Showing posts with label human trafficking. Show all posts
Showing posts with label human trafficking. Show all posts

Saturday, May 15, 2021

Six Locations in Schaumburg, Illinois Where Human Trafficking Is (or May Be) Occurring

     I wrote the following after discovering that sex trafficking and prostitution busts have occurred at hotels in Schaumburg, Illinois, and after discovering that Schaumburg hotels, and dancing and modeling studios, are hosting "dance" events which sexualize children.
     These "dancing and modeling studios" may not be overt schemes to traffic children, but it's possible that they are defrauding the children's parents for money, or even scamming them for cheap photographs and videos of their children, which the operators of the dance studios can sell. An investigation is needed.

     Most of these locations are very close to one another, as well as to a local high school. They are also close to o'Hare International Airport, another major human and sex trafficking hub.
     Parents in the Schaumburg area, and parents of students at Rolling Meadows High School, should be cautioned about what is happening in their community, in regards to the information below.



1. Model Act Studios – Schaumburg

     - Dance studio for children, affiliated with International Modeling and Talent Agency (I.M.T.A.).

     - Accused of taking money for photos, without offering adequate dance instruction to kids.

     - Might be a scam to defraud parents for money and/or obtain photos and videos of children.

     - Sources:

          http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Modeling_and_Talent_Association?fbclid=IwAR1DjFvkDNKxN-y1AHAuq9HG_AGsElmb888hrFMAwL7_1fQMWwRS7vdYf0k

          
http://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=844103332445369

      - Location: 1750 E. Golf Rd., Schaumburg

     - See this location on Google Maps at the following link:

          Model Act Studios - Google Maps
     




2. Model Act Studios – Lemont

      - Location: 115 Stephen St., Lemont

     - See this location on Google Maps at the following link:
          Model Act Studios - Google Maps






3. Hyatt Regency – Chicago / Schaumburg

     - Sex trafficking has occurred here.

     - The Hyatt hotel chain is owned by the family of Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker.

     - Location: 1800 E. Golf Road, Schaumburg


      - See this location on Google Maps at the following link:

          Hyatt Regency Schaumburg, Chicago - Google Maps






4. Hyatt Place – Chicago / Schaumburg

     - Sex trafficking has likely occurred here.

     - Location: 1851 McConnor Parkway, Schaumburg

     - See this location on Google Maps at the following link:
          1851 McConnor Pkwy - Google Maps

     - Source: Sex trafficking bust at Schaumburg hotels:

          http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/3-charged-prostitution-sting-schaumburg-hotels/29266/

     - Source: Jeffrey Epstein court documents mention J.B. Pritzker's cousin Tom
          http://www.chicagotribune.com/politics/ct-pritzker-epstein-blagojevich-peoptone-provident-the-spin-20190812-ny2zvf37qvb53hpfijvfdmcpri-story.html




5. Private Events by Sam & Harry’s

     - Sex trafficking has likely occurred here. Reputed trafficking area.

     - Location: 1551 Thoreau Drive North, Schaumburg (part of the Renaissance Convention Center)

      - See this location on Google Maps at the following link:
          Private Events by Sam & Harry's - Google Maps





6. Renaissance Schaumburg Convention Center

     - Hosts Tremaine dance studios conventions, including the one in winter 2019.
          Source: http://www.tremainedance.com/winter-2021-22/chicago-il/

     - Model Act Studios, and Tremaine dance studios, teach young girls sexually charged dance moves, which they tell the girls are simply "rhythmic gymnastics". The girls are told to be "sassy" while they dance, which is being used as a replacement term for "sexy”. This is done to avoid all chances that the girls will recognize that they are being exploited and objectified by their parents and dancing and modeling instructors.

     - Location: 1551 Thoreau Drive North, Schaumburg

      - See this location on Google Maps at the following link:

          1551 Thoreau Dr N - Google Maps

 






Five of the six locations listed above,
are all within several miles of each other,
and also to the Rolling Meadows High School.






Information collected between March 2021 and April 3rd, 2021

Written on April 3rd, 2021

Edited on May 15th, 2021

Published on May 15th, 2021



 

Thursday, April 8, 2021

Migrants in Shipping Containers Should Prompt Reopening of Wayfair Human Trafficking Scandal: Letter to the Polaris Project

     I sent the following e-mail to the Polaris Project on April 6th, 2021. The Polaris Project is a non-governmental, non-profit agency that operates a hotline for the purposes of combating human trafficking. It is based in Washington, D.C..
     The e-mail explains why I disagree with the Polaris Project's position that the Wayfair human trafficking scandal has been debunked.
     So far, I have not yet received a response from anyone at Polaris about my questions.

     Note:
     I have written on this topic previously. See the article below to find out why I believe that the Wayfair scandal is real.
     http://www.aquarianagrarian.blogspot.com/2021/02/case-of-mistaken-identity-prompts-re.html



     Hi. I read that thousands of people called in to Polaris to report the Wayfair trafficking scandal.

     I read Polaris's official statement on the matter, at the following site:

     That statement led to an article which supposedly debunked Wayfair:

     However, I know that there was a strike at a Wayfair location, in 2019, over Wayfair supplying beds to ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement).

     Also, newly arrived immigrants are being placed in tiny housing units that are being described as "shipping containers".
     
     This is nothing new, here's an article about people stowing away in shipping containers from 18 years ago:

     Which means that the Wayfair "children in shipping containers" idea is not so farfetched.



     Also, the article debunking Wayfair, above, mentioned Samiyah Mumin, but did not mention Samiyah George, nor Samiyah Bond; all three girls disappeared from Ohio within two years of each other. Samiyah Mumin said she was never missing, and Samiyah George was found shortly after the Wayfair scandal broke. But WHERE was she found? Was she found in a shipping container, or not? If she was, then the Wayfair trafficking scandal might be real.

     There were also at least eight other children who were reported missing in conjunction with Wayfair:
     - Samara Duplessis
     - Anabel Wilson (remains missing)
     - Kylah Coleman (has been listed as both "missing" and "not missing")
     - Ambrose Klingensmith (reportedly found, charges filed)
     - Yaritza Castro (no info available)
     - Cameron Dziedzic (reportedly found)
     - Mary Durett (or Durrett) (found in 2017)
     - Brandon Dalessandro

     Could you please provide me with some information about Samiyah George, Samiyah Bond, and the eight people listed directly above?

