Reference: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/portland-protesters-pull-down-statues-teddy-roosevelt-abraham-lincoln/
Why on earth is the state government in Oregon sitting on their hands and letting this stuff happen? There is an insurrection going on in Portland. These are not ad hoc riots and protests generated by the emotion of something that just happened. These are carefully organized events with specific objectives. Organizers and protesters arrive with all the necessary tools to achieve their goal and hundreds of their minions show up to help destroy things.
Last Sunday, according to CBS news, “‘Protesters overturned statues of former Presidents Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln here Sunday night in a declaration of ‘rage’ toward 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, a polarizing figure who Native American advocates have said spurred centuries of genocide against indigenous populations in the Americas. The group threw chains around Roosevelt’s statue, officially titled ‘Theodore Roosevelt, Rough Rider.’ They threw red paint on the monument and began using a blowtorch on the statue’s base, news outlets reported. The crowd pulled down the statue just before 9 p.m. The group later turned their attention toward Lincoln’s statue, pulling it down about eight minutes later. . . . After toppling the statues, the crowd began smashing windows at the Oregon Historical Society and later moved onto the Portland State University Campus Public Safety office.'”
“Historians have said Roosevelt expressed hostility toward Native Americans, once saying: ‘I don’t go so far as to think that the only good Indians are dead Indians, but I believe nine out of every 10 are …’ Protesters spray-painted ‘Dakota 38’ on the base of Lincoln’s statue, referencing the 38 Dakota men Lincoln approved to have hanged after the men were involved in a violent conflict with white settlers in Minnesota.”
These clowns announced their intentions, actually gave their riot a name, the “Indigenous Peoples Day of Rage”, induced hundreds of people to show up to destroy monuments, and they showed up with all the necessary tools including blowtorches, chains and spray paint. After all, who out of the blue would think to bring a blowtorch or chains to a protest?
It is just ridiculous that the State allows this to happen. Night after night, people protest, become destructive, the police declare an unlawful assembly and then disperse the crowd, though not without a lot of pushback and often injuries and arrests.
Shame on the public authories in Portland and Oregon. They should have declared martial law and brought in the National Guard months ago, but for whatever reason(s) they have elected to let this go on, with the resulting destruction not only of monuments and statutes, but of businesses, offices, the Oregon Historical Society and others, including small businesses owned by blacks. Talk about cutting off your nose to spite your face.
Anyway, we think these gutless politicians should start doing their job.