As I have learned from experience, it was very easy for the Lane County Board of Commissioners to declare a protest assembly an "emergency health hazard" as an ulterior strategy to shut them up and move them out. And where was the RG defending First Amendment ideals then? Crickets.

I find this whole  charade interesting because last time I checked, the LCBC was also the Lane County Board of Health, and in that capacity, they can pass measures which take effect within the boundaries of incorporated municipalities within Lane County. 

So, if an advocacy protest in 2013 was such a health hazard back then, why hasn't the Board taken any emergency measures since to address the clearly present and ongoing health hazards downtown? Double standards and hypocrisy, that's why...

I'm a farmer who vends at the Lane County Farmer's Market. I want downtown to be safe and inviting. But politicians and their lawyers can't pick and choose to abrogate some laws, in order to enforce other laws.