Police Look From The Sidelines As Right-wing And Left-wing Militants Clash In The Streets Of Portland
Portland Police have allowed far-Right and far-Left clashes to take place for prolonged periods of time, according to the Huffington Post:
The Portland Police Bureau appears to have all but given up on policing the far-right factions brawling in the Oregon city’s streets, despite a recent escalation in violence that has seen those extremists throw explosives, brandish guns and in one case fire them at other protesters.
One of them — notorious Proud Boys organizer Alan Swinney — was seen pointing a gun at protesters, his finger on the trigger. Another Proud Boy, Tusitala “Tiny” Toese, was present, per the Post, in apparent violation of his parole over an attack at a similar demonstration in 2017 (he wasn’t apprehended on Saturday, but a judge on Monday issued a warrant for his arrest).
The agenda of the Proud Boys, in this case, was to stir up enough trouble to cause fights, drain public resources. As another report from the Huff Post says:
The Proud Boys for years have helped organize street fights in Portland, Oregon ― gatherings thinly veiled as political freedom rallies in order to secure permits or police escorts from the city.
This week, that veil was lifted, as the group’s leader admitted the ugly and obvious truth: The events are staged with the intention of spurring fights, wasting city resources and winning a game of optics against their anti-fascist nemeses.
“We’ve wasted all their fucking resources to make this rally,” Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio said in video captured during the latest extremist rally held Saturday in Portland. “We want them to waste $2 million and we’ll do it again in two months.”
If the agenda of the Proud Boys is to cause chaos and drain city tax revenue, then why allow them to proceed with their agenda? I cannot prove this emphatically, but it may just be that what is happening here is a Strategy of Tension to only deepen and exasperate Left-Right divisions.
Its not that difficult to believe. The film, Innocence of Muslims, which helped to spark riots in Libya when Obama was president was found to be connected to the US government, as shoebat.com found in an investigation. Also we cannot forget the fact that the US sparked fighting between the pro-Shah and pro-Islamist factions in Iran in order to cause a revolution against the Mosseddegh government. When the Americans wanted Mohammad Mosaddegh toppled in the 1950s, he was overthrown in what is known as Operation Ajax. The head of the CIA at the time, Allen Dulles, approved $1 million to be used “in any way that would bring about the fall of Mosaddegh”. The Americans funded anti-Mossaddegh propaganda, and CIA operatives even pretended to be socialists and nationalists, threatening Muslim leaders with “savage punishment if they opposed Mossadegh,” making the Muslim masses think that Mosaddegh was an enemy of the Muslim people. Could the US be doing a strategy of tension in its own country? It would not be shocking at all.
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