A tired and confused George W Bush gave a speech condemning Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine in which he blundered into what’s been described as an “epic Freudian slip” by describing the “wholly unjustified and brutal invasion of Iraq, I mean of Ukraine”. This was met with laughter as he literally shrugged off the mistake in a way familiar to anyone who recalls his administration.
The once swaggering Bush, looking sadly diminished, appeared to barely have the energy to read the speech written for him, plodding through it as if for the first time, just like the old days.
While the gaffe came like the hand of God staying hypocrisy just too egregious to be allowed, the remarks leading up to it are almost as hypocritical as Bush’s miserably failed denunciation of the invasion of Ukraine.
“…in contrast, Russian elections are rigged, political opponents are imprisoned or otherwise eliminated from participating in the electoral process. The result is an absence of checks and balances in Russia, allowing one man to launch the wholly unjustified invasion…”
This is astounding considering the questionable nature of Bush’s own election and the fact that even absent that, he clearly does not represent the democratic process working but it being manipulated. The notion he was qualified, much less the most qualified candidate the Republicans could have produced, is tragicomic. But he also speaks after the recent election of another candidate somehow less engaged and capable even than he was.
Even if you reject out of hand that there was outright cheating in the election of Joe Biden, the vast, coordinated effort by media and powerful elites to prevent Trump’s re-election is a crime of the same order–which took place in plain sight and which was documented by a mouthpiece of that cabal in boasting fashion. This came after four years of deliberate disenfranchisement of voters by media, politicians and the intelligence community conspiring by all means available to thwart the Trump administration and its populist impulses as they produced one hoax after another, all revolving around the lie of Russian interference–a lie crucial in producing the very war Bush was obliviously denouncing.
Putin, in contrast, remains a popular president and clearly is on the side of Russians; and it was Trump’s, however inconsistent, populism–being on the side of Americans–that prompted the elite to sabotage him and institute the current era of censorship and repression of political opponents. George W Bush made his remarks while January 6 protesters sit in solitary confinement, threatened with life imprisonment; while the government attempts to bring Julian Assange to the US to jail him for the rest of his life for exposing them; while the government concocts plans for a “Misinformation Board” led by a lunatic; while the system of checks and balances itself is being trashed in the desperation of this elite to circumvent popular will.
Even the charge that “one man” in Russia is able to launch an “unjustified” invasion is less than meaningless–at least the Russians have that one man who can be held accountable. In the morass of our corrupted system, accountability is defrayed and obscured–yes, George Bush is guilty of war crimes, but no serious person should believe him to have been instrumental in originating them–no more than they should believe Joe Biden originates the policies he signs off on. Bush may be the deserved face of the crime, but it could have been anybody. Anybody of a similar lack of character and pliability. So here was the cutout for that hidden, diffuse evil, boasting of the superiority of our system.
Does he feel guilt? Has Bush, with mortality looming, finally begun to take his Christianity seriously? Does he sense divine retribution, like the Sword of Damocles, soon to fall upon his muddled head?
Moral revulsion is untenable in an amoral time. So please excuse me for forgoing that traditional genuflection when considering the case of the Buffalo shooter and his manifesto.
The possibility of any given attack being a “false flag” is vanishingly small–diminishing to nothing when a live suspect is captured. But the manifesto reads as if he’s the proverbial “crisis actor” seeking to elicit more state repression and public hysteria around white advocacy (as “white supremacy”), more gun control and more censorship–it’s the shooter’s stated goal to do just that, hoping to prompt a shooting civil war.
The trolling in the long, meme- and data-heavy document starts early:
He opens with the issue of demographic replacement and classifies American blacks as “invaders” along with immigrants.
Questions and Answers
Why did you decide to carry out the attack? To show to the replacers that as long as the White man lives, our land will never be theirs and they will never be safe from us.
To directly reduce immigration rates to European lands by intimidating and physically removing the replacers themselves.
To intimidate the replacers already living on our lands to emigrate back to their home countries.
