REMINDER – AT 11:30 P.M. ET:  Remember when Portland, Oregon, was a beautiful, civilized city?  Well, a funny thing happened to Portland on the way to urban greatness.  It elected the wrong people.  The violence that erupted in Portland last year is still going on, and now no one seems to care.  Enforcing the law seems an idle hope.  From Fox: 

Rioters vandalized several buildings in downtown Portland, Ore., on Saturday night in one of the largest protests in weeks, according to reports.

Around 150 people marched through Portland’s Pearl District in what’s called a "direct action" event, smashing windows of businesses like Starbucks, Chipotle, Umpqua Bank and Urban Pantry and tagging them with graffiti, KION-TV in Portland reported.

One vandal wrote "banks suck" on Umpqua Bank’s façade, a Portland Tribune reporter tweeted.
The marchers were protesting the Biden administration’s immigration policy and the federal agency Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

The White House received progressive pushback this month when it reopened a Texas shelter meant to house unaccompanied teenage migrants. Amid the blowback, the administration has claimed the shelter "won't stay open very long."

Ahead of Saturday's unrest, several Portland business owners had boarded up their storefronts in anticipation of the planned protest, FOX 12 in Portland reported.

"We have removed everything that could possibly cause damage tonight," Jim Rice, owner of Fields Bar and Grill, told the station. The restaurant was already damaged on Friday. It was unclear if it suffered any further damage Saturday.

"When these people come through, and we've lost an entire day of business which means that's impacting my team member's wages. This has been going on for nine months," he continued. "Where are our resources? When do we get enough resources to finally go after and fix this?"

COMMENT:  Fella, you should accept reality and leave Portland.  There are plenty of good, peaceful towns and cities in this country who would welcome a hard-working, law-abiding restaurant owner. 

As for the night after night of violence, where are those who called an hour of mindless disruption at the Capitol in Washington on January 6th a national catastrophe?  I guess they just didn't want Nancy Pelosi inconvenienced.   Or they've never heard of Portland.

March 1,  2021