The Ravens Nest

And Why Hate Culture Fails

The Sound of Freedom is already over $100 Million Dollars on a $14 Million Dollar Budget and that was without much in the way of marketing, a good portion of the budget going to only one poster for the movie and against all odds that The Hollywood Machine, The Corporate News Media and toxic “movie fans” placed against it.

Still, the question that the picture above poses is a good one. Why does Mainstream Corporate Media (which I think is more applicable) hate this movie so much?

I did compose a Twitter Thread about it but I’ll go ahead and post my singular opinion here.

Before I do, let me start by saying, as I have on Twitter, Countercast with Leon Idol, on my own live stream this morning and many other times, I have not seen this movie. Right now, I don’t think I can. I have serious issues with the mere suggestion that a child has been irreparably harmed or just harmed in general. It’s why I chose a career stint in corrections at one point over being a cop. I just couldn’t bring myself to bring a child predator in, because I’d probably do much worse to the predator in question and then start going down the rabbit hole finding those associated with him until my name would be remembered for actions that may leave others incontinent at the whisper of my initials. That being said, I do applaud Tim Ballard and his team for doing something I would not be able to do myself and I think making this movie to raise awareness of the issue is a great thing and that will always have my support.

Now, let’s get to that question. Why does Corporate Mainstream Media hate this movie so much?

Let’s start with something that’s pretty obvious. President Donald Trump. During his presidency, he signed two Executive Orders to combat human trafficking. These were EO 13903 and EO 13773 and there was an executive order filed in which President Trump expressly stated that he wanted the assets of Human Traffickers blocked. Accounts would be frozen, property seized, and traffickers would be cut off from all access to anything of value that they had. Granted, I can’t find the number to the last executive order. Even 13773 took a little doing to find but, I did manage to find them. In any case, President Trump during his term was very outspoken against human trafficking being a “modern-day form of slavery.”

It’s no secret that there are those that irrationally hate Trump but to do so with respect to these particular executive orders is somewhat telling. Don’t worry, there is more.

Over time, those of us who didn’t vote with the radicals that saw themselves as “in command” of all of the rest of us “graced” by their presence and in utter awe of their “intellectualism” found ourselves on the receiving end of vitriol, hatred and unmitigated verbal and physical abuse based largely on hysteria. For awhile, it worked. They had social media companies, they had jobs where they could essentially do nothing and we all had to watch our digital mouths which hardly if ever actually worked before we were silenced by force by being de-platformed and having our lives ruined. When that started to fail, you began to see more and more extremism dominate the conversation. Constant purity testing of so-called “allies” was the next thing and constant calls to “get those Trumptards” were coming out of the walls.

But, fail it has, to the point where now, these radicals have ditched the masks of pretense. Their virtue-signal is broken and lays in ruin. Their entire narrative is now more transparent than a raincoat in Blade Runner. What to do now? Well, the only thing they can do; side with the most reprehensible monsters in human form, child predators.

If you’ve ever heard them screech at you about “nuance” well then allow me to provide some here today. There’s really only so much that can be conveyed over Twitter but here, I can include so much more. I promise, I’ll keep it brief.

Now, to these people, even harming a child can be considered virtuous. It’s true. Look at how they’ve minimized the terms “pedophile” and “child predator” with “minor-attracted person.” Through the use of language, these people have rationalized sexualizing their own children to the point of transitioning them before they know what exactly is going on with their own bodies, mentalities, etc. This behavior is taught to them by their own parents and, with their minds being so young and impressionable, they don’t question it. How could Mom and Dad be wrong? How could a doctor be wrong, right? I still remember at one point these were the very people, rightfully so, opposed to female genital mutilation in other countries but apparently, child genital mutilation here in the U.S. is perfectly acceptable. So how is this “owning the Nazis?”

