President Joe Biden claimed on Tuesday that he and his administration were doing &#8220;everything&#8221; they could to stem the flow of fentanyl into and throughout the United States, but critics did not appear to be buying it.
Biden&#8217;s comments came just days after his meeting in San Francisco with Chinese leader Xi Jinping — during which Biden said the two had come to a consensus about stopping the fentanyl that has been coming into the United States from China.
&#8220;Deaths from fentanyl are an American tragedy that requires global action. I’m committed to doing everything I can to control this crisis – from expanding prevention, harm reduction, treatment, and recovery, to working with Chinese, Mexican, and Canadian partners to tackle this,&#8221; he said in a post to X.
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Deaths from fentanyl are an American tragedy that requires global action.
I’m committed to doing everything I can to control this crisis – from expanding prevention, harm reduction, treatment, and recovery, to working with Chinese, Mexican, and Canadian partners to tackle this.
&mdash; President Biden (@POTUS) <a href="https://twitter.com/POTUS/status/1727031428120998363?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 21, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Comedian and vocal Biden critic Roseanne Barr said in her own way that if Biden were truly serious about keeping fentanyl out of the country, he would do something about the fact that much of it was coming across the porous southern border.
&#8220;Close the f***ing border then, dips***,&#8221; she said.
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Close the fucking border then, dipshit.
&mdash; Roseanne Barr (@therealroseanne) <a href="https://twitter.com/therealroseanne/status/1727126465983258926?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 22, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Caitlyn Jenner agreed, adding, &#8220;Hey here&#8217;s a thought! CLOSE. THE. BORDER.&#8221;
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Hey here’s a thought! CLOSE. THE. BORDER. <a href="https://t.co/WnTk5M9Eel">https://t.co/WnTk5M9Eel</a>
&mdash; Caitlyn Jenner (@Caitlyn_Jenner) <a href="https://twitter.com/Caitlyn_Jenner/status/1727338003524378875?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 22, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Monica Crowley suggested that in addition to the open border, Biden&#8217;s repeated deference to Chinese dictator Xi Jinping was part of the problem. &#8220;You just kissed the a** of Xi Jinping, who is sending the fentanyl across your wide open border to kill us. Sit TF down.&#8221;
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You just kissed the ass of Xi Jinping, who is sending the fentanyl across your wide open border to kill us.
Sit TF down. <a href="https://t.co/bDsibV6IUQ">https://t.co/bDsibV6IUQ</a>
&mdash; Monica Crowley (@MonicaCrowley) <a href="https://twitter.com/MonicaCrowley/status/1727144345302888748?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 22, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Congressional candidate Joe Kent (R-WA) weighed in as well, saying, &#8220;Biden &amp; dems like Marie Perez will talk about fentanyl while deliberately leaving our borders wide open. They don’t care that over 100k Americans have been killed by fentanyl if they did, they’d close the borders. Records matter, not their hollow words &amp; performative acts.&#8221;
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Biden &amp; dems like Marie Perez will talk about fentanyl while deliberately leaving our borders wide open. 
They don’t care that over 100k Americans have been killed by fentanyl if they did, they’d close the borders.
Records matter, not their hollow words &amp; performative acts. <a href="https://t.co/243VRSkZSH">https://t.co/243VRSkZSH</a>
&mdash; Joe Kent for WA-3 (@joekent16jan19) <a href="https://twitter.com/joekent16jan19/status/1727101878897611018?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 21, 2023</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;You had our top fentanyl supplier in our country last week, dumba**,&#8221; podcaster Eric Matheny replied. &#8220;You rolled out the red carpet for him, flew Chinese flags, and even cleaned the s*** and needles off the streets of San Francisco.&#8221;
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You had our top fentanyl supplier in our country last week, dumbass. 
You rolled out the red carpet for him, flew Chinese flags, and even cleaned the shit and needles off the streets of San Francisco. <a href="https://t.co/gFKWZb52hB">https://t.co/gFKWZb52hB</a>
&mdash; Eric Matheny 🎙️ (@ericmmatheny) <a href="https://twitter.com/ericmmatheny/status/1727127294752243768?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 22, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Biden Claims He’s Doing ‘Everything’ Possible To Stop Fentanyl, And People Have Thoughts

Biden Claims He's Doing 'Everything' Possible To Stop Fentanyl, And People Have Thoughts

