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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPortland, Oregon protestors..........last night.........
@SpencerHakimian
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Portland tonight:
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Winter
@WinterPolitics1
The Oregon national guard general says if the Oregon National guard were to be deployed they would be instructed under his leadership to protect the protesters not ICE.

Link to tweet
Link to tweet

Lovie777
(20,697 posts)
Biophilic
(6,153 posts)That was a pretty gutsy thing to say in this day and age.
riversedge
(78,358 posts)Steven Maurer
(509 posts)State National Guards report to the Governor of each State they're guard of, and while State units can be commanded by the President in certain emergencies, the adjutant general (i.e. leader of each State national guard) always serves at the pleasure of the State's Governor - not the President or the Secretary of Defense.
Fiendish Thingy
(20,988 posts)Dont invade Portland when the Spirit Halloween stores are open.
Liberal In Texas
(15,703 posts)He'll declare a civil war and invoke Martial Law. Making himself an entrenched dictator.
KS Toronado
(21,537 posts)but after their disastrous meeting last week with all the Generals, declaring Martial Law
just became more difficult for him IMHO.
Jacson6
(1,582 posts)Oh the humanity.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(129,729 posts)IronLionZion
(50,082 posts)so how long until that general is fired? He might be asking for it with statements like that.
AllaN01Bear
(27,610 posts)im doing a lot od urec ing lately
travelingthrulife
(3,491 posts)AverageOldGuy
(3,052 posts)For a new Oregon NG General coming up.
That man has the integrity, the professionalism, and the steel balls required of and representative of general officers.
ThreeNoSeep
(237 posts)Here is a more extensive article.
https://wholecommunity.news/2025/10/03/national-guard-our-200-professional-citizen-soldiers-are-oregonians-not-federal-agents/
Loved the video of those "insurrectionists" dancing in their silly costumes.
Clouds Passing
(6,124 posts)
kimbutgar
(26,236 posts)Media to make the ridiculous statements of violent protesters.
I myself have been advocating for dance offs with protest music against the ice gestopos.
SomewhereInTheMiddle
(574 posts)MAGA can't take being the butt of a joke. It's why they hate the TV comedians.
And it will make onlookers all the more horrified when MAGA responds with violence.
kimbutgar
(26,236 posts)Scrivener7
(57,429 posts)(I love those dancing fools. )
calimary
(88,074 posts)Looked like fun out there! And the point was made anyway.
Were here to open your mind. NOT trash your city.
iemanja
(56,930 posts)They can really dance.
Amaryllis
(10,742 posts)ProudMNDemocrat
(20,322 posts)
Generals Dwight D.Eisenhower, Omar Bradley, and George S, Patton in 1945.
Looks ANTIFA to me.
Justice matters.
(8,994 posts)some eight decades ago.
Good on him to remember that...
Sogo
(6,696 posts)The war zone that is Portland!!
Cha
(314,980 posts)iemanja
(56,930 posts)Props to Portlanders. We could all learn from them.
Skittles
(168,058 posts)Chicago needs to step up their game!
2naSalit
(98,076 posts)I wonder what this is all about but I can't see xitter posts.