There are videos currently debating about something called the insurrection act, for those who do not know of it. It is a piece of legal doctrine that has been in the country in some form or function since the times of Jefferson.
Fresh from the horse’s mouth so to speak.
This is the line we are looking at
“Whenever the President considers that unlawful obstructions, combinations, or assemblages, or rebellion against the authority of the United States, make it impracticable to enforce the laws of the United States in any State by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, he may call into Federal service such of the militia of any State, and use such of the armed forces, as he considers necessary to enforce those laws or to suppress the rebellion.”
Now the bar for this is rather high, generally you need either a city or state completely over run or unwilling to enforce the law, the last time this was used was in the LA Riots in the early nineties.
Looking in the issues in the city let me go over something that no one in the city wants to deal with.
Due to the actions of our city council, mayor and, governor is why Trump can do this.
Let me explain, the president cannot use this because he does not like the city because if it were the case the penalties after the actions had been finished would mean the president could be under severe penalty.
Currently we have at minimum two investigations against the Portland Police Department, one for regular federal and another for civil rights violations. The city has allowed a group to take over a block of a street including a road allowing them to dictate traffic and enforcement without so much as a parade route request filed.
Antifa has here gotten the benefit of multiple mayors and city councils back since I started this blog six years ago. I sat through multiple riots as a homeless person saw other homeless people be attacked but the press wanted to force it on the proud boys, they couldn’t and despite the crimes of the proud boys beating the homeless was not one of them. Now it seems Portland is allowing this so I am going to let the secret go they don’t want anyone to realize.
Trump would not be here without them, these politicians from the mayor to the council to even the governor made moves to strengthen the capabilities of the federal government to handle business. The worst part is there is not a thing they can do about it. In case law Portland has declared the road in front of the facility to be theirs to take care of, and not enforcing there would be enough, however this is where they have liaison officers stand by when the city has a 20 minute average on calls where seconds mean the difference between life and death. We have city councilors asking soldiers to abandon post and to show how to hide phone records using burner phones. We have a mayor and governor who instead of solving problems will happily walk down in marches where no one is going to change their opinion just so they can be seen.
There are a hundred problems in the city but the sheer mockery of their jobs for the sake of being seen as a rising star in local politics is not going to allow them to do anything. Downtown Portland has a business vacancy rate going past 35%. One in three now.
One thing is that Portland wanted to pick this fight, these politicians wanted to have a rebel complex and instead of doing their jobs this is what they deemed important. That is the biggest problem, these politicians would rather take brownie points from their own circles instead of doing their jobs like the rest of us have to deal with. That is not a quality of a good politician or of a good person for the city and the angering thing is that no matter what your view in politics, it is just broadway, an act to make people feel better, and it sucks but it has to be said because with those actions the only thing it does is strengthen trumps position.
We need people to work, to do their jobs and not try to invite problems, and right now I do not see a lot in local government I would say is doing that.
It means because of those who want to provoke instead of problem solve we have a disaster only getting worse. That has left me personally with more questions than answers.
Stay strong.
Also, I had to sleep a lot due to health so I’m counting this as my post for yesterday.
BigTAnderson in Portland 