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Shortly after an 18-year-old opened fire on children at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, last year, killing 19 students and two teachers, the New York Times published a lengthy front-page article on the killer&#8217;s background. One line in the Times&#8217; report didn&#8217;t last long, before an editor deleted it from the article, without explanation. The sentence in question quoted one of the gunman&#8217;s co-workers at Wendy&#8217;s as saying: 
<blockquote>&#8220;He would often talk about how much he despised his mother and grandmother, whom he told her did not let him smoke weed or do what he wanted.&#8221;</blockquote>
It was never clear why that particular line was deleted. Most likely they wanted to push gun confiscation instead, and it confused the narrative. In any event, the New York Times didn&#8217;t want to talk about the shooter&#8217;s marijuana use. If the blogger Alex Berenson hadn&#8217;t <a href="https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/urgent-the-new-york-times-has-edited/comments?s=r" target="_blank" rel="noopener">spotted</a> the change, it&#8217;s likely no one would have ever noticed it. What we do know is that, if the shooter in Uvalde was indeed a pothead, then there are a lot of other examples just like him. Many other mass shooters — from Parkland to Aurora to Tucson to Sutherland Springs — were <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/cannabis-and-the-violent-crime-surge-marijuana-pot-use-thc-shootings-psychosis-mental-11654540197" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> marijuana users. 
That dovetails with <a href="https://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/appi.ajp.2020.19101008" target="_blank" rel="noopener">research</a> showing that young people who used marijuana were more than twice as likely to commit acts of violence. To give just one example, the American Journal of Psychiatry published a <a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32456503/#:~:text=Conclusions%3A%20These%20results%20demonstrate%20a,a%20risk%20factor%20for%20violence." target="_blank" rel="noopener">meta-analysis</a> of several large-scale studies three years ago. The conclusion: 
<blockquote>&#8220;These results demonstrate a moderate association between cannabis use and physical violence. &#8230; Cannabis use in this population is a risk factor for violence.&#8221;</blockquote>
You never hear about these studies, probably for the same reason that the New York Times censored itself for mentioning marijuana in the context of the Uvalde shooting. In elite circles, talking about the consequences of marijuana use is unpopular. Anything that discourages people from smoking more weed is also disfavored. It&#8217;s almost like they want the masses to be drugged and passive, which might explain why the cigar tax in New York is <a href="https://www.tax.ny.gov/bus/cig/cigidx.htm#:~:text=New%20York%20State%20imposes%20an,one%20ounce%20or%20less%3B%20and" target="_blank" rel="noopener">75%</a>, while the marijuana tax is less than <a href="https://www.tax.ny.gov/bus/auc/#:~:text=If%20you%20make%20retail%20sales,sale%20or%20transfer%20is%20imposed." target="_blank" rel="noopener">15%</a>.
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Regardless of what exactly explains that discrepancy, the PR effort to push marijuana has obviously been successful over the past decade. Two dozen states have passed some form of legalization or decriminalization of weed. And because slippery slopes are real — and anyone who uses the term &#8220;slippery slope fallacy&#8221; is lying to you — the decriminalization movement did not end there. Instead, it&#8217;s progressed far beyond marijuana. 
Three years ago, on the heels of the race riots following the overdose of George Floyd, Oregon became the first state in the country to <a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/oregon-votes-to-decriminalize-all-drugs-allow-psilocybin-for-mental-health-treatment-11604477494" target="_blank" rel="noopener">decriminalize</a> the possession of all illegal drugs —not just marijuana, but every illegal drug. Nearly 60% of voters in the state approved Measure 110, along with a separate measure that legalized the use of hallucinogenic mushrooms for therapy. The idea was that laws against heroin and meth and other drugs were counterproductive and oppressive and of course racist, so they had to go.
Hopes were high. As Vox <a href="https://www.vox.com/21509815/oregon-ballot-measure-110-drug-decriminalization" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> at the time:
<blockquote>&#8220;Given that decriminalization is so far untried in the US, it’s difficult to say how it would play out. In that sense, Measure 110 would create a real-time experiment for Oregon and the rest of the country.&#8221;</blockquote>
Not long afterwards, though, problems began to emerge. In 2022, a local news station embedded with the head of a Portland drug interdiction task force. Here&#8217;s what they learned:
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Measure 110, the officer says, is the reason that fentanyl and stolen handguns and machine guns are flooding Oregon. &#8220;Measure 110 has everything to do with it,&#8221; he tells the reporter.  
Now, three years after Measure 110 was passed, voters are tired of it. Polls now show that a majority of residents in Oregon now want to re-criminalize hard drugs, and a ballot measure doing so is expected next year. That&#8217;s because, predictably, decriminalizing cocaine and heroin, and everything else, has led to nothing less than the breakdown of society in Oregon. To the extent that there was a society there before this.
This week, the Wall Street Journal <a href="https://www.wsj.com/us-news/oregon-decriminalized-hard-drugs-it-isnt-working-78ee7476">published</a> an extensive analysis into the effect of Measure 110 on the state. It’s a report that everyone should read as it just entirely annihilates the case for drug legalization. And yet almost all of the pro-drug legalizers are simply ignoring it. They have gotten what they wanted — in Oregon, and to a lesser extent across the country — but you notice that they are not out touting the success of the policy they advocated for. That’s because there is no success. It has been a disaster. 
The paper reports that, as a result of the law, &#8220;People sprawled on sidewalks and using fentanyl with no fear of consequence have become a common sight in cities such as Eugene and Portland.&#8221; From May of 2022 to May of this year, the number of fatal overdoses in the state increased by more than 20%, to 1,500 overdoses. That&#8217;s the third-highest jump in the entire country. Police in Eugene Oregon report that this year, there have been 858 calls for overdoses. In 2020, the number was 438.
The whole point of Measure 110 was to force these people to go to rehabilitation services, instead of jail, but of course that hasn&#8217;t worked either: 
<blockquote>&#8220;Some 6,000 tickets have been issued for drug possession since decriminalization went into effect in 2021, but just 92 people have called and completed assessments needed to connect them to services,&#8221; the Journal reports. &#8220;The only penalty for those who don’t call is a $100 fine, which is rarely enforced.&#8221;</blockquote>
So in sum, Oregon&#8217;s decision to decriminalize all drugs has been an abject and totally predictable disaster. It turns out that when you invite people to do drugs whenever and wherever they want, you end up with a lot more people doing drugs whenever and wherever they want. Advocates for decriminalization have always claimed that decriminalizing drug use will not lead to more drug use, as though the law has absolutely no effect on people&#8217;s behavior. But that flies in the face of everything we&#8217;ve observed about human behavior since the dawn of civilized society. 
To put it simply: Laws matter. When the law allows a certain behavior, you get more of that behavior. It’s not hard to figure out this equation. 
That&#8217;s why — unless we want a lot more overdose deaths and illegal guns in major cities — we need to take a very close look at all forms of drug decriminalization, including the more limited decriminalization and legalization efforts we&#8217;ve seen across the country. As I mentioned earlier, weed is legal in most places now. How is that working out? Is there any evidence it&#8217;s making anything better? By the naked eye, it certainly seems to be contributing to our social decay. It has a demoralizing effect, at the very least, to walk through any city in America and smell the stench of weed everywhere, with people walking around stoned anywhere you go. 
I say this as someone who, for a time, believed that weed — not any other drug — should probably just be legalized or at least decriminalized, as much as I personally don’t like the drug. But I can look around at our cities, smell the stench everywhere, see people high on drugs everywhere, and ask myself: has this made society better or worse? That’s the question everyone should be asking themselves. 
Aside from the naked eye test, what does the data say? For a lot of reasons, it&#8217;s hard to measure the precise impact of marijuana decriminalization on people&#8217;s quality of life. There are so many variables — including the decision by leftist D.A.&#8217;s to stop enforcing a bunch of other laws — that it&#8217;s difficult to ascribe any particular blame to one specific policy or another. It’s all kind of a jumbled mess. To be sure, a lot of jurisdictions that have legalized or decriminalized marijuana have seen significant increases in crime. New York legalized cannabis in 2021, for example, and then immediately saw its overall crime index <a href="https://ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/news/2023/01/05/nypd-december-2022-crime-statistics#:~:text=Police%20logged%20126%2C537%20crimes%20last,in%202021%2C%20the%20release%20said." target="_blank" rel="noopener">jump</a> by more than 22%. Along the same lines, after Washington&#8217;s Supreme Court struck down the state&#8217;s drug laws — effectively legalizing all drugs until legislators could fix the problem — crime spiked. Washington&#8217;s rate of violent crimes jumped from 337 per 100,000 people in 2021, to more than 375 per 100,000 people in 2022.
There&#8217;s no easy way to determine with absolute certainty at this stage what role, if any, drug legalization is playing in these numbers. But there have been some attempts at drilling this down. A couple of years ago, analysts at the Justice Research and Statistics Association <a href="https://www.ojp.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/253137.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">looked</a> at the impact of marijuana decriminalization in 11 states — including Washington, Arizona, California, Colorado, Nebraska, and others — by speaking to local officials and law enforcement personnel. 
The researchers found that, after Washington state legalized recreational marijuana use in 2020, arrests for both the possession and distribution of heroin and methamphetamine increased significantly. Meanwhile in Colorado, which also decriminalized pot a decade ago, the researchers found that:
<blockquote>&#8220;Respondents in particular reported an increase in the homeless population from individuals moving to the state for jobs in the marijuana industry that failed to materialize. Other concerns expressed by interviewees related to criminal behavior associated with the marijuana business, such as attempts to steal marijuana and take over selling from locals.&#8221; </blockquote>
In Oregon, there were similar concerns: &#8220;An Oregon respondent reported a 55-60% increase in marijuana-related DUIs&#8221; following marijuana decriminalization. Along the same lines, a separate research team from the University of Utah <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0047235220302361#:~:text=Results%20provide%20some%20evidence%20demonstrating,legalization%2C%20including%20property%20and%20violent" target="_blank" rel="noopener">scrutinized</a> crime data from Oregon. They found that:
<blockquote>&#8220;Results provide some evidence demonstrating a crime-exacerbating effect of recreational marijuana legalization, as reflected by substantial increases in the rates of multiple types of serious crimes &#8230; in Oregon relative to non-legalized states following legalization, including property and violent crime overall, as well as other crimes such as burglary, motor vehicle theft, larceny, and aggravated assault.&#8221;</blockquote>
None of this is particularly surprising, given that marijuana is a psychoactive drug that&#8217;s been linked to violent behavior. What is perhaps surprising is that, given what we know (and don&#8217;t know), several states are still pushing the decriminalization agenda. 
Ohio, for example, is set to decriminalize the drug in just a few weeks. Watch how local news is covering this:
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Notice that they&#8217;re not talking about how decriminalizing marijuana is going to make everyone more productive and happier members of society. They’re not claiming that it’s going to make the state a better place to live, which is really what every law ultimately should be designed to do. They’re not talking about how safe the schools in Ohio will be, after young children with mental disorders are granted even easier access to psychoactive drugs. Instead, they&#8217;re talking about tax revenue. They&#8217;re telling you the state will make more money. That&#8217;s the whole pitch. They&#8217;re not even pretending otherwise.
And that tells you something that even Left-wing voters in Oregon are now realizing: the more recreational drugs you legalize, the more crime and urban decay you have to deal with. This really should not be a surprise. People are more likely to do something when there is no legal ramification for doing it. That doesn’t mean everyone stops doing drugs when you make it illegal. It just means that the fewer obstacles in the way, the fewer consequences, the more of that behavior you get.
This isn’t just because of the practical obstacles put in place when something is illegal. It’s also because the law is a teacher. A thing begins to seem less objectionable to people when the law endorses it.  Ultimately, there’s no upside for anyone but the state Treasury, and the politicians who desperately need voters to be as stoned and submissive as possible. Otherwise, if voters aren&#8217;t high out of their minds, they might realize what these politicians are doing to their communities. They might realize that destruction and decay are a choice.
And then, like the voters in Oregon, they might decide they&#8217;ve finally had enough of it.
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The FBI seized more than 220 pounds of drugs in Massachusetts last week in a massive drug bust — believed to be the most drugs ever found in a single spot in New England.
The FBI task force found 10 million doses of drugs with a street value of $8 million during a search on November 1 in Lynn just north of Boston, the Justice Department <a href="https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/over-220-pounds-suspected-controlled-substances-seized-including-pills-shaped-resemble-heart#:~:text=The%20seizure%20included%20nine%20kilograms,be%20upwards%20of%20%248%20million." target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a press release Monday. The stash included eight million doses of fentanyl and methamphetamine laced pills and powder.
Among the drugs were 20 pounds of pink, heart-shaped, fentanyl-laced pills that were &#8220;pressed to look like candy,&#8221; the Justice Department said.
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Authorities also found brown rock and powder-like substances, which tested positive for cocaine and other drugs, and counterfeit Adderall pills believed to contain methamphetamines.
Three men were arrested in connection with allegedly running the &#8220;large-scale drug trafficking organization,&#8221; authorities said.
A 25-year-old man, Emilio Garcia, also known as &#8220;6&#8221; and a 33-year-old man, Sebastien Bejin, also known as Bash, were each charged with two counts, including possession of controlled substances with intent to distribute. A third 40-year-old man, Deiby Felix, was charged with just one count of possession of controlled substances with intent to distribute.
If convicted, the men face up to 20 years in prison and a fine of up to $250,000 for each charge.
They are scheduled to appear in court on November 13.
FBI Director Christopher Wray said that the seizure &#8220;saved lives in communities throughout Massachusetts.&#8221;
“Not only was this seizure one of the largest in the history of Massachusetts, but some of the pills were created to look like candy, potentially presenting an enormous risk to children,&#8221; Wray said.
The number of doses is greater than the number of people living in Massachusetts, said Acting U.S. Attorney Joshua S. Levy for the District of Massachusetts.
“The fact that we now are seeing fentanyl-laced pills pressed to resemble candy only underscores the urgency of this fentanyl crisis,” Levy said.
Fentanyl, a synthetic opioid that is cheap to make and easily transported, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/portland-sees-biggest-fentanyl-bust-in-sheriffs-office-history">is about</a> 50 times more potent than heroin and 100 times more potent than morphine. Because it is often cut with other drugs, users may often be unaware that they are consuming the powerful substance, which can be deadly even in small doses.
As little as two milligrams of fentanyl weighing the same as a few grains of salt can cause a fatal overdose, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/portland-sees-biggest-fentanyl-bust-in-sheriffs-office-history">according</a> to the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA).
Fentanyl has been on the rise in the U.S. for years. In a public safety alert, the DEA <a href="https://www.dea.gov/alert/dea-laboratory-testing-reveals-6-out-10-fentanyl-laced-fake-prescription-pills-now-contain#:~:text=It%20is%20a%20highly%20addictive,considered%20a%20potentially%20deadly%20dose." target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> that six out of ten fentanyl pills the agency tests contain a potentially lethal dose.
In 2022, more than two-thirds of the 107,081 drug overdose deaths involved synthetic opioids, mostly illegal fentanyl, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Valentine’s Day Favorite Sweethearts Candy Will Be Scarce In 2019

