[conspire] Federales in Portland?

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Ruben Safir (ruben at mrbrklyn.com):

> The Feds are picking up people in there homes in the middle of the night
> and they kill them without a trace?

Josef, the man has a point.  Portland isn't Operation Condor.  (But in
fairness, you merely said 'we are _heading_ into Pinochet territory.')

> I'm reading, at least at the BBC, that they are pulling people out of
> the actually protest, reading them there rights, and then often
> releasing them without charges, before Habeous Corpus.

Keep reading more.  The people picked up by no-insignia Feds have more
typically been walking on the sidewalks a few blocks from the Federal
building, and were not at the protests.

If, as seems extremely likely, these detentions were done without
satisfying Terry v. Ohio's 'reasonable suspicion' standard where the
officer 'must be able to point to specific and articulable facts which,
taken together with rational inferences from those facts, reasonably
warrant [the] intrusion', then the detention was illegal.

If you don't understand this, read some goddamned civics, already.

> I'm not in Portland so I have zero idea what is going on....

Read some goddamned newspapers.