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Polly Frost's avatar

The abuse of children is not just being done by sex traffickers, underage exploiting employers or backwoods psychopathic parents. It's being done by medical professionals who tell children they have been born in the wrong body, that they are trans and need to be on hormones and surgical therapies. Convincing a young girl she needs a mastectomy to become the boy she really should be is, in my book, as evil as it gets.

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Hauptsturmpführer Pfauci's avatar

Yep.

And "parents" who encourage medical pros to perform child genital mutilation & chemical castration.

And med pros & parents who put "hyperactive" kids on psychoactive drugs for a "disease" formerly known as childhood.

And med pros & parents who OBEY Big Pharma and inject kids with experimental "vaccines" for a disease that's no worse than the flu.

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Polly Frost's avatar

Agree.

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Henry Schulte's avatar

All for money.

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EnoughIsEnough805's avatar

Henry, thank you for this powerful piece. You’re absolutely right — while ordinary people step up to relieve suffering, our so-called leaders do everything possible to make things worse. Local Democrats, especially “Silent Sal” Salud Carbajal, have perfected the art of looking the other way. His grotesque anti-ICE antics put politics above protecting children.

Instead of standing with law enforcement rescuing trafficked kids — like those found right here in Carpinteria — Carbajal and his allies demonize ICE, sue to block enforcement, and whip up hysteria about raids. They make heroes out of criminals and villains out of the people trying to keep us safe.

This isn’t compassion, it’s willful negligence. And it’s why the cartels and traffickers flourish while children — like that wounded fawn you described — are left helpless, broken, and abandoned.

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Leslie Colasse's avatar

I am going to ask a question. It is a big one and I have NO facts to back-up this, I suppose you could call it, hypothesis. But I have been trying to wrap my head around all that I am seeing and hearing in California and SB. This ranges from street vendors to illegal workers, sex trafficking, defunding etc. One of the only conclusions that I can come to is that there is a quiet deal between “us” and govt officials “abroad” that allows this. Or, that our state and local officials have been coerced, blackmailed, or bribed into allowing it.

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Henry Schulte's avatar

What's happened over the last number of years is the philosophy by the left that poor homeless need compassion. Illegals should be allowed to make a living but not follow the rule of law. Criminals are not really bad just misguided. Sex trafficking should be legalized and police are the problem not the solution to crime. How's that been working out?

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Howard Walther's avatar

I read this article titled "Young, Helpless, and On The Road"

By Henry Schulte. From the article and others by Mr. Schulte it

is obvious he is a kind and gentle soul trying to make sense out of it

all so my title is "A Country that lost is Way and a City that lost its Soul"

I quote from same>"We see and hear about death everyday but when

it affects the helpless and the young it has a much greater impact."

AND "When I heard the recent horrific story of sexual child abuse in a

storm shelter in Alabama, I wanted to vomit." AND "He and an alleged

accomplice, the actual mother of the victim, are facing 24 counts of

horrific acts involving a child under ten." AND >>>>>>

"What the hell is going on?"

Well I have been rather blunt here to the SB Currentors that what

is going on is UTTER CORRUPTION the likes that is hard to even wrap

your head around as I have been saying here for some time.

Lt. Gen. Mike Flynn knows all too well about getting targeted, falsely arrested

and then spending Millions in his own defense. Welcome to Realty and

welcome to Santa Barbara, the Home of Predators that Target Children,

Elders and regular folks all for Financial Gain. As Mr. Schulte stated>>>

"Not get rid of criminals but to keep them"

But then, WHO ARE THE REAL CRIMINALS IN OUR LIL OLE BEACH TOWN?

https://www.independent.com/2020/02/22/perceptions-of-political-corruption/

Howard Walther, Member of a Military Family

PS1 - The Criminal Politician "Robs the Regular Joe to Line their Pockets with $$$$>

https://thisvsthat.io/criminal-vs-politician

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Louise Bekins's avatar

Yes Vote! But many times, missing on the ballots are people of integrity, morals, right and honest leadership. Often very small number (if any) of quality people to choose from.

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Burton H Voorhees's avatar

I hope that you're including in this the young girls abused by Epstein and his many clients.

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GM's avatar
3dEdited

All children. There are at least 300k children unaccounted for are missing after border crossing. They found about 15k including the ones they found in Carp/Camarillo. Those kids were unaccompanied meaning they were probably trafficked to do forced labor or who else knows what. They had also been working next to a known rapist.

Why didn't you raise your voice on Epstein during Bidens presidency many were raising their voices to help and Biden did nothing.

Thia article outlines so many recent abuses and torture to children and it's continuing in this country. Finding out who is on the Epstein list is not going to solve this problem. The solution can only be accomplished by arresting and removing the criminals allowed to freely walk into our country and abuse and torture children among any other things.

