Demobilizing and tracking a population as large and sparse as the United States is hard. Private vehicles have been under attack for many years… largely unsuccessfully, and due in no small part to government’s complete failure to offer public-transport alternatives.
That failure is intentional. Government does not want to offer public-transport alternatives to private autos. It wants us de-mobilized, not other-mobilized.
Which brings us to the new industry of ridesharing. This has already undergone a forced consolidation thanks to California outlawing independent employment. (Biden has floated trial balloons on behalf of his handlers for a national outlawing of independent employment.) But that is not sufficient, to judge from the FBI frightening people (women) that they don’t know who is ridesharing with her children.
Criminals are using rideshare services to abduct children, FBI warns
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By Candace Hathaway, 31 October 2022
The Federal Bureau of Investigation issued a public service announcement last week warning that criminals are using rideshare vehicles to abduct children.
I’m skeptical already because rideshare adds a witness to the criminal act. Jorge might not speak English but he’s not stupid enough to be an accomplice to child kidnapping. Or do they mean, the rideshare OPERATORS are abducting children during their regular employment? Are unescorted six-year-olds getting into panel vans prepaid with Mommy’s boyfriend’s credit card or something?
Maybe the FBI is trying to divert suspicion from unmarked panel vans parked on residential streets. I can only guess how many mothers have called the cops on Feebs manning a stakeout. Or supplying their informants with young boys.
“Since the onset of COVID-19 pandemic, law enforcement received several reports of rideshare services being used to facilitate child abduction,” the agency said.
According to the warning, “criminal actors” are using rideshare services because there is a “lower likelihood of detection and ease of facilitation.”
Shameless lies like this are why I take cheap shots about FBI agents using panel vans to traffic kids for their informants’ pleasure. Is there a reason they wouldn’t, since they routinely and publicly lie to us?
The law enforcement agency added that criminals believe ridesharing vehicles allow them more privacy than public transportation. Additionally, the services are easy to book and more direct than public transportation.
“While other modes of transportation were used during the pandemic, the privacy of rideshare services allowed criminal actors to obfuscate potential witness identification and afforded them direct transportation,” the FBI stated. “Further, criminal actors benefit from past and current pandemic guidance, such as mask wearing and social distancing in rideshare vehicles, as it provides additional security.”
- Cry me a river that anti-socializing laws might have resulted in reduced socialization.
- Rideshare operators aren’t blind. Notice they can stay on the road while driving. I trust them to see the drugged and handcuffed infant that the tweaker shoves under the seat.
- I wondered how long it would take for police to complain about face diapers. You can’t put entire cities under face-recognition CCTV while ordering people to mask up. The clock stops at two years, four months.
- Money trail erases anonymity. Rideshare operators don’t take cash because having cash makes them targets for mugging.
According to the FBI, the driver and passenger security protocols for ridesharing services are not as strict as traditional forms of transportation. Therefore, criminals believe they are less likely to get caught.
“The FBI identified a trend of criminal actors using rideshare vehicles to abduct minor victims,” the public announcement noted.
Translation: the FBI wants every rideshare to be logged into a national database so they can track the movements of you err, bad guys like J6 protesters err, child kidnappers.
Let me give a shout-out to VISA corporation for resisting the pressure, thus far, to monitor the behavior of its customers. I haven’t blogged on it yet but they’ve been through two court cases trying to force VISA to not allow men to consume pornography. Which can only happen if VISA monitors its customers’ economic activity.
The reason FBI is complaining about “anonymous” rideshares, is because companies such as VISA still refuse to spy on their customers on the FBI’s behalf.
The FBI cited an incident in April involving a 16-year-old boy who requested a rideshare service from Portland, Oregon, to Rockport, Texas. At one point during the ride, the driver of the vehicle offered the child a drink.
The boy later woke up inside a home approximately 20 miles away from his requested destination. He walked to a neighbor’s house to call authorities, and the driver was later arrested.
Wrong. It was Portland, Texas, to Rockport, Texas. Does Uber even contract for three-thousand-mile, one-way trips?
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11 April 2022
A South Texas Uber driver was arrested Friday, April 8, after a teen said he was kidnapped during a ride, San Patricio County Sheriff Oscar Rivera said.
Rivera said the 16-year-old requested a ride from Portland to Rockport Wednesday, March 23. 44-year-old Uber driver Jaime Javier Morin picked the teen up in Portland.
I tried to find Morin’s background but the Internet only offered a different Javier Morin, who made Texas’ 10 Most Wanted before being caught in NYC. The link’s grainy mugshot offers no clue about immigration status.