     I would be interested in knowing how many of them have been found, and whether any of them were found in shipping containers.

     Please call me if you like, my cell phone is 608-417-9395.







E-Mail Written on April 6th, 2021

This article written and published on April 8th, 2021


Thursday, February 18, 2021

Case of Mistaken Identity Prompts Re-Opening of Wayfair Trafficking Scandal

      The following text is an excerpt of a previous article.
     Several sentences from the first few paragraphs of that excerpt, have been omitted from this article, for the sake of presenting this information without any unnecessary introductions.

     That article focused on the possibility that the Indian paramilitary group R.S.S. may be attempting to infiltrate the United States; through Congress, through Hollywood, and through the business world.
     The excerpt below was taken from the section of that article which examines whether Indian-American Wayfair C.E.O. Niraj Shah could be working for the R.S.S..

     The following text originally appeared in my February 2021 article “Twenty-One Politicians and Celebrities Who May Be Indian R.S.S. Agents”. The full article can be read at the link below:
     http://aquarianagrarian.blogspot.com/2021/02/thirteen-politicians-and-celebrities.html





     Niraj Shah was born in Massachusetts in 1973 or 1974, the son of Indian immigrants. He is the C.E.O. of Wayfair, a company that delivers furniture. Wayfair was accused in 2020 of operating a child sex trafficking ring.

     Niraj Shah is also one of the directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. He began that role in 2017.
     It should concern us that Niraj Shah holds such a high position in the hierarchy of the Federal Reserve System, while also being the C.E.O. of a company that was worth over $9 billion dollars the year before the trafficking scandal.


     In 2020, rumors grew on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, that Wayfair was operating a child trafficking operation, by imprisoning children inside of the bureaus, dressers, and armoires that it was shipping, and delivering them for outrageous prices.
     So the theory went - and this part is true - the company named pieces of furniture with very rare names for human beings. The most famous example of this was a storage cabinet which the company named the Samiyah. Another example was a pillow called the Duplessis.



     Miraculously, mainstream media (such as USA Today) picked up on the story. However, they debunked it, given the fact that Samiyah Mumin (pictured in the image above, on the left) made a publicly shared video saying that she was not missing.
     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bXCanblVDg


     However... Samiyah Mumin was not the only child suspected to have been missing, in relation to Wayfair. Minors named Samara Duplessis, Anabel Wilson, Kylah Coleman, Ambrose Klingensmith, Yaritza Castro, Cameron Dziedzic, Mary Durett (or Durrett), and Brandon Dalessandro also went missing.



     Dalessandro was found, according to the Daily Mail article depicted above.



     According to the Facebook post below, Klingensmith, Dziedzic, and Durrett have been found (Durett in Texas in 2017); Wilson remained missing; and no information concerning Castro is available. According to this post, two adults were taken into custody for child endangerment in the case of Klingensmith.

     It is possible that the post is incomplete, or even partially made up, however. I will leave it to my readers to investigate this matter further. But there is reason to doubt the veracity of this post because it lists Kylah Coleman as both "missing" and "NOT MISSING".

     The post is correct about Mumin, however.

     http://www.facebook.com/105546164563867/posts/samiyah-mumin-never-missingupon-initial-research-we-found-out-that-samiyah-was-m/111838707267946/


     Getting back to Samiyah Mumin...

     Mumin wasn't just the only minor suspected of being missing due to the fault of Wayfair and its patrons; she also wasn't the only girl named Samiyah! Girls named Samiyah Bond and Samiyah George also disappeared around the same time.

     You might be thinking "So what? Three girls have the same name, and that's supposed to convince me that they were shipped to some pedophile Wayfair customer in a storage cabinet?"

     Bear with me.



     First off, there is an easy explanation for Wayfair researchers' confusion between several girls named Samiyah. Astonishingly, all three of them are from Ohio.


     Article proving that Samiyah Bond went missing from Ohio in July 2018:
     
http://fox8.com/news/missing-samiyah-bond/

     Article proving that Samiyah Yasmeen Mumin went missing from Columbus, Ohio in May 2019:
     
http://www.newsbreak.com/news/1361527573849/missing-from-columbus-ohio-17-year-old-samiyah-mumin?s=oldSite&ss=fb.city.497958377064835

     Article proving that Samiyah George went missing from Garfield Heights, Ohio in July 2020:
     
http://www.cleveland19.com/2020/07/02/missing-year-old-garfield-heights-girl-found-safe/
     

     When reports came out that Samiyah Mumin was never missing, and Samiyah George had been found, most people who knew about the scandal sighed sighs of relief, and probably reckoned that the conspiracy were crazy.

     It's a shame that they never thought to ask, "Well, where was Samiyah George found!? Was she found in a storage closet?" Where the Hell was she when she was found? If she was found in a storage closet - which we still don't know - then wouldn't that prove that there is something to this conspiracy theory after all?

     She did go missing at the exact same time the Wayfair scandal gained public attention, now, didn't she!?
     The Wayfair child trafficking scandal has not been debunked.



     None of the above might seem suspicious, if not for two other important facts: 1) Wayfair trafficking researchers performed searches for the item numbers, and discovered that they led to pictures of children, some of them in swimsuits or revealing clothing; and 2) Ohio is probably a hub for the trafficking of children.

     The image below explains how researchers found out that searches of Wayfair product item numbers led to disturbing pictures of children. One Twitter user tweeted, "I look up the SKU # [stock-keeping unit number] followed by US SRC [source code] on Yandex and... W T F". Yandex is an internet service company, and "W.T.F." stands for "what the fuck".



     The image below shows an example of a screenshot of the item number, and the image search leading to images of children, side by side.


    Researchers thought the absurdly high prices strange, and reasoned that they are probably not due to a computer glitch.

     Researchers have also noted that "Wayfair" could be a play on words, referring to "waifs" (thin, scrawny women who look like they are malnourished).




     The image above shows that researchers discovered Wayfair deleting items that researchers believed were questionable.



     It's possible that some, or even a lot, of these images could have been "Photoshopped", or edited, but if even some of them show what they are claimed to show by the people who assembled them, then there is cause for concern.

