Nom de plume: Rivrdog

Definition of a Sacred Cow in Oregon

The cow has a name: The Oregon Innocence Project. It was the operative push to get the Marion County DA to pronounce the death of Trust in effective jurisprudence in Oregon. I just posted about this case here.

Here is a partial list of supporters of the OIP.

Dire warning: How Criminals go free

Andrew Selsky, an ancient progressive journalist, now writing for AssPress, pens a column about an old black man who got out of prison, never admitting his guilt.

My warning is about the reasoning involved in the decision, and how easy it will be now for Soros-bought Prosecutors to cite this concept, revealed in the money-quote:

"Prosecutors asked the Marion County Circuit Court to dismiss the case, saying the state no longer believes it can prove guilt based on how much time has passed since the murder of Harriet Thompson."

All those polital DAs have to do now is say the testimony available is too weak or indistinct, then they don't have to prosecute. Victims get no day in court.

The way Justice worked before now was on TRUST. The citizenry TRUSTED that the testimony offered in a case was the best available, and when sentence was pronounced after the guilty verdict, the TRUST remained and the perp remained in prison.

Not any more. The Marion County DA's remark signals the death of Trust, and it will never be retrieved in Oregon.

 

 

Blue-State Governors are Tyrants

This post deals with Oregon's Governor, Kate Brown, a democrat/socialist.

Copied from my Facebook post of just now.

Re: Oregon Constitution, Article X, Section 6:

Sorry, Oregonians, court precedent says when Government sets rules of "Sunshine", they must be followed or else all actions taken in the illegal sessions must be considered invalid.

The Governor's Emergency Declaration, which went into effect at midnight March 7th, expired 30 days later. Gauleiter Kate will, of course, claim that the Legislative Emergency Board action to approve an "Extension" gives her authority to continue her Nazi-style lockdown and suspension of personal liberty, but by the clear language of the Article and Section, it does NOT. How the HELL can secret phone "sessions" qualify as "Convening the Legislature", or, for THAT matter, how can a "meeting" of the E-Board qualify for this Constitutional mandate to actually HAVE a REAL SESSION? The Constitution means what it says. This Article & Section can ONLY be met by proper Notice to Speaker & Senate President, who then MUST make the duly-constituted Public announcement, then the Legislators arrive at the place to convene PHYSICALLY, then the Session is called to order. A proper extension of the Governor's Emergency Declaration also involves drafting a Bill for an Act, having it read in the appropriate Committee, voted out of that Committee to the Floor, debated, etc. There is PROCESS, and no amount of "danger" from the disease allows it to be circumvented. If you believe so, YOU may also properly be considered a Tyrant and usurper/destroyer of the Oregon Constitution.

Then there is the matter of the Primacy of the Federal over the State Constitution. The State Constitution clearly says when there is a conflict of Primacy, the Constitution guaranteeing the highest condition of Liberty takes precedence. See Article 1, Section 33.

Is #KillerKate going to argue that she has the power to suspend personal liberties when the Feds interpret THEIR Constitution to say those liberties MUST be preserved? When President Trump says, as he already had, that the States may resume commerce and life, liberty and etc, then Section 33 comes into effect.

If you believe the Governor, you: (1) Haven't READ the Constitutions, and/or (2) do not possess the reasoning power called Logic which is REQUIRED in order to make such interpretations.

That is all. You ARE free to pursue a normal life in Oregon now, and have been for over 21 days. If you decide, as I have, to continue your medical isolation, (I am properly considered "medically fragile") that is now and always was your choice. If you decide to END your medical isolation, THAT is also your choice.

Yes, YOU are FREE to make this choice, and the State is NOT FREE to restrict your right to do so.

BTW, true statistics show that the State's first claim that a "calamity" existed, a claim necessary for perfecting the Emergency Declaration (Article X, Sections (2) & (3), was NEVER TRUE. It just never even slightly approached that level that she claimed after Trump's "Epidemiologist" lied through HIS teeth, and constinues to at this hour. Proper investigation WILL show that high-level objections to "calamity" status were buried on orders of #KorruptKate, I will put $$$ on that...

