{"id":6507,"date":"2011-12-13T00:06:27","date_gmt":"2011-12-13T08:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/13\/occupy-portland-closes-port\/"},"modified":"2011-12-13T00:06:27","modified_gmt":"2011-12-13T08:06:27","slug":"occupy-portland-closes-port","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/13\/occupy-portland-closes-port\/","title":{"rendered":"Occupy Portland Closes Port"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The Occupy Portland movement does not get a lot of coverage, because their relationship with the city, if not the police remains good.&#160; Yesterday they coordinated the efforts with occupy movements all over the west and closed down three terminals of the Port of Portland.<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"background-image: none; border-right-width: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; display: inline; float: left; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px\" title=\"13OccupyPDX\" border=\"0\" alt=\"13OccupyPDX\" align=\"left\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/13OccupyPDX.jpg\" width=\"360\" height=\"269\" \/>The Port of Portland<strong> shut down three of its four terminals on Monday<\/strong> after police arrested two people and seized weapons in the hours before a demonstration by the Anti-Wall Street movement.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to terminals 5 and 6, which were closed earlier in the day, protesters marched on Terminal 4 early Monday evening, forcing officials to close it as well.<\/p>\n<p>Security concerns were raised when police found the suspects in camouflage clothing with a gun, sword and walkie-talkies who said they were doing reconnaissance.<\/p>\n<p>Police said one man in a car that was pulled over at about 2 a.m. had a loaded gun, identified by police as a Glock 40, in his possession. He also had gas masks. <\/p>\n<p>Police identified the suspects as Jason Dean Barnes and Steven Liddicoat. Barnes was arrested on weapons charges and for driving while suspended. Liddicoat was arrested on an unrelated past warrant. The third person in the car was released at the scene.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lt. Robert King with the Portland Police Bureau said the arrests of the men with weapons took place during a traffic stop and not at the protest site<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kari Koch, a spokeswoman for Occupy Portland, said the two people taken into custody were not part of the demonstration<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;We do not send out folks with guns,&quot; Koch said\u2026 [<em>emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.katu.com\/news\/business\/Occupy-Portland-hits-some-speedbumps-before-port-protest-135437088.html\" target=\"_blank\">KATU<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Keith Olbermann covered &quot;occupy the ports&quot; and interviewed Kari on <a href=\"http:\/\/current.com\/shows\/countdown\/\" target=\"_blank\">Countdown<\/a>.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"480\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oYQRHPjf_fM?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">The quotes from Kari in the article indicate that she made them after her interview with Keith.&#160; She spoke with Keith when the demonstrators were on the way to terminal 4, and top the KATU reporter after they had closed down terminal four.&#160; She had no knowledge of the arrests when she talked to Keith, but later knew that they were not related to the demonstration.&#160; If not a false flag, they were independent troublemakers.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Occupy Portland movement does not get a lot of coverage, because their relationship with the city, if not the police remains good.&#160; Yesterday they coordinated the efforts with occupy movements all over the west and closed down three terminals of the Port of Portland. 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