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SALEM Oregon: Once again Oregon is being assailed by propaganda regarding Governor Kate Brow's favorite boogeymen. The American Patriot. While it is true that we did stand with LaVoy Finicum and Ammon and Ryan Bundy in protest for the plight of the persecuted Hammond family, it was not any militia or any protester who fired an offensive shot. Not one of us killed, or injured anyone. But it was the joint task force of the FBI and Oregon State Police who executed LaVoy Finicum with his hands above his head before being struck multiple times and reaching for his wound. While on the way to go and meet with a sworn peace officer and Grant County Sheriff Glen Palmer and his constituents, to hear what abuses have been ongoing in Harney County adjacent to Grant. LaVoy was killed prior to any conviction and in fact, the case decided by a jury determined that the defendants were all NOT GUILTY of the charges the stop was based upon in premice. Now Kate Brown seeks to use a provision in the State Constitution to send Oregon State Police out to round up the GOP Senators who refuse to make the required quorum to allow the vote to proceed. So there is a law Brown is standing on? Not so fast. The effects of this Bill are certain as they are defined. The result of this passage will, as a result, enrich many who are NOT the people of Oregon while robbing others of their property and their businesses if they seek to choose to follow the letter of their laws so strictly to allow subversion then they must also recognize that the primary purpose of the establishment of =a state government is to protect and preserve natural rights, as well as property rights. Creating a law of which the effect would provably harm these rights violates the primary purpose of government in and of itself. If they passed a law that stated that it was legal to rob a timber company for instance... it would not be able to pass "constitutional muster". And as we all know any law passed by any state or federal legislators that does not comport with the Constitution is null and void - Marbury v. Madison
It is about time that some politicians grew a set and took a stand against oligarchs and communists in Oregon government. It can also be argued that these Socialist policies are the direct result of ideological subversion and as such a designed attack upon the middle class of America and to send the poorest into despair to prime them for mobilization by community organizers to continue with their Communitarian Communist revolution of transformative change. To attempt to use the state Constitution to accomplish this is perverse.
Oregon loggers and small business folks protest the Cap and Trade Bill that will all but certainly destroy what is left of their prosperity.
Now lets fast forward to today. Oregon lawmakers are now essentially at a complete impasse over legislation that would be devastating to rural Oregon communities. "Cap and Trade". A taxation based political solution that not only would see a 40 cent raise per gallon in fuel cost per gallon but also a rise of natural gas by 50%.
After essentially shutting down the majority of its thriving timber industry and after much struggle to attempt to replace it with tourism, etc, this bill would essentially kill the only partial solution that brought with it a shred of economic prosperity. Manufacturing jobs and businesses would be dealt a death blow. In Portland, there would be little effect as compared to the rural areas. The Federal government has made a mess of things in the western states but this isn't the feds this time. It is the result of an authoritarian fascistic neo-Marxist Kate Brown.
In order to prevent this disastrous legislation, the Republicans did the only thing they could do to save their communities and the constituents who elected them - they walked out preventing a quorum. What happened next? The governor ordered the Oregon State Police to go and get em'. I'm dead serious. Armed men to detain and kidnap state legislators over what at beat is a civil issue, not a criminal one.
And what not many people are saying is the hypocrisy is so thick with this that people have forgotten that Democrats have used the same tactic and no Stasi was ever sent to kidnap them. So what happened next was a natural reaction. Patriots from all over Oregon as well as outside offered.... "offered mind you" to protect these lawmakers from being kidnapped by anyone using the color of law or not. Their offer was politely refused as hopefully not reaching that level as of yet... so, some of these Patriotically minded folks decided to stage a protest on Saturday. The lefties came UNGLUED!
First of all the militia only offered to protect the legislators. You know, the so-called "anti-government domestic terrorists like myself they allege who sought to protect whom they considered being rational lawmakers (at least in this situation) from having their rights violated and force used upon them for taking a hard stand. America was founded on hard stands. Some of the Oregon Republicans also felt "rather passionate" about having his rights violated via the State Police. Good for him. I just would like to go on record by saying... we warned everyone that it would be LaVoy today and the rest of you group by group, one by one tomorrow. I don't like being correct about that.
These snowflakes as you listen to them sound off as if a foreign nation were coming to assail the capitol and take it out. And thus Kate Brown's boogeymen were resurrected for the purposes of attempting to muddy the water over the real issue which is that these liberal big government -anti-Constitution Neo Marxist pondscum are destroying especially rural Oregon. The cities are all but lost. The protesters of the ANTIFA variety can chase old men down assaulting them for being part of the white patriarchy and the police stand by and do nothing. But some lawmakers try and peacefully protest the economic destruction of their towns and the Stasi OSP are called out. And then the smear of militia and domestic terror is mentioned over and over again.