BTW2: In Oregon, the civil Tort of False Imprisonment usually bring the falsely imprisoned compensation of about $3,000 per day. Multiply that by 4.2 million Oregonians and then by 21 days. My calculator gags on that number, but I believe it is $264.60 times ten to the tenth power. That's how much the State owes it citizens, and I'm going to bet that a class-action claim for this WILL be filed soon. The State's credit rating from Moody's dies on the filing date, and the State goes bankrupt shortly thereafter.

New point to ponder: If all the Blue States have to declare insolvency, how does President Trump deal with that? My guess? He fights their declarations of insolvency by accusing them all of conspiring via the Democratic Party to overthrow the US Government via #ScamDemic. If he can make THAT stick, then RICO the Democratic Party, and they accept blame, THEN he will allow bankruptcy, with conditions. The first condition: No more Democratic Party USA.

Wapato Jail, the end

Twenty-plus years ago, a $58 million bond was floated to built a new jail for Multnomah county, which I worked for as a Deputy Sheriff at the time. The big jail was built, on industrial land out on the North Peninsula of Portland, but it never opened. Instead, the anti-police (communist) County Government started restricting the Sheriff's number of jail beds.

The Wapato jail became a surplus property, and was eventually sold, and all 13 acres of industrial land it sat on, to the scrap-steel baron of Portland, Jordan Schnitzer, for only $5 million. During the political fooferaw over selling the perfectly-good facility, it was suggested that for a resonable sum, that Jail could be converted into a "homeless shelter". Of course it could! It has a huge kitchen to feed the Homeless Horde, rooms to give them classes in and many dormitories easily converted to sleeping areas. It had a sizeable Infirmary for medical treatment, too. The perfect Homeless shelter, so why wasn't it done?

Enter the emotions the liberloons are well-noted for. We began to hear passionate speeches about hurting the FEELINGS of the Homeless Horde, about how ISOLATED the facility was...

WAIT! Isolated, IS the key this facility wasn't re-pourposed. Read on, my liberty-loving friends...

Those fine folks of PDX don't understand the political motivation of Madam Deborah Kafoury, or they wouldn't be puzzled. Multnomah County Commission leader Kafoury is politically VERY far left. Too far left to be called a traditional liberal, even.

Madam Kafoury is a Socialist, and since she wields her power by fiat, not consent, that makes her a communist. Not a "big-C" communist, she's a snake and won't admit her actual leanings, but a communist nevertheless.

What class of people do communists HAVE to convert to their thinking if communism is to succeed?

Right, the proletariat, the middle class. How do you control the middle class if you are a communist? By taking things away from them: you take away their money by over-taxation, you take away their guns, their property rights, but above all, you must take away their SENSE OF SECURITY! Deborah Kafoury has been at the forefront of Multnomah County's efforts to remove all these middle-class values.

Have you figured out WHY there are so many "homeless" on the street? Over 80% of them have serious mental deficiencies, need STRUCTURE in their lives, but the commies refuse that service to these unfortunates. Why?

Because the Homeless Hordes are communist SOLDIERS, that's why. Their very disorderly existance among the orderly middle class creates that INSECURITY that Madam Kafoury needs to perfect her plan to put the liberty-minded middle class under her commie thumb. Have you ever asked yourself WHY the government tolerates the whacko disorder of the "homeless" in the first place? WHY that government, which has no problem projecting all manner of CONTROL onto the middle class, can't seem to project ANY control onto the "homeless"?

It's because these thousands of crazies infesting our otherwise quiet and stable neighborhoods in Portland are there for a REASON, and that reason is to constantly conflict with we, the residents of those neighborhoods. That constant conflict we are forced into destroys our sense of security, and that is exactly what Madam Kafoury wants. With our security destroyed, Madam Kafoury can then exert control over us to "give us back our security".

No, had Wapato been converted to a homeless shelter/treatment center, it would have taken in up to 2,000 of these crazies and started giving them a normal life, guiding them on their path to a middle-class existance. That's a sizeable fraction of the homeless horde in our area. That would be the very antithesis of what Madam Kafoury wants, so it won't be done, and instead, the junk-baron Jordan Schnitzer will soon have his warehouse to make money with.

