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Really? Is the human rights situation in Portland that dire?
Has Portland been ruled for 27 years--under the old Soviet economic system--by an autocrat who views Portland as his personal fiefdom and imprisons (or murders) his rivals? https://twitter.com/seeparis6/status/1292585323579486208
Has Portland been ruled for 27 years--under the old Soviet economic system--by an autocrat who views Portland as his personal fiefdom and imprisons (or murders) his rivals? https://twitter.com/seeparis6/status/1292585323579486208
Is there no free press in Portland?
Has Portland never had a free or fair election?
Are the results of Portland's elections blatantly, brazenly rigged?
Were all the opposition candidate's staff arrested before Portland's last election?
Has Portland never had a free or fair election?
Are the results of Portland's elections blatantly, brazenly rigged?
Were all the opposition candidate's staff arrested before Portland's last election?
Has Ted Wheeler's opponent been forced to flee the country?
In Portland, is it illegal to work as a journalist unless you're accredited? Is it nearly impossible to become accredited? Is accreditation routinely denied to journalists working for foreign media?
In Portland, is it illegal to work as a journalist unless you're accredited? Is it nearly impossible to become accredited? Is accreditation routinely denied to journalists working for foreign media?
What about the Internet--is that like Belarus, with only five permitted media websites? Can journalists observe and report on things like city council meetings?
In Portland, are people charged with the crime of “illegal production and distribution of mass media products?” How many were charged last year?
How often do Portland authorities search the offices of journalists, without warrants, and seize their computers?
How often do Portland authorities search the offices of journalists, without warrants, and seize their computers?
If you post a video to YouTube of police abuses in Portland, will you be charged and convicted of criminal slander and libel?
Must media outlets in Portland keep records of everyone who comments on their sites and hand their names to the authorities?
Must media outlets in Portland keep records of everyone who comments on their sites and hand their names to the authorities?
If you've managed to get a permit to have a website, would you face criminal penalties if someone else left a comment criticizing Ted Wheeler on it? Or anyone else who's more powerful than you?
Does the government block websites that call for "unauthorized protests?” (How does Portland keep organizing protests?)
Do people in Portland face fines or criminal penalties for joining "unregistered organizations?"
Do people in Portland face fines or criminal penalties for joining "unregistered organizations?"
In Belarus last year, there were 90 requests to hold protests, in Brest, against the construction of a battery plant construction.
Only one was permitted.
Is it that way in Portland, too?
Does Portland sentence hundreds of children to lengthy prison sentences?
Only one was permitted.
Is it that way in Portland, too?
Does Portland sentence hundreds of children to lengthy prison sentences?
Can you run for office if the Portland regime thinks you're disloyal, or will you be disqualified on ridiculous technical grounds?
I understand there are some "anarchists" and "hooligans" in Portland, just like Belarus.
I understand there are some "anarchists" and "hooligans" in Portland, just like Belarus.
But how many of Portland's were in pre-trial detention for as long as Dzmitry Paliyenka? Are their families barred from witnessing their trials, too? https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2019/10/belarus-politically-motivated-trial-against-former-prisoner-of-conscience-starts-behind-closed-doors/
Is "insulting a representative of the authorities" a criminal offense in Portland? (I know "desecration of buildings and property damage" is a criminal offense--just like Belarus. Are multi-year sentences common for people who commit graffiti?)
And the torture situation in Portland: Is it like Belarus? Are protesters being arrested by the thousands, stripped naked, beaten, and threatened with rape?
Can you hear the screams of torture victims from outside the detention center, like this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=6&v=lWrH7MPvzAk&feature=emb_logo
Can you hear the screams of torture victims from outside the detention center, like this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=6&v=lWrH7MPvzAk&feature=emb_logo
I haven't seen videos like that coming from Portland, but maybe because the Internet's been shut down, like Belarus?
Still, Belarusians are managing to get the evidence out. At immense risk to themselves.
Do Portland's protesters look like this, too?
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=3034925779966466&set=a.153517524773987&type=3&theater
Still, Belarusians are managing to get the evidence out. At immense risk to themselves.
Do Portland's protesters look like this, too?
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=3034925779966466&set=a.153517524773987&type=3&theater
Does Portland execute convicted criminals by shooting them in the head? What about their families--is that like Belarus? Are families not told of the execution date or the burial place?
Do the police in Portland use live ammunition on protesters? Grenades?
Do they deliberately run over protesters and leave them lying lifeless on the ground?
Do they deliberately run over protesters and leave them lying lifeless on the ground?
Before elections in Portland, do they empty the prisons of petty criminals to make room for everyone they plan to arrest after Ted Wheeler is fraudulently declared the victor?
Has Portland, too, turned its detention centers into torture chambers?
Are protesters stripped naked and forced to lie in the dirt while police kick and beat them with truncheons?
Are protesters stripped naked and forced to lie in the dirt while police kick and beat them with truncheons?
Are the detention facilities filled with naked, bound prisoners, who are forced onto all fours, or piled on top of each other in a pool of blood and shit, as officers kick them and beat them unconscious?
Does Ted Wheeler force 20 or 30 people into a 4-person cell, during a pandemic, refusing them food, water, access to toilets--or medical help?
Do the cops in Portland routinely threaten to rape the women they detain?
Do the cops in Portland routinely threaten to rape the women they detain?
Do the police in Portland say things like, “We have all your data. If we see you here again, we’ll kill you?”
Do they confiscate protesters' passports and apartment keys?
Do they do this to protesters in Portland?
Do they confiscate protesters' passports and apartment keys?
Do they do this to protesters in Portland?
What about false confessions--is Portland like Belarus that way, too? Do they make people sign them?
Do they torture children in front of their parents, or parents in front of their children?
Do they torture children in front of their parents, or parents in front of their children?
One part does look familiar to me: The sight of police firing tear gas into crowds of protesters. And Portland and Belarus have this in common: There are cops in both places with unclear insignia. https://meduza.io/en/feature/2020/08/15/like-hell-on-earth
Which is disgraceful.
Which is disgraceful.
But how many of the detainees in Portland are still missing and unaccounted for? Hundreds? Thousands?
In Belarus, 6,700 people disappeared within days.
In Belarus, 6,700 people disappeared within days.
Don't get me wrong: From what I can tell, protesters' civil rights have been violated in Portland. The Feds had no business there, and the business of snatching people off the streets in unmarked cars is outrageous.
But Belarus looks familiar? To people in Portland?
But Belarus looks familiar? To people in Portland?
