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I wonder if this has something to do with it too......
That justifies Federal agents shooting innocents and rounding people up who are no where near any of the actual violence as it happens? That justifies Trump/Barr sending in their 'Jackboots' when states tell them not to? Man - everyone is for small govt and States rights till it doesn't suit anymore. I don't get it. I don't think there are many if any people cheering for the destruction of these monuments or damage to property (despite what someone might say in a moment of anger) ... the graffiti I could really care less about in the grand scheme of things ... but using the damage to statues and 'potential damage' of Federal buildings as justification for a dictator style personal army squashing elements in the country that Trump doesn't like against the wishes of the State, not really a country I recognize.
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On some level i agree with Mac....Any Ngo was a "journalist" not sure if independent or what but he was covering some of the Antifa protests in the past where he was attacked. I've seen videos where Asian guys are harassed in the street for being Andy Ngo despite definitely not being him.
There is to some degree a level of bias on Andy's part, but that is why he literally posts videos. You can't lie and explain away the videos.
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memp...any video clip you post from this NGO dude...there is a good chance that it is dishonest, misleading and based on lies.
memp..I'm guessing that you didn't bother to click on the link I provided..the link that proves what a fraud this NGO group is. Obviously the NGO group is still trying to stage their events for NGO's Twitter video clips..so guys like you can post them a message board. memp...in 2019 jc...
Found the info below while searching for something else. It seems that Andy Ngo, the guy posting the twitter video clips, was outed back in 2019.
Click the link if you want more info... Right-wing "journalist" Andy Ngo outed: Video shows him hanging out with far-right hate group. Ngo was embraced by Ted Cruz and interviewed by Jake Tapper. But maybe he was just an alt-right troll all alongIGOR DERYSHAUGUST 28, 2019 11:00AM link Andy Ngo, the right-wing journalist and provocateur who was embraced by mainstream Republicans and covered favorably in mainstream media after he was attacked by antifa activists during a street fight in Portland, Oregon, may suddenly be persona non grata among conservatives. Nearly all mentions of Ngo were scrubbed from the upscale right-wing publication Quillette after a newly-released video showed him acting friendly with members of Patriot Prayer, a far-right hate group that has repeatedly sought out fights with leftists.
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mac, how does that information change the videos and pictures?
Are you saying that all of those are "staged" like in a movie and they are not actually real examples of protestors resorting to violence and destroying property?
Perhaps we should focus on what is actually happening instead of turning a blind eye to the situation and using labels to discredit factual information?
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That is nonsense. I can meet you half way on bias, but "staging events for twitter clips". That is just crazed thinking.
Also, of course the far right groups like him, he is calling attention to the enemies nonsense. It is virtually no different than CNN covering the tiki torch parade.
Come on now.
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I am not defending the dude who made the videos. I just think mac posted that information to divert attention away from those who are violent and destructive.
I read a story the other day about how the rioters used fencing to block exit doors and then threw smoke grenades and shot fireworks into the building.
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That is nonsense. I can meet you half way on bias, but "staging events for twitter clips". That is just crazed thinking.
Also, of course the far right groups like him, he is calling attention to the enemies nonsense. It is virtually no different than CNN covering the tiki torch parade.
Come on now.
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The law says ‘we the people‘ can peacefully protest without the fear of reprisals from the government. Your POS Racist Grand Wizard in the WH is breaking our laws not the peaceful protesters. These protests have been anything but peaceful....trillions of dollars in commercial, residential, and infrastructure damage isn't peaceful.. What your seeing now is a "precursor" its a message that they need to go home. Im telling you behind closed doors even the Dems in the House are talking to Trump and Senate Republicans on a response if the Van, Bagging & Tagging doesn't work....this is there last chance to stop before the Feds take a more heavy handed approach. These protests will cost Tax payers and insurance companies close to a Trillion dollars now to fix all the stuff they have destroyed. Along with COVID19 and all the Stimulus packages...the Federal government is not going to sit back much longer playing nice guy. Trump and the Feds so far have been VERY reasonable. They have allowed this to go on pretty much hands off much longer than any other President would have. We are nearing a point of no return...if these people don't stop they are going to set into motion something they can't stop, and something they can't win. The polls the media is putting out saying the protests are supported is utter BS...they interview 1,024 college students...that was one of their so called "polls" give me a break. This upcoming election is going to be a shocker for the Dems and the left...Trump is going to win BIG..Califonia will turn red for the 1st time since 88, Pelosi will be out of the House...in fact most of the Dem seats up for re-election in the House will turn red, the Republicans will GAIN seats in the Senate. The American people are going to speak LOUDLY that what the left wants is not what they want. Those you see protesting is not even 7% of the population nationwide...they are NOT the majority opinion, neither is the internet and Social Media. 63% of the population is sitting at home right now, not posting on Social media, and not saying anything...but they are voting Republican this fall..you folks going to be in for a RUDE awakening come November...
