Submitted by Mary Christine
Came across this on twitter. It made me go hmmmmm. My problem with the article is that it says that there is not an epidemic of child trafficking and since there is no way to pin down accurate numbers I would say they need to walk that back. There is plenty of proof that young children are coming in unaccompanied with only a name and phone number then instead of checking into who the “sponsor” is they get put on a bus and sent to whoever claims to be the sponsor. All at our expense. Anyway, thought it is worth discussing.
Here is what Charity Watch has to say about Operation Underground RR. Basically there is some questionable things going on.
https://www.charitywatch.org/charities/operation-underground-railroad
Falling Down: The Demise of Tim Ballard and Operation Underground Railroad
It’s important to note that Tim Ballard and O.U.R. were riding high in 2020, with impunity. In the public sphere, they were legitimate, no one questioned their claims and there was not a critic in sight. This was the beginning of the end.
Damion Moore – May 15, 2022
Six months past due. Two years of lying to donors and concealing assets (investments, stocks, bonds) from “investors” “VIP Donors”, Operation Underground Railroad’s Form 990 for 2020 has been released.
Pride goeth before a fall
At this very moment, many are angered and outraged that O.U.R. had another record-breaking year raking in over $47 Million. Angry because of the laundry list of allegations against Ballard and O.U.R. officials. That list now includes ties to white nationalists, supremacists and hundreds of misleading claims. All this money despite multiple criminal investigations. Proven abuses and obvious fraud. The mass revolt of O.U.R.’s executives, the only ones with actual experience that gave O.U.R. a semblance of credibility (barely). Including Tim’s sister-in-law, who fled O.U.R. with Jon Lines and Carlos Rodriguez to form Coaxion Global.
It was O.U.R. President of Operations Jon Lines and Washington State Patrol Detective Carlos Rodrigeuz, the head of the Missing and Exploited Children Task Force (MECTF) that made O.U.R. famous with Operation NetNanny. But as the façade crumbled once they became a magnet for controversy, it was revealed that O.U.R.’s involvement was limited to $50,000 in annual donations for five years… and nothing else.
Worse, they were embarrassingly thirsty for credit in NetNanny’s questionable arrests to pander for donations. A subsequent lawsuit against O.U.R. involving their role in NetNanny cost them $100,000.
It’s important to note that Tim Ballard and O.U.R. were riding high in 2020, with impunity. In the public sphere, they were legitimate, no one questioned their claims and there was not a single critic. This was the beginning of the end.
Not a single rescued survivor or family members speaking on their behalf either.
The sole rescued survivor Tim Ballard touted publicly as the O.U.R. poster child, Liliana- including selling merchandise supposedly designed by her, turned out to be a total fabrication. O.U.R. had no involvement in her rescue nor aftercare. That didn’t stop Tim Ballard peddling her story, their high-risk rescue of her and fabricating her “aftercare costs” before congress and during an embarrassing White House meeting.
Behind the scenes, O.U.R. was in shambles.
As early as 2015, the true story behind O.U.R.’s founding- as a reality TV show, not divine inspiration (as perpetuated by Tim Ballard and the LDS Church today, who also falsified his ties to the CIA) was common knowledge.
But years of lying, litigation, threating witnesses and carefully crafting a public image had buried the truth behind O.U.R.’s founding. In 2020, the suppressed interviews of Darrin Fletcher and Chet Thomas detailing the real story behind the founding of The Abolitionists as it happened reemerged once Lynn Packer and I started talking and we began republishing Packer’s reports.
By 2020, at fundraiser after fundraiser and interview after interview, Ballard was perpetuating ad nauseum that by then he was exhausted rescuing “trafficked children” at the Calexico Port of Entry during his stint with U.S. Department of Homeland Security. He was tired of being held back by bureaucratic red tape.
Things were so bad, Tim Ballard spent countless hours moonlighting as a pseudo historian authoring Mormon biblical fan fiction. He was travelling the country. Seeking artifacts and spending time in libraries and county archives/museums, sometimes “from open to close”. Like some Mormon Indiana Jones or should I say Deseret Jones.
Yes. That’s correct. According to Tim Ballard, human trafficking was so “out of control” at the Calexico Port of Entry as was drug trafficking and drug “hit squads” that Ballard, Donald Trump and the GOP were demanding a border wall they never built, even when they full and complete control of congress, the senate and White House.
So, he spent his time writing biblical fanfiction and went on book tours promoting them as fact.
Tim bailed on the children.
Ballard’s Mormon fantasies caught the attention of Mormon conservative commentator Glenn Beck and none other than the acting President of the Quroum of the Twelve Apostles, M. Russell Ballard (no relation). Despite being exciting Mormon porn, Elder Ballard suggested Ballard remove “the LDS material”. He wanted to share “the good news: with every American (which means even he knew Ballard was full of shit).
The LDS Church’s publishing wing had published Ballard’s “American Covenant” series that wasn’t a huge hit with the LDS Community, so the idea was to exploit the Evangelical community to make a profit.
Much like Operation Underground Railroad today.
