Discernment in an undiscerning world
In a world full of constant deception, it is important to practice discernment
I encourage people to research “Operation Trust.”
For a simple overview, it was a Bolshevik run counterintelligence operation conducted in the 1920s to pacify and neutralize those who were against communism in Russia. They put forward fake anti-communist leaders and politicians and created fake news to convince people they were winning in their efforts against communism.
“In 1921-1926, communist Russia was in the midst of a potential upheaval from the people to attempt to overthrow the communist government that had already thoroughly controlled the government and outlets of Russia. In order to keep the masses blinded and the revolters subdued, a counterintelligence agency was created.”
Present day, I’ve recently seen friends of mine like or share memes on Facebook from groups called “SpaceX Fanclub” and “America’s Last Line Of Defense.” I’ve seen them posted to “conservative” groups and get thousands of likes and shares.
Both groups produce memes with stupid click bait headlines targeted at conservatives such as “Comcast Kicks CMT Off the Air In Support of Jason Aldean” or “Canceled: ABC REMOVES ‘THE VIEW’ FROM ITS 2024 ROSTER.”
And the thing is, these groups were literally designed to mock conservatives to show how easy it is for them to fall for fake news.
“SpaceX Fanclub” literally has on its page, in its about section: “We post SATIRE, nothing on this page is real.” On the about page of “America’s Last Line Of Defense,” it states: “Liberal Trolls Masquerading as Conservatives. Since 2016. Nothing on this page is real.”
They’re open about conning conservatives, and yet they get thousands of conservatives to bite.
Something such as “Operation Trust” can only succeed when there’s no discernment among the people.
We absolutely live in undiscerning times. There’s constant deception, and it targets both the “left” and “right.” People have been trained to believe information because of the source being from their “tribe” and to dismiss information because of the source being from the other “tribe.” Nobody wants to actually do their own research. They want to accept what they want to accept and dismiss what they want to dismiss.
People don’t want truth. They want comfortable lies. They’re ruled by emotion.
Discernment is desperately needed today. People need to stop falling for all the “click bait” crap, whether its fake or not. There are so many conmen out there luring people into lies and distractions. Stop being ruled by emotion and start thinking and reasoning.
And Christians need to start getting deep into the Bible and see what’s going on today.
This is all to setup the rest of this piece. I’m going to be exposing something that has become a sacred cow, specifically among conservatives and professing Christians.
Before getting to that, here’s some Bible verses and passages to keep in mind as you read the rest of this piece:
“For there is one God and one mediator between God and mankind, the man Christ Jesus.”—1 Timothy 2:5
“Test all things; hold fast what is good. Abstain from every form of evil.”—1 Thessalonians 5:21-22
“For false Christs and false prophets shall rise, and shall shew signs and wonders, to seduce, if it were possible, even the elect.”—Mark 13:22
“Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.”—1 John 4:1
“But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf, and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.”—Isaiah 64:6
“Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”—John 8:32
“You are of your father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own resources, for he is a liar and the father of it.”—John 8:44
“Now we know that God does not hear sinners; but if anyone is a worshiper of God and does His will, He hears him.”—John 9:31
“Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.”—Matthew 10:16
“He who is not with Me is against Me, and he who does not gather with Me scatters abroad.”—Matthew 12:30
“Take heed that you do not do your charitable deeds before men, to be seen by them. Otherwise you have no reward from your Father in heaven. Therefore, when you do a charitable deed, do not sound a trumpet before you as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory from men. Assuredly, I say to you, they have their reward. But when you do a charitable deed, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, that your charitable deed may be in secret; and your Father who sees in secret will Himself reward you openly. And when you pray, you shall not be like the hypocrites. For they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the corners of the streets, that they may be seen by men. Assuredly, I say to you, they have their reward. But you, when you pray, go into your room, and when you have shut your door, pray to your Father who is in the secret place; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly. And when you pray, do not use vain repetitions as the heathen do. For they think that they will be heard for their many words. Therefore do not be like them. For your Father knows the things you have need of before you ask Him.”—Matthew 6:1-8
“No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.”—Matthew 6:24
“Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.”—Matthew 7:15
“Then many false prophets will rise up and deceive many…. For false christs and false prophets will rise and show great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect.”—Matthew 24:11, 24
“Give no regard to mediums and familiar spirits; do not seek after them, to be defiled by them: I am the Lord your God.”—Leviticus 19:31
“And the person who turns to mediums and familiar spirits, to prostitute himself with them, I will set My face against that person and cut him off from his people.”—Leviticus 20:6
“Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? And what communion has light with darkness? And what accord has Christ with Belial? Or what part has a believer with an unbeliever?”—2 Corinthians 6:14-15
Sound of Deception
I’ve been hesitant to write anything on the movie “Sound of Freedom.” It has become a sacred cow among conservatives and professing Christians. The movie has been so successful that there’s a sequel in the works.