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Burton H Voorhees's avatar

Note that the separation of children from families at the border is a legacy of the first Trump administration. It's a bipartisan problem. Also, there are many children now starving in Gaza and Sudan, and then the children kidnapped from Ukraine by Russia. Throughout the world people are suffering. The next time you find yourself scraping leftovers from a plate into the garbage remember that is some places in the world there are people for whom those leftovers would be the best meal they've had in months. Not that there is anything that you or I can do about it, other then try to remember.

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GM's avatar

Not so. Trump is not the one who opened the borders and let anyone in. You know the Cartels bring kids over to help,mostly men in. Border patrol say they see the same child go back and forth over the border.

Trump also started the DNA check at the Border and Biden quickly ended that. Many America citizens are also suffering and in the US who are not getting the same and or any benefits as the illegals are in this County.

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Burton H Voorhees's avatar

I wasn't talking about open borders, it was about separation of children from families. But I assume you're okay with the US turning into an authoritarian state.

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GM's avatar

I'm OK with following laws and keeping citizens safe.

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Burton H Voorhees's avatar

Including masked agents who don't identify themselves but grab people off the streets? Just imagine, if these practices become institutionalized and a Democratic administration comes into power... Isn't the only way to prevent this sort of thing arranging so that there is no possibility of Democrats ever winning another election, and the best way to do that is to stop having elections?

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Henry Schulte's avatar

I was. I had an entire paragraph dedicated to that but had to cut for space. The stories are endless and all equally as horrible. How do we reign in evil? Apparently we can't. Good has to become much stronger and we have to stop coddling all the bad and crack down like we used to. Stop with the liberal progressive pity party festival we've been tolerating.

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Robert Johnson's avatar

A lot of pearl clutching here about immoral politicians. I wonder if any of you read this piece from Ty Cobb, ESQ., former Lawyer on the Donald Trump team:

“Donald Trump has real contempt for the country, appoints wholly unqualified people to key positions and just kicked 12 million people off Medicaid, eliminated child food support and killed worldwide healthcare efforts monitoring pandemic producing diseases including Ebola (among countless other dangerous things).

His tariffs, like his bibles, crypto and extortion of colleges and media companies and his efforts to rewrite history, are purely personal, corrupt and have zero policy-based support. They are just exercises in the power he craves so intensely. He has and will continue to damage our economy and the world’s, and our culture, until and unless he is stopped.

Fortunately, the courts have shut down his Constitutional overreach in over 180 cases—96% of the cases he has brought or defended in the last six months—but without Congress, which has been neutered by its collective cowardice, the tide cannot turn completely.

We are more vulnerable economically and on national security than ever before in history as he and Pete Hegseth (Defense Secretary) have rendered the military unprepared by eliminating the majority of its most experienced and enlightened leaders.

Healthcare is in the toilet under RFK JR and many diseases are or soon will be on the rise due to the elimination of vaccines and the defunding of the sciences which made our energy, environment and healthcare the envy of the world. And finally, his Bible and crypto grifts to name a few are pure greed.

His net worth is up over $3 billion since taking office 6 months ago. No one has ever seen corruption at this level by a President. Most of these actions have been pure exercises in power and greed and have no guiding principle beyond self-interest and vengeance.

Competence, leadership, science, and the rule of law which historically distinguished us from petty dictatorships have all been abandoned or curtailed to serve his ego and narcissism. His narcissism is so real and so extreme it dominates and is at the heart of everything he does and always has been.

We can only hope the norms he has broken and the damage already done to us economically and to our stature in the world (where we have gone from the beacon of liberty to isolated bully in just months) can be restored perhaps in a generation and that the damage yet to come will be less severe but the country is in real trouble and sadly the weakest among us will feel it the worst.

Moreover, the cognitive decline we saw in Biden is very real with Trump as well. His us versus them approach to Americans has been more divisive than any prior President. Just yesterday he announced how much he “hates” all Democrats. “Hate” worked for Hitler, briefly, but no one considers it a leadership trait. His racism is palpable.

The country needs new leaders with character, and I don’t care if they are Republicans or Democrats, never have. Just want someone honest, principled, intelligent and compassionate who can unite us. Trump in my experience is none of those things.

This is what I believe and why I am engaged. I could of course be tilting at windmills but don’t really have much choice if I want to sleep at night given the stakes as I see them.…”

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DLDawson's avatar

you’re speaking on behalf of the less than 20%, those still afflicted with TDS, who parrot the Mockingbird (CIA) narratives…

Trump flipped The World!!!

https://x.com/drawandstrike/status/1954628492382945643?s=61

https://x.com/danscavino/status/1956863474425815344?s=61

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GM's avatar
3dEdited

Thank you for this article. I'm so confused of why this community and it's leaders aren't supporting but rather denying the unaccompanied children and minors found in their backyard.