FBI Seizes Pink Heart Fentanyl Pills In Massive Drug Bust

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As Halloween approaches, local media outlets across the country will warn parents to check their kids’ Halloween candy for potential dangers. In recent years, federal and state authorities <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2022/10/26/rainbow-fentanyl-halloween-scare/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">issued warnings</a> about candy-shaped rainbow fentanyl. Another “danger” has been people swapping out regular candy for THC-laced gummies that mimic famous candy brands.
The danger of some maniac child-hater giving out poisoned candy, however, is a myth. There simply is no evidence that anything like this occurs at Halloween.
Debunking the THC-laced gummies is the easy part. These small bags of gummies cost $15 and up each, so it is unlikely anyone would give them out to be cruel. Joel Best, a sociology professor at the University of Delaware who has studied the tainted Halloween candy myth since 1983, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/27/us/halloween-candy-thc-marijuana.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> The New York Times in 2021 that the THC-laced gummies claim “spreads primarily among people who have no idea what this stuff costs.”
There are two decades-old examples of dangerous candy. In 1959, California dentist Dr. William Shyne handed out <a href="https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1959/11/04/80559444.pdf?pdf_redirect=true&amp;ip=0" target="_blank" rel="noopener">candy-coated laxative pills</a> to children trick-or-treating. Thirty children were sickened by the laxative-laced candy, with some 450 pills handed out. Shyne was charged with outrage of public decency and unlawful dispensing of drugs.
Following this, some 80 reports of sharp objects being inserted into Halloween candy emerged, but the vast majority turned out to be hoaxes, including a claim by two Pennsylvania teenagers in 2015 that they had found needles in their Halloween candy. They quickly recanted their claims and faced no charges, Philadelphia magazine <a href="https://www.phillymag.com/news/2015/11/06/kennett-square-needles-candy-hoax/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> at the time.
“Law enforcement is always in a difficult situation in these potential hoax cases, which seem to occur every year,” Larry Hogan, who was the district attorney of Chester County at the time, said in a statement. “The public has to be notified immediately as a matter of safety. However, as anybody who has raised kids knows, it sometimes takes some work and time to get the full truth behind an initial story. In this case, law enforcement and the media did a sound job of balancing the need for safety with pursuing the ultimate truth. At this point, we are simply glad that we can assure the parents and children of Chester County that Halloween remains a safe and fun event.”
The first teenager, an 11-year-old, put needles from her mom’s sewing kit into her candy after an adult showed her a picture of spiked candy while telling her to be safe. The other teen, a 12-year-old, saw a news report of the first hoax and decided to create his own. That same year, a 37-year-old man in New Jersey was arrested after posting a photo on social media claiming to have found needles in Halloween candy. The man, Robert Ledrew, placed the needles in the candy himself after seeing a news report about the two teens’ claims.
“I can’t find any evidence of any child being killed or seriously hurt by a contaminated treat picked up in the course of trick-or-treating,” Best, the University of Delaware sociology professor, told the Times.
A 5-year-old boy died in 1970 after eating heroin, which the police originally said had been in his Halloween candy. Allegedly, heroin had been sprinkled on the candy. In reality, the heroin had been found in his uncle’s home, the Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1970/11/10/archives/boy-5-who-died-of-heroin-may-have-taken-a-capsule.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> at the time. A medical examination found that the amount of heroin found in the boy’s body was way more than a sprinkle, and was the amount typically found in a capsule.
The idea that strangers are putting poisons and sharp objects into candy falls flat when one considers that criminals tend to want to see the destruction they cause. Giving things to random kids in the neighborhood wouldn’t really qualify, and it would be very easy to connect such a crime to a particular house.
There is one confirmed incident of poisoned Halloween candy that led to a death, but there is more to that story than stranger danger. In 1974, 8-year-old Timothy O’Bryan died after eating potassium cyanide-laced Pixy Stix found in his Halloween candy. The boy had been out trick-or-treating with his father, Ronald, and his sister, as well as a neighbor and his two children.
The group came to a house where no one answered the door, so the children ran ahead. Ronald caught up with the group and said he had been given five Pixy Stix by the occupant of the house that hadn’t initially answered. He gave one Pixy Stix to each of the four children in the group, and gave the fifth to a boy he knew from church.
That night, before going to bed, young Timothy asked to eat some of the candy from Halloween. Ronald provided him with another Pixy Stix. When Timothy struggled to get the powdered candy out of the straw, Ronald helped him loosen the powder. Upon consuming it, Timothy said it tasted bitter, so Ronald gave him some Kool-Aid to wash it down.
Timothy then said his stomach hurt and ran to the bathroom to throw up. The young boy started having convulsions. Ronald would later say that he held Timothy while the boy was vomiting and that the child collapsed in his arms. Timothy died on the way to the hospital, less than one hour after he consumed his last Pixy Stix.
None of the other children who had been given a Pixy Stix by Ronald consumed their candy, and their parents were able to retrieve them. Authorities found that the candies had all been opened and the top two inches of powder was replaced with cyanide powder before the straws had been stapled shut.
A pathologist who tested the candy found that Timothy consumed enough cyanide to kill two adults.
Ronald told police that he couldn’t remember which house provided the Pixy Stix. This made police suspicious, since the group had only gone to homes on two streets due to rain. None of the homes on these streets had given out Pixy Stix. After walking the neighborhood with police, Ronald pointed to the house that hadn’t answered and said the man had simply opened the door and given him the candy without fully revealing himself. Ronald said he only saw the man’s arm.
Police investigated the owner of the home and found that he was an air traffic controller who didn’t get home until 11:00 p.m. on Halloween night. More than 200 people were able to confirm he had been at work that night and couldn’t have given out the candy.
Police later learned that Ronald was more than $100,000 in debt at the time (more than $620,000 in 2023 dollars), and had held 21 jobs in the past 10 years. He was about to be fired again, his car was about to be repossessed, he had defaulted on multiple bank loans, and was about to lose his house.
In the months before Timothy died, Ronald had taken out $10,000 insurance policies on each of his children. One month before the death, Ronald took out an additional $20,000 in insurance on each child. The morning after Timothy died, Ronald called to ask about collecting the insurance money.
Ronald had also gone to a chemical supply store to buy cyanide before Halloween, but left when he learned the minimum amount he could buy was 5 pounds.
Ronald was arrested and charged with Timothy’s murder and the attempted murders of the four other children. Timothy’s mother said she had no idea about the insurance policies and was never considered a suspect.
At trial, a chemist testified that Ronald had asked him about cyanide and how much would be fatal in the year before Timothy’s death. A chemical supply salesman also testified that Ronald had asked him how to purchase cyanide. Those who knew Ronald testified that in the months before Timothy died, Ronald had shown an interest in cyanide.
Ronald’s wife testified that Timothy had not chosen to eat a Pixy Stix that night, but that Ronald had forced him to choose the candy.
Ronald was convicted and sentenced to death. He was killed by lethal injection on March 31, 1984. In the decades since, he has been referred to as “The Candy Man” or “The Man Who Killed Halloween.”
Yet he was not a stranger handing out Halloween candy – he was a man in debt who sought to kill his children for the insurance money and gave out the candy to other children to make it look like it had come from a stranger.
Despite numerous warnings about the dangers of Halloween candy, there simply is no evidence that a stranger in the neighborhood is preparing to harm children by going to great lengths to tamper with candy.

