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About a week ago I was invited to participate in a teleconference with Tim Ballard, a former special agent of the Department of Homeland Security, where he served on the [Internet] Crimes Against Children (ICAC) Task Force [Program]. Tim left government service to found Operation Underground Railroad—a nonprofit organization for combatting the trafficking of minors for sexual slavery and organ harvesting.
Tim’s adventures are the subject of the gripping feature film, “Sound of Freedom,” starring Jim Caviezel, which was released in cinemas nationwide on the Fourth of July and was the top-grossing film of the weekend, in spite of a coordinated attack by robotic imbeciles who call themselves journalists.
Tim’s fluency in Spanish and his contacts in Latin America have proven especially useful in conducting operations against sex trafficking of minors in countries such as Columbia. However, he believes that the United States is one of the world’s top territories in which child trafficking is occurring.
Judging by this FBI [Federal Bureau of Investigation] webpage about this uniquely depraved category of crime, it appears that the FBI agrees with Tim’s assessment.
It’s very strange to me how little this abomination is being talked about. During our conference, Tim mentioned that the Abolition Movement began with increasing awareness such as that spurred by Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel, “Uncle Tom.” Tim quoted President Lincoln, who told Ms. Stowe during a White House visit in 1862, “So you’re the little woman who wrote the book that started this great war.”
However, as I pointed out in the conference, the Abolition Movement was extremely vocal in Great Britain and the northern United States during the first sixty years of the 19th Century. Everyone knew about the sermons that were delivered every Sunday in church congregations in Boston and Brooklyn, and every seapower in the world knew about the British [Royal] Navy’s West Africa Squadron that was formed in 1808 to end the transatlantic slave trade. Parliament abolished the international slave trade in 1807 and the institution of slavery in British colonies in 1834.
According to the U.S. Department of State’s webpage titled About Human Trafficking:
“The International Labour Organization (ILO) and the Walk Free Foundation, in partnership with the International Organization for Migration (IOM), released Global Estimates of Modern Slavery in September 2022. This report estimates that, at any given time in 2021, approximately 27.6 million people were in forced labor. Of these, ‘17.3 million are exploited in the private sector, 6.3 million in forced commercial sexual exploitation, and 3.9 million in forced labour imposed by state.’ The definition of forced labor used in this report is based on ILO Forced Labour Convention, 1930 (No. 29), which states in Article 2.1 that forced labor is ‘all work or service which is exacted from any person under the menace of any penalty and for which the said person has not offered himself voluntarily.’”
To be sure, 6.3 million in forced commercial sexual exploitation is just an estimate. However, even if the true number is a sixth of that, we are still talking about one million sex slaves. Why so little talk about this crime in the mainstream media?
Why, given the FBI and Department of State acknowledgements of this crime, did reviewers such as Charles Bramesco at The Guardian or Miles Klee at Rolling Stone, both write snarky reviews of “Sound of Freedom,” characterizing the film as an artifact of QAnon conspiracy theory? Are they simply brainwashed morons, or are they also afflicted with a dreadful moral blindspot?
Readers of our Substack may find my dialogue with Tim Ballard, Sen. Ron Johnson, and other notable public figures to be of interest.
Click HERE for the full conference.
Also, check out the “Sound of Freedom” trailer and do a web search for your local showtimes.
Reposted from John Leake’s Substack
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