I noticed this headline below the other day and thought I would check today to see if there was confirmation.
This morning, the 'OUR' site had a reference on the home page which read something like: 'Tim Ballard, Founder of OUR..."
About 10 minutes later I went back to the site - that reference was gone.
Tim has apparently 'pulled away' from '
OUR' and '
Nazarene Fund' (both of which he founded).
He has now created/launched "
The Spear Fund".
So here is a less than favourable review of the situation, many sites are carrying the same story, but it offers some info that might help us comprehend what has happened / why.
By one account,
he’d gone to donors in a state of upset, saying that he’d been forced out and asking for their help with a new organization.
Another person who’s worked with the group said that to the best of their knowledge, he was no longer with OUR and was focusing on his work with the
Nazarene Fund, a
Glenn Beck-backed organization that has focused on religious minorities in the Middle East but has more recently
operated in Afghanistan and
Ukraine.
A third person familiar with OUR fundraising said that
they had heard just this week that Ballard had broken with the organization.
In a statement, an OUR spokesperson said,
“Founder, Tim Ballard has recently stepped away from Operation Underground Railroad prior to launch of the film, ‘Sound of Freedom.’” They added, “Matt Osborne continues to serve as the President and COO of the organization.” On LinkedIn, Osborne is listed as having served as the president and COO since February 2023, six months ago.
Ballard has made no mention of his departure from OUR as he began a one-man press tour focused on the film and the Jim Caviezel-played character based on him. In recent days, he’s been interviewed on Fox News, telling Jesse Watters that criticism of the film by mainstream media outlets was
playing into the hands of pedophiles, and
by the New York Post, where he said “enforcing the border” is “the only compassionate thing to do if you care about children.” (Ballard has long claimed that a porous southern border leads to sex trafficking of children, a view not shared by most experts in anti-trafficking work.)
On his program, Watters introduced
Ballard as the founder of the Spear Fund,
a new organization that has not previously been mentioned. A barebones website for the Spear Fund lists Ballard as a co-founder along with a woman named Jessica Munoz, whose LinkedIn says she is an emergency medicine nurse practitioner in Hawaii. Ballard’s biography on Instagram—the platform he’s most active on—describes him as OUR’s founder and the current CEO of the Nazarene Fund. Though the website has few additional details—a description reads only, “The SPEAR Fund relies on experts in the field of anti trafficking to consult on its many projects”—a donation page is already active.
Ballard—who was appointed by the Trump administration as co-chair of the Public-Private Partnership Advisory Council to End Human Trafficking, a group tasked with advising the federal government on anti-trafficking policy—has
long been a highly controversial figure. A
variety of
lurid stories he’s told about his and OUR’s improbably cinematic exploits have turned, on closer inspection, to not be accurate, and
the organization was the subject of a protracted criminal investigation examining, among other things, whether OUR operators engaged in sexual acts with human trafficking victims; whether OUR operations had created demand for trafficking victims; and whether OUR has committed human trafficking itself by enticing people who were not previously traffickers with large sums of money. That
investigation ultimately closed without charges being brought, but
did real damage to the organization’s image with donors, according to multiple sources who have spoken with VICE News over the past three years. OUR nonetheless raised tens of millions of dollars each year, based largely on Ballard’s image and reputation and that of the supposed “jump team” which OUR claimed went abroad to enact daring raids and rescues of trafficked women and children.
In recent years, Ballard has firmly established himself in the right-wing media ecosystem, and
Sound of Freedom has provided him a fresh opportunity to promote his brand as the leading authority on sex trafficking to new audiences. OUR referred further questions to a media contact for Ballard, who’s also listed as a spokesperson for Angel Studios, the force behind the distribution and marketing of
Sound of Freedom; that person did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
When I visit
thespearfund.org, there is literally
only a homepage with a 'donate' button. Zero information.
SPEAR appears to be an acronym for their principles/values.
Spiriuality
Peace
Education
Action
Redemption
I did notice this site:
libertyandlight.org referencing the Spear Fund - with more info describing their role:
The SPEAR Fund
An Innovative Approach to Ending Child Slavery
Children waiting to be rescued from hell deserve the absolute best effort possible when it comes to their liberation and restoration. They deserve the best intervention operations to extract them, the best high tech/digital solution to end their suffering, the best aftercare solutions to make them whole, and the best prevention efforts to help end the black markets waiting to envelope them.
To that end, the SPEAR fund consults a Task Force of Ambassadors, who have been leading anti-child trafficking efforts for decades. Though each and every Task Force member has their own anti-trafficking organization(s), they are humble and honest enough to admit that their respective organizations, while highly effective in their respective spaces, are not the end-all solution for every child or every emergency situation.
