WebsterMark wrote on 02/01/26 at 10:13:16:You dismissed his efforts by denigrating his history including his Mormon background and you want to accept your condescending review of the points I made.
Let’s return to this in a few months and judge who’s investigations are more accurate, his or the above reproach professional journalists. That’s assuming these professionals take up the challenge.
I in no way denigrated, nor condescended, simply stated the fellow's resume, which is a matter of record. There's nothing wrong with being a Mormon, nor a missionary, it's just what he was up to, after the prank videos and before he started making the right wing biased videos.
I pointed out that presenting a slew of unrelated, and unsupported opinions, that have no relation to the original topic is not a logical argument. Like saying, "let's let time tell" a way to avoid the process of creating a logical argument. We are not here to discuss the validity of global warming, nor whether the earth is flat, not whether the sun rotates around the earth nor whether the earth rides on the back of a big turtle. All valid theories, open for discussion at some point in human history, but not relevant to Minneapolis.
We can certainly return to discuss the topic of Minnesota child care fraud, but let's review the history of the issue up to the present first:
1) In March of 2025, Aimee Bock was found guilty in a $250 Million Pandemic Fraud Scheme having to do with her position in a non-profit dedicated to feeding children. She's a US citizen. The roots of this started way back in the time of the pandemic. She was already in jail long before ICE was sent to Minneapolis.
https://www.justice.gov/usao-mn/pr/federal-jury-finds-feeding-our-future-mast... 2) As already stated, Nick Shirley filmed his video alleging that there was a Somalian tie-in to this already years old scandal, on December 16, 2025, and published the video on Youtube, on December 26th.
3) Nick Shirley was invited to testify in front of the US House of Reps commitee on January 21, 2026, so clearly his message has been heard and taken seriously.
4) There have already been investigations opened by:
- Minnesota Office of Inspector General found normal operations and children at all of the centers in Shirley's video but one, which had not yet opened for the day.
- Minnesota Department of Children, Youth, and Families had made unannounced inspections of the facilities in question, as recently as October, November or December.
- Various journalistic entities, like 5 INVESTIGATES, CBS News, and The New York Post investigated and found evidence of child care taking place at all the various facilities.
Shirley chose to visit a child care facility which opened at 2pm at 11am, then declare that there was nobody there, (Duh!) and to visit another facility which has been closed since 2022, and declare there was no activity, and that this constituted evidence of fraud. I'd say HE was knowingly committing that fraud, but since he's not a journalist, he had nothing to lose. It appears that he was looking to leverage the already existing scandal, tie in Somalian immigrants, and get a lot of hits for his video.
You seem to think that you can ignore all the existing evidence, history and investigations, and claim "time will prove me right". However, since you seem totally uninformed on any of the actual facts of the case, or any of the players in the case, or any history of the case, or any investigation of the case, it's very difficult to believe that you will make any attempt to follow additional developments in the future.
If you object to my summary of Shirley's experience, show us evidence of any journalistic or investigative credentials Shirley has, that I failed to mention.
Show us that you have actually SEEN his video, or have read ANY article published on the topic.
Show us some reason the conclusions of the many previous investigations of the child care fraud, which I listed, were invalid.
Present evidence supporting your allegations that state or local officials are somehow complicit.
Your attempts to present any kind of logical argument are so disappointing, that I'm regretting the time I've spent composing my responses here. If you don't take your posts seriously, why should anyone else?
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