Government Isn’t Just For Tyrants Anymore
via and special thanks to Redoubt News:
As I write this article I am proud to report that the tyranny in Oregon is on hold. For the second time this session, the Republicans in the Senate have walked out of the capitol in Salem away from the insane agenda of the far-left radical majority and their kremlin, Crazy Kate Brown.
After being disrespected, ignored, and just plain dismissed; the Senate Republicans listened to their conscience and their constituents and fled the State of Oregon to deny the nut jobs a quorum. The out of control left have been passing their ideology based illegal laws at the speed of sound, with no virtue or morals to slow them down.
The only reason we have government is to protect our property, which includes our RIGHTS. What we have gotten this session is plunder upon plunder. Oregon now has rent control, which will only increase homelessness and dependency on government while it turns our state into a ghetto.
On another record year for revenue, we got a business-killing hidden sales tax in a state that is already among the highest-taxed per capita. They tried to pass the worst gun laws in the US as well as mandatory vaccines, but that was killed to get the Senate Republicans back to the table the last time they walked out.
Laws are waiting to disenfranchise voters to make it almost impossible for us to refer them. To destroy what’s left of our state; cap and trade was being forced through against the will of the people, to make the globalists happy. It doesn’t matter to the radicals that cap and trade would probably end logging and many other jobs as well as raise our electric and gas bills some 40%.
The crazy bills in Salem are too numerous and insane to mention here, and almost all of them have an emergency clause to further obstruct the voters.
I want to personally thank our Senate Republicans for doing the right thing and protecting the people. Under the threat of arrest and huge fines, you have shown virtue. There are many of us who admire your courage and stand with you 100%. At a time when so many of us were wondering what has happened to statesmanship; you have shown us that the government isn’t just for tyrants anymore.
God bless and keep you all safe. Thank you, and may other states follow your lead. Long live our Republic.
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It is a very sad day for Patriots everywhere. a friend and brother to many in the fight for freedom, Leo Stratton has passed on to the Lord Jesus Christ. A contributor to The Red Elephants, a freedom activist and someone who stood the line against the morons of Antifa, Leo was a proud American and he will be sorely missed.
Portland based videographer and MAGA supporter Leo Stratton died in a truck wreck early Wednesday morning at the age of 50. Well known for his YouTube channel under his own name, Stratton was a proud Trump supporter in the middle of a communist stronghold. Over the past handful of years, he chronicled the far left wackjobbery by filming the anti Trump protesters and writing for the website Red Elephants. He also spent considerable time covering the Bundy/Hammond/Finicum protests and rallies. His videos and stories have been featured on several websites, including here on the Gateway Pundit. Here’s one of his more popular videos that went viral:
Stratton and his wife, Shelley, won a trip to see Trump’s inauguration in January of 2017. They recently celebrated their 20th wedding anniversary. A Go Fund Me page has been set up by one of the local Patriot Prayer/Proud Boy members to help pay for the funeral and other costs. The post Conservative Activist & Videographer Leo Stratton: 1968-2018 appeared first on The Gateway Pundit.
WASCO COUNTY, OR (KPTV) - A semi driver died as a result of injuries sustained in a fiery crash on Interstate 84, according to Oregon State Police.
The crash happened on I-84 near milepost 74 at around 1:50 a.m.
OSP said an investigation revealed a commercial truck was eastbound in the slow lane when it drifted off the roadway, hit a rock embankment and caught fire.
The driver died as a result of injuries, according to OSP. The driver was identified by police as 50-year-old Leo Stratton of Portland.
The eastbound lane of I-84 will be closed during the crash investigation and removal of the truck.
OSP was assisted at the scene by the Wasco County Sheriff's Office, Mosier Fire Department, Mid-Columbia Fire and Rescue, and the Oregon Department of Transportation.
Folks, we always knew things were getting bad. Everyone who is so proud of their country also better be proud enough to accept Corporate Fascism and the spying on us through venues we never really look for or know. Utility and communications companies. Private corporations that do not wear the insignia nor identity of the government. Would your local Sheriff employ such tactics to spy on all of us. Some say that the so called occupies should have been spied on. The problem is not what you believe with or about that. The problem is "by whom and under what authority". I hope everyone is all warm and fuzzy over the TPP. Because this is a little look inside as to "everyone might just get what we tried to stop" kind of time. Here is where we can see that our failure to stop this coming back to bite us in the butt. Anyone comfortable with what LaVoy uncovered, needs a special apartment in North Korea. I do not care how far technology has advanced, nor the excuses given to justify and warrant it. And armed American public can protect our Union, better than all of the "eyes in the sky" combined. We are the government. That is what I was raised to believe. Well, "we are not these corporations", so how are we then "the government", if we do not have any say with how we are spied upon?
