Former WA Rep. Matt Shea, accused of domestic terrorism, working to secure adoptions for Ukrainian..

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State Rep who wrote a plan to organize a mass killing of liberals to found a Christian theocracy in America just showed up in Poland with dozens of Ukrainian children he wants to bring to America for adoption.

Former WA Rep. Matt Shea, accused of domestic terrorism, working to secure adoptions for Ukrainian...
International agencies say, with the chaos and confusion of war, now is not an appropriate time for international

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11/ Okay I think I’ve found what is at least for now the definitive source on this story. It’s in a publication I was not familiar with
@RANGEMedia4all
, which covers the I stand northwest. Seems to be a small digital native outlet.

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12/ they published this story by
@lukebaumgarten
and it’s got a ton of information on this.

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Former WA Rep. Matt Shea at the center of controversy surrounding Ukrainian orphanage evacuation
The far-right former WA Representative has been quiet lately until he turned up last week at a hotel in Poland, surrounded by Ukrainian orphans.

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1. Former WA Rep. Matt Shea, accused of domestic terrorism, working to secure adoptions for Ukrainian

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Local News | Local Politics

Former WA Rep. Matt Shea, accused of domestic terrorism, working to secure adoptions for Ukrainian children in Poland

March 16, 2022 at 6:00 am Updated March 16, 2022 at 7:55 am

By David Gutman
Seattle Times staff reporter

Former Washington state Rep. Matt Shea, the far-right Republican who was found by a House-commissioned investigation to have planned and participated in domestic terrorism, is in a small town in Poland with more than 60 Ukrainian children, trying to facilitate their adoption in America. ... Shea has said his group helped rescue 62 children and their two adult caregivers from an orphanage in Mariupol, the city in southeastern Ukraine that has been bombarded by Russian forces.

But international agencies say, with the chaos and confusion of war, now is not an appropriate time for international adoptions from Ukraine. And Shea’s presence, and the lack of information surrounding the American group he’s with, has raised concerns among some residents of Kazimierz Dolny, the small Polish town where the children are staying at a hotel-guesthouse. ... “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.” ... Shea, who rarely speaks to mainstream media, did not respond to requests for comment.

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Shea, who represented Spokane Valley in the state House for 12 years, opted not to seek reelection in 2020, after the House-commissioned report found he had planned and participated in domestic terrorism against the United States with his involvement in a trio of standoffs against the government.

That report alleged that Shea assisted “in the planning and preparation” of the 2016 armed takeover at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Eastern Oregon. It also examined Shea’s travel to the 2014 armed standoff in Bunkerville, Nevada, and a 2015 conflict in Bonner County, Idaho. ... Following the report, Shea was suspended by the House Republican caucus, and urged to resign, although they declined to expel him from the Legislature. ... Shea, who wants to create a 51st state in Eastern Washington, once distributed a four-page outline called “Biblical Basis for War” and has long been linked to Christian extremist movements. Shea’s wife, Viktoriya, was born in Ukraine.

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David Gutman: 206-464-2926 or [e-mail]; on Twitter: @davidlgutman.

[hlthe2b]

2. If the established International Adoption groups are calling him out, our State Department needs to

step in and send him packing. I get a creepy feeling about this guy too. If he wants to try to redeem himself, go the f..k home and show some humanity there.

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3. Matt Shea in Poland

NEWS

Matt Shea in Poland

The far-right former WA Representative has been quiet lately until he turned up last week at a hotel in Poland, surrounded by Ukrainian orphans.

Luke Baumgarten
Mar 17, 2022 • 12 min read

Late last week, a Polish-born lawyer living in Dallas named Marta Milan began reaching out to people in Spokane, asking for any information they could offer about Matt Shea — the former far-right Washington State Senator turned hardline evangelical pastor. ... Something strange was happening in a small, historic town in eastern Poland, and Shea seemed to be at the center of it.

A group of at least 60 Ukrainian orphans had appeared and was staying at a boutique hotel and writer’s retreat called Dom Dziennikarza — which translates to the Journalist’s House — in the town of Kazimierz Dolny, a town of just over 2,500 in Lublin Province. The children are apparently under the care of a group purporting to be a nonprofit that hosts Ukrainian orphans in America called “Loving Families and Homes for Orphans.”

Matt Shea is traveling with that group, and the reason they ended up in Kazimeirz Dolny appears to be Shea’s connections to a far-right evangelical pastor, fringe political leader, and minor YouTube celebrity named Paweł Chojecki, who has connections to Polish fascists and has been a Shea ally since at least 2018.

Their presence in the town created a storm of suspicion that went viral in Poland and led local residents to appeal to municipal authorities and eventually the embassies of both Poland and the United States.

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[barbaraann]

4. OMG Shea's Wikipedia entry

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Shea

[Harker]

7. That's exhausting.

This guy has no business near vulnerable people of any age.

[brewens]

5. It's not quite spring yet. Do ya think there's time to get them groomed up for church camp?

The Evanpedicals might be too busy stalking poor pregnant girls.

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6. "I asked him many times, 'What are you going to do with these children?' & he told me ...

David Gutman Retweeted

“I asked him many times, ‘What are you going to do with these children?’ & he told me that it’s not my business. I got the feeling that something’s wrong with this guy.”

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@davidlgutman
⁩ examines extremist Matt Shea’s venture into Ukranian adoptions

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[mitch96]

8. My worry is child trafficking and child prostitution... uff that would be bad...nt

[hoosierspud]

9. My former state rep!

This guy is insane and dangerous. A history of domestic violence, road rage involving a gun, stalking his political opponent, ties to Dominionist groups who believe in a coming religious war, you name it, he's done it.

[FakeNoose]

10. This is super creepy and weird

I don't know anything about Matt Shea, but he clearly doesn't have the credentials that anyone working for an international adoption agency would have. Apparently he speaks neither Polish nor Ukrainian, and his past illegal activities raise doubts as to his character and intent. I hope the Polish authorities ushered him to the airport and put him on the next plane headed west.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

11. "... and put him on the next plane headed east."

FIFY

[FakeNoose]

13. OK works for me!

[keithhs28]

12. Shea is a...

...short eyes.

https://www.definition-of.com/short-eyes