[HOTAIR] Last week a Portland police lieutenant named Jeff Niiya was accused of colluding with right-wing protest group Patriot Prayer after a string of his texts were released to the public. Lt. Niiya’s job is to coordinate with protest groups coming to the city and the texts show him doing just that, i.e. chatting with Patriot Prayer’s Joey Gibson about the group’s intentions and planned movements. As I noted last week, Lt. Niiya has previously been in close contact with a member of Antifa who became an outcast when other members of the group learned she’d be talking with police.
But the texts with Patriot Prayer were seen as something far more sinister by the far-left denizens of Portland. That included left-wing city commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty who declared the texts were proof police were in “collusion with right-wing extremists.” Portland’s Mayor, Ted Wheeler, called for an investigation saying, “It is imperative for law enforcement to remain objective and professional, and in my opinion, these text messages appear to cross several boundaries.” Portland’s Police Chief Danielle Outlaw agreed to investigate the texts to see if they showed anything improper. Yesterday, the Oregonian reported that it was Mayor Wheeler’s office that was asking for and receiving information about Patriot Prayer’s location and plans from Lt. Niiya:
The Mayor’s Office has relied on a Portland police lieutenant to keep tabs on right-wing protest leader Joey Gibson, sometimes texting him at all hours to ask about Gibson’s whereabouts or plans.
It’s the same lieutenant, Jeff Niiya, who has come under fire in the last week from Mayor Ted Wheeler and other city officials…
“Certainly the mayor’s initial comments gave the impression that he was unaware of the communications between Niiya and Gibson,’’ said Lt. Craig Morgan, president of the Portland Police Commanding Officers Association. “These texts show that not only was his top aide aware of the conversations, but he was requesting specific information about Patriot Prayer and Gibson as situations developed.’’
Despite the fact that it was the Mayor’s own office requesting the information Lt. Niiya was gathering on Patriot Prayer, the investigation prompted by Niiya’s texts remains ongoing. As part of that process, Police Chief Outlaw scheduled a listening session to hear the community’s concerns Thursday night. Reporter Andy Ngo, who attended the meeting, says it quickly became a “sh*tshow” and a “circus of identity politics and hysteria.”
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No need to clean it up, just cut power, water and food. Let nature take it's course. Anyone trying to leave, well, then the Armed Vigilance committee comes into play.
[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] Nebraska state Sen. Ernie Chambers on Tuesday compared the American flag with the Nazi swastika on the floor of the legislature.
"I don't come here for this rag every day, and it's a rag. That's all it is to me," said Chambers about respecting the flag. "When you show a way to persuade Jews to sanctify and worship the swastika, when you show me that I'll come up here and stand while you all hypocritically pretend that rag is something that it definitely is not."
The comments were in response to a bill put before the Nebraska legislature that would update school civics requirements and make students more literate in "knowledge in civics, history, economics, financial literacy, and geography."
Chambers, a registered independent and part of Nebraska’s nonpartisan unicameral legislature, refers to himself as "the defender of the downtrodden." He is no stranger to controversy, having attempted to sue God over "destruction and terrorization of millions" in 2007 and in 2015 calling the police "my ISIS."
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Ernie is still alive? Wow!
He was a state senator from the ghetto part of Omaha when I was a young kid in college in the early 1970s. Is he trying to give Byrd a run as longest serving pol ever?
[NYP] Liz Warren this week echoed fellow Sen. Kamala Harris’ support for reparations payments to African-Americans on account of slavery. Count it as a sign of just how extreme and irrelevant are Democrats heading into the race for the 2020 nomination.
The reparations idea has gained new life in some circles thanks to radical writer Ta-Nehisi Coates, but it’s both wildly impractical and morally confused.
Yes, slavery was a grievous wrong, but no mere cash payment can make it right. Indeed, the whole effort is sure to increase America’s racial divisions, not end them. (Of course, Coates is deadly pessimistic about any hope for real racial peace.)
The problems are huge enough that both President Barack Obama and Sen. Bernie Sanders have nixed reparations as worth adopting. Pursue social justice and boost opportunities for underprivileged Americans, sure ‐ but don’t go down this dead end.
[Daily Caller] A lengthy public lands package sitting in Congress adds hundreds of thousands of acres of federally protected wilderness without securing funding to manage it.
The House is preparing to vote on a bipartisan land package next week that is roughly 660 pages and composed of 118 different bills. The Senate version passed its version, the most comprehensive land package in a decade, on Feb. 12 in a 92 to 8 vote.
"It touches every state, features the input of a wide coalition of our colleagues, and has earned the support of a broad, diverse coalition of many advocates for public lands, economic development and conservation," Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said, according to The Washington Post.
The Senate package designates 1.3 million acres in California, New Mexico, Oregon and Utah as wilderness, the strictest form of federal protection that bans development of almost any kind as well as roads and most forms of motorized travel. It prohibits mineral development on 370,000 acres of land near two national parks in Montana and Washington state.
The lands package designates three new national monuments ‐ two in Kentucky and one in Mississippi ‐ to be managed by the National Park Service (NPS) and classifies roughly 500 miles of river in Connecticut, Massachusetts and Oregon as wild, scenic or recreational.
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So Trump should sign an executive order: No additions to federal land until the border wall is completed. And veto whatever bills they try to attach the land grabs to.
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500 miles of river, and in CONN, MASS, and ORE? isn't that nice. I wonder what ever happened to that river adjacent to the Gold King Mine that the EPA was, uh, rehabilitating?
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These same politicians are all the time calling for more affordable housing. Their solution seems to be to turn coastal California into one big slum that would still not be affordable. Meanwhile, there is all this land out there where housing could be developed that really would be affordable.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] Nebraska state Sen. Ernie Chambers on Tuesday compared the American flag with the Nazi swastika on the floor of the legislature.
