Canty-Jones: It was very much in the milieu, it was very much in the politics, and it’s very clear as you can see from George Williamson’s letter laying out the argument right before the 1857 Oregon Constitutional Convention, that Oregon would be a place that neither had slavery nor free black people. And those were laws that were already in the books from the territorial government....
It is a known fact that governments, be they local, state or federal, have extraneous laws and/or regulations that do not apply to current standards of living. As a matter of fact, there are some laws/regulations that are counter to modern standards. In the case of Oregon, these laws/regs can go back into the 1800s which is nearly the beginning of the country. I have no doubt there will be an ongoing project to examine such annoyance and possibly dangerous domestic governing and policing laws/regs.
The discovery of actionable intelligence regarding the infiltration of White Supremacists into protest marches is no surprise. I am sure the police officials in Oregon were waiting for it to surface. Something needs to be done with HATE groups such as the KKK. The Southern Poverty Law Center (click here) has a vast collection of knowledge regarding these groups. Hate cannot be a reason for organizing. It has to stop.
My mistake this is actually Portland, Maine. It doesn't matter the same applies to the idea of eliminating draconian laws that support racism. Holy smokes, Portland, Maine. We have a problem.
Some Portland, Maine council members want an independent review of the police actions regarding the protests in that city. It sounds like a great idea for all major cities and even those with known racist problems.
Alert: US Senate Republicans (click here) have their own police reform bill. It needs to be scoured for corruption and racism, bigoted, and discriminatory content. I haven't read any of the content, but, a Republican President just assaulted protesters in Lafayette Park and erected a fence around the park nearly overnight.
Racist "Moscow Mitch" tapped an African American Senator to sponsor the legislation that no doubt McConnell wrote. Everything is a photo op.
There is also such a fence around the White House. Trump is scared of his "photo op" becoming a place where counter-photo ops would take place. The fences are to preserve Trump's definition of USA land that belongs to the people.
RETURN LAFAYETTE PARK TO THE PEOPLE!
By Randy Billings
Portland police say (click here) they stationed officers on top of downtown buildings at last week’s anti-racism protests after learning that armed counter-protesters planned to be there.
The disclosure — which differs from an earlier explanation that police were likely just observing the protests — comes a week after questions were raised, some in a flurry of social media activity, about police officers positioned on top of buildings, seemingly with rifles, scopes and other equipment.
Commander James Sweatt made the disclosure about the armed counter-protesters Wednesday night during a virtual meeting of the Police Citizen Review Subcommittee. He said police had received “actionable intelligence” that armed counter-protesters planned to demonstrate near the Black Live Matter protesters. He said the officers were deployed on buildings to protect the protesters, not to intimidate them.
“They actually did show up. They were actually armed. We intercepted them before they made it there,” Sweatt said at the meeting. “We also discovered other individuals in the crowd that were legally possessing firearms, but their intent was not known. I think that’s an important note to make.”...
