Angel Lovemore

Angel Lovemore Statement (approx. feburary 2026)

Introduction

I plead not guilty to all allegations. I argue that allegations either lack documentation of measurable effects, are hyperbolic and false, or are protected rights of assembly and self-expression. The physical assault allegation is false due to no measurable harm. The electronic misconduct allegation is false due to consent to terms of service and lack of evidence. Disruptive behavior & harassment is a false, hyperbolic description of institutionally and constitutionally protected rights of assembly, free speech, and self-expression.

Physical Assault Allegation

For physical assault, there are two categories: causes harm (intentionally or negligently) and intends or threatens to cause harm or imminent danger. I believe both of these allegations are false. They are false because there was no measurable effect of harm, nor were there any expressions of intending to cause harm or imminent danger. To avoid a semantic shift, I remind you that “harm” is defined as “physical bodily injury”.

The law of cause and effect is a foundational law of logic and science. The law of cause and effect simply says that all causes have measurable effects. If harm was caused, then it follows that there was a measurable effect. Therefore, I ask if there are any observations of an injury, such as red marks, bruises, or urgent care visits. If harm cannot be measured, harm could not have been caused, for all causes have measurable effects. If evidence of an effect on the body is not found, then I believe logic – and the law of cause and effect – entails that there was no harm caused. Is there any documentation (i.e., photos, medical receipts, etc.) of physical bodily harm at the time of the alleged incident?

As for intention, my intention was to protest peacefully and to leave without causing harm. This is evident by the protest signs and the fact that I left the room when a bystander announced campus security. I was never told to leave, but I left due to the bystander's announcement as it implied I was no longer welcomed. The physical evidence (i.e., signs, notecards) shows my intention was aimed toward peaceful protest, not physical assault.

I conclude that a charge of physical assault is irrational, anti-scientific, and evidenceless considering the fact that no measurements of bodily injury are documented. Punishment without evidence is unjust and biased. In fact, the only measurable evidence (i.e., signs, notecards) reveals that I intended to protest peacefully rather than cause physical bodily injury.

Electronic or digital misconduct allegation

The phrase “campaign of harassment” is a false and hyperbolic description. It may refer to my self-expression that falls within terms of service on Discord.com. Discord is a social media platform, which is an off-campus, public location where free speech applies.

Discord is a public forum with terms of service. All messages on discord are consensual as each member agrees to the terms of service. Furthermore, I never received email or direct message from any members of the philosophy club that I was harassing them. Additionally, discord users are free to block others they do not consent to communicating, similar to any other social media platforms. I would never intentionally harass others online.

To note, I believe Tam Bradley and Avery Clark excluded me from their Discord server due to their hatred of men. I was banned for expressing my concerns of misandry (i.e., hatred of men). Despite citing academic research, I was discriminated against from the Philosophy Club due to a protected characteristic (i.e., my male gender or sex). Additionally, Tam verbally abused me by insulting my intelligence (e.g., Your inability to read... is reflective on your faculties”, “if you continue this ignorance, you will be removed.”,“rant and spam, nothing philosophically coherent”, “ignorant”).

To conclude, all users agree to Discord terms of service, which includes consenting to receiving messages from others – potentially anyone – in public chats. Also, there is no evidence or accusation of hacking, abuse of equipment, or surveillance.

Disruptive behavior allegation

I attended a club meeting and expressed myself, both of which are basic rights as a PSU student. I am free to attend club meetings and express myself. Exercising one's right to attend club meetings, or expressing oneself freely, should not count as disruptive behavior. Otherwise, charging it as so violates basic rights and protections such as freedom of speech and freedom of assembly.

I was never told by club officers to leave or not attend. The club officers listened to my self-expression. Indeed, Officer Avery Clark told me, “Let's talk,” and “I never told you couldn't attend,” indicating they were receptive rather than disrupted by my self-expression.