You might wonder why that jail was built in the first place. That's a story for another day, but meanwhile, look up the "broken window theory". More on this later.

Big-Ls coming unglued...

Look, I am good friends with several Big-L peeps, but they do have a tendency to come unglued about the use and abuse of dope. I reach my personal limit of THAT fairly quickly. Short fuse, yes.

Here's a Facebook thrashing I just had to administer:

"My expound-atorium is open for business, and YOU, Libertarian readers, are about to get the "business"!

I've been taking heat on my page from Friends who claim to be Conservatives, but should more correctly refer to themselves as Libertarian. CONSERVATIVES do not accept as appropriate the use of mind-altering substances without regard to effects spread into the world outside the users' clothing (well, SOME of them keep their clothes on, some don't), but LIBERTARIANS have this logical flaw in their political philosophies. The next paragraph includes my swinging this "clue bat", and it WILL hurt if you get in the way of my swing, but here goes:

The Libertarian high-horse you sit on keeps your body almost two yards in the air. It's not fun to fall two yards to the ground, but you will. Read my comment below, and know this: There is NO dispute that cannabis is an intoxicating substance, and there is NO dispute that once THC from using it gets into the human body, it takes DAYS for it to be filtered out. Those are facts of science. The derivative and VERY provable reasoning which follows is that there are a LOT of cannabis users going about their daily lives in our society, WHILE STONED. They are driving, working at jobs, doing things that LEGALLY REQUIRE sobriety, and they are not sober, they are STONED. This puts ME and others at increased risk as I go legally about MY daily life. I certainly have a RIGHT to ask my Government to reduce that risk for me, and they have done so, putting laws on the books which have proper Constitutional foundation (so says SCOTUS, for now). If all cannabis users (and alcohol users) were masters of self-discipline, there wouldn't be a problem: if they got stoned, they would restrict their associations with society until they weren't stoned or high. We know this isn't the case, and in fact, the very use of mind-altering substances without regard to the welfare of others involved is a reliable indicator of a LACK of self-discipline, and THAT'S where the Libertarian argument falls off of the afore-mentioned High Horse.

(Here is the "comment below") it referred to the "Feds can't have jurisdiction over recreational drugs" canard I hear all the time:

10A says things not in the Constitution belong to the States, but Interstate Commerce definitely is in the Constitution, and so the Feds MAY regulate on interstate transfer of cannabis products AND the dollars involved (there is no such thing as money that does not move interstate within banks). NO banking can be done by the cannabis companies unless the Feds approve it. Other than that, if it's grown in Oregon, processed in Oregon, sold AND consumed in Oregon, the Feds don't control it, Killer Kate does. Wretched Reese does. What Sessions is trying to say here is that all of the cannabis-legal States have "overflow", and "leakage" of the product across State lines, and THAT is what the Feds are going after now. If Oregon does a good job of policing it's own cannabis market, the Feds won't do a thing, but you know Salem, they can't do ANYTHING right....

Okay then, there you have the LOGIC of an actual CONSERVATIVE. Refute it if you can, Libertarians. Oh, BTW, the next part of your faux-conservatism I will go after is your "Fortress America" thing, but I'll give you a hint so you can prepare to meet me in debate: two word hint: ISLAMIC JIHAD.

 

 

 

The Swamp won

Time to take off the gloves of politeness.

The only proper thing to do here from a Conflict Management point of view is to take out a major Swamp-rat. Part of me says that targeted rat should be Mitch the Bitch, but another part of me says take out a major rat who has fewer pawns protecting him, so I'd target John McCain.

Police profiling is not new, the Brits did it (Sir Robert Peel) some 180 years ago. My profiling training associates criminal propensity (likelihood of doing crimes) with demonstrated personality traits. In McCain's case, the man is personally a craven coward, but one with a huge ego. In my profiling experience, that makes him a VERY likely target for the #MeToo crowd, since these personality traits are common in sex-harassers. John McCain has only one protector of note, and that's his daughter Meghan. She is LGBTQEIEIO, so when her dad is attacked, she will interpose herself like the pawn she is. When she interposes, she will start spouting the usual LGBTQEIEIO drivel about haters, etc. If I was the OIC running this attack, I would be ready for that, and would have some Hanoi Hilton survivors ready to take HER on. Once that pawn is down, John the Rook is vulnerable, because John McCain is too stupid to even think about the protective moves of Castling (yes, Chess 101, despite my Dad being a Master, I never got much farther than Novice).

