08-04-2023, 07:15 PM
(08-04-2023, 03:08 PM)pally Wrote: Sound of Freedom a movie produced by QAnon followers to push their child trafficking/pedophilia conspiracy theories has been a top viewing choice among conservatives. As always, they accuse people of things they are guilty of
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/sound-freedom-funder-fabian-marta-165000513.html
Alejandro Monteverde’s Sound of Freedom has generated two things in excess: cash (its domestic box office haul since its July 3 release has topped $155 million) and controversy. One month out, it persists. In the time since the movie was released, news broke that the fantastical movie’s real-life subject, Tim Ballard, left his anti-trafficking organization Operation Underground Railroad “after an internal investigation into claims made against him by multiple employees—something which OUR does not dispute,” according to a Vice report. Details of his departure have yet to leak.
The latest thing to make you go hmmmm involving this movie and the people who helped bring it to the public is the recent arrest of Fabian Marta, who bragged about helping fund the movie after Disney shelved it. According to the Missouri Courts website, Marta was charged July 21 with child kidnapping, a felony. According to Newsweek, which published his mugshot, Marta was arrested on July 23. “A person commits the offense of child kidnapping if he or she is not a relative of the child within the third degree and, knowing he or she has no right to do so, removes a child under the age of fourteen without consent of the child’s parents or guardian, or confines such child for a substantial period of time without such consent,” is how Marta’s charge is defined on the Missouri Revisor of Statutes.
Honest question here. Does not the organization portrayed in this movie keep records of all the children they've rescued? Is being anti-child trafficking now a polarizing political point? Does the movie make a point to target the left as being in the child trafficking business? If the movie is bringing awareness to an horrible issue like this is the fact that a single funder is accused of such a crime an indictment of the movie's message? As someone who deals with child trafficking on a regular basis in the course of my job I absolutely welcome more attention being brought to the problem, because it is extensive and it is absolutely underreported.