     If the prices are high for a reason - and the absurd prices are not just computer glitches - then it's possible that the high prices could be attributable to Wayfair catering mostly to customers on the wealthy end of the spectrum (i.e., the kind of people who have enough disposable income to spend on furniture).

     If some of these customers are so wealthy that they have become well connected, and entered elite circles and learned how to conduct their affairs discreetly, then there is a chance that Wayfair's high prices reflect their service to the rich.

     Or, at the very least (if something nefarious is afoot), the price might not be the actual amount paid by the customer in the end; the high price might instead serve as a signal that what is going to be delivered is something "much more valuable" than the actual storage closet, or pillow, etc..



     You could say "Maybe it's all Photoshopped". And if you were to ask, "How the Hell did researchers figure out what item numbers led to pictures of children?", then I would have to admit that I'm almost as confused as you are.
     All of this could be brushed off. If not for the fact that this is not the first time that Wayfair has been affiliated with human trafficking. Wayfair provides beds to immigrant detention facilities maintained by I.C.E. (Immigration and Customs Enforcement).
     The image below is a meme that was made by a Wayfair researcher in mid-2020. It reads, "So the same wayfair that supplies beds to ICE, who has lost over 2000 kids in their custody, is also possibly selling missing children on their website as $10k+ furniture and pillows........ the math is actually mathing on this one" [meaning that things are "adding up"].




     Astonishingly, the Wayfair trafficking scandal was dismissed and falsely "debunked", after Wayfair employees protested the sale of furniture to detention centers in late June of 2020. News of the scandal went public in June or July.

     http://www.npr.org/2019/06/26/736308620/wayfair-employees-protest-sale-of-furniture-to-migrant-detention-center



     Over the last two years, I have made reference, multiple times, to the possibility that human beings are being shipped in containers marked as art, in order to avoid the kind of inspections which would come with the transportation of human beings.

     I have speculated about this, based on: 1) the Israeli spies who posed as movers and art students in the U.S. in 2001, and 2) Marina Abramovic's affiliation with neo-liberal and Zionist elements in Hollywood, in addition to her blending of the distinction between what is a human being and what is a piece of art (as well as using bodily fluids as paint).

     Jeffrey Epstein's connection to the art world, and the transportation and human smuggling in which his submarine-company-owning co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell, would certainly fit as a piece in that puzzle. Epstein certainly treated women as objects of art. He certainly treated them like objects (presenting himself as a scout for Victoria's Secret models); I suppose that the artistic aspect of the objectification made the treatment seem less oppressive.


     To wrap this all together:

     Epstein has ties to not only Israel, the art world, and human smuggling (which would fit in line with the idea that Israel could be spying on the U.S. in order to traffic children for various purposes).

     But there is a possible link between Jeffrey Epstein and the Wayfair scandal, which explains a point I mentioned earlier: Samiyah Bond, Samiyah George, and Samiyah Mumin were all from Ohio. That link is Leslie Wexner.

     Leslie Wexner, the C.E.O. of Victoria's Secret who funded Jeffrey Epstein, is one of the most prominent businessmen in Columbus, Ohio. Northern Columbus is home to the Wexner Medical Center and the Wexner Center for the Arts. Alleged Jeffrey Epstein victim Maria Farmer, an artist, told reporter Whitney Webb that Wexner practically owns the city.

     Epstein investigator George Webb has also visited Rickenbacker Airport in Ohio, and explained what Leslie Wexner and Jeffrey Epstein's airplanes had to do with the airport. Webb says that Epstein participated in the Iran-Contra affair in the 1980s, using the airport as a hub or stopping point on a journey to fly nuclear weapons components to Iran.

     [Notes: It's unclear whether George Webb and Whitney Webb are related. Additionally, Webb's reliability could be questioned, because he has admitted to having worked for the Israeli M.O.S.S.A.D. in the past. But he could be a turncoat. Webb's reporting should be taken with that grain of salt. However, his statements about William Barr's father and his association with Jeffrey Epstein, would help explain the connection between Epstein and Donald Trump, and it would also explain why Trump hired William Barr and Elliott Abrams - disgraced figures from the Reagan-era Iran Contra scandal - to serve in his administration, despite their obvious lack of credibility and corrupt natures.]

     Jeffrey Epstein and Leslie Wexner might have nothing at all to do with the Wayfair child trafficking scandal. But at least, now, we know why so many children are disappearing from Ohio.
     If Israelis have kidnapped American children, what would stop Leslie Wexner from throwing a couple of teenage African-American girls to investors he might have, who come from India?
     Maybe one such person is Niraj Shah himself.

     It may seem wrong to suspect Niraj Shah of involvement in child sex trafficking, just because he leads a company suspected of it, and he's of Indian origin. But that is not what I am saying.
     He is on the board of a Federal Reserve bank. His father worked for General Electric, which owns N.B.C. and makes transportation vehicles for the U.S. military (and is therefore a war profiteer). And he leads a multi-billion-dollar company, which was accused of kidnapping girls who disappeared from one of the most kidnapping-plagued states in the nation.
     You might be saying "The fact that Ohio is plagued with kidnapping completely explains the disappearance of three girls." Really? All of them with the same names, within just a two-year time span?

     
Leslie Wexner must be investigated, and what he knows about Epstein and sex trafficking in Ohio should be determined. Ghislaine Maxwell should not be let off with probation or a plea deal; she should do hard time in prison because she is a serial child rapist and an enthusiastic accomplice to human trafficking.
     And to what extent Niraj Shah, the Israeli M.O.S.S.A.D., and the R.S.S., may be involved in international human trafficking and child smuggling, should be investigated.




