OR-Portland Mayor Wheeler gets run off of his downtown apartment by mob

[Anti Federalist]

Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler Looking to Move After Protesters Target His Condo Building

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2...ondo-building/

Hannah Bleau 2 Sep 2020

Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler (D) is looking to move after protesters repeatedly targeted his condo building, he told fellow residents on Tuesday.

“I want to express my sincere apologies for the damage to our home and the fear that you are experiencing due to my position,” Wheeler said in an email to residents of the building, according to Oregon Live. “It’s unfair to all of you who have no role in politics or in my administration.”

He reportedly told his neighbors it would be “best for me and for everyone else’s safety and peace” if he looked for another place to reside. According to journalist Andy Ngo, Wheeler has other properties outside of Portland:

Portland mayor @TedWheeler, who has an Oregon beachfront home, a $1.3m home on the west hills & another property in the San Juan Islands, announces he is looking to move from his NW Portland condo after antifa keep attacking it. #PortlandRiots https://t.co/2JdQuvKB2Z

— Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) September 2, 2020

Oregon Live added Wheeler invited residents to a meeting this week “that will include himself and officers to voice their concerns.”

Wheeler’s message follows weeks of protests in Portland, some of which have trickled to his residence. On Monday, over 200 demonstrators marched to the building and set fires in the streets. At one point, protesters tossed fiery newspapers into the building:

Earlier tonight: Antifa set fires in the building where Mayor Ted Wheeler supposedly lives, prompting police to declare a riot and disburse the crowd to allow firefighters at the scene. pic.twitter.com/OfASXps04p

— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) September 1, 2020

Antifa rioters set off fireworks at @TedWheeler’s NW Portland condo. They’ve also started a large fire on the street. #PortlandRiots pic.twitter.com/A3KnDvCBCv

— Andy Ngô (@MrAndyNgo) September 1, 2020

Some in the crowd broke windows and someone appears to have lit off a firework in the building. Some protesters are upset about this, saying it endangers the people in the building and minority-owned businesses in the complex. Police are now coming pic.twitter.com/zU6c8vuGrw

— Mike Baker (@ByMikeBaker) September 1, 2020

Wheeler, who once joined the protesters over the summer, smeared a police following the violent night of unrest.

A police officer was filmed repeatedly striking an individual at a protest. Even the building where I live, along with dozens of other families, was violently attacked. These acts range from stupid, to dangerous, to criminal. The violence must stop.

— Mayor Ted Wheeler @TedWheeler) September 2, 2020

As Breitbart News reported, “the ‘protest’ was a violent riot, and the officer struck the rioter because he resisted arrest and fought the officer, removing his helmet.”

The Portland mayor has continued in his relentless attacks of President Trump while defending rioters in his city.

“We don’t need your politics of division and demagoguery,” he wrote in an August 28 letter addressed to the president:

Today, I sent this letter via email to @realDonaldTrump declining his recurring offer to aid Portland by sending federal enforcement to the city. https://t.co/W85EDfriyk pic.twitter.com/CC1IWTp5k8

— Mayor Ted Wheeler @TedWheeler) August 28, 2020

Acting Secretary of Homeland Security Chad Wolf responded to the missive, informing the mayor his “inaction” has “fostered an environment that has fueled senseless violence and destruction night after night.”

“For more than three months, Portland has become the epicenter of crime and chaos, with rioters attacking government buildings with the intention of burning them to the ground,” he said.

“As of today, since July 31, 2020, there have been 255 arrests made by local law enforcement and 23 riots and unlawful assemblies declared,” Wolf continued. “Despite this, you have stood by passively, arguing that the nightly violence ‘will ultimately burn itself out.’ The evidence demonstrates otherwise.”

[Working Poor]

I feel really confused reading that.