When a bystander mentioned “campus security”, I left immediately. This indicates that I left as soon as my self expression was unwanted. Notably, I was never told to leave by officers or bystanders, rather I left on my own accord. Leaving as soon as possible is the opposite of disruptive behavior. I believe the club meeting continued as normal after my departure, indicating that the club meeting was not disrupted.

I did not disrupt teaching, classroom activities, research, administrative functions, or disciplinary procedures.

Harassment allegation

I have a good, legitimate purpose to exercise my constitutionally protected right of protest and free speech. The purpose is free speech and civic participation. This includes activity on discord.com or displaying signs. While the signs may provoke emotional distress to some individuals, I believe civic participation is a legitimate purpose for displaying these signs. Self-expression is a protected right under PSU free speech policy and US constitution. There is no intention to cause physical or emotional distress, rather an intention to exercise constitutionally protected rights.

Conclusion

I ask you to consider the lack of evidence of any bodily harm. I ask that you consider the PSU free speech policy and US constitution as evidence of my protected right to free expression. I ask that you view the evidence of the protest signs for practicing my protected right to free speech. I also ask you to consider the Discord term of service which is evidence of consensual messages with all users in accordance to their terms. Consider the fact that I left as soon as discontent was expressed by a bystander, and the fact that Avery Clark told me: “let's talk”. The preponderance of evidence should sway you to the fact that I was exercising my rights as a student and US citizen and that many of the allegations against me are groundless and lacking measurable, physical evidence.

Angel Lovemore [email protected] May 13th, 2026

Dear Conduct:

The accusation that I refused to comply with requests by university officials is false. This is because the staff at the Millar Price Library gave me a library card, visitor pass, and allowed me to check out books. They gave explicit permission for me to use the library. If given a visitor pass by university officials, how could visiting the library be non-compliant? Obeying a visitor’s pass is obviously compliant. I was complying with the explicit permission given by the university officials. Additionally, Jordan Banks of Student Conduct did not inform me that I was banned from the Miller price library, nor did he give me a map of the buildings that I was banned from. These facts support that I was given incomplete and contradictory information by Conduct and the Millar Price Library staff. Therefore, either I was in compliance with university officials, or compliance was impossible as the information given was contradictory and incomplete. In either case, it’s false that I refused to comply with university officials.

In American tradition, libraries are open to the public. They are open to the public specifically to oppose censorship from tyrannical leaders. For PSU to exclude undesirables from the library is to reenact the nightmare of tyranny that haunted America’s Founding Fathers. The library is a symbol of equality of opportunity and meritocracy, where anyone has an equal chance to learn if they choose to exert the effort to study. The library is a place for everyone, regardless of status, such as status as a student or non-student. The library has always been a symbol for peace and wisdom. Additionally, another anti-american injustice is the very pretense for my campus exclusion: the crime of protest, a 1st amendment protection. This is a betrayal considering that Portland State University is publicly funded by taxpayers of Oregon. Banning taxpayers from a public library for merely protesting censorship in another building is grave injustice and a flagrant betrayal to American values. It is the epitome of tyranny and censorship. It is the silencing of Americans from reading and expressing themselves.

Is campus exclusion social death? To die is to cease activity in a given space and time. Life is defined in terms of space, too. No matter where you are, there you are. You occupy a space. You live at home, at work, or occupy a vehicle. In all cases, you exist in a place, a city, a state, a nation, the earth. Therefore, exclusion from a space is a form of death, a cessation of your physical activity. In fact, the academic term is structural violence, also legal discrimination.

Conduct is engaged in systemic violence and discrimination. The evolutionary selection pressures at PSU are such that bullies remain at PSU, while professors (i.e., Professor Peter Boghossian and Professor Yasmeen Hanoosh) and student protesters (i.e., Makayla “Topaz” Arnold and David Mosqueirae) are excluded. Professors and researchers are effectively killed from the PSU environment as a direct result of anti-intellectualism and censorship. Conduct is making PSU an environment hostile to the American mind and soul, where the free speech advocates are killed, and the tyrants, bullies, and silencers thrive.