Original excerpt written on February 16th, 2021

This article first published on February 18th, 2021

Friday, February 28, 2020

Thirty-Five Forms of Child Abuse and Trafficking That Are Legal or Supported by Government (Incomplete)

Table of Contents

     1. The groping of children by T.S.A. agents
     2. The use of zero-tolerance drug policies to excuse the arrest and detention of children
     3. The use of the fact that students disrobe in locker rooms to excuse strip searches of minor students
     4. The police use of "bait trucks" to lure teenagers and poor people into stealing, to excuse their arrest
     5. The sale of teenage delinquents to for-profit prisons by American judges
     6. The use of "trash TV" shows, and federal law, in the 1990s, to promote boot camps as supposedly less abusive alternatives to prison
     7. The legal abduction of migrant children by I.C.E. agents at the border
     8. The legalized hitting of children due to lax standards set by C.P.S.
     9. Schools instructing bullying victims to hug their tormenters     10. Schools' deprivations of parents' rights and students' privacy during field trips
     11. The calculation of states' disbursements to public schools based on attendance turns schools into prisons
     12. The genocidal separation of children from parents, which is called "compulsory education"
     13. The molestation of children in public schools
     14. The taxpayer funding of legal defense expenses for teachers accused of molestation
     15. Teachers' access to students, and students' access to contraceptives
     16. Government attempts to refuse to grant diplomas to students unless they get hired, continue their education, or enlist in the military
     17. The recruitment of young adults into the military where they can't sue for rape
     18. The Violence Against Women Act functions as a rape and domestic abuse insurance program
     19. The refusal of courts to remove children from the custody of abusive parents simply because they are actively trying to remain a part of the children's lives
     20. The subjugation of American children to debt slavery through the Social Security System
     21. The splitting-up of families by the child support system (Social Security Title IV-D)
     22. The splitting-up of families by family law courts
     23. The abuse of adoption laws to justify taking biological children into custody
     24. The occasional refusal to remove a molested child from a home, or sentence child molesters to prison, on the grounds that the abuser is the biological parent of the child, is the child's caregiver and supports the child financially, has gone through treatment, and/or "wouldn't fare well in prison"
     25. The death of children following placement in foster care by family services departments
     26. The normalization of kidnapping, through phony "kidnappings" of high school students, by other students, as part of birthday celebrations
     27. The lack of an 18-year age of consent law
     28. The legalized use of the "I thought she was older" defense in statutory rape cases
     29. The decriminalized interstate trafficking of 12-to-16-year-olds by people less than 4 years older
     30. The invalidation of twenty states' age of consent laws, as the result of Quintana-Esquivel v. Sessions
     31. The legality of marrying minors, with the consent of a judge and/or a parent, in ten states
     32. The refusal to give serious sentences to police officers accused of statutory rape and child molestation
     33. The continued service, in Congress, of lawmakers whom have been charged with "underage prostitution" or child sex trafficking scandals, or have been caught on tape molesting children
     34. The use of the monetary system and financial pressure to coerce adults into accepting putting their children to work
     35. The possibility that the BAR Association (attorneys' union) is a syndicate of homosexual rapists and child molesters whom are covering-up each other's sex crimes.









Content



     1. The groping of children by T.S.A. agents

     The Transportation Security Administration agents give no presumption of innocence to passengers. This is “guilty until proven innocent” and it subverts the idea of maintaining the rule of law in order to create a just and civil society. In presuming guilt, executing unwarranted searches, and assuming consent, the T.S.A. ignores passengers' due process rights recognized by the 4th and 5th Amendments; namely the rights to be secure in one's person and papers (etc.) except upon presentation of a specific warrant, and to be free from undue searches and seizures.
     Children flying on planes in America are not immune from the T.S.A.'s choice of “porn or grope” (as Judge Andrew Napolitano put it). “Porn or grope” gives airline customers a “choice” between a privacy-invading body scanner that shows an image of your child naked to a government employee and could also give them cancer, versus a physically invasive pat-down.
     Were it not for their supposed legality, these pat-downs would be considered clear-cut examples of mass grooming of children (i.e., mass coaxing of children into accepting unwanted touching). The argument against ending this practice is the notion that terrorists will start strapping bombs to children because they know their children will not be searched, but those fears are unjustified because such a thing has never happened once in American history. The purpose of patting-down adults and children alike, is not just to instill in us a sense of safety; it is to lure us into a false sense of security. We know from tests that the T.S.A. fails to intercept 95% of bombs, so we can only conclude that sexual humiliation and submission are the goals of these procedures. Subjecting our children to them serves to inculcate whole generations of children into accepting unwanted touching near their groins from the day they begin using airplanes to travel.







     2. The use of zero-tolerance drug policies to excuse the arrest and detention of children

- Banning of getting drugs planted, touching drugs even if you say no after, and banning markers due to sniffing, as excuses to arrest kids http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyPe3_boqgE





     3. The use of the fact that students disrobe in locker rooms to excuse strip searches of minor students


- 58:04 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyPe3_boqgE : changing clothes in gym is excuse to allow strip searches of children (by Breyer)






     4. The police use of "bait trucks" to lure teenagers and poor people into stealing, to excuse their arrest



- Norfolk Southern:https://www.vox.com/2018/8/10/17676818/norfolk-southern-apologizes-for-bait-truck-in-poor-chicago-neighborhood-englewood
https://www.vox.com/2018/8/7/17661240/video-chicago-police-bait-truck-nike-norfolk-southern-apology-englewood-black-neighborhood
http://www.instagram.com/p/B9kVHiCJ5Gv/?igshid=1gyw7l32306br






     5. The sale of teenage delinquents to for-profit prisons by American judges





Pennsylvania judge convicted of selling teen delinquents to for-profit prisons
- school to prison pipeline





     6. The use of "trash TV" shows, and federal law, in the 1990s, to promote boot camps as supposedly less abusive alternatives to prison




Joe Biden's, and 1990s trash TV show hosts', efforts to promote boot camps as solution to teen delinquency, including as a supposedly less abusive alternative to prison (see WWASPS; boot camps are often no less abusive than prisons, and often more abusive)







     7. The legal abduction of migrant children by I.C.E. agents at the border

     Immigration and Customs Enforcement (I.C.E.) officials have snatched children from their mothers' arms, an act which would be considered kidnapping if it were not being done in order to further the goals of law enforcement.
     I.C.E. abducts these children on the premise that they can't be sure that the children are related to the adults accompanying them, as opposed to the children being victims of trafficking. This is false more often than it is true, as even when the child is not related to the accompanying adult, the child may have been adopted by the adult before or during their journey to America.
     This is the modern equivalent of Nazi propaganda minister Josef Goebbels's claim, from the 1934 Nuremberg rally, that, during World War I, the enemies of Germany accused Germany of doing what they themselves were doing. Another justification for this practice is that the threat of taking children away is thought to deter people from making the journey to America.
     During the administration of Donald Trump, migrant parents were told by I.C.E. officials that they were taking their children away from them in order to give them baths, only to discover that their children weren't going to be returned to them. This is remarkably similar to the manner in which the Nazis used the promise of showers to lure Jewish prisoners into gas chambers.