To agitate the political enemies of my people into action, to cause them to overextend their own hand and experience the eventual and inevitable backlash as a result.
To incite violence, retaliation and further divide between the European people and the replacers currently occupying European soil.
To show the effect of direct action, lighting a path forward for those that wish to follow
A path for those that wish to free their ancestors lands from the replacers grasp and to be a beacon for those that wish to create a lasting culture, to tell them they are not alone.
To create an atmosphere of fear and change in which drastic, powerful and revolutionary action can occur.
To add momentum to the pendulum swings of history, further destabilizing and polarizing Western society in order to eventually destroy the current nihilistic, hedonistic, individualistic insanity that has taken control of Western thought.
Most of all it was to spread awareness to my fellow Whites about the real problems the West is facing, and to encourage further attacks that will eventually start the war that will save the Western world, save the White race and allow for humanity to progress into more advanced civilizations.
What do you want ? We must ensure the existence of our people and a future for white children
He cites the New Zealand mosque shooter as his inspiration, and clearly intends to inspire more in his turn
Is there a particular person that radicalized you the most?
Yes and his name is Brenton Harrison Tarrant. Brenton’s livestream started everything you see here. Brenton started my real research into the problems with immigration and foreigners in our White lands, without his livestream I would likely have no idea about the real problem the West is facing.
New Zealand, which I’ve learned through this has a national “chief censor”, has banned the manifesto.
His humor, and there is some here, is of the sardonic, trolling generation Z variety.
Are you a fed/shill/mossad agent/false flag/patsy/imposter/antifa/“three letter agent glow so bright” ect?
No, I don’t think so. Who knows maybe it’s the two shots of covid vaccine juice going through my bloodstream that’s really making me do this. It’s healthy to have skepticism of course, but don’t let your skepticism turn you away from people who support you.
In what will further the conviction among some he’s a crisis actor, he hits all the familiar notes and names particular individuals and websites as if to focus federal attention upon them.
Was there a particular event or reason you decided to commit to a violent attack?
Before I begin I will say that I was not born racist nor grew up to be racist. I simply became racist after I learned the truth.
I started browsing 4chan in May 2020 after extreme boredom, remember this was during the outbreak of covid. I would normally browse /k/ because I’m a gun nut and /out/ because I love the outdoors and I eventually wound up on /pol/. There I learned through infographic, shitposts, and memes that the White race is dying out, that blacks are disproportionately killing Whites, that the average black takes $700,000 from tax-payers in their lifetime, and that the Jews and the elite were behind this.
From there, I also found other sites, like worldtruthvideos.website, dailyarchives.org, and dailystormer.cn where through data and exposure to real information I learned the truth. We are doomed by low birth rates and high rates of immigration.
I never even saw this information until I found these sites, since mostly I would get my news from the front page of Reddit. I didn’t care at the time, but as I learned more and more I realized how serious the situation was. Eventually I couldn’t take it anymore, I told myself that eventually I was going to kill myself to escape this fate. My race was doomed and there was nothing I could do about it.
But then after browsing /pol/ one day I saw a short gif of a man walking into a building and shooting a shotgun through a dark hallway. I didn’t think anything of it, but then I saw it again, and I looked up who this person was. I thought to myself, “Why did this person do it?”
That person was Brenton Tarrant, and after some searches I found the 17 minute livestream of him attacking the Al-Noor mosque. I eventually found his manifesto and I read it, and I found that I mostly agreed with him.
He offers a long and exhaustive case against the equality of blacks and whites, bringing in links from sites like Unz and Vdare, along with lots of memes, including a Stone Toss comic, disregarding or intentionally seeking the focus their inclusion in the manifesto will draw.
He opens with blacks but it’s Jewish power that draws his ultimate ire
About Jews
“The elite”, “The 1%”, “The bankers”, “The capitalists”, (((them))), “The marxist’s” they all refer to the same group: THE JEWS!! When referring to “the Jews” I don’t mean all ethnic or religious Jews. Some can be actually decent, and make significant progress to humanity.
