Well, that’s one way to turn a supposed “Green Deal” on its head.
While electric vehicles (EVs) are perhaps a better-known example of a “Green Deal” initiative – hence all the Tesla vehicles in California – solar panels have also served as a quieter, yet potentially more influential element of the entire “Green Deal” strategy.
For starters, solar panels are generally more affordable than electric vehicles, and they certainly require less maintenance.
Which may well be why so many Americans have ordered solar panels, several of which are ironically produce from slave labor in genocidal camps in China – one of multiple millions of examples of supreme cognitive dissonance.
Heck, even the America First Policy Institute (AFPI) pointed out that level of cognitive dissonance in 2023 … though the acknowledgement unfortunately did not make the headlines that it should have made.
Given that several solar panels can trace their origins to a communist state, it should come as no surprise that they have subsequently – and somewhat hilariously – been hijacked by Mexican cartels for smuggling drugs.
Or attempts at smuggling drugs, anyway.
According to an amusing report from The Hill, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) seized a gargantuan amount of crystal methamphetamine – a highly addictive stimulant – hidden inside solar panels.
That’s right: solar panels.
Apparently, these solar panels were used to hide “stacks of methamphetamine,” which have subsequently been redirected elsewhere.
“Details are limited, and CBP did not immediately disclose when or where the drugs were intercepted at LAX or if any suspects have been arrested in connection with the attempted drug smuggling,” The Hill continued.
Apparently, the shipment was heading for New Zealand. However, the officers had already been flagged “based on prior intel,” which in turn enabled federal agents to intercept the drugs before export.
So, at least this time, law and order won – despite the best efforts of communists and cartels alike to weaponize solar panels for various nefarious purposes.
Then again, the CPB has experienced frequent “winning” as of late.
“We do this every day. These ‘criminal masterminds’ never stood a chance,” the CPB asserted.
Without a doubt.
After all, the CBP gives routine updates on its social media pages … with some recent postings serving as enormous sources of humor.
“Great work by CBP officers and their canine partners for seizing 42lbs of cocaine from a female U.S. citizen arriving from Mexico. She was arrested after they found the drugs hidden in a compartment below the rear seats of her vehicle,” the CPB detailed on Facebook.
A mere three hours later, the CBP had another update.
“Internally smuggling fentanyl is extremely dangerous and is not worth your life or freedom. CBP officers in Texas seized 132.4g of fentanyl concealed in the rectum of a U.S. citizen. He passed two condom-wrapped bundles and faces charges for the failed smuggling attempt,” the CBP continued.
Yikes. A more unpleasant interception.
That said, it is clear that huge demand for drugs persists in the United States; otherwise, the cartels would not be nearly as “successful” as they are.
And they need that success to keep their politicians on the payroll, after all.
Indeed, even Democrats have admitted to some of their colleagues being “high on something” while voting.
Though that “something” may have gotten caught up in solar panels this time.
Author: Ofelia Thornton
