en-us https://www.intensedebate.com/users/3871295 Comments by jportland00 http://www.katu.com/news/local/Gang-member-charged-in-February-shooting-in-downtown-Portland-146468485.html#IDComment333380974 We are going to march and demand justice for Wade right? Oh wait they were both minorities nevermind. call Al and Jesse and tell them to stand down. Fri, 6 Apr 2012 22:48:39 +0000 http://www.katu.com/news/local/Gang-member-charged-in-February-shooting-in-downtown-Portland-146468485.html#IDComment333380974 http://www.katu.com/news/local/I-am-a-thief-Teen-wears-sign-as-punishment-for-stealing-146309855.html#IDComment332518997 Actually shame is a powerful motivator. It would depend on what this man wants to get from this punishment. Much like the drunk you force to AA versus the drunk who goes by choice to better their life. Guess which of those two would get the better benefit out of AA? So if this man truly wants to change, shame may be the motivator to do it. Its not so black and white as you make it to be. Thu, 5 Apr 2012 19:45:20 +0000 http://www.katu.com/news/local/I-am-a-thief-Teen-wears-sign-as-punishment-for-stealing-146309855.html#IDComment332518997 http://www.katu.com/news/local/I-am-a-thief-Teen-wears-sign-as-punishment-for-stealing-146309855.html#IDComment332516356 Exactly, shame is a powerful motivator. Too much shame has been removed from society. As a result its easy to keep reoffending as an anonymous person. Thu, 5 Apr 2012 19:41:00 +0000 http://www.katu.com/news/local/I-am-a-thief-Teen-wears-sign-as-punishment-for-stealing-146309855.html#IDComment332516356 http://www.katu.com/news/local/Cops-spots-break-in-at-Gresham-deli-two-arrested-146098135.html#IDComment332511091 Kitty, I am sure she means well. I get angry when the family feels they must make it their sole goal in life to purge the internet public forum opinions of anything negative about their family. Do we know this man? No. Do we know what he did? Yes. Do we have to sit here and cast warm glowing stories of him, not on a bet. Everything we need to know about him and how he chooses to interact with the public is right here in this story. As another poster submitted this wasnt his first arrest in recent days. So for the daughter she best shut it and disappear. If the family is having as many probelms as she is letting onto then she has a far more important job, than playing internet forum monitor. Thu, 5 Apr 2012 19:32:25 +0000 http://www.katu.com/news/local/Cops-spots-break-in-at-Gresham-deli-two-arrested-146098135.html#IDComment332511091 http://www.katu.com/news/local/Cops-spots-break-in-at-Gresham-deli-two-arrested-146098135.html#IDComment332508802 Are you still here?? After crying us a river about how hard it is to read these comments you are still here?!?! Obviously you like this attention and the fights you get to pick. POS, yep you heard me right. As far as standing by and allowing my family to be degraded. Your not going to stop it here. The more you kick and scream, the more attention you are drawing to you and the supposed family. Do us a favor and disappear. When the crises is over, only then can you return to public view. Thu, 5 Apr 2012 19:29:01 +0000 http://www.katu.com/news/local/Cops-spots-break-in-at-Gresham-deli-two-arrested-146098135.html#IDComment332508802 http://www.katu.com/news/local/Cops-spots-break-in-at-Gresham-deli-two-arrested-146098135.html#IDComment331922384 Here we go the family playing PR damage control already. I bet you are scouring all the local sites so you can scold everyone who thinks your dad is a POS right? "Our family is going through enough with him as it is these past few months we dont need your negetive rude comments to add to it!!!". How about you dont come looking for these comments then? Unless you are as dumb as your dad no family member in their right mind would come into the public comments section of a story like this. What did you expect to see people praising this POS? I hate to break it to you sweety but this is what the public comment section is for and people are tired of people like your father using their troubles to excuse their behavior. They get even more enraged when the family comes along, like you, and tries further to exuse their behavior while calling them into question. I know personally I have never been arrested of breaking into a business and never will be, its called willpower and morals. Thu, 5 Apr 2012 02:06:00 +0000 http://www.katu.com/news/local/Cops-spots-break-in-at-Gresham-deli-two-arrested-146098135.html#IDComment331922384 http://www.katu.com/news/local/146153055.html#IDComment331909273 Guns dont just go off. Secondly if this kid has this type of parent in his life, he might be better off without them. Not like his life is not shattered already. I would wager the shatter of losing his mother to jail would be far better then the life shattering he just received shooting someone. Thu, 5 Apr 2012 01:39:12 +0000 http://www.katu.com/news/local/146153055.html#IDComment331909273 http://www.katu.com/news/national/Architects-answer-to-rising-seas-Floating-homes-145927395.html#IDComment331666508 Umm there have been plenty of educated people with lots of valid evidence to the contrary on the opposing view point. The problem is no one, news media, politicians, or companies can make money from a non issue, so they are kept