However many of them are not. Many are born to exploit the goyim and exploit the Earth for capital gain. They control the mainstream media, many government positions, and international and global banking. They advocate for leftist ideology, and spread propaganda among the right.
They spread their lies through all forms of media. They want us to divide ourselves by race, instead of goy and non-goy, like they already do. “Remember the 6 million goyim!” The real war I’m advocating for is the gentiles vs the Jews. We outnumber them 100x, and they are not strong by themselves. But by their Jewish ways, they turn us against each other.
When you realize this you will know that the Jews are the biggest problem the Western world has ever had. They must be called out and killed, if they are lucky they will be exiled. We can not show any sympathy towards them again.
His case against the Jews is a little more muddled than that against the blacks, but it will all be very familiar to anyone who’s been reading dissident literature online. Many citations from the Torah and Talmud follow. For what it’s worth, he views the Jews as “white”.
The Talmud, Oral Torah and other rabbinic texts are the root of all problems coming from Jews. The Talmud (or the rabbi’s holy book) teaches Jews that they are God’s chosen people and they are permitted to hate and exploit the goyim, and to allow pedophilia. Jews will tell you that they do not support these any more, but in reality this is what they all seek. “It was the law bro come on we’re different now goy- I mean bro.”
The new world order that the Jews advocate for is one where they enslave all other goy’s. It’s important to note that Jews are taught this by all other Jews. Their rabbi’s, teachers, family and friends, they all preach this, subconsciously or not.
If the Jews did not have connections to Judaism, then I believe that they would be able to live in White countries such as the USA. But because of the irreversible rabbinic teachings they must be removed from all European and White countries.
After a lengthy discussion of the Jews he denounces fiat currency and crypto (assuming he wrote this before the recent crypto crash, his timing looks prescient), and even includes a link to a Jacobin article:
Crypto is completely based on the greater fool theory. As long as there is a sucker willing to spend their fiat money on it, it will have value. I can’t explain it any better this: https://www.jacobinmag.com/2022/01/cryptocurrency-scam-blockchain-bitcoin-economy-decentralization The entirety of cryptocurrency is a scam, a fraud, a ponzi scheme, and a waste of money. The only decent crypto currencies to really get into are ones that are backed by real money. What is real money you might ask?
The answer: precious metals
He eschews the “get out of the cities” theme and advises the opposite because that’s “where the fight is”; something I recommend you do as well–in a peaceful fashion. If you want to go live in the country and raise chickens, God bless you, but your only hope for the future is they don’t eventually come to collect you and you get to live out your life in isolation.
Don’t leave the cities, run towards the fight, not away
Run towards the cities, run towards the conflict, run towards the enemy, fleeing from the enemy is cowardice. The countryside are already ours, as they have always been. The people of the countryside are already traditional, already close to nature, already supportive of their people.
It’s the cities where the struggle lies, it’s the cities where the invaders have massed, it’s the cities where the marxists have poisoned the institutions, it’s the cities where the traitorous media and corporations lie and it’s the cities where the anti-white politicians and the NGOs make their homes.
Invade the cities, take the cities, battle in the streets for the cities. The cities are the economic, judicial, political, ethnic and cultural battleground of our people and it is there we shall wage our war. The countryside can wait, the cities need you, your youth needs you. Despite how many of you may feel living amongst the pollution, amongst the cultural filth, crammed into tiny apartments in the city sprawls, far flung from man’s natural environment. But it is there our future will be made and it is there the battle for our peoples future will be fought.
A huge portion of the manifesto is an exhaustive and detailed exposition on tactics and gear for those he hopes to inspire. This part is a how-to manual. He gets into everything, down to the right gloves and the best and worst retailers for equipment.
I suspect the Buffalo shooter’s effect will not inspire others in significant numbers, but will cause most to despair and shrink from peaceful dissidence. The habitual human response to these violent acts is fallacious but predictable in its emotionalism and bias: one reasons backwards from the murder to discredit the murderer’s complaints, which become conflated with his action.
