No Expiration Date for Inanity?

10-06-2011 Occupy Portland protest begins, marching on city streets without the required permit, blocking all traffic on Main Street.

10-07-2011 Occupy Portland protesters set up camps in city parks, which violates city codes which ban camping in public parks.

10-09-2011 The 40th annual Portland Marathon, which has held ITS permit to use the park for more than a year, had to work around by the Occupy Portland protesters who refused to leave the park where the marathon begins.

10-9-2011 Rather than ordering the eviction of the illegal protesters, Portland’s Mayor Sam Adams actually JOINED the protesters march through downtown.

10-12-2011 Occupy Portland protester vandalizes a police car

10-13-2011 After closing Main Street for a week, Portland Police finally reopen the street to traffic, arresting 8

10-17-2011 Portland Parks Bureau’s commissioner, Nick Fish, warns the illegal encampments are destroying the parks, estimates damage to trees of $19,000.

10-18-2011 Marijuana dealer arrested at Occupy Portland camp

10-19-2011 An Occupy Portland protester displays a gun in confrontation with police and is arrested.

10-20-2011 Mayor Adams says protesters can stay in illegal camps

10-25-2011 Police report finding overflowing human waste, incidents of indecent exposure and frequent reports of assault in downtown camps

10-26-2011 Labor Unions join Occupy Portland protest

10-27-2011 Occupy Portland costs in Police Overtime exceed $182,000

10-29-2011 Occupy Portland expands their protest into Jamison Square in the Pearl District, a trendy area of shopping & high-end condominiums in NW Portland. Other arrests were made for indecent exposure, public urination & drug possession. One arrested was a registered sex offender.

10-30-2011 Police arrest 25 in their effort to clear Jamison Square.

11-2-2011 Occupy Portland protester pushes police officer into the path of a city bus.

11-3-2011 Portland Police Association president Daryl Turner, declares “Enough is Enough”, criticizing city leaders for the mixed messages and urging citizens to call for an end to the occupation of city parks. With police overtime exceeding $200,000, Turner wrote: "This protest has become a seemingly open checkbook of taxpayer dollars to pay for an already over-extended Police Bureau"

Portland Mayor Sam Adams said the city is striving to balance people's rights to free speech and the ability to move about safely. Apparently the local businesses, day care centers, citizens who cannot enjoy the parks, have no rights.

11-8-2011 Crime is up 18% since the Occupy Portland camps were erected.

11-8-2011 A Molotov cocktail was thrown at the World Trade Center by one of the Occupy Portland protesters. The protester was later arrested & it was learned he’d been arrested just two days before on arson charges for starting a fire in the camp.

Three other arrests were also made, for possession of methamphetamines, alcohol & outstanding warrants.

11-10-2011 Mayor Sam Adams orders the eviction of the Occupy Portland protesters from city parks at 12:01 AM, November 13th. Adams said he did not want to delay the closure of the camp any longer, saying he “worries someone may die there. I cannot wait for someone to use the camp as camouflage to inflict bodily harm on others."

Occupy Portland Protesters call for all citizens to join them Saturday night, to form a perimeter to prevent police from clearing the park.

11-10-2011 Police have to perform CPR to resuscitate protester who nearly died due to a drug overdose

11-11-2011 Another drug overdose nearly takes the life of a protester

11-12-2011 Report of 4th drug overdose in as many days.

Occupy Portland protesters invite all to attend their “Occu-Fest” pot-luck, encouraging families to attend, while at the same time police report some protesters are fashioning weapons out of pallet boards & nails. Occupy Portland protesters call for bicyclists to ride the perimeter of the protesters’ encampment to interfere with the police plan to vacate the parks at 12:01 am.

11-13-2011, 12:01 am – the deadline arrives. Police officers line the streets. Protesters converge on 3rd Avenue, blocking the street. The police warn protesters to get off the street, to stay on the sidewalks or risk arrest. The protesters refuse, the police do nothing. The protesters win.

11-13-2011, 1:30 am, a Portland Police officer is injured & transported to the hospital, when a protester threw fireworks at the officer. There is no response from the police.

2:30 am, Occupy Portland protesters declare victory, having evaded the planned evacuation.

7:00 am, when speaking about the evacuation that never happened, Mayor Adams said the city is striving to balance people's rights to free speech and the ability to move about safely.

Inanity has no expiration date.