Renee Perry
TL;DR: If certain Rights, endowed by Nature’s God, have become alienable from those persons who defend the sovereignty of our State, then the truths upon which America declared its solemn independence have ceased to be self-evident, the political bands intended to Unite us having already been dissolved.
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On our phone call last Thursday, you said "“we cover state issues and local Portland area issues.” Indeed, the Oregonian reported on hate crimes when a veteran attacked an Iraqi restaurant in Portland in 2017. But the paper did not apply the same standard when it reported on a
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Attached is everything the Linn County Courthouse kept from the trial. He pled out, so the DA did not get to ask him his motivation. Then he was stabbed and didn't like the sentence the judge handed him; https://democratherald.com/news/local/crime-courts/albany-stabbing-victim-
For The Record
Dave [Philipps] and Betsy [Hammond and Jamie Goldberg] (and Michael [Barbaro]), I represent the Military Improvement Association, a decentralized affiliation of military families and Civilian Allies advocating for military civil rights. In December, we will be at the Oregon capitol to testify before a state Senate Committee covering veterans in
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Betsy; The Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2009 included a section that extended protections to service members, called the Soldiers Amendment. In the Oregonian's prior reporting (including here and here), the military protections of HCPA have been ignored. Less than a year after the HCPA was passed, my