The Sound of Grifting

It's happening again. More controversy instigated by Qanon ultra nationalists masquerading as patriotic, god fearing, Trumped-up conservatives.

First they come out with this movie, and blame the Woke Left or the Elite (or whichever movement or social class they are at odds with) for the root cause and the ongoing perpetration/enabling/grooming if not out right trafficking.

And in the background, one of their 'Angel Investors' is himself - a proud Sugar Daddy who was sponsoring Sugar Ball Lifestyle Parties all around St Louis, Missouri.

It doesn't take a whole lot of internet sleuthing or very many mouse clicks to drill down and see what this scourge has been accused of and now - charged with by the state of Missouri.

https://www.rawstory.com/sound-of-freedom/

Conservatives blaming Liberals for all the problems going on in our civilization, while they themselves are the ones who are actually to blame. Projecting. We've seen this with Trump for over 6 years - and now with this movie and this arrest, we'll start to wake the fuck up.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F0tfKc4aYAAw9oq

There are also several questions revolving around the alleged 'star' of this movie - a fellow named Tim Ballard, the CEO of Operation Underground Railroad 'O.U.R.'

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/sound-of-freedom-tim-ballard-leaves-operation-underground-railroad-1234787753/

Ballard, however, is no longer associated with Operation Underground Railroad — that is, according to Motherboard, which has been reporting on the organization for years. According to sources close to the organization, and a statement from O.U.R. provided to Motherboard and Rolling Stone, Ballard left the group just prior to the debut of Sound of Freedom, something he has not mentioned on his extensive press tour promoting the film.

While the circumstances around Ballard’s departure are somewhat unclear, his LinkedIn profile states that he is the CEO of the Nazarene Fund, O.U.R.’s sister organization which serves Christians and other religious minorities fleeing persecution in the Middle East.

In a recent appearance on Fox News, he also was identified as the founder of an organization called the SPEAR Fund, which “relies on experts in the field of anti trafficking to consult on its many projects,” according to a description on its website. Through O.U.R., Ballad helped to bring in tens of millions of dollars to put towards further developing its branding as the leading authority on sex trafficking.

“What they are learning is so divorced from reality that it does sling back to create harm,” Erin Albright, an attorney who has worked in the anti-trafficking space for 15 years, recently told Rolling Stone about the dangerous narratives perpetuated by the film. “It creates harm when certain policies aren’t passed because we think trafficking looks one way and it’s another way. It creates harm when victims don’t recognize themselves in these narratives.”

Angel Studios, which distributed Sound of Freedom, published a blog post on its website acknowledging that some of Ballard’s biographical details were altered and that the film “took creative liberties in depicting the different methods of child trafficking.”

https://twitter.com/jimstewartson/status/1678467689269051392

You can dive deeper into the Angel Investor, Fabian Marta (one of the producers of A Sound Of Freedom) - here

https://twitter.com/jimstewartson/status/1678539924990205952

and here: https://www.dexerto.com/tv-movies/sound-of-freedom-funder-fabian-marta-arrested-charged-child-kidnapping-2236862/

I'd wager $10 to a dog turd that none of the people associated with this film in any part - acting/producing/directing/financing/distributing - voted for Sleepy Joe Biden.

Christians or fake christians - I don't know which is worse, to be frank.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/04/06/alex-jones-bogus-coronavirus-cures

Since Infowars content is viewable wherever people have Internet, including New York, this state’s consumer-protection laws apply. “Whenever there’s heightened fear and hysteria, we start to see scammers,” Letitia James, New York’s attorney general, said recently.

“We see stores around Brooklyn selling hand sanitizer for eighty dollars a bottle. We see people setting up fake charities—phishing attempts, essentially. We see medical scams—Web sites that have a magic cure. We have a responsibility to take action against anything that is putting New Yorkers in danger.”

James instructed Lisa Landau, the chief of her office’s health-care bureau, to send Jones a cease-and-desist letter. In a footnote, Landau acknowledged that the Infowars site did include some vague verbiage disclaiming liability, but that its “miniscule font size makes it unlikely that potential customers will read or even see the disclaimer.”

Days later, a new disclaimer appeared, this one in a non-minuscule font: “The products sold on this site are not intended for use in the cure, treatment, prevention, or mitigation of any disease, including the novel coronavirus.”

Near the disclaimer, however, was a link to products such as a “Build the Wall, Protect Texas” T-shirt, George Washington socks (“We need to broadcast true Americana everywhere we go to shut down globalist censorship”), and bottles of ABL Nano Silver Gargle (sold out, wait list available).

Columnist Amanda Marcotte, in an op-ed published by Salon Thursday, said she believes the announcement was a "not-at-all subtle message" that Trump "doesn't believe any of this faith-in-God crap, but he definitely believes in using Christian identity as a weapon to make money and dominate his foes."

Marcotte argues that Trump supporters who identify as Christian will not find the Trump brand Bible offensive, since it signals that they can have the "Christian" identity without the parts they don't like.

"No boring church services or Bible study. No tedious talk about 'compassion' and 'grace,' which only gets in the way of the gay-bashing and racism," Marcotte wrote. "And definitely no need to worry about that Jesus guy, with all his notions about 'loving thy neighbor' and 'welcoming the stranger.'"

According to Marcotte, Trump-supporting Christians have replaced God with Trump himself — which she says is a lot more fun since Trump's message is "kick thy neighbor" and "build the wall."

Marcotte has such little faith in the Christian bonafides of Trump supporters that she argued the pages of the Trump Bible could be blank and they wouldn't even know it.

"In the right-wing publishing industry, books are not made to be read. They are to be displayed on your shelves, unopened, so you can glance at them and feel that somewhere, a liberal is 'owned.'" she writes.

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-bible/

The musical based on the book "The Story of the Trump Family Grifters".