Who is this Adam Sanchez? Is his group serious about making Portland a sanctuary for law breakers? Any person with a couple ounces of common sense can see that the proposal to make a sanctuary for deserters is illegal and would not stand the test of any legal review in any court.

Here is the link to the article.

If these people who don’t want to serve in the military past their regular enlistment want some action, there are plenty of under-worked attorneys out there who would take the case. Take your gripe to the federal courts, Mr. Sanchez. That’s the proper place for your protest, not the Portland City Counsel.

The issues surrounding our military and what they are doing are so complex that one crack-pot protester organization wasting the time of the Portland City Counsel can serve no useful purpose. And then The Oregonian invites the likes of Mr. Sanchez to write in its OregonLive so-called blog.

Maybe the Oregonian felt that it needed to have some union shop steward litter its electronic pages with drivel to appease someone in their union rank-and-file. Is The Oregonian trying to increase its readership by pandering to the basest of its potential readership?

Printed newspapers are under a great deal of competition from on-line news sources. So The Oregonian (a print newspaper) is part of the “Advanced Internet” which owns OregonLive, a company that creates commercial blogs with feeds from local newspapers. What is produced here is not news.

So there, Adam Sanchez and The Oregonian! I have taken shots at both of you. Does that make me better than either of you? Mr. Sanchez’s comments are a waste of space in any newspaper, printed or electronic; and The Oregonian could surely find better guest editorial sources.