Given his fragile state of health, McCain is a soft target, but except for the Majority Leader, he is the best-known RINO. I think that when the heat is REALLY brought, McCain will retire. That gives AZ-GOP the opportunity to appoint a real Conservative.

If conservatives can take out McCain, there is a good possibility that McConnell will pass the baton.

Now, for Trump. POTUS has to realize by now that his GOP "Majority" was never worth the paper it was printed on. The chances of getting ANYTHING contentious through the Senate are remote. It is time for Trump to change modes. He was correct in trying to work with the system for his first year, but now it's time to get down and dirty. If he starts swinging a serious Hammer, he can make side-deals with the Asses in the Senate from his position of power.

The first swing of the hammer should target the Clintons. He needs a real "war-time Consigliere" now, so he might have to let Sessions go, since Sessions has more allegiance to the Swamp than to POTUS. Once he is definitely set on a path to indict the Clintons (both of them) for their obvious corruption, then the Donks will come to him and try to talk him out of it. I would strike a hard bargain if I were Trump: I would demand that ALL my nominations be fast-tracked to confirmation, and when that was all done, he could think about pardoning the Clintons. I might even raise the price of that deal some and demand all the confirmations PLUS the declared "resistance" is withdrawn.

Trump has good hole cards. He has the goods on Senator Fauxcahontas, on Senator Gillibrand and a couple others, all of whom have been mentioned as possible POTUS contenders in '20. He needs to use some of his clout now. Doing that will put the Left on notice that their gaining of one seat has meant nothing to them.

The game is BASEBALL, Mr. Trump, not slow-pitch mushball as you've been playing up to now.

In two days...

It's my birthday. 74 years. I'm officially a Mid-Seventies Geezer. I get my Life-Membership in the Curmudgeon Club. I can snort and sniffle at all the X,Y, Z generations and their "trending" apple-crapple (especially their Apple crap, not a fan). I'm just a bit too old to be a "Boomer", although I could probably fudge my way into that group, except I diss on THEM also. That generation was responsible for bringing us metal-thrash music. Aside from a few GREAT base players in that genre, you can put metal-thrash music where the sun don't shine. The Doors lit my fire. Aretha Franklin made musical love to me. Steely Dan lit my fire. All music since has been a Royal Scam.

I put up with a lot of different politicians in these 74 years. The first President I read of regularly in the paper was Ike, who had just WON a War for the USA. We don't even try to WIN wars nowadays, we just fight them to some point of supposed advantage, then we quit without vanquishing anyone. The next President I really RESPECTED after Ike was Ronnie Reagan. I was an ace B52 nuclear bombardier during his Admin. Stationed at March AFB for the first three years of Ronnie, his E-4 Airborne Command Post aircraft would fly in and take up so much space, and his Staff used up so many Alert Vehicles that we had to be restricted to the Molehole while he was at his rancho down on the coast, but I didn't mind that, he was a great Commander In Chief to work for. I got a tour on the big bird once. It was VERY secret then.

I had two full careers in these 74 years. My Sociable Seguridad statement from 2003, the year I last worked for a paycheck, said that I had 47 years of full-time SSA credits. I served in the USAF for 22, half on Active Duty and half in the Reserves. I had 25 years as a beat cop on the mean streets, but in the days I worked those streets, the police commanders were interested in RESULTS, not PeeCee attitude. I couldn't do that job today. Crooks are still crooks, and you don't keep your community safe from them by mollycoddling them and "understanding" them, you find Probable Cause that they committed crimes and you take them to JAIL. The police game isn't played that way anymore, and you won't last as a cop nowadays without subscribing to the Chief's (or Sheriff's) political correctness dogma. Summing these two up, the new Chief is a BLM supporter who removed 25+ years of a database which tracked the street thugs as her first policy in her new office. Sheriff Reese is a major gun-banner who has sucked up Bloomberg's bucks. End of discussion on THOSE two. Good effing luck, Portland!