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mac, how does that information change the videos and pictures?
Are you saying that all of those are "staged" like in a movie and they are not actually real examples of protestors resorting to violence and destroying property?
Perhaps we should focus on what is actually happening instead of turning a blind eye to the situation and using labels to discredit factual information? mac, I asked you a question which you ignored by asking one of your own. Let me try it another way. Do you think these videos and pictures were made/taken by the right-winger in the same way people make movies and o photo shoots? Are you claiming the evidence is not real and is staged just because the guy behind the camera is a right-winger? I know you won't answer and I know you will ignore the evidence and continue to attack the guy. I forget his name. I am NOT supporting the guy, but I don't think he staged those scenes. I think they are real. I had my say and will not respond again.
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That is nonsense. I can meet you half way on bias, but "staging events for twitter clips". That is just crazed thinking.
Also, of course the far right groups like him, he is calling attention to the enemies nonsense. It is virtually no different than CNN covering the tiki torch parade.
Come on now.
click and read... "Dishonest edits" Welcome to the game bro, CNN, Fox and major new networks do this every single night. Par for the course, nothing to see there. The videos are real, even if edited.... and this is riduclous. “There’s no way he couldn’t know the group was planning on instigating violence,” Zielinski wrote. No way he could not know......speculation at best.....outright lies at worst. Lehmann also said that Ngo had been on a “break” from a “brain injury” he suffered at the Portland rally. Love how they try to frame this as if he was faking it. Salon is an alt left website bro, got to see through the BS.
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Sorry if repost.
Here is another good one.
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All those Alt Right protesters wanting to tear down Columbus statues no doubt.
It's wild that the same people who want every politician to disavow anything to do with any fringe far right groups refuse to disavow this behavior. Major news networks, to politicians to message boards.....the cognitive dissonance is staggering.
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I am seeing lots of numbers thrown around regards the cost of the damage caused by the violent protesters .... the latest post quotes the cost at "Trillions"....
[1] I not think many if any (posters or general public) are actually standing up for the looters and the people causing property damage (I won't call them protesters because I don't actually think many of them are protesting - I think they are opportunistic thugs). Many posts here seem to indicate that the looters/violence is getting active encouragement and support and I disagree.
[2] I went looking for information on the cost of the damage. I've seen the damage estimates at $700+ million up to $5 Billion based on economic impact over a 10 year period. Neither number is good or 'acceptable'. But while folks are clearly getting very emotional and using hyperbole - let's try to keep the costs within the realm of reality. Saying the cost is 'Trillions' is farther from the truth than if someone claimed the the damage actually created an economic windfall of $5 Billion.
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mac, how does that information change the videos and pictures?
Are you saying that all of those are "staged" like in a movie and they are not actually real examples of protestors resorting to violence and destroying property?
Perhaps we should focus on what is actually happening instead of turning a blind eye to the situation and using labels to discredit factual information? I see you're back to your old tricks of dodging difficult questions by asking other questions.
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I am seeing lots of numbers thrown around regards the cost of the damage caused by the violent protesters .... the latest post quotes the cost at "Trillions"....
[1] I not think many if any (posters or general public) are actually standing up for the looters and the people causing property damage (I won't call them protesters because I don't actually think many of them are protesting - I think they are opportunistic thugs). Many posts here seem to indicate that the looters/violence is getting active encouragement and support and I disagree.
