A wise old Holocaust survivor once wrote: 

"There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest."

 The closure of the plaza was indeed political, engineered behind the scenes by County and Courthouse staffers and their business allies. The emergency  closure was palmed off on things like "disease transmission risk beyond my level of comfort" and "potential to alter rodent population patterns." All this nonsense was  unnecessary to achieve the aims which they stated as reasons for their closure.

 We must not allow the rights of law abiding citizens to be curtailed by politicians  as a bogus means to address the criminal behavior of a few when there are legitimate means to actually do so.

I will appeal this case to the Oregon Supreme Court an onward if necessary, to promote everyone's First Amendment right to peaceably assemble, to petition our government for redress, and to speak out in public 24 hours a day.