8. The legalized hitting of children due to lax standards set by C.P.S.


     According to Child Protective Services, hitting a child will not be considered maltreatment unless it causes bruises or other physical symptoms which persist for longer than 24 hours. This is tantamount to enforcing a law that says it is acceptable to hit a child as long as you don't leave any physical evidence.
     http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3805039/ (see footnote #50 and search for “bruise”)












10. Schools' deprivations of parents' rights and students' privacy during field trips

     Some time between 2005 and 2010, a public school in Florida organized a field trip, and declined to notify how they would be keeping track of the students during the trip. The school failed to notify parents that the school would be taking pictures of their eyes; that is, retinal scans.
     This may seem innocuous and innocent enough, to the untrained (ahem) eye. But there are several religious traditions whose members have moral objections to being photographed. Native Americans, for example, and the Amish, among others. Some Orthodox Jewish people have a particular distaste for allowing their children to be photographed.
     The potential religious objections aside, collecting the biometric information of school students - especially without their parents' knowledge or consent - should be especially frightening to anyone who knows a lick about American history. The education system is heavily influenced by the Ford Foundation, founded by American automobile entrepreneur Henry Ford, who was known to have Nazi sympathies. Moreover, the collection of personal information, which was done to Jews in Germany in order to round them up and kill them, was made possible only by the technology utilized by I.B.M. (International Business Machines). That is why the collection of children's personal biometric information - whether it's scans of their retinas, or information about what kind of earlobes they have (because Nazis cared about that for some reason) - should never be done without both parental notification, and parental education about the history of Nazi influence on American education.
     No adult ought to know what a child's eyes look like, better than the child's own parents do. Retinal scanning of children, and other invasive forms of documenting their personal attributes for the sake of keeping track of them and "keeping them safe", only stands to accustom school children to being photographed by adults whom they don't know well, and accustom them to being tracked by strangers who are resorting to extremely unnecessary, and invasive, levels of security, in order to keep track of children during field trips.
     Whatever happened to "the buddy system"? At least when children are kept track of by other children, there's no possibility for adult-child sexual activity.





11. The calculation of states' disbursements to public schools based on attendance turns schools into prisons

     In nearly half of U.S. states, schools allocate funding to schools based on either Average Daily Attendance (A.D.A.) or Average Daily Membership (A.D.M.). "Membership" is the official term for enrollment. State-provided funds are divided by the number of students enrolled in public schools statewide. Those funds are then divided among the state's school districts, based on each district's projection of the number of students who will actually attend classes.
     Recently, this practice prompted one user of social media, who attends school in California, to create what has since become a "text meme". This high school student explained that a member of his school's staff "joked" that students should come to school as often as they can, even when they are sick. The official said that sick students should show up, be counted in attendance, and then go home to recuperate.
     This practice risks exposing sick children to unnecessary travel, exposing healthy students to communicable diseases, and reducing schools to the level of prisons which get paid according to their head count. The more states that choose to determine school funding based on A.D.A. and A.D.M., the more complete the transformation of schools into prisons - overcrowded, disease-ridden prisons - will be.
http://www.quora.com/Are-all-U-S-public-schools-funded-based-on-attendance-as-is-the-case-in-California-schools
http://www.kpbs.org/news/2011/jun/27/chronically-absent-students-cost-county-schools-mi/
http://www.quora.com/Do-schools-get-money-based-on-attendance





12. The genocidal separation of children from parents, which is called "compulsory education"


     According to Article 26 of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights (drafted in 1948), "Everyone has the right to education. Education shall be free, at least in the elementary and fundamental stages. Elementary education shall be compulsory. [emphasis mine] Technical and professional education shall be made generally available and higher education shall be equally accessible to all on the basis of merit.

     "Everyone has the right to education" sounds great, doesn't it? And "education shall be free" sounds even better (as long as nobody's forced to pay for it). But "Elementary education shall be compulsory"?
     "Elementary education" is the only thing the Universal Declaration of Human Rights says should be "compulsory". In fact, Article 20 of the same document says that "No one may be compelled to belong to an association." Well excuse me, but isn't a public school an association? Isn't it compelling children to belong to public school associations, to describe their elementary education as "compulsory"?
     As if it weren't obvious enough yet that compulsory education is a scam designed to traffic children into the hands of government employees, public officials such as Kamala Harris have threatened to jail the parents of truant students. That is forcible transfer of children from their parents to the schools.
     Moreover, in the U.N. Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (adopted in 1948, the same year as the Human Rights Declaration), genocide is defined as any one of many acts; not just deliberate attempts to mass-exterminate people. Genocide, as defined by the U.N., includes (but is not limited to) "forcibly transferring children of the group to another group" (where "the" denotes "a national, ethnical, racial, or religious group").
     What this means is that the same year that the United Nations declared compulsory education to be a universal human right, it also arguably declared compulsory education to be a form of genocide. Which implies that the U.N. believes that all peoples and groups are entitled to genocide. The United Nations are effectively saying that all peoples and groups the world over, have a universal human right to be forcibly taxed, in order to fund the transfer of their children to government employees with the threat of jail time if they refuse to comply (but it's OK because the forcible taxation allows elementary education to be free at the point of sale).
     The U.N. has thus shown that it has no business whatsoever determining what is and is not a universal human right.
     http://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/
     http://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/documents/atrocity-crimes/Doc.1_Convention%20on%20the%20Prevention%20and%20Punishment%20of%20the%20Crime%20of%20Genocide.pdf


13. The molestation of children in public schools

     Twenty-four American public school students are molested every school day in America (assuming 175 school days per year). This figure includes all reported molestation, sexual abuse, and sexual assault, by teachers and fellow students combined, from the years 2011 through 2015.
     According to an estimate by Hofstra University scholar Charol Shakeshaft, 290,000 students had experienced some form of sexual abuse by a public school employee between 1991 and 2000 (which works out to 184 molestations per school day, assuming 175 school days per year).
     One American public school student per school day suffers injury or death at the hands of a gunman. If the argument “If it will save the life of even one child, it will be worth it”, can convince people that gun control is necessary to prevent gun violence and protect children, then a similar argument ought to work for convincing parents to withdraw their children from public schools. Every day that students organize nationwide to skip a whole day of school, is another day that 24 kids won't get molested at school. And that goes whether they are skipping school to protest the climate, or to protest what they should really be protesting instead, which is their own mass enslavement by our corrupt government.