[2] I went looking for information on the cost of the damage. I've seen the damage estimates at $700+ million up to $5 Billion based on economic impact over a 10 year period. Neither number is good or 'acceptable'. But while folks are clearly getting very emotional and using hyperbole - let's try to keep the costs within the realm of reality. Saying the cost is 'Trillions' is farther from the truth than if someone claimed the the damage actually created an economic windfall of $5 Billion. The 5 Billion number is ONLY the initial cost to insurance companies for damage to private businesses nationwide. (it will be more than that) That 5 billion does NOT include: 1. Damage to Federal monuments 2. Damage to Federal Buildings 3. Damage to Post Offices 4. Damage to banks 5. Medical insurance claims from injured cops and protestors 6. Damage to motor vehicles and heavy equipment 7 Labor costs to fix things 8 Damage to utility resources (power poles, gas lines, water lines, etc) When you add up all the damage nation wide it will far exceed 5 billion. Labor will be 60% of the cost. Prevailing wage labor alone will be massive. The news is "under-reporting" the actual damages. Just in Minneapolis alone, JUST the things the State is Responsible for is over 500 million...count another 500 million that will be paid out in private insurance claims, add in prevailing wage labor, and it will easily cost over 1 billion dollars just to fix the damage in Minnesota. Now you take that and times it by all the cities in the nation they have been destroying stuff...it will easily cost between 850-1.1.trillion in Federal Aid and Private Insurance claims to fix everything they destroyed, from buildings, to cars, to replace everything that was lost. Just ONE business owner Mr. Killen, who owned 4 bars. He leased a building for storing equipment. Just in that ONE building they destroyed its going to cost 350,000 dollars just to replace his equipment that was lost, this is not counting the destruction to his 4 bars all of which could put the costs close to 2 million dollars in damages... I think most people here are WAY out of touch with how much this stuff costs. When you account for prevailing Wage Labor, and replacing of motor vehicles and everything else, the Private Insurance + Federal Aid money will eclipses trillion dolalrs to fix this nonsense., https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-in...sota-2020-06-04https://www.mprnews.org/story/2020/07/11...-in-twin-cities
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I think your numbers are incorrect and inflated based on an agenda.
$5 Billion is not the physical damage. That was $700 Million+ ... the $5 Billion, as stated was the full economic cost over 10 years.
Going from $5 Billion to over $1,000 Billion (A trillion) a 200 times multiplier is simply not realistic. But you have your "source" so carry on.
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I can definitely name more if you would like. Off the top of my head, OCD and Pit. I could get more; I just need to go back to the threads where people were so adamant that all the looting and rioting were caused by right-wing extremists.
Got anymore brain-busters? It appears your brain is already busted. Were there some right wing extremists involved? Yes there were. You see, all you are trying to do is pretend that racists groups have not become more popular since Trump was elected. That the amount of such groups have not increased. Well they have. I grew up in middle America. I live in Tennessee. As with any large group of people you have all kinds. Good and bad. The same with any profession there is. There's both good and bad. From roofers to cops and everywhere in between. Let me give you an example. I went to small school in a farming area. Would you like to hear something that many students found to be quite funny? On MLK day they thought it was hilarious to call it James Earl Ray Day. All of them? No. Many of them? Yes. So you're not going to peddle your BS to me.
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The Andy Ngo dude is not a credible source....
He is basically a reincarnation of that right wing troll James O'Keefe...
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These protests have been anything but peaceful....trillions of dollars in commercial, residential, and infrastructure damage isn't peaceful.. You are right that many of the protests have not been peaceful. What you fail to even mention or give any time to is the vast majority of them have been peaceful. That's how your side takes the focus off of the actual message behind the protests and and uses the most negative pictures and most violent of the protests to focus on.
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mac, how does that information change the videos and pictures?
Are you saying that all of those are "staged" like in a movie and they are not actually real examples of protestors resorting to violence and destroying property?
Perhaps we should focus on what is actually happening instead of turning a blind eye to the situation and using labels to discredit factual information? I see you're back to your old tricks of dodging difficult questions by asking other questions. Answering a question with a question. That's my move! mac spoke to Ngo's lawyer. Same lawyer as Dak. He's got the inside what what.