Murder Ballard Among the Mormons
While there is no definitive proof, evidence suggests that these connections gave Tim Ballard an opening to exploit the LDS Church and Glenn Beck’s community using human trafficking hysteria. Due to Tim Ballard’s employment with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Elder Ballard had asked him to help locate a Haitian child, Mardy Gardy.
For an in-depth look into the Gardy situation you can view Lynn Packer’s video:
Mardy Gardy was kidnapped in 2009. Even since then, Ballard has misled Guesno Gardy and the LDS Church with needless, flamboyant raids, some based entirely on “psychic leads”- something Ballard claims law enforcement “does all the time”. That may have been true in the 80s and early 90s, perhaps some underfunded meth and opiate ravaged counties in the rural south are desperate enough to try anything. Let’s keep in mind that Ballard left the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. He’s an educated man. He knows better but it’s anything to keep the gimmick going.
There is not a single documented case of law enforcement employing a psychic that solved a cold case, identified a criminal or found a missing person. There are dozens of instances which corrupt detectives and con artists embezzled money under the ruse of such nonsense.
Ballard and Operation Underground Railroad have received millions of dollars and has not produced demonstrable results outside of creating an artificial demand for “little kids” in poor third world countries which has little to tourism to begin with. Ballard and O.U.R. has not utilized an independent board or auditing of the organization’s funds.
So, imagine a team of white men running around the barrios asking everyone in dirt poor corrupt community for child pornography and little girls to molest. All this in a country ran by one of the most corrupt governments- Haiti.
In 2018, Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes in conjunction with the Governor’s office and Tim Ballard presented a gubernatorial declaration recognizing January as National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month.
According to the St. George News
“Notable among those honored were Haiti’s Attorney General, Clame Ocnam Dameus, his Chief of Staff, Jim Petiote, as well as their wives and several staff members, for their work combatting human trafficking in their home country. Ocnam and his team are visiting Utah due to their partnership with Reyes and Operation Underground Railroad to discuss efforts abroad”
The following month Clame Ocnam Dameus would resign among corruption allegations.
On July 7, 2021, Haitian President Jovenel Moïse was assassinated.
A December 2021, The New York Times reported that Moïse’s assassination might be linked to Moïse’s plans to publicly expose high-ranking Haitian officials involved in the Haitian drug trade.
As law enforcement and human trafficking experts pointed out, crusader organizations such as Operation Underground Railroad primarily operates in corrupt nations with civil unrest as “they bribe officials and do whatever it is they please”
During multiple interviews with current and former advocates working in the field of rescuing orphans, Operation Underground Railroad fabricated rescues, and claimed these organizations were their “aftercare facilities”. In reality, either there were no children, or very few actual “human trafficking victims” registered in the program. In numerous instances, these organizations would get calls regarding the recognition Tim Ballard and Operation Underground Railroad gave them credit for taking in trafficked children the organization rescued.
The only problem is, there were no children rescued.
Besides, there were more than enough orphans in African and Asian countries that according to an aftercare specialist I spent over 50 hours with examining cases with, “within five minutes of landing at the airport, children as young as six and seven years-old are either begging for money, attempting to rob you or performing in the streets for nickels. You could snatch a kid, walk into an orphanage and say hey, I just rescued a trafficked minor“.
Over three months, I interviewed nearly two dozen current and former employees and volunteers of orphanages and rescue groups, most who were at the director level of the organization, Ballard or Operation Underground Railroad had falsely claimed to have rescued children and placed them with their orphanages.
Except Ballard and O.U.R. called them “aftercare programs”. Not a single one would go on record. Some did share the texts, direct messages and emails between them and either Emily Evans or Tim Ballard himself.
“He would destroy us”. This organization’s budget was already $70,000 short of its budget. Staff, volunteers and their friends and family helped cover the shortage, some maxing out their credit cards.
“The truth is important, but we can’t risk failing these kids. Many of Operation Underground Railroad’s donors are also our donors”
The threats from Tim Ballard and Emily Evans were direct and relevant.
Ballard at one point threatened a director with documentary film director Joe Berlinger of Paradise Lost; The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills fame. Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky’s controversial yet compelling documentary that primarily filmed the murder trial of Damien Echols and Jason Baldwin would inspire the Free the West Memphis Three campaign. Something I was personally invested in.
Because the individuals refused to go on record, I did not seek comment from Berlinger. But I think I already know the answer, because Berlinger and Ballard’s politics doesn’t jive.
During this time Tim Ballard was nickeling and diming individuals with claims of rescuing 3,000, then 4,000 and 5,000 children from “human trafficking”.
A dispute from 2013, surfaced from when Operation Underground Railroad was conceptionalized that was originally made public by Lynn Packer in 2015, from The Packer Chronicle and republished in August 2020, by American Crime Journal shortly before Lynn revealed the criminal investigations by the Davis County District Attorney.
“At the point FletChet was pitching Glenn Beck Tim Ballard was still working for the government and O.U.R. was still in the planning stages with no actual missions that could be filmed. So, Ballard and FletChet videoed some Ex-Navy SEALS and Army Special Ops members undergoing training with automatic weapons.
