The controversy over inaugural spending

[tigertail777]

I never said I condoned the stupid protestors either. I dont mind protesting if it doesnt interfere with how things normally work, but I will agree that they did get out of hand and do so fairly frequently in portland, something in the water I guess. As for the little beirut comment he restated it during his republican get together here in Oregon and the context was more than just the "violence" of the protestors.

The police "borrowing" was in the Williamatte week, and portland mercury, and a small blurb of it was in the Oregonian. I know the library keeps older copies of the Oregonian, but I am not sure if they keep copies past a week or two of the Mercury, and Williamette week. If you had some way of acessing the portland city records its in there too, as the council had to vote on it.

And though I may sound like a democrat, I am not. I am a Libertarian and thats only because its the closest party to how I feel, but I disagree with things they beleive too. I personally think its wrong to let your party define your thinking, for me every issue is different; I may side with republicans on one issue and dems on another. I feel insulted that some people think you have to have this undying allegiance to one side or the other, I think it only serves to narrow your options, and frankly life is not black and white like that. The Libertarian party even wants to me to subscribe to only their theories I get stupid junk mail from them every once in a while that only serves to annoy the hell out of me. I think there should be a game show where staunch republicans and staunch democrats try to kill each other, (and any other party thats nuts) that would at least be entertaining. Republican and Democrat survivor would take care of a few problems.