What The Heck Is U.S. Extremist Matt Shea Doing In Poland With 60 Ukrainian Kids

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Good Update from @mattshuham on genocide friendly disgraced Rep. Matt Shea and his new kid import/export business in Ukraine and Poland https://talkingpointsmemo.com/fivepoints/what-the-heck-is-u-s-extremist-matt-shea-doing-in-poland-with-60-ukrainian-kids… via @TPM

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What The Heck Is U.S. Extremist Matt Shea Doing In Poland With 60 Ukrainian Kids?
The far-right former Washington state legislator Matt Shea is in a small...
9:34 AM · Mar 17, 2022

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The far-right former Washington state legislator Matt Shea is in a small town in Poland with a bunch of children that he says are orphan refugees from Ukraine. The local Poles are wary, and some basic questions have gone unanswered.

Wait… what? Well, exactly. Here’s what we’re wondering about this strange situation, and the best answers we have so far.

1 You’re talking about that Matt Shea?

Yes, you may be familiar with him through our reporting here at TPM: Shea was a longtime far-right legislator in the Washington House of Representatives until 2020, when he opted not to run for reelection after a report concluded that he’d engaged in domestic terrorism — the result of his involvement in the standoff at the Malheur National Wildlife refuge.

Shea, who the report found had been involved in several armed stand-offs, is also known for his support of a separatist 51st state movement, and for authoring a document, “Biblical Basis for War,” that included steps for killing non-believers (Shea is Christian).

So in short: Sounds like the kind of guy we’d want shuttling purported orphans across international boundaries in the middle of a war.

*snip*

[bottrott]

1. Engaging in generational recruitment

for right-wing extremists. Only this time, instead of ripping apart brown families at our own border with the help of Jason Miller, he's off stealing separated children of war who are far more "desirable and valuable" in Poland. They have no intention of ever returning these children and the organization he claims to represent appears to be nothing more than a shell organization of right-wing fundamentalist xians. Thankfully the Polish charges of these poor kids are rightfully skeptical and untrusting of this twat of a man.

[2naSalit]

2. Hopefully getting arrested for human trafficking.

[dalton99a]

3. Kick

[JohnQFunk]

4. Looks like child trafficking

Just sayin’.

[TheBlackAdder]

5. Perhaps QAnon's purpose is to get the Jeffrey Epsteins of the world off the hook.

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https://www.huffpost.com/entry/how-qanon-impedes-legitimate-anti-trafficking-groups_n_5f4eacb9c5b69eb5c03592d1

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[Hortensis]

6. Well, media are all over this, and our own government is alerted

and aware of his extremist whackery. But first he has to satisfy local Polish government and Ukrainian officials. Lol, he reportedly has been expressing combative "Malheur"-type contempt for local laws.

“I asked him many times, ‘What are you going to do with these children?’ and he told me that it’s not my business,'” Weronika Ziarnicka, an aide to the mayor of Kazimierz Dolny, said of Shea. “I got the feeling in my gut that something’s wrong with this guy; he didn’t want to tell me his last name.”

... Speaking on a Polish television show, “Idź Pod Prąd,” Shea said he was working with a Texas group called Loving Families and Homes for Orphans (he also called the group Loving Homes and Families for Orphans).

... Artur Pomianowski, the mayor of Kazimierz Dolny, said in a post on Facebook that he’d visited the children and they are safe and being well cared-for. He also said the “case is being investigated and clarified by the relevant authorities” and that the kids would not leave Kazimierz Dolny without consent of the authorities.

“I do not know what Matt Shea and his friends are doing here around children,” Pomianowski said in an email. “Mr. Shea and his friends have given us some contradictory information and, for that reason, it is difficult for us to trust them.”

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/former-wa-rep-matt-shea-accused-of-domestic-terrorism-working-to-secure-adoptions-for-ukrainian-children-in-poland/

Good for the folk at Kazimierz Dolny. Investigative journalists looking into this supposed adoption group are just turning up more questions so far. Only in a war zone, but these children won't be just disappearing into "good" Christian extremist homes, trafficked or otherwise.

[crickets]

9. Good. What a relief. The likes of Shea is the last thing those childen need. nt

[Hortensis]

11. Absolutely. All too possibly, if they could have somehow been snuck in,

they'd be taught their parents were dead, whether they were or not, and gone to hell because their Ukrainian church's teachings were heresy.

Long ago our 10-year-old daughter decided she wanted to perhaps join a friend's Southern Baptist church, and I let her try it out because I was fairly sure that, coming from a liberal, inclusive home, they'd appall her, and that's how they did it -- teaching a child pretty much right out of the gate that her parents and brother were all going to hell.

Fundies aren't exactly our brightest bulbs.

[Walleye]

7. So many of these religious fanatics turn out to be common creeps

[struggle4progress]

8. Recruiting staff for the Jeff Epstein Memorial Summer Camp?

[roamer65]

10. Child sex trafficking.