They produced a “teaser” for a series they would title The Abolitionists.“
Tim Ballard, Tevya Ware, Emily Evans and Jon Lines did everything in their power to help perpetuate, conceal, divert and promote Operation Underground Railroad to be this near mythical, “God inspired” organization. Yet the evidence is clear and compelling as it is damning.
Operation Underground Railroad was founded purely as a money-making venture first and foremost, which is not just dishonest, and “crony capitalism”, it’s a crime.
In a response video to criticism from Lynn Packer and I, Ballard’s excuse for having nothing but family members and lifelong friends managing his so-called non-profit, is that he was so broke in the beginning he couldn’t pay people. He then continued to state that he was broke and couldn’t even support his family adequately. Yet, Ballard then expects us to believe that he doesn’t draw a salary. He and the 12 kids survive purely on book royalties and speaking engagements.
O.U.R. was bankrolled and launched during numerous and suspicious fundraisers for The Abolitionists, LLC.
Ballard also in a fit of rage revealed that he had to draw a salary which American Crime Journal has obtained a copy of. Ballard explicitly states the number of children and why.
Darren Fletcher and Chet Thomas had been under a Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDA) or so Ballard and his attorney’s thought. Evidence of misconduct during the filming of The Abolitionists surfaced. Ballard and his relationships with Fletcher, the distributor and just about everyone else was destroyed beyond repair. Ballard was shaking them down left and right. Try to collect royalties and fees which he wasn’t supposed to get a dime of. Allegations of Paul Hutchinson committing sexual assault against child sex slaves and Ballard’s panic and orders to destroy the film.
In August 2019, Tim Ballard summoned his most trusted OUR associates and partners to a clandestine meeting which required each individual to sign a Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA). It was at this very meeting that Ballard laid out a secret plan to monetize his child sex slave rescue nonprofit, Operation Underground Railroad and to use this plan to proselytize prospective converts to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
On a whiteboard Ballard presented the strategy, each member’s role and the respective organizations such as The Nazarene Fund, Children Need Families, Liberty and Light Equity Trust, and many others- funneling donor money into his for-profit Slave Stealer’s, LLC; and how to launder donor money each step of the way by creating a labyrinth of non-profits and for-profits exchanging money.
Should his plan progress and he was able funnel enough liquid cash into his personal bank accounts, Ballard would then open low-cost, run-down LDS orphanages in Haiti. Ballard estimated he could make about $20,000 per adoption to Mormon couples in America. Several of those in attendance at this secret meeting left in disgust. Including former OUR financer, millionaire Paul Hutchinson and OUR Ops Team Leader Dave Lopez.
Operation Underground Railroad already has a glowing example of what their “low-cost, run-down LDS orphanages in Haiti” will look like and just how much Tim Ballard really cares.
In a previous report by Lynn Packer-
“Guesno Mardy, the father of Mardy Gardy whom Tim Ballard claims is the abducted child that inspired Operation Underground Railroad and whom Ballard vowed was his life’s mission to rescue, currently runs a Latter-day Saints orphanage- Foyer de Sion. O.U.R. appointed Jeff Frazier to run the orphanage.
Sadly, Frazier released a video plea begging for donations. An orphanage with almost 200 orphans, Frazier claims in the video that there in no electricity, the generator quit. The water pump quit and there is no running water. There is no washing machine“
All this, despite the fact that according to Operation Underground Railroad’s own books and by their own admission- had over $50 million in liquid cash.
The Thin Yellow Line, Desperation and Fallout
As I’ve said many, many times before, Operation Underground Railroad and then President Jon Lines were on the periphery. ACJ’s focus was our second investigative series The Disappearance of Karlie Guse. Jon Lines’ conduct was not only alleged, but ACJ obtained over one hundred pieces of communication material. They not only implied misconduct but were actual threats and misogynistic in nature.
Worse, he threated to “pull O.U.R. out” if a certain individual was not removed from the search for Karlie Guse.
“a club for middle aged white men to live out their James Bond fantasies”
Damion Moore
Why would that matter? You’re the professionals? You we supposed to clean up the mess, but created a bigger one, terrorized a small town then fled.
The vast majority of material came from Jon Lines’ cellphone. He sent text messages, despite being a career law enforcement officer. O.U.R.’s board, including Ballard, Gowen, Ware and Evans decided the allegations were false, despite coming from his cell phone. O.U.R.’s board took it a step further. In response to a written complaint from a local government official that ACJ obtained, they sent a Cease-and-Desist from their attorney Adam Becker.
It was announced on ACJ’s Facebook page that we would report on the texts and communications from Lines and the response from O.U.R. During that time, someone had asked on our Facebook page “what is OUR?” To which I called it, “a club for middle aged white men to live out their James Bond fantasies”.
We spent at least forty man hours searching the internet for information of Operation Underground Railroad, their missions, rescues, searched for rescued survivors and their families thanking them, etc.
Out of 3,000 (the number at the time) “rescued” children, there was not a single “thank you” from the survivor or the survivor’s family. There was not a single piece of “neutral” or “critical” media on Tim Ballard or O.U.R.