However, the deception and lies that appear to be coming from Tim Ballard and Operation Underground Railroad (OUR) need to be addressed. In fact, there’s not one shred of evidence that Ballard or OUR has protected one single child.
Maybe since the buzz has died down a bit, people will be willing to look at objective information now.
I saw the movie fairly early, the second week it was in theaters. As a movie, it was decent. But I went into it knowing it was fiction, which OUR admits, because I had started doing some research into it.
I started doing research into it because I saw Conservative, Inc. hyping this movie in very deceptive ways creating this sense that it was your “religious” and “patriotic” duty to see the movie and help them profit. I knew there was something not right.
I saw that Jim Caviezel did an interview with Steve Bannon. Bannon is an absolute conman. Look up Steve Bannon Florida meth and porn house. Bannon was an early promoter of a militarized full lockdown in response to a cold virus. He conned millions from conservatives then got Ron DeSantis supporters kicked out of CPAC for asking him questions about it. Sources:
https://twitter.com/ReOpenChris/status/1680606995940884480?s=20
In one of his multiple interviews with Bannon, Caviezel implies that he watched seized child porn films to prepare for the role. It’s a little after the 22-minute mark in this video. It’s not explicit, but it’s certainly implied. You can decide for yourself, but it certainly does not sound right. If true, can anyone explain why an actor would need to view that? And how would he have access to such materials? It just makes no sense. He’s an actor folks. He has no reason to watch it nor should he have access to it.
Then there was the “message” from Caviezel at the end of the movie that encouraged folks to use privacy destroying QR codes for the communist sounding “pay it forward” scheme.
The message was that to fight sex trafficking, see a movie and give Hollywood actors and producers your money. Seriously, it was just sleazy. The “pay it forward” scheme actually has made more than the box office sales. By the way, Angel Studios explicitly stated there’s no promise that your “pay it forward” donation went to buy more tickets to the movie. If you used the QR code to donate, you received this message:
“Upon submitting my Pay it Forward contribution, I acknowledge and agree that Angel Studios will make reasonable efforts to use Pay it Forward ticket sales for the audience growth of the intended film or series. However, Angel Studios becomes the owner of all funds upon receipt and may use them at its sole discretion to further the Angel Studios’ mission of amplifying light through impactful stories.”
That’s just surface level stuff but enough that, using my discernment, made me want to investigate further into OUR and Ballard. And what I found is nothing short of a big con and even worse.
There’s nothing wrong with going to see the movie. And had the movie been billed as fiction, or even as “inspired by a true story” with no reference to Ballard or OUR, then there wouldn’t be a need to expose it.
Instead, the Conservative, Inc. media has propped up Ballard as this amazing hero and having conservatives donating to Angel Studios and OUR who are now raking in the dough.
Even worse than that, it has deceptively led professing Christians to yoke themselves with people promoting absolute false gospels and New Age and ecumenical beliefs.
