Venezuelan Gangs Operating in Tennessee’s Mid-Size Cities: ”It’s Not Happening” ”It’s actually a good thing.”

We all know the propaganda sequence that occurs when conservatives shed light on the woke pathologies of the left which are imposed on society.

1) It’s not happening.

2) It may be happening a little, but it’s not a big deal.

3) It’s actually a good thing that it’s happening.

4) Only a bigot would oppose it from happening.

The story of Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua operating throughout Tennessee, including smaller cities such as Knoxville and Chattanooga, is quickly working its way through the left’s propaganda sequence. This foreign gang activity deep in the heartland is the result of the open borders policy that Democrats and the left support.

While I may have taken some liberties in the headline about which stage of the sequence we’re at, The “It’s not happening stage” quickly became inoperable after only a few days.

On Friday November 15, David Raush, the Director of the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI), stated that violent Venezuelan gangs were operating in all of Tennessee’s major cities - not just Memphis and Nashville - but also Knoxville and Chattanooga.

“TBI Director Says Violent Venezuelan Gang Operating In Chattanooga, Other Tennessee Cities” [Chattanoogan – 11/15/2024]

Local officials in Chattanooga quickly pushed back…

“‘No evidence’ of Venezuelan gang in Chattanooga area after TBI director raised flags” [Chattanooga Times Free Press – 11/18/2024]

Chattanooga Police Department Chief John Chambers said his department has "no evidence to indicate that the gang is actively operating in our city" in a statement posted to social media Monday.

In fact, despite the Director of the TBI stating on the record that Venezuelan gangs were engaged in criminal activity in Chattanooga, including human trafficking, Chattanooga mayor Tim Kelly flippantly dismissed the TBI’s warning, stating to a local TV station that Tren de Aragua’s criminal activity is “not a concern for us right now in Chattanooga.”

To be fair, Tim Kelly is a trust fund eco-leftist who believes his purpose as mayor is to save the world from global warming. There is no reason to doubt his sincerity when Mayor Kelly states that South American gang activity in Chattanooga does not concern him.

Just one week later, a Tren de Aragua gang member was arrested in Chattanooga.

“Member of Venezuelan gang, Tren de Aragua, arrested in Chattanooga” [Fox 17 Nashville – 11/25/2024]

In Operation Crime and Justice, a member of the violent Venezuelan gang now operating in Tennessee is charged in connection with a human trafficking operation in Chattanooga. Earlier this month, the TBI warned of the growing TDA gang in Tennessee's major cities.

Tennessee Conservative News has a pretty good roundup of this story, which notes that three women were also arrested, but rather than being Tren de Aragua members, these women are apparently being held in captivity and forced into prostitution.

TBI Director Rausch stated of these women, “they are victims as well,” and live in “great fear” of their captors as many women are kidnapped off the streets in Venezuela and then forced into prostitution in the U.S.

In other words, these women are sex slaves that have been smuggled into the U.S. by a criminal Venezuelan gang. Slavery is alive and well in Chattanooga, and the city’s Democrat mayor says this is “not a concern” of his.

As the propaganda sequence plays out, it’s only a matter of time now until we’ll be told that only a bigot would oppose a Venezuelan gang operating sex slavery rings in Tennessee.

[buck.throckmorton at protonmail dot com]

posted by Buck Throckmorton at 10:56 AM

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