My hope is that Conduct cultivates intellectualism and free speech. Therefore, I advise Student Conduct to overturn their previous decisions and cease further disciplinary actions toward me. Also, I hope they change their anti-American, tyrannical attitude such that future patriotic Americans, protestors, students, and professors are spared from Conduct’s discrimination and structural violence. While I’m not naive to this low likelihood, I still hope that Conduct will see the error in disciplining professors, student protestors, and library-goers. I hope Conduct will stop bludgeoning students like myself: founders of clubs, members of the honors college, writers of undergraduate research, and staunch advocates of the deeply American value of free speech. If Conduct continues to aggressively target these students, PSU’s regional and national reputation is frankly appalling and treasonous to Oregonians and Americans alike.

Sincerely,

Angel Lovemore

World Population Analysis

What on Earth is happening? That’s the question that I will answer today as I review the population dynamics of countries around the globe. I will review the Population Reference Bureau’s 2023 and 2024 World Population Data Sheets because they reveal surprising patterns of economic well-being and population between various countries. The Population Reference Bureau (PRB) is a credible organization that has gathered global demographic information for nearly one-hundred years. You should consider the similarities and differences of economic well-being and population between countries around the world.

Population growth differs significantly between More Developed and Less Developed countries (PRB, 2023). One difference is the Rate of Natural Increase. The Rate of Natural Increase gets larger with less development. More specifically, Less Developed countries have double the births than Developed Countries (i.e., 18 out of 1,000 compared to 9 out of 1,000), and the Least Developed countries have nearly quadruple the births than Developed Countries (i.e., 32 out of 1,000 compared to 9 out of 1,000). Notably, Developed Countries have more deaths than births, which makes their Rate of Natural Increase in the negative (i.e., RNI -0.2). A negative rate indicates a declining or shrinking population. Population growth seems to correlate directly with the degree of development such that the least development strongly correlates with population growth.

One fact is surprising. The population in the global south is growing. The Rate of Natural Increase for Least Developed countries is 2.4 (PRB, 2024). This number is in the positive which means the population is increasing. Due to the fact that most births are in Least Developed countries, any given person is most likely to be born in a less developed country than a most developed country. Also, migration is coming from the Global South to Global North, so a child who is born in the Global South will likely seek to move to the Global North. In other words, the average person will be born in a place they will find unsatisfactory and will want to move elsewhere. The hypothetical person will find themselves born in poor families due to no fault of their own. This fact is surprisingly pessimistic and relatable.

Significant differences between Europe and Africa are their population growth and economic well-being. For context, the Rate of Natural Increase (RNI) measures population growth, and Gross National Income (GNI) per capita at Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) measures economic well-being. The rates for each are different in Africa and Europe. Africa’s RNI is 2.3, and Europe’s RNI is -0.3 (PRB, 2024). The difference in RNI indicates that Africa’s native population is growing whereas Europe’s native population is shrinking. The GNI per capita at PPP in Europe is 54,028; in Africa, it’s 6,394. This means that the income of an average European has the purchasing power 8.4 times greater than the income of an average African. To put simply, Africa is a global leader in starting families and child-rearing, and Europe is a global leader in high income and strong currency. Indeed, there is a disparity of population growth and economic well-being between Africa and Europe.

Consequences exist for the disparity of population growth and economic well-being between Africa and Europe. For Europe’s declining population, it logically follows that less people means less workers. Indeed, Charles Kenny and George Yang at the Center for Global Development wrote, “There will be 95 million fewer working-age people in Europe in 2050 than in 2015, under business as usual” (Kenny & Yang, 2021). Kenny writes that African-migrants could fill in the gap of workers, which will be a mutual benefit due to Africa’s growing working class and Europe’s increasing labor scarcity. However, Kenny also mentions that automation, women, elderly, or outsourced workers could fill in the gap as well. In short, the current trends have global consequences for Europeans and Africans.