Exposing Ballard, OUR and the Deception
The above videos give a good overview of some of the shady connections and the plans and schemes of those using this movie, such as pushing for government databases to track children and microchipping.
But let’s start with the fictionalized story that is promoted as a true story. The traffickers OUR and Ballard claim they’ve stopped, they never provide any information about. However, Ballard has given one name, the name of the “trafficker” that he uses for his origin story for OUR which he says is the story of “Sound of Freedom.”
The name is Earl Buchanan. And the thing is, there are court documents about the case.
Buchanan was a scumbag pedophile, not a trafficker. The brother and sister portrayed in the movie, Americans and not Mexicans. Buchanan was a friend of their family. He abused the boy. The girl was never abused. There was no government sting. It was Buchanan’s stupidity that he forgot the boys papers at the border to prove he was American that led to a search of his vehicle. Ballard, an agent for the unconstitutional Department of Homeland Security (DHS), had no interactions with the boy and was not on scene until about after a hour when the tapes showing Buchanan’s abuse were found. Ballard’s role was simply to pick up the evidence for DHS.
The Illinois Family Institute gave these bullet points:
There was no intelligence about an American trafficker smuggling children into the US
Ballard was not waiting for Buchanan
The boy had not been kidnapped except as a legal technicality
The boy’s sister had not been kidnapped
The boy did not give Ballard any necklace
There was no search for the sister as she was at home with her grandmother the whole time
Homeland Security did not pull the plug on Ballard’s efforts to find the girl
There was no rescue from heavily armed rebels in the jungles of Colombia
Were you aware that Ballard had left OUR just days before “Sound of Freedom” hit theaters? He was forced out after allegations of misconduct were filed against him by an OUR employee. He was also forced out of Glenn Beck’s Nazarene Fund where he was the CEO.
The fact that Ballard was an operative in an unconstitutional federal agency should raise red flags. Now, OUR is proud to be run by a former CIA agent, Matt Osborne, as they continue to avoid answering questions about the allegations against Ballard. If you want to know why this should raise red flags, listen to this government whistleblower who says our tax dollars are being used to put children in harms way:
OUR has been under investigation for years by local prosecutors in Utah for playing deceptive games with numbers and intimidating victims and witnesses. The alleged corruption is so bad that many people who worked for OUR were leaving the organization in large numbers for years, including Ballard’s own sister Tevya Ware who left to found a new anti-human trafficking organization in order to “go legit.” But Ballard and OUR have had a friend in Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes who has made it impossible for local prosecutors to do their jobs. Reyes, by the way, allegedly hosted a cocaine party with strippers at his home in 2019.
Funders of “Sound of Freedom” include folks accused of Medicare fraud, child kidnappers and billionaires tied to human trafficking and both the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Clinton Foundation.
And as the movie has been pushed as being created outside of the Hollywood system, did you know Ballard sits on a board for the Afghanistan World Foundation with such non-Hollywood types like Susan Sarandon, Keifer Sutherland, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Tom Cruise? Oh, that board also includes Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-California) and Henry Kissinger.
And Angel Studios, which distributed the movie, is urging people to donate to Clinton and Podesta backed organizations that have created databases they claim to combat human trafficking but have in fact increased human trafficking, as Greg Reese exposed. Reese wrote:
“And if you believe that the Democrats are the problem, then I recommend you look into the Franklin Cover-up and the Bohemian Grove. Pedophilia is how the hidden hand controls their puppet politicians.
Awareness of this horrific problem is good. And perhaps Angel Studios is unaware of who they are promoting. But if we think that the same NGOs whose efforts increased the child sex trade by 500% will somehow end child sex slavery, then maybe we are too emotional to think clearly. And that’s a problem. Because this same cabal is pushing a totalitarian surveillance state, they are already pushing the idea of micro-chipping your children, to keep them safe. And without logic and reason, the people will demand it. And our children will be more enslaved than ever.”
