Oregonian OpEd blames bombing attempt on unruly, unbehaved, unwashed, tie-dyed

(OP title changed on edit)

Citizens of Portland who protested city involvement in the Terrorism Task Force have been royally insulted in a smug and class-based screed on the oped page of the Portland Oregonian today.

The author, a small downtown businessman, is blaming the attempted bombing in downtown PDX on citizens who *intimidated* the city council into withdrawal from the Terrorism Task Force in 2005.

He describes these citizens as follows:

"The council chambers were packed. There were gray-bearded men in tie-dyed T-shirts with walking sticks There were college students sporting a variety of piercings, tattoos and flourescent hair colorings.

The crowd was unruly, unbehaved and generally unwashed. As each commissioner, with the exception of Saltzman, railed against the policies of the Bush administration, they were supported with a rally of hand-clapping, whistling, and sign waving.

As an observer in a sport coat and necktie, I was definitely out of my element. I realized that I was a member of the city's 'silent majority' and beforee the proceedings concluded, I slipped out a side door."

And .... wait for it ...

...these people "come to rail against Federal Authority. They adorn themselves in plastic bags to protest the petrochemical industry. They are mostly young, they are mostly policically active and they have the time to show up."
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PLEASE, I'm begging DU-ers to comment on this op-ed. http://www.oregonlive.com/opinion/index.ssf/2010/12/terror_task_force_meeting_not.html#comments

Please. Show The Oregonian what patriotism looks like.

I guess we know where he falls on the authoritarianism index.

And I note that he didn't call out the bra-less and hairy-legged students from Portland's Reed College and Lewis & Clark College. (Pinkos)

What a jerk.