Worse, it was clear they were able to establish and nurture dozens of random sites and bogus blogs that had a month or two of flimsy repost and reblogger material. Suddenly, an epic piece of longform journalism about a skeptical reporter turned believer in absolute awe of Tim Ballard and same regurgitated rescue with Operation Underground Railroad, featuring the pimp, “Super Mario”.
These were not established journalists, popular pages or even a blogger with a history. Instead, there was the shell of a news websites, with a half dozen posts of 200 words or less. Then this nobody, was suddenly “invited” to go on a mission with Tim Ballard and Operation Underground Railroad.
While it is not uncommon for businesses to use similar tactics to create the illusion of an established credible digital footprint, it’s far more common for scams. Especially churches to invent their own illustrious history. True academics, researchers and sleuthers wouldn’t be fooled by these. Neither would careful consumers who spend a great deal of time researching and contemplating purchases.
Those people are not their targets.
It is a tool of scam artists for pump and dump schemes or startups. Often bogus non-profits and illegitimate businesses, and websites designed to appear like “customer support” for legit businesses like Apple, Google and Microsoft.
These sites do cost money to maintain and are not designed to outlive their purpose.
Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes was Tim Ballard’s head cheerleader and de-facto spokesman for Operation Underground Railroad. An endorsement and questionable relationship that has backfired on Reyes and Reyes alone. He is now the target of an investigation by his own office.
Utah ICAC then severed ties with Operation Underground Railroad.
Aside from that there was nothing but drooling Utah journalists and the mainstream reports, such as ABC News and Nightline that gave them legitimacy. Since Utah media and the LDS Church was shoving this organization down the general public’s proverbial throats, the vast majority of Ballard’s victims were conservative republican Mormons.
For an organization to have rescued 4,000 and 5,000 to children, there was not a single thank you from a parent of a “rescued” child. In fact, not a single child O.U.R. rescued went home, but to some mysterious “aftercare program” that there was no oversight of. Of the hundreds of criminals arrested, whom Tim reported to be MS-13 gang members, men connected to or trafficking children on behalf of cartels and everyday pimps. Not a single former colleague with Homeland Security has come forward verifying his numerous claims during his time with the agency.
Falling Down- A House of Cards
Not a single independent or critical blog, article or made about Operation Underground Railroad.
Now we knew why.
Just mentioning John Lines and calling O.U.R. a club for middle aged white men to live out their James Bond fantasies warranted Tim Ballard to enlist Utah’s most powerful law firm, Kirton McConkie. The LDS Church’s longtime legal sword and shield in child sex abuse cases. All this, in an attempt to silence a small time “blog”, as they called us. And Tim complains about cancel culture?
I took serious offense. Not at the fact they sent a Cease and Desist. Sure, that would have scared large media outlets over potential litigations costs and anyone with sense. Majority would have just deleted it or just backed off and called it a day.
If we weren’t onto something, they wouldn’t have been watching. Worse, Ballard claims he was appointed by “God” to “save the children”. He knowingly hires a law firm that proudly ran a “catch and kill” scheme that silenced child sex abuse victims. Put them under restrictive and abusive non-disclosure agreements. These were little children- some toddlers, who have been abused repeatedly by members of LDS Church.
In May 2019, Vice released a damning documentary, taking a look into child sex abuse claims and their handling by the LDS Church, Kirton McConkie and their instruction to Bishops of their wards, using a “catch and kill” method. Kirton McConkie setup a sex abuse hotline for “Bishops” to call (not members of the congregation) in the event an allegation of child sex abuse was reported to them. The helpline was called “LDS Family Services”, but in reality, the calls were forwarded to Kirton McConkie for them to advise the Bishop on what to do next and then try to intercept and mediate the claim between the LDS Church, the perpetrator and the child who was sexually abused.
Enter Lynn Packer
Over the course of five years, award winning veteran Utah reporter Lynn Packer interviewed, documented and independently reported on the actual roots of Operation Underground Railroad, the meteoric rise of Tim Ballard and activities of Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes. While Packer had success in getting mainstream articles published on Reyes, Ballard and O.U.R.’s actual activities, including the Trump-loving New York Post, he was ignored- despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary.
This wasn’t unusual for Lynn Packer, who sought truth, transparency and justice for decades in the theocratic paradise of Deseret or Utah officially. He is a journalist living in a culture of subjectification demanding absolute obedience and loyalty to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Lynn Packer paid the ultimate price for simply telling the truth. That is another story in itself. Even today, Journalists today are viewed differently for all the wrong reasons. Packer’s job, like mine- is to tell the public the truth. Irrespective of its scope, optics and political leanings- even popularity. Which those factors must be reported on it’s part of a subject or influenced those involved.
Alternative facts or ideations are irrelevant because they’re not real, but sometimes interesting, nonetheless.
Our obligation at ACJ is not to tell our fans or supporters what they want to hear, but the truth. Nor will we entertain a culture, and both operate and evolve within the confines of its subjectivity and “alternative facts”.
Lynn Packer paid the ultimate price on more than one occasion just for the truth. For his own people. Utah and the LDS Community. It was ugly, but it was the truth.
And the reason for the exposition is critical to understand why we’re here now.
