Downtown Portland, March 11, 2011

“Luke” the Patriot, took video of Portland’s Professional Protesters at Pioneer Square on Friday. They didn’t pay to use the space, as is required for gatherings, as the Tea Party has. They didn’t mind the security detail to leave, as the Tea Party did at the first Tea Party on February 27, 2009. They weren’t civil, as the Tea Party has been. 
No, they were your usual lefty haters, who want to take what you’ve worked for because it’s “theirs.”

They crowed over news that high schoolers cut school to be there. As you’ll see in the videos, one student took the electronic bullhorn to decry the “slaughtering” of thousands of people by corporations (what are they teaching at these schools? I wonder.) I hate to break it to the professional protester crowd, but it doesn’t take much to convince a bunch of kids to cut class.
The violent nature of the signs and of their actions–mobbing around the security guard and urging others to break the law–is the left’s version of civility. What will it take for them to get so riled up at the jewelry store owner (“He’s the enemy!”) and you (you enemy, you) that they’ll commit acts of violence?