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A Republican senator is calling for the Nancy Pelosi Federal Building in San Francisco to be shut down over the open-air drug market and dangerous conditions that plague the area just outside.
Senator Joni Ernst (R-IA) sent a letter Tuesday to the General Services Administration, which manages the building, suggesting it &#8220;shuttered for the foreseeable future.&#8221;
&#8220;I’m calling to shut down the Speaker Nancy Pelosi Federal Building,&#8221; Ernst said in a statement. &#8220;After all, they’ve already been forced to abandon it, so why should taxpayers keep the lights on in Nancy Pelosi’s haunted house?&#8221;
In August, hundreds of employees who work at the Nancy Pelosi building were told to work from home indefinitely due to public safety concerns right outside.
Outside, one of San Francisco’s worst open-air drug markets rages, with dealers and addicts doing business in broad daylight daily. Addicts often hang out and use drugs on the federal building’s concrete benches, the San Francisco Chronicle <a href="https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/drugs-crime-nancy-pelosi-federal-building-18292237.php" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
The block around the federal building had 525 drug-related incidents over the past year, city data <a href="https://sfstandard.com/2023/09/08/nancy-pelosi-federal-building-security-increased-drug-dealing/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">shows</a>.
In recent months, federal employees had knives pulled on them three times, and one person was chased with a hammer, the San Francisco Standard <a href="https://sfstandard.com/2023/09/08/nancy-pelosi-federal-building-security-increased-drug-dealing/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>.
Recently, a fence was <a href="https://sfstandard.com/2023/09/08/nancy-pelosi-federal-building-security-increased-drug-dealing/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">put up</a> along part of the building to block people from sitting on a concrete ledge where drug dealers were frequently spotted.
In June, two men were charged with attempting to deal drugs in full view of the federal building’s surveillance cameras, the U.S. Attorney <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-ndca/pr/san-francisco-residents-charged-allegedly-committing-crimes-front-surveillance-cameras" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a press release. One of the men was in possession of a gun when he was arrested and may have fired a gun at someone near the building months earlier, the release said.
Meanwhile, the Federal Protective Service has <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/10/25/news/sen-ernst-pushes-to-close-the-nancy-pelosi-federal-building/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">increased</a> its activity in the area, and some employees have asked to be escorted in and out of the building.
Ernst said the building is now a dangerous place to work thanks to former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) herself as well as &#8220;the other liberal politicians that have allowed criminal chaos to overtake the streets of San Francisco.&#8221;
&#8220;Ironically, the Nancy Pelosi Federal Building is a symbol of the way government doesn’t work, &#8230; if it’s not safe for federal employees to work here, it certainly can’t be safe for businesses to operate and families to live here,&#8221; Ernst said.
The 18-story federal building includes Pelosi’s local office as well as the offices of several federal agencies, including HHS, the Labor Department, and the Transportation Department.
Ernst said the San Francisco area has at least five other federal buildings where federal employees could work, allowing taxpayers to interact with government agencies face-to-face &#8220;without fearing for their lives.&#8221;

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GOP Senator Calls To ‘Shut Down’ Nancy Pelosi Federal Building In San Francisco Over Drugs, Crime Outside

GOP Senator Calls To 'Shut Down' Nancy Pelosi Federal Building In San Francisco Over Drugs, Crime Outside

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The school district serving the growing population of Colony Ridge, a sprawling development north of Houston that has become a magnet for illegal aliens, is facing a sudden surge in drug overdoses.
A whopping <a href="https://www.fox26houston.com/news/drug-overdoes-at-cleveland-isd-high-school-continue-to-rise">15 drug-related incidents</a> have happened at Cleveland Independent School District (CISD) since the start of the school year on <a href="https://www.clevelandisd.org/district-academic-calendar">August 8th</a>, with the district suspecting that fentanyl-laced Percocet pills are to blame.
“In recent weeks, there have been 4 reported cases of drug overdose in our district, specifically related to Percocet pills that may have been laced with fentanyl,” a public service <a href="https://www.clevelandisd.org/">announcement</a> from CISD reads. “We urge all residents, especially those who use or come in contact with prescription medications, to exercise extreme caution.”
But while there have been four <a href="https://www.fox26houston.com/news/drug-overdoes-at-cleveland-isd-high-school-continue-to-rise">reported</a> overdose cases where the student required Narcan this year, there were also eight incidents that required an ambulance to be called to CISD. The figures mark a drastic surge in overdoses, with <a href="https://abc13.com/cleveland-isd-texas-school-overdoses-fentanyl-crisis-how-many/13840114/">only one</a> overdose being recorded for all of last year.
The district now says it is working closely with police and held town halls this month where the police chief briefed the community on the dangers of fentanyl and passed out Narcan, a drug used to counteract overdoses.
CISD sits in Liberty County, a rapidly growing area that can attribute much of its surge in population to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/inside-colony-ridge-the-fastest-growing-development-in-the-u-s-is-a-magnet-for-illegal-immigrants">Colony Ridge</a>, a development that could eventually house <a href="https://www.danpatrick.org/the-fastest-growing-community-in-texas/">200,000 people</a> and uses a financing method that allows illegal immigrants to buy land in the United States.
The district has exploded alongside the growth of the development, with CISD enrolling nearly 1,100 students in just two weeks over the summer and almost <a href="https://abc13.com/parents-concerned-in-cleveland-high-school-crowded-students-safety-isd/13696446/#:~:text=The%20district%20has%20experienced%20explosive,hold%20up%20to%203%2C968%20people.">doubling in enrollment</a> since 2018. Many of the new students do not speak English, compelling the district to offer <a href="https://bluebonnetnews.com/2023/08/07/cleveland-isd-kicking-off-new-school-year-with-more-than-12k-students/">$7,000 annual stipends</a> to bilingual teachers.
Law enforcement officials have <a href="https://cis.org/Bensman/Rarely-Quoted-Sheriffs-Mexican-Cartels-Do-Operate-and-Around-Controversial-Texas-Illegal">warned</a> that drug cartels are likely to be active in Colony Ridge and, even worse, that they do not have sufficient resources to patrol the development.
Liberty County Sheriff Rader <a href="https://www.spreaker.com/user/9808747/liberty-county-sheriff-bobby-rader-calls">warned</a> on the Michael Berry Show that his office does not have the resources to handle the criminal presence in the area, noting, “We’ve heard rumors that the cartel is buying up houses.”
Rader can’t be sure what the proportion of patrol officers to residents is because no one is certain exactly how many people live at Colony Ridge, just that it is growing rapidly. He posited that, at best, there may be one officer for every 16,700 residents, but the ratio could be as dismal as one officer for every 25,000 residents.
Robert Freyer, the First Assistant District Attorney of neighboring San Jacinto County, told The Daily Wire that law enforcement believes “cartels are importing liquid meth into those houses” and “turning it into crystal there.”
The county’s sheriff, Greg Capers, also warned that the Los Zetas, Gulf, Jalisco New Generation, and the Sinaloa cartels are active in the region, the latter two of which the Drug Enforcement Agency has noted as “likely the <a href="https://www.dea.gov/sites/default/files/2020-03/DEA_GOV_DIR-008-20%20Fentanyl%20Flow%20in%20the%20United%20States_0.pdf">primary trafficking groups</a> responsible for smuggling fentanyl into the United States from Mexico.”
Governor Greg Abbott has responded to the reports of crime and cartel activity in Colony Ridge by placing legislation addressing the development on the schedule for the <a href="https://gov.texas.gov/news/post/governor-abbott-announces-third-special-session-agenda">special legislative session</a>, as well as by sending Texas Department of Public Safety troopers into the area.