But there’s no logical or moral reason for that: if one is, say, an advocate of the Palestinian cause against Israel, the appearance of a Palestinian suicide bomber may be distressing, one may be genuinely appalled, but the nature of the dispute is not changed. Indeed, the terrorist is a predictable outcome of the injustice of the Israeli occupation and displacement of Palestinians. Note just how effectively, however, neocons and Israel hawks use these acts of desperation to justify their cause. The real dividing line is not between the violent and non-violent, between the moral and immoral, but between the competing goals and entities: Israel v the Palestinians.
Forgive me, but the actions of the Waukesha killer or any other BLM terrorist stand in contrast to those of the Buffalo shooter by virtue of their being wholly wrong and misled. “White supremacy” and the notion blacks are uniquely oppressed in the West is a lie; “the Great Replacement” is not. This distinction is important.
Whichever side you’re on in any given dispute, the act of a terrorist should not move the needle on your meter at all. Why would it? Cowardice in the face of moral condemnation is the only reason.
Payton Gendron’s act will be attributed to those he cites approvingly as inspiration. But he’s inspired as much by the clumsy and hateful agitprop of the New York Times et al; maybe more. He is not the product of those who’ve been telling the truth as much as of those who’ve been telling lies.
The “Great Replacement” is only a “racist conspiracy theory” if you disdain it, and the real division is not between those deluded into believing it and realists, but between those who approve or are indifferent, and those who object–or resist.
Portland is rolling out its long-planned “Safe Rest Villages” scheme to house the homeless in pods, led by city councilman Dan Ryan. Today homeless are moving into a “queer affinity” SRV in the city’s southwest that’s already lost the support of its “housed neighbors” who’ve said their concerns about conditions around the park haven’t been addressed–requests such as establishing a no-camping zone around the village have been dismissed out of hand. I don’t know if anyone has challenged the “queer affinity” model’s discriminatory nature–which I think the city has already applied in some of its traditional low-income housing, where a given building will be dedicated to aging queers. The village will be located near an elementary school.
How queer-hood is established I don’t know.
Portland held a rally and march on behalf of abortion Saturday, of course, that was well attended with only a small BLM and antifa presence.
A Rolex ad towers over the large multi-retail building that stretches over a city block downtown. It’s been vacant and fenced off for years, periodically swept by graffiti and painted over.
“Yo you need something?” One of a pair of homeless men lying in an alcove says as I pass. “You need something?” At first I think he’s talking to me, trying to sell me drugs; no, he’s talking to a man out ahead of me, who’s looking down the street in our direction. The man is small and frail, dogeared and gray despite not being that old. He’s standing at a bus stop, watching silently and incomprehensibly at the homeless man who’s up and walking toward him now.
I pull up to the bus stop and stand near the little gray confused man.
“Yo you need something? What are you lookin at bro?” The homeless man says threateningly, his hands balled up in fists and trailing behind.
“He’s looking for the bus.” I say, as flatly as I can, stepping forward. I look over at the gray man. “You’re watching for the bus, right?” He barely nods, looking confused; he doesn’t seem to understand what’s happening.
“He’s just watching for the bus, man.” I say, conciliatory, motioning at my own eyes and down the street. My tone is deliberately mild, but I take another step forward, trying to look taller. This is my strategy; my words are almost apologetic but my body language is meant to convey a certain readiness. “It’s okay.”
The homeless guy pulls up and mutters something about how he “don’t fuck around”. I just nod, eying the homemade flail in his belt, a flat piece of metal connected to a short stick by chain link. I don’t fuck around he says I’m not that guy I don’t fuck around. I nod. “Okay. Thank you.” I say as he turns around, revealing a Friday the 13th style hockey mask on the back of his head.
A crazy black man is dribbling a basketball and trying to do tricks with it, but he’s clumsy and keeps losing the ball. As it bounces away he takes a deep, formal bow as if for an audience, and then stops, bent at the waist, swaying a little. He decides to stay there a while. Another crazy black man is shadowboxing with a parking sign, pretending to slip and counter punches; I think he’s inspired by the first guy.
Somebody has excavated the dirt from planter that’s flush with the ground, leaving a round hole several feet deep like a trap. Nearby is still another manic black man, naked to the waist. He’s ripped and trembling violently in little spasms as if an electric current is running through him; splashing water desperately on himself as if he’s on fire.
A man was captured on camera vandalizing a mosque and a synagogue in Portland last week as part of a string of similar attacks. On Saturday he was arrested when he turned up at a local news station and demanded to talk to a reporter.
Mike Bivins had been working as a freelance videographer documenting the clashes between local anarchists and right wing patriot groups since Trump’s ascent in 2015. His work has appeared in the local free weekly Willamette Week and elsewhere.
Bivins took a scalp in 2016 when his Periscope video of another local videographer drawing a gun as he was being chased by dozens of left wing protesters led to the man’s arrest. Michael Strickland of the “Laughing at Liberals” channel was later convicted of brandishing a weapon in a questionable prosecution.
Apparently Bivins had a change of heart over the last couple of years and became a “monarchist”, according to local lefties. His Twitter account has recently criticized Joe Biden and praised Elon Musk’s taking over the site.
I’ve put a lot of thought into this.
When did Rome reach it’s zenith? When the republic ended.
I’m here to say in earnest: Death to the republic.
Among his articles for Willamette Week is a piece about cannabis from three years ago (now that it’s legal in Oregon the free weeklies feature standard connoisseur’s columns and the like):
For anyone who cares one iota about cannabis and its future, Cultivation Classic is the event of the year.
The science involved in the fourth annual organic cannabis competition—organized by Willamette Week—is on the cutting edge. And each year, that science drills deeper into the mysteries of this incredibly complex plant.
“What I want to underscore is that this event will stoke an exciting, relevant discussion for consumers,” says organizer Steph Barnhart. “So many cannabis cups celebrate potency, where the most THC equals a big trophy. And that is the opposite of what we are trying to do here.”
I wonder if Mike has been spending a little too much time on the cutting edge of cannabis recently.
Joe Biden’s new Ministry of Information Czarina has the look of the crazed, of course, because most of us look at least a little like what we are, but she also has somewhat masculine features.
That look of oblivious self-satisfaction doesn’t help soften things either.
I was trying to place what looked so familiar about this unfortunate photo, and I recall moving to Portland, rotten with drag queens, and seeing that they’d taken, for some inscrutable reason, to wearing (I think) prosthetic chins that jut forward like the prow of a ship.
Welcome to the Ministry of Truth, kids
She’s got a career as a drag queen waiting if the Ministry of Truth deal falls through. We know she can sing.
In admiring that strong chin I couldn’t help thinking of another ball-buster, the Facebook “whistleblower” and censorship advocate Francis Haugen.
BREAKING: Antifa black bloc attacks Republican volunteers in Oregon, explosion goes off as the militants fan out waving flags pic.twitter.com/9koZhNfQCf
Oregon is a one-party state that last elected a Republican governor in 1982. Republican opposition in the legislature is meager, when the party’s leaders aren’t signing on to Democratic legislation. 2020 radicalized (or just emboldened) the Democrats who took advantage of the shock and awe of rioting to pass a host of bills limiting the police and transferring wealth to black people. The resultant chaos and penury has made Democrats and their policies extremely unpopular. Kate Brown, who ascended to the office after the popular John Kitzhaber was ousted in a scandal, is the least popular governor in the nation. So the unthinkable has occurred: Republicans have a chance. This is causing some panic, not least within antifa. Pulliam has drawn some attention for his and his wife’s membership in a swinger’s group in the past.
