This has nothing to do with Shannon, but anytime I think about needing to lie to make a point, Shannon is first in my list of doers.
So the federales learned that there was an illegal pot farm using criminal illegal aliens for their workforce.
They raided the farm. While there, word went out that ICE was picking up criminal illegal aliens. This caused the usual suspects to quickly converge to attempt to impede the feds.
This led to Trump ordering federal agents to arrest people who attempt murder on federal officers or impede federal officers in their official duties.
They found slaves on that pot farm. These were children. Not children of the workers, nope, just children that were being used for slave labor on the farm. According to official reports, these children were malnourished and maltreated.
The lies immediately started to flow from Democrats and the evil left.
They are claiming that these children were actually legally working on this farm. The law says that the children of farmers can be given chores and other work on the family farm. This is an exception to child labor laws.
This is why you can find young teenagers working in the family store as well. They are the children of the store owners.
These were children as young as 14 who were given no options. They were not allowed to leave. They were forced to work. This is slavery.
It is pure evil to even suggest that these children wanted to be there.
Next, we can look at the “pot is legal in California!” argument. Yes, it is legal in CA. That farm might even have been licensed under California law. What is also true is that pot is still a controlled substance under federal law.
That makes the pot farm illegal under federal law.
The law in California also prohibits anyone under 18 from working in the pot industry.
As more than one person has said, more and more I am coming to believe that these people are not stupid, they are not morons, they are not ignorant, they are evil.
Several years ago, I coined the First Axiom of Politics. It states:
“The action taken by the individual is not what causes the offense. The political affiliation of the person taking the action is what causes the offense.”
This lying has nothing to do with the children. It has nothing to do with the law. It has nothing to do with protecting immigrants.
It has everything to do with stopping your political opponent. And, if you trash your credibility in the process, well, that is a small price to pay to get your goal of denigrating your political adversary.
As more than one person has said, more and more I am coming to believe that these people are not stupid, they are not morons, they are not ignorant, they are evil.
It goes beyond the old saying, “If your cause is righteous, why lie?”
It goes FAR beyond being simply wrong, or “honestly mistaken”. As I’ve grown fond of saying, “If a person who is ‘honestly mistaken’ is given correction, one of two things will happen: they will cease to be mistaken, or they will cease to be honest.”
A child who misbehaves because they don’t know better isn’t evil. You don’t condemn that child, you correct them. And hopefully they learn the lesson and do better next time.
The Left and the media (but I repeat myself) are not children, and once upon a time might have been simply mistaken. The truth was presented to them, and facts were shown. And yet, they still go ahead with their falsities.
They are no longer mistaken, honestly or not, and cannot credibly hide behind that excuse. That they are still spouting the same false statements after being shown the facts and truth — many times, in some cases — makes them deliberate liars.
They are willfully choosing dishonesty. That makes them evil and deserving of every shred of condemnation heaped upon them.