Those behind this need to be tossed ! This is disgusting, and treason against the American people. Our framers would be sickened . There is not one person that with a straight face could tell me that they would have accepted any of this. And that is my test whenever I look at something related to government. "What would Patrick Henry say"?
If the answer to that question is......he would go get rope, we stand against it.
Read the revelation below and see what your government has been doing without your knowledge. Then tell me how proud you are of a Corporation !
Last night, a video came out showing the Malheur Occupiers carefully removing surveillance cameras that were installed on utility poles near an electric substation. There were two locations for cameras probably one pointed at the road and one pointed towards the substation. Those devices are components of the Smart Grid. The Smart Grid is a computerized control system that is being built over the top of our electric grid.
Notice on the box, it says SCADA. SCADA is the acronym for Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition device. SCADA systems are the interface devices between hardware and software systems.
But the Malheur Occupiers were not entirely correct in thinking this was a government installation. It was a utility company installation but that’s kind of a distinction without a difference because the government and utility companies have a “public-private partnership” for surveillance of the citizenry as well as the electric transmission grid. Public-private partnership is just a warm and fuzzy way to say Fascist. General Benito Mussolini is said to have described fascism this way:
“Fascism should rightly be called Corporatism as it is a merger of state and corporate power”.
There couldn’t be a more clear example of a merger of state and corporate power than the Smart Grid. Below is a graphic of the systems feeding into command and control central – a Fusion Center. You’ll notice on the right, the EOC includes the utility systems.
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Fusion Centers are collection and command and control centers. At the national level, the Total Information Awareness System (TIA) brought to you by DARPA (ARPA or whatever the hell they are calling themselves now) is the “System of Systems” that was designed to provide government access to the data in all of the systems in the above graphic. Collectively, the systems above are the dreams come true for the STASI, KGB, SAVAK, etc. Once these systems are all in place, you won’t be able to scratch your nose without it being recorded and the appropriate authorities notified.
Ironically, the technology for these systems was the result of the Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction Act of 1993. Since there was no longer a threat from the Soviet Union, the DOD contractors were re-purposed to develop technologies for peaceful use. The systems above and system below were some of the systems they came up with.
The “peaceful use” was to turn the American people into the enemy and our civilian landscape into the battlespace because you can’t retrain a wolf to be a sheep dog. Surveillance cameras everywhere are components of Total Domain Awareness which is the location component of Total Information Awareness.
The objective of the Smart Grid is to be able to control our electric infrastructure which includes the electricity usage in our homes using the Smart Meter control device. Our electric usage provides a data map of our daily activities within the walls of our homes and ultimately, it will allow the utility company to control the electric devices in our homes. The utility company of course, says they won’t do that, but they are liars as a retrospective analysis of my smart meter case will prove.
When Idaho Power first tried to install this surveillance and control device on my home, I did not give my permission. I filed a complaint with the Idaho Public Utilities Commission and went through the process for what ultimately became a meaningless exercise because Idaho Power simply brought a Deputy Sheriff to my home to intimidate me while they illegally installed the smart meter surveillance and control device over my objections. I pursued the complaint to the point of next step being a hearing in front of the Idaho Supreme Court but because I didn’t have a lawyer, I thought it best not to poison the well by allowing them to set a precedent based on my incompetence as a lawyer in a court of law.
Regulatory Structure
A significant amount of the research that I’ve done on the systems of the Technocratic Tyranny included the deregulation of our utilities and the establishment of a “self-regulatory” structure that is NOT American. I used the Brain software to map the organizational structure but unfortunately, I couldn’t afford to keep online access to it available so I’m using screen prints of the structure instead. I won’t go through all of it – just enough for you to see who is really controlling the electric transmission grid and smart grid.
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, or FERC, is an independent agency that regulates the interstate transmission of electricity, natural gas, and oil.
“The North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) is a not-for-profit international regulatory authority whose mission is to assure the reliability of the bulk power system in North America. NERC develops and enforces Reliability Standards; annually assesses seasonal and long‐term reliability; monitors the bulk power system through system awareness; and educates, trains, and certifies industry personnel. NERC’s area of responsibility spans the continental United States, Canada, and the northern portion of Baja California, Mexico. NERC is the electric reliability organization (ERO) for North America, subject to oversight by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and governmental authorities in Canada. NERC’s jurisdiction includes users, owners, and operators of the bulk power system, which serves more than 334 million people.”
