Portland Courthouse Video

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https://www.youtube.com/embed/Q8oxgn4xrso

[HONDO74]

i was thinking maybe Antifa had burned it to the ground by now with the rest of Portland. All I see are articles about how these rich white people bought up the city and gentrified it.

Maybe they could burn Chicago to the ground while they are at it. Finish the job that "Mrs. O'Leary's cow" started

[HONDO74]

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Protesters overturned statues of former Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln in Portland, Oregon, Sunday night in a declaration of “rage” towards Columbus Day.

Protest organizers dubbed the event “Indigenous Peoples Day of Rage,” in response to Monday’s federal holiday named after 15th-century Italian explorer Christopher Columbus.

The group threw chains around Roosevelt’s statue, pulling it down just before 9 p.m.

Protesters then turned their attention to Lincoln’s statue, pulling it down about eight minutes later.
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Police say windows were broken on several buildings and declared a riot.

To those marching downtown: this has been declared a RIOT. All persons must immediately disperse to the NORTH. Failure to adhere to this order may subject you to arrest, citation, or crowd control agents, including, but not limited to tear gas and impact weapons.
— Portland Police (@PortlandPolice) October 12, 2020

Along with Columbus, historians have said both presidents have expressed hostility and racism toward Native Americans.

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I think those protesters need something to do....too much time on their hands. Maybe put them on a work detail in a prison and let them work off their frustrations. This is way out of control with no real repercussion against the perpetrators. And these are the liberal minded west coast people, fighting for everyone's rights, but harming considerably more people than who they're allegedly fighting for.

[HONDO74]

I think those protesters need something to do....too much time on their hands. Maybe put them on a work detail in a prison and let them work off their frustrations. This is way out of control with no real repercussion against the perpetrators. And these are the liberal minded west coast people, fighting for everyone's rights, but harming considerably more people than who they're allegedly fighting for.

The Twitter handle Generational Resistance, which promoted Sunday night’s “Day of Rage” in Portland that resulted in the toppling of two statues and damage to several buildings, said its ultimate goal is to “decolonize society by working to abolish colonial systems rooted in racism,” a report said.

The Oregonian newspaper wrote a lengthy article about the group that started mentioning the protest a day earlier. The paper said the city is having difficulty getting a grip on protesters because social media allows them to organize quickly and coordinate. The report said one of the instructions on Sunday was that videos and photos were not allowed.

Andy Ngo, a journalist who has been documenting the unrest in the city, posted images of Sunday's destruction on Twitter. Ngo posted a video of protesters toppling the statue of Teddy Roosevelt, which depicted the former president riding on horseback. The video showed a rope tied around the statue and protesters could be heard cheering when the statue shifted.

One person could be heard saying, “F--- all you colonizers. Every one of you that’s against Black Lives Matter can f--- the f--- off.”

After toppling the statues, the crowd smashed windows at the Oregon Historical Society and later moved onto the Portland State University Campus Public Safety office.

The paper said the protest—which resulted in three people being taken into custody -- was billed online as the “Indigenous Peoples Day of Rage,” and took place the evening before Columbus Day.

The paper said it reached out to Generational Resistance members and was issued a statement through its Twitter handle Monday night that read, “We stand to decolonize ourselves and decolonize society by working to abolish colonial systems rooted in racism and build community rooted in liberation.”

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These are some very dangerous minded individuals who need to be dealt with harshly. This is anarchy and terrorism by all definitions. You can not deal harsh enough with these over-educated, left wing idiots. This has nothing to do with color or race, but with violence for violence sake. Saul Alinsky must be smiling from his grave.

[v8vega]

I heard on TV news this morning Trump is going to prosecute any federal laws they can, they have the guy who drove the car that pulled down one of the statues.

[HONDO74]

I heard on TV news this morning Trump is going to prosecute any federal laws they can, they have the guy who drove the car that pulled down one of the statues.

With all the liberal judges on the west coast, don't count on it.

[rogruth]

IMHO the only thing that might, just barely, give any satisfaction to those behind these types of actions is for the U.S. to close down and let the protestors become the government. No, I am in no way in favor of anything like that. I admit that all of this is just my opinion and that I have done no research about the subject. I can recall many things vividly from the 1940s to the present. In the late 1940s and early 1950s I questioned a lot of what I was taught and what I read, enough to continue trying to further my education in as many ways as possible. We have a saying in the education field in Georgia that if it looks good on paper we will try it. By "we" I refer to those in charge that make those decisions. Even if something has been tried many times and never worked as expected it will be tried again for some time because "we" didn't try it before and those others that did didn't do it right. The younger people that I know that are involved or support the anarchical (?) things that are happening do not seem to study any of it further than reading someones twit or post. I could go on but that would be boring and you would find out for sure that this old geezer doesn't know much of anything. There are many participants on this forum that are far deeper thinkers than I and maybe they have some ideas on how to save the U.S. but , unfortunately most of what I read see and hear are just complaints without any real substantial answers. We, MTJ users, seem to agree that money is the root of everything being done. The changing of Congress and the administration of the government is what many think needs to be done. Maybe so but in a legal and civilized manner. I need to shut up now. Maybe I will hear something from someone that makes sense. I don't think complaint without suggesting
reasonable and honorable change is valid. I could go on but I probably wouldn't say anything useful. We will probably kill our country using some of the same methods the great civilizations of the past have.