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So the ICE facility needs assistance in Guarding the facility?

By Jeff Wile (Jswile) on Saturday, September 27, 2025 - 10:48 pm: Edit

Ryan, Antifa Activists have been demonstrating in front of the Portland OR ICE facility every night for more than the last three months.

ICE makes arrests, local judicial authorities often dismiss the charges, or in other cases, the DA refuses to file charges, or reduce the charges to misdemeanor.

The defunding issue is not as complicated as a comment above implies:

Funds used for community enrichment or community relations are funds not used to pay salaries or overtime. 5% cut is still a decrease in the amount of money spent on local community security.

The statement that local police respond to calls at/near the facility appears to be not true.

A number of local residents have filed lawsuits against the city,police,county, and State of OR requesting protection for residents safety and protection of personal property.

No amount of messing with statistics will fix what is happening in Portland.

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Saturday, September 27, 2025 - 10:57 pm: Edit

The crime stats in Portland (like the ones in Chicago, New York, DC, and other areas) are fake. Crimes are downgraded by supervisors to a lower category or to newly invented categories that don't show on FBI crime stats. The real crime rates are actually up in many cities.

By Jeff Wile (Jswile) on Saturday, September 27, 2025 - 10:57 pm: Edit

The first Antifa Activist to be arrested and charged as a “Domestic Terrorist “ happened some three hours ago, in Portland.

By Ryan Opel (Ryan) on Sunday, September 28, 2025 - 12:50 am: Edit

Sounds like Portland during the summer of 2020.

By Jeff Wile (Jswile) on Sunday, September 28, 2025 - 08:05 am: Edit

Exactly.

There was a Fox news cast where the individual interviewed made a comment that Portland seems to be a sort of “Headquarters” of Antifa.

The example given was a “call to arms” on social media (X, instagram, etc…) calling for reinforcements to Portland in response to the military deployment to Portland.) to Antifa to send help from Washington state, Los Angeles, San Francisco.

Too early to tell if any Antifa members responded.

By Jessica Orsini (Jessica_Orsini) on Sunday, September 28, 2025 - 09:31 am: Edit

I've stated facts; you folks have gone into some mixture of circular conjecture and "it's fake news". Have fun with that.

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Sunday, September 28, 2025 - 11:50 am: Edit

It is a proven fact that crime stats are faked in city after city. One city hid the true murder rate by classifying some as “death by firearm”, a category not on the report to the FBI. Actual crime is up as any living in those cities knows. Officer after officer has testified to being ordered by superiors to list crimes at lower levels and avoid any crime designation including "gun".

Good luck with cognitive dissonance and TDS.

THIS SUBJECT ENDS NOW.

I have other things to deal with. Steve Petrick was rushed to the hospital this morning. I don’t have time to track the made-up facts today.

By Jessica Orsini (Jessica_Orsini) on Sunday, September 28, 2025 - 12:16 pm: Edit

My best to Petrick.

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Friday, October 03, 2025 - 07:41 pm: Edit

The government shutdown is in some ways a disaster but it's not a topic for this BBS.

By Jessica Orsini (Jessica_Orsini) on Thursday, October 09, 2025 - 01:42 pm: Edit

Steve, I have no idea where this should go, or indeed if it should be anywhere here (though I vaguely recall a thread somewhere about "if I was running my fictional country", for the love of me I cannot find it); for lack of a better place, I'll take a crack at it here (on the theory that Congress is generally understood to be a disaster), on the understanding that you will move, edit, and/or or delete it as appropriate.

So, about the filibuster...and Star Trek.

I have come to the conclusion that the current version of the filibuster (60-vote threshold for cloture, with other bills allowed on the floor whether or not there's a vote for cloture) is on par with the "war by computer" in the classic episode "A Taste of Armageddon". It allows for neat, clean obstruction of anything meaningful being done by Congress with none of the pain from it felt by those actually in Congress.

Take it back to a talking filibuster, with no other bills allowed during the filibuster, and you basically do what Kirk did by blowing up the reporting computer: force the sides to working together to avoid actual damage to the status quo.

By Steve Cole (Stevecole) on Friday, October 17, 2025 - 11:41 pm: Edit

Prince Andrew had a meeting with King Charles III and decided (or was told) the he will not return to public life and that further he will stop using his titles (e.g., Duke of York) because of the boiling controversy over Jeffrey Epstein.