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You’ll notice that the description above says that NERC is subject to the oversight of FERC. Baloney. That’s not how the dynamics of organizational control works. NERC develops and enforces regulations for the transmission grid and they are in control of the regional command and control centers for the transmission grid so NERC is the regulatory organization and FERC is subservient to NERC. And NERC is NOT an American organization and it is not a government organization so what’s been done here is that a key component of our critical infrastructure has been turned over to a private organization that is not even American. In my book, that’s treason.
One other thing – smart meters were designed to monitor inputs of electricity (renewable energy) to the electric grid as well as outputs (usage of electricity). Because of that, smart meters are a component of the electric transmission grid subject to the regulatory control of NERC despite the fact that electric service to residential consumers is part of the electric distribution system theoretically under state regulatory authority. When we start having brown-outs due to electricity “shortages”, it will be due to the regulatory authority of NERC – not FERC.
Bottom Line
To sum it up, what the Occupiers of Malheur did is a far greater service for the American people than they even knew. By the removal of those surveillance cameras, they provided the opportunity for me to explain at least partially why I don’t believe that we have an American government at the federal level anymore. Governing authority has been transferred to non-governmental, North American and/or United Nations Organizations. Our only hope of reclaiming the Republic with an American government for the American people is to begin by reclaiming local government at the county level where we still have a lawful, Constitutional structure from which to rebuild.
Thank You Occupiers! You are true American Patriots!
The media are focused on the “Bundy Militia” angle to the standoff in Burns Oregon, where Ammon Bundy and brothers have taken over a Malheur Wildlife Refuge Headquarters to draw attention to the plight of the Hammond family (Full Complex Back Story Here).
However, a little research (HatTip NeverTooLate) into the original legal battle reveals a rather startling update.
Aamon Bundy (left) – Hammond Family (right)
The initial, and regarded by many as overreaching, federal prosecution resulted in a federal court judge Michael Hogan assigning a 3-month sentence and 1-year sentence for Dwight Lincoln Hammond Jr (73) and his son, Steven Dwight Hammond (46) respectively.
Even federal Judge Hogan stated the prosecution under “terrorism statutes” itself was an overreach and he refused to assign ridiculously high sentences for behavior that almost every rancher has conducted for generations.
Those sentences were fulfilled by the father an son duo in 2013 with Steven Hammond exiting prison in January 2014. However, it was a decision by the U.S Attorney for the State of Oregon, Amanda Marshall, who called for an appeal to the original sentencing:
“Amanda Marshall: Former U.S. Attorney for Oregon. Marshall recommended that the federal government challenge the Hammonds’ original prison sentences. By law, the convictions come with mandatory five-year sentences, but U.S. District Judge Michael Hogan in 2012 balked at the punishment and instead sentenced Dwight Hammond to three months and Steven Hammond to one year.
Marshall called Hogan’s punishments “unlawful.” The solicitor general authorized a rare appeal of an Oregon judge’s order. The appeals court sided with the prosecution, and the Hammonds returned to federal court last year to face a second sentencing. At that hearing, U.S. Chief District Judge Ann Aiken ordered the pair to finish five-year terms.” (link)
So what would prompt U.S. Attorney for the Sate of Oregon Ms Amanda Marshall to file such a “rare” appeal? And, what motivation might lay behind her intentions?
A review of Amanda Marshall reveals some rather disturbing facts.
First, she was an Obama appointee. A very left-wing activist appointee who took office October 7th 2011. Marshall had no experience at all as a federal prosecutor before being given the job as a U.S. Attorney for Oregon.
Marshall was plucked from a child advocacy legal job inside the Oregon Department of Justice. [Pay attention to this little “child advocacy aspect” because it might play a larger role later on.] Before that, she served as a deputy district attorney in Coos County. Why? Apparently it was because the White House wanted a woman for the job.
She lived in a commune and her life-history, all the way back to a childhood with an activist mom, is a representative story of how a liberal moonbat is created:
[2012] Marshall’s a bit of an outsider — having no prior experience in the federal system — and they know little about her.
So it may surprise them to learn Marshall spent part of her childhood in a commune, watched a Super Bowl at Grace Slick’s house, hung out backstage at Grateful Dead concerts, sang and danced for years in a small-town community theater and — as a young prosecutor in Coos County — carried a 9 mm pistol to crime scenes because, as she recently noted, “That’s how we rolled in the Coos.”
