‘Lawless city?’ Worry after Portland police don’t stop chaos

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A crowd of 100 people wreaked havoc in downtown Portland, Oregon, this week – smashing storefront windows, lighting dumpsters on fire and causing at least $500,000 in damage – but police officers didn’t stop them.

Portland Police Bureau officials say that’s because of legislation passed by Oregon lawmakers this year, which restricts the tools they can use to confront people vandalizing buildings and causing mayhem.

“The reason that we did not intervene goes back to what we talked about last month with House Bill 2928 and the restrictions placed on us in a crowd control environment,” KOIN reports that Portland Police Lt. Jake Jensen said in a neighborhood meeting Thursday.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Depolicing"

Can we now have an honest discussion about Islamist terrorism?

Police think the killing of David Amess may have had an Islamist motivation. We need to talk about this.

The discussion about the horrific slaying of Tory MP David Amess is set to change. Possibly radically. The police’s decision to treat his murder as a potential terrorist incident, with an Islamist motivation, is likely to shake up how the media elites in particular talk about it. Out will go any implacable political anger and the insistence that we search for the cultural and intellectual influences behind this barbaric act. In their place we’ll see demands for calm. Don’t feel too much fury, we’ll be told. Don’t extrapolate. Don’t blame it on any one faith or ideology. Don’t be Islamophobic. The liberal media will likely stop stirring up passionate feeling about this heinous crime, and instead seek to suppress such emotion.

The MSM is already hard at work shaping the narrative by providing us a heart rending account of the trauma suffered by the blood thirsty Islamist’s poor old Daddy and conflating this latest Muslim terror attack with the displays of righteous disgust for Trudeau during the election campaign.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West

Muslim or Mental Patient? Diagnosing the Bow-and-Arrow Killer

Again we’re seeing that if an act of terror has an Islamic connection, it will need to be played down or ignored altogether.

On Wednesday, October 13, Espen Andersen Bråthen killed five people with a bow and arrow in Kongsberg, Norway. On Thursday, Norwegian police declared it an act of Islamic terrorism. But on Saturday, police inspector Per Thomas Omholt made a baffling announcement.

Even though Bråthen said in a 2017 video that he’s a Muslim, and has confirmed this to police since his arrest, Omholt expressed doubt about the conversion: “The hypothesis that he has converted to Islam has been weakened,” and the hypothesis that his actions can instead be explained by a mental disorder has been strengthened.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Islamophobia", Islam, Islam and violence, Islamization of the West, Norway

Walmart vs. Whiteness

The company’s new training program tells hourly employees that they are guilty of “internalized racial superiority.”

Walmart Inc. has launched a critical race theory training program that denounces the United States as a “white supremacy system” and teaches white, hourly wage employees that they are guilty of “white supremacy thinking” and “internalized racial superiority.”

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Corporate Social Justice Warriors", "Critical Race Theory" Crackpot Communism

Prince Andrew will argue use of ‘royalty’ in Epstein settlement makes lawsuit invalid

The Duke of York will argue that a sexual abuse lawsuit filed against him is invalid because his accuser struck a secret deal with Jeffrey Epstein referencing “royalty”.

Virginia Roberts Giuffre settled with the convicted sex offender in 2009 for undisclosed damages after lodging a criminal complaint accusing him of sexual exploitation and abuse.

The confidential agreement they signed in Florida, in which she allegedly vowed not to take further action against the financier or his associates, has since remained sealed.

The “Yea even If I raped you I got a get out of jail card” defense.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Woke Royals"

Sabrina Maddeaux: If Facebook whistleblower was Canadian, she may never have come forward

What former Facebook data scientist Frances Haugen said was far less surprising than the fact she said it at all. The whistleblower made headlines when she testified before U.S. senators that Facebook knowingly operates products that “harm children, stoke division and weaken our democracy.”

Not so sure about that, Haugen’s totalitarian leanings match nicely with the Trudeau Liberals desire for censorship.

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Carl Bernstein calls for investigation into supporters of ‘psychopath’ Trump

“We have never had a period in our history when 40, 45% of the people in our country have said, ‘Oh, yeah, I’ll go along with this psychopath. I’ll go along with this sociopath.’ We need to be looking at these facts, as well as the coup and what this individual did. We need to look at why are our people, so many of our people, following this sociopathic undermining of our democracy? It’s extraordinary,” Bernstein said.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inTrump Derangement Syndrome, USA, WTF?

‘Coffee cup Gestapo’: Australian cops slammed for checking man’s beverage to verify his excuse for not wearing Covid-19 mask

Video footage of Melbourne police checking whether a man’s coffee cup was empty to verify his excuse for not wearing a mask is stirring the latest round of online outrage over Australia’s dystopian Covid-19 policies.

While it is unclear when exactly the video was recorded, the clip went viral on social media on Friday and Saturday, showing several police officers confronting a man on what appears to be a park trail. One of the officers grabs the man’s coffee cup while asking, “Do you mind if I check if there’s actually anything in that?” He shakes the cup, and after apparently establishing that there was liquid inside, he backs away and tells the man, “Enjoy your coffee.”

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English council urges parents not to allow children to watch Squid Game

A council in the south of England has advised parents not to let their children watch the Netflix show Squid Game, after reports children as young as six are copying its violent challenges.

The education safeguarding team from Central Bedfordshire council sent an email to parents and guardians in the district urging them to “be vigilant after hearing reports that children and young people are copying games and violence from hit new Netflix series Squid Game, which is rated 15”.

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China condemns Canada, U.S. for sending warships through Taiwan Strait

The Chinese military on Sunday condemned Canada and the United States for each sending a warship through the Taiwan Strait last week, saying they were threatening peace and stability in the region.

China claims democratically ruled Taiwan as its own territory and has mounted repeated air force missions into Taiwan’s air defence identification zone (ADIZ) over the past year, provoking anger in Taipei.

China sent about 150 aircraft into the zone over a four-day period beginning on Oct. 1 in a further heightening of tensions between Beijing and Taipei that has sparked concern internationally.

 

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Canada's China Class", "China eats weird animals disease", Canada, USA