All Episodes
Previous Next
July 17, 2023 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams
47:05
Sound of Freedom executive producer Paul Hutchinson interviewed by Mike Adams...
| Copy link to current segment

Time Text
Welcome to today's interview on Brighttown.com.
I'm Mike Adams, the founder of Brighttown, the free speech video platform.
And speaking of free speech and platforms of communication through the visual medium, the movie that you are raving about right now, it's the number one movie in America, is called Sound of Freedom.
It's a movie that exposes the truth about what's happening with child sex trafficking.
Isn't it fascinating, by the way, that this movie is being attacked by so many liberal media institutions in our society today?
So, we have invited to join us here the executive producer of this film, Sound of Freedom.
His name is Paul Hutchinson.
And he himself has participated in dozens of rescue operations, saving children from child sex trafficking.
And he joins us here on the show to talk about the film and so much more.
We'll play the trailer here coming up shortly.
But welcome, Mr.
Hutchinson.
It's great to have you on.
It's an honor to have you on.
And congratulations on the tremendous success of your film.
Welcome to the show.
Thank you, Mike.
I appreciate you having me on.
Well, it's great to have you on, and you are, you know, we always talk about when are the white hats coming to save us, and I think you're one of the white hats, and it's up to us, right?
So you have done something amazing.
What does it feel like right now to have your film, which was rejected over and over again by various, I guess, distributors or studios, now as the number one film in America?
Well, super, super grateful.
And understand this, the only reason why this is the number one film in America is because of people like you.
It's a grassroots movement with good people standing up saying, you know what, I'm sick of the establishment deciding what I get to watch and what things Oh, wow.
It's amazing how Indiana Jones had a $300 million budget, and we had a $13.5 million budget, and we beat them out day one, day two, day three.
It's super exciting.
And even with...
I mean, there aren't even the same number of theaters running your film compared to Indiana Jones, correct?
Absolutely.
Every theater I've been to at this film, completely packed.
Completely packed.
And people don't just leave at the end.
They stay through the credits.
They stand up and clap.
And this isn't just the premier ones or the ones they know that me or others are at.
It is reported across the nation that their response to this is overwhelming.
And people are paying it forward.
They're buying extra tickets and they're sending their friends.
It's exciting to see the movement that's happening there.
That's what we envisioned eight years ago when we started this project.
We knew that this story and many others needed to be told.
And good people needed to know what was happening.
And our goal was to create a movement.
And that's exactly what's happening right now.
For the past several years, when people like myself or Alex Jones, for example, talked about child sex trafficking, we were all labeled conspiracy theorists.
It was said, this is not happening in America.
Oh my gosh, it's happening.
And you know firsthand, because you've been part of these rescue operations, can you tell us What is the reality of this?
And I know it's more than just happening in America, but just in America alone, aren't there hundreds of thousands of children each year that go missing?
Hundreds of thousands.
Hundreds of thousands here in America.
And here in America, we are the number one producer and the number one consumer worldwide of child pornography.
Oh my God.
And U.S. men are the number one consumer of things like Yes.
Yes.
Open border policy should not be a right or left issue.
This shouldn't be a political issue at all.
This is a trafficking issue.
There are tens of thousands, numbers that are ranging between 80,000, 100,000 plus undocumented minors that are being trafficked across the border right now.
And what's crazy, Mike, is that with the new systems in place, these kids can be pushed across the border by active traffickers, and they have a phone number in their hand.
This phone number supposedly we're hoping is going to be some nice family that's their sponsor to pick them up.
But there's no validation.
There's no background checks.
It could very easily be another trafficker on the other side of the picture here that has that.
They call this phone number and say, oh, great.
And now they're using your tax dollars, your tax dollars to fly that child to his new or her new trafficker here in America.
Wow.
No, this is the first time in history.
Go ahead.
Child recycling is a phrase that we've covered editorially as well.
Child recycling, how some illegals will...
So they kidnap a child and bring it with them in order to claim family status.
It's not even their own child.
So children are exploited and abused in so many different ways.
And we've also interviewed many times Michael Yan, who has documented the human trafficking through the Darien Gap in Panama and how it's coming to the United States and how the U.S. government is actually funding those camps, literally funding the human trafficking operations.
And there are so many children.
He's taken us on tours through those camps.
There are so many children there.
