provocation."
https://abcnews.go.com/US/philly-officer-pepper-sprayed-peaceful-prote
sters-charged-assault/story?id=71940961



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Friday, July 24, 2020 12:50 PM

REAVERFAN


Meanwhile in Chicago, great things are happening.

Christopher Columbus statues taken down at 2 Chicago parks
https://www.yahoo.com/news/christopher-columbus-statue-taken-down-0902
16918.html

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Friday, July 24, 2020 2:24 PM

THG


Quote:

Originally posted by reaverfan:

Meanwhile in Chicago, great things are happening.

Christopher Columbus statues taken down at 2 Chicago parks
https://www.yahoo.com/news/christopher-columbus-statue-taken-down-0902
16918.html
]

T

Stupid people don't know they're stupid, and they certainly don't realize how obvious it is to others.


Yep, tear it down. And tear down all the American Indian statues as well. History people, learn your history. North America was not a Utopia before Europeans arrived. Not even close.

One reason why many indigenous Americans were actually eager for contact with Europeans was to acquire more advanced weaponry with which to defend themselves and kill their existing enemies. Every early French account from Canada and the Great Lakes attests to this.

There’s a fairly convincing theory out there that the word Iroquois (pronounced “iro-kwé” in 17th-century French) was just a corruption of a Basque-Algonquin pidgin word that meant “the killers” or “the murderers.”[1] (The Iroquois did not traditionally refer to themselves as “Iroquois.”) Basque fishermen and whalers were living with the Algonquian peoples of what became Quebec possibly as early as the late 1400s and witnessed some trauma and terror. The natives of eastern Canada were definitely interested in European weaponry to defend themselves against their enemies in what became the state of New York. Europeans didn’t cause that brutal conflict. They walked into it — and ultimately made it worse — but they didn’t walk into a North American utopia.

When French explorers and traders made it out to the western Great Lakes in the 17th century — 200 years before the slow Brits, Germans and Scandinavians eventually resettled Minnesota and Wisconsin — this was a refugee zone. Seventeenth-century Wisconsin was no empty wilderness, but a lot of people living there had only just come into that area. Green Bay was the destination for lots of groups who were fleeing the Iroquois back east. In some ways, the Great Lakes in the 1600s were the Syria of the day, with the bizarre twist that the Iroquois made raids out to the Midwest not only to kill but to replace their own dead through kidnapping. (A custom not unique to them. But since this is definitely not something practiced by Europeans, from what utopian ideal would it have come, exactly?)

The Dakota people, who lived mostly west of the Mississippi, actively wanted to make contact with the French because the French had weapons with which they could terrorize the Cree out to the west. Europeans hadn’t even been to Minnesota yet, but when they got there, the locals were already fighting and looking for better ways to kill each other. A “utopia”? Hardly.

In the 1600s, French Jesuit priests left hundreds of accounts of warfare — and several became the victims of it — when they wandered into the Great Lakes and Northern Appalachia, a terrifying place 400 years ago. The great historian Richard White, who teaches at Stanford — no home-published hack — looked at all these accounts in The Middle Ground, his classic book on the Great Lakes in what was probably the grisliest period of its history. Here’s a sample. No serious historian disputes this stuff.

The Iroquois onslaught did not halt other wars in the pays d’en haut, and sometime during the Iroquois wars, four or five hundred Miami warriors marched against their southern enemies. In their absence, a band of Senecas destroyed their village. Only one old woman, left for dead, survived. She told the returning Miamis that the Senecas had marched the women and children east.

Every night as the Senecas traveled home, they killed and ate a Miami child. And every morning, they took a small child, thrust a stick through its head and sat it up on the path with its face toward the Miami town they had left. Behind the Senecas came the pursuing Miamis, and at every Seneca campsite, brokenhearted parents recognized their child.

When the Senecas were within a day’s march of their own village, they sent their people a message telling them to prepare a great kettle and spoon to enjoy the good broth they were bringing them. It was at this last campsite that the pursuing Miami warriors at last caught the Senecas. But the Senecas had guns and the Miamis did not, and so the Miamis decided to set an ambush rather than attack the camp directly.

