OA406: Fascism in Portland
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🗓️ 24 July 2020
⏱️ 75 minutes
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Summary
Listeners and co-hosts alike have been wanting Andrew to do a breakdown of the situation in Portland. There are big questions like, for example, how? and WTF? and what can anyone do? Andrew answers these and gives us the timeline of what's led to the Trump administration sending out paramilitary troops to abduct people in unmarked vans, like a totally non-fascist president would do.
Before that, we talk about the gun wielding couple from St. Louis who threatened BLM protestors, and how they're totally not going to face any justice for their undeniable crimes because they are white.
Links: OA307: The Census Fight Is Not Over, St. Louis lawyers Mark and Patricia McCloskey, 2005 Missouri Revised Statutes - § 571.030. — Unlawful use of weapons, St. Louis Gun Couple Charged, MO Gov Vows To Pardon Gun Couple, Supreme Court Rules - Rule 5 - Rules Governing the Missouri Bar, Acting Secretary Wolf Condemns Violence In Portland, Portland Fence To Come Down, Portland City Council votes to defund police by $15 million, Executive Order on Protecting American Monuments, Federal Officers Deployed in Portland Didn't Have Proper Training, Man Shot in Face with Rubber Bullet, Portland Roadside Abduction, Ocasio-Cortez to introduce bill requiring federal officers to identify themselves, Terry v. Ohio, 8 USC 1357, 42 U.S. Code § 1983 - Civil action for deprivation of rights, Bivens v. Six Unknown Named Agents, In re Neagle, 18 USC 242
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| 0:00.0 | My guys are still under a judicia mistrangement order! That blue thing I got from her! |
| 0:19.8 | I've got the best lawyer soft-knuckles combined! |
| 0:27.8 | Objection! |
| 0:28.5 | On white ground! |
| 0:29.4 | How about silly mature honor? |
| 0:35.4 | I think legal terms are magic words that can force people to do what I want! |
| 0:45.5 | My client has instructed me to remind the court how rich an important is, that he is not like other men. |
| 0:51.4 | Welcome to opening arguments, a podcast that pairs a comedian with a real-life lawyer. |
| 0:59.8 | This podcast is sponsored by the law offices of P Andrew Torres LLC for entertainment purposes, |
| 1:04.9 | is not intended as legal advice and does not form an attorney-client relationship. |
| 1:09.4 | Don't take legal advice from a podcast. |
| 1:12.1 | Hello and welcome to opening arguments. This is episode 406. I'm Thomas Smith. That's Andrew Torres and |
| 1:23.4 | Drew, how are you doing today? |
| 1:24.7 | I am doing fantastic, Thomas. How are you? |
| 1:27.6 | Doing great. I hear you picked up another specialization in fascism law over the weekend. |
| 1:35.7 | Yeah, we were talking about the main segment for this show, which is explaining to everyone |
| 1:41.8 | comprehensively what's going on in Portland, what are the legal bases and why. |
| 1:47.1 | I'm a little bit, you know, I'm treading cautiously here, right? |
| 1:51.3 | Because this isn't my area, and you replied, whose area is? |
| 1:58.2 | Secret police law. |
| 1:59.5 | Yeah, and what was the course? |
| 2:02.4 | Kind of outline in an old Harvard law. Do you want to study stormtroopers in America? |
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