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I've often found that the slur "controlled opposition" is a lazy way of discounting someone's far from perfect take on an issue if it doesn't exactly align with one's view, rather than go to the effort of studying what they say and constructing an opposing argument. Humans are not perfect and motives are many- it's a luxury to nit pick the views of someone prepared to stick their head up above the parapet, from the safety of doing nothing in an armchair. I sometimes think we're doing the opposition's work for them by undermining our fellow commentators. If and when the dreaded battle lines are drawn, we can't be bitching about degree of commitment or sacrifice of our fellow fighters.

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Yes, it's a trap to expect that someone's opinion align perfectly with your own or elst they must be slithey toads. We have to be ready to let our opinions evolve as we learn the larger picture--and many I've seen who cry "C.O." are still stuck, say, believing that viruses don't exist.

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That may well be true.

The fact that some boys "cry wolf" however, does not cause wolves to cease to exist, nor does it detract from the necessaity of guarding against them.

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I have a friend who took several vaccines. She knows I didn’t and I have continued to talk about the evidence that those vaccines do harm. The other day I mentioned I had learned a new thing (the danish study about differing batches and differing outcomes). She actually covered her ears and said “I don’t want to hear about vaccines anymore!”

Hard to present evidence to those types.

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I can’t let go of the vaccines either. First of all I keep hearing about more disturbing evidence of harm every week! It’s diabolical! But my husband says we are good now and I tell him I’m NEVER going to trust doctors or pharma or gov agencies ever again! My trust has been shattered. Look at the current jerk in the White House! 80 million votes! Crackhead son and cocaine in the White House! What a joke!

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Controlled opposition has always been a real concern, especially when we know that the intelligence agencies have a long history of using this technique to divide and control genuine grassroot movements. One just has to look into CoIntelPro and the black panthers.

While I agree that evidence is needed to determine whether or not an individual is actually controlled opposition, I would like to point out the obvious that the type of evidence you are looking for is usually not possible. For example, is Robert Malone controlled opposition? Probably, but what evidence do you need to validate this? Is it enough that he literally comes from the deep state big pharma apparatus or that he's suing the Breggins and Dr. Jane Ruby $25 million dollars for "defamation"? His actions reveal to many of us that he has a different agenda.

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The accusations of "controlled opposition"within the medical freedom movement are so disheartening and disorienting that the accusations themselves are at least as likely to be the work of controlled opposition as are the subjects of the accusations.

The insistence on requiring credible evidence when considering such claims is as obvious as it is salutary. Even Jesus was accused of being controlled opposition to the Devil when he was found to be casting out demons. His common sense reply was the same call to the consideration of evidence. "A house divided against itself cannot stand."

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You are correct on point one.

On point two - credible evidence is a reasonable request. Peter's insistence on authenticated documents and reliable witnesses is not. I don't think your scriptural interpretation is solid here either. What we are dealing with is false prophets, and Jesus described exactly how to handle this very issue in Matthew 7:15-20

15 “Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves. 16 You will know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes from thornbushes or figs from thistles? 17 Even so, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. 18 A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit. 19 Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. 20 Therefore by their fruits you will know them.

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Hi, thanks for your comment. I'm not sure what aspect of my biblical interpretation you're not in agreement with. I'm simply arguing that in the course of answering thel in the course of answering his accusers, Jesus established a principle that can help us here. He pointed out that what he was doing was laying waste to Satan's kingdom. So the argument that he was actually working for Satan didn't hold any water. I'm just saying we can argue the same thing today with respect to medical freedom. If someone is doing real damage to the medical tyrants, I would have to see some pretty strong and specific evidence to convince me that they're actually working for the tyrants.

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Sorry - it's not that I'm completely in disagreement with your interpetation - just that I don't think it's the most apposite text.

And, in addition to that, when applying it to The Sound of Freedom, I would argue that this movie is not doing damage to the [real] child traffickers at all. Instead it is reinforcing their carefully crafted limited hangout narrative which they have built over the course of decades. I have posted a longer conmment as a direct response to the article which provides more detail.

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I don't know who made that hilarious comment on your article this morning, but they are in need of serious help. One thing the pandemic drove home for me was how incredibly easy it was and still is, to manipulate people. Also, there are a lot more people with underlying anxiety disorders than I previously knew. What else would explain the continued mask wearing despite the alleged emergency being over, and all of the studies that do not support it? There are even medical professionals I work with who wear them. Sometimes 2 at once. And then there are these people who come up with incredulous comments like the one you mentioned even when they are being presented with evidence. I've really learned to be careful who I talk to; it's been quite a learning experience.

