On Saturday, July 18, we took a walk-through eastern part of Portland. Visited Chinese garden, which happened to be not even closely as impressive as Japanese garden nearby. Then we cruised a river boardwalk, and pass through Saturday market fair. Meantime I took some pictures of tents, which monopolized all the streets around, and I even interviewed quite a few inhabitants. Some of them referred to themselves as to protesters, while most of them seemed to be just regular homeless people. The whole place looked somewhat trashy, and strong urine and dirt bodies smell suggests, that they stay there for a while. They said, that police do not bother them, and if they do, then they would just move few blocks. Protesters, all white young people, say, that they came from nearby towns. There were no any police around, neither there any kind of activities, but that was the midday, and far from the courthouse, where most of the riots happened. On the boardwalk I took a picture of home-made banner by some dude, who exercised his rights of free expression. I assumed, that as a “real republican” he certainly entitled for spelling errors, but on serious note, I was wondering on how many lives were paid as a tribute of these regular American idiots for their beloved president with these slogans and this attitude.