Two Miami spies watched the Seneca camp. And that night, as usual, for the evening meal one of the Senecas decapitated a child and prepared its body for the kettle. Hearing a noise outside the camp, the cook tossed the head into the bushes and told the wolf he imagined lurking there that he was giving it the head of a Miami for its supper. The Miami spies carried the head back to their companions who sorrowfully recognized it.

When the heavily laden Senecas reached the Miami ambuscade, they were overwhelmed. The Miamis killed all but six. Two escaped. Four were taken prisoners. The Miamis killed two of their captives and beheaded them. They ran a string through the ears of the heads and hung the heads around the necks of the remaining two prisoners whose hands, noses and lips they cut off. They then sent them home to tell of the vengeance of the Miamis. At the Seneca village all was horror and confusion. The Miamis returned home with those of their relatives whom the Senecas had spared.[2]

You can argue that there are cultural, even religious reasons behind Native Americans flaying and eating their enemies, for example, and you’d be right — the French Jesuit Jean de Brébeuf died after the Iroquois drank his blood: to imbibe his incredible courage, much like Brébeuf himself believed he drank the blood of Jesus during mass, for spiritual benefit — but some of them still reveled in cruelty for its own sake. Europe obviously also has a long litany of sadistic butchery, with enough beheadings, disembowellings, impalings and gas chambers to fill a huge archive of misery. But Europeans in no way taught the natives of North America how to destroy their neighbors. And they certainly didn’t walk in and destroy a “utopia.”

Native American society collapsed overwhelmingly because Old World diseases wreaked havoc on populations with no natural immunity to them. Add to that existing warfare, plus what was considered legitimate conquest in warfare at that time, plus the ruthless shredding of treaties by the U.S. government and land-hungry settlers after 1783, plus intermarriage (especially in Canada and Mexico) which simply diluted the population. In Mexico, native society collapsed because the Aztecs were one of the most brutal empires in the history of the world — no utopia there. When the Spanish under Cortés rode into the Valley of Mexico 500 years ago, thousands of Mexicans were eager for help in throwing off the rule of the hated Aztecs. At least in the beginning, they weren’t the victims of the Spanish. They were willing allies. Without native military help, the Spanish would have been wiped out virtually overnight.

And disease would have decimated Native Americans no matter who came over the Atlantic — or the Pacific. The Chinese would have spread the exact same diseases. Africans were involuntarily killers of Native Americans, not just “the white man,” because Africans carried Old World diseases. (For the record, not all Africans came here in chains, either.[3]) Europeans weren’t invincible to disease in the so-called “New World.” In the tropics, thousands of Europeans dropped dead from malaria. They didn’t just walk in and have their way. A similar thing happened when the Black Death, originating in China, got to Europe in the 14th century. The Black Death peaked in Europe only 150 years before Columbus came to the Carribean. Massive numbers of Europeans died from a disease that was new to their own part of the world. This process was not unique to the “New World.”

Native Americans’ ability to kill was amplified, not created, by European weaponry. They were certainly sucked into the greed and slaughter that Europeans have left behind almost everywhere they’ve ever gone in the world. But Europeans didn’t teach them how to be cruel or how to kill.

The great historian David Hackett Fischer says that the way we assess history is like an earthquake in a bathtub, with waves moving from one side to another. Incompetent, ideologically-driven historians 200 years ago depicted Native Americans as “savages” and Europeans as “civilized” to the point of hagiography. To compensate for this, shoddy revisionists — mostly on the left — depicted Native Americans as infallible, saintly victims of barbaric savages from Europe. Both of these views are wrong and all of this is cartoon history. Humans aren’t made of cardboard. In the future, we need a less ideological, more balanced and empirical understanding of the past. Fortunately, we have that. People just don’t read enough books. Whether it’s 1519 or 2019, trolls, emotional wrecks, and half-assed historians shape our view of the world.

https://www.quora.com/Was-North-America-a-peaceful-Native-American-uto
pia-before-the-white-man-arrived


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Friday, July 24, 2020 2:47 PM

REAVERFAN


Dude, that guy's a total chud. https://www.quora.com/profile/Stephen-Taylor-145




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Friday, July 24, 2020 3:26 PM

THG


Quote:

Originally posted by reaverfan:

Dude, that guy's a total chud. https://www.quora.com/profile/Stephen-Taylor-145




OK, call S.C. Gwynne a chud. You can't win this reaver. History shows all cultures were cruel and savage beyond belief, throughout history. All cultures... I suggest you watch the full interview. Not just the few minutes I posted.


