{"id":21332,"date":"2010-11-29T08:40:34","date_gmt":"2010-11-29T12:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=21332"},"modified":"2010-11-29T08:40:34","modified_gmt":"2010-11-29T12:40:34","slug":"portland-got-reprieve-they-didnt-deserve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=21332","title":{"rendered":"Portland got reprieve they didn’t deserve"},"content":{"rendered":"

Byron York of the Washington Examiner<\/a> writes this morning that Portland, Oregon, the target of wannabe jihadist Mohamed Osman Mohamud this last week, rejected cooperation with the Bush Administration law enforcement and counter-terror entities;<\/p>\n

What is ironic is that the operation that found and stopped Mohamud is precisely the kind of law enforcement work that Portland’s leaders, working with the American Civil Liberties Union, rejected during the Bush years. In April 2005, the Portland city council voted 4 to 1 to withdraw Portland city police officers from participating in the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force. Mayor Tom Potter said the FBI refused to give him a top-secret security clearance so he could make sure the officers weren’t violating state anti-discrimination laws that bar law enforcement from targeting suspects on the basis of their religious or political beliefs.<\/p>\n

Other city leaders agreed. “Here in Portland, we are not willing to give up individual liberties in order to have a perception of safety,” said city commissioner Randy Leonard. “It’s important for cities to know how their police officers are being used.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So, despite the best efforts of the Portland city fathers, federal law enforcement stopped an attack on some 25,000 of it’s citizens who attended that Christmas Tree lighting, or, if the Feds hadn’t found Mohamud first, “an operation here, you know, like something like Mumbai….”<\/p>\n

York reports that the Portland City government is considering a change to the Bush-era legislation “– because Barack Obama is in the White House”. It seems to me that they consider a lot of things in light of last week’s arrest. Like which side they want to be on in the war against terror.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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