Sometimes they're with families, sometimes they're not.
And who knows what's happening to these children?
And again, the US government is actively encouraging this trafficking operation.
It's extraordinary.
Yeah.
Understand this, Mike.
I'm sure you already know this.
This is the fastest growing criminal enterprise in the world.
And good people don't know that it's happening.
There's more today.
And I'm not talking about just children being abused at home, which is a massive number.
And we need to talk about that as well.
I'm talking sold human beings.
There's more today than all 500 years of the transatlantic, 300 years of the transatlantic slave trade put together.
And it's now, it's not only the fastest growing It's the second most profitable.
It surpasses the illegal arms trade, and it will soon surpass the drug trade.
Because, as you can see in the movie, one of the lines that we had Jim Caviezel play, he said, you can sell a bag of cocaine once.
You can sell a child five to ten times a day for the next five to ten years.
There's the travesty right there.
It's unbelievable.
And what your film is accomplishing right now, I think, are at least two extraordinary things.
And perhaps this was your intent.
If so, it's genius.
But number one is, on the surface, it's just bringing awareness to the fact that this issue exists.
But the second thing that it's doing, which I think in many ways is more powerful, is it's causing the defenders of trafficking to come out of the woodwork and attack the film.
Exactly.
These guys are all lion-hitting.
They're like, oh yeah, nobody will know.
But they're coming full force out.
And you get to see, why in the world are you so against this?
Ask that question, right?
Why are you against this film?
And people say, oh, you know, these things didn't happen.
Yes, they did.
Yes, they did.
Yes, now we took eight different trafficking or rescue missions and took the different stories and put them all together because we couldn't really have one story and we needed to have a lot of different things in there.
But every single thing, the bad guys are really bad guys.
The good guys, we had to take Probably 20 plus different operators and took all of their roles together and combined them together into just a few characters.
But this stuff really happens.
And since that time, I have led or played a key part in over 70 undercover rescue missions in 15 countries.
I just came out Less than three, four months to go.
I had zero social media, nothing, because we knew that we needed more people to have this voice to validate the fact that we've been there.
And I've got multiple Navy SEALs Green Berets that have been on those missions that are now starting to come out as well, saying, you know what?
We've trained more people.
They're handling the undercover.
Let's tell the story.
Yeah, I'm really glad you brought that up, Paul, because I wanted to ask you about your background that led you to this film.
But you've been part of child rescue operations yourself over spanning many years, as I understand it.
Can you give us a little more detail?
Yes.
In the film, The Sound of Freedom, that...
That's a depiction.
I had a smaller role in that film because I had a smaller role in that rescue.
In the film, my part is Pablo.
I'm the real estate mogul who had some background and some training that was asked to come in not only to help fund that mission.
These traffickers that I was willing to fund their project.
So the quick backstory and how I got involved, I think, is super important.
So I got a phone call about 10 years ago from the Attorney General in Utah.
And he said, Paul, he said, I need to introduce you to somebody.
He's Homeland Security.
He's found 20 children in Cartagena.
They need some help to put together some financing to rescue these kids because Homeland Security won't do it.
Now, here's what made me mad and made him mad at that point.
That same month when he went in and asked his boss at Homeland Security, he said, listen, I found these 20-plus children in Cartagena, Colombia.
They didn't authorize that rescue mission because he couldn't prove that there was any Americans involved.
But in that same month, this is what I was told.
They authorized $50,000 to go to a fake Hewlett Packard's manufacturing facility investigation in China, right?
Wow.
You've got 20 children that need to be pulled out of hell, but you're going to focus on that.
And so he got frustrated.
He left his job.
He's like, okay, what do I do now?
How can I fix this?
He realized he needed to go private and pull in private money.
And so that's when I was brought into the picture.
And I I had some success in real estate and I was doing a lot of child-related charity type things.
I also had a lot of training that the Attorney General knew a little bit more about my background than most people in terms of a special set of skills from a previous life that makes me somewhat safe in a dangerous place.
And so he called me and he said, I helped to fund it and a few weeks later this Homeland Security agent who Jim Caviezel plays in the movie, he called me up and he said, Paul, I'm here in Cartagena.
There's not just 20 children here.
There's more than 50.
And there are more than 100 children in the surrounding areas.
We can rescue all of these children on the same day at the same time, but I need your help.
