As The Terror Threat Grew

Portland's ruling class worried about themselves.

"I was recently told by a media person that if something happens in this city, I'm toast." 

So said Tom Potter, mayor of Portland, Oregon, on April 28, 2005 as he and the city council voted to bar Portland police from participating in one of the federal government's key anti-terrorism initiatives, the FBI's Joint Terrorism Task Force. In Portland's deep-blue precincts, there was intense opposition to the Bush administration's conduct of the war on terror; residents worried the task force might violate state anti-discrimination laws by targeting Muslims for their religious and political views. So city leaders forbade police from taking part in it.

Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://washingtonexaminer.com/politics/2010/11/portland-averted-its-eyes-terror-threat-grew#ixzz16m8opCrL