[sam1952]

He reportedly told his neighbors it would be “best for me and for everyone else’s safety and peace” if he looked for another place to reside. According to journalist Andy Ngo, Wheeler has other properties outside of Portland:

Portland mayor @TedWheeler, who has an Oregon beachfront home, a $1.3m home on the west hills & another property in the San Juan Islands, announces he is looking to move from his NW Portland condo after antifa keep attacking it. #PortlandRiots https://t.co/2JdQuvKB2Z

I can’t speak for Portland but in my small community the Mayor is required to reside within the city limits...

[Slave Mentality]

Good. Keep eating each other.

[jkr]

MY BLOCK!

HAHAHAHAHAHAH

[nobody's_hero]

Good for him that he has another home. Property values have probably plummeted in Portland since the start of all this silliness. People still living there will be lucky to get a fraction of their home's 2019 value if they plan to relocate.

Although if they'd been paying attention they'd have gotten out long ago, but still, people are essentially trapped there now unless they're just going to accidentally drop a lit cigarette in the house and file it under insurance.

[69360]

If they are doing this to a democrat, just imagine what they would do to a politician not on their side.

[shakey1]

He reportedly told his neighbors it would be “best for me and for everyone else’s safety and peace” if he looked for another place to reside. According to journalist Andy Ngo, Wheeler has other properties outside of Portland:

Portland mayor @TedWheeler, who has an Oregon beachfront home, a $1.3m home on the west hills & another property in the San Juan Islands, announces he is looking to move from his NW Portland condo after antifa keep attacking it. #PortlandRiots https://t.co/2JdQuvKB2Z

I can’t speak for Portland but in my small community the Mayor is required to reside within the city limits...

[dannno]

I feel really confused reading that.

2:20

[Anti Globalist]

This story would be much better if he was run off by people that believed in freedom and liberty.

[Working Poor]

This story would be much better if he was run off by people that believed in freedom and liberty.

I know that is what makes it so f'ed up. I try to correct people's thinking about anarchy a lot. I share inks to the show on youtube called "Anarcast" they have some great interviews with Ron Paul, Larken Rose, and lots of others. I send people to these links so that people can understand what real anarchy is. The narrative has been set that anarchy is violent and disorganized. I cringed the other day when I heard Rand call the rioters anarchist. To me anarchy is about freedom. I really hate that anarchy is used to describe this crap that is gong on. A real anarchist has morals and understands basic decency towards others and their property. Some one without this cannot possibly be a real anarchist. There can be no freedom without morals and knowledge of common decency

[cjm]

I know that is what makes it so f'ed up. I try to correct people's thinking about anarchy a lot. I share inks to the show on youtube called "Anarcast" they have some great interviews with Ron Paul, Larken Rose, and lots of others. I send people to these links so that people can understand what real anarchy is. The narrative has been set that anarchy is violent and disorganized. I cringed the other day when I heard Rand call the rioters anarchist. To me anarchy is about freedom. I really hate that anarchy is used to describe this crap that is gong on. A real anarchist has morals and understands basic decency towards others and their property. Some one without this cannot possibly be a real anarchist. There can be no freedom without morals and knowledge of common decency

I think the battle is lost on that one. Liberal used to mean what libertarian means today. We've got "classical liberal" instead so maybe "classical anarchist"? Probably not. I've dropped the "an" from "ancap" and just refer to myself as a capitalist these days. Bonus, the commies hate that term so much they won't try to appropriate it. They'll try to redefine it to mean racist, etc, but no danger of them taking it.

[asurfaholic]

I know that is what makes it so f'ed up. I try to correct people's thinking about anarchy a lot. I share inks to the show on youtube called "Anarcast" they have some great interviews with Ron Paul, Larken Rose, and lots of others. I send people to these links so that people can understand what real anarchy is. The narrative has been set that anarchy is violent and disorganized. I cringed the other day when I heard Rand call the rioters anarchist. To me anarchy is about freedom. I really hate that anarchy is used to describe this crap that is gong on. A real anarchist has morals and understands basic decency towards others and their property. Some one without this cannot possibly be a real anarchist. There can be no freedom without morals and knowledge of common decency

I’ve never agreed with the idea that anarchy = freedom and peace. Human nature dictates that in the absence of some type of order by way of judges and leaders, mobs will form and mob justice is no justice.