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I too have been baffled at how submissive people became. In the beginning I was not afraid but felt I must be cautious - bad stuff if infected. I'm old (83) got various health issues, so did the two shots thinking they might allow normality to return. I hated trying to stay away - shopping at odd hours, checking the parking lot for people. Then long lines as big stores wouldn't allow people in. I was then very angry. Pointless anger at my government and all those people who went along. Somewhat still troubled.

Didn't do the boosters once I saw data. Found mouth/nose sanitation likely of more utility. Now I sense - poor fools wearing the stupid masks.

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Seems like the more independent truthseekers, on Substack and other platforms, are helping to promote "Sound of Freedom," while the legacy media propaganda traitors are pushing the accusations of Q-anon type conspiracy theories to attempt to dissuade the public from watching this sleeper film. "Sound of Freedom" is a hit because it is a good movie with a good message, coming at a time when the public is finally fighting back for the sake of our children.

I have seen hours of interviews with the three main personalities behind "Sound of Freedom," the lead actor, the true life border agent being portrayed, and the film's director. The Timcast IRL show gave them a very enthusiastic session, culminating in a matching grant, spur of the moment, in the last five minutes, when Tim Pool challenges his audience of Super Chatters that he donate all donations for the episode to the .org being started by the true life border agent, and then Tim Pool matches the donations, for a surprise $50,000 dollar check signed by Tim Pool. Jordan Peterson also interviewed the lead actor and the true life border agent. The lead actor enjoyed the psychological questioning so much, so deep, that he happily exclaimed it is the best interview he has ever done, (this from the same lead actor who played Jesus in the even more popular film, "The Passion of the Christ," some 20 years earlier. These two interviews alone amount to over 5 hours that you can use to judge for yourself with their side of the story. All of these people have a history of anti-establishment truth-seeking, so I remain convinced that "Sound of Freedom" is the real deal; from people who intend to continue to do good works, as evidenced by their track records already widely known.

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Thank you so much for this. I'm not educated enough to put it into words, and you have done it so wonderfully. Lately, another author I follow (and like) has published 2 articles placing doubts into a well known person as well as into the funding sources of Sound of Freedom movie. It's mentally draining to read these negative articles.It feels like "damned if you do, damned if you don't"....Why not be grateful to the good cause? Why the condescending sentiment (they may not even mean it, but seems that way) that assumes people will not use their own common sense and instincts? Do they really believe that parents will "chip" their children because Tim Ballard may have commented about it ( I never heard that so I cannot corroborate)? Do they believe J. Peterson is unforgivable for taking the "damn vaccine", or even making a suggestion to people to "take it" to get it over with? Come on! No one is perfect and as much as I admire Dr. Peterson, I immediately expressed my disagreement and said so. I am an individual and put no one on a pedestal nor will I cast stones either. So for all those critics out there that are so perfect, they should not worry and assume that others cannot make their own mind and conclusions. Nothing or no one is without its flaws but to label it "controlled opposition " is rather tiring and simplistic.

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Another place we can get stuck is looking for perfect heroes. Peterson has a lot of important things to say. We should never expect to find people who we totally agree with though...and that if they don't make a 100% match, we should discard them. We can simply learn and take from them what supports our broader understanding, and expect that we will find many individuals who can teach us a piece of truth and wisdom. We have to do the sorting and discarding, and not expect some idol to do so for us.

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Yes I agree , to the level that we have come to expect everyone to agree with everything we believe or somehow if they don’t then then they have to be against the cause is extremely childish and unproductive.

Even the suggestion that someone is behaving as C.O. , can result in unfounded doubt and how is that different from the idea of controlling opposition.

I have yet to find any individual who agrees with 100% of my views and ideas so far, does that mean I don’t understand the issues or that I need to adjust my perspective to align with others?

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The problem is that controlled opposition is a very powerful weapon of the enemy. He uses it over and over and over again because it works so well. Sadly it had been proven time and again that the vast majority of people do not "make their own mind and conclusions" and prefer to leave their thinking to others. Unfortunately this is true even of many people who have managed to figure out that they are being lied to by one group of people. Instead of thinking for themselves, they simply outsource their thinking to a different provider. And therefore, perhaps sadly, it *is* important to attempt to identify such people in order to avoid their deceptions.