I have a new full-time job now. I am the full-time caregiver for my sweet wife of forty years, who will meet her Jesus in the not-distant future. We have a big house, so trying to keep it clean and her in a civilized condition is a full-time job with overtime every day for me. It's my duty, my God gave me this Duty when I made my Marriage Vows on February 7, 1977.

I have always done my duty as given to me. I see no reason to change that habit now, Praise God.

S.O.S.D.D.*

Military acronym = Same Old Shit Different Day

Bullet format seems appropriate, heh.

• Don't call him a sniper. Peckerhead Pollock wasn't a sniper. Sniper means one shot, one kill. Pollock delivered area-denial fires to a crowd which didn't know they were being denied...
• Gun manufacturers: quit derping all your products for us. Were not stupid. We're not paying S1,400 for a pistol-grip shotgun because you sell apple-crapple to wanna-be "operators". I don't want a precision rifle with anything on it but a sling and good glass, maybe a bipod. I don't need a fancy handguard, I don't need to attach any other crap to my rifle, I am just looking for a rifle that shoots sub-MOA, because on a good day, I can shoot that well myself.
• Gun industry inventors: quit trying to be the one to outfox the NFA. Wanna dump the NFA? Good idea, work on getting the kitty together that's bigger than the Left can accumulate to keep it. Can't raise that much money? Then S.T.F.U.
• Leftards: You aren't going to carry off a National ban on AR-15s. Quit trying. Every time you Blood Dance, you lose some people from your flock. Are you ALL idiots?
• Hey, NFL commish Goodell: If we watch your League's play, we do it to see the best football players play the game. We DON'T watch to see the Thug Culture extolled. Enjoy the demise of your brand, Goodell: American Values will always come before football, no matter how well played your game is.
• To President Trump and Secretary of State Tillerson: If the Only Fat Punk in North Korea is actually talking to you, just cut to the chase and ask him how many boatloads of wheat he wants for the three Americans he has hostage. Of course, that assumes that you pols are willing to pay an asshole like him some ransom...and if you do, that we won't remember it next Election...
• Hey, President Trump (yes, I am, in fact, picking on you), your selection of Tom Price was a bad choice for HHS. How is it possible that you overlooked the fact that the man had ZERO personal discipline when it came to following a book of work rules?
• Finally, if you have blacksmith arms like the gun writer in the picture, by all means buy a Coonan MOT-10 10mm 1911 pistol. It WILL kill what you can hit with it. If you don't have the Hulk's arm-strength, you might consider just getting a decent 9mm and practicing double-taps...

The quality factor in Investigations

In police work, "evidence" is any fact(s) which help the investigator prove that the alleged perpetrator did break the law. Some evidence is obvious: was the suspect at the scene of the crime or not? Other evidence is not as obvious: can unknown witnesses be discovered who can establish the suspect's presence at the crime scene? Finally, some evidence is obscure, such as who might know the suspect and be able to suggest if suspect might be the type to commit this crime? These three examples go to the quality of the evidence, and when the investigator turns the case in for prosecution, the legal quality of the evidence is the primary factor in deciding whether the case is prosecuted or not.

This primer on quality of evidence is taught in every police academy in the free world, because courts are required to consider the best evidence when deciding guilt or innocence, not just here in the USA, but in every Nation which has a liberty-based legal system. Note that the Best Evidence Rule covers the admission of documentary evidence, but the Court also considers the quality of other evidence, such as eyewitness testimony. You don't want to be tried for crimes in the other kind of nations where the Judge has sole discretion to use evidence or not, and how to evaluate evidence or not.

In my first Police Academy (I attended two because of a break in police service caused by being called back into the military: I was just over the five-year point when I went back to copping, and Oregon's DPSST (POST) rules say five years is the max, no waivers.), I was taught that evidence quality is determined by the concept of directness: the farther the evidence was from being totally direct (e.g.: suspect arrested at crime scene, loot in pockets), the lower it's quality, the more work had to be done to establish it for Court presentation. As a rookie, I made my first Armed Robbery case on one eyewitness account. The eyewitness had observed the suspect drive his 1963 Chevy Impala hardtop to the drive-up window of the burger joint, had observed as he presented his gun, got a bag of cash and drove away. The eyewitness wrote down the robbers description, wrote down the license plate, then as I arrived, that witness handed me his note, which I entered into evidence, along with all the other interview results. I sent my APB, attention to the hometown cops of the registered owner, and 90 minutes later, the local gendarmes there (next state over) had him in jail. I got a rare Detective Division attaboy for that one and the suspect plead guilty to Robbery First, getting ten years in prison. No plea bargain was acceptable to the DA for that case, built as it was on the highest quality of evidence.

