California’s laws have made children its least protected class.
As a matter of fact, if an American state wanted to establish a formal means of separating children from parents and other loving caregivers to feed a profitable industry, it couldn’t be done with much more effectiveness than in California.
In 2023, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed legislation requiring foster parents to “affirm” the LGBTQ identities of any children in their care.
Naturally he hailed it as a giant leap forward for gay rights — but it effectively kicked committed religious believers out of the foster-care system.
Last month, the governor signed AB 495, aka the legal kidnapping bill, which allows an unrelated adult to claim a “mentoring relationship” and exercise parental authority over any child.
Newsom’s cronies in the Legislature touted it as a protection for the children of undocumented immigrants who might get whisked away by ICE in the middle of the day — but it effectively put an end to parents’ rights.
Then there’s SB 357, which bars police from profiling underage prostitutes.
This was designed to loosen the legal hassles surrounding “sex work” (as the progressives call it, because sex seems like a job to them) and supposedly spare some unfortunate young women an early criminal record.
Perhaps you’re beginning to see a pattern here.
So it should come as no surprise that in California, the trafficking of children is now booming.
This week, a New York Times report blew the lid off the Los Angeles child sex-trafficking corridor known as The Blade.
Pre-teen prostitutes have become so common, their numbers growing so quickly, that local law-enforcement officers have their own name for it: the “Kiddie Stroll.”
The Kiddie Stroll is no accident: It’s not the sad but inevitable result of industrial progress; it’s not even a function of poverty.
The Kiddie Stroll is California’s opus, the logical result of its most effective social programming — a disaster crafted over years and decades by politicians and others who understood that patience is a virtue, even for those with no virtue.
Every law supposedly meant to protect children in the state of California does the opposite. Every last one leads to this.
Leave the border open for cartel coyotes to traffic humans without opposition.
Create a cultural distrust of parents, labeling them “difficult” or ‘“abusive” if they question gender or sexual confusion in their children.
Drive caring, religious foster parents out of an already strained system, leaving more children vulnerable and alone.
Lower the age of consent. Lower it again.
Stop prosecuting violent crime. Stop prosecuting prostitution.
Limit cops’ and prosecutors’ ability to identify criminal behavior and victims.
Stop labeling prostitution the heinous crime it is; start innocuously calling it “sex work” instead.
Make it as easy as possible for any adult to wield legal control over a child.
Then wait for the culture to accept the degradation as normal.
With this nearly perfect formula, the progressive left in California has done the impossible in a nation that nearly destroyed itself over slavery: They have brought it back.
How ironic, in a state where slavery was never legal — yet where Democrats have waged an internal battle over reparations.
Make no mistake about it, this is slavery.
And just like in the days of the old South, it has government lurking behind every policy and every terrible consequence.
This is the calculated sale of vulnerable humans — children, in this horrific case — into the service of other humans, with the government’s deliberate aid.
Is it any wonder the leaders of the Democratic Party in California and across the country show no apparent concern that 300,000 children went missing when they crossed the border during the Biden administration?
If Gavin Newsom and his Legislature had deliberately set out to resurrect the slave trade in California, would they have done anything differently? Would Joe Biden?
The Kiddie Stroll is not the bug. It is the feature.
It is the hideous sculpture revealed to our unsuspecting eyes after years and years of progressive chipping and chiseling away at the edges of the law — a monstrous tribute to the evil that has been boiling and bubbling underneath our amber waves of grain for 70 years or more.
California’s Kiddie Stroll is more than just a tragic tale of crime and poverty.
It is a 21st century slave trade, and the fact that it exists and thrives in California is nothing short of evil.
Shame on all of them.
Kira Davis is an independent opinion journalist and podcaster living in Southern California.