Operation Underground Railroad's Carefully Crafted Public Image Is Falling Apart

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This story from @annamerlan & @timmarchman... Jesus. Incredible reporting.

Operation Underground Railroad’s Carefully Crafted Public Image Is Falling Apart
Federal investigators, a staff exodus, and a disastrous appearance at a conspiracy conference have the anti-trafficking charity facing unprecedented pressure.
vice.com
7:41 AM · Jun 10, 2021

https://www.vice.com/en/article/qj8j3v/operation-underground-railroad-criminal-investigation-human-trafficking-tim-ballard-jim-caviezel-qanon

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“You said adrenochrome?” host Clay Clark, an Oklahoma personality who bills himself as a “growth consultant” and business guru, asked a moment later. “We need to discuss that.”

“Essentially, you have adrenaline in your body ... and when you are scared, you produce adrenaline,” Caviezel explained. “If a child knows he’s going to die, his body will secrete this adrenaline. And they have a lot of terms that they use that he takes me through, but it’s the worst horror I’ve seen. It’s screaming alone. Even if I never, ever, ever saw it, it’s beyond. And these people that do it, there will be no mercy for them.” The audience applauded, solemnly.

Caviezel, whose agents and managers did not reply to several requests for comment, had just promoted one of the more extreme and lurid conspiracy theories out there, and one central to the cosmology of QAnon—the utterly false idea that a cabal of elites is torturing and killing children to obtain a fictionalized biological substance—and he’d done it in the same breath that he promoted OUR. (Adrenochrome is a real chemical compound, but the idea that it can only be harvested from terrified torture victims was purely the stuff of horror movies before Q came along. For QAnon believers, however, it has a much larger significance. The concept that evil elites are harvesting the substance from murdered children is a central facet of their belief system; they believe those elites take the substance to maintain their youthful appearances or life force.)

All of this was awkward at best for OUR, which has spent the better part of a year insisting that it “does not condone conspiracy theories and is not affiliated with any conspiracy theory groups, like QAnon, in any way, shape, or form,” as it says on its website. Caviezel’s comments generated a minor tsunami of headlines linking him, the film, Ballard, and the organization to a poisonous conspiracy theory and a stunningly fringe conference, the highlight of which was Lin Wood, who claimed in November that associating him with QAnon is a "smear," making the shape of a Q in the air for an adoring crowd. (Wood has more recently claimed to be confused about QAnon even is, writing on Telegram on June 2: “I have been repeatedly attacked for being a ‘Qanon conspiracy theorist. Why? I can do research to educate myself on Q. I can do research to educate myself on Anons. My question is: What is QAnon???”)

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[dawg day]

1. I find it disgusting they are using the title

of a heroic effort to help people get their freedom.

And it's really an effort to confuse and trap people.

[Generic Other]

2. Whatever chemical imbalance the Qs have

Is what needs to be cured. Not sure what courses through their veins.

[llashram]

3. sick, sick people

disgustingly stupid and ignorant amerikkkans. They would also like to see a return of this type of racial separation. At the time of this 'kiss, LESS than 20% of amerikans wanted an interracial couple married or together and GOD FORBID!!! they have children. These GD magrats want to return to these days of old and hate...
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/tv-s-first-interracial-kiss-launched-a-lifelong-career-in-activism?utm_source=pocket-newtab
Their 'fuhrer' has set them up well for another violent fall from relevance. And fall they shall, hopefully, sooner rather than later.

[The Magistrate]

4. I Enjoyed 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas' Very Much, Ma'am

But it would seem Mr. Thompsen has a lot to answer for. His mention of this stuff, and how it is supposedly extracted, completely fictional, and dropped into an extended drug orgy as an off-hand tale, seems to be the original source....

[Layzeebeaver]

5. WTAF? Did these numbskulls steal the plot from Monsters Inc.???

seriously?