With over a hundred years of collective experience in the fight, Spear Fund Ambassadors identify problem spots across the globe and are able to immediately activate WHATEVER organization or group is BEST PREPARED to act swiftly and effectively in that urgent moment; and all this for the rescue and rehabilitation of suffering children.
After all, it’s not about us, it’s about THEM. Its about the children.
This is an innovative approach that bucks the back-biting and scarcity mentality that often plagues the non-profit world. And that allows us to truly be the TIP of the SPEAR.
Why would this info not appear on the Spear website?
Spear Fund Ambassadors identify problem spots across the globe
Hmmm let me think:
maybe like... Ukraine?
Of course! If we subscribe we get access to 'exclusive content'.
It is starting to feel like these children are 'for sale', making money for powerful people in the US, no matter what!
on this site also:
How are Donations used?
"Whether we are preparing for a live speaking event, movie showing, bus tour, aiding in a rescue or more; your donation makes it possible for us to continue helping and searching for more opportunities to serve!"
Not what I thought it might be : directly funding rescues, purchasing and distributing communication equipment, paying staff to liaise and connect and coordinate with other groups/agencies, translators, food/clothing/medical care for victims, transport etc.
After listening to
Amazing Polly give her 'take' on the "Sound of Freedom", it seems clear that there are some creepy old predictable 'elites' connected to the funding of 'Angel' Films... and some
strong Mormon connections at the core of 'OUR' and 'Nazarene Fund'.
Is it possible that Tim Ballard is basically a 'good person' with the best of intentions - who has been used for an agenda he is not fully aware of? He was invited and 'initiated' into his role, told he was chosen because of his FAITH / he was broken down + traumatised by viewing such horrors repeatedly over a long period / he decided to go 'independent' - but was 'guided' into this role (and basically pressured by his wife) where he worked in tandem with the US Government. It's not like he went 'rogue'; to my knowledge he has never claimed he did, which you would think would be a more normal response if the government was willing to abandon children in these situations. Is it possible somebody has been carefully crafting this path for him, planting people in his life to 'support' him and help him build these organisations? Is it a COINTELPRO situation that he may be 'unaware' of? Because if it is a dirty deal and he knows... WOW.
There is heavy emphasis and suggestion that 'God's hand' has guided this 'intervention' and creation of 'OUR'... and there has been huge reach into the Christian communities to ensure so much support financially through massive donations / promotion of the cause / the film. It certainly is looking like it is being promoted as a 'God Job'. Just depends on what 'God' is talking, I guess.
This is what Tim had to say in the last couple of days about SPEAR...
Above is not the full interview someone has ripped it from a paying membership only site so it's pretty blurry; personally I don't feel comfortable with what I am hearing and seeing from Tim in terms of his body language / tone of voice. Something feels false in terms of his energy. I also feel he is really '
selling' the drama: '
give us money and
we will return stories, we will introduce you to people who are rescuing kids... it's
exciting... (what the ??)
maybe we can end this thing.'
Yeah, maybe.
Tim seems a bit stressed in this interview, I have noticed this in more recent interviews. He is often very red faced and sweaty and very dominating energetically in some interviews, not so much like the persona he has portrayed earlier. In the above interview, there is a bit of a 'frenetic' edge to his energy.
I guess at the end of the day,
whatever is at the core of this agenda, if the intention behind this is to traumatise people/feed off powerful emotional responses, hoodwink people into microchipping their kids (as well as raise a huge amount of money!!) then it is no different to Covid jabs: either you are awake and paying attention, and you make conscious decisions from your own deeper soul intelligence, or you don't.
If nothing else, I see that at the very least, this film 'Sound of Freedom'
brings awareness to this issue, gets people talking about this subject, and will at least ensure more parents become more alert and attentive as parents / caregivers -
that is a good thing. I genuinely have faith that there are many wonderful 'Angels' doing all they can from an STO perspective to
genuinely help people who are terribly vulnerable in situations such as this. Whether those connected to OUR are genuine remains to be seen. There certainly seems to be some murky information that won't go away and I don't know if it is just emanating from Left wing organisations.
If the people connected to 'OUR' and similar organisations are not what they claim to be, that is a horrifying concept to consider, along with how many people have become 'spellbound' in the last few years, donating money/time/energy, caught up in this huge wave of 'good intentions' and how many more will likely be swept up in it given the promotion of this film.
May the truth be revealed sooner, rather than later.
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