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1. How long do people need to protest for Mr. Floyd? 2. I think most Americans have received the message and agree his death was outright wrong. 3. The rioting and looting just tarnish his image. 1. Until they see substantial improvement in policies that lead to deaths like Floyd, Eric Garner, Brown, Rice (12 years old), Gray, Philandro Castille, Breonna Taylor. The protesters make that call, not me. 2. I hope so. And I also hope they don't tire of seeing their fellow citizens exercise their 1A. 3. Disagree. Like I said earlier in this thread, I can separate looters from protesters. Floyd's image is indelibly etched upon my brain. Months later, he is still pinned beneath the knee of someone who totally ignored his humanity. No, I think his 'image' will endure forever. As long as I have anything to say about it, it will. There are others like me, as well. .02
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The odd thing is that so many can't seem to grasp what's actually going on here think it's "all about George Floyd". It's not, not at all. The murder of George Floyd was what we call the last straw. The repeating of what has gone on for a long time in our nation. It is the representation of a much wider and long term cancer that has eaten away at our nation.
If they could just get a grip on that maybe it would help them to understand. They're just too busy focusing on the ones who riot and loot to look at the vast majority of those who have not and the big picture of why all of these things are happening.
I guess it makes it easier for them to turn a blind eye to it all.
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Ngo is a right wing hack that trolls ANYTHING the left does with his 'I see antifa everywhere' rhetoric. POS resource for those who hate democracy.
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Ngo is a right wing hack that trolls ANYTHING the left does with his 'I see antifa everywhere' rhetoric. POS resource for those who hate democracy. So, the videos and pictures were staged? Like a movie or a photo shoot? They aren't actually real? And what about the other video evidence, like the link I posted for Chicago? Ngo wasn't involved in that. I am not sure this is true, but sometimes, I get a sense that there are people who think that innocent police officers and whites have to pay for the sins of the guilty ones. I think that is as bad as how some police officers and whites lump all blacks together. Fighting hate w/hate is not progressive. It's only going to lead to more trouble. Count on it.
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Ngo is a right wing hack that trolls ANYTHING the left does with his 'I see antifa everywhere' rhetoric. POS resource for those who hate democracy. So, the videos and pictures were staged? Like a movie or a photo shoot? They aren't actually real? And what about the other video evidence, like the link I posted for Chicago? Ngo wasn't involved in that. I am not sure this is true, but sometimes, I get a sense that there are people who think that innocent police officers and whites have to pay for the sins of the guilty ones. I think that is as bad as how some police officers and whites lump all blacks together. Fighting hate w/hate is not progressive. It's only going to lead to more trouble. Count on it. On the other hand - maybe if the source is known to be tainted and full of hate, then the message that comes with any "facts" or "video evidence" needs to be screened or ignored? .... why not rely on other more credible sources of information and video than a guy that (apparently) has a hate filled agenda? Yes - the video is real ... no one is denying that there are violent groups causing property damage. Can't we source the videos of those events from a more neutral source and then talk about them if that's what you want to do? I think Breitbart or Fox would be a significant improvement than this guy by the sound of it. Personally I'll stick to what I said before - the majority are peaceful. The violence and destruction is being carried out by opportunists that aren't really protesting and have little or nothing to do with BLM or George Floyd. I guess an analogy would be Islam and Isis. Of the 1.8 Billion Muslims, the vast majority of them are peace loving and tolerant and have no alignment or association with Isis .... but when Isis was in the news and making headlines there were people who wanted to paint all Muslims with the same brush as Isis - i listened to experts who wanted to tell everyone the Koran teaches violence. A bit like some folks want to pick select quotes and versus from the Bible and say they mean one thing, while the Christians have a different interpretation .... I'm more interested in what the majority of peaceful protesters are protesting about than the violence on the fringes.
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It's your right as an American to choose what you are more interested in. Just as it is the right of other Americans to choose what thy are interested in.
However, when folks become violent and destroy/deface property, they can be subjected to punishment.
This is just my opinion, but I think that these protests are actually doing more harm w/the voting public than good. The initial response was warranted, but like most things, it's gone too far. I don't see how hurting innocent people and destroying property helps the cause.
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Ngo is a right wing hack that trolls ANYTHING the left does with his 'I see antifa everywhere' rhetoric. POS resource for those who hate democracy. So, the videos and pictures were staged? Like a movie or a photo shoot? They aren't actually real? And what about the other video evidence, like the link I posted for Chicago? Ngo wasn't involved in that. I am not sure this is true, but sometimes, I get a sense that there are people who think that innocent police officers and whites have to pay for the sins of the guilty ones. I think that is as bad as how some police officers and whites lump all blacks together. Fighting hate w/hate is not progressive. It's only going to lead to more trouble. Count on it. That's what I keep asking. Unless he's a Hollywood director with a million dollar SFX budget - the videos speak for themselves. But let's just ignore all that and talk about what a piece of crap he is lmao. I'm thinking his dad must have done the fake lunar landings because this dude is amazing.