hidden from the public. Do a little research sometimes and open your eyes. Notice I did not have to make this into a Republican, Democrat, Conservative, Liberal affair. Its not a political event other then an agenda for them. Wed, 4 Apr 2012 17:58:25 +0000 http://www.katu.com/news/national/Architects-answer-to-rising-seas-Floating-homes-145927395.html#IDComment331666508 http://www.katu.com/news/local/Occupy-protesters-rally-to-highlight-TriMet-cuts-fare-hikes-146130255.html?clmob=y#IDComment331663048 According to protesters with Occupy Portland, the rallies will highlight possible fare increases and reduced service due to a projected $12 to $17 million budget gap. Got it thanks, I read unlike most of these protestors. I dont need them highlighting something I can read in black and white. Wed, 4 Apr 2012 17:51:25 +0000 http://www.katu.com/news/local/Occupy-protesters-rally-to-highlight-TriMet-cuts-fare-hikes-146130255.html?clmob=y#IDComment331663048 http://www.katu.com/politics/national/Wary-of-activist-court-Obama-defends-health-law-145880465.html?clmob=y#IDComment331310265 Just like Bush turn about is fair play am I right? Wed, 4 Apr 2012 05:44:53 +0000 http://www.katu.com/politics/national/Wary-of-activist-court-Obama-defends-health-law-145880465.html?clmob=y#IDComment331310265 http://www.katu.com/politics/Adams-considers-Portland-ban-on-public-display-of-fake-guns-146034235.html#IDComment331303103 I think your missing the point. Criminals already ignore/break laws. Tell me why this law will prevent them from doing this? The mental guy shot and killed, tell me this law would have kept him from doing this? Wed, 4 Apr 2012 05:27:14 +0000 http://www.katu.com/politics/Adams-considers-Portland-ban-on-public-display-of-fake-guns-146034235.html#IDComment331303103 http://www.katu.com/politics/national/Wary-of-activist-court-Obama-defends-health-law-145880465.html?clmob=y#IDComment330767760 So its only an activist court when it doesn't go the Dems way? We have more activist crap shoved down our throat daily by the 9th circuit then any other court in the country. This man once called himself a professor of constitution law. Is that title self proclaimed? Certainly he understands that court stands as checks and balances against activist presidents. What do you expect from a man who claimed he had visited 56 of the 57 states during his campaign in 2008. One needs to look no further then that claim to understand this man knows not one damn thing about our country. Tue, 3 Apr 2012 13:56:13 +0000 http://www.katu.com/politics/national/Wary-of-activist-court-Obama-defends-health-law-145880465.html?clmob=y#IDComment330767760 http://www.katu.com/news/local/Marchers-brave-rain-to-join-national-outcry-over-Trayvon-killing-145415995.html#IDComment329505527 You mean when Obama's AG choose not to prosecute the new balck panther who stood outside the polling place with a club screming kill cracker babies. Or Obama who without any facts condemed a white police sergeant for doing his job in the manner allowed by law, so much for being a consitutional professor. here is a quote form a Washington post article on the matterObama's comment catapulted the episode into a national controversy and cast the nation's first African American president in the uncomfortable role of taking sides in a racially tinged incident about which he acknowledged he did not know all the facts. " Once again in this case facts have not been presented other then what people want to subjectively take out of context. Seems to be a common theme for a certain segement of society. Sun, 1 Apr 2012 21:26:56 +0000 http://www.katu.com/news/local/Marchers-brave-rain-to-join-national-outcry-over-Trayvon-killing-145415995.html#IDComment329505527 http://www.katu.com/news/local/Marchers-brave-rain-to-join-national-outcry-over-Trayvon-killing-145415995.html#IDComment329501750 "Trayvon Martin is one child of many who are targeted every day in this country and here in Portland." Im sorry so your asserting, despite the lack of racial evidnce, that this man was only killed becaues he was black? What evidence do you submit to support this claim? The mere coincidence of opposite races is not proof positive. So with that out of the way dont give me a bumper sticker slogan or generalities. What evidence do you submit to show this killing in Florida was Race based? While your at it do you show equal outrage at the New black panther member standing outside the polling place screaming we need to kill cracker babies, while weilding a club. Or do you only pick and choose what you want to aruge? How about the black kids who slapped this Sh** out of that white girl on the max while calling her white names? How about the black teens who set the white boy on fire in the midwest claiming, "This is what you get white boy. See I have presented proof that is not arguable. Your assertion that police are trigger happy, corrupt, and not safe for minority communites is what we call opinion. Sun, 1 Apr 2012 21:19:51 +0000 http://www.katu.com/news/local/Marchers-brave-rain-to-join-national-outcry-over-Trayvon-killing-145415995.html#IDComment329501750 http://www.katu.com/news/local/Man-critically-injured-in-what-police-believe-was-a-gang-shooting-145487405.html#IDComment329492268 Right because the incidents you speak of about "innocent" people being killed