• What a Difference an Administration Makes

    From useapen@21:1/5 to All on Sat May 10 06:38:57 2025
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    Earlier today I wrote about another Biden-era scandal related to human trafficking.

    It turns out that the hotline set up to report incidents to law
    enforcement simply took down the information and essentially deposited it
    in the circular file. The situation was so bad that 40--that is 4-0--
    attorneys general are begging RFK, Jr. to force the hotline to cooperate
    with law enforcement again.

    It's pretty hard to get Republican and Democrat attorneys general to
    cooperate on picking a restaurant, no less to make an appeal to Trump's
    HHS Secretary, the much reviled RFK, Jr.

    I have little worry that RFK, Jr. will get the hotline to do its job,
    whoever manages it (an NGO, of course, was in charge and was getting paid
    by the government to do so). I am confident because, for the first time in years, the focus in Washington is not debunking human trafficking as a conspiracy theory, but on stamping it out.


    JUST NOW: I can join @AGPamBondi and @TheJusticeDept in announcing the
    arrest of over 200 alleged child sex predators in the last week.

    For the last week, the FBI and DOJ have been quietly surging operations
    across 55 field offices to take down criminals who target kids.

    We called this �Operation Restore Justice.�

    Our agents, support teams and partners did excellent work � rescuing 115 children across the country in the process. Their work undoubtedly saved
    lives and protected vulnerable kids from further horrific crimes.

    Operation Restore Justice is a powerful message: If you harm children in America, you will be given no sanctuary. There is nowhere you can hide.

    You will be hunted down, and you will be prosecuted.

    Hunting down predators and prosecuting them? What a novel idea. Under
    Biden the whole point seemed to be importing children from abroad and
    handing them over to the predators while attacking anybody who complained
    as Q-Anon nuts.


    During the whole Sound of Freedom controversy, I was nearly driven insane
    with anger at the Pravda Media and the Democrats, who went into overdrive
    to debunk the very idea that children were being trafficked for sexual or
    other purposes. I believed then and believe today that this politically- motivated slander of good people trying to save children from horrific
    abuse was evil.

    And, to this day, I wonder how many of the "debunkers" were in some way associated with the traffickers, either financially or through ideological loyalty. Anybody criticizing the Biden administration for any reason was a "misinformer" or "conspiracy theorist," regardless of how obviously right
    they were or how just their cause.


    Any decent person should be able to reach across nearly any ideological or party barrier in order to protect children, but we are far past the point
    where mere decency will motivate rabid partisans. I can almost understand turning a blind eye to unfair attacks on adults for political reasons,
    assuming that lives are not destroyed; I cannot and will not forgive
    people who allowed the abuse of children in any way simply to score
    political points.

    This applies to alphabet ideology, immigration policy, or denying human trafficking, which was related to covering up Biden's immigration
    insanity. You don't look away when 300,000 fall through the cracks, many
    of whom HHS handed over to their abusers.


    Pam Bondi has, quite fairly, taken a lot of heat over her overpromising
    and underdelivering on the Epstein Files. Her promises were made in haste,
    and her ridiculous "reveal" of old files was a pathetic stunt.

    But I have (some) faith that the files actually ARE being combed through
    and that abusers will be held accountable. I suspect that a lot of the information won't come out for a while due to law enforcement priorities.
    I don't KNOW that, but if she falls down on THAT job it will be a
    travesty.

    The focus on child sexual abuse we are seeing come out of Justice is comforting, and a big step up from the past four years. Keep the momentum going.

    https://hotair.com/david-strom/2025/05/07/what-a-difference-an- administration-makes-n3802534

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  • From Mitchell Holman@21:1/5 to useapen on Sat May 10 13:38:33 2025
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    useapen <[email protected]> wrote in
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    Earlier today I wrote about another Biden-era scandal related to human trafficking.




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