The Pizzagate scandal, the "Sound of Freedom" movie, and the moral sewer both expose

 

I'm sure many readers remember the infamous Pizzagate scandal of the mid-two-thousand-teens.  It's been discussed, debunked and derided by the mainstream media for years, but there's a heck of a lot of smoke behind it that indicates there's got to be a fire somewhere.

IM1776 has published a "deep dive" into the Pizzagate scandal that's disturbing in the extreme in many ways - so much so that I'm going to warn you not to read it unless you have a strong stomach, and are prepared to confront some aspects of modern political-urban culture that are deeply distressing to any moral person.  Here's a teaser excerpt, with the nastier bits deliberately left out.

For those who do not remember, Pizzagate started with some emails from a Democratic Party operative named John Podesta. Podesta had been a fixture in Washington D.C. for five decades, working for numerous Democratic politicians and committees through the 1970s and ’80s. In 1988 he and his brother Tony started the Podesta Group, which quickly grew into arguably the most powerful Democrat lobbying firm in America. Podesta had met Bill Clinton in 1970, when they both worked for Senator Joseph Duffey; then when Clinton became President, he tapped Podesta to serve in his administration, eventually promoting him to his Chief of Staff in 1998. In 2003, he started the Center for American Progress, one of the Democratic Party’s most important private propaganda outfits. John Podesta is one of those people – there is a whole class of them affiliated with both parties – who never runs for office or heads a government agency, but always seems to be around and in the mix in Washington D.C. When Hillary Clinton needed a loyal old hand to manage her 2016 Presidential campaign, Podesta was the obvious choice.

As the election came down to the wire in Fall 2016, WikiLeaks released an archive of emails that had been lifted from John Podesta’s personal account. The release of the Podesta emails, and, a few months earlier, the email archive of the Democratic National Committee, by WikiLeaks marked the first time the news organization had involved itself directly in a U.S. political race. The Podesta emails fell into the waiting hands of citizen investigators who had already spent the summer working together on thousands of message boards, Discord servers, and chat rooms to comb through the DNC email trove. Before long, they began to find emails to or from Podesta that did not seem to make much sense at face value, including one asking for $60,000 worth of hotdogs to be purchased for a party in honor of Barack Obama. Good hotdogs can be had even at retail prices for under a dollar apiece, so $60,000 seemed to be an excessive amount. Perhaps, thought the researchers, “hotdogs” is a code phrase for something else.

Investigators soon turned up other emails, many of them involving food, and indeed, within the collection of tens of thousands of emails there were a handful that looked pretty bad when the decoder ring was applied to them. Researchers paid special attention to any emails that mentioned pizza, which, according to some, had long been used as a code word by pedophiles and traffickers in child pornography. For example, in one email, someone had written to Podesta to alert him that they’d found a handkerchief with a hand-drawn map “that looks pizza related.” Lacking a better explanation for why someone would draw a pizza-related map on a handkerchief, the sleuths determined that the email was describing something nefarious to do with children.

People trawled through the Podesta emails looking for any mention of “pizza,” and came across several references to a D.C. restaurant called Comet Ping Pong Pizza, and its owner, James Alefantis. Alefantis was a Democratic donor, and the former gay lover of David Brock, founder of Media Matters. Somehow, despite being merely a pizza peddler, Alefantis was listed by GQ Magazine as one of the 50 Most Powerful People in Washington. People wanted to know more about James Alefantis and soon located his Instagram account. For his Instagram avatar, he had used a picture of an old Roman statue of Antinous, boy-lover of the Emperor Hadrian. His Instagram feed included a picture of a child taped to a table, (who Alefantis will later claim was his godchild) and many other images and comments that looked strange, to say the least, without additional context.

There's much more at the link.

The account of perversion, predation and just plain pornography that emerges is truly sickening to anybody with traditional moral and ethical standards.  I found it profoundly offensive.  However, most of what's described is not illegal per se, but merely the fruit of a society that has abandoned "traditional" morality and embraced the "If it feels good, do it!" school of ethics, taking it to its logical, extremely perverted conclusion.

Evil does, indeed, walk among us.  Sometimes it's cloaked in less offensive garments, hiding itself behind an urbane shield of "free choice" or "modern culture" or "freedom of speech".  At other times, it reveals itself in the life choices, tastes, and methods of expression of the individuals who are caught up in its toils.  It seems to me that what was revealed through the Pizzagate scandal is abundant evidence of this.

If you can stomach it, I recommend taking the time to read IM1776's lengthy, detailed article in full.  It's food for thought - and, I suggest, prayer.  These are the "power brokers" who govern behind the scenes in Washington D.C., the "hidden persuaders" and "éminences grise" who pull the strings of our puppet politicians and use their knowledge of their faults and failings to keep them in line.

It appears to me there was more truth in the Pizzagate scandal - at least from a moral and ethical standpoint - than any public figure was then, or is now, willing to admit.  Will we ever know the truth?  I doubt it.  There are too many people of power doing their utmost to cover it up, just as they covered up the truth of what Jeffery Epstein was and did.  Even so, what has emerged is more than enough smoke to suggest very strongly that there was a fire somewhere . . . perhaps a lot more than just one fire, and not small ones, either.

If you're looking for additional (albeit very indirect) evidence of that, consider the avalanche of negative reviews and politically correct complaints about the new movie concerning child trafficking, "Sound of Freedom".  You'll find an interesting discussion about that in this article.  I find it telling that one of the nastiest attacks on the movie was penned by, in the words of a second article, "a pedo-defending freelancer who used to work for an organization working to normalize pedophilia".  That piece concludes:

The organized hostility against The Sound of Freedom isn't simply the tactic of the mainstream taking aim at a low-budget independent studio film that challenges Hollywood productions pining to be this summer's blockbuster. Instead, the criticism serves as a vehicle for advocates of the normalization of pedophilia to undermine any attempt to expose the cruel realities of the agenda they are promoting.

It sure seems that way to me.  Brandon Smith feels likewise.

The campaign against the movie is far too coordinated and far too expansive (global). It is as if these people are interconnected and they all agreed together to try to subvert the film, or they were all ORDERED to subvert the film.

This kind of behavior suggests a personal stake in creating conditions for failure; it makes it seem like these journalists want to sabotage the movie because of its premise and message. Why would someone want to sabotage a movie which exposes child trafficking and pedophiles? Could it be that we need to check the hard drives of some of these establishment media writers and producers?

I think it’s important to note that such people have been criminally prosecuted for child sex abuse in the past. For example, long time CNN producer John Griffin was recently arrested and convicted of child rape, using online apps to connect with mothers willing to sell their children to him for thousands of dollars so he could abuse them at his Vermont vacation home.

Last year the FBI raided the home of renowned ABC News producer James Gordon Meek and arrested him on charges of transporting child pornography. Rolling Stone Magazine was later accused of trying to cover up the reason for the arrest with selective editing and omission. Rolling Stone is now one of the main outlets attacking Sound Of Freedom.

Maybe the movie makes these journalists angry because it exposes one of their favorite hobbies?

Again, more at the link, and well worth reading.

Is there a potential correlation between this onslaught against a movie about child trafficking and abuse, and the history of the Pizzagate affair and the reaction to it?

You be the judge.

Peter