{"id":89776,"date":"2025-07-15T05:32:29","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T10:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89776"},"modified":"2025-07-15T05:47:06","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T10:47:06","slug":"weed-whacked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=89776","title":{"rendered":"Weed Whacked"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Joe Doakes, formerly of Como Park, emails:<\/p>\n

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California has legal marijuana so of course there are farms to grow it.  And it’s hot, dirty, stoop-labor, field work so the cheapest workers are illegal aliens, whom ICE is arresting to deport. That all makes sense<\/a>. <\/div>\n
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What’s the deal with the children?  Were they truly slaves, kidnapped from their parents, trafficked across the border, held captive by adults, forced by cruel overseers to labor under the burning sun, as the article suggests?  That would be horrible. <\/div>\n
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Or did the whole family come over together, all working at the same farm?  That would be illegal but morally acceptable.  They still have to go back, of course, but there’s no glory in enforcing that law.<\/div>\n
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Or are they young adults, maybe 15 or so, doing farm work (as we did when we were kids) because union rules, labor laws, and minimum wage rates make it impossible for young people to get entry-level jobs nowadays?  That would be more annoying than horrifying and certainly not something to celebrate.<\/div>\n
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I question whether the feds heroically rescued child slaves or simply arrested entire families.  It’s frustrating when press releases read like propaganda.<\/div>\n
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Joe Doakes<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

When people can’t trust their sources of information, they make up their own.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Joe Doakes, formerly of Como Park, emails: California has legal marijuana so of course there are farms to grow it.  And it’s hot, dirty, stoop-labor, field work so the cheapest workers are illegal aliens, whom ICE is arresting to deport. That all makes sense.    What’s the deal with the children?  Were they truly slaves, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[109],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sovereignty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89776","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=89776"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89779,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89776\/revisions\/89779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}