Category Archives: Gun Control

Epistemological Comment

Posted on December 18, 2016 by M. Meo

In the last post I spoke of how the citizens of the United States are asked, by our intelligence services, to believe a whipped-up story of Russian hacking affecting the recent election.  The C.I.A., the White House, the Congress, and … Continue reading →

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Portland Police Shoot Another Miscreant

Posted on December 9, 2016 by M. Meo

The Portland Police killed another suspect Tuesday. He had shot at them when they arrived, and missed. Presumably they then told him to come out of the building from which he had fired the shot. He did. He carried a … Continue reading →

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On the Streets of Eugene

Posted on October 22, 2016 by M. Meo

My son Michael Kepler Meo attended one of the Conversations on Race we have here in Portland, one in which the Albina Ministerial Alliance on police accountability and the Chief of Police, along with several of his deputies, appeared.  He … Continue reading →

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How to Deny Truth

Posted on April 21, 2016 by M. Meo

In her column, printed in the Portland Tribune yesterday, former State Representative Hardesty made an interesting observation. I’m troubled that the immediate reaction from the Portland Police Bureau and the Portland Police Association is to tell their officers they don’t … Continue reading →

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In Case You Were Thinking

Posted on December 14, 2015 by M. Meo

of attending one of the regular meetings, Thursday nights at 6:30 pm, at the corner cafe, N.E. 18th and Alberta, there was this item today in the Newspaper of Record: Police are investigating a late-night shooting at Northeast 18th Avenue … Continue reading →

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A Sicilian Resister

Posted on December 10, 2015 by M. Meo

The Nuclear Resister came today. Its lead story follows (are you a participant in the Plowshares tradition?): Barefoot, pacifist Turi Vaccaro scaled a fence in a Sicilian cork oak reserve and was undetected as he entered the inner security zone … Continue reading →

Posted in Astronomy, Bradley Manning, Brian Willson, Cameron Whitten, Dan Handelman, Education, Elections, Empire, Free Speech, Global, Gun Control, John Schweibert, Pacific Green Party, Police, Scott Fernandez, Scott Green, Spiritual life, War | Leave a comment

Goering Hatte Recht

Posted on March 20, 2015 by M. Meo

Back in the Year of Birth of the writer who calls himself Your Intrepid Reporter, that is to say in 1947, there were held the Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunals — I believe it is the Bush Junior Administration flunky who … Continue reading →

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I Admit It

Posted on February 13, 2015 by M. Meo

There will be a vote in one week, on Thursday, 19 February; Commissioner Fritz made certain that a specific time was established — that is, 2:15 in the afternoon — for the upcoming vote at the last Joint Terrorism Task … Continue reading →

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Another Police Shooting with Impunity for the Killer

Posted on November 26, 2014 by M. Meo

Progressive Portland turned out in force — there were over a thousand people there, according to the monopoly newspaper The Oregonian (which deserves credit for the picture) — this evening in a rally in support of the people of Ferguson, … Continue reading →

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If at first you don’t succeed

Posted on August 20, 2014 by M. Meo

Right at the beginning of the meeting of the Community and Postal Workers United, Trudy reported here at the Eighteenth Street Peace House at seven this evening, that 125 people attended the Drone Forum. Jamie Partridge, co- with John Schweibert … Continue reading →

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