Until late 2020, Operation Underground Railroad and Tim Ballard had designed their fantasy, their own foundation, legacy and culture that was part of, and very much existing in that subjectification demanding absolute obedience and loyalty to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Despite numerous criminal investigations into Tim Ballard and Operation Underground Railroad, allegations of fraud, accusations of sex abuse (both of female staff/volunteers and “rescue targets”) and the exploitation of minors by O.U.R. operatives and sometimes volunteers who paid up to $70,000 or more for a week-long vacation package that allows middle-aged white men (and a few women) to live out their James Bond & Jason Bourne fantasies- Ballard and his cronies hauled in a whopping $47 Million in 2020.
The year prior, 2019, was a record-breaking year for O.U.R. in terms of fundraising, hauling in over $22 Million. Tim Ballard had reached the top, posturing himself for a leadership spot in the LDS Church. His ego, hubris went so far as to select the man that played Jesus Christ in Mel Gibson’s Passion of the Christ– Jim Caviezel in a biopic he planned before the organization he founded was conceived.
Admissions of getting drunk and exploiting black and brown children in corrupt third world nations- the organization hauled in a record $47 Million. the fearmongering of debunked myths, fraud, the loss of every single staff member that brought O.U.R. some semblance of credibility and over two dozen police agencies minimizing or cutting ties with Ballard
Things are not always what they seem and the end in on the horizon. In 2020, Tim Ballard’s world came tumbling down. O.U.R.’s facade cracked, and Tim Ballard’s fantasy vanished in a ripple of time. From details of the Whiteboard meeting emerging… to rumors that O.U.R.s longtime Chief Financial Officer, Tim Ballard’s sister-in-law Tevya Ware possibly cooperating with law enforcement agencies. Credible allegations of sexual assaults, operatives bragging about cocaine and alcohol fueled parties in foreign nations with “girls of their choosing”. Accusations of torture, rape and bribing corrupt Haitian government and numerous criminal investigations in the United States, Ballard’s paranoia and radicalization has struck fear in those closest to him.
Despite it all and in the middle of a pandemic the beleaguered nonprofit hauled in over $47 Million in 2020.
Remember, Operation Underground Railroad was riding high in 2020. My first report was January of that year and Lynn Packer came in about June or July. The first criminal investigation didn’t start until August of 2020.
So, anyone who had dream that O.U.R.’s bottom-line was affected, this is the wrong report.
O.U.R. does have the money to fight off a scandal or two, but this is nuclear.
In August of 2020, both Lynn Packer and I had “the talk”. Tim Ballard’s charade is up, so we’re not sure why he’s still in it. For the mainstream that is. Which is why he’s gone full Trumpist.
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And your point is?
Perhaps the point is to demonize the charity and the people involved so people will be disenchanted and not see the film.
It really doesn’t matter if it’s true, not true, partially true, etc. The point of the movie is to wake people up to the horrors of child trafficking.
What are they teaching your children in school. It’s the pedo agenda.
The point is the whole “child trafficking” trope is an urban legend being used by a grifter to sucker people who actually think the Columbians are such evil people they have a toddler brothel on main street. The whole “human trafficking” trope is the same as the satanic panic thing in the 80s where quack investigators charged a bunch of innocent day care workers with their lurid fantasies. No more real than Bigfoot or Alien Abduction. A moral panic like Witch Hysteria in the 1500s. You never heard of this stuff until about the year 2000 when the NGO$$$ decided to rerun the Victorian Era “White Slavery” canard to rake in lots of money. One of these “experts in human trafficking from the University of Michigan” even admits when denouncing the films sensationalism that what “human trafficking” actually consists of is just a rebranding of ordinary pimping. It’s no more real than the environmental panics Gretta Thunburg is hyping.
There’s high muckety mucks in the Utah Mormon Temple involved in this. They are as trustworthy as the Vatican muckety mucks.
So where is all the money from the movie Sound of Freedom going? Is the scandal going to be rooted out? Would that invalidate the message of the movie and keep the human trafficking business going full boar?
You can view tax filings at the original link for American Crime Journal at the top.
I’ve been thinking about LDS. One thing we, I’m not Mormon, should be doing as fUSA slowly goes into the toilet is looking for alternate governing structures for when the lights go off or EBT shuts down.
I can think of no group better prepared for that inevitability. I’m also not looking to join but the structure is already in place. The lone wolf with guns and canned food won’t make it very long when fUSA becomes Haiti or Zimbabwe.
Think it cannot happen? See South Rhodesia or the accelerating decline of South Africa.
LDS was invented by freemasons to further split Christianity. All of the founder of LDS were freemasons. Their bullshit story about how Joseph Smith — could you get more generic? — had a hallucination which other people shared is laughable. How many of you have ever had a shared hallucination (chemically induced or otherwise), especially one in which Christ Himself appeared and said, “Hey, yeah, you guys! The rest of these other Christians don’t represent me in America, only you! Now, go exploit your women, just like I told you in my teachings!”
I would submit to you that nobody, ever, has had such a vision, and that they are grifters who are only here to separate true Christians from Christ’s word. This is my opinion, based on my own research. Feel free to disagree.