Researcher Panu Poutvaara at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich found an interesting connection between globalization and population dynamics. She writes, “International migration flows largely reflect demographic patterns and economic opportunities. Migration flows increase in expected income and other pull factors in potential destinations, and in push factors in the origin, like high unemployment, low wages, and high population growth.” Poutvaara makes the observation that migration has a push and pull. This is a profound observation because it’s very useful for analyzing local migration in the United States. One can predict that areas in the US that have low wages, high unemployment, and high population growth are likely to “push” residents out. On the flip side, areas with high wages and older population can expect to “pull” newcomers in.

This is useful information in many areas such as deciding where to buy a home. An unwise investment may be to buy a home in an area with high unemployment, low wages, and high birth rate due to the declining economy and large distance from available jobs. According to migration-flow logic, the best place to live and work in Oregon would likely be Clackamas county for its “sweet spot” position of being the high wage (i.e., 3rd highest wage rate in Oregon), slightly aged population, and low unemployment (Williams, 2018)(BLS, 2025)(OED, 2025). To note, Tillamook County is another second candidate for its low unemployment rate and much older population, despite their reduced wages compared to Clackamas. The worst place to live and work in terms of migration flow would be Umatilla County for its young population (i.e., 2nd youngest county in Oregon), elevated unemployment rate (i.e., 5.1% to 5.9%), and diminished earnings (i.e., $1,150 to $1,220 per week). Malheur County is the 4th youngest county and earns even less than Umatilla and suffers from high unemployment rates. To reiterate, migration flow is interestingly connected to globalization and population dynamics.

Economic well-being and population demographics are strongly correlated. The population and economies of countries have a global impact, such as African-migration to Europe. Similarly, economies and populations have a regional impact, such as the population and economy of Clackamas county (i.e., older, higher-income, employed) compared to Umatilla county (i.e., younger, lower-income, unemployed). The patterns of economic well-being and population between countries around the world is incredibly important for understanding global and local politics.

Works Cited

Bureau of Labor Statistics, County Employment and Wages in Oregon — Fourth Quarter 2025, Chart 3. Average weekly wages by county in Oregon, fourth quarter 2025, retrieved from https://www.bls.gov/regions/west/news-release/2026/countyemploymentandwages_oregon_20260609.htm

Kenny, Charles and George Yang. “Can Africa Help Europe Avoid Its Looming Aging Crisis?” (2021). https://www.cgdev.org/publication/can-africa-help-europe-avoid-looming-aging-crisis

Oregon Employment Department, September 2025 Employment and Unemployment in Oregon’s Counties, retrieved from https://www.oregon.gov/employ/NewsAndMedia/Documents/2025-12-16-Press-Release-Labor-Force-and-Unemployment-by-Area.pdf

The Population Reference Bureau. 2023 World Population Data Sheet. Population Reference Bureau, Washington, D.C., 2023 https://www.prb.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/2023-World-Population-Data-Sheet-Booklet.pdf T he Population Reference Bureau. 2024 World Population Data Sheet. Population Reference Bureau, Washington, D.C., 2024 https://2024-wpds.prb.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/2024-World-Population-Data-Sheet-Booklet-1.pdf

Poutvaara, Panu, Population Aging and Migration. IZA Discussion Paper No. 14389, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3855953

Williams, Kale, Which Oregon counties have the youngest, oldest residents?, The Oregonian, Feb. 28, 2018, 12:08 p.m. Retrieved from https://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/2018/02/which_oregon_counties_have_the.html

Should America continue allowing new immigrants or should stop them from coming? Why? Why Not?

I have a lot of thoughts on immigration in the United States. Immigration can increase productivity and economic prosperity, but it can also increase competition, spread diseases, and disturb local populations. Immigrants need to be transported first and foremost, and transportation technology has much more devastating effects than immigration. No one can talk about immigration with clarity without first talking about transportation. Transportation was essential for the slave trade, colonialism, wars, and so on. Nevertheless, I believe Americans should still permit both transportation and immigration on the caveat that they offset the consequences of transportation and immigration as well. Americans should offset the negative externalities of migration and transportation by creating incentives for local participation.