Seriously, look up the Franklin Scandal. In 1989, The Washington Times reported:
“A homosexual prostitution ring is under investigation by federal and District authorities and includes among its clients key officials of the Reagan and Bush administrations, military officers, congressional aides and U.S. and foreign businessmen with close social ties to Washington's political elite, documents obtained by The Washington Times reveal.
One of the ring’s high profile clients was so well-connected, in fact, that he could arrange a middle-of-the-night tour of the While House for his friends on Sunday, July 3, of last year. Among the six persons on the extraordinary 1 a.m. tour were two male prostitutes.”
The high-profile client was Craig J. Spence, a sodomite Republican fundraiser and lobbyist who spent at times $20,000 a month to hire male prostitutes, some as young as 15. “It was Mr. Spence who arranged the nocturnal tour of the Reagan White House,” The Times reported.
I’ll throw in there Dennis Hastert, the longest serving Republican Speaker of the House who raped boys he coached on a high school wrestling team. And the “conservative” media ran cover for him until it was clear that he was guilty.
As Reese noted, it’s not just a Democrat problem. And yet, you have Caviezel out there saying the solution to human trafficking is Donald Trump who he calls “the new Moses.”
Ultimately for Ballard, the con appears to be self-promotion. OUR has conducted operations similar to those seen in the movie. And it appears that the children are an afterthought.
Meg Conley accompanied Ballard and OUR on an operation in 2014. I urge you to read her account linked here.
The missions included a “camera crew” as “Ballard seemed to intend to pitch a TV series,” Conley wrote. “This was a rescue mission, but it was also reality TV.” Ballard has arranged for a party with trafficked children.
Conley accounted how she was put in harms way. When she got home, she still felt she was on a righteous mission until she read an essay from a human trafficking expert that was critical of OUR’s tactics stating they showed an “alarming lack of understanding about how sophisticated criminal trafficking networks must be approached and dismantled” which were “arrogant, unethical and illegal.”
Still, Conley remained in contact with Ballard who was insistent that she promote OUR. She was on “planning calls” that “were fervent but flawed” with the focus on fundraising.
A video was made of the raid Conley was on. Take note at the two-minute mark of Ballard:
Ballard gives a smirk and a wink to the camera.
Conley later learned that two of the children brought to the party for that mission had been trafficked that very day. OUR created demand. There were 26 children total who “were released in less than a week…. All those kids in 2014 got from us was a soda and a swim—and Ballard came out ahead in the deal.” And the traffickers arrested, not one was convicted but rather set free.
Other sources:
https://rumble.com/v33mqtn-the-tim-ballard-rabbit-hole-part-1-who-and-what-is-tim-ballard.html
https://rumble.com/v33vo2f-the-tim-ballard-rabbit-hole-part-2.html
https://www.insider.com/sound-of-freedom-tim-ballard-qanon-medicare-fraud-2023-7
https://americancrimejournal.com/operation-underground-railroad-crimes-uncovered/
https://americancrimejournal.com/charitywatch-downgrades-o-u-r-to-a-question-mark/
https://americancrimejournal.com/city-refuses-25000-donation-from-operation-underground-railroad/
https://americancrimejournal.com/the-radicalization-of-tim-ballard-the-prager-u-endorsement/
https://americancrimejournal.com/ballard-doubles-down-on-numbers-o-u-r-in-ukraine/
https://americancrimejournal.com/ours-prized-propaganda-movie-embroiled-in-controversy/
False Gospels Being Promoted
“If you are a true disciple of Jesus Christ, then you know that taking a stand for Truth means to go against the crowd.
Well, the crowd in the U.S. today, at least in the Christian Right, is following false apostles and prophets claiming to be ‘saviors’ of children who are trafficked.”—Brian Shilhavy
The above videos expose a lot about how professing Christians are yoking themselves to false gospels in order to promote a movie that ultimately isn’t true. That’s the most dangerous thing about the movie. In fact, this is why I felt drawn to have to write this piece.
