by Victoria Taft, PJ Media:
Nothing says hypocrite like the governor of Oregon sounding the alarm about conservative protesters on the streets of her state’s largest city after letting leftists run amok for months.
Gov. Kate Brown (D) is not concerned about the resumed nightly riots by antifa and Marxist Black Lives Matter militants in Portland, which have terrorized Portlanders. The governor approves of their declared message of anti-fascism, though the rioters act like violent fascists. Because, based on results, they are.
Overnight on 23–24 Sept, hundreds of BLM-antifa rioters attacked the Justice Center in Portland. They used rocks to shatter windows of the police station, set the exterior on fire multiple times, & threw 3 Molotov cocktails at officers. #PortlandRiots https://t.co/aNkkhRgmkx pic.twitter.com/SjeOLwjMBJ
— Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) September 24, 2020
Brown has ordered state troopers to go to Portland in advance of a so-called anti-domestic terrorism rally scheduled on Saturday by the Proud Boys group. Brown called in state troopers as reinforcements and changed the rules of engagement for the right-wing protesters, by clearing the way for officers to use CS gas for crowd control if things get out of hand. Portland police were notoriously ordered not to use CS gas against the violent rioters of antifa and BLM.
The Proud Boys group, which cross-pollinates with a local group called “Patriot Prayer,” has called for the protest on Saturday at Delta Park, which is on the border of Oregon and Washington.
In reply, antifa and Black Lives Matter mob members have promised to violently quell the more conservative groups’ right to gather because…fascism.
Portland and Oregon officials consistently get into a state of high dudgeon about conservative rallies because, though members appear to be far more ethnically diverse than antifa, they consider the members – some of whom are Asian, Hispanic and black – to be white supremacists.
Last month, an antifa “security guard” committed what looked to be a political assassination of a Patriot Prayer member, a minority, who was leaving the scene of a huge Trump car caravan through Portland. The killer, who was white and was seen on video lying in wait to commit the hit, was subsequently shot by federal officers who tracked him to Lacey, Washington.