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A Long List of Undesirables; Elected, Blind, and Otherwise

By Andy Caldwell

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Jul 27, 2025
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Do you remember in the 1977 film “Star Wars” when Obi-Wan Kenobi described the infamous saloon as a “wretched hive of scum and villainy?”

Is that not an apt description of the former convicts arrested at the Glass House pot farms in Carpinteria and Camarillo by Homeland Security to the dismay of local politicians and the media? If you missed the list of …

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