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A convicted child molester who set up a sign advertising &#8220;free fentanyl&#8221; across from a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/homeless">San Francisco</a> school was arrested last week.
Joseph Adam Moore was <a href="https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/man-san-francisco-encampment-arrested/3348263/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">taken</a> into custody just after noon on Friday after police gave him an order to move and he failed to do so.
Moore was arrested on 9th Avenue, just across the street from Stella Maris Academy, a Catholic school that serves children as young as preschool.
He <a href="https://sfstandard.com/2023/10/18/san-francisco-homeless-fentanyl-drugs-school-pedophile/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">is on</a> California&#8217;s sex offender registry for &#8220;lewd and lascivious acts with a child under the age of 14.&#8221; However, it appears he is not considered a &#8220;high-risk&#8221; offender, so he does not have the obligation to stay 2,000 feet away from any school.
&#8220;I was told that he is in compliance with all the components of what his sex registration are,&#8221; San Francisco Police Captain Chris Canning <a href="https://abc7.com/free-fentanyl-sign-san-francisco-california-stella-maris-academy/13944269/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>.
Moore had been camping across from the school <a href="https://abc7.com/free-fentanyl-sign-san-francisco-california-stella-maris-academy/13944269/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">for more than</a> two years and <a href="https://abc7.com/free-fentanyl-sign-san-francisco-california-stella-maris-academy/13944269/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> ABC7 last week that he has been homeless in San Francisco for &#8220;basically 26 years.&#8221;
Recently, he put up a sign reading, &#8220;Free fentanyl for new users,&#8221; which caught the eye of law enforcement.
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One of the craziest headlines — SF Standard reporting that convicted child molester set up camp across from grade school offering “free fentanyl for new users”. I had to check it out and it’s true. I just left the location as authorities are trying to get him to move. Story at 6. <a href="https://t.co/FCtHy9Qog0">pic.twitter.com/FCtHy9Qog0</a>
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&#8220;Were you giving away fentanyl? Was that just a joke?&#8221; a reporter from station KGO <a href="https://abc7.com/free-fentanyl-sign-san-francisco-california-stella-maris-academy/13944269/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">asked</a> Moore.
&#8220;No, it&#8217;s not a joke,&#8221; Moore responded, adding that people give him fentanyl in exchange for supplies.
&#8220;So they bring me trash that they&#8217;ve scavenged, things that they think are valuable, or they give me some of the drugs that they have, which I don&#8217;t do,&#8221; Moore told the outlet.
&#8220;You&#8217;re exposing grade school kids to this? This is not right. You know that?&#8221; the KGO reporter asked.
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&#8220;No, no, it&#8217;s shallow,&#8221; Moore responded.
The reporter pointed out that, &#8220;the kids come out of the school and they see this.&#8221;
&#8220;Yeah, I only live by two rules: be kind to others and make it look easy for children,&#8221; Moore said.
At one point, Moore and a parent from the school had a physical altercation. Moore got a misdemeanor battery ticket for that interaction, and he filed an assault complaint against that father.
A neighbor also expressed concerns, <a href="https://abc7.com/free-fentanyl-sign-san-francisco-california-stella-maris-academy/13944269/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">saying</a> his wife walks around the neighborhood with their baby by herself and he now feels the need for &#8220;extra vigilance.&#8221;
After Moore was arrested, police and city workers worked to clear out the encampment across from the school.
Moore was also on probation for violating a stay away order filed against him by the San Francisco Fire Department on behalf of a particular fire station.

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Convicted Child Molester Who Set Up ‘Free Fentanyl’ Sign Across From California School Arrested

