Candidate for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States.
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They are not arresting violent protesters (graffiti is not destruction of federal property, by the way). They are grabbing people off the street who are exercising their Constitutional rights. It is apparently the US Constitution that you have a problem with.
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If only all our Congresspeople and Senators were a fraction of this brave.
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I ask myself several times a day if we could possibly be overreacting, if we’re mistaken to so vigorously and passionately reject the presence of those troops in American cities. But the answer comes back to me loud and clear: this is the line they must not be allowed to cross.
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They totally have a cause! They want armed federal agents off their streets - and for good reason.
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Amazon paid no federal taxes on $11.2 billion in profits last year. It's obscene. Our tax policies are the main instrumentation of economic injustice in America.
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These. are. not. rioters. #GoPortland
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No, YOU stop spreading misinformation. There's no "they" there. One person was doing that, and of course that person should be stopped by law enforcement.
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People gathered in the streets and doing no one any harm are not criminals. They are exercising their Constitutional right. Given that the "troops" are making illegal arrests, in fact it is they who are the criminals.
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On what basis are you calling them rioters? What is your definition of that? And if the mayor and police aren't handling the situation as the people of Portland wish, then the people of Portland should deal with that.
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No one has to "comply with those tasked with community security;" we have to comply with the LAW. And when "those tasked with community security" are lawless agents who are violating the Constitution, no we do not have to "comply." That would be a dictatorship, which we are not.
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My grandfather was Solomon Yveshnivitsky. He was turned away from Ellis Island three times & when he tried again, this time when they asked his name he gave a name he'd seen on the side of a train car when he worked on the Trans-Siberian railroad: Alan Williamson, Liverpool.
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