{"id":1969958,"date":"2023-07-11T17:00:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-11T21:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/real-life-inspiration-for-sound-of-freedom-unleashes-on-sick-critics-theres-some-other-agenda\/"},"modified":"2023-07-11T17:00:56","modified_gmt":"2023-07-11T21:00:56","slug":"real-life-inspiration-for-sound-of-freedom-unleashes-on-sick-critics-theres-some-other-agenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/real-life-inspiration-for-sound-of-freedom-unleashes-on-sick-critics-theres-some-other-agenda\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Real-Life Inspiration for &#8216;Sound of Freedom&#8217; Hits Back at &#8216;Sick&#8217; Critics: &#8216;Hidden Motives at Play&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Freal-life-inspiration-for-sound-of-freedom-unleashes-on-sick-critics-theres-some-other-agenda%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1969958&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Real-Life Inspiration for &#8216;Sound of Freedom&#8217; Unleashes on &#8216;Sick&#8217; Critics: &#8216;There&#8217;s Some Other Agenda&#8217;<\/h2>\n<p>It just doesn\u2019t make any sense.<\/p>\n<p>Before the release of the independent thriller <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/sound-freedom-creates-compelling-call-action-confront-child-sex-trafficking\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cSound of Freedom\u201d<\/a>, it seemed that everyone \u2014 from Republicans to Democrats to Flat-Earthers to moral relativists to hardened criminals \u2014 was able to agree that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republicans-call-double-standard-on-greenes-committee-removals-point-to-omar-remarks\/\" title=\"Republicans Call Double Standard on Greene\u2019s Committee Removals, Point to Omar Remarks\">child sex trafficking<\/a> was an objectively bad thing.<\/p>\n<p>And yet, since that movie\u2019s release, it appears that there is a growing contingency of voices largely dismissing the horrors of trafficking.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tim Ballard<\/strong>, the founder of the anti-child sex trafficking group <strong>Operation Underground Railroad<\/strong> and the man whom the movie is based on, blasted this growing rhetoric during a Sunday appearance on \u201cFox &#038; Friends.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWhere is the QAnon doctrine being spewed in the film, [or] in the script?\u201d Ballard said. \u201cI have no idea, because this is what it actually looks like. This is what happened, I was there.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Those QAnon accusations were perhaps loudest in a largely condemned Rolling Stone <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/rolling-stone-meltdown-sound-freedom-film-continues-destroy-expectations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201creview\u201d<\/a> of the film that seemed far more interested in raging about conservatives and people opposed to child sex trafficking than things like framing, cinematography, pacing, and plot.<\/p>\n<p>This is a good example of what the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/tv-movies\/tv-movie-reviews\/sound-of-freedom-jim-caviezel-child-trafficking-qanon-movie-1234783837\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">movie review<\/a> was like: \u201cBallard, Caviezel, and others of their ilk had primed the public to accept \u2018Sound of Freedom\u2019 as a documentary rather than delusion by fomenting moral panic for years over this grossly exaggerated \u2018epidemic\u2019 of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rolling-stone-has-meltdown-over-sound-of-freedom-film-continues-to-destroy-expectations\/\" title=\"Rolling Stone loses it over 'Sound of Freedom', film exceeds all expectations.\">child sex-trafficking<\/a>, much of it funneling people into conspiracist rabbit holes and QAnon communities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn short, I was at the movies with people who were there to see their worst fears confirmed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The review\u2019s author (who has his own <a href=\"https:\/\/melmagazine.com\/en-us\/story\/is-bart-simpson-queer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">peculiar history<\/a> with sexual thoughts pertaining to fictional minors) specifically called out some of the more unhinged examples of QAnon conspiracies like \u201charvesting children\u2019s organs\u201d and \u201cextracting the chemical compound adrenochrome from their brains.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Note, this is the Rolling Stone author injecting his own wildest paranoia about conspiracy theorists into the movie \u2014 there\u2019s nothing about any of that in the movie.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cWhy would you want to lie to push an agenda whose goal is to have children be in captivity,\u201d Ballard said. \u201cIt\u2019s kind of sick.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Actually, Ballard is wrong in one specific regard. It\u2019s not \u201ckind of sick.\u201d It\u2019s aggressively, disgustingly \u201csick.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI think of the children that are really depicted in that film,\u201d Ballard said, responding to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/real-life-inspiration-for-sound-of-freedom-unleashes-on-sick-critics-theres-some-other-agenda\/\" title=\"'Real-Life Inspiration for 'Sound of Freedom' Hits Back at 'Sick' Critics: 'Hidden Motives at Play'\">critics dismissing child sex trafficking<\/a> as some sort of right-wing boogeyman. \u201cI know what happened to them. Those children were the subjects of child rape videos. Those children were being sold for sex.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Ballard added: \u201cThese are real kids. I see them. I\u2019m still friends with them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So the left is running cover fire for pedophiles and child sex traffickers \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/mainstream-filth-nbc-contributor-becomes-spokesman-murky-organization-attempts-normalize-pedophilic-thoughts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">what else is new<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>But why?<\/p>\n<p>After Ballard said that \u201c[i]t\u2019s embarrassing and frankly grotesque,\u201d that these critiques existed, \u201cFox &#038; Friends\u201d co-host Brian Kilmeade echoed that same confusion.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s so bizarre,\u201d Kilmeade said. \u201cIt\u2019s like they\u2019re pro-sex-trafficking, like [they\u2019re saying] \u2018Leave the industry alone.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s how it feels to me,\u201d Ballard said. \u201cIt feels like there\u2019s some other agenda, because why do this?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Well, with regards to the Rolling Stone review, there may be an explanation if you dig into the author just a tad.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI keep wondering about Bart Simpson\u2019s sexual identity,\u201d the very same author <a href=\"https:\/\/melmagazine.com\/en-us\/story\/is-bart-simpson-queer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote<\/a> six years ago, referring to, yes, a fictitious 10-year-old boy.<\/p>\n<p>If that\u2019s the kind of stuff you\u2019re curious about, then yes, child sex trafficking probably seems as normal as Sunday brunch.<\/p>\n<p>But if you\u2019re not curious about Bart Simpson\u2019s sexual identity (or the sexual identity of any minor, for that matter), then go watch \u201cSound of Freedom.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>People who think about cartoon children\u2019s sexuality don\u2019t want you to see it. That\u2019s as good a reason as any to go support it.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/real-life-inspiration-sound-freedom-unleashes-sick-critics-agenda\/\">Real-Life Inspiration for &#8216;Sound of Freedom&#8217; Unleashes on &#8216;Sick&#8217; Critics: &#8216;There&#8217;s Some Other Agenda&#8217;<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The Western Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>that the issue of child sex trafficking has become a subject of controversy. Despite the initial consensus among various groups, the release of &#8220;Sound of Freedom&#8221; has seemingly sparked a shift in opinions. This sudden change is perplexing and raises questions about the underlying reasons behind this newfound disagreement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2015,"featured_media":1969959,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[548],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1969958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1969958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2015"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1969958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1969958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1969959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1969958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1969958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1969958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}