Maybe it’s a good thing Portland isn’t in the JTTF. Can you imagine Sam Adams sitting around the table at one of those non secure meetings and make excuses for the man who wanted to commit an act of bloodletting so big that it would “be a spectacular show” the “New York Times [would] give two thumbs up?” Can you imagine the moment when he blamed a “failed education system” for a man whom the FBI alleges PICKED the Christmastime target of thousands of Portlanders for maximum effect? Imagine the looks on the weary faces of hardened cops when Adams would lament “high tuition rates” as a sop
“Well, first off, actions of this individual, he’s being held accountable, there are difficult times for the youth in this nation, we have the highest youth unemployment rate in US history, we’ve got schools that are failing to achieve academically, the way we would want, we have tuition being increased exponentially in universities and colleges. That doesn’t excuse the criminal acts, don’t get me wrong, but it does explain when you add to the fact that alot of Somali Americans come from a place that has been in civil war for about 20 years, you do see the vulnerability of Somali youth locally and across the nation.”
