INVASION AND CONDITIONS OF BOND

UPDATE: Kate Brown, the Governor of Oregon announced that the Federal Government is withdrawing armed forces from Portland on the condition Oregon State law enforcement protect federal property.  
It's beyond bizarre that in 2020 we are reporting something like this. All we can think of is a headline circa 1972-73: US to withdraw troops from South Vietnam on condition South Vietnamese oppose the North. 

Item: Protestors arrested in Portland who appear before federal magistrates for bond are being ordered, as a condition of release, not to attend any public protests:
“Defendant may not attend any other protests, rallies, assemblies or public gathering in the state of Oregon,” states one “Order Setting Conditions of Release”

So much for the sanctity and respect we have for our federal courts.  Like so much else these days, that is going out the door. 

The first shots of the Civil War began when members of the Army of the Confederate States fired upon Fort Sumter, South Carolina on April 12, 1861. Americans fired upon Americans. A tragedy had begun. In July 21, 1861 first battle of the Civil War took place at Manassas, Virginia. Southern General Thomas Jonathan Jackson received his nickname Stonewall as his troops routed a superior federal force. As Jackson moved his troops to stop a federal attack, one of his generals shouted "Look Boys, there's Jackson standing like a Stonewall!"

In September 1957, President Eisenhower federalized the Arkansas National Guard and sent 1000 members of the 101st Airborne Division into Little Rock to desegregate Central Highschool in the wake of the Brown v Board of Ed decision. (Eisenhower had a fondness for the airborne. They led the way into Normandy on D-Day, and stopped the Germans cold in the Battle of the Bulge and bailed Ike out. Little Rock as just an old solider calling on a friend for help one last time).

But never in our history have we seen the disgrace of armed federal officers, US Marshals and others, invading a City in the United States of America against the wishes of the Governor of Oregon, and the Mayor of Portland. Masked men sweep American citizens off the streets into unmarked vans. Federal Magistrates trample the Constitution and suspend the right of free assembly. 

The Invasion is called OPERATION LEGEND and US Attorney General William Barr (who is taking the "General" part of his title a little too seriously) announced on Wednesday he was sending more federal agents/troops to Milwaukee, Detroit, and Cleveland. Cleveland?!! The mistake on the lake? The city whose river used to regularly catch on fire in the 1970's? Oh leave Cleveland be please. They have enough problems and heartache with the Browns. 

Every time you think it cannot get worse it does. 
A US Navy Veteran was attacked and beaten after he showed up with protestors to speak with the federal Marshals. 




A man was attacked for playing the Star Wars Imperial March of the storm troopers as federal agents rushed a crowd of protestors. 



We can only think of this: