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Episode Date: June 11, 2026

Oregon Firearms Federation head chief Kevin Starrett joins me with the Portland Nonsense - they are going to talk the dirtbags to death. Ron Park, a BIG donor of platelets at American Red Cross, trying to save one of the donation clinics from closing.

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We want to talk a little bit about more of the craziness, which is in Portland. I mean, it's kind of a sport, you know, as we will know. It's much better than the Frisbee team, whatever that one, that Frisbee team that they had. But one way or the other, on the Oregon Firearms Federation Substack, which I subscribe to, and I highly recommend you do too, along with signing up for the alerts and everything else, we're finding out that Portland is now getting ready to talk the dirt bags to death. That's the only way I can kind of describe what the latest plan is. Was this from Coin TV that you ended up finding this little nugget?

Let me see. I think it was coined where I saw the original report. Yeah, it was coin the original report about the introduction of the dialogue liaison team. This is not exactly a SWAT organization. The dialogue liaison team. So in other words, you have a throat punching Antifa person out in front of ICE, right? And they're ready to find some conservative and punch him or her in the throat or hit him with a. brick or whatever it is, and then what the dialogue team comes out? What's going on here, please? Apparently, they're going to have guys in white shirts, cops in white shirts, who will be there to kind of ease the tension and dialogue with people whose only goal is to hurt people and break stuff. It's kind of hilarious because they're treating these people who have taken over the city, they've destroyed things, they've hurt people. they're damaging property, they're making lives miserable, and they're acting as though what these people need is just better conversation.

And of course, it's absurd. I'm actually hoping that what they'll do is put together. And remember they'll put together a show called Dialog Liaison Team, which will be body cam footage of the cops talking to people in frog suits who are hitting people over the heads of pipes. You know, a conservative person shows up. There was a story I saw, I guess, yesterday. This young woman who works for Turning Point USA is at a college. And granted, what she did was foolish. But she attempted to talk to some of these people. And of course, they spit on her. They cough in her face. They put microphones right in her face. They just, there are these people not interested in the conversation. They're incapable of a conversation. In fact, frankly, they're deserving of a punch in the mouth or worse, really. Well, considerably worse. You know, I mean, these are people, so you've got your political idiots, and then you've just got your basic criminal people who like take over streets and do burnouts and make people. People get hurt. They always come up as, you know, there's guns there. And so what they want to do is they want to chat with these people.

And I found the whole concept so ridiculous. But what made it much more interesting, of course, was that some people may have heard of this murder in England of a guy named Henry Nook, who. a young white guy who got murdered by a Sikh who stabbed him to death. And when the police arrived, they handcuffed the stabbing victim and stood there and let him bleed to death. Well, because it was assumed that because Henry Noak was a white guy, that if there was any racism involved, he would be the racism. He would be the racist. There's only whites can be racist. Everybody else had to be coddled, so to speak.

That's their policy. He's lying there handcuffed, saying I can't breathe. the cops are saying, oh, I don't think so, mate, and he bleeds to death. But what ties it together with this story is that Portland, which has plenty of money, which is why Portland residents will now have their tax increased by another $700 a year, have hired a consultant to address this problem. And a consultant is going to be training the dialogue liaison team. Where do you think the consultant is from?

from England. Oh, are you serious? I'm dead serious. From England? Oh, okay. Yeah, the same country which has completely lost the country, more or less. Right. So who's been traveling back and forth to Portland on Portlanders dime to train the Portland police?

And I have to say, and I kind of said this in the substack, is that I'm at the point now where, quite honestly, I'm playing this on the feet of the cops. You know, when you suddenly get a new boss, like the idiot who is the chief of police of Portland, now, who also owns a DEI company and cries when he thinks about any leftist being heard, if that's your boss and he's the new guy and he comes in and he gives you orders that are ridiculous, well, you're a cop, right? It's a military kind of organization and you've got to do what you're told. That's the deal. But this has been going on for years and years and years now. And the social contract is The government no longer holds up its end of the bargain, which means is to provide at least some semblance of water. Well, yeah, the whole idea was that Portland or many of the other cities don't want us carrying our gun with us because, you know, gun violence, you know, that sort of thing. But part of that contract is that they stop you from getting stabbing and rapings and various other, getting hit by pipes by Antifa people, you know, that sort of thing. That's the bargain, usually, isn't it? For years now, anybody who's a Portland cop knows this is the deal. It started with the riots, 2020, but basically the cops already are ridiculously passive in Portland. They're already ignoring

people who need help. But if you're a cop and you've been around since that period of time, you know that what you're, you've been neutered and you have no purpose and you basically a government stooge. So other cities are hiring, but the weird thing is, is that cops are. are actually leaving other departments to go to Portland, which when I was told this by cops, stunned me because I thought, what cop in his right mind wants to work in that environment. Well, something tells me all it is is that it's the paycheck now. Right, exactly. And so cops for whom I've always had the deepest respect and have been very supportive of, I've worked on bills to protect cops, I'm sorry, but if you're a Portland cop

and you've watched this go on for years, you are the problem. You're absolutely the problem. You don't have to respond violently, but you find a new line of work. And I don't want to hear, you know, I'm only obeying orders while little old ladies are having their cars attacked by pipe wheeling thugs, and you have white shirts coming out to dialogue with them. You know, at some point, you have to say this is just frankly insane, but you can't be insane enough for Portland. You can't say to Portland, how stupid can you be because they take that as a challenge. And now Portlanders get to pay even more for this. You know, Kevin, I was talking a little bit earlier that the Wright's response to this is somewhat laughable to these kind of situations. And I don't exactly know where the out or the pathway to insanity is.

But I'll give you the classic example is that, you know, the guy tattoo, Nazi tattoo boy, remember him? Boy, there's so many. No, no, Nazi tattoo boy who won the Senate race. And he's going to be running for Senate in Maine. Oh, yeah, absolutely. Glenn Platner, yeah. Yeah, yeah, Platner. And the thing is, and they were grilling someone from Southern Poverty Law Center yesterday.

Yeah. And doing this whole thing about, well, you know, what do you think about this guy with a Nazi tattooed? Wouldn't you be going after him? And then SPLC's drone says, well, I wouldn't vote for him, right? But then the right wing then glorifies itself. They? Look it up. Look it up.

We're not the real racist. They're the real racist. And I get so tired of hearing that kind of stuff because it's not about whether there's hypocrisy or whether they're racist or not. All that matters is about getting power and getting office. and all that matters is getting Susan Collins out because Trump resists Trump. It's by any means necessary. And yet you still kind of have the Marcus of Queensberry Republican-type things that are thinking that it is a sane system that we're in at this moment.

Exactly. That's exactly the problem. They still think it's just a matter of where colleagues show the difference of opinion. But it's interesting to watch the left defend this guy. You know, we've been told for years now, believe women. to leave women. As long as the women are making accusations against Republicans. That's the rule. Because it's about power. It's only about power by any means necessary. That's it, Kevin. It's about power. It's about greed. It's about the acquisition of money. I mean, Bernie Sanders, a good communist who owns six houses, AOC, defending this guy, it's like, oh, that's up to the voters of Maine.

You know, had this guy been a Republican, obviously not only would he have been pilloried by the left, but the media would be tearing him apart. Oh, no, but the Republicans would have been pillorying him, too. Right, exactly. The Republicans never defend their friends if they get themselves in a little trouble, but the Democrats do, no matter what. Well, you know, one would hope that no matter which party you're in, if somebody turns out to be kind of a dirt bag like this, that your own people police him. And, of course, in Oregon, that doesn't happen. I mean, I give you Greg Smith, right, the most scandal-plag legislator in American history. Well, let's just say that essentially crooked.

He's crooked and in a state office, okay? Right. And the party and the caucus won't say anything about it. I mean, the absolute silence. And, of course, the people of Eastern Oregon just reelected him. Well, they reelected because he brings home the bacon, you know, as long as the money comes in for the fire plug or whatever it is, you know, he's fine. And if you're not willing to be honest about your own people, if you're not willing to say,

well, this is not someone I want being our standard. I think he may be wearing my jersey, but this is like the parties have become sort of like the mafia or motorcycle gangs, right? It's like, okay, he's a bad guy, but he's one of our brothers. Well, he's one of our – well, yeah, he has a dirtbag, and he's our dirtbag. It's all it matters, you know. Right. So to watch Sanders and AOC defend this guy is just – it's surreal. Yeah, it is.

The point being, though, is that this is why Republicans in Oregon will continue to lose because it's still about, well, if I just reach across the aisle and I cooperate and I show. just what a great person I is that I am, then they'll come along to my way of thinking. And I have seen no evidence of that happening in the state legislature, which we talk about it. And, well, the party, Connie Wedgill, who's the, the Republican Party chair now, is put something out on social media with the picture of the unity, the unity meeting that all the Republican candidates had. Oh. Right. So, so now you've got, you got Medina and Ed Deal. You've got a Dutch Dudley and Drazen, right? And they all have this wonderful kumbaya session. Well, shortly before the election, Drazen is putting out these despicable hit-hitches on deal. Dudley is threatening to beat

him up on stage, right? And the point I'm trying to make is some of these people are despicable people, period. And the party will not acknowledge that. So we see, okay, so Drazen won, no surprise there, and now we're all going to get behind her. Well, okay, she's a Republican, so theoretically she's going to be better than Kotech. I think that's theoretical. I don't think it's necessarily true. But she shouldn't be there. She's a disgraceful human being, but just because she's wearing our team jersey while we're all behind her. And you know what? Bill, I don't see any solution to this. I really don't. Not in the near future, but I actually do wish that the Republican Party structure was a bit more, was toughened, okay, and would actually come out and take a stand

on things and be a little more controlling of the candidacy vetting. At least that's my opinion for the statewide. Wouldn't you think? Absolutely. I mean, look, look at it was some, Jessica Gomez was a candidate for governor last session, last election cycle. And just, I think, I think you moderated, you may have moderated the debate. I did. She claimed that she had read and agreed with the Republican platform. And yet, she's a militant pro-abort, having a campaign manager who's a militant pro-abort, and the party's like, okay, now, you have no obligation to have a particular position on any issue, like abortion or guns or anything else. But if you're running as a representative of the party, then you should be representing the party. And nobody

cared that she was a leftist being managed by a leftist. And the same thing. And the same thing happens every election cycle. And we see this, that we see this with every election. We've just looked at now. We've got this clown Greg Smith, who will not go away. We've got David Brock Smith, who's the frontrunner. In other words, we've got to clean up our own background, our own pool, so to speak. We really have to do that. And, well, I'm looking at even then that disgusting Dorchester conference. And the thing is, we're always told about, oh, everybody gets together. They're talking about principles and things. Puckwood, RIP, who ended up dying over the weekend, as you have said before, and we've discussed,

he created Dorchester for one purpose and one purpose only, and that was to get the GOP in Oregon to be a pro-abortion party. Was it not? Exactly. And that's the height of the Republican Social calendar, you know, when they're not throwing beer in each other's faces. All right. So we got a lot of work here. It's going to be an interesting time. But at least we can sit and watch the dialogue in Portland here. And by the way, had they actually deployed the white shirts now to negotiate with the Antifa goons? The white shirts have been out there for a while. I don't know if they've been officially part of the dialogue team, but I think they are because that's how they've been identified. You will see them when a car gets surrounded by these thugs. You will see these white

shirt's going over and explaining to the motorists why they're in the wrong, and they should turn around if they can without being brutalized. Of course, I would just tell the motors to turn around or else you're going to get a brick in your windshield, and Portland Police won't do anything about it, but that may not be their job. Probably the best advice would be to gas it, but of course, that's not politically correct. Yeah, indeed. Kevin, I appreciate this. Now, if you want to get your Substack page, what do you do?

Is search for Oregon Firearms Federation on Subsection? Yeah, I think it's Oregon Firearms, 1998. Okay, very good. And I appreciate that. Have safe trip wherever you happen to be going in this world here, and we'll catch you next time. Is there anything new on the legal side of the firearm battle right now in Oregon that we're aware of? Well, nationally, what's new and actually not new is that there's a whole bunch of firearms cases

before the Supreme Court that they just keep relisting and refusing to hear and putting off and putting off and putting off. And there are different opinions on why. Some people believe that this is a good thing because they're waiting to solidify a solidly pro-gun Supreme Court. I don't believe that. I think they just don't want to deal with it. It's a political issue that they're done with. And so every state's got different rules.

You have no idea if you're breaking law when you cross the state line. People's rights are being taken away. People are going to jail for things that are constitutionally protected. And so it's pretty grim. Obviously, we've had a federal case before the ninth circuit. going on years now. And there's no indication of when that will be resolved or if it will be resolved. And of course, the state lawsuit, I think we will not get a decision on that until after the election. I assume the decision would be bad, but they don't want to put that

decision out. Well, there's still Democrats hoping to get elected. Yeah, exactly. All right. Kevin, I appreciate the update. Keep us in the room, though, when anything does happen. All right. We'll do. Thank you, Bill. Kevin Stair at Oregon Firearms Federation, Oregonfirearms.org, firearms.org, firearms.orgie, on the Bill Meyer show. One of each, Seltos, Venn, 9173-08-8-36-0-8-36. Tailuride, Venn, 0-0-3-6-8-39, do it. Signing 10K miles per year, zero security deposit, all incentives and discounts to dealer plus tax, title, license, 153, registration, processing fee, trading in a vehicle will not eliminate your debt.

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on 1063 KMED. It's 20B48. Appreciate you listening here. This wheels up Wednesday. Join me in studio is Ron Halkievallo. Sometimes you call yourself Ron Park because names can be a little challenging, right, Ron?

More certainly, yes. Yeah, certainly. it's great to have you on here. Ron is a platelet donor, a donor rather, and you're bringing some attention to an issue that's developing over at the American Red Cross, and this has to do with is it, is it to pronounce the Ephesus Department? Is that he pronounced that? That is correct. This is the afferisus department at the Medford Center for the American Red Cross, and it came as a complete blindsiding surprise about, I would say, two weeks ago that they had made a decision to shut down that particular aspect of their center. Yeah, and the Aforesis department, not to get too technical,

it's not a blood donor place per se, but it is part of it. And you donate blood out of one arm and then the platelets are taken out of it. Correct. Right. And then the serum or the rest of is then return to your body, right? Very well said, yeah. Essentially, apharacis is the process where they do take blood through a needle from one arm, goes into a centrifuge, and they could either extract platelets or plasma. And I also believe double red cells, depending on the donor. And through a needle in the other arm from the centrifuge, the rest of the blood is put back into your body.

it allows a platelet donor to donate as frequently as every seven to eight days or maybe 10 days. The process itself of taking the blood, passing it through the centrifuge is about a two to two and a half hour process. And you've done this several times for years, apparently? For decades, I have done this. Decades, wow. platelets in particular is a component of blood that is most required by either burn victims or people undergoing cancer chemotherapy. So a lot of the immune properties of blood will come through the platelets and the oxygen, etc.

Okay. So this was kind of blindsided them. And then many people, maybe a couple hundred people do this, have been doing this at the American Red Cross, right? My guesstimate, because these numbers are not given out, could be as many as 300, could be a couple hundred plus or minus. Okay, all right. So they've been donating for a long time here. American Red Cross is shutting this down. What was the reason given? What's happening? They do not really give a reason. I guess from the hints I could pick up. It is mainly a issue of logistics and cost.

Platelets have a very, very short lifespan to be used. Yeah, just a few days, I guess. Yes, like about five days. So essentially, from what I understand, they are taken to Portland overnight, and that's where they make certain that it's good enough to give to the general public. They undergo some tests,

and from there on, they are shipped out. Now, I believe it could be that even though this Medford Center meets and exceeds the amount of platelets required from a center, for some reason, the Red Cross has chosen to shut it down, thereby depriving the entire Rogue Valley donors from being able to donate. I would imagine some of this has to do with a reigning cost in, and budgets are probably tough everywhere. American Red Cross, no exception. But what you had mentioned is that they normally have to ship them out. And normally Monday through Friday, the platelets that you folks will all donate would end up being combined with the other blood donation, the blood donor program there. And then they get shipped up to Portland, right?

And I think the issue is that the platelet donation, theaparic's department, is also open on the weekend. Is that the rub here they were talking about? Yes, this is all my understanding from what little I've gleaned. I could be wrong, but I believe that is one of the primary causes. My approach to this is we do not let problems like these shut down things. We have, I'm sure, ways and means of being able to come up with a more palatable solution. They're going to be laying off over about a half a dozen nurses and phlebotomists. At the Red Cross Center, okay.

Just because of this shutdown here, this proposed shutdown, what's July? It's supposed to happen? The last day is June 30th. Okay. And it is so abrupt on everybody. Economic times are hard. And I would think there could be some kind of middle ground where maybe they keep this open for five days. a week. Maybe they keep it open for three days a week. Oh, okay. So instead of expecting to spend

more money and send, is it like a little refrigerated kind of cube that is mailed? Okay, yeah. Instead of having to mail it up on the weekend with Portland, maybe just do it during the week with the regular blood? Sure. Blood thing. Okay. That's a reasonable. Have you brought that up with the folks at the Red Cross? I have brought this up with the powers that we have written to them emails. and I have also written to about six different mayors of cities in the Rogue Valley because it is their constituents who also will be not having the privilege of donating platelets, plasma, whatever. Is there a possibility, Ron, I'm just asking questions. You may not know the answer to this or not, but is there not as much of a market for it to?

And maybe they're just looking at a cost versus benefit that American Red Cross doesn't see the need for it as much. much as perhaps regular blood donation. Well, no. In fact, it is the other way around. Really? Us platelet donors are constantly bombarded with phone calls and emails to say there is a dire need for platelets and please go in and donate again because less than 3% of our general population donate blood and out of which there's a minor... Even a smaller number that donate the platelets from the sounds of it because it takes time.

Yeah. And let me just say this to, it's actually a fun process. It's more fun than giving whole blood because you basically walk in there, you're screened, you've filled out the paperwork, you are put into a comfortable chair, and they start to put in the needle, take the blood, you're watching a movie or some TV program for the next couple of hours. You don't even realize there's a needle in your arm. And you have to have a little. have a couple of snacks afterwards. You talk to the really friendly nurses and phlebotomists. I think the key to be made here, though, is that you don't get paid. These are donors, right? It's free. Absolutely. So you just do it out of the goodness of your heart or your blood, so to speak.

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9 before 8. I'm back with Ron Polkjavala, and he's a longtime donor of not plasma, but of platelets or the American Red Cross, and they're shutting down the Afareas Department, which ends up doing this. I can't say I know a lot about this process, which is why I'm trying to find out more. But needless to say, it's going to shut down the end of the month, and I imagine costs have something to do with this, and we're back with the... him and people have some comments or questions on this David, Sonny David's here. David, you're with Ron and you have a question or two. You know about this?

I do. First of all, Ron, thank you for coming to America. You're the people we need here. God bless you. You deserve a real American salute. Okay. We'll give them one. Anyways, my understanding is the Red Cross used registered nurses and not. phlebotomous and I'm wondering if that could be part of the problem and my second question is for the platelet a lot of people go to one of these biological places where they give the plate list and they do it for getting paid and I'm wondering what you're if you think that has any effect on this yeah what would you say to that yeah Ron so is it registered nurses or phlebotomist

Well, the first things first, it's a privilege to be an American. Let me get to that. Let me start out with that. It is by far the best country on earth, and it is a work in progress, and I am just so privileged to be here. Second question, answer to your question, no, the Red Cross does use phlebotomists. In fact, there is, I believe, one or two nurses and the rest of them are phlebotomists. This is my understanding.

And the last point that you mentioned, there are commercial places that take plasma and they pay for that. I choose to donate and not expect any reimbursement. That's why I go to the Red Cross. and occasionally the Red Cross will send you home with t-shirts or baseball caps or... Yeah, minor little prizes. As a little thank you, but nothing, it's not a paid service. Okay. Did that answer your question correctly here?

Well, I'm just wondering if that's the reason they're shutting down the plasma is done about people. They're going to the stabbing lab. I don't know. But in other words, is there less interest from your observation in donating at American Red Cross as contrasted to the place that may be paying for plasma, let's say? Well, but that could only be plasma. It's not for platelets if that is the case. So platelets, your ephoresis process is separate from the paying plasma donation. Yes, the centers that pay for it.

Yeah. Thank you very much for the call, David. Appreciate that. Scott's here too. Scott, you've done this before, haven't you? Oh, yes. Me and myself and my wife, Teresa, you know, the Black Belt Samurai Sense, which, yeah, anyway. Yeah, don't mess with her, okay? All right.

Yeah, we do this. And also, I used to transport product. And the thing is, there is demand, and there's plenty of supply now, which is awesome. And thank you. He is a truly a real. rural American to come here and spend two and a half hours sometimes. I have to wear a diaper. I have to wear a diaper because I have to go pee, you know, and a lot of his drivers wear diapers. Okay. So, yeah, I wouldn't mind. I'm partially retired now, a volunteer in my time and driving

to Portland and back. I would need fuel, but I could drive the Mercedes-Benz from effort and do that. So I guess it's one of those things where you would, maybe there's a way to, reduce the cost on the American Red Cross that they can keep this going then, is what you're thinking. Contact me through the radio station if they would like me to run back and forth the Portland. I've done it several times. Yeah. And it is an expense.

They have to be all certified nurses mostly, is true. And this is saving lives. They don't want a product that's damaged with AIDS or anything like that. All right. Hey, Scott, I appreciate to take it. And we'll put that down as maybe a suggestion to bring over to the Red Cross, but, yeah, there maybe are some ways of getting around it. You know, Ron, back to what you were suggesting, maybe the best compromise of all might be to,

you know, since there's already a shipment going up Monday through Friday with the people donating blood to the American Red Cross, maybe if we just skip the weekend, the weekend thing, and has, is there anybody we can talk to at the American Red Cross to maybe make this suggestion? Of course, this may be a decision that is made up and higher up in the food chain, so to speak, in the corporate structure. I don't know. More than likely, it has been made up higher in the food chain. But at this point, I'm not willing to let it go. Just like the previous caller said, I am willing to drive to Portland maybe once every two weeks and in a rotation to take the product over there.

I'm willing to do it at my own expense. Wow. I'm willing to, I am willing to maybe have them reduce it from seven days a week to five days, even three days a week. Because by shutting it down completely, they are denying this opportunity to anybody in the Rogue Valley. The only other alternative for a person like me that is passionate to want to give is to drive a minimum four hours, spend three hours there. Because as the previous caller said, two hours is two and a half hours is what it takes. And then there is a precursor to that where they go through everything with you. And then you have to drive four hours.

That'd be an 11-hour day. And I don't think that is really feasible. So I'm sure there is some compromise we could reach and make this thing continue to grow. These are hard economic times and laying off a half a dozen people at the Red Cross just like that. No matter what their reasoning is, is not right. I noticed that you had copied not just me and other media members, but also various city councils and mayors here in Southern Oregon. Have any of them responded or has anyone gotten back in touch with you and say, hey, maybe we can put a little political thumb on the scale and see if we can find a way to make this work? Unfortunately, so far I have not heard back from any of the mayors of any of these places.

I contacted the mayor of Medford, Ashland, Central Point, Talent, Phoenix, Grand Spass. And I would hope that they could put their collective weight behind this and figure out a way to help out the Red Cross maybe and to make it happen. But also, to give them their due, it's only been about four days since I have come to know of this and only been less than 24 hours for them to, respond back. But I do hope that they are listening and I do hope that they will collectively persuade the Red Cross to do this because it affects all their constituents. Yeah, all the constituents, yeah, here in the Road Valley. Very interesting. Ron, I appreciate you bringing this attention to me and to our listeners here and see if there's a way. Would you suggest we get in touch with the Red Cross management? That would be wonderful. It really would carry

a lot of weight. Okay. All right. Very good. American Red Cross at the Metford Blood Donation Center. They're going to be closing the Aforesis Department at the end of this month. And unless there's something else figured out, and that's what Ron Palki Vala is making it his mission. Ron, I really appreciate you coming in and appreciate your dedication to the cause, too. Really do. Thank you. It has been a privilege all along. Ron Palki Vala. It is 8 o'clock, and this is KMED. KMED. KMED

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