Interesting. I have never really looked into that. What you are saying sounds plausible though.
By the way, happy 4th to you!
You too, darling! Hope you and the fam had a great one!
White lizards happen…
Lindsey Graham, ca. 1984:
QUICK, RELEASE THAT CHILD-TRAFFICKING MOVIE!
I know very little about mormons, but this guy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Morgan_(anti-Mason) disappeared and his wife ended up here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Joseph_Smith%27s_wives
Shared hallucination is not unusual when groups of people take psychedelics together. I have experienced a strange sense of connectedness with LSD and especially ketamine, which others in the group also commented on.
Mongo–It’s still a false vision. I had a similar occurrence in the late 60’s.
Nature’s God, Elohim, doesn’t use hallucinogens. He doesn’t need them. It’s the other guy that does.
SamFox
“no group better prepared ” for eternity in hell.
Matthew 16 :
26 For ywhat will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? Or zwhat shall a man give in return for his soul?
Heresy is big business, and always has been, ax any Anglican.
A whistleblower revealed a few years ago that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints had an estimated $100 billion investment portfolio, and at the time, church officials called the holdings a rainy-day account.
They now say the money also has provided a financial foundation that gives the Mormon Church confidence to construct more than 100 temples, from Cape Verde to Guam, a series of stone-clad monuments exhibiting the church’s vast and expanding wealth.
In Pocatello, Idaho, a city of 56,000 in the rural southeastern corner of the state, a recently constructed temple stands at 71,125 square feet. Its polished limestone flooring was quarried in Bethlehem, the biblical birthplace of Jesus, and wood for its doors was imported from the Congo River region.
A statue of the angel Moroni, an important figure in the religion, tops a central spire, 195 feet off the ground. The temple cost $69 million to construct, according to estimates by the church’s contractors on city building permits.
https://archive.ph/eXtuj
I don’t have the time to read the lengthy article until later today but, from what I have read, this is all very disturbing.
We are going to see this movie at noon today, with another couple. We bought the tickets back in May when Caviezel was on with Bannon asking for people to buy the tickets early so that it would send a message and, to open it in more theaters. I also listened to an interview of the brothers at Angel Studios on how there were forces at work keeping this movie from being released. There was a lot stated in that interview that led me to believe that this movie was supposed to get out to the public. Now, I don’t know.
Is it all bullsh&^??
I need to do some research on all this, including the person or persons behind the the article you posted.
Mormonism aside (which is a cult and not true Christianity), there is a lot going on here.
I’m traditionally skeptical of anything Bannon touches, but have a lot of respect for Caviezel. I did not know O.U.R. was a Morman org until now. Eyes on this for further developments.
We saw ‘Sound of Freedom’ today. It was well done. The acting and the storyline were all good. At the end, there was actual footage of Tim Ballard and the rescue of 50+ children on an island that was being used for the sex trafficking. It all looked pretty real.
Perhaps the article is misdirection.
Thank you for exposing this. Grifters on the side of good are the worst kind. Tax filings show Ballard and family making millions off their Operation Underground Railroad. Some point out that nothing in the movie is true. A good source is:
Grifters who purport to be do gooders are definitely the worst kind. All I can say is have fun standing before God.
OK, it’s evident to me that both this article and the movie are sensationalism, stirring controversy for the sake of money (as usual; who does such a thing?).
First, when you use a Vice documentary as truthful evidence of your claims, you just lost your credibility. JS.
Two things stand out immediately: slandering Tim Ballard and the Mormons. While I have no love for either one, the fact that they are being attacked tells me this is a blackwashing psyop; which means, they are promoting by way of bad press. Which, I would not doubt, also means Ballard and the Mormons are the pre-scripted villains in this story.
The movie was completed in 2018, but supposedly got held up in the Disney acquisition of Fox, and Disney then sat on it and eventually passed, so Angel Studios picked it up for distribution. That’s the story.
Now, let us look at Angel Studios. From Wiki:
Spectacular. Are any of you familiar with many companies that lose multi-millions in a huge lawsuit — against Hollywood studios, no less — and come back a year later over $100 million large? And then also have enough capital to purchase a mid-budgeted movie that these same studios passed on and distribute it themselves?
Let that sink in. I will come back to it.
Moving on to Angel Studios’ founders, the Harmon brothers and Benton Crane: does anything about these names set off any alarm bells? Well how about some faces with those names; here are the Harmon brothers:
DO YOU SEE ANY FAMILY RESEMBLANCE HERE?
And here is Benton Crane:
WHY HE LOOKS JUST LIKE DONNY OSMOND DOESN’T
Are you putting it together yet? These guys are not Mormons, none of them.
And this entire affair, the movie, the press, all of it — misdirection. There is no way these guys, with just $123 million claimed revenue, would be able to afford a marketing campaign, get major MSM attention, and distribute to the Hollywood-owned movie theaters on that amount of money. Even if they had other money — say they had $200 mil, somehow — they still need to make three times their investment in order to break even. Do me a favor, find out which independently-made, limited-release movies have ever made $5-600 million. You see?
Exactly.
