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I wonder how they will spin this news to make it sound insignificant or not give Trump any credit.
originally posted by: scraedtosleep
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Ukraine orphanages (“orphanages”) as a ratline (“feeder”) for child sex trafficking is real. See June 2, 2016, @huffpost article by Laurie Ahern:
""Ukrainian women are...the second largest group of foreign women in prostitution outside the U.S. military bases in Korea."
17) The Department of Defense conducted Operation Flicker to root out its own pedophiles and published its Report of Investigation in 2009.
18) One of the investigators of Operation Flicker was the individual running the @NSA_QIL2 account. This is based on the original bio, which has since been deleted, and the original handle, which was @NSA_QIL.
originally posted by: toolgal462
originally posted by: LanceCorvette
originally posted by: Creep Thumper
originally posted by: toolgal462
a reply to: crankyoldman
This guy is even more unlikeable than Trump, imo. But I happen to like Trump. But I had no opinion of him prior to him becoming the president.
Anyone mention that Trump signed a federal statute that makes animal cruelty a federal offense? I am involved in animal rescue and that is a big deal and should have been in place a long time ago.
I am sure most rescuers wont give Trump any positive press for it though.
Could have used that 20 years ago. I used to do horse rescue in a predominantly rural area. Our biggest case polarized the town and took three years to win. We weren't allowed to show the public before/after photos of the five horses until it was all over.
Once we were able to put those up on our website the public went silent where before they'd done nothing but defame us.
Thank you AGAIN, President Trump. 👍
Yet another example of reading beyond the headlines. It was an amendatory act, not a completely new statute; and all it did was ban the creation and video distribution of videos depicting the intentional crushing of animals, I think it just revised the definition of "crushing".
So this "crushing" is still a State law problem; the Federal basis for this law is the creation and distribution in interstate commerce of videos of it.
It would have had zero effect on your horses situation.
And now I wish I didn't know this kind of thing existed.
I doubt you know anything beyond the headline. The big take away from the bill was that animal cruelty and torture are NOW A FEDERAL CRIME.
Not just a state by state issue.
You need to read up on the statute and then try again.
It retains existing criminal offenses that prohibit knowingly creating or distributing an animal crush video using interstate commerce. The bill also adds a new provision to criminalize an intentional act of animal crushing. A violator is subject to criminal penalties—a fine, a prison term of up to seven years, or both.