Angel Studios is Mormon, which every professing Christian should understand is a cult. Ballard himself is a Mormon who is high up in the ranks. He has used psychics for OUR operations. The “scripture” that moves Ballard the most, Alma 58:11. If you don’t recognize that, it’s not in the Bible. That’s the Book of Mormon. And he’s done videos for the Joseph Smith Foundation defending the use of Satanic imagery on Mormon buildings in Utah.
Caviezel also believes in false teachings. He believes Mary is a co-redeemer.
“Sound of Freedom” appears itself to be a fundraising scheme for the Mormon church. OUR has produced several videos to promote Mormonism.
In 2019, Ballard held a “whiteboard meeting” where he made attendees sign a non-disclosure agreement as he released his “masterplan,” according to American Crime Journal (ACJ). This photo is from that meeting:
The ACJ reported that “Ballard laid out a secret plan to both monetize and proselytize his child sex slave rescue nonprofit” and “to help grow The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints… financially and in membership. Underneath, Ballard’s goal was not only to make himself millions of dollars, but to raise his profile and popularity among the Mormon elite” as he sought the “coveted lifetime appointment on the LDS church’s highest governing body, the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles.”
What the plan appears to show is a money laundering scheme to funnel donor money from his several nonprofits to his for-profit business Slave Stealer’s, LLC.
Ballard was under control of several non-profits including OUR, the Nazarene Fund, Children Need Families, Liberty and Light Equity Trust, Mercury One and an orphanage in Haiti. The Nazarene Fund also appears to be a Mormon fundraising scheme and is also loose with the truth.
Ballard, who already had a $500,000 salary from OUR, charged between $50,000 and $100,000 for speaking fees. Now that he’s gone from OUR and the Nazarene Fund, he’s got a new venture called the Spear Fund.
It’s also interesting to note that Ballard has never appeared to say a word about the sexual abuse going on in his church. Caviezel is also rather silent on the Catholic church.
OUR hired an attorney that also represented the Mormon church to cover up sexual abuse. In fact, the allegations are that sexual abuse is ritualistic including satanic child sex abuse, some dating back to 1990.
As for the Catholic church, there’s been thousands and thousands of priests credibly accused of sexual abuse. And some studies suggest only 2% have been imprisoned.
Understanding the Real Problem
Shilhavy wrote for Vaccine Impact:
“As the movie ‘Sound of Freedom’ is shown to packed out movie theaters across the U.S. to millions of people sitting in air conditioned theaters eating their popcorn, shaking their heads at the “horror of child sex trafficking” that is portrayed in poor countries like Columbia, tens of thousands of young children are being sexually abused and trafficked right here in our own borders every day, begging for help, with their voices falling on deaf ears.
And it is all ‘legal,’ because it is being done under the color of law in our nation’s child welfare system.”
Shilhavy went on to detail the case of Clarence Garcia, a 66-year-old foster parent from New Mexico who was found guilty of abusing an 8-year-old female victim. His abuse goes back to at least 1999. He has to pay $485 million to the female victim. He got no jail time.
That story came out as “Sound of Freedom” was first hitting theaters. Did you hear about that story? How about the fact that JPMorgan Chase filing a notice of appeal to prevent all future lawsuits pertaining to Jeffrey Epstein? Shilhavy described it as “the biggest news story of the week regarding child sex trafficking, a story that actually names names,” but it “went largely unnoticed” as “Sound of Freedom” was stealing the air.
“The fictional account of “child trafficking” portrayed in the billionaire-funded Mormon film ‘Sound of Freedom’ that centers around a story of child trafficking in Columbia has probably done more to deflect attention away from the REAL child trafficking and child sex abuse that happens right here in the United States, than anything else in recent times.