Here’s the thing, Generation X types like myself never gave a shit about someone being gay, straight, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered, etc. We spent the entirety of the late 80s and 90s laughing at all the repressive bullshit as it passed away. We gave it no power in the least. We didn’t hate it, we laughed at how ridiculous it seemed, and it was. When the issue of gay marriage came up, my own argument was that marriage wasn’t an institution of The Church but that of The State. In any issues of The State, the law needs to be applied evenly. By banning it, you’re sending a message and that message is due to my own sexuality, I am somehow special in that the law applies only to my sexuality. It’s true. Due to my special nature, I am subject to a law that grants me the privilege of paying for a marriage license, paying through the nose for a divorce in a system that is heavily skewed against men in the matters of marriage and that any other sexuality is not subject to the same laws. Our laws are written to apply to everyone and due to the separation of Church and State, a choice needs to be made. If discrimination is the norm, then let’s make marriage a function of the Church. Then Churches can do as they please. They can choose to marry two people or not, no matter what the religion may be. If it’s a function of the State, then, in accordance with the law, it must apply evenly. Simple fact. No hyperbole. No nonsense.

At the time the cries of people wanting to engage in bestiality or even pedophilia would be next seemed ridiculous. No one in their right minds would ever make such requests. Right?

The people in Hollywood, Corporate Media and the Hysteria Machine are not in their right-minds. De-stigmatizing mental illness gave way to celebrating and even encouraging it. Now, in a completely mad world, language has been introduced and insisted upon to mitigate their own villainy.

You see, to us, a child is innocent and we want to do what we can to protect children. These people want to do everything they can to destroy that innocence so that their predatory natures come to the forefront unmitigated. Remember what I said about young and impressionable minds? Yes, still applies. It’s the reason a 10-year-old can’t purchase a copy of GTA V at a game store without their parent’s permission, get a tattoo before the age of 18, have a drink, a cigarette, a vape or buy CBD or THC products until they’re 21, get into an NC-17 or even an Rated R movie. It’s amazing the things that we do have protections against, however, there is actually a fight raging right now to put books with graphic depictions of sodomy, oral sex, or sex in general into the hands of Kindergarteners. Nothing about the latter is reasonable in any way, shape or form. Even the so-called “banned” books are easily challenged because they’re not actually banned in the least. Anyone of any age can walk into a Barnes & Noble, go to an online book retailer or even a library and read Anne Frank: Diary of A Young Girl, To Kill A Mockingbird (I actually read this one during my freshman year of high school) or any other book on the market. The argument is, again, rightfully so, that the nature of the books should be age-appropriate.

This past March, I met my pre-teen niece for the first time. I gave her her first ever tabletop Role-Playing Game, Basic Fantasy RPG, a set of dice and a thumb drive full of PDF files and I let her know that she could use any of those books to run a game for her friends or I could run them for her online. Yes, there were books I wouldn’t dream of giving her. Lamentations of The Flame Princess, Cha’alt, The Wretchedverse, and Actual Fucking Monsters to name a few, simply aren’t age-appropriate for her. That being said, when she does reach the age of 18, I would have no problem letting her see these books and decide whether or not they’re something she’d be interested in playing with her friends.

Getting back to the subject at hand, the narrative has fallen apart to the point where the screams of “-ist” and “-phobe” at the most reasonable of arguments has failed. They had to know they were on borrowed time and they had no contingency plan for when it eventually would. These people knew that there’s only one thing we love more than anything and it’s our own children.

Why? Because the answer is simple. Look how many of them can’t or won’t reproduce on their own, how many of them will destroy their own children’s lives to the point where they won’t be able to reproduce later on in life. That means that, without reproduction, their own ideas won’t survive. There’s no actual legacy to carry on so, that means indoctrinating your own. Not via movies, music, comic books, games or any other media but in the schools. Those people know that no parent in their right mind would ever tolerate that. It’s the one place they could go to provoke massive fights and they knew you would fight, again, rightfully so.

They knew we find the child predator, the pedophile, those who would victimize an innocent child for their own sexual gratification reprehensible, deplorable and deem them what they are; actual fucking monsters wearing the skin of a human being.

