Child sex trafficking exposé draws revealing media reaction

It’s the sleeper film no one saw coming. 

It’s the low-budget thriller that raked in $124 million in less than a month. 

And it’s the surprise blockbuster no one asked for but everyone needed. 

Because that’s the thing about Sound of Freedom — it is for everyone. Whether you typically enjoy Hollywood’s insufferable woke remakes, or you have a more discerning taste for entertainment, Sound of Freedom is a hit. Hardcore Trump supporters root for pedophile-busting agent Tim Ballard despite his history as a deep state operative, and even Leftists get to appreciate the concept of freedom for two hours (and the heroics of a straight, White male).

And it’s fantastic. Not only does it have a 99% audience score, but Rotten Tomatoes’ own woke critics — who rated the documentary “Fauci” a 92% when audiences rated it 2% — begrudgingly gave Sound of Freedom a 71% score.

It’s so good, even the pedophiles have seen it.

Or at least their advocates have, like Noah Berlatsky. Berlatsky was a spokesman for Prostasia, a pedophile advocacy group pushing to normalize “minor-attracted persons”. In 2017, Berlatsky tweeted: “Pedophiles are essentially a stigmatized group. Certain people get designated as deviants, people hate them.” Another time, he claimed parents are tyrants: “Parents are tyrants. ‘parent’ is an oppressive class, like rich people or white people.”

That’s the guy the media trotted out to review Sound of Freedom. In an article for Bloomberg that was then excitedly reprinted by the Washington Post, Berlatsky desperately tried to find something wrong with the film, like how child sex trafficking victims are most of the time teens, not young kids.

Ultimately, Berlatsky settled on connecting Sound of Freedom with QAnon, a Right-leaning movement that believes globalist elites are involved in child sex trafficking. (I’m not sure why that’s so far-fetched, given that elites Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell are accused of somehow trafficking kids to nobody.)

But Berlatsky is a globalist himself who believes governments are safe and effective. So, ignoring the fact that the film was made before QAnon even existed, he decided to rip Jim Caviezel, the actor who plays Tim Ballard in the film.

“The film is controversial because the man the movie is about, former Homeland Security operative Tim Ballard, and the actor who plays him, Jim Caviezel, both have links to QAnon,” he wrote.

That’s the gist of Berlatsky's entire takedown of the film in his article titled, “QAnon and ‘Sound of Freedom’ Both Rely on Tired Hollywood Tropes.” Which isn’t a bad review headline for a movie. It’s better than, “Hollywood thanks Chinese Communist Party for help with shooting ‘Mulan’”.

But Berlatsky isn't the only one suspiciously scrambling to discredit a film about saving children from trafficking rings. The Times of Israel, perhaps best described as Israel’s answer to Al Jazeera, ran an op-ed attacking the film for QAnon and antisemitism. 

To give some context, the Times of Israel is co-founded and chaired by Seth Klarman, a kind of mini George Soros. The Trump-hating billionaire has donated significant funds to organizations that promote same-sex marriage and, according to Wikipedia, groups “that protect journalists, fight against bigotry, and advocate for LGBT rights.”

In an article titled “Surprise blockbuster ‘Sound of Freedom’ echoes antisemitic QAnon conspiracies”, small-time freelance writer Shira Li Bartov used the same strategy as Berlatsky: Link an actor in the film to QAnon, rant about QAnon, and then voilà, the entire film is now discredited.

But Bartov failed as miserably as her pedophilia messianist colleague. To prove Sound of Freedom is antisemitic, she quoted Caviezel once saying the name “Rothschild” when discussing the wealth behind child sex trafficking.

“It’s like an octopus with arms, many many arms, but you got to go after the head of the octopus,” said Caviezel in an interview. “Who is it? The central banks, the [International Monetary Fund], the [European Central Bank], the Rothschild banks? We have a Rothschild pope.”

It is unclear why that statement would be antisemitic. There are indeed many Rothschild banks, and Rothschild was known to loan money to the Holy See as early as the 19th century. According to the Jewish Encyclopedia, the Rothschilds became known as "the guardians of the papal treasure". 

Furthermore, the Rothschilds are no longer the Jewish financiers they were hundreds of years ago. They now include other members of the elite, such as English nobility and even Hilton Hotels heiress Nicky Hilton. Nevertheless, according to Leftist law, criticizing someone who happens to be Jewish means you must hate them for being so. 

And so Bartov went for the kill. Because Caviezel mentioned Rothschild, and antisemitic tropes also mention Rothschild, and Caviezel is a member of QAnon, QAnon must be antisemitic which makes Caviezel antisemitic which makes the film antisemitic and nobody should watch it ever. 

She even brought a quote from a “QAnon expert” named, oddly enough, Rothschild:

These are conspiracy theories based on centuries of myths and hoaxes about the Rothschilds, which have been shared by some of the most prominent thinkers in the right-wing conspiracy world,” he said.

Bartov also cited the claim by some QAnon members — including Caviezel — that Satanic elites are raping and murdering children for the adrenochrome in their blood, a drug-like compound that was written about by authors such as Aldous Huxley and Anthony Burgess. Bartov graspingly connects this to the blood libels of the Middle Ages which accused Jews of drinking the blood of Christian children on Passover, though there is no record of any mention of adrenochrome in such accusations.

Nevertheless, Bartov falsely claims that these very allegations in Middle Age Europe were “adopted by QAnon”:

The myth that Jews use the blood of Christian children in rituals was used to justify the torture, imprisonment and murder of Jews for centuries, even taking a role in Nazi propaganda, before it was adopted by QAnon.

So to sum up: A cabal of Jew-hating Trump supporters stretching back to the Middle Ages are part of a conspiracy to save children from sex trafficking networks and they made a movie about it.

But if you haven’t yet seen the film, try to look past the terrifying Nazi conspiracists masquerading as actors and enjoy the superb show.

Because at the end of the day, who doesn’t like a good pedophile-busting story, right?

Right?