Where is the outcry to stop this from happening,the fundraisers and help for them. The statements made is they were working on a farm. They were growing a few vegetables around the Cannabis. What about being unaccompanied. That means that most likely they were trafficked Not a peep can be heard on this issue.

The truth is their only interest is to support the criminals.

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DLDawson's avatar

Sad Story Henry, but a powerful &/well-timed wake up call for citizens & Patriots…unfortunately, many of the child traffickers work for governments, including USG & NGOs funded by taxpayers…

Example: Haiti

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvTqqYCb-e8

[Read very carefully]

https://www.news.com.au/entertainment/tv/current-affairs/sunday-nights-matt-doran-goes-undercover-with-operation-underground-railroad-to-bring-down-haiti-child-sex-ring/news-story/dcecf5950ca5b6d501c48ed927127bc3

"Child TRAFFICking victims who’ve spent their formative years servicing the carnal desires of men, often foreigners, who are three, four, five or six times their age. Their madam tells me that many of their customers are western humanitarian workers who’ve come here to help rebuild Haiti after the recent run of natural disasters."

"This is far from a ‘vigilante group’; leading the team is ex-Department of Homeland Security special agent Tim Ballard, perhaps America’s foremost human TRAFFICking expert. "The problem in Haiti is an international crisis,” Ballard explains. “With so many children displaced or orphaned during the recent earthquake and hurricane, recruiters moved quickly to sweep these children up. And the worst part of it all is that in many cases the clients are the foreigners who’ve come here to help, the NGO workers and the so-called humanitarians.”

PURE EVIL…

Good news is that Trump Team made great strides in shutting down major WW routes, beginning in 17-18…Saudi Arabia [ACCESS] CLOSED, EPSTEIN ISLAND [ACCESS] CLOSED. HAITI [ACCESS] CLOSED. NK [ACCESS] CLOSED. CHINA [ACCESS] CLOSED. RUSSA [ACCESS] CLOSED. CUBA [ACCESS] CLOSED + SUDAN, SYRIA, YEMEN, LIBYA, SOMALIA, +++

The Silent War began early in Trump’s first term… https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/executive-order-13818-blocking-the-property-persons-involved-serious-human-rights-abuse-or

The Silent War continues… https://x.com/fnowisthetime/status/1472435073689423876?s=61

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GM's avatar

Several abuses are happening from same sex couples adoptingoatly male, adopting a male child and then abusing the baby.

How does the system allow these children to be adopted into the hands of these abusersthw children can't protest themselves and that is what these are organizations are there for to protect them.

Theres a hotline that once the children cross the border they can call to report abuses etc. Reports were made and not one investigation was made to help these children during the last 4 years

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Michael Self's avatar

County and City elected are giving your tax money to support illegals.

Remember this at election time!

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Gary Simpson's avatar

Thank you Henry for your very compassionate and very poignant letter today.

Gary

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John's avatar

Great article. Thank you for spreading this information

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Earl Brown's avatar

The thing you need to know is the only souls in this world worth a hoot are the kids and the animals. Most people are absolutely worthless - calculating, deceitful schemers only interested in ‘What’s in it for me”

I blow ants off my kitchen counter instead of killing them. Their guileless little lives are the most important thing of all.

On the other hand, I’d like to be a judge. Most of the trash coming before me would find out what ‘justice’ means to us civilized folks.

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Henry Schulte's avatar

Earl I had to reply about the ants. When they appear on my desk, I try to avoid crushing them and give them names. I know it's silly but I can't even randomly kill them either.

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Earl Brown's avatar

It's not silly at all Henry, I know just how you feel. If _only_ humans had the style, grace and honesty of animals just think how great this trip would be! :)

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Randy Mudge's avatar

Re: Child Trafficking and Abuse-Release the Epstein files. America deserves the truth, realize justice, and govern transparently. (Ref. Child trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell’s recent relocation to a Club Fed prison coinciding with her “interview” with DOJ.)

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Henry Schulte's avatar

I heard horror stories today how the Middle East use boys as their sex toys and how even today, places like, I think it was Liberia, where they still offer girls as live sacrifices. I can't recall in the conversation but one leader would cut out the heart and eat some of it. Those are the stories we read about from thousands of years ago but it still occurs in modern time is nuts. I have a lot of faith in mankind but there's still way too much evil on this planet. Hamas could have ended the war they started with their initial slaughter of innocents but have chosen to sacrifice the people of Palestine to serve their political motivation to do what? Stay alive at the expense of the poor people who they've abandoned. The world turns on Israel and the real evil gets a pass.

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