Bloomberg hit-piece targeting anti-child-trafficking film 'Sound of Freedom' was penned by LGBT activist who opposed stigmatizing pedophiles



The author of Bloomberg's Saturday smear of the massively successful anti-child-trafficking film "Sound of Freedom" was penned by a radical LGBT activist who has argued in favor of destigmatizing pedophilia.

Noah Berlatsky's apparent eagerness to brand the film's popularity as "ominous" has prompted others online to both consider his possible motivations and review his past writ on the subject of pedophilia.

The critique

In his July 15 Bloomberg article, entitled "QAnon and 'Sound of Freedom' Both Rely on Tired Hollywood Tropes," which has since been republished by the Washington Post, Berlatsky suggested that the film "has been embraced by the far right and Christians" in part because the "far right is motivated by myths of corrupted innocence and corruption avenged."

Berlatsky rehashed claims advanced in a similar hit-piece by a senior writer at Rolling Stone, intimating that the film's presentation of trafficking is "misleading."

As if to reassure, Berlatsky claimed that the majority of children sexually trafficked are actually between the ages of 15 and 17, adding that "in 41% of the cases, a family member was involved. Behind those numbers are often stories of addiction, disowned LGBTQ+ people and trading sex on the street to survive."

"That's why experts worry that Sound of Freedom's stranger danger narrative, and the way it centers on victims who are as innocent and as sympathetic as possible, may make it more difficult to organize help for less perfect victims when they are targeted by those close to them," he continued.

Just as the depiction of victims as innocent or sympathetic are allegedly problematic, so too are the Hollywood depictions of good and bad — where the "bad guys are unremittingly evil, and the good guys are sensitive and unfailingly virtuous."

"Is Sound of Freedom a QAnon dog whistle, or is it just another thriller? The answer is that — whatever the filmmaker's intentions — it functions as both," wrote Berlatsky. "These narratives do little to help victims. But they can create coalitions of feeling, disgust and righteous rage that connect conservative conspiracy theorists with the mainstream. That's why Trump's screening it. And that's why its popularity is ominous."

The critic

Noah Berlatsky of the "Everything Is Horrible" Substack is a prolific writer of LGBT agitprop and leftist screeds, often finding "fascism" lurking behind opinions he doesn't like.

TheBlaze previously reported that Berlatsky made a fuss earlier this year about his "queer family" after his wife came out as "bisexual and nonbinary" and his son determined that he was a lesbian transgender.

In addition to writing "Wonder Woman: Bondage and Feminism," advocating for pandemic school shutdowns, and smearing then-student Nick Sandmann in 2019, Berlatsky has written a number of articles for the Protasia Foundation.

The Protasia Foundation touts itself as a "child protection organization" that allegedly seeks novel ways of curbing child sexual abuse, while admittedly working with pedophiles. It also differentiates on its website between "pedophile" and "minor-attracted person," claiming that "not everyone who experiences attractions to minors is a pedophile."

The organization's values include "sex positivity" and "kink awareness."

In a Dec. 13, 2021, article for Protasia, Berlatsky argued that "treating pedophiles as monsters who are chiefly responsible for abuse actually makes it more difficult to recognize and combat [child sexual abuse]."

"Stigmatizing pedophiles or MAPs makes it harder for pedophiles to seek help, which puts children at risk. And it distracts our attention from the most prevalent forms of child abuse and child sexual abuse, which also puts children at risk," wrote Berlatsky. "As long as we are focused on stigmatizing pedophiles, we will fail to sufficiently recognize and condemn the actions which harm children."

In an April 4, 2021, article, Berlatsky compares the historic curtailment of women's voting rights to prohibitions now on children's ability to do certain things, claiming, "If we refuse to let young people advocate for themselves, or refuse to grant them bodily autonomy, it is not because there is something wrong with their decision-making capacity. It’s because there is something wrong with ours."

Writing for the blog LiberalCurrents in 2021, Berlatsky denounced the "tyranny of parents" and suggested ways the state can help "liberate children" from parental care.

In a July 2021 interview, he discussed one feminist's exposure to pornography at the age of eight and characterized it as a "positive experience."

Andy Ngô, senior editor at the Post Millennial, noted that in 2017, Berlatsky wrote, "Pedophiles are essentially a stigmatized group. Certain people get designated as deviants, people hate them."

"Sound of Freedom," the popularity of which Berlatsky characterized as "ominous," has demonstrated that Americans still don't mind the "stigmatization" of pedophiles. After all, the film has sold over 7 million tickets, exceeding 300% of Angel Studios' stated goal. It has a 100% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes with well over 10,000 verified ratings.

Sound of Freedom | Theatrical Trailer for July 4 | Angel Studiosyoutu.be

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Anti-child-trafficker whose story is told in 'Sound of Freedom' explains that the trans agenda and Biden administration's border policies benefit pedophiles



Tim Ballard is the former Department of Homeland Security agent whose dogged pursuit of child traffickers across the globe is the subject of the massively successful new film "Sound of Freedom." In a recent interview, Ballard accounted for some of the reasons the radical left might appear so desperate to attack and denigrate the movie: It illustrates the consequences of the left's thinking and policies.

Ballard, joined by Jim Caviezel who plays him in the film, explained to the Daily Signal that wittingly or not, transgender activists and the Biden administration are both dressing the sacrificial altar whereon children may be victimized as a consequence of the policies they pursue.