     14. The taxpayer funding of legal defense expenses for teachers accused of molestation

     The legal fees of public school teachers charged with molesting students, are always paid for by taxpayer money one way or another. This is because all of public school teachers' money comes from taxpayer money, and the only common alternative to those teachers hiring private attorneys, is accepting representation from their teachers' union. Those unions are funded by employee contributions, and those employees' money comes from the government. The taxpayers will thus not be free from preventing their money from being used to defend teachers charged with molesting students, until they find legislators and lobbyists who will lobby for an end to taxing people who do not consent that their money be used for such purposes.


     15. Teachers' access to students, and students' access to contraceptives


     Many people who support both public education and the legality of abortion, want high school students to have easy access to condoms, morning-after pills, and other forms of contraceptives and abortificants.
     Granted, any high school student who decides to become sexually active, should have access to such things. But the only kind of high schooler who can make such a "decision" to become sexually active, is someone whom is capable of making an informed decision; of giving informed consent. Only the oldest and most mature high schoolers are capable of deciding to become sexually active, because only the oldest and most mature high schoolers know about all the potential consequences - negative and positive - of sex.
     If mature upperclassmen have access to contraception at high schools, then that is all well and good. But perhaps younger teens who seek contraceptives, and abortions, should have their parents notified (except, of course, in cases in which their father or stepfather is the one who knocked them up, which would only turn a parental notification requirement into a danger to the child).
     Don't get me wrong; there are sex-positive people who support our public schools, and support easy access to contraceptives in schools, because they want women (women being the operative word) to be able to control their bodies. However, teenage girls, of the underclassmen ages in high school, are not women, and cannot consent to sex (nor can teenage boys of the same age).
     Moreover, there are other kinds of people who want contraceptives readily available in schools, besides pro-choicers who love teachers. Male teachers who want to have sex with teenage girl students have plenty of incentive to make sure that the school nurse's office is stocked with everything his "girlfriend" needs to "get rid of our little problem". Male teachers who molest teen girls and risk impregnating them, have every reason to make sure that the tools necessary to "cover up the evidence" are close by, and to make sure that the girl is independent enough to obtain them without any other adult finding out.
     Legal promises that public high schools will be stocked with easily accessible contraception - even for students not yet mature enough to handle sex, or understand when their relationship with an adult has become inappropriate - are, thus, a federally created insurance fraud program that subsidizes the molestation and impregnation of teenage girls by male teachers at public high schools.
     Easy access to contraceptives at high schools, does not teach students to have sex responsibly. It's not that teaching chastity or "abstinence-based" education is superior to teaching sex positivity and teaching about contraceptives; both abstinence and contraception need to be taught, and students need to be aware of the effectiveness of each. Abstinence does have a 100% effectiveness rate; but only if it's actually practiced consistently. Having sex is not a "failure" of abstinence education; to have sex is to stop practicing abstinence. Thus, no pregnancy can be blamed on abstinence, nor on its failure, since abstinence does not cause pregnancy. Abstinence-only sex education is what has been linked to increases in teen pregnancies; not education about abstinence alongside other methods of contraception. If adults can't accept these facts, then what chance do our teenagers have of ever learning this information in school?
     Easy access to contraception gives teachers the tools they need to help convince, or even intimidate, girls they molested into getting morning-after pills or abortions. Federally funded contraceptives in high schools, for all students who want them, is therefore federal student-raping insurance.




16. Government attempts to refuse to grant diplomas to students unless they get hired, continue their education, or enlist in the military

- Rahm Emanuel



     17. The recruitment of young adults into the military where they can't sue for rape




Military recruiters and supporters of drafting women, lure 18-year-old women into the military, where they can't sue the military for rape due to long and frequently changing contracts and also due to sovereign immunity

also the draft itself







18. The Violence Against Women Act functions as a rape and domestic abuse insurance program


     Consider the fact that the 1994 Brady Bill took guns away from Americans; including America's single mothers. Later in 1994, the Violence Against Women Act was passed, as part of the Clinton omnibus crime bill. The Violence Against Women Act promised that federal funds would be made available to women who became victims of domestic abuse. This is a perfect example of government "breaking your leg and then giving you crutches"; the same federal government that disarmed single mothers against their abusive husbands, also promised that some prosecutors would get paid every time an abusive man goes back to his ex-wife and mops the floor with her.
     The Violence Against Women Act is aptly named, because it does precisely that: it removes the barriers which prevent violence against women (by confiscating guns), and it promises more violence to women, through repeated abuses, by essentially promising to compensate the woman for the takings of her guns, by creating a federal insurance fraud program that subsidizes rape and wife-beating.
     Until the Brady Act and other federal gun control legislation is repealed, the Violence Against Women Act will function as nothing more than federal rape and wife-beating insurance.



19. The refusal of courts to remove children from the custody of abusive parents simply because they are actively trying to remain a part of the children's lives


     About half of U.S. states lack laws which make it difficult for parents who have abused their children, to retain custody. According to a March 2018 article from Pacific Standard, "family court may not consider the history of abuse relevant when awarding custody. It's common practice for family courts to preach that both parents should be in the picture for the [']best interest of the child.[']" The article also explains that abusive parents use custody battles to manipulate their ex-spouses - often traumatizing their children in the process - to a remarkable 70% success rate.
    http://psmag.com/social-justice/abuse-survivors-custody-battl




20. The subjugation of American children to debt slavery through the Social Security System


     Social Security, and privatization schemes thereof, are used to securitize the debt of ourselves and our children.
     This is done in order to make that debt saleable on the international markets; that is, the markets for the purchase and refinancing of debt, and the markets for debt collateralization and government loans. Our unbalanced budgets, and lack of monetary and fiscal solvency and responsibility, have caused us and our children to become debt slaves.
     Because the government promises to repay its creditors, it intends to tax enough wealth from the next generation to make those payments. Unless and until we balance budgets (and then pass numerous surplus budgets), switch from fractional-reserve to full-reserve banking, and find something to tax which will be more efficient and less detrimental to productivity, our futures and our children's futures will be owned by private European bankers and/or Chinese investors whom our families will never meet.
     To learn more about this topic, research the sale of MuniBonds to European banks (this occurred some time between 2007 and 2011).