The teen told police the driver offered him a drink shortly after getting into the vehicle. The teen later woke up at a house in Sinton, 31 miles away from where he requested to go, police said. The teen did not know where he was when he woke up and ran to a nearby house and called for help.
Investigators with the San Patricio County Sheriff’s Office interviewed the teen and verified his story, Rivera said. Investigators got a search warrant for the driver’s home and shortly after, a warrant was issued for his arrest.
According to a spokesperson from Uber, Morin was quickly taken off the platform once the investigation began.
There was no way that guy was going to get away with it, not after the ride was arranged via Uber and paid for electronically.
Oh, wait. Maybe he WILL get away with it:
He has been charged with indecency with a child, Rivera said. He remains in the San Patricio County Jail on a $75,000 bond.
The charge should have been kidnapping. This is open-and-shut kidnapping. Instead, Morin was charged with a misdemeanor?
Meanwhile, why did that kid take a drink from a stranger?
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I admit it’s true that there are kidnapping and sex crimes associated with ridesharing. However, the people who think they can get away with it are typically foreigners with connections to organized crime. This example IS from Portland, Oregon:
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A suburban Portland rideshare driver has been accused of raping and kidnapping a passenger.
KOIN-TV reports the Washington County Sheriff’s Office said Omar Al Naser was arrested Tuesday at his Beaverton home on four charges related to an alleged incident on Oct. 23.
There is a simple and topic-relevant reason why sex crime, like all crime, is in dramatic rise. When it gets high enough, the people will demand martial law from the very government that filled our streets with these degenerates in the first place.
The victim said they were at a family member’s house and called Lyft for a ride, sheriff’s officials said. Al Naser arrived, officials said, but he took the passenger to his house.
The sheriff’s office said the driver is being held on rape, kidnapping and other charges. It wasn’t immediately known if he has a lawyer to speak for him.
The investigation continues and deputies believe there could be additional victims.
The Sheriff’s Office said Al Naser drove for Lyft between August and November 2021 and urged other victims to come forward.
Again, this is a really hard crime to conceal for any length of time. “My kid went missing. The last activity on his bank card was a rideshare by Omar al Mohammed bin Laden.”
The FBI cited another rideshare incident in February involving a father and his 7-year-old son in Mexico City.
“We need more police powers in USA because Mexico is dangerous.”
During the ride, the father asked the driver to pull over at a flower stand. When the father exited the vehicle, the driver drove off with the child still inside.
The boy was able to call his mother and share his location. The parents chased after the vehicle and recovered their child. They kept the driver from escaping, and authorities arrested him.
A crime so easy to solve, the parents did it in a foreign country. A harrowing story, to be sure, but like most countries, Mexican law enforcement reserves special treatment for crimes against tourists. No cartel is going to bust out this perp.
During another incident in February 2021, a man ordered a rideshare vehicle to transport a child from her California home. The adult male met the minor on social media and groomed her to send sexual content. He persuaded her to sneak out of her home and get into a rideshare vehicle with him.
He ordered the rideshare vehicle to bring them to the airport, where they boarded a plane to Washington, D.C. The man forced the minor to wear a disguise and pretend she was mute to avoid detection.
Avoid detection… through airport security?
“Photo ID for the girl?”
“She’s mute.”
“Oh, okay. Does she have any metal in her pockets or under the wig?”
This wasn’t kidnapping. She went voluntarily.
Authorities recovered the girl and charged the man with child abduction, soliciting child sexual abuse materials, and meeting a minor for sex.
How was any of that the rideshare operator’s fault? The FBI is talking like the man had a knife pressed against her kidney during all of this. No.
And if you’re wondering why driver didn’t ask about the girl getting in separately from the man: welcome to the United States of Divorce, where joint custody of children is a norm.
The FBI stated that the public service announcement was created to increase awareness of rideshare services being used to target minors for child abduction. The agency noted that the “high impact” crimes are rare.
Terrorism, in other words. They’re frightening people, aka “increasing awareness”, that small children are climbing into rideshares and disappearing. ‘Although the really serious stuff is rare’.
And what should people in this state of fear, oops, “increased awareness” do? They should vote for more safety.
Supporting this call for a state of fear, oops, “increased awareness”, they cited one case of a swift arrest, which is not even being prosecuted as a kidnapping, one case in a foreign nation and one case that was a runaway not a kidnapping.
The FBI is trying to scare you into supporting more government surveillance. Happy Halloween a day late.