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I have never heard of Andrew Ngo until now, but it is pretty easy to look up this guy and I cannot find any link to racist hate groups. If you have evidence, please put it forward. There is a ton of youtube interviews and it reveals that he is just a journalist that covers Antifa (not BLM) and it is pretty difficult to be an unbiased journalist and cover Antifa in a positive light. They prefer to work in shadowy ways for a reason. Their methods are violent and illegal.
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The odd thing is that so many can't seem to grasp what's actually going on here think it's "all about George Floyd". It's not, not at all. The murder of George Floyd was what we call the last straw. The repeating of what has gone on for a long time in our nation. It is the representation of a much wider and long term cancer that has eaten away at our nation. I can't talk about this subject tonight. I'm all talked out. 50 years of living through this s#. 40 years of trying to tell people about it. I'm not John Lewis. I don't have his strength/forbearance. I can't tonight. I just can't. My voice is tired and raspy from singing The Gospel my entire adult life. I used to have a beautiful voice. Maybe tomorrow. Maybe next week. Maybe someday. I'm tired of trying my best to be Paul Robeson for an audience of Helen Kellers. damn it. damn it.
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Personally I think the overwhelming, vast number of people do not have a problem with the idea that those that commit crimes and destroy property (again I'll state graffiti doesn't concern me in the bigger scheme of things) should be held accountable. But rounding up random individuals at a point in time when no violence or destruction (or crime) is being committed ... by unmarked Fed agents whose presence is actively unwanted by the state ... is NOT the answer. That just inflames the situation. As does shooting a random guy in the head who is listening to a boom box. Since most of the people in the videos who are rioting are masked and it's dark ... it's virtually impossible to get a positive I.D. so there can't be any suggestion that the random people collected off the streets in such a sinister way were targeted for actual crimes/actions. If they were and there was ANY success we most certainly would have heard about it.
Likewise I am not sure there are many if any that think destroying property is a good or helpful regarding any cause relating to BLM or police/institutional racism ... that's why I said I think those that are doing it are not actually protesters, they are just opportunists angry at the world 'just because' and happy to do what they are doing with apparent impunity ... and rounding up random individuals the next day is not going to change their perception of impunity.
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Ngo is a right wing hack that trolls ANYTHING the left does with his 'I see antifa everywhere' rhetoric. POS resource for those who hate democracy. So, the videos and pictures were staged? Like a movie or a photo shoot? They aren't actually real? And what about the other video evidence, like the link I posted for Chicago? Ngo wasn't involved in that. I am not sure this is true, but sometimes, I get a sense that there are people who think that innocent police officers and whites have to pay for the sins of the guilty ones. I think that is as bad as how some police officers and whites lump all blacks together. Fighting hate w/hate is not progressive. It's only going to lead to more trouble. Count on it. That's what I keep asking. Unless he's a Hollywood director with a million dollar SFX budget - the videos speak for themselves. But let's just ignore all that and talk about what a piece of crap he is lmao. I'm thinking his dad must have done the fake lunar landings because this dude is amazing. Where did he find all those right wing nut jobs to pose as antifa rioters?
