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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
(20,643 posts)
Biophilic
(6,139 posts)That was a pretty gutsy thing to say in this day and age.
riversedge
(78,296 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
(20,952 posts)Dont invade Portland when the Spirit Halloween stores are open.
Liberal In Texas
(15,697 posts)He'll declare a civil war and invoke Martial Law. Making himself an entrenched dictator.
KS Toronado
(21,509 posts)but after their disastrous meeting last week with all the Generals, declaring Martial Law
just became more difficult for him IMHO.
Jacson6
(1,576 posts)Oh the humanity.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(129,579 posts)IronLionZion
(50,068 posts)so how long until that general is fired? He might be asking for it with statements like that.
AllaN01Bear
(27,585 posts)im doing a lot od urec ing lately
travelingthrulife
(3,453 posts)AverageOldGuy
(3,043 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
(235 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
(6,102 posts)
kimbutgar
(26,222 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
(26,222 posts)Scrivener7
(57,401 posts)(I love those dancing fools. )
calimary
(88,039 posts)Looked like fun out there! And the point was made anyway.
Were here to open your mind. NOT trash your city.
iemanja
(56,924 posts)They can really dance.
Amaryllis
(10,737 posts)ProudMNDemocrat
(20,300 posts)
Generals Dwight D.Eisenhower, Omar Bradley, and George S, Patton in 1945.
Looks ANTIFA to me.
Justice matters.
(8,975 posts)some eight decades ago.
Good on him to remember that...
Sogo
(6,682 posts)The war zone that is Portland!!
Cha
(314,894 posts)iemanja
(56,924 posts)Props to Portlanders. We could all learn from them.
Skittles
(167,999 posts)Chicago needs to step up their game!
2naSalit
(98,035 posts)I wonder what this is all about but I can't see xitter posts.