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There was a moment early on in the George Floyd trial where the entire thing should have been over. The judge should have dismissed the case with prejudice, admonished the prosecutors, and apologized profusely to Derek Chauvin, on behalf of the state of Minnesota, for this coordinated effort to destroy his life.
I&#8217;m talking about testimony from the chief medical examiner in Minneapolis, a man named Andrew Baker. A little over a week into the trial, he was called by the state to make the claim that Derek Chauvin had committed a homicide by placing his knee on Floyd&#8217;s neck for several minutes. And that&#8217;s exactly what Andrew Baker did, on direct examination. Then, when Derek Chauvin&#8217;s defense lawyer cross-examined Andrew Baker, it all fell apart.
Over the course of more than an hour, Chauvin&#8217;s lawyer got Baker to admit a series of facts that, taken together, undermined the prosecution&#8217;s entire theory of the case. For one thing, Baker admitted that just days after Floyd&#8217;s death, he <a href="https://www.mncourts.gov/getattachment/Media/StateofMinnesotavTouThao/Container-Documents/Content-Documents/Exhibit-4.pdf.aspx?lang=en-US" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told prosecutors</a> that Floyd had a lethal level of fentanyl in his system under normal circumstances. Baker also acknowledged that Floyd had a severely enlarged heart, and that the autopsy showed no physical signs of neck injury or strangulation. The medical examiner went on to admit that, if Floyd had been found alone in an apartment building, his death would be certified as an overdose without a second thought.
Then, Chauvin&#8217;s lawyer delivered what should have been the kill shot. He asked Andrew Baker whether Derek Chauvin&#8217;s knee had ever obstructed Floyd&#8217;s airway. Here was the medical examiner&#8217;s response:
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Well, that seems relevant. The entire narrative surrounding the death of George Floyd, up to this point, was that Chauvin&#8217;s knee blocked Floyd’s airway. That was supposedly why he ran out of oxygen and stopped breathing. Now, an expert witness — a prosecution witness, for that matter — was admitting under oath that Chauvin&#8217;s knee was not affecting Floyd&#8217;s airway at all.
This cross-examination received precisely zero media attention at the time. No one seemed to notice it. But more than two years later, Andrew Baker is finally getting some scrutiny now, because of a lawsuit filed by a former Minneapolis prosecutor named Amy Sweasy. As reported by Alpha News late last week and discussed on Friday by Tucker Carlson, Sweasy just claimed in a deposition that Baker privately <a href="https://alphanews.org/court-docs-reveal-extreme-public-pressure-on-prosecutors-in-george-floyd-case/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">acknowledged</a> that there were &#8220;no medical indications of asphyxia or strangulation&#8221; in Floyd&#8217;s death. As she states in her deposition: “He called me later in the day on that Tuesday and he told me that there were no medical findings that showed any injury to the vital structures of Mr. Floyd’s neck. There were no medical indications of asphyxia or strangulation.&#8221;
According to Sweasy, “[Dr. Baker] said that if Mr. Floyd had been found dead in his home (or anywhere else) and there were no other contributing factors he would conclude that it was an overdose death.&#8221; For that reason, Sweasy said in her new deposition, Baker seemingly suggested to his colleagues that they needed to lie about Floyd&#8217;s death, due to public pressure. Quoting again from the deposition: “He said to me, ‘Amy, what happens when the actual evidence doesn’t match up with the public narrative that everyone’s already decided on?’ And then he said, ‘This is the kind of case that ends careers.’&#8221;
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At the time of Derek Chauvin&#8217;s trial, we didn&#8217;t know all of these details. But honestly we didn&#8217;t need them. They&#8217;re just confirmation of what any reasonable person should have figured out, which is that all these &#8220;experts&#8221; were lying about George Floyd. There was the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkEGGLu_fNU" target="_blank" rel="noopener">body camera footage</a> of George Floyd saying &#8220;I can&#8217;t breathe,&#8221; several times, before he was ever on the ground. He&#8217;s fighting with the officers in the back of the squad car. And then he begs them to put him on the ground, because he doesn&#8217;t want to be in the car. The jury saw all of this.
There was also the testimony from the doctor who treated Floyd in the emergency room, who <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdP9gKF5K-A" target="_blank" rel="noopener">admitted</a> under cross-examination that Floyd&#8217;s symptoms — specifically the lack of oxygen to his brain — were consistent with a fentanyl overdose. 
By the end of the proceedings, even the jury that convicted Chauvin was obviously aware of what a farce this whole trial was. Shortly after they voted to convict, several of the jurors gave an interview with CNN. Listen to their reasoning:
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It&#8217;s not what Derek Chauvin did, says the jury. It&#8217;s what he didn&#8217;t do. He didn&#8217;t live up to the police department&#8217;s motto of &#8220;caring.&#8221; He didn&#8217;t, I don&#8217;t know, start mouth-to-mouth CPR on George Floyd. Therefore, he&#8217;s a killer. He&#8217;s guilty of second-degree murder.
A couple of things about that clip. First of all, you can tell from how they&#8217;re talking about their &#8220;lightbulb moment&#8221; that they were trying to find an excuse to convict Derek Chauvin from the beginning. They knew Chauvin didn&#8217;t actually kill George Floyd, and that caused some cognitive dissonance. But they also knew that they had to convict him, or the city would burn down and they&#8217;d be racists. That&#8217;s why they were so relieved when this woman says, actually, it doesn&#8217;t matter that Chauvin didn&#8217;t kill Floyd. It was totally wrong and nonsensical, but it gave them an out. The jury went into the trial determined to find Chauvin guilty. The only thing they needed to figure out was why they’d convict him. 
This is exactly the opposite of how jury deliberations are supposed to work. What a jury is supposed to do is look at the evidence, and then see if under the law, a crime has occurred. And in this case, the law requires that the state prove — beyond a reasonable doubt — that Derek Chauvin&#8217;s actions caused George Floyd&#8217;s death. That should have been the entire focus of the jury. But the jury didn&#8217;t bother with that, because the state never proved that anything like that had occurred. There was nothing that proved beyond a reasonable doubt that Derek Chauvin killed Floyd, or that he could have saved Floyd, for that matter. 
To give you an idea of how corrupted the judicial system is, Chauvin didn&#8217;t have any obvious alternative to this outcome. If he had chosen a bench trial, he still would have been convicted. That&#8217;s because the judge was Peter Cahill. He&#8217;s handled the cases of every officer who was involved in detaining George Floyd. Recently he <a href="https://x.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1688754115856289792?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sentenced</a> another one of those officers — Tou Thao — to five years in prison. What was his crime? He held back the crowd that was badgering and threatening officers as Derek Chauvin restrained George Floyd. Tou Thao didn&#8217;t lay a finger on George Floyd. He wasn&#8217;t even looking at the arrest, because he was focused on the crowd. His only crime was being in the general vicinity while a black man overdosed on poison he willfully consumed. But Thao never bent the knee to the mob. He quoted scripture during his sentencing hearing. That infuriated Judge Peter Cahill, so he threw Thao behind bars for five years.
What could explain this judge&#8217;s conduct? As you might have guessed, he&#8217;s a lot like the jurors. He believes that &#8220;equity&#8221; is more important than the law. After the Chauvin case, Peter Cahill gave a lecture to a bunch of other judges. During his remarks, he told his colleagues to &#8220;work for equity.&#8221; He also told them that every case should be about &#8220;racial justice.&#8221; Watch:
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He goes on and on like that. He says it&#8217;s important to work for &#8220;equity.&#8221; He encourages affirmative action hiring. He tells everyone to attend &#8220;implicit bias training.&#8221; It&#8217;s exactly what you&#8217;d expect.
A few moments ago, I mentioned revelations in the legal complaint by former Minneapolis prosecutor Amy Sweasy. There were some other revelations related to these lawsuits. One of them, according to Alpha News, is that multiple employees of the Hennepin County Attorney&#8217;s office withdrew from the prosecutions of the other three officers, besides Chauvin, who were on the scene that day. These prosecutors <a href="https://thepostmillennial.com/far-left-pressure-in-george-floyd-case-may-have-influenced-trial-despite-lack-of-strangulation-evidence-court-documents?utm_campaign=64470" target="_blank" rel="noopener">believed</a> that charging these officers violated their professional and ethical obligations. But this judge, Peter Cahill, had no problem sentencing these officers to lengthy prison sentences. He smirked while he was doing it, in fact.
Again, if you&#8217;ve been following the Floyd case for a long time, none of these revelations are probably surprising to you. It&#8217;s been obvious from the beginning that Derek Chauvin was a sacrificial lamb, being offered up to atone for the supposed sins of an entire race. Now we have overwhelming evidence of that, and a lot of people — conservatives anyway — are coming out and saying so.
Speaking of conservatives, one of the things that’s so important about all this new information is that it underscores the cowardly and shameful silence of conservatives when this trial was occurring, and before it occurred. Many right wing politicians and activists did not stand up in defense of Derek Chauvin. In fact, many Republican politicians and outlets explicitly accepted the narrative that George Floyd had been murdered.
All along, it was an obvious scam. And the con artists behind it are now rubbing it in our faces. Patrisse Cullors, one of the founders of BLM, is <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2023/10/19/reaction-blm-co-founder-nude-modern-artist/">now embarking</a> on a new career as a &#8220;nude modern artist.&#8221; She&#8217;s transitioned from one absurd form of performance art to another somehow even more grotesque form. This is the Hunter Biden approach, except instead of finger painting, Patrisse Cullors is taking off all her clothes and making tapestries with gold and &#8220;vintage mud cloth from Mali.&#8221; Just like Hunter Biden, the point of this new effort is to hide her own corruption.
As The Independent <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/ap-blm-los-angeles-one-southern-california-b2318673.html">reports</a>, 
<blockquote>Cullors is leaning into her art these days, gaining sustenance and perspective from it. She speaks of it as not just a vocation, but a means of salvation: At one point, the impact of accusations of financial mismanagement at BLM — from which she resigned in 2021 — wounded her so deeply, her mental health was imperiled and she felt her very life was in danger, she says. What has ultimately saved her more than once, she feels, is her art.</blockquote>
There are pictures of her nude performance art, but I’ll spare you. A lot of people reacted to this news with surprise, as if it&#8217;s somehow shocking that a grifter would find a new grift. But it&#8217;s the most natural thing in the world. And at this point, it takes no great strength to mock Patrisse Cullors as a scam artist, just like it takes no courage to admit at this point that Derek Chauvin did not kill George Floyd. The time for conservatives to point all of this out was two or three years ago, when it mattered. That was the time to organize mass demonstrations in support of the rule of law, and to apply maximum political pressure on the corrupt prosecutors in Minnesota. None of that happened. 
Now, barring a miraculous Supreme Court appeal, Derek Chauvin will spend decades in prison. Cities burned and innocent people, like <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_David_Dorn" target="_blank" rel="noopener">David Dorn</a>, died for no reason. And Patrisse Cullors has inspired a generation of race hustlers to rise up, and seize power in virtually every major corporation and university in the country. 
All of this happened because a lot of people lacked the courage to say what they knew was right. Even those prosecutors in the Minneapolis D.A.&#8217;s office — who refused to work on some of these George Floyd cases — kept their opinions private at the time, for the most part. The grifters see all of this happening, and they&#8217;re emboldened by it. The other day, Ben Crump held an <a href="https://x.com/stillgray/status/1716262797984808965?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">indignant press conference</a> on behalf of Leonard Cure — the guy who tried to <a href="https://x.com/iamyesyouareno/status/1714873417755770931?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">strangle a cop</a> to death and got himself shot in the process. According to Ben Crump, it&#8217;s white supremacy when police officers shoot people who are trying to kill them, on camera.
At some level, you have to almost admire it. For all his many faults, Ben Crump, like Patrisse Cullors, understands one thing very well, which is that modern conservatives are the most passive political actors on the planet. For decades, universities have been slowly transforming into cesspools of anti-white racism and anti-truth insanity. But many conservatives only went to war against these universities a couple of weeks ago, after Hamas&#8217; attack on Israeli civilians, followed by massive demonstrations on college campuses on behalf of the terrorists. It was <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2023/10/21/gop-candidates-defunding-schools-promote-antisemitism-following-hamas-attacks/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">shocking</a> to Nikki Haley, for example. She&#8217;s now suggesting that some of these universities should lose federal funding, and so are some other candidates. She waited for the safest possible moment to go after the universities. This is the tried and true Republican strategy.
And yes we should go after them. It would be a good place to start, even if it&#8217;s an extraordinarily delayed response. But it&#8217;s not nearly enough. It should be the default response going forward to any corporation or school that discriminates against any religious belief or nationality or skin color.  If the GOP takes this seriously, you&#8217;ll see a lot less open support for terrorism on college campuses. Affirmative action will be dismantled, because there will actually be some teeth behind that Supreme Court decision. Anti-white and anti-Asian racism in admissions and hiring will stop overnight. That means there will be a lot fewer Ben Crumps and Patrisse Cullors in the world. We&#8217;ll lose out on tapestries of mud cloth from Mali. What we&#8217;ll gain is something we haven&#8217;t had in a very long time, even before the rise of BLM. We&#8217;ll have a conservative movement that actually conserves something.
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New Revelations Prove Yet Again That Derek Chauvin Was An Innocent Man Railroaded In The Name Of 'Racial Justice'