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DHS: Nearly 40 Feds Doxed over Portland Riot Work Joshua Caplan 21 Jul 2020 A Department of Homeland Security official said Tuesday that nearly 40 federal law enforcement officers sent to quell ongoing riots in the Democrat-controlled city of Portland had their personal information posted online. Richard Cline, the Deputy Director of Operations for the Federal Protective Service, disclosed in a press conference that around 38 federal officers had their information put online despite taking precautions to prevent doxing, such as replacing name tags with badge numbers. It is currently unclear which individuals and/or groups put such information on the web. In the same press conference, Acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf vowed his agency’s law enforcement activities “will not retreat” from Portland and told rioters that the time had come to “find another line of work.” “If you are a violent rioter looking to inflict damage on federal property or law enforcement officers, you need to find another line of work,” Wolf stated. “We will not retreat, we will continue to protect our facilities and our law enforcement officers.” Over the weekend, DHS deployed law enforcement agents to Portland in an effort to crack down on violent unrest that has persisted for over 52 days following the death of George Floyd, a black man who died in police custody in Minneapolis. Wolf said Monday that the federal agents are solely on the ground to protect federal property from persisting destruction at the hands of rioters. “What we know is before July 4, where we saw an escalation of violence in Portland, before that time, there was violence going, ongoing and DHS had had very few officers in the city,” Acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf told Fox & Friends on Monday. “We know that violence before the courthouse, they were directed at the Portland Police Department and other city buildings. So, the facts don’t lie, and the facts are that these violent anarchists and extremists were violent well before DHS surged federal assets into Portland.” “We are focused on protecting federal facilities. That is our mission, and we’re going to continue to do that,” Wolf then emphasized. Later Monday, President Donald Trump said that he could send additional federal agents into major cities to help quell civil unrest. “Look at what’s going on. All run by Democrats. All run by very liberal Democrats. All run really by [the] radical left,” the president told reporters in the Oval Office. “We can’t let this happen in the cities.” https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/07/21/dhs-nearly-40-feds-doxed-over-portland-riot-work/
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You are right that many of the protests have not been peaceful. What you fail to even mention or give any time to is the vast majority of them have been peaceful.
That's how your side takes the focus off of the actual message behind the protests and and uses the most negative pictures and most violent of the protests to focus on. Sorry Pit, this is not a "your side" thing. This is "journalism" as we know it in 2020. What I do know is that a lot of the support and goodwill the BLM movement had accrued in the early days after the death of George Floyd (on top of others) is being squandered and wasted because a bunch of punks are now using the BLM movement as an excuse to destroy property and beat the crap out of any people who dare disagree with them. The video's are becoming more and more common on social media and there is no blaming these on the alt-right boogeyman the way they did all of the violence that erupted from protests..
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DHS: Nearly 40 Feds Doxed over Portland Riot Work Joshua Caplan 21 Jul 2020 A Department of Homeland Security official said Tuesday that nearly 40 federal law enforcement officers sent to quell ongoing riots in the Democrat-controlled city of Portland had their personal information posted online. Richard Cline, the Deputy Director of Operations for the Federal Protective Service, disclosed in a press conference that around 38 federal officers had their information put online despite taking precautions to prevent doxing, such as replacing name tags with badge numbers. It is currently unclear which individuals and/or groups put such information on the web. In the same press conference, Acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf vowed his agency’s law enforcement activities “will not retreat” from Portland and told rioters that the time had come to “find another line of work.” “If you are a violent rioter looking to inflict damage on federal property or law enforcement officers, you need to find another line of work,” Wolf stated. “We will not retreat, we will continue to protect our facilities and our law enforcement officers.” Over the weekend, DHS deployed law enforcement agents to Portland in an effort to crack down on violent unrest that has persisted for over 52 days following the death of George Floyd, a black man who died in police custody in Minneapolis. Wolf said Monday that the federal agents are solely on the ground to protect federal property from persisting destruction at the hands of rioters. “What we know is before July 4, where we saw an escalation of violence in Portland, before that time, there was violence going, ongoing and DHS had had very few officers in the city,” Acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf told Fox & Friends on Monday. “We know that violence before the courthouse, they were directed at the Portland Police Department and other city buildings. So, the facts don’t lie, and the facts are that these violent anarchists and extremists were violent well before DHS surged federal assets into Portland.” “We are focused on protecting federal facilities. That is our mission, and we’re going to continue to do that,” Wolf then emphasized. Later Monday, President Donald Trump said that he could send additional federal agents into major cities to help quell civil unrest. “Look at what’s going on. All run by Democrats. All run by very liberal Democrats. All run really by [the] radical left,” the president told reporters in the Oval Office. “We can’t let this happen in the cities.” https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/07/21/dhs-nearly-40-feds-doxed-over-portland-riot-work/
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So, they hide their identification with a badge. Let that sink in. trump’s brown shirts in action. Next up the US SS troopers guarding barbed wire compounds filled with US citizens who oppose trump’s policies.
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So, they hide their identification with a badge. Let that sink in. trump’s brown shirts in action. Next up the US SS troopers guarding barbed wire compounds filled with US citizens socialist left wing extremists.(aka dems) Fixed it for you.
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Yeah I was a bit nicer and added those who oppose trump’s policies.
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