And I said, well, how much do you need?
He said, I need you.
can you be in Colombia in two days?
He said, I have to have somebody who can effectively negotiate a multimillion dollar real estate deal with the traffickers.
He said the head trafficker has a piece of property he wants to develop into a child brothel sex resort, kind of a Jeffrey Epstein Island.
Yeah.
He needed $8 million to put it together.
He believed he could make tens of millions of dollars a year.
On this trafficking island for kids that he would bring in rich Americans to do horrible things.
And he had connections with the other traffickers.
And what the goal was is I would fly in.
I would meet with these traffickers.
I would tell them, listen, I'm willing to fund your project under one condition.
We have a party in a couple of weeks.
I bring a bunch of my rich friends.
You bring all of your models, quote unquote.
And if I'm happy with what you control right now, I will fund the expansion of your operation.
I'll fund the build-out of this child brothel for kids.
So, of course, let me just clarify.
This is all undercover.
You're playing in real life.
This happened, but you're playing the role of this rich investor in order to catch these people.
Now, I'll tell you this, Mike.
In the last 10 years, I've been undercover, undercover.
Fake profile, fake Facebook page, everything else.
On that first mission, because we only had two days to put it together, I didn't go down as Paul Black or Paul Stone or Paul Steele.
I went down as Paul Hutchinson, right?
The Homeland Security agent and these other guys went down there with the traffickers and they said, listen, we've got the guy who will fund your project.
And they, boom, they put my picture and my background On the screen on the computer, and these guys are like, whoa, this guy.
And so I flew down and met with these guys as me.
And so I was, and my background was I had success in real estate background, a lot of it.
And so they were able to look me up online, and I went in there and sat down face-to-face.
This first meeting, this was crazy.
One of the darkest experiences of my life.
Now, there's been a bunch more since then, but up to that time, I was sitting face-to-face with these traffickers, and one of them was a female.
She was a beauty queen, and you'll see her in the movie.
She's one kind of the kingpin putting it together, but she was there sitting at this table with these traffickers.
And we tell them, listen, I'm willing to fund your project.
This is what we need.
We're going to do a party in a few weeks.
And one of the traffickers leans forward.
He was so excited I was willing to look at his project.
He leans forward and goes, Pablo, I have a gift for you.
I said, really?
What's your gift?
And he hands me his phone.
And there's a picture of an 11-year-old girl on his phone.
He said, this is Princess.
She's still a virgin.
We just took delivery of some.
And she's my gift for your party.
And he started talking about these horrific things I could do to that little girl.
Now, The thing that changed my life forever was not being asked to help fund that mission.
And it wasn't just the general being down there.
The thing that changed my life forever was at the rescue.
These guys had brought 54 children to Cartagena, multiple other locations, things at the same time.
Over 120 children were rescued that day.
But one of those 120 changed my life.
It was that little girl.
It was the one that in the movie, they call her Princess.
We actually named her Rocio.
And that little girl, in the movie, they put multiple other rescues in and said that she wasn't there at that party, and they went into the jungle.
That was an entirely different country, a whole other operation that some of me and some of the other operators were involved with.
But in the movie, or in real life, she was there.
And she was standing in front of me, this little 11-year-old.
These traffickers, she was so...
Scared.
She had tears that were coming down her makeup face.
She was shaking.
And I looked at her and she was looking at me like the man was going to defile her.
I thought, how in the world does this happen?
And I made a commitment at that moment sitting there to myself, to God, and to that little 11-year-old girl.
That I would do everything in my power to eradicate that from the face of the earth.
There was nothing more evil than I could think of.
And so since that time, I've dedicated, I've retired, focused full-time on charity work to eradicate this problem.
That is just absolutely extraordinary and horrifying and also important that that experience inspired your film that is now awakening so many people to the truth about this.
But I have a couple of practical questions.
I don't quite understand how this rescue was carried out.
Was this an extra military rescue or did it involve the U.S. State Department or how was this actually carried out?
Here's the background and details on it.
The agents we were working with, Tim and some others, went in and met with the U.S. Embassy, the Colombian federal agents, and the Colombian federal agents provided 70 officers.
We on all of these operations and I've led or played a key part in over 70 since that time.
But in every operation, we we don't work with the local cops because half the time they're they're on the payroll of the traffickers and whatnot.