The attack occurred across the street from the still barricaded police station, but police response was delayed long enough to allow for antifa’s escape–though it’s not likely they would have been arrested anyway. 911 callers said they were put on hold by police who then suggested they leave the area and meet with them in another, safer location to report the attack–their response was to try to lure the victims away from the aggressors. Whose streets? answered again.
“It’s easy for us in Portland to think this doesn’t happen around here. That we’re free of anti-Semitism and hate speech, but the reality is it’s very much a part of our world,” Cahana said. “It’s very much of a part of the Pacific Northwest.”
We’re all antisemites now.
Ragtime Justice
Last year Oregon passed the Menstrual Dignity Act mandating free tampons in schools, as part of the “period poverty” movement for “menstrual equity” on behalf of girls and young women. Last week the state began implementing the policy, which includes tampon dispensers in the boy’s room. The Oregon Department of Education toolkit makes no mention of girls or boys, and advises schools on language:
Recommendations for Gender-Affirming Language ● Refer to menstruation without calling in gendering order to be gender-affirming for trans, non-binary, and two spirit students. Emphasize physiology during puberty education more broadly. ○ Use “menstruating students” instead of “girls” ○ Use “menstrual products” instead of “feminine hygiene products” ○ Explain “someone with a uterus and ovaries may begin to menstruate” instead of “girls may begin to menstruate” during puberty education ○ Use gender-inclusive “students” “folks” “everyone” “learners” or “they/them” instead of “boys and girls” or “he or she” when referring to students ● Use open wordslike “most” or “typical” or “another” instead of binary “opposite” or “normal” or “other” (e.g. “another gender” instead of “opposite sex”).
Naturally the boys find the dispensers a source of amusement. This article from a student newspaper suggests the dispensers themselves aren’t being treated with much dignity:
Since the menstrual products were added to all the bathrooms, including male restrooms, another sophomore Jaiden Cerda provided a guy’s point of view on what appears to be the disrespectful abuse of the products. Jaiden said, “It’s not good because it’s against the law, and if you get caught you can get into huge trouble.”
I’m reminded of the creepy janitor back at Corvallis Junior High, who once thought it great fun to chase a couple of us dangling a bloody pad. With shame I recall we found it hilarious.
PORTLAND, Ore. — Just past the “Entering Oregon” sign on the Interstate 5 Bridge over the Columbia River is one of the first things people see, and it is not a very pleasant welcome to Oregon.
At the base of the Interstate Bridge on Hayden Island are two old military vessels — the Alert and the Sakarissa. Ownership issues have left the ships vulnerable. Within the past year both have been boarded, damaged and tagged by people living in a growing homeless camp on the shore next to the ships.
“You can kind of see the progress over the months. They’ve been completely vandalized. They’ve now been broken into. I can only imagine what has been taken and stolen from the insides,” said Sgt. Steve Dangler of the Multnomah County Sheriff’s River Patrol Unit.
His regular beat includes monitoring the vessels and the camp near them.
“Unfortunately, what we end up finding is a lot of debris in the water. We have drug use that occurs. We’ve actually had one drowning out here,” Dangler said.
Right after giving KATU News a tour of the problem, Dangler and his partner returned to the camp and found a stolen sailboat and a 15-year-old runaway.
Hayden Island residents and business owners have a name for the thieves.
“The Pirates of the Columbia,” said Carol Kersley whose boat was stolen, “because they steal anything that’s not nailed down.”
Coincidentally days before this article appeared I had a conversation with a friend who used to live aboard a boat near the above-described pirate’s cove. I remarked how bands of homeless sometimes resemble nomadic groups from the long past, with their improvised attire like animal skins and weapons strapped to their sides.
“No kidding. When I lived on the boat there were pirates. I mean, they looked like real pirates. I watched this guy steal two kayaks, very nice, expensive. He comes along rowing one and towing the other and uses our dock to climb out of the water.”
He laughs.
“I swear to God it was like something out of Pirates of the Caribbean. His face even: he’s got everything but the eye patch and knife between his teeth. His pants are stuffed into his boots and he’s got a massive Bowie knife strapped to his side. I watch him as he takes these expensive new kayaks and drags them up the rock bank–ruining them instantly–to wherever he’s going.”
