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A driver, Mark Alan Dickerson, was trying to pass through the line of protesters as they beat on his truck, and one of them leaned back into his slow-moving car and was struck by the vehicle.

The preachers and lecturers deal with men of straw, as they are men of straw themselves. Why, a free-spoken man, of sound lungs, cannot draw a long breath without causing your rotten institutions to come toppling down by the vacuum he makes. Your church is a baby-house made of blocks, and so of the state.
…The church, the state, the school, the magazine, think they are liberal and free! It is the freedom of a prison-yard.

I was at a city hall meeting in Beaverton, Oregon, the other day when a few questions I had for the presenters dropped jaws. We’ll get to that later, the jaw-dropping effect I and those of my ilk have when we end up in the controlled boardrooms and chambers of the controllers – bureaucrats, public-private clubs like Chamber of Commerce, Rotary, and both political operatives and those who liken themselves as the great planners of the world moving communities and housing and public commons around a giant chessboard to make things better for and more efficient in spite of us.

Mayor Ted Wheeler, a liberal who also serves as the city's police commissioner, defended a decision to have police stand down during the incident, saying that police must watch out for their own safety, while at the same time, he tried to claim that “motorists should feel completely safe coming into downtown Portland.”

Portland, Oregon was the scene of another leftist protest that resulted in violence and property damage as a man slowly drove through the crowd, trying to escape as they clubbed his car. The protest was against the police department that reportedly shot a black man, Patrick Kimmons, who had allegedly been involved in a shootout involving at least two other men.

Allegation investigations, Charlie's fallen angels and an abusive workplace + this day in history w/the Attica riots and our song of the day by Lana Del Rey on your Morning Monarchy for September 13, 2018.

Confidential business, elite apocalypse and criminal complaints + this day in history w/the Lattimer massacre and our song of the day by Live on your Morning Monarchy for September 10, 2018.

The new Denver airport murals, another heiress and a wellness check + this day in history w/the downing of Flight 007 and our song of the day by Cursive on your Morning Monarchy for September 6, 2018.

Taos Compound coverup, the Madden shooter and the return of 'Suspiria' + this day in history w/the Thurgood confirmation and our song of the day by Robert DeLong on your Morning Monarchy for August 30, 2018.

Robot fruit-pickers, cereal Roundup and a raw, bloody veal heart + this day in history w/the raid of the Camden 28 and our song of the day by Cat Power & Lana Del Rey on your Morning Monarchy for August 22, 2018.