21. The splitting-up of families by the child support system (Social Security Title IV-D)

     Social Security Title IV-D pays states to go after fathers for child support money. Every time the state forces a "deadbeat dad", or an unfairly charged father contesting his loss of custody, the state receives federal funding. The State of Illinois receives federal funds for requiring child support payments, at a rate which is approximately 50% higher than the rates of the other states in the union.
     This turns the states - and especially the State of Illinois - into tools, to enforce federal laws on the federal government's behalf. These laws should not exist because they are not constitutional, as there is no specific enumerated authority for Congress to legislate on matters pertaining to child custody, nor retirement.
     The fact that the states get paid every time they successfully prosecute and incarcerate someone - whether they are guilty or not - adds to this mess (and also might help explain those high criminal recidivism rates).
     The states' avarice, and lack of concern for the freedom and custody retention of unfairly charged fathers, have resulted in a situation in which the states, in effect, routinely blackmail fathers, and charge them money for both the endless piles of legal documents they will have to file during custody hearings, as well as money for the very right to see their own biological children.



22. The splitting-up of families by family law courts



     In several states, including Illinois, family law courts have been known to unduly intervene in custody arrangements. Oftentimes they unfairly assume that the father is the person at fault, even when neither parent is really at fault, no serious child abuse can be proven and 50%-50% custody is the most desirable outcome for all parties involved.
     When 50%-50% equal custody is not presumed as the standard (when no child abuse is alleged), parents unduly deprived of custody become subject to needlessly-imposed difficulties in justifying retaining custody of their children. It is ridiculous to claim that you have the means and the time to take care of your own biological children, when all of your time and money is consumed in hiring attorneys, filing motions, and showing up for court appearances.
     The courts know this and they don't care. They want your children.


23. The abuse of adoption laws to justify taking biological children into custody

     In 2018, video emerged of a family court proceeding in California, in which an Asian-American female attorney found herself in an argument with a judge, after attempting to cite custody law which pertained to foster children, in order to excuse the State of California's taking of children away from their biological parents.
     Fortunately, the judge pointed out the attorney's error, and did not allow her argument to stand. However, in California as well as in other states, we should always be concerned that this line of reasoning could begin to be taken seriously in family court rooms.


     24. The occasional refusal to remove a molested child from a home, or sentence child molesters to prison, on the grounds that the abuser is the biological parent of the child, is the child's caregiver and supports the child financially, has gone through treatment, and/or "wouldn't fare well in prison"

     Sometimes, judges allow parents who have molested their children, to retain custody, and/or avoid prison time, because of absurd lines of logic such as those listed above.
     To accept the argument that a parent who molests his children, should not have his children taken away from him, because he is the child's biological parent, is to suggest that parenting a child allows you to rape them. It is to suggest that a child's duty to obey his parents extends to allowing them to molest or even rape them.
     To accept the argument that a parent who molests his children, should not have his children taken away from him, because he provides financial support and care for the child, is to suggest that a parent need only pay for the privilege of raping or molesting his child; whether it's through money and gifts, or whether it's through a legal settlement.
     To accept the argument that a parent who molests his children, should not go to prison, because he has gone through treatment, is to suggest that all a parent need to do in order to get away with raping or molesting his child, is read some pamphlets and maybe lie to a therapist a few times. It is to suggest that people who have actually raped children already, could be helped just as much by therapy, as could people who possess child pornography and haven't yet physically harmed any children (a class of offenders which is normally thought to be much more likely to benefit from treatment than people who have already committed direct sexual acts upon children).
     To accept the argument that a parent who molests his children, should not go to prison, because he "wouldn't fare well in prison" is to suggest that all a parent need to do, in order to avoid the harsh prison sentence which he deserves, is pretend to be, and act like, "a nice guy" who's polite, meek, timid, or submissive, or makes himself small, or ingratiates himself to everyone during the legal proceedings. It is to let narcissistic, sociopathic child molesters do what narcissists do best: put on the face of a nice, polite person, in order to get away with committing the emotional and psychological equivalent of murder, against children and their innocence.

     http://www.vanityfair.com/news/business/2014/03/du-pont-heir-gets-probation-for-raping-3-year-old-daughter




25. The death of children following placement in foster care by family services departments

     In 2015, Tammi diStefano reported that 570 children had died after being placed in foster care by the California Department of Children and Family Services (D.C.F.S.). Although diStefano made an error in reporting the dates during which these deaths took place, and neglected to mention that nearly half of the children who died had no previous connection to D.C.F.S. and merely had their deaths reported to that agency, it is true that 268 children died after being removed from their homes and placed in foster care by D.C.F.S., over the eighteen-month period of June 2010 to December 2011. That works out to one child, every other day, dying after being removed from their homes and placed in foster care, in the State of California.

     http://hoax-alert.leadstories.com/3470949-fake-news-570-children-taken-from-parents-and-placed-in-foster-care-in-los-angeles-not-murdered-in-2013.html







26. The normalization of kidnapping, through phony "kidnappings" of high school students, by other students, as part of birthday celebrations


     From 2001 to 2005, I attended Lake Forest High School in Lake Forest, Illinois. During the last few years of high school, I discovered that some students at my school had begun celebrating each other's birthdays by "kidnapping" them from their homes around sunrise, as a prank. The birthday boy's friends would get approval from the boy's mother, go into the boy's room while he slept, and then snatch him from his bed by surprise, and take him out for breakfast or whatever they decided to do together.
     Despite the fact that this "kidnapping" was done with the consent of the parents, this is not a socially nor emotionally healthy practice in which children should be engaging. That's because this phony "kidnapping" risks normalizing actual kidnapping. By de-stigmatizing kidnapping in this way, this phony "kidnapping" pastime risks desensitizing us towards kidnapping.
     Real kidnapping typically involves child rape, and often murder as well. No decent parent ought to allow his children to participate in anything which is referred to as kidnapping. The more you let people "kidnap" you for fun, the harder it's going to be to tell the difference between when someone uses the word "kidnap" in jest, or whether they're serious. If you get too used to getting "kidnapped", then the next person who does it might actually kidnap you.




