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Burned hands teach best.

MisdemeanorRebellionNoCoupForYou says

Burned hands teach best.

"The dog returns to its vomit, the sow returns to her mire and the burnt fool's bandaged fingers go fumbling back to the fire." by Rudyard Kipling from The Gods of the Copybook Headings.

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A crowd of 100 people wreaked havoc in downtown Portland, Oregon, this week – smashing storefront windows, lighting dumpsters on fire and causing at least $500,000 in damage – but police officers didn't stop them.

Portland Police Bureau officials say that's because of legislation passed by Oregon lawmakers this year, which restricts the tools they can use to confront people vandalizing buildings and causing mayhem.

“The reason that we did not intervene goes back to what we talked about last month with House Bill 2928 and the restrictions placed on us in a crowd control environment,” KOIN reports that Portland Police Lt. Jake Jensen said in a neighborhood meeting Thursday.

Residents frustrated by the latest round of destructive demonstrations Tuesday questioned whether that meant anything goes now in Portland.

I’m A-ok with natural selection doing its thing.

FuckTheMainstreamMedia says

I’m A-ok with natural selection doing its thing.

It is more a cancer than natural selection. The Portland types get fed up with the city they ruined with lefty policies and metastasize their way to Red areas where they bring their failed politics.

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A crowd of 100 people wreaked havoc in downtown Portland, Oregon, this week – smashing storefront windows, lighting dumpsters on fire and causing at least $500,000 in damage – but police officers didn't stop them.

If a business owner were to say unload a shotgun at the mob through his newly broken storefront window, what are the protesters going to do? Call the police?