The fortuitous timing of this movie, not only releasing it on July 4th, but at a time when the public is getting wise to the elites and their child trafficking, smacks of marketing. Their intent is to stir up dissent, not only among White Christians but Whites in general, who are portrayed as being the buyers of all these children (or did you miss that part?). Because Evil Whitey sells.
Bottom line, these people do not give a shit about kids and never have. And with its subject matter, no Hollywood studio would pass on a sure-fire moneymaker, even though it might hit close to their homes (you think they ain’t trafficking kids in Hollywood?) — so they did the next best thing: they bought out a supposedly “Christian” studio to release it and keep their names out of it, and got to portray White Christians as evil child pornographers, all to get the heat off them. But make no mistake: this is still child exploitation, and never forget that. The same people promoting and distributing this movie are the ones trafficking kids.
What, you think any of these kids allegedly kidnapped in the movie got paid for the rights to their stories? Or are still alive?
That’s why I sent this to admin. To get feedback like yours. Thanks for your take. You answered my questions.
I was going to watch it eventually. Now I don’t care to.
There’s been a huge scandal brewing over child abuse in Utah with connections in high places. Derek Broze has been writing about it. Mormons in general are mostly harmless and can be very generous people but the so called “apostles ” are as corrupt as they come as is much of the Utah government. They are not Christians.
Wolves in sheeps’ clothing are like that, mostly harmless. Mostly. The cult of Mormon. Thanks for drawing attention to the brewing scandal in Utah. Let the corruption be exposed, and let the scab be ripped off of these wounds.
Thanks for your intelligent reply. My response wasn’t going to be worded as well.
I’ll just give a brief summary: It’s all bullshit.
There were no kids kidnapped, the actual case was a mundane pedophile who was a family friend of the young boy, both American citizens, who took the boy to visit relatives across the border in Calexico. He forgot to bring the kids birth certificate and this caused an issue when returning across the border and they searched the car and found the pervert had filmed himself molesting the kid. The sister was home with her mom and never part of it, the mom confirmed he was a family “friend” (as it usually is in these cases) and had no idea the abuse was going on. After seizing the evidence they called homeland security and then this Ballard who was working for homeland security at the time was the agent who came to transport the video tape back to the evidence locker. Very simple and mundane, no James Bond villain style enemies, that’s lurid fiction used by crooked NGO$$$ to raise donations from suckers.
I don’t trust much of anything; it’s often said movies are made and TV shows aired all at the direction of the CIA and nefarious backers, so even when something so seemingly right comes along, you may consider asking yourself why; why now? I do trust at least several of the players in this movie, but I’ll remain distant from it. I can no longer provide media, but there is or was a retired Navy SEAL who at one point on YouTube was doing ‘overwatch’ sitting camouflaged in the mountains watching for groups and individuals to pass through. I can’t find that video any longer, but I do know Jason Pike (former SEAL) is involved in that type of thing. You don’t see too many SEALs not only acting Christianly but giving credit routinely to Him, so I tend to give weight to things he says. I’m sure there are a lot of former military and SEALs who are living in His word, daily, but not too many of these guys have a YouTube channel as history dictates, that SEALS themselves take some kind of vow that they are a team in their activities and none rise above to take individual credit and in fact had rather not be known by their actual name. I do feel that Jim Caviezel is being honest and not acting when interviewed about his role in this movie. I’m not equally sure about Mira Sorvino as that family, particularly her doesn’t have the best history when it comes to the things going on in Hollywood, but then again, I haven’t seen an interview about her role in the movie. I clicked on your link, Mary, but didn’t see where I was supposed to go from there. I clicked a couple of other items and then left the page. Now, aside from this, money raised has a funny way of disappearing as I have noticed starting about the time Obama got into the white house (not capitalized on purpose; he doesn’t deserve it) I’m sure there have been lots of instances where good deeds were wasted for decades before, but I only started noticing around then. As a for instance, forgive me for not remembering the exact details; millions (many millions) went missing after being discovered in Iraq back during our time over there after Bush left. Who knows, maybe he has some of it, too.
So, I’ll see the movie as one thing and the fundraising off it as another. I won’t be contributing, but have honestly searched online about how to spot a trafficked child, which makes me realize I may not be good at it, but I kind of doubt, I’d go around the corner and call the police. I’d be more of a direct-action person on that. Meaning I’d either snatch the person myself and take them to a place where the police could meet me and possibly be ready for a physical encounter with the person moving them. I understand the possibility of danger, but these kids or grown kids are worth it.
Near the bottom of the article linked is the tax returns for Operation Underground RR
https://americancrimejournal.com/operation-underground-railroad-earns-47-million-in-2020/
This is a quote from Charity Watch
I heard Ballard’s initial pitch on the Glenn Beck radio show many years ago and was moved enough to send OUR a donation. Since that time, I heard that many of Ballard’s rescue stories were grossly exaggerated or complete fabrications. I just don’t know.
So since I just don’t know, I give to my local hospital where I can see my donation buys needed equipment and to my local animal shelter because I know my donation helps animals in my community. I used to also give to my local Salvation Army food bank, but after their leadership said I needed to apologize for being white, I add what would have been their donation to the local hospital and animal shelter donations.