Just take message boards / forums for example. Many of these boards are made up of mostly like minded people with varying degrees of moderation. You can go to thehulltruth and dis BLM all day and never hear a word of argument, then go to Carolina huddle and most of the members are lefties and say one bad word about BLM and get banned for promoting racism.

The Bible makes it clear that people are meant to have leaders and judges on the earth and we are to respect that leadership. The whole movement to remove government will only result in clashing of differing ideologies and as the government steps back and lets it happen you see the destruction that occurs.

I think that the idea of limited government as taught by Ron Paul is the one that protects liberty far greater than any form of anarchy could.

[Occam's Banana]

I think the battle is lost on that one. Liberal used to mean what libertarian means today. We've got "classical liberal" instead so maybe "classical anarchist"? Probably not.

You're right - probably not. A "classical" anarchist, going back to the early days of modern anarchist movements, would just be a leftist advocate of stateless socialism of some sort. So there's not much to distinguish "classical" anarchism from most of the varieties of anarchism extant today.

A much better term than "anarchism" (regardless of prefixes) - and one with some pedigree behind it - is "voluntaryism" (which, by definition, and unlike anarchism, implies the principles of self-ownership and non-aggression).

I've dropped the "an" from "ancap" and just refer to myself as a capitalist these days. Bonus, the commies hate that term so much they won't try to appropriate it. They'll try to redefine it to mean racist, etc, but no danger of them taking it.

I don't refer to myself as a capitalist anymore. In fact, I try to avoid using the word altogether. Like the word "anarchy," "capitalism" just means too many different things to too many different people, most of whom - regardless of whether they regard themselves as pro-"capitalist" or anti-"capitalist" - seem to immediately jump to unwarranted conclusions about what I'm talking about if I make reference to "capitalism." As I am a descriptivist and not a prescriptivist when it comes to linguistic matters, I simply punt on the whole issue; I avoid using the term "capitalism" or its variants whenever I can, in order to avoid such assumptions.

Of course, that leaves the question of what to call myself. At this point, I've adopted the label "free-market igarchist" - and while this avoids many prejudicial assumptions, it suffers from the drawback that nobody but me knows what the hell it means ... (and I'm not even sure that I do ...)

I’ve never agreed with the idea that anarchy = freedom and peace. Human nature dictates that in the absence of some type of order by way of judges and leaders, mobs will form and mob justice is no justice.

Anarchy doesn't imply the necessary absence of order and leaders. It implies the absence of a monopoly over ordering and leadership (i.e., the State). There are a variety of "schools" of anarchism, and some of these schools do indeed reject order and leaders (and hierarchies and the like). But not all of them.

You might still disagree with the ones that don't reject those things (such as anarcho-capitalism), and that's fine. I'm not trying to start (yet another) argument over whether anarchism is "right" or not. I just wanted to point out the misconception that all anarchists are opposed to things like order, leaders, etc.

[Anti Federalist]

I think the battle is lost on that one. Liberal used to mean what libertarian means today. We've got "classical liberal" instead so maybe "classical anarchist"? Probably not. I've dropped the "an" from "ancap" and just refer to myself as a capitalist these days. Bonus, the commies hate that term so much they won't try to appropriate it. They'll try to redefine it to mean racist, etc, but no danger of them taking it.

I try to do the same thing, and re-direct the definition from "anarchy" to "havoc" or "chaos".

[eleganz]

If you're to the left of Tom Woods, raise your hands. Don't be shy.

[shakey1]

Pointless thuggery.

[sam1952]

I watched the video... just some peaceful protesters... just go back to your dinner...