But we work with with trusted individuals that are that are verified by our State Department saying, yeah, those are guys that we worked with before.
Those guys are good.
But before when when when some of these Homeland Security agents or FBI guys would go into other countries, say, hey, we want to go help with this trafficking problem.
They would kind of butt heads with the with the traffickers and they would they.
Not with the traffickers.
With the agencies that were there.
These other governments.
They would say, no, this is our problem.
We can work with it.
We don't need your help.
Now, as a private organization, as a 501c3, we can go in and say, listen, we can work under your laws.
We can work with you.
We will do all the work.
We will pay for everything.
And we will give you all the credit.
Your people will think that you're heroes.
All we ask is that the bad guys stay in jail for good.
They don't get around your system.
Number two, we have full access to the children and getting them rehabilitated and back to their families.
So the Colombian federal agents provided 40 agents for us.
So we fly in.
I've got a bunch of my rich friends, really their former Navy Seals Green Berets, that are pretending like they're rich friends so they can handle themselves and guys who know Krav Maga and whatnot.
And the federal agents provided...
40 agents for us.
Four of them were our maids, four of them were our waiters, four of them were our cooks.
You know, they're not very good cooks, but they're armed.
25 of them were there to storm the party at the right time.
And when these guys showed up with the children, we brought them in and put the children in a separate place in the house because they're already traumatized enough.
We didn't want them Seeing the guns and the money-changing hands, etc.
And then we're sitting there with the traffickers and we have undercover cameras that are capturing everything that we're saying so that the children never have to stand trial.
They never have to witness.
That's a dark conversation, Mike.
Having the traffickers say exactly why those children were there, where they got them from, Wow, so you have to engage in these conversations.
You have to pull this out of the traffickers for the cameras.
Wow.
Unbelievable.
But this entire time, now, I get it.
You say you can handle yourself.
I get it.
You and your team are all proficient in firearms handling and so on.
But your life is at risk at every moment in this operation.
I know...
100%.
And this was probably one of the safer ones that I've been on.
So you don't know if they're bringing, like, an Overwatch team...
You know, to keep an eye on things or whatever, right?
Yeah, we have a lot of safeguards in place.
Number one, The traffickers don't know the location of the party until the day of the party.
Okay.
They, they meet at a third, third party location.
So in this case, we, we did it on an Island and we told the traffickers to bring all the children and meet at the dock.
And we would be there with boats to pick them up.
So we controlled the boats, we controlled everything there.
And then we had our, our security guys, now these real Navy SEALs, Green Berets, former guys, they're all retired that are there and they're checking.
They're They're saying, look, we've got a bunch of rich friends there, no knives, no guns, no problem, right?
So they remove any weapons from the traffickers and even checking through the children's purses to make sure that there aren't weapons being smuggled in there.
And so the only guys with weapons are retired.
Federal agents that are there.
And so it creates a safer environment.
Now, where it gets really dangerous Was what I started doing after a year of doing undercover work.
I was recruited to not just play that role of the wealthy business owner who they were bringing in, the children that I was paying for the party.
And I did that a bunch of times.
But after about a year, I was asked to go deep cover.
And now, at that point, I'm 2 a.m.
downtown Port-au-Prince, Haiti, downtown Mexico City.
I'm connecting with these guys face to face.
In that situation, I don't we don't have guns.
We don't have knives because that would actually make it more dangerous for us to be in that conversation with them in that arena.
And so in that case, the guys that are with me there are usually super proficient at hand to hand combat training, not not guns and knives and whatnot.
But things like have you ever heard of Krav Maga?
I train in Krav Maga for years.
for your audience. - Yeah.
Wonderful, yeah.
For your audience, you know, most martial arts are battle your sensei three points when you kick them in the leg, but Krav Maga is brick to their head and go home to your family.
It's Israeli special forces hand-to-hand combat training.
It's the most lethal on earth.
And every move, they don't breathe, they don't see, they don't walk, whatever.
And some of our most effective deep cover agents are guys that are...
Triple, double black belts and stuff like that that are very, very effective.
And so I felt safe.
I've been training for years and years on that as well as one of the reasons why I was recruited.
But when you're in those situations, you've got your hands and your wits about you to find those kids.
And your elbows and knees.