These people want nothing more than you brought to heel for the mere act of disagreeing with them at best and the daring to oppose them at worst and with the “everything is political” crowd, everyone is also expendable. To these people, their sexuality is the only thing in their world. All else is simply window-dressing and they’re demanding that you do without it.

What we are dealing with in our society, our fragile construct called civilization, which is becoming more and more fragile by the day, is a group of escalating fetishists who want to wave their flag in your face and, to them, you are to do nothing at all about it but take their abuse and accept your powerlessness. Believe one thing, if it means having your children taken from you to make that happen, that is exactly what they propose to do and it’s not a joke in the least. This is also not hyperbole. If your child has it on their mind that they’re no longer feeling like a boy or a girl and they “want to transition” via a medically-licensed butcher, oops, sorry, “gender affirming care” (see? there’s that minimizing language again) then the state will step in and force you to sit by and watch or your child will be taken away as their indoctrination has taken root and you are not allowed in any way, shape or form to protest. Even if the judiciary sides with you, it may already be too late.

Also, take into consideration the laundry list of abuses of Child Protective Services whom has zero authority to enter your home (parents, now is the time to know your rights under the law and assert them as aggressively as possible) that have occurred throughout decades. Now, this very apparatus will be weaponized against you as a parent and who knows where your child will end up? Certainly not with a relative but there is the potential of them ending up in a foster home of questionable repute …at best.

These are the people and tools that the Hollywood Machine and Corporate Media have sided with because now, they’re so invested that this is a must-win for them. They cannot and will not entertain the possibilities (probabilities?) that they’re wrong and they’re siding with losers in this scenario.

If you need an example straight out of both literature and Hollywood (the last great thing they did,) imagine Smeagol from Lord of The Rings. He got his hands on the ring after murdering his best friend for it, he used it for nefarious purposes and his use corrupted him, ate at him and chipped away at him until he was an unrecognizable version of himself; a shell of his former self. That’s what these types have become.

While The Sound of Freedom focuses on international child trafficking for unthinkable reasons, as Caviezel puts it, “too ugly for polite conversation,” it has turned the lights on, showing us those right here at home who may ally themselves with these types of predators. Remember, for a pedophile to get their hands on child pornography, they’d have to actively search for and find it which means someone would have to produce it and since they’re a criminal enterprise attempting to protect other criminal enterprises of the absolute, most horrid variety, it’s not hard to understand why these people are throwing their hatred, vitriol and conspiracy theories toward that movie in an effort to discredit it.

It’s also no coincidence that people like Mark Ruffalo, who’s spent his time as an established Hollywood type involved in the Marvel Cinematic Universe is now advocating for SAG-AFTRA Actors to suddenly “go indie” as a means of breaking the corporate model that’s made him and others obscenely wealthy. The Sound of Freedom is an independent film that has absolutely dominated the summer movies and, while it isn’t hard, given the lackluster same old, same old and the mentality is the equivalent of a How Dare You being thrown at audiences. The Sound of Freedom puts a very real, very tangible problem right out there in the open and brings awareness to it and that’s something I can appreciate. It didn’t kick Hollywood while it was down, in fact, Hollywood has been self-inflicting those wounds for quite awhile now but the movie does highlight predators and what’s being done about them but this time, we’re not talking about the Yautja.

Thanks to all of you who read this and, if you’ve seen the movie, feel free to comment with your own thoughts on the movie as well as what, if anything the theater showing the movie might have done whether that’s a sudden outage in the air conditioning, the leaving the house lights on, etc. Yeah, there is documented evidence of even that happening.

One more thing, on an unrelated note, three more days as of the time of this writing to go and back the Wasted Lands Kickstarter. Just hit the button below and check it out. You’ll be getting two games in the form of Wasted Lands and Night Shift both of which are cross compatible with each other. Check it out and, just remember. I love you all, take care of yourselves and each other, always do what lights you up and, as always, shine on.