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An Army veteran, a recent college graduate and a student who once won a poetry contest by condemning prejudice stirred up by the Sept. 11 attacks intervened as a man screamed anti-Muslim insults at two women in Portland, Ore., on Friday.
[...] Two of the men — Taliesin Myrddin Namkai Meche, 23, and Rick Best, 53 — died in the attack, which occurred on a commuter train. The third, Micah David-Cole Fletcher, 21, was treated on Saturday for injuries that the police said were serious but not life-threatening.
Jeremy Christian, 35, of North Portland, Ore., was charged with two counts of aggravated murder in the attack and could face additional charges when he is arraigned on Tuesday. Mr. Christian, who the authorities said had a history of making extremist statements on social media, was ranting at, and talking disparagingly about, the two women, one of whom was wearing a hijab.
Source: The New York Times
President Donald Trump has released his first official statement on the attack in Portland, Oregon, more than 48 hours after the two victims died.
"The violent attacks in Portland on Friday are unacceptable," Mr Trump tweeted. "The victims were standing up to hate and intolerance. Our prayers are w/ them."
Source: The Independent
Portland law enforcement leaders were tightlipped Saturday about the investigation into Friday's attacks that killed two men on a light rail train but a federal official did say it was too early to label the incident a hate crime.
[...] Loren Cannon, special agent in charge of the Portland FBI office, [...]
"It's too early to say whether last night's violence was an act of domestic terrorism or a federal hate crime," he said. "However, in the coming days, the FBI, PPB and the prosecutors will work together to share information, leverage resources and make determinations about future criminal charges."
[...] Leaders of the Muslim community said they were thankful for the men who gave their lives to save the girls from harm. They have raised $50,000 toward a goal of $60,000 to help support the victims and their families.
Source: The Oregonian
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 30 2017, @07:03AM (1 child)
Nobody cares what Jill Stain thinks.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 30 2017, @02:52PM
I care what the good doctor thinks! :(
Oh well, I guess this guy decided ALF and ELF weren't his thing so instead he directed his mental illness at some Muslims. (As opposed to causing property damage in a suburb somewhere to show us evil middle class people how evil we are for struggling to get by in a violently impos-- oh fine moving on.)
I'm assuming somebody else Godwinned the thread below (popcorn is almost done popping now) but if not I'll do the honors. We vilify Hitler, but let's be honest. Hitler would have just been some crazy dude on a street corner selling mediocre paintings and post cards if not for the millions of people in very difficult economic circumstances and the zeitgeist at the time. Hitler may have been the head of the beast, but those millions were the body of the beast.
I mean, like Hitler, at least Trump is clearly incompetent. He gives great speeches, the very best speeches, he's very, very good at... did you see the crowd at his last rally? Fantastic!, er, like Hitler did (seriously, watch some of Hitler's speeches--he was a master of rhetoric and absolutely riveting to listen to). If Trump presides over something terrible, he may well end up yet another one of those leaders we vilify in the history books, but it gives me some measure of hope that we'll get through since he's very clearly not going to be implementing some kind of final solution within a master plan within plans within plans. In fact, also like Hitler, I imagine he'll override good advice to the detriment of whatever his goals would be in that hypothetical.
Personally, I tend not to assign too much blame to individuals like Hitler. I mean certainly they're culpable for the things that happened on their watch. However, my point is that millions of people put them there. They don't win an arbitrary lottery and become leaders overnight. There is one class of people I do tend to blame for the root cause of those millions losing their shirts in a bad economy and turning to hate: international bankers.
(I'm sure somebody will take that the wrong way, but let me at least be clear that international bankers are not all followers of Judaism and/or ethnic Jews. It would be wrong to blame an entire ethnicity or religion for the actions of the 0.01% doing the violent imposition. We need to hold all international bankers accountable when the economy goes sour and sets the stage for horrific things to happen; holding an ethnic or religious demographic accountable would be missing the target and doing a grave disservice to the ideal. There's overlap however small there certainly, but we must not let an international banker go without account because he is not a Jew, and we must not hold a Jew to account who is not an international banker. In fact, I imagine at that level that pretty much everybody is an atheist. At least I can imagine no other avenue for the deleterious greed of the international bankers other than cynical nihilism devoid of an ethical framework such as Dawkins proposes.)
In fact, I think the international bankers would like nothing more than to further break the spirit of the people by setting the table for Trump to go down in history as a monster. I sincerely hope he does not take the bait. Whether I like him or not (and speaking as a Clinton voter), we do need some kind of advocate for the people in Washington. Trump is far from perfect, but he's who we have for the moment.
Trump is careless with his words; let's not let him be any more than that. Just let him be some slick real estate guy. No need to enable him to be a monster.