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| From: ((Adi)) Jared Essig <jared.essig@gmail.com> | From: ((Adi)) Jared Essig <jared.essig@gmail.com> |
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| Date: Tue, Mar 12, 2024 at 12:55 AM | Date: Tue, Mar 12, 2024 at 12:55 AM |
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| Subject: Requesting adoption of amended MultCo ceasefire resolution; proposal for Foreign Office and special prosecutor | Subject: Requesting adoption of amended MultCo ceasefire resolution; proposal for Foreign Office and special prosecutor |
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| To: <mayor@portlandoregon.gov>, <mappsoffice@portlandoregon.gov>, <rubiooffice@portlandoregon.gov>, <gonzalezoffice@portlandoregon.gov>, Council Clerk <councilclerk@portlandoregon.gov>, <auditorsoffice@portlandoregon.gov> | To: <mayor@portlandoregon.gov>, <mappsoffice@portlandoregon.gov>, <rubiooffice@portlandoregon.gov>, <gonzalezoffice@portlandoregon.gov>, Council Clerk <councilclerk@portlandoregon.gov>, <auditorsoffice@portlandoregon.gov> |
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| Attn: Mayor Wheeler and City Councilors: | |
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| | Attn: Mayor Wheeler and City Councilors |
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| At this Wednesdays regular meeting of the council, I will publicly communicate my proposed amendments to MultCo_Gaza_ceasefire_resolution_2024-016 A-3-16 Engrossed | At this Wednesdays regular meeting of the council, I will publicly communicate my proposed amendments to MultCo_Gaza_ceasefire_resolution_2024-016 A-3-16 Engrossed |
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| My emailed letter to Commissioner Brim-Edwards manifested our complaints against the County, and notified them of my intent to take civil action, alleging a neglect of official duty-to-care and seeking equitable relief and orders of specific performance. Although we should hope that it does not remain necessary, this must not be an idle threat. Therefore I ask you to temporarily re-assign one or more City Attorneys or paralegal staff to the Department of the Special Prosecutor in the Foreign Office, and consider an appropriation in next year's budget for a dedicated hire. | My emailed letter to Commissioner Brim-Edwards manifested our complaints against the County, and notified them of my intent to take civil action, alleging a neglect of official duty-to-care and seeking equitable relief and orders of specific performance. Although we should hope that it does not remain necessary, this must not be an idle threat. Therefore I ask you to temporarily re-assign one or more City Attorneys or paralegal staff to the Department of the Special Prosecutor in the Foreign Office, and consider an appropriation in next year's budget for a dedicated hire. |
| This may have a tangential benefit of improving morale in the police department, and recruitment efforts aimed at ensuring accountability. But if the government isn't accountable, why should the police have to bear the brunt of public indignation at it's dysfunction? There may be a moral logic at work in their efforts to avoid accountability, which is not as vicious as it seems on the surface. Nevertheless, they should be accountable, as should we. | |
| Also, public diplomacy should improve the jury pools and can assist in outlining the city's position in voir dire and opening arguments, which will improve the success rate of the City Attorney in defending against these unacceptably large payouts to rioters who were injured or insulted in the process, or at least stop our capitulations to them. I was mildly injured many times, but I deserved it - I was informed by police loudspeakers of the risk I was taking in remaining on the premises of an unlawful assembly declared as a riot, and I accepted it as did we all. At some point, the city needs to stop abdicating moral authority, and engage. | This may have a tangential benefit of improving morale in the police department, and recruitment efforts aimed at ensuring accountability. But if the government isn't accountable, why should the police have to bear the brunt of public indignation at it's dysfunction? There may be a moral logic at work in their efforts to avoid accountability, which is not as vicious as it seems on the surface. Nevertheless, they should be accountable, as should we. |
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| | Also, public diplomacy should improve the jury pools and can assist in outlining the city's position in voir dire and opening arguments, which will improve the success rate of the City Attorney in defending against these unacceptably large payouts to rioters who were injured or insulted in the process, or at least stop our capitulations to them. I was mildly injured many times, but I deserved it - I was informed by police loudspeakers of the risk I was taking in remaining on the premises of an unlawful assembly declared as a riot, and I accepted it as did we all. At some point, the city needs to stop abdicating moral authority, and engage. |
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| "When scoffers are punished, the simple are made wise. | "When scoffers are punished, the simple are made wise. |