     27. The lack of an 18-year age of consent law
     Contrary to popular belief, "the age of consent" is not 18. That is to say that the federal or national minimum age of consent to sex is not 18. States set that age at either 16, 17, or 18. The most common state age of consent is 16; as 32 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico have chosen 16 as the age of sexual consent.
     There is no 18-year federal age of consent, but there is such a thing as a "generic age of consent" at the national level, which is set at 16 years old. That generic 16-year age of consent is set up in 18 U.S. Code Section 2243. That law was written in 2011 and passed in 2012, more than a decade after Hawaii became the last state to increase its age of consent to 16.






     28. The legalized use of the "I thought she was older" defense in statutory rape cases

     The section of federal law which deals with "Sexual abuse of a minor or ward" is 18 U.S. Code Section 2243. Within that section, subsection (c) lists the defenses acceptable for pleading not guilty to that crime.
     According to subsection (c): "(1) In a prosecution under subsection (a) of this section, it is a defense, which the defendant must establish by a preponderance of the evidence, that the defendant reasonably believed that the other person had attained the age of 16 years."
     Subsection (a) refers to the crime of sexual abuse of a minor, where under federal jurisdiction, by a person who "knowingly engages in a sexual act with another person who- (1) has attained the age of 12 years but has not attained the age of 16 years; and (2) is at least four years younger than the person so engaging; or attempts to do so...".
     What this means is essentially that it has been codified into law that "I thought she was 16" is an acceptable defense for sexually abusing or even raping a child; that is, as long as the child is at least twelve years old, and as long as the accused person can prove he "reasonably" believed the victim to have been over 16 years old at the time.
     The federal law concerning sexual abuse of a minor or ward, teaches rapists that it's OK to rape 12-year-olds as long as they maintain that they thought the child was over 16, and as long as they keep talking about and focusing on whatever details may have led them to believe that the child was of age. The effect of this law is that rapists are allowed to get away with raping children, by focusing on how it was really the child who was at fault, because she lied about her age. This law turns child victims into criminals, and helps rapists portray themselves as victims of fraud.








     29. The decriminalized interstate trafficking of 12-to-16-year-olds by people less than 4 years older,
   and

     30. The invalidation of twenty states' age of consent laws, as the result of Quintana-Esquivel v. Sessions





- 20 state age of consent laws invalidated by Quintana





- Trafficking of 12 to 16 year old by person less than four years older: Federal government won't punish because of age of consent law, and it's out of states' hands because it's interstate trafficking.



     http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2243

     http://www.huffpost.com/entry/supreme-court-unanimously-overrules-statutory-rape_b_592edaede4b017b267edff12
     http://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/16-54






     31. The legality of marrying minors, with the consent of a judge and/or a parent, in ten states

- in Esquivel-Quintana v. Sessions

- due to state laws (see folder)

10 states still allow people to marry minors with judges' and/or parents' consent; also TX child marriage epidemic


     http://www.huffpost.com/entry/supreme-court-unanimously-overrules-statutory-rape_b_592edaede4b017b267edff12


     http://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/16-54










     32. The refusal to give serious sentences to police officers accused of statutory rape and child molestation


Cops get away with dating teenagers, see large document and use as link


http://scholars.law.unlv.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1755&context=nlj

http://thefreethoughtproject.com/elburn-police-officer-charged-21-counts-sexual-assault-child-payroll/

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/nov/19/police-chief-convicted-for-having-child-sex-abuse-video-on-phone-robyn-williams

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/dec/18/police-officer-among-16-men-charged-with-child-sexual-abuse-in-halifax

http://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/investigations/2019/11/20/cop-stalls-his-child-sex-abuse-trial-claiming-dying/2574771001/

http://newsmaven.io/pinacnews/cops-in-cuffs/nypd-cop-convicted-of-raping-13-year-old-girl-KQJjqs6uWkyOKmE0R65-tg

http://abcnews.go.com/US/oklahoma-city-cop-spending-263-years-prison-rape/story?id=38517467

http://texaspolicenews.com/default.aspx?act=Newsletter.aspx&category=News+1-2&newsletterid=67176&menugroup=Home

http://blackmainstreet.net/school-cop-received-oral-sex-child-wont-register-sex-offender/

http://www.rawstory.com/2015/08/prosecutors-louisiana-cop-forced-7-year-old-girl-to-perform/

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/ny-louisiana-deputy-forced-mother-perform-oral-sex-infant-son-20190608-3cuvo33yvngejertfb246f63ia-story.html

http://www.stripes.com/news/navy-cop-convicted-of-raping-child-after-super-bowl-party-1.591495

http://www.wbrz.com/news/breaking-news-one-year-old-raped-iberville-deputy-accused-of-filming-it/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Holtzclaw




     33. The continued service, in Congress, of lawmakers whom have been charged with "underage prostitution" or child sex trafficking scandals, or have been caught on tape molesting children




Biden pinched nipple of 8-year-old girl on C-SPAN

Menendez, New Jersey Senator, “underage prostitute” in Colombia


Epstein sex scandal unresolved; includes business people (Wexner, Gates, etc.) but also politicos: Trump, Clintons, Bloomberg, Richardson, A Acosta, George Mitchell, Sandy Berger. And fact that both Clintons involved with Epstein probably means Podesta guilty of child sexual assault as charged; Podesta worked with both Clintons




     34. The use of the monetary system and financial pressure to coerce adults into accepting putting their children to work



- dollar (lure into prostitution)
Money / artificial poverty; manipulating and controlling people into needing money (include capuchin study in links)
normalization of prostitution in high schools in UK (Dennis Parsons)






     35. The possibility that the BAR Association (attorneys' union) is a syndicate of homosexual rapists and child molesters whom are covering-up each other's sex crimes







Alex Jones: BAR Association criminal sex crime coverup syndicate / cover for each other, GALs










Originally Published (incomplete) on February 28th, 2020

Edited and Expanded Between February 28th and March 7th, 2020

Edited and Expanded between March 10th and 13th, 2020

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