Protest and Destroyers

I have no idea what is really going on in Portland.

There are peaceful protests still but even those seem clouded in mud in my brain as to what their message is anymore.

At first it was clear they wanted racial equality and for the police to stop killing black people.  I felt the pain in my heart particularly with the young man who was run down by those asshole white folk in a pickup and shot.  I could not believe they had not been immediately arrested for a lynching, really, and it took a video to come out about it, to prompt police to act.  That poor young man had endured an incident before, just sitting in a park, with police yanking him out of a car and tazing him, for doing nothing at all.

I don't know how the police can be reformed to stop that kind of senseless harrassment and killing.  They need held accountable each and every time, is all I can think of.

But the protests in Portland go on and on, and the destruction of areas there seems so ridiculous and unnecessary.  The destruction seems to be carried out by gangs of young whites and has nothing to do with anything but causing trouble.  They gather round the federal courthouse banging on the walls and trying to provoke the officers to come out.  They throw frozen water bottles and fire crackers at them and put lasers in their eyes.  That's not a peaceful protest.  Those are people assaulting officers.

They do the same to Portland police officers.    When they are arrested they are almost immediately released.  And probably get right back to it.  It's a small number of destroyers that spray paint with some attacking officers and setting fires.  I have no idea why they do it or what they want.  I think they just want to cause trouble and would do so at any opportunity.  They love for a cause to come along that they loosely attach their violence to, to get unthinking humans to support them.  But I think they just like to destroy things and have confrontations with police.  Thrill seekers.

I don't know why they think they can attack police but that police should not in any way respond.  That would be very difficult to take, night after night after night, as a police officer.  We need the police.  Yesterday, at Foster Reservoir, police responded when a jet skier plowed into the swimming area, severely injuring two kids.    For instance.

Anyhow, the federal officers in Portland for who knows what reason have only inflamed the agitator crew and gotten them sympathizers when they do things like beat a man, breaking bones, who merely tried to ask them a question and was completely nonviolent.  He stood there like a rock as they beat him and then walked away.

We're seeing bad behavior, in Portland, on the news, from the agitator crew, as I call the destroyers--vandals, fire setters, looters and officer attackers, and from some of the federal officers, beating people for no reason and snatching them off the street in violation of the constitution and due process.

Here's an article that shows the middle aged white guy getting beaten by federal police:

Video of the veteran being beaten is at the top of this story.

I believe the guy who took the beating is now nicknamed Captain Portland.

I don't like people who destroy and vandalize public places.  The goons with guns who took over a public wildlife refuge in Oregon a few years ago and trashed it, these Portland young folk who set fire to the elk statue, break windows, spray paint vulgar graffiti all over, and the white trash who leave their kids diapers and crap of all kinds on the beach at the lake--they're all the same to me.  I have this deep feeling they should all be spanked and made to clean up after themselves.

We don't have anything like that going on down here in small town Oregon.  We do end up with mayhem at the lake quite often with drunken boaters and jet skiers.  I don't know whether the man whose jet ski plowed into kids in the swimming area at Foster Reservoir was drunk or not.   He claims he fell off and the kill switch on the jet ski wasn't working.  Or did he not even bother to attach it to himself?  But there's a large 5 mph area around the roped off swimming area, so something is off with his story.  Probably a lot is off with his story.  If your car brakes don't work you don't drive the car.  Same with a jet ski, if something isn't working on it as crucial as the kill switch, you don't ride it.  If kill switches didn't work on jet skies there'd be a zillion riderless jet skies running around the lake all the time.





"If the PWC is equipped with a cut-off or kill switch, it must be attached to the operator or operator’s clothing. I just ordered for use on my boat a special wrist band with a quick disconnect. Some PWC are equipped with a slow circle mode that puts the PWC into a circle at idle speed. They may or may not also have a kill switch. If they have a kill switch, you must use it."