And yeah, and there's a military form of Krav Maga that they don't really teach, like regular civilians.
And when I was training, I trained for years to the point where I was actually training cops in weapon takeaways, right?
So you know Krav specialized in weapon takeaways.
If bad guys put a gun to your head, no problem.
You can deal with that.
But we're all afraid of knives.
That's the truth.
Guns, we can deal with.
Knives, somebody's going to bleed, probably.
Exactly.
I can take away a gun faster than they can pull the trigger every time.
95% of all gun crimes happen within a three-foot radius.
You and I, we've been trained on that.
But yeah, knives is a whole different story.
We had one of our undercover operators got stabbed 27 times.
Whoa.
In an altercation.
Now, fortunately, he lived, but yeah, knives are a whole different story, for sure.
But it's important that our audience here understands that this movie is inspired by reality, right?
This wasn't just some fictional dramatization, but it's an expression of what you personally witnessed and saw, what you went through, your life on the line, the lives of children on the line, and the people helping you on the line.
There's unspoken heroes.
A lot of them ex-military, as you mentioned.
Special Forces, Navy SEALs.
Really good-hearted men, and some women as well, who are trying to save lives in this country.
And that's why it's disgusting to me that the media would attack this film instead of celebrating it.
But hey, guess what?
The final say is the audience going out and promoting the film.
Exactly.
And I will say this.
You touched on it in the beginning.
The one thing that I don't want people to leave when they leave the film is to think that I don't even know what you call it.
To think that we all have to have a physical form of a man being our savior in military form here, right?
We all need to take a part together.
There's not one or two or three people.
It's not me.
It's not Tim.
It was hundreds of good people coming together on these operations.
And moving forward, this grassroots movement has to be all of us waking up and saying, okay, what can I do?
What can I do in my own home, in my own backyard, with my own talents, my own skill sets?
A lot of people listening, they haven't had the training that you and I have had in Krav Maga and other things.
They don't have the resources that we have to be able to go out and write those big checks.
But what can they do?
What can they do?
What can we all do to fight this evil?
And you are brilliant in pointing out the fact that the one thing this movie is doing is it's shining a light not just on human trafficking, but the people that are coming out of the woodwork that are fighting against this, you have to ask yourself why. but the people that are coming out of the woodwork Why?
I mean, little things like, you know what?
We got turned down by people like Netflix, right?
Yeah, they put cuties on.
Really?
Cuties?
Unreal.
Have you seen that crap that's going on?
This is a mass form of brainwashing that's happening.
And we're sitting there saying, okay...
I'll let Hollywood decide what they want to brainwash me with.
Really?
Well, Hollywood is disgusting.
That's how we're going to live our life?
And I think more and more people are realizing this.
I mean, even Disney's movies are failing miserably for the very reasons we're talking about.
But, you know, what's interesting to me is, in fact, I want to ask you about Jim Caviezel here because he's a superstar of integrity in a Hollywood scene which is dominated by demons.
And there are others.
I mean, Mel Gibson came out and told people, go see this film.
Mel Gibson is a good person.
He is a good-hearted person.
I saw, I think, Mark Wahlberg recently talking about exposing what's happening in Hollywood, and I think he's setting up his own studio somewhere else.
But what are you seeing as far as, perhaps with Jim Caviezel or others, who are rejecting The child exploitation that Hollywood is increasingly known for.
What's the silver lining in that that you're witnessing?
Here's what I found.
I haven't been involved in some of the takedowns involving some of the Hollywood guys.
I will say this.
There's been hundreds of pedophiles that have been arrested here in the U.S., some pretty high-profile people because of some of the arrests that Our foundation and other foundations that I have helped to fund and start have been a part of.
You can see who have their dark agendas by the movies they play in, by how actively they're coming out against what we're doing right here.
And I'll say that...
You know, when Mel Gibson wanted to take the Passion of the Christ to the world and he couldn't get finance, he had to finance millions of dollars on his own, and he got ousted by Hollywood because of his decision to say, you know what, no, I'm going to bring this to the world.
And then, of course, that's how him and Jim Caviezel got super close, is in filming The Passion.
And what's super interesting about all of this is that That of all the studios that we went, all the distribution partners, everybody that we went to trying to figure out the best distribution partner, the only one that would take us was the one who put out the TV series The Chosen.
Wow.