T



Misconceptions About Native Americans w/S.C. Gwynne. S.C. “Sam” Gwynne is the author of two acclaimed books on American history: Empire of the Summer Moon, which spent 82 weeks on the New York Times Bestseller list and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award




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Friday, July 24, 2020 3:56 PM

THG


The full interview. The first 8 minutes says it all as far as how savage native Americans were.

T


Stupid people don't know they're stupid, and they certainly don't realize how obvious it is to others.



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Friday, July 24, 2020 5:58 PM

REAVERFAN


Wow. Talk about missing the point.

No one on the planet ever said the Indians were angels.

No one. Ever. In the history of all the world. Stop straw-manning. They cannot be compared to fucking Columbus.

Jesus. Fucking. Christ.

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Friday, July 24, 2020 6:02 PM

REAVERFAN





This is what happens when the war on terror is turned inward, on America

Trump has realized that our vast post-9/11 security state can be used to police internal bogeymen like antifa

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jul/24/trump-security-s
tate-war-on-terror-america

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Saturday, July 25, 2020 8:54 AM

THG


Quote:

Originally posted by reaverfan:

Wow. Talk about missing the point.

No one on the planet ever said the Indians were angels.

No one. Ever. In the history of all the world. Stop straw-manning. They cannot be compared to fucking Columbus.

Jesus. Fucking. Christ.



Yes, they can, absolutely. Everyone needs to be held to account just as they would hold others.

I’m not trying to slander any culture but instead deal in facts. You want to wrap a culture in accountability in a way you won’t wrap other cultures, try again. People who point towards others are pointing away from themselves.


T


Stupid people don't know they're stupid, and they certainly don't realize how obvious it is to others.

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Saturday, July 25, 2020 8:58 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Quote:

Originally posted by reaverfan:
Wow. Talk about missing the point.

No one on the planet ever said the Indians were angels.

No one. Ever. In the history of all the world. Stop straw-manning. They cannot be compared to fucking Columbus.

Jesus. Fucking. Christ.




Keep on red pilling Ted.



It's a shame that there are actually good, hard working and tax paying innocient people in these Democrat ran shitholes that have let the Antifa and BLM thugs terrorize.

Otherwise, Trump should just sit back and let the Laurie Lightfoots of the country allow their cities to burn to the ground and show you people for what you truly are.


We've had enough of your bullshit in 2020. If the people can't rely on their local government and police forces to protect them from communist criminals destroying their lives and livelihoods, then Trump is going to do it. That's one of the very few functions that the Government is actually Constitutionally allowed to do.



Actions have consequences.

Do Right, Be Right. :)

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Saturday, July 25, 2020 9:06 AM

THG


Quote:

Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Quote:

Originally posted by reaverfan:
Wow. Talk about missing the point.

No one on the planet ever said the Indians were angels.

No one. Ever. In the history of all the world. Stop straw-manning. They cannot be compared to fucking Columbus.

Jesus. Fucking. Christ.




Keep on red pilling Ted.



It's a shame that there are actually good, hard working and tax paying innocient people in these Democrat ran shitholes that have let the Antifa and BLM thugs terrorize.

Otherwise, Trump should just sit back and let the Laurie Lightfoots of the country allow their cities to burn to the ground and show you people for what you truly are.


We've had enough of your bullshit in 2020. If the people can't rely on their local government and police forces to protect them from communist criminals destroying their lives and livelihoods, then Trump is going to do it. That's one of the very few functions that the Government is actually Constitutionally allowed to do.



Actions have consequences.

Do Right, Be Right. :)



According to the most recent ACS, the racial composition of Portland was: White: 77.37% Asian: 7.81% Black or African American: 5.70% Two or more races: 5.45% Other race: 2.28% Native American: 0.77% Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander: 0.62% Oct 29 2019

Fact, although Trump suggests these are blacks run amuck in Portland who will destroy the suburbs and urban areas if Biden is elected, these are mostly white people protesting. Yes, even the violent ones.

And another fact Jack. It's the democratic states that send money to the republican run states so they can pay their bills. You more than most here need to try a red pill.

T


Stupid people don't know they're stupid, and they certainly don't realize how obvious it is to others.

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