is subjective. I dont consider a man threatning to kill himself and family innocent. I dont consider a homeless man weidling a sharp object of any size innocent. I dont consider a man so full of rage he pulls out a handgun and starts shooting the police because he cant control himself to be innocent. Everytime a person of color is involved we get the race card raised. Lets see how many officer involved shootings versus how many NE shootings. Not even close in comparison. Officers are allowed deadly force in their duty of their job in a defensive manner, that will never change. The term defensive use will always be up to debate but I can tell you this. Gangbangers on the other hand are not allowed deadly force as a means of offensive shooting. Even more chilling is the lack of response from leaders of that community. They will scream bloody murder if a white person or officer is involved one time. They sit on their face as countless black and hispanic youth are murdered en masse by their own. BTW if your police force scares you try talking to them form time to time you will find they are people with the same fears and likes as everyone else. Sun, 1 Apr 2012 21:02:40 +0000 http://www.katu.com/news/local/Man-critically-injured-in-what-police-believe-was-a-gang-shooting-145487405.html#IDComment329492268 http://www.katu.com/news/local/Surveillance-video-shows-no-sign-of-injury-on-Zimmerman-144735535.html#IDComment327335601 That is not the story they started with though. For a long time it was the big man mug shot versus the 12 year old boy pictures. Whitey getting the black man down. Once they found they were not successful in inciting racial violence they now have to resort to the facts or what little facts we have at this point. Pointing out a grainy video picture is not evidence. Wounds do different things on different people. For me Trayon's past and Zimmerman's past are irrelevant. What is relevant is what happend that night. I have a feeling alot more will be shared once a grand jury sees the evidence that was collected. What im not interested in throwing a man in prison for defending himself to keep a certain segment of society from burning an looting a city. WE are told let the grand jury sort this out. We need to let them do that and live with whatever their decision is. Thu, 29 Mar 2012 20:18:42 +0000 http://www.katu.com/news/local/Surveillance-video-shows-no-sign-of-injury-on-Zimmerman-144735535.html#IDComment327335601 http://www.katu.com/news/local/Surveillance-video-shows-no-sign-of-injury-on-Zimmerman-144735535.html#IDComment327255899 Right away?!?! Actually that is just not true now is it. As you recall Trimet Security dragged their feet for days on this and convinced the 14 year old that it would be worthless to prosectute. I will give you one good guess why they felt that way. Trimet even somehow lost the security footage of the attack. Finally youtube videos of the attack surfaced, clearly showing the assault and who did it. Not exactly the same video evidence we have here in the Zimmerman case. Anyways the police finally arrested the girls and a parent for hiding them many days after this event. Hardly the brough up on charges right away. What is noteworthy though is the lack of a white race huckster coming to town. The abcence of threats for vigalante justice. People not running around with an IPOD, somethign that started that whole mess when they girl couldnt hear the other girl because she was listening to music. There we clearly had a racial thing but with a much different community reacation. Thu, 29 Mar 2012 17:57:55 +0000 http://www.katu.com/news/local/Surveillance-video-shows-no-sign-of-injury-on-Zimmerman-144735535.html#IDComment327255899 http://www.katu.com/news/local/Aloha-couple-wakes-up-to-man-beating-them-with-tiki-torch-136211628.html#IDComment247847794 In other stories it says the gun went off because the man with the tiki torch hit it out of his hand. Dont be so quick to judge my friend. This is all taking place as they were fast asleep and in pitch dark to low light. Mon, 26 Dec 2011 18:17:55 +0000 http://www.katu.com/news/local/Aloha-couple-wakes-up-to-man-beating-them-with-tiki-torch-136211628.html#IDComment247847794 http://www.katu.com/news/local/Police-arrest-2-during-downtown-march-135826528.html#IDComment241256066 Additionally I just watched your video again. NIce job cutting and editing the video dude. You show the scene of the police arresting people in the street then cut back to earlier footage of your group at the rally start point. Then you pan back to the street. Next time post unedited footage if you want to make a point so it can be looked at in context. Mon, 19 Dec 2011 01:16:21 +0000 http://www.katu.com/news/local/Police-arrest-2-during-downtown-march-135826528.html#IDComment241256066 http://www.katu.com/news/local/Police-arrest-2-during-downtown-march-135826528.html#IDComment241253727 You knwo what I have yet to see them abuse that power. I have more fear of this group of people I watched last night then the government power that has been used less times then I can count on one hand. Dont lecture me about what I should fear because Unruly mobs are more of an concern at this point. Mon, 19 Dec 2011 01:12:32 +0000 http://www.katu.com/news/local/Police-arrest-2-during-downtown-march-135826528.html#IDComment241253727