Victoria Taft writes for PJMedia.com about concerns surrounding new left-coast legislation.
While the world’s attention was focused on the release of the Jewish hostages taken by Islamic Hamas monsters, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed a bill into law that would make it easy for strangers to kidnap children from his state’s schools—without parental permission, naturally. While one story gloried in hostages freed from totalitarian barbarians, another set of totalitarians loosed a plot to take more.
Think that’s overwrought? Hold my beer.
Newsom signed AB 495 into law on Sunday night and pretended that the law, proffered by a Democrat to hide kids illegally in the country from Immigration authorities, kept parental rights intact and preserved parents’ relationships with their own children. Instead, it made every child in California schools, preschools, and state-licensed childcare facilities a target.
Newsom had the hubris and temerity to tout it as “a bill to protect parents’ rights and children.”
That is false. Indeed, it’s worse than false. It’s a license allowing anyone to take your child without your permission and act as that child’s unapproved “guardian.” As the California Family Council (CFA) put it, “Anyone falsely claiming kinship can easily sign the affidavit, access a child, obtain medical care, and enroll them in another school. Even the most basic safeguard of a notary is not required to confirm the true identity of the person accessing your child. AB 495 violates fundamentally constitutionally protected parental rights, endangers California’s children, and will be appropriately legally challenged and struck down.”
And who would those guardians be? Who knows? Perhaps Joe Biden’s NGOs, which worked with cartels to bring children over the border and watched them become sex slaves and underage workers in cartel companies to work off their debts. The Biden regime halted DNA matching to hide the trafficking of the children.