People are productive because they are propelled by their will-to-live to continue living. The continuance of life is effortful as explained by Newton’s Laws of Motion. Newton’s 1st Law of Motion is that work is needed to move against friction, gravity, and decay. In addition, people aren’t meandering aimlessly. People need to navigate to acquire resources to survive. To navigate is to move intelligently, which is another way to say that navigation is productive and meaningful work. The desire to survive will naturally propel people to move and navigate, thereby being meaningfully productive. So, an increase in people would naturally lead to an increase in productivity.

Transportation technology is an unnatural and recent phenomenon. Relatively recently in human history, many transportation technologies were invented. Technologies include trains, cars, airplanes, ships & vessels, motorbikes & bicycles, roads, wagons, and carriages. Transportation technologies give a super-human ability to travel large distances in a short time. While humans naturally desire to move and navigate, they do not naturally move at super-human speeds with relatively little effort.

Transportation technology produces disease. Obesity, cancer, lead-poisoning, accidents, and pandemics are consequences of transportation. Obesity is caused due to the “little effort” aspect of transportation technology. The average human body adapted to the effort required to move itself, and without self-exerted effort, the human body begins to dysfunction. Dysfunction in the body is another word for disease. As for pandemics, the pathogens of an infected, traveling person hitch a free ride across large distances in a short time. Pandemics result from the motion of infected peoples, such as the smallpox epidemic in the New World from Europeans who traveled via sailing ships (Pringle, 2015). Finally, motor vehicles are a leading cause of death-by-accident as well as the origin of lead poisoning until the ban of 1996 (McFarland, 2024). Transportation creates dysfunctions in the body and spreads diseases at high speeds.

Migration is a function of transportation. According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, the definition of migration is “movement of animals…,” “movement of people…”, and “movement from one part of something to another.” The commonality of these definitions is the word “movement.” The definition of transportation reads as “a system or means of conveying people or goods.” The words migration and transportation are near synonyms, where transportation has an additional connotation of carrying something. In short, the improvement of transportation would, by definition, improve the ability to carry people from places and thereby increase migration. In short, another de facto consequence of transportation technology – aside from spreading and producing disease – is migration.

Rapid migration has consequences on communities in local areas. One example of this is the political migration called Free State Project. The Free State Project is a group of American Libertarians in the 2000’s who decided to migrate to New Hampshire in order to change the voting demographics of the area. Critical to their project, they explicitly and consciously chose a small U.S. state where the migrant population could meaningfully change the voting outcomes. This resulted in tension with the original, local community in New Hampshire who did not consent to the political migration project that could affect their legislation.

Rapid migration is disorientating. It can result in a loss of memory because the newcomers are disconnected from the culture, geography, and history of the land. Indeed, page 167 of the class’ textbook affirms that residents can become disconnection from each other: “United States is now completing its transformation into a mosaic culture, an increasingly heterogeneous complex of separate, more or less uniform “tiles” whose residents spend less time than ever interacting and “melting”” (De Blij, 2016). In addition to alienation, poverty can result. This is because the newcomers aren’t integrated in the networks of resources as a native resident would be. Additionally, the newcomers can introduce new competition. Even sexual competition, girlfriends and boyfriends in otherwise harmonious relationships could be jeopardized by an appealing newcomer, who is alienated from the culture and unnaturally available due to superhuman modes of transportation. The increase in sexual competition as a result of transportation technology could explain the rapid rise in divorce rates from the early to late 20th century. Indeed, the definition of divorce is “separation”, such as the idioms ‘parting ways’, ‘moving on’, and ‘creating distance’ – much like the meaning of migration and transportation. Interestingly, the definition of disorient is “to lose the sense of time, place, or identity”. In short, migration very well makes someone lose their sense of time, place, and identity.

