In a Republic the public elects and imbues representatives with certain authority and responsibility. This is the people willingly giving up a piece of their rights and liberty in order to make their lives a better place.
When an elected official abandons their responsibility to
the people, that imbued authority is also abdicated.
An elected official also abdicates their authority when
their responsibility has become corrupted. If they only feel responsible for
those whom they share an ideology their sense of responsibility has been
corrupted.
It is with this corruption or abandonment of responsibility
that the authority can no longer be claimed by the elected official. The
constitution is clear in this situation, if the authority has been abdicated it
is to return to the people.
Losing Faith
Mr. Wheeler has refused to support his police officers,
instead he favors the ideologically possessed activists who are only interested
in exerting power over others.
Why should they break up a fight among two people if
ideological activists will spin it to make it seem like a legitimate exercise
of authority is an abuse of power and the media will gladly fan the flames
created by those lies simply because it feeds their ideological desire?
Then the Mayor, the person who is supposed to represent them
and support them, sacrifices them for his own personal and political gain all
while wearing the mask of compassion.
This is how you get violent thugs in the street blocking
traffic and attacking cars while the police watch and do nothing. This is how you get masked groups of vandals destroying property and attacking groups who have a legally approved and permitted protests with mortars all under the guise of 'protest.'
Businesses have lost faith in the mayor as well. A mayor who
supports the homeless person urinating on the sidewalk of a business to the
point where no amount of water will rinse away the stench.
A mayor who not only supports the homeless people who
aggressively harass employees but promotes the very activists who would love
nothing more than to see these businesses destroyed either out of misguided
sense of outrage or an actual hatred of anyone possessing a shred of
competence.
Abdication
It seems that Mr. Wheeler believes that if he exercises his
authority he is doing something wrong. He seems to be on a campaign to seek
approval from the radical activists in Portland and with that approval find
someone with whom he can exercise his authority.
He is the one the people of Portland invested with the
authority and responsibility of managing and maintaining the city. The people
of Portland did not elect the activists who seem to have such a stranglehold on
the mayor.
This would seem to imply that the mayor has not simply
abandoned his authority and responsibility but has prostituted it out to the
ideological activists on whom he seeks approval.
The people of Portland invested the authority in the mayor
and if he is going to give up some of that power he needs to return it to all
the people not just the radical activists who yell at him the most. With his
latest interview the mayor of Portland seems upset that he does not have the
power to oppress those who he disagrees with ideologically.
He says he wants to stop people fighting in the street but
he believes that the only way to do that is to oppress Patriot Prayer or groups
like them. The truth is those groups have the right to protest just as much as
anyone else and that the real problem in the city are those whom the mayor
agrees with on an ideological level.
I am talking about Antifa and the violent masked activists.
They disrespect the police, the people of Portland (at the same time they claim
to stand up for and defend the ‘community’), and anyone who holds an opinion
different than theirs.
Mr. Wheeler seems beholden to
these ideological groups even to the point where the good people of Portland
are left to suffer. While these things might not have impacted you yet, it is only a matter of time before Antifa comes for your business or bash your head in for flying the wrong flag (even if you agree with them).
While they might not do these things at the express direction of the mayor they do so knowing full well that Mr. Wheeler will turn a blind eye to their activities. I would ask the people of Portland, put aside your political ‘group’ and take an honest look at the mayor of Portland. Does he stand for clear principles or does he simply try to please those who are loudest?
While they might not do these things at the express direction of the mayor they do so knowing full well that Mr. Wheeler will turn a blind eye to their activities. I would ask the people of Portland, put aside your political ‘group’ and take an honest look at the mayor of Portland. Does he stand for clear principles or does he simply try to please those who are loudest?
