Quote:The wins are still piling up, and we're not yet tired of writing about them.

On Wednesday, Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel announced the mass arrests of a record number of pedophile predators. These arrests come as part of a big joint operation.

Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel announced Wednesday that 205 alleged child sex predators who preyed on children online have been arrested in the last week.

The arrests are part of a new joint operation by the Justice Department and FBI called "Operation Restore Justice" which saw 115 children across the country rescued in the process, Bondi and Patel said.

Bondi called the operation "historic" and "unprecedented" and she warned parents to be vigilant of sex predators posing as children online. The operation spanned 55 field offices.

There are few humans (and I use the term "human" in the broadest possible sense) more despicable than people who would prey on children. The Trump administration, most especially the Justice Department, is clearly prioritizing the identification, arrest, and prosecution of these goblins.

"These depraved human beings, if convicted, will face the maximum penalty in prison, some [for] life," Bondi said at a press briefing.

"We will find you. We will arrest you, and we will charge you. If you are online targeting a child, you will not escape us. The FBI and the Department of Justice will come after you. And we will prosecute you."

Federal child pornography laws include penalties of up to life in prison and $500,000 in fines. That's not excessive at all for the crime described.

Some specific goblins were named:

Patel said that Jeremy Francis Klonskyv, a Minneapolis state trooper and former Army reservist, was arrested for producing child sexual abuse material while in uniform.

Jose Alexis Valdez Sosa, an illegal immigrant from Mexico, was arrested in Norfolk, Virginia, for transporting a minor across state lines.

Meanwhile, Lynnwood Barnhill, a Metropolitan Police Department officer, was arrested for exploiting children while on supervised release. He is already a convicted sex offender.

We might note that during the Biden administration, enforcement of this (and many other crimes) was so lax that actual citizen sting groups formed to take down the pedophile predators. They had some great scores, too; teachers, cops, business owners – many of them are now cooling their heels in jail cells, and the Crowbar Hilton can be a really, really uncomfortable place for child abusers.

The videographers in question didn’t mete out any punishment. They were not vigilantes, in the strictest sense. That’s left up to law enforcement. What they did was set up a situation where these creeps could and did incriminate themselves, and then they presented that to the authorities.

But that was then. This is now. The Justice Department is now obviously ready, willing, and able to commit significant resources to take these predators down hard, and they're doing it.

I count "success" in matters like this as "more pedophile predators in jail." Pam Bondi, Kash Patel, and all the agencies and officers working with them have turned in a big success with Operation Restore Justice; may they enjoy many, many more such successes.

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Quote:A “bewildered” member of the media can’t figure out why your DOJ and FBI would want you to know about what we’re doing to combat an international network of nihilists targeting our children.
This network uses cyberspace to push our children to brutally torture and kill animals, use razors and sharp objects to mutilate themselves, and they trade and traffic in the horrific sexual abuse of children and infants.

That’s why. Hope this clears up the “bewilderment.”

In before prog filth judge blocks their incarceration.

I'll handle their due process.

Well done on this by AG Bondi and Director Patel, 205 predators off the streets is always a good thing.

Tell the truth, you're sad aren't you Gamenole....

All Democrat Voters…

(05-07-2025 02:32 PM)Gamenole Wrote:  Well done on this by AG Bondi and Director Patel, 205 predators off the streets is always a good thing.

Tell us why you try to come off as a moderate yet we know you voted for Hil-Rod, Obama, Biden and even that useless waste of space Kamala Harris. If you were even close to being a centrist there's simply no justification for such a left leaning voting record.

I could appreciate the attempts at sincerity if they were actually sincere. We've seen this movie before though, it won't be long before the radical in you raises its ugly head.

(05-07-2025 02:32 PM)Gamenole Wrote:  Well done on this by AG Bondi and Director Patel, 205 predators off the streets is always a good thing.

its too bad the dumbasses you voted for couldnt pull this off.

(05-08-2025 08:39 AM)TigerBlue4Ever Wrote:  

(05-07-2025 02:32 PM)Gamenole Wrote:  Well done on this by AG Bondi and Director Patel, 205 predators off the streets is always a good thing.

Tell us why you try to come off as a moderate yet we know you voted for Hil-Rod, Obama, Biden and even that useless waste of space Kamala Harris. If you were even close to being a centrist there's simply no justification for such a left leaning voting record.

I could appreciate the attempts at sincerity if they were actually sincere. We've seen this movie before though, it won't be long before the radical in you raises its ugly head.

You're not quite right on my voting record, but I understand why you'd assume that. I was a Republican 1996-2015, didn't vote for Obama or Hillary (poor doomed Gary Johnson in 2016). Trump and MAGA drove me out of the GOP and opened my eyes to the fact that I am indeed far to the left of the vast majority of todays GOP on many issues. I'm somewhere to the left of Joe Manchin and to the right of Bernie.

I want gun control, stricter environmental standards, reproductive freedom and I value diversity. I'm all for sensible reforms to government spending, but I want taxes on the rich and corporations increased to pay down the deficit and fund universal healthcare for American citizens. I might be a "radical" in some ways, but certainly not a lawless one.

I'm very much for the rule of law and have little tolerance for lawbreakers. Certainly not those preying upon the most vulnerable. The rule of law is everything whether we agree with that law or not...without it we have chaos. So I celebrate the arrest of pedophile predators and call for due process for illegal immigrants both, both are what the law requires.

And I do look for times in this forum when I can agree with y'all on the other side, as a country we've lost sight of those times far too often. I firmly believe there ARE things we agree on, and therein lies opportunity to get some things done. Little successes to build upon are the path back to actual bipartisan legislating in this country, where both sides get some of what they want and nobody gets it all. And I really hope we're not so far down the road of partisan sniping that we can't all be grateful when the authorities arrest 200+ pedophiles, if we have then there may be no hope for this country.

So I am quite sincere, both when we disagree and agree. I've no problem taking a stand against the vast majority of posters here, but I do also enjoy the occasions when we're not so far apart. We have dramatically different ideas of the best path forward for our country on most things, but not all of them. And I very much believe you and I, and indeed most people here, want to see our country succeed and do well.

“If a person is not a liberal when he is twenty, he has no heart; if he is not a conservative when he is forty, he has no head.” - John Adams

Did anyone actually read Nole’s little diatribe up there? Cliff’s notes if so.

I saw “I want gun control” and looked no further.

(05-08-2025 07:49 PM)BartlettTigerFan Wrote:  Did anyone actually read Nole’s little diatribe up there? Cliff’s notes if so.

I saw “I want gun control” and looked no further.

Yeah. Idiocy.

Gun control, baby murder, climate nonsense...blah blah..

(05-08-2025 07:49 PM)BartlettTigerFan Wrote:  Did anyone actually read Nole’s little diatribe up there? Cliff’s notes if so.

I saw “I want gun control” and looked no further.

nuts did ... it yielded another 'expectorant'...

Well now we know who is the next group the Democrats will be screaming to set free. I can hear them now - “MUH DUE PROCESS!!! Pedophile is such a bigoted word. They’re just MAPs”

Quote:Meanwhile, Lynnwood Barnhill, a Metropolitan Police Department officer, was arrested for exploiting children while on supervised release. He is already a convicted sex offender.

Uhm what?

Nevermind, just a typo in the original X post. He was fired in 2014 after his first arrest. He was not an active duty police officer

Original case for him

(05-09-2025 07:59 AM)MemTigers1998 Wrote:  Well now we know who is the next group the Democrats will be screaming to set free. I can hear them now - “MUH DUE PROCESS!!! Pedophile is such a bigoted word. They’re just MAPs”

What about child molesters? That's strong too.