Marshall, 42, would be the first to acknowledge — with all deference to the Grateful Dead — that hers has been a long, strange trip indeed.
The past two years alone, as she ascended from a little-known supervisor in the child advocacy section of the Oregon Department of Justice to a corner office in the venerable Mark O. Hatfield United States Courthouse, was a grinding, sometimes demoralizing affair with a dash of political controversy. (read more)
You really have to readthe whole story, including her sisters arrest on drug charges, her estranged family and how her own daughter views her as eccentric to get the full scope of the person who was in charge of a “Childs Advocacy Section” and then later became U.S. Attorney for the state of Oregon. You really have to read it all.
But wait, it gets better.
After winning the sentencing appeal – In May of 2015 activist Amanda Marshall stepped down from her job as U.S. Attorney for Oregon, citing “health concerns“.
A very strange sketchy exit to use the reasoning “Health Concerns” because she was under internal (Office of Inspector General ) investigation of her for “stalking” a co-worker U.S. Attorney Scott Kerin:
[2015] The prosecutor that U.S. Attorney for Oregon Amanda Marshallis accused of stalking was at the time under 24-hour-a-day armed protective guard because of a contract Mexican drug dealers placed on his life.
That news adds a bizarre turn in a situation that appears to have cost Marshall, the top federal prosecutor in Oregon, her job.
Sources familiar with the situation tell WW Marshall’s subordinate, Assistant U.S. Attorney Scott Kerin, filed a hostile workplace environment complaint against Marshall after receiving numerous unwanted text and email messages from her, and after she followed him outside working hours.
At the time, federal agents were protecting Kerin against a credible threat on his life. Such precautions are rare, according to people familiar with the U.S. attorney’s office. Kerin’s wife, Michelle, is also a federal prosecutor in the U.S. Attorney’s office. (read more)
You just can’t make this stuff up folks.
[Another Article] Marshall fell under an internal review in March 2015 by the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of the Inspector General for what has been described as erratic behavior involving a subordinate. Sources told The Oregonian/OregonLive that she had constantly texted and emailed Assistant U.S. Attorney Scott M. Kerin, at one point admonishing him for spending too much time with a woman who was not his wife. (link)
And another article highlighting the instability of Amanda Marshall:
[2015] The U.S. Justice Department is investigating a possible inappropriate relationship between Amanda Marshall, the U.S. Attorney in Oregon, and a subordinate in her office. Marshall announced Thursday that she was taking a leave of absence for health reasons.
Investigators from the Office of the Inspector General are looking into the relationship of Marshall and assistant U.S. Attorney Scott M. Kerin. Investigators were inside the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Portland for the last two weeks.
The exact nature of the relationship between Marshall and Kerin is unclear.
Multiple sources told The Oregonian/OregonLive that Kerin tried to break off that relationship. They said he grew concerned enough at Marshall’s reaction that he reported it to his Justice Department superiors.
Marshall was reportedly driving by his home and sending multiple texts, including several she sent telling him she knew what he was doing at the time.
[…] This is a crucial time in the U.S. Attorney’s office in Oregon, which investigates and prosecutes federal crimes. The office is leading a sweeping influence-peddling investigation of former Gov. John Kitzhaber and his companion, Cylvia Hayes.
Marshall was the surprise choice to replace interim U.S. Attorney Dwight Holton in 2010. She had no experience as a federal prosecutor. Rather, she was plucked from a child advocacy legal job inside the Oregon Department of Justice. Before that, she served as a deputy district attorney in Coos County. (read more)
Now here is where an actual boots-on-the-ground reporter is needed. You might remember from the full story of the Hammonds a part about a disturbed grandson/nephew Dusty Hammond being called to testify against them:
(o) Federal attorneys, Frank Papagni, hunted down a witness who was not mentally capable to be credible. Dusty Hammond (grandson and nephew) testified that Steven told him to start a fire. He was 13-years-old at the time, and 24-years-old when he testified (11 years later).
At 24 Dusty had been suffering with mental problems for many years. He had estranged his family including his mother. Judge Hogan noted that Dusty’s memories as a 13-year-old boy were not clear or credible.
However, Judge Hogan allowed the prosecution to continually use Dusty’s testimony. When speaking to the Hammonds about this testimony, they understood Dusty was manipulated and expressed nothing but love for their troubled grandson. (more)
Given the nature of Amanda Marshall’s prior job in Child’s Legal Advocacy, and given the facts of Dusty Hammond having prior issues and welfare, what are the odds that U.S. Attorney Marshall carried some additional intentions with her as she took office and made the decision to appeal the earlier-served sentences and push for more punishment?