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One of the most powerful drug cartels in history that is responsible for the majority of fentanyl coming into the United States has reportedly banned the production and sale of the illicit drug amid increased political pressure.
The Wall Street Journal <a href="https://www.wsj.com/world/americas/mexican-sinaloa-cartels-message-to-members-stop-making-fentanyl-or-die-b96d3e09">reported</a> that cartel operatives that the newspaper interviewed said the Sinaloa Cartel was &#8220;prohibiting the production and trafficking of the illegal opioid in its territory after coming under increasing pressure from U.S. law enforcement.&#8221;
The alleged order came from the sons of notorious Mexican drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán, the former head of the Sinaloa Cartel, who is in a supermax prison in Colorado.
The cartel hopes to &#8220;evade pressure from U.S. law enforcement,&#8221; the newspaper reported, which comes as deaths from the drug have skyrocketed over the last decade.
One U.S. official that the newspaper spoke to described the move as a public relations campaign, saying the cartel would not stop producing fentanyl.
“In the aggregate it won’t mean anything” the official said. “They think if they do this, they won’t take as much heat.”
The report said the Biden administration was pressuring the Mexican government — which is often aligned with the cartels — to do more to dismantle the operations, especially the Sinaloa Cartel.
Various cartel operatives that the Journal spoke to said that they had ceased production of fentanyl because the cartel had started killing anyone still involved in producing or trafficking the drug.
The organization hung banners in various areas throughout the state of Sinaloa warning cartel members that if they were involved with fentanyl, they would be killed. Similar banners were allegedly found in other Mexican states like Tijuana and Sonora.
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Other operatives said that the cartel was hoping by leaving the fentanyl business that U.S. authorities would focus their resources on going after the Jalisco New Generation Cartel.
Some of the cartel members interviewed by the Journal said they quit because they could either no longer get the precursor chemicals needed to make the drug, or because they found other cartel members who had been shot to death and who had fentanyl pills thrown all over them. The paper noted that about a dozen people believed to be involved with the cartels have been kidnapped or gone missing over the last two weeks—all believed to be involved with fentanyl production.
“We believe these kidnappings and disappearances are linked to the ban on fentanyl because their relatives haven’t presented formal complaints to authorities,” he said. “These people are very scared.”
Even if the ban is real, U.S. officials said the supply of fentanyl was so great that it would likely be months before officials see a reduction of the drug on U.S. streets. The cartel will likely increase exports of cocaine, meth, and heroin to compensate for any reduced cash flow from the ban on fentanyl sales.

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New York City hit a grim milestone last year, logging a record number of drug overdose deaths.
A total of 3,026 people died of a drug overdose in 2022, the highest number since the city started tracking deaths in 2000, according to city <a href="https://www.nyc.gov/assets/doh/downloads/pdf/epi/databrief137.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">data</a> <a href="https://www.nyc.gov/site/doh/about/press/pr2023/commissioner-advisory-overdose-crisis-reaches-historic-levels.page#:~:text=Ashwin%20Vasan.,recognize%20the%20signs%20of%20overdose." target="_blank" rel="noopener">released</a> on Monday.
Last year&#8217;s overdose deaths are up 12% from the 2,696 deaths the city experienced in 2021. The rate jumped to more than 43 overdose deaths per 100,000 city dwellers.
Black New Yorkers had the highest overdose death rate at 62 deaths per 100,000 residents and the biggest rate increase from 2021 to 2022. Out of the five boroughs, the Bronx had the highest overdose death rate last year, with about 74 deaths per 100,000 residents, a jump over the previous year. Staten Island had the second-highest rate.
Middle-aged adults from 55 to 64 had the highest overdose rate of any age group.
Fentanyl is one of the main culprits. The synthetic opioid has been flooding into the U.S. illegal drug market in recent years, <a href="https://www.dea.gov/sites/default/files/2020-03/DEA_GOV_DIR-008-20%20Fentanyl%20Flow%20in%20the%20United%20States_0.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">primarily</a> from Mexico and China, according to the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). Fentanyl is up to 50 times stronger than heroin and 100 times more potent than morphine and is deadly in doses as small as 10 grains of salt.
Fentanyl was present in 81% of overdose deaths in New York City last year. More than half of the deaths also involved cocaine.
Besides the ongoing scourge of fentanyl, a new drug is also causing headaches for New York.
Xylazine, or “tranq” as it is known on the streets, is a cheap, flesh-rotting horse tranquilizer mass-manufactured in China that has recently <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/08/28/zombie-drug-tranq-leaves-illegal-narcotics-more-potent-while-making-it-even-harder-for-opioid-addicts-to-quit-doctors-say/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">proliferated</a> on the streets of New York, San Francisco, and Philadelphia. The “zombie drug” causes skin lesions that look like flesh is being eaten off, sometimes down to the bone, and can slow a person’s heart and breathing until they stop, leaving users catatonic or dead.
Narcan, the emergency opioid reverse medicine, does not work on “tranq” since xylazine is not an opioid.
New York City has been struggling with a drug overdose crisis for the better part of a decade now.
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Overdose deaths in the city remained at less than 1,000 until 2016, when they <a href="https://www.nyc.gov/assets/doh/downloads/pdf/epi/databrief137.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">spiked</a> to more than 1,400. When the pandemic hit in 2020, deaths spiked again, topping 2,100 fatal overdoses.
The overdose death crisis is killing a person in New York City every three hours, Health Commissioner Dr. Ashwin Vasan said.
Vasan urged all New Yorkers to carry naloxone, brand name Narcan, the opioid overdose-reversing medication. He also urged drug users not to take drugs alone and to seek treatment, saying, &#8220;We have a range of options and harm reduction is the foundation.&#8221;
New York City offers a slate of &#8220;harm reduction&#8221; services, <a href="https://www.nyc.gov/assets/doh/downloads/pdf/basas/syringe-service.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">including</a> sites that provide drug users with clean syringes and supervision.
Also in June, the city <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/nyc-vending-machines-provide-free-crack-pipes-condoms-narcan-to-drug-users" target="_blank" rel="noopener">debuted</a> the first of four vending machines that provide free crack pipes, condoms, and Narcan, among other items. Drug addicts can access the items by providing their New York City zip code.
The city&#8217;s health commissioner also said, &#8220;Everyone should have a candid, judgement-free conversation at your kitchen table about drugs and their danger. We’re all in this together.&#8221;