An immigration ban is problematic for many reasons. One reason is that it doesn’t solve the ‘disorientation’ problem of migration because disorientation from time and place originates from transportation technology, rather than migrants themselves. So, a proper ban on immigration would be a ban on transportation. However, this would lead to a restrictive and ascetic economy. In other words, a ban on transportation, or immigrants, would be self-imposed poverty. However, in exchange, there would be an increase in cultural identity and sense of orientation. North Korea is an example of a ban of immigration, and as a consequence, they have a strong sense of identity at the cost of self-imposed poverty compared to other countries. Another problem with a ban of immigration is a deprivation of liberty which is another key characteristic of a society like North Korea with restrictive immigration laws. In general, an immigration ban is unsatisfactory because it is authoritarian, impoverishing, and ineffective.

America should welcome immigrants, but they should increase incentives for connection to local areas and communities. One incentive is free, hot food. People tend to bond over food. Similarly, cities can legalize street vendors so that city dwellers can go outside and socialize. Frequently going outside to specific places will familiarize people and create a sense of orientation of time, place, and identity. Another nice consequence of familiarizing people over food is connecting newcomers to networks of resources so that they aren’t at risk of poverty from being disconnected to the community. America should create more opportunities for local connection, rather than ban immigration.

In summary, immigration is a symptom of rapid technological growth. Technologies that surpass human abilities create unintended consequences, like obesity or epidemics. Immigration in America is a transition to a new age of global humanity, connected together by global technology. Humans evolved in very small areas, and they have to adjust to a global area. Immigration should be allowed, but there is a lot of adjusting to do in the new global environment.

References

De Blij, Harm J., Peter O. Muller, and Jan Nijman. Geography: realms, regions, and concepts —Sixteenth edition. 2014. ISBN 978-1-118-67395-9 (hardback)

McFarland, Michael J., Aaron Reuben, Matt E. Hauer. “Contribution of Childhood Lead Exposure to Psychopathology in the U.S. Population over the Past 75 Years,” Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, December 4, 2024. DOI: 10.1111/jcpp.14072

Pringle, Heather. How Europeans brought sickness to the New World: Isolated tribes who emerge today face echoes of the epidemics that began in 1492 and were repeated for centuries. Science Magazine. 4 Jun 2015, doi: 10.1126/science.aac6784

Are we dead almost everywhere?

Let me explain the title. Imagine if you could constantly track a guy named Bob. Naturally, Bob only exists at a specific GPS coordinate, like his house or at his work. Therefore, he would not exist at any other coordinate, like Pluto. You notice that Bob does not exist anywhere else except his one location. Is Bob not alive at every other coordinate? I think so. Bob is not alive because Bob literally does not exist there. If you were to observe Pluto, you would conclude that Bob does not exist there. If you agree with me, then Bob is dead everywhere except in one very specific place. In other words, Bob is more dead than alive in terms of areas that they do not occupy.

As a personal anecdote, I've changed a lot as a person over the years. From infant to toddler to teenager to adult. I was different throughout time. Not only physically, but also how others see me, my own internal mental state, and my unique personality. I was a different person almost entirely as an infant. My weight, height, age, demeanor, personality are all different. The only things that remained the same were the causal mechanisms, like birth-date, birth parents, DNA, and specific timeline of events.

Let's assume causation is important for identity. Causation includes birth-date, birth parents, DNA, and specific timeline of events. A timeline of events is defined by time, place, and specific details of the events. The specific details of an event is also like an interaction of matter. So, identity is related to spacetime and interactions. To conclude, you are alive only at a specific time, place, and as a result of all previous interactions.

Let's imagine another scenario. You are hiking on a trail, and on your hike, your body magically splits out a twin. This twin is another body identical to yours. Now, I argue that this second body has to be someone else entirely because of the difference of coordinates. This second body that shares the same DNA, history, and appearance has to be someone else because the second body occupies a slightly different space than you, and this happened the instant that it separated from your body. This would be the case regardless if the second body is alert and orientated or limp and lifeless.

Also, where is this “you” that we are tracking? Is it your body or brain? if the GPS tracker was implanted in the arm, and the arm was sawed off, the arm would no longer be you, and the GPS coordinates would no longer accurately represent you. Therefore, I think the “you” is the brain. In that case, perhaps only neurolink could properly track someone (i.e., assuming you are your brain).

What do you think? Are we dead almost everywhere?