I’m happy to share the fruits of my labours to help, but I need to know it’s actually making a difference.
It’s called being a good steward, Cricket. I used to donate to Salvation Army until they went woke.
Keeping your charity local does make it easier to keep track of what they do with your money.
We have a local Christian homeless shelter that’s been around for 100 years that we like to donate to.
I wonder who the ‘icehole’ is that is giving you a thumbs down? How would any rational mind give a thumbs down on your reply? I guess a TBP troll.
Some people dv because they don’t like the person commenting is my theory. I don’t worry about dv’s because you can’t get an explanation for the disagreement. Watch this comment get dv’d 🤣
There are several charities working against human trafficking.
Exodus Cry has a good rating and has been around for 15 years. I used to go to church with someone who worked there. They moved from the Kansas City area to California. Not sure why because when they started they said KC was a good location for this ministry because it’s a central hub.
I don’t know anything about the ones on this list.
https://theexodusroad.com/trustworthy-human-trafficking-nonprofits/
Thanks, MC. I had every intention to see this movie today but things got in the way. Based on this article and the rabbit hole it sent me down, I won’t be spending my money. So sad because child trafficking does exist and people need to become aware. It will be interesting to see cui Bono with the proceeds from the movie.
As I stated above, I’ve not read the article in its entirety yet nor, have I done any research on the author and the website that it is posted on. I will say one thing; there are a lot of nefarious and evil types that would want to keep a lid on sex trafficking and squash anyone that is trying to put a dent in it and shine a bright light on what is a very, very evil activity. Time will certainly tell where the truth is. That is why I continue to ask the Good Lord for Wisdom and Discernment in these evil days.
Hey Brewer55 – Agreed that shedding light on the cock roaches who traffic children needs to be done. I would hope that the proceeds are put to fighting trafficking and not administration and salaries. I’d love the OUR to say 100% profits are being spent on child trafficking like they say that 100% of their merch is being put to admin costs, and prove it with an audit.
What are your thoughts about the movie?
Leah, my wife and I both thought it was very well done, in all aspects. The acting, directing, and storyline was very well done. At the end, they showed some real footage of Ballard and the bust, and rescue, of over 50 kids.
Thank you, Brewer55.
Everything is swindle until proven otherwise.
Thanks Mary Christine. I thought all was on the up and up till you brought this information here.
Excellent share Mary Christine.
Totally brought the receipts.
A very good read!
Thankyou.
I was wondering about the movie, is it white kids or brown kids as the victims?
skin color doesn’t matter, they are kids.
The fact that Hollywood recently released ‘Sound of Fredom’, a child trafficking themed movie, suggests there is something going on that they are trying to destract and deflect attention from.
Just wanted to add. I haven’t watched the Netflix movie about the White Helmets, but I expect there’s no mention of involvement with illegal organ harvesting or false flag chemical weapon attacks. Making a movie about it is a standard method used by TPTB to align public perception with their version of events.
One thing that needs to be understood. It is not Hollywood, per se, that put out this movie. Angel Studios (if totally legit) take in funds mostly through crowd sourcing. It is how “The Chosen” was produced. All, or mostly all, donations by patrons. Myself being one of them.
I really enjoyed The Chosen, Brewer. Some reviews by Christians called it heretical. I didn’t see anything heretical about it but it was really a lot of stories about the apostles and Jesus dramatized around a few stories lifted from scripture. It looked at Jesus as a human making him more relatable.
I had a very strong sense that it was truly anointed and that it had the opportunity to bring unchurched people to Christ.
That being said, for awhile I followed Dallas Jenkins (son of Jerry Jenkins, co-author of the Left Behind series of books) on Facebook. I did until I started to see some posts by him that I was not all that keen on. I think he may be left of center with his thinking and politics. Perhaps that is why he allowed a cameraman to keep a rainbow flag or banner on his equipment. IDK.
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Hollywood, a US pwnd government pension whore, and LDS ….nothing fake and gay about that…..reeeeee
The CP “epidemic” is a PSYOP that allows governments more mass surveilance of everyone.
I saw the trailer and was struck with the impression that this was about third world children and that the baddies are White men.
Like everything else when it comes to children, where do the parents fit into this narrative? Children don’t spring from the soil, they have a mother and a father and yet we never hear of them, their failure to watch over their offspring or even their efforts to track down and find them. It’s all so tiresome.
Take up the White Man’s burden–
And reap his old reward:
The blame of those ye better,
The hate of those ye guard–
The cry of hosts ye humour
(Ah, slowly!) toward the light:–
“Why brought he us from bondage,
Our loved Egyptian night?”
Take up the White Man’s burden–
Ye dare not stoop to less–
Nor call too loud on Freedom
To cloke your weariness;
By all ye cry or whisper,
By all ye leave or do,
The silent, sullen peoples
Shall weigh your gods and you.
Well, Farmer, many of them are white, they just don’t like to be called white. They hail from eastern Europe.
I’m sure the movie didn’t cover the human trafficking that goes on out in the open in Libya.