Which is Angel Studios.
And if you haven't watched The Chosen, now, that's a beautiful, beautiful series about the life of Christ.
And it's very much not religious.
It's very much...
Tied into his true teachings in his heart and is beautifully done.
And they spread that message of truth and hope and light and love using this grassroots movement.
The problem that you and I have is the fact that we as a community have allowed darkness to control our social media, our Main Street media, our Hollywood, all of these things.
This has been an agenda for a long time.
And we've sat back thinking, well, you know, we'll just kind of let it's not that bad.
You know, it is.
They're polluting our children's minds.
They're polluting our minds.
They're pushing their agenda slowly but slowly into a place where Where instead of abhorring it, we're like, okay, maybe that's not so bad.
Really?
Ten years ago, what if you thought that's not so bad?
Paul, I don't know if you know this, but news just broke, I think, yesterday that Seattle public schools are going to now offer free genital mutilation services to children as young as 11 years old inside the school system.
So now you send your child to a government school, they may come home mutilated for life.
I mean, this is happening.
That's in Seattle, and it's going to spread.
What's so powerful about your film is exposing child sex trafficking, but there's also, of course, child...
Reproductive mutilations that don't even require an open border.
It's happening down the street at your local school.
Who the hell, pardon my language, but who the hell thought that children are their playthings?
That children are their projection of their virtue signaling?
That a child's body is their property to do with as they please?
I mean, f*** these a**holes.
I mean, sorry about my language, but...
How dare you?
How dare you perceive children as your property to do with what you want to do in your sick, perverted, twisted little mind?
I mean, these people are demons.
Yeah.
And here's the real problem, too.
For a long time, I was grappling with, where does this come from?
Where does this come from?
I realized, and one of the reasons why I've decided to stop doing Undercover and to go public is that At the end of last year, I had finished some undercover rescue missions.
I looked at the numbers and I realized that there are more children being sold now than there was 10 years ago when I first started doing undercover work.
And I thought, Paul, if your goal is to eradicate this from the face of the earth, you're not doing a very good job.
And I thought, okay, what needs to happen?
And I realized that every time we pull 20 children out of hell, yes, we made a powerful impact in the lives of those children.
But if not enough was being done to fix the demand side, then we left a vacuum and another 20 children being sucked into the recesses of hell.
So two things had to happen.
We started funding a lot of organizations that were arresting pedophiles and taking out that side of the demand.
But then I stepped back and I thought, where is that coming from?
Where is it coming from?
Yet it's coming from this sexualization in Hollywood and And this desensitizing of us to all of this crap.
And it's coming from generational trauma.
Generational.
We've got literally people listening to this program right now.
One out of every four women who's listening right now was a victim of sexual abuse as a child.
One out of four.
That's a billion people on this planet.
That's a lot bigger than the 10 million numbers of children that are being trafficked.
A billion, right?
For men, it's a little bit less.
Roughly 20% of all men at some time in their life have been a victim.
But even those, one-fourth of them, roughly 200 million men in the world, under the age of 10 years old.
And most of them in their own homes.
So you walk out on your front step and you look left and you look right.
One out of every four of those homes is likely a dangerous place for children.
And so you have to ask yourself, where is that coming?
Because somebody doesn't just grow up and at 40, 50 years old decide, hey, now I'm going to go down to Columbia and rape a child.
No, chances are that person was already creating havoc in his or her own home or their own neighborhood.
And so the best things that people can do is not just write a check to go funnel Navy SEALs down to go rescue these kids.
It's we've got to start in our own homes.
You've got to look around and realize that statistically there's Probably somebody in your family or somebody in your neighborhood that is dangerous to be around your children.
And so, learn how to feel and recognize that.
I have a book coming out in a few months.
It's called, Are You Listening with My Hand on My Heart?
Not with my hand on my ear, but Are You Listening with My Hand on My Heart?
Because every single operation that I did undercover, I wasn't being led by logic and protocol.
I was listening.
And I feel the divine direction.
I don't care if somebody listening thinks that God is a mountain or a river or a man or a woman or what you refer to.
There is no God in the universe that's okay with an eight-year-old being sold for those things.
So it was easy for me to feel led on that, but every one of us has the ability to feel and recognize that spirit of truth, and when you do so, you can lead your family to a place of safety, and you can help people heal before they ever prosper.
