{"id":77382,"date":"2021-04-07T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-07T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=77382"},"modified":"2021-04-05T06:34:26","modified_gmt":"2021-04-05T11:34:26","slug":"lies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=77382","title":{"rendered":"Lies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>I&#8217;m told sex trafficking is a huge problem, particularly during sporting events.\u00a0 The Star Tribune says pipeline workers in\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.startribune.com\/pipeline-workers-among-those-arrested-in-sex-trafficking-sting\/600026984\/\" target=\"_blank\">Duluth engage in sex trafficking<\/a>, which is grounds to shut down the pipeline that the Indians don&#8217;t like. And now we have a conviction for sex trafficking a minor during the NCAA Final Four, State v. Abdulazeez, see attached.<\/p><p>Except . . . there was no sex, no minor child, nobody trafficked, in either incident.\u00a0 They&#8217;re both undercover police sting operations aimed at ordinary prostitution Johns.\u00a0 The cops neither liberated a trafficked person nor jailed a trafficker. Which tells me that sex trafficking MAY be a problem, but the official statistics cannot be used to support that claim. They are as unreliable as Covid statistics and good only for one thing: demanding more funding.<\/p><p>It&#8217;s like the guy in the Target parking lot who wants to panhandle five bucks because he&#8217;s out of gas and his girlfriend is pregnant and they&#8217;re trying to get home to St. Louis to see his ailing mother before she dies of cancer and . . . lies, they&#8217;re all lies to get money out of me.\u00a0 However many cops are involved in fighting imaginary crime in chat rooms &#8211; go ahead, defund them all.\u00a0 Won&#8217;t stop a single crime in the real world and it will free up resources to man the barricades when People Whose Lives Matter show up with bricks and Molotov cocktails.<\/p><p>Worse, the media missed the most obvious conclusion of all.\u00a0 If sports events create sex predators then sporting events are bad so why are we not only condoning them, but actively subsidizing them?\u00a0 Subsidized stadia = subsidized sports events = trafficked children for sexual predators.\u00a0 \u00a0 Why does the State of Minnesota and the City of Murderapolis promote trafficking children for sex?\u00a0 Why do they hate children and want them to die?<\/p><p>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>If the people of Minnesota ever start <em>thinking <\/em>about what their media and government do, it&#8217;ll get ugly. <\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m told sex trafficking is a huge problem, particularly during sporting events.\u00a0 The Star Tribune says pipeline workers in\u00a0Duluth engage in sex trafficking, which is grounds to shut down the pipeline that the Indians don&#8217;t like. And now we have a conviction for sex trafficking a minor during the NCAA Final Four, State v. Abdulazeez, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment","category-tc-media-bias"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77382"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77400,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77382\/revisions\/77400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}