What we have going on here in Portland, unappreciated, is a grand experiment demonstrating the effects of individual de-socialization on a mass scale. Our feral people are sorting themselves out spontaneously, developing sub-groups and cultures of their own in a natural process that plays out perversely under the influence of drugs in a “normal” world that is less normal every day.
The homeless are increasingly disconnected from us but not blind–they see the working world (which they reject or feel rejected them) failing, they see its confidence faltering, they see its most despised or troublesome aspects–for them–such as law and order, receding. Their contempt for us is palpable and maybe a little deserved.
And the Portland Lab is just getting started with this fascinating study.
Oregon’s first-in-the-nation 1987 “sanctuary” law shielding illegal immigrants from federal immigration law, the Sanctuary Promise Act, was expanded in 2021 allowing anyone to sue public officials for reporting immigration violations to federal authorities, providing “an option to hold accountable individuals and entities that violate this policy”.
That should not be read to include, just yet, private citizens, but would enter individual violators acting in a public capacity into a database maintained by the state’s Criminal Justice Commission, which has been tasked with recording and considering for investigation each and every complaint. Naturally the CJC is focused on “restorative” justice and limiting police authority to reduce incarceration.
Now Oregon’s Department of Justice has launched a telephone hotline where anyone, including illegal aliens themselves, can snitch on those who snitch to federal authorities:
PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Oregon launched a statewide Sanctuary Promise Hotline this month for anyone to report suspected violations of Oregon sanctuary laws in any language.
According to a press release by Oregon’s Department of Justice, the Oregon Legislature recently provided funding for the DOJ to staff the hotline with culturally responsive and “trauma-informed” advocates. The department will investigate all allegations of sanctuary promise law violations.
“For the first time, any person in Oregon can report a sanctuary law violation to a hotline designed to support and meet our communities’ needs,” said Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum. “Our immigrants, refugees, and migrant workers are our friends, neighbors and co-workers, and they are a vital part of our social and economic fabric. Oregonians value fairness and dignity, and all people should feel safe in their communities.”
She added, “No one should feel like they cannot show up to work or school for fear of being arrested, detained or deported. We intend to follow up on every single call and urge all Oregonians to be aware of and use this new resource.”
The state’s long-standing sanctuary laws restrict state and local law enforcement as well as state and local government agencies from collecting, storing or sharing information about a person, said the DOJ.
This information can include national origin, immigration or citizenship status, for the purposes of enforcing federal immigration law. Examples of Sanctuary Law violations include civil arrest without judicial warrant or order from a court facility and arrests by federal immigration agents of a person on their way to or from court or while in court.
The state is tying the sanctuary hotline to their Bias Response Hotline, casting, say, a sheriff’s deputy in rural Oregon reporting a suspected rapist to ICE as akin to the proverbial and vanishingly rare skinhead committing a hate crime.
This isn’t the first hotline the department has created.
In January 2020, the Oregon Department of Justice launched the Bias Response Hotline, which has fielded over 3,000 reports of hate and bias occurring throughout Oregon, said the DOJ.
If you or someone you know was targeted in violation of Oregon’s Sanctuary Promise laws, you can call 1-844-924-7829 or the Spanish direct line 1-844-626-7276.
People can also call the hotline to receive support or be connected to resources. The DOJ says it may open an investigation into the violation, if reported.
Operators for the hotline are standing by 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday with interpreters in 240 languages.
Oregon bolstered the sanctuary law in 2017 in response to Trump’s nationwide immigration raids and turbocharged it in the riotous environment of 2021 with the lawsuit provision and the–increasingly and sinisterly standard with this type of legislation–database.
Of course being a sanctuary state costs Oregon–more when Trump was in office than now–and we’ll lose among other things federal funds compensating us for the many illegal aliens in our jails–but that’s only fair. We claim even the worst of them as “Oregonians”.
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