Pass that trauma on to somebody else.
And that's really the key to the riddle, is if we can help people heal before they get to a place later in their life where all of that pain of their own childhood trauma starts bubbling up.
And realize that two out of every three people who dealt with childhood abuse become their good husbands, their good fathers, they're able to work through their issues, and God bless them, they never, ever, ever pass that trauma on to a child.
But one out of every three people Gosh.
That's a horrifying statistic.
Yeah.
It's huge.
It's huge.
On the demand side of things, it's also horrifying that there is so, and that's what you're speaking to, there's so much demand for children, trafficked children and so on.
But I want to mention the organization here, liberatechildren.org.
And is that your organization?
Is that one that you work with or help fund or what is that exactly?
Yeah.
So I'm the founder of the Child Liberation Foundation.
So liberatechildren.org.
and And for a long time, that was just a 501c3 that I put my own money in and used that when operations needed to be taken care of, etc., because I was completely private.
I was just running operations undercover.
I worked with a lot of different 501c3s in the beginning.
There was one that I worked with for about five years that I ran undercover with that the Homeland Security agent had started.
He and I have both left that foundation, and he and I separated about five years ago.
We had some fundamental disagreements on where the money should go and what needed to happen with the children.
But there's a lot of good, good, good foundations out there.
So the Child Liberation Foundation identifies groups that are doing the work, and they help fund direct operations.
They don't put that money into 501c3s where they have big salaries with people that are, you know, driving nice cars.
No, that money is going directly to the rescue, rehabilitation, and reuniting of children with their families.
It also has some other initiatives on the healing side.
They have this Liberating Wings program where they, you know, the wings like, like, Angel wings, but they're talking about physical extension wings on the safe houses of the children, specifically designed for healing.
You can get some more information on there.
On that website, you can learn not only how to donate $5, $10, $20 a month or whatever, but you can also get the tools that you need to help your family and direct you to keep your kids safe, etc.
So there's a lot of things that we can do together to fight this problem.
Well, let me ask you Since this movie is also doing very well in the theaters, again, it's the number one movie in America, so I suppose at some point that translates into obviously some revenues from the studio.
What are you going to be doing with that money?
I committed day one when I invested in the film that the money coming from that film will go to fight this problem.
In multiple ways, I'm not only the founder of the Child Liberation Foundation, but Liberate Humanity as well.
In fact, my Instagram, Facebook, everything else is all liberating.humanity because that's really what we have to do.
And so that's focused on building some healing retreats, putting together programs to help adults deal with and shed their own childhood trauma.
So that we don't end up having these traffickers in the future and the demand in the future.
People ask me a lot, Mike, and this will piss a couple people off, but that's okay.
People ask me, Paul, how can you go face-to-face so many times with people selling children and not have them see the anger in your eyes?
Yeah, that's a really good question.
And my answer surprises them.
It said, because I got to the point where I actually felt some compassion for them.
Well, how can you feel compassion for them?
You know, they're selling you a child.
No, I will do everything in my power to ensure they never hurt or touch another child again.
But the thing I wish more than anything is that I had a time machine and I could go back a year or five years or ten years before they ever, ever traumatized a child like that.
There's no justification for what happened there.
However, if we could go back 10 years and help those people recover before they ever pass that trauma on, we would have saved millions of children from going through that.
So, of course, we don't have a time machine, but what we do have Is the knowledge that there is hundreds of millions of people on earth right now who have dealt with massive amounts of childhood trauma themselves that eventually will pass that trauma on if they don't get the help that they need.
Let me ask you on that point, Paul.
I mean, perhaps you need to educate me about this, but is it really such a direct correlation that someone, like a young male who was sexually abused as a child, that that's...
I think you said one out of three is eventually going to translate into that person abusing another child.
Is that really the number one cause of child sex trafficking and pedophilia?
Is trauma?
For a long time, I pointed the finger at...
Any time that we take a woman from a divine feminine to an object, then you start going down a dark road.
Now, pretty much everybody listening to this and watching this has seen pornography.
Just because you've seen pornography doesn't mean you're going to become a pedophile.
But every single one of these guys started out with a hardcore addiction.
Something harder.
What happened is they had this addiction.
Like a hardcore drug, they needed something harder to have that same fix, right?