Take the above basic lesson in criminal justice, and apply it (or, I should say try to apply it) to the case of Hillary Rodham Clinton and her illegal email server, now widely assumed to have been hacked by the Russians. Now read this article, R.T.W.T., and apply your quality of evidence evaluation to the work the FBI (under Director Comey, whose wife had just gotten an $8.5M defense contract) which Bureau then said, and has been saying ever sine, "oh, those evil Russians".

As I read the Net Right Daily article, I recognize that the FBI's claim of hacking evidence doesn't withstand the first layer of evaluation, let alone the three layers which the article's author applied to that bogus claim. You try my evaluation and see what you get.

Time to indict Hillary. Get it done, Mr. Sessions. 

Portland cops illegally enforce "no weapons zone" at Free Speech Rally

This action shows just how badly the authority of the Left side of Government can be abused.

Situation: a rally by pro-Trump groups was planned for 6-4-17 on Federal property (Terry Shrunk Plaza, Portland), and the Looney Lefty Mayor tried to cancel it, found he couldn't do that, so he sent his cops to cordon off the Federal Park (only one small city Block). The cops apparently were under orders to "stop and frisk" everyone going into the Plaza, and they did that, seizing a LARGE number of things from people. Some obviously WERE makeshift weapons (home-made spears), most were questionable (walking sticks and the like), and some were ordinary things that people would have as they stroll in public, such as pocket folding knives. It seems that the cops overlooked several Constitutional guarantees at their display of force:

• Police are required to issue a Property Report, filed under a Police File Number, for EVERY item which they seize under ANY circumstance. No such reports have been found for this large number of seizures. The cops DID Tweet photos, more of a brag than a report.
• Cops are supposed to follow the law. There is NO law on the books that I am aware of which authorized then to declare any sort of "weapon-free zone" at the perimeter of the Terry Shrunk Plaza. A "State of Emergency" had NOT been declared.
• The Police have let themselves in for HUGE Civil Liability, as there WERE injuries from fights there which the cops (1) did not prevent and (2) disarmed folks of items which they might have used in their own defense.
• The cops may have exceeded their authority so far as to be personally criminally liable for Denial of Civil Rights under Color of Authority (18USC242 et seq).

Who, among the spokespeople for Freedom in this area are going to call for a Civil Rights Investigation? Denial of Civil Rights as a leftist political strategy gains strength by the day around here, but has been practiced by the Lefty Looney Leaders of Portland for years. For example, about six years ago, during Rose Festival Week, I navigated my small yacht up the Willamette River towards the Riverplace Marina, where I had rented a berth for several days. As I approached the downtown area on my voyage from the Multnomah Channel Yacht Club, I stopped at the blockade under the Broadway Bridge to be searched. I had 2 concealable weapons on my boat, allowed by law due to my status as a retired Peace Officer of this State, and I told the Federal Homeland Security cop on the River Patrol boat that. I was refused navigation upriver past that point. I turned around and berthed at the  nearby River Patrol station, and had an River Patrol officer of my acquaintance put my sidearms in his locker. I went back to the blockade, was inspected and passed along (in an escorted convoy, no less) to go upriver past the moored warships of the US and Canadian Navies (to which my 38-caliber Ruger and Kel-Tec P3AT was no threat, since they had sailors topsides manning 20mm and 50-caliber defensive weapons and there was a "red-line" Exclusion Zone in effect around the ships). BTW, my boat is large enough to qualify as a "Home" under Oregon Law, so any weapons aboard M/V Lofoten Girl cannot be removed without a Search Warrant, properly approved by a Judge. None of that mattered to the anti-gun Portland City Hall, though.