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Authorities in Portland, Oregon, made the biggest fentanyl bust in the history of Multnomah County Sheriff&#8217;s Office last week, seizing tens of thousands of pills and powder.
Deputies seized gallon-sized plastic bags of 58,000 fentanyl pills and 16 pounds of fentanyl powder in Portland&#8217;s Goose Hollow neighborhood on Tuesday, the law enforcement agency <a href="https://flashalert.net/id/MCSO/165329" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a press release.
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They also seized scales, a manual-operated pill press, a commercial-grade pill press, $5,000 in cash, and a stolen handgun, the sheriff&#8217;s office said. The handgun had been reported stolen, according to its serial number.
The fentanyl pills and powder would have been worth between $320,000 and $400,000 on the streets of Portland, the sheriff&#8217;s office estimated.
The identity of an arrested suspect has not yet been released.
The bust was the result of a months-long investigation by the sheriff’s Special Investigations Unit, which focuses on disrupting large drug trafficking and criminal organizations.
Investigators obtained a search warrant for a wanted man&#8217;s car and apartment and watched him walk to a vehicle before taking him into custody &#8220;at the opportune time,&#8221; the sheriff&#8217;s office said.
The second biggest fentanyl bust the sheriff&#8217;s office made happened last year when deputies seized 92,000 fentanyl pills and other drugs during a traffic stop.
&#8220;One pill can kill,&#8221; the Multnomah County Sheriff’s Office reminded in its press release.
Fentanyl, a synthetic opioid that is cheap to make and easily transported, is about 50 times more potent than heroin and 100 times more potent than morphine. Because it is often cut with other drugs, users may often be unaware that they are consuming the powerful substance, which can be deadly even in small doses.
As little as two milligrams of fentanyl weighing the same as a few grains of salt can cause a fatal overdose, according to the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA).
In a public safety alert, the DEA <a href="https://www.dea.gov/alert/dea-laboratory-testing-reveals-6-out-10-fentanyl-laced-fake-prescription-pills-now-contain#:~:text=It%20is%20a%20highly%20addictive,considered%20a%20potentially%20deadly%20dose." target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> that six out of ten fentanyl pills the agency tests contain a potentially lethal dose.
In 2022, more than two-thirds of the 107,081 drug overdose deaths involved synthetic opioids, mostly illegal fentanyl, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
In Portland, a fentanyl crisis is raging where multiple people can fatally overdose in a single weekend. Over the weekend of May 12, police <a href="https://www.axios.com/local/portland/2023/05/30/fentanyl-overdoses-rise-portland-oregon" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> eight people died of suspected fentanyl powder overdoses.
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As of May 16, Multnomah County had recorded 504 total drug overdose deaths since June 2022, <a href="https://www.axios.com/local/portland/2023/05/30/fentanyl-overdoses-rise-portland-oregon" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to the Tri-County Opioid Safety Coalition.
Portland, where many businesses operate, is <a href="https://www.oregonlive.com/portland/2023/06/open-air-drug-use-is-at-an-all-time-high-in-downtown-portland-police-turn-to-citations-as-fentanyl-crisis-explodes.html#:~:text=According%20to%20the%20Oregon%2DIdaho,%2C%E2%80%9D%20said%20Portland%20police%20Sgt." target="_blank" rel="noopener">notorious</a> for open-air drug dealing, public <a href="https://fox23maine.com/news/local/downtown-portland-businesses-say-homeless-have-been-using-storefronts-as-public-bathrooms" target="_blank" rel="noopener">urination</a>, and petty crime. Foot traffic downtown plummeted during COVID and has remained down as businesses struggle from the riots and pandemic lockdowns.
Crime has also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/portland-businessman-targets-elected-officials-with-national-legal-initiative-over-covid-lawlessness" target="_blank" rel="noopener">spiked</a> in Portland since the pandemic.
Since COVID, shootings in Portland have <a href="https://www.adn.com/nation-world/2023/02/10/whats-the-matter-with-portland-shootings-theft-and-other-crime-test-citys-progressive-strain/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tripled</a>, homicides have risen from 36 in 2019 to a record 97 in 2022, and car thefts have spiked to 11,000 last year, up from 6,500 in 2019.
The homeless population in Oregon at large, which comes hand in hand with the drug addiction crisis, has <a href="https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2023/04/oregons-recent-growth-in-homelessness-among-largest-in-nation.html">increased</a> by 23% in just two years, one of the largest increases in the country.

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Portland Sees Biggest Fentanyl Bust In Sheriff's Office History

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U.S. Senate lawmakers on Tuesday added legislation targeting transnational criminal organizations trafficking fentanyl into American communities to their version of the annual National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA).
Republican presidential candidate Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina introduced the “<a href="https://www.banking.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/scott_fend_ndaa_amendment.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Fentanyl Eradication and Narcotics Deterrence Off Fentanyl Act</a>,” a standalone anti-fentanyl trafficking legislation aimed toward the financial assets of several major Mexican Cartel organizations involved with synthetic opioid traffickers and suppliers.
“Mexican traffickers and Chinese drug suppliers are fueling America’s fentanyl crisis,” Scott told The Daily Wire in a statement.
According to the bill, U.S. government agencies could enhance current laws to disrupt illicit opioid supply chains and penalize those facilitating the trafficking of fentanyl. The bill would also aim to hold accountable imposed sanctions on the illicit drug trade and on those who profit from the transactions through money laundering schemes.
Fentanyl overdoses have become the leading cause of death for Americans between the ages of 18-45 in the last few years, <a href="https://www.getsmartaboutdrugs.gov/media/dea-administrator-record-fentanyl-overdose-deaths" target="_blank" rel="noopener">according</a> to the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA).
More than 107,000 Americans died in 2021 from violence and drug overdoses tied to two major Mexican drug cartels — the Sinaloa and Jalisco New Generation criminal organizations, DEA Administrator Anne Milgram <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/biden-authorizes-dod-to-deploy-personnel-to-border-as-international-drug-trafficking-crisis-intensifies" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> Republican members of a House Appropriations Committee panel during a budget hearing earlier this year.
Nearly 65% of overdose deaths were caused by fentanyl.
Milgram called both organizations “the greatest drug threat this country has ever faced.”
“The drug cartels responsible for bringing fentanyl into this country are ruthless and extremely violent criminal enterprises,” Milgram said. “They rely on a global supply chain to manufacture and distribute fentanyl, and they rely on a global illicit financial network to pocket billions of dollars.”
DEA officials mapped out the multi-faceted fentanyl crisis three years ago as the flow of the deadly opioid became more diverse compared to its start in 2014. According to the agency, Mexico and China are the primary sources, along with India, for fentanyl and fentanyl-related substances trafficked directly into the United States.
DEA officials seized over 379 million deadly doses of fentanyl last year, enough to supply a lethal dose to every American.
“Given the sharp increase in fentanyl-caused deaths, it is clear that a staggering amount of fentanyl is making its way into our country from the chemical suppliers in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and drug cartels in Mexico,” Scott’s new release said.
“By including this bill in the NDAA, we’re one step closer to ensuring our country can defend our communities from this deadly drug and protecting our national security,” he added.
U.S. Senators are set to vote on the defense policy bill this week, which has amassed at least 62 Senate cosponsors since lawmakers first introduced the legislation in April.
The GOP-led House <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/house-passes-military-spending-bill-with-conservative-amendments" target="_blank" rel="noopener">passed</a> its version of the annual NDAA on Thursday with key conservative provisions that face long odds in the Democrat-controlled Senate.
House lawmakers passed the bill along partisan lines in a 219-210 vote, which included amendments that prohibited funding Pentagon funding for travel for women seeking abortions and paying for transgender procedures on military service members.
Leif Le Mahieu contributed to this report.

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