And for some of them, harder was rape videos and more grotesque.
Other people, it was a little bit younger, a little bit younger.
Pretty soon, they're fantasizing about something they wouldn't have even thought was attractive five years ago.
And then they're acting out on these horrific fantasies.
And so I was pointing the finger at that.
I was like, okay, how do we fix that?
We got to take away porn.
It's a cultural thing across the board, not only pornography and making that so that it's okay and easily accessible to everybody, but what we're seeing in Hollywood, what we're seeing with things like cuties, crap like that that's coming out that's desensitizing us, but even that.
We have to go back and say, where is all of this coming from and how does somebody get to that point?
So, you're right, it's not just childhood trauma, but that is one thing that we can do to help fix it.
We can push back on this agenda, this radical agenda that's desensitizing us and our children in the media, but we can also provide tools allowing people to shed that.
Now, understand that just because somebody's dealt with that does not mean that they're prone to that, right?
Literally two-thirds of them are able to work through that, and they use it as a motivation to say, you know what, I'm going to do everything in my power to ensure that never happens to another child.
But either way, it's this negative energy that is being perpetrated generationally.
And yes, these are all battles that we can fight together, all of them.
But all of them need to be brought forward.
Seeing the movie, being in the darkest recess, listening to me will wake people up and say, okay, I see there is a problem here.
How do we fix it?
And there's a lot of ways we can fix it.
We can push back on this agenda that's polluting our minds.
We can hug our kids.
We can keep them safe.
I can go through hours of how to keep your kids safe.
But we can also help those people before they ever pass their trauma on to somebody else.
Wow.
Very, very, very powerful.
And I'm so thankful that you found the courage to do this.
You said it was an eight-year project.
You had to raise millions of dollars.
I know the film was rejected by multiple studios, and yet you've made it through, and you now have the number one movie in America.
You have shed light on an issue that the establishment is trying to cover up forever.
And because of your film, I think, they've failed.
And you've changed the conversation from here forward.
That's really something.
Well, thank you.
It wasn't us.
This was divine intervention every step of the way because this message needs to be heard and this trajectory of our nation needs to be changed.
And good people need to wake up and stand up.
And say, you know what?
Not on my watch.
What can I do to fix this?
Well said.
All right, Paul, we're going to wrap this up for today.
You are always welcome back here.
We'd love to have more updates from you, especially about your upcoming book as well.
The movie, of course, is Sound of Freedom.
Angel Studios is the distributor.
This movie is currently playing in movie theaters across the country.
And I don't know what your other distribution plans are, but I'm sure people will be able to find it because it's a very successful...
It's a very popular movie, and theaters want to carry popular movies for a change.
So check it out.
Sound of Freedom.
There's also a Pay It Forward system where you can buy tickets for other people to see the film if they can't afford it.
And I saw even Dana White of the USC. I think he bought tickets for all of his staffers and competitors in that organization to go out and see the film.
And you can do that too if you own a company or have an organization.
Thank you for your time.
Thank you, Mike.
Super grateful for you, for your listeners, for your good hearts and wanting to stand up and make a positive impact in the world.
So thank you.
Thank you.
Absolutely.
We do the same that you do in a different area.
We try to protect children from being injected with experimental substances, for example, things like that.
Children are so exposed to so many assaults in society today, some by the government itself, not just perverts and groomers and so on.
But anyway, we'll leave it there for today and we'll revisit this.
Hopefully again with you, Paul, in the future.
But congratulations on the film.
And I'm glad that you're safe.
And now your cover's blown, though.
You can't go undercover anymore.
Here you are.
So somebody else will, of course, take the baton and carry it forward.
But thank all of you for watching today.
I'm Mike Adams here of Brighton.com.
Feel free to repost this interview.
Please do.
And just give credit to the Sound of Freedom movie and encourage others to go out and see the film and tweet about it, post about it on social media.
Get the word out there.
Thank you for watching today.
God bless you all.
God bless America.
Take care.
A global reset is coming.
And that's why I've recorded a new nine-hour audiobook.
It's called The Global Reset Survival Guide.
You can download it for free by subscribing to the naturalnews.com email newsletter, which is also free.
I'll describe how the monetary system fails.
I also cover emergency medicine and first aid and what to buy to help you avoid infections.
So download this guide.
It's free.
▲
Export Selection