When elaborating on a mission to save children in Ukraine from sex traffickers after the country's invasion by Russia, Ballard noted that his team locked into "this pedophile ring. Now, it's a frightening ring because it's a political party that was out of Holland. ... They were trying to legalize sex with children. They thought that a 3-year-old could consent to sex."

Ballard was referencing the pro-pedophile Dutch Party for Neighborly Love, Freedom, and Diversity in the Netherlands — a group he indicated has made explicit the woke left's social agenda in its platform.

Ballard said that some members of PNVD fled Holland after law enforcement finally came down on them, but were ultimately arrested in Ecuador.

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In advance of the Dutch politicians' arrest, Ballard noted that he had to "study their literature. This was a political platform. This was a political party. And what I started recognizing is, I named them the ... 'pedophile network doctrines.'"

According to Ballard, the so-called pedophile network doctrines — not strictly specific to the PNVD — are:

"Now, what am I seeing here?" said Ballard. "My stomach is getting sick as I'm reading this. I read this every day. It's the woke left agenda."

The child liberator clarified that he wasn't alleging that trans activists and the PNVD or other such pedophiles were "colluding or talking," but that "it doesn't matter. It's the same dark source. ... Pedophiles are sitting back right now, going, 'We've been pushing this agenda for decades and now we don't have to push any more because the left are taking care of it for us in America.' In America!"

For instance, Democrats in Washington state recently passed a law that reportedly enables individuals or youth/homeless shelters to avoid informing a child's parents or law enforcement of their whereabouts if a child is seeking — without parental consent — a sex change, a tracheal shave, a mastectomy, breast implants, an abortion, puberty blockers, or "assisted reproduction" services.

In another instance where the left has ostensibly advanced the cause of those "sitting back right now," California state Sen. Scott Wiener, who claimed that "the word groomer is categorically an anti-LGBTQ hate word," successfully pushed a law enabling judges to keep men who prey on grade-schoolers 10 years their junior, between the ages of 14 and 17, off sex-offender registries.

Ballard stressed that both transgender activists and pedophiles argue that children can consent to destructive and sexualizing acts.

This mentality, granted legitimacy by policy decisions and laws that enable children to "consent to having their bodies filled with a chemical that will destroy their reproductive system" and "ripping apart their genitalia," will lead to "what the pedophiles have been asking for for," said Ballard. "If you can consent to that, guess what: What's more fluid than gender? Age."

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Extra to the left's pursuit of greater social deregulation, Ballard suggested that its support for open borders has similarly fed the "economy of pedophilia."

The Daily Signal highlighted how, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, over 150,000 unaccompanied minors were encountered crossing the U.S.-Mexico border last fiscal year and over 91,000 have been intercepted crossing the border so far this fiscal year.

"Thousands of them ... are under 5 years old," said Ballard. "Why is a 3-year-old showing up at the border? ... Well, I can tell you why, because they show up with a name — the name of the sponsor that they're given by the trafficker."

"[The Department of Health and Human Services] gets the kids and they by law have to call the number. 'Hi, we have Jose Gonzalez, Mr. George Smith.' 'Yeah, yeah, that's my kid, whatever.' 'Okay,'" said Ballard, dramatizing a hypothetical conversation between a prospective predator and an unwitting facilitator at the HHS.

"They used to actually fly down and have to pick the kid up. Not any more. Our taxpayer dollars will then send the kid by plane or bus to this George, the sponsor; no background check, no DNA, nothing. And they deliver the kids. Our taxpayer dollars are literally — for the first time in American history — our taxpayer dollars are going to facilitate the last leg of a child-trafficking event," said Ballard.

"$14 million a day are landing in the pocket of smugglers and traffickers, thanks to the Biden-Harris border policy," continued Ballard. "The only compassionate policy is border enforcement — barriers, walls. Why? And the 'Sound of Freedom' talks about this. Because the walls and the barriers lead the children who are being hurt into that funnel of rescue. Trained women and men in uniform are there. Those kids want to go through the port of entry. ... Those kids pray for a wall. The wall will save their lives."

The child liberator noted that the Biden administration tore "it all down."

TheBlaze previously reported that leftist publications like Rolling Stone and the Guardian have desperately attacked "Sound of Freedom."

Rolling Stone ran a hit piece entitled, "'Sound of Freedom' Is a Superhero Movie for Dads With Brainworms," with the sub-headline, "The QAnon-tinged thriller about child-trafficking is designed to appeal to the conscience of a conspiracy-addled boomer."

Miles Klee, the Los Angeles-based culture writer responsible for the Rolling Stone article, accused the movie of "fomenting moral panic for years over this grossly exaggerated 'epidemic' of child sex-trafficking, much of it funneling people into conspiracist rabbit holes and QAnon communities."

Despite previously reporting on some of the trends detailed in the film, the Guardian referred to the film as "the QAnon-adjacent thriller seducing America."

Variety reported Sunday that the film had generated roughly $40 million after six days of release, ranking third on domestic box office charts despite playing at far fewer theaters than "Insidious" and "Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny," which occupy the top two spots.

Transgender Movement and Biden Border Policy Aid and Abet Child Sex Slavery, Tim Ballard Warnsyoutu.be

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