The fact is that our country is run by pedophiles at the highest levels of government and business, as the current Jeffrey Epstein case with the Virgin Islands is so clearly demonstrating where the rich and powerful are NOT being brought to justice for funding and participating in the Epstein pedophilia empire.”
There is absolutely a problem with sex trafficking around the world. “Sound of Freedom” would have you believe the biggest issue is in other countries. It’s happening right here in America.
Shilhavy wrote that the “primary pipeline of trafficking children into the lucrative child sex trafficking business is through the U.S. Government, and funded by the taxpayers in the United States, through the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) and their child welfare programs such as Foster Care, Adoption, Child Protection Services, etc.…. America’s rich and famous are primarily pedophiles, and this includes business, politics, and religion.”
Ballard not only worked for the government, he proudly boasts about partnering with the government when he was at OUR. This is the same government pushing for mandatory facial scanning of children and DNA and biometric data collection of children. In contrast, Shilhavy pointed to a group called Veterans on Patrol (VOP), led by Lewis Arthur. The group does not partner with government. Shilhavy wrote:
“This group is NOT a militia, as they do not condone violence and are not armed. They first go to law enforcement in any community they start operations in, as well as the City Council if there is one, to expose the problems and inform the citizens of what is happening.
They inform law enforcement of what they are doing as a courtesy, and then recruit volunteers from the community, which in almost all cases will rally behind them and their work.”
VOP does not accept financial donations. It does accept material donations. Unlike Ballard who partners with government, Arthur has been targeted and arrested.
There’s been a concerted effort to suggest the “powers that be” wanted to suppress “Sound of Freedom.” Well, when you look at the media coverage, it was hyped up by both the “right” and “left” media. Sure, some of the “left” media focused on QAnon. But they were pushing it nonetheless.
“Many in the Alternative Media have taken that to mean that the ‘elites’ did everything they could to stop the message of this film from getting out.
But the fact that this is clearly not a low-budget film, and is already a huge box office success, seems to contradict this view. The rights to the film were originally owned by Fox, which were bought by Disney, and Disney allegedly decided not to release it.
Angel studios then negotiated to buy the rights to the film, and it is in all the major theaters today.
These types of delays are not all that uncommon in the film industry, and if the ‘elites’ truly did not want this film released, I can assure you that Disney probably would not have sold the rights to the film in the first place.
The fact that this is now in every major movie theater all across the U.S. clearly shows that the film industry is not censoring this film.
They clearly have the power to do so.”
Shilhavy went on to write about Bill Bowen who “died unexpectedly” in 2010 after releasing a trailer for a documentary, “Innocence Destroyed,” that was attempting to expose the corruption of Child Protection Services. Others trying to expose the government’s corruption, like Linda Collins-Smith, have been murdered.
For those wanting to be truly informed, Shilhavy has recommended a 2021 movie called “Eyes of the Devil” and a documentary released in June of this year called “Take Care of Maya.”
Our system is corrupt to the core. To believe that partnering with this system to combat trafficking and corruption defies logic. Other sources:
Conclusion
As I stated earlier, I hesitated to write something about this movie because, heck, if this movie increased awareness to the problems of human trafficking, that’s a good thing. I really don’t think it did as it was politicized. And it was politicized by both the “left” and “right.”
My issue isn’t with the movie itself. I saw it. There is nothing wrong with seeing it. My problem is with the deception that has led people to believe they are doing something to combat human trafficking by watching a movie and giving money to a questionable organization. That’s a con.
And my problem is with the idolatry that followed propping up someone who the majority of people never even heard of before this movie came out. They’re just told to believe his stories without any evidence or proof.
I’ve held off on writing this, but I’ve felt the need to write it as I’ve continued to research and investigate OUR and Ballard. I’m writing it now because I see a deep problem right now with so many deceivers and conmen out there and watching people fall for them.
“Sound of Freedom” is just illustrative of a larger problem. We need to be more discerning. We need to stop just going along with the crown. And we need to stop the emotionalism.