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July 4, 2020 I was rolling slow down Broadway when I caught the attention of a homeless headcase. He smiled and stepped off the curb, tossing a slice of cheese onto the windshield.“What the hell?”“Black lives matter” he replied with a sheepish grin and shuffled off. A young asian woman, her light dress flowing nicelyContinue reading “Siege Notes, Portland July 5”

“It can’t be that everyone’s gone crazy.”The middle-aged woman was speaking to an elderly woman I took to be her mother. They were walking the graffiti gauntlet along the Justice Center’s north side. Her tone was disbelieving and explanatory a the same time. They had the guileless simplicity of midwestern tourists out of old America.Continue reading “Siege Notes July 3 2020”

Antifa took the fight to the City Hall building a couple of days ago. This shreds my theory that Mayor Ted Wheeler has some assurances from them they’d only harass the Justice Center. Three days after the city removed barriers from around the building, protesters assailed it and disabled its security cameras. A couple ofContinue reading “Siege Notes, Portland July 1”

Protesters were down to the dozens last night as they harassed a platoon of cops in front of Portland’s Justice Center and US District Courthouse.Earlier a demonstration of a hundred or more gathered at the site of a shooting two years ago by Portland State University police. Disarming PSU cops has been a campaign forContinue reading “Siege Notes, Portland June 30”

Daytime protests in Portland have waned to the point there was no presence at the Justice Center today. The nightly protests persist with smaller but more determined crowds; they too were easing this week until last night, when antifa launched two separate attacks, assailing a precinct in a gentrifying neighborhood on MLK Blvd as wellContinue reading “Siege of Portland June 26”

In a sign of easing tensions between our local color revolution occupiers and City Hall, the building was un-barricaded today. At the same time the Justice Center was busy reinforcing its wooden barricades, building and erecting plywood and two-by-four doors and frames. It remains the center of a nightly siege, while things have eased upContinue reading “Siege of Portland June 25: City Haul”

Antifa are using fireworks to harass police in various cities. It’s a clever innovation. With the cover of a friendly media they’re deploying their own crude riot weapons and maintaining their “mostly peaceful” status at the same time because, well they’re just fireworks.Municipalities might want to move now to ban the sale of fireworks thisContinue reading “Siege June 21: Fireworks and Obscurity”

The George Floyd hoax, whether viewed as a perversion of the “promise” of “civil rights” or a deliberate or inevitable phase, an endgame entered–that is if you think the civil rights movement was fundamentally a mistake or not, and some of us are beginning to think–runs on the same perverse psychological dynamic inspiring young whitesContinue reading “mea culpa”

I spied a white couple–boys or girls, you ask? one of each, actually–resembling each other the way couples often do, both soft and pasty in the same way, their bodies cutting the same general outline; perhaps this is due to their matching clothes and black tees with “OK Boomer” printed on the front. They wereContinue reading “Siege of Portland June 19: Occupation, Desecration”

Portland appears to have sated the social justice fury for the time being by raiding a mere 15 million from the cops and closing out the programs most offensive to blacks: school cops, the gun violence reduction team–formerly the gang unit–and transit cops (transit will still have police, from other jurisdictions for the time being),Continue reading “Siege of Portland, June 18: "Refund the Police"”