We are in an intelligence/information war, and identifying the enemy's agents is an essential part of such war. Secret societies have long been powerful political weapons which have been used to subvert and control entire societies going back well over a thousand years (read up on Abdullah ibn Maymun and the Ismaili sect of Islam / Kharmathites / Fatimids if you're interested in an early example). And the power of secret societies rests largely on the ability of its operatives to work together *in secrecy* towards a common aim, and the secrecy ensures that, unidentified as they are, no group forms to oppose them.

Spotting these controlled opposition, disinfo agents and sounding the alarm is as necessary as standing guard and posting lookouts around your camp in a regular war.

The "alternative media / freedom movement" is riddled with such people and - as an example - they were a key part of the covid propaganda very early on. It was their participation - as trusted information sources for the large part of the population which distrusts the mainstream media - which allowed the covid psyop to get off the ground instead of fizzling like previous attempts.

Jordan Peterson is, in my view, a very dangerous pied piper because he is highly intelligent and, consequently, capable of misleading a great many people. He is an out and out globalist who

- has spent his career in and out of globalist institutions including the UN

- has authored numerous policy documents advocating equality of outcome, radical wealth redistribution, and subsidized immigration from the third world

- has worked, and continues to work closely with, individuals and groups funded by George Soros, Bill and Melinda Gates, and other nefarious actors

- all the while mouthing platitudes and sophistries

His goal is to neutralize the potential opposition of young males (the most dangerous potential opponents) to the new world order/great reset.

So - in short - I agree that Jordan Peterson is not unforgivable simply for recommending the vaccine. However, when you add that to his long list of other sins of intellectual sophistry and misdirection, deeply disturbing associations with bad actors, and current attempt to "rebrand" the WEF as ARC and make it more palatable (he appears to be attempting to create a non-woke fascism complete with net zero, smart cities, CBDCs, vaccines, digital surveillance etc.) - then yes - he becomes unforgivable.

If you're interested in more detailed info, the following links are relevant:

https://delingpole.substack.com/p/put-not-your-trust-in-jordan-peterson?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXYuqrO8LLo

https://www.bitchute.com/video/SIhlWo6ePkba/

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what makes me wonder is:

why are some arrested and prosecuted and some not.

why are some riots squashed and some not. (how come they let them go on for so long?)

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EVERYTHING IS CONTROLLED

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Not everything. But the enemy has absolutely analyzed society and siezed control of many key positions and fortified them.

Nevertheless we DO massively outnumber him.

Identifying his agents is one of the most important tasks we face.

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As the old saying goes, even confirmed paranoids have real enemies. I think your suggestion Peter., and Buzz's list below, are good ways to evaluate articles we see and read. Study them and compare to other studies/articles and be certain to analyze where they came from. We know that many traditional publications, like The Lancet, are not reliable anymore, being on the teat of the pharma/military/WHO/WEF oligarchies, plus there are institutions like the CDC, NIH, FDA, and other countries' comparable organizations that cannot be believed, either. Until I see evidence or at least can see funding for individuals or organizations claims and studies, which can indicate motivations, I remain skeptical.

Danny Huckabee

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If I read someone accusing another of being controlled opposition, I just delete their post and unsubscribe. Perhaps not the most elegant solution, but then who has time to deal with such dreck?

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So now people are "paranoid" if they suspect someone is controlled-opposition sent in to drive the movement over a cliff?

Controlled opposition and agents exist. They are a thing. They are common.

They aren't just imaginary characters in the minds of lunatics.

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I think there have always been agents of "the establishment" infiltrating disclosure movements who deliberately plant outlandish claims so the whole movement won't be taken seriously (i.e. snake venom, i.e alien abductions, i.e clones)

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Excuse me but the jury is still out about venom in our jabs and drugs. Don’t dismiss the easy target “snake oil salesman”

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I really don't like your conclusion. Just because there isn't hard evidence you shouldn't believe/accuse/suspect the motives of those who could be 'controlled oppo?' That's crazy.

What your brain path DOES however accurately describe is not automatically CONCLUDE motives without hard evidence. I would add - even then be cautious to be nailed into a position.

Let's look at Elon Musk and Jack Dorsey. Absolutely 100% cabal or cabal controlled but clearly are doing things that are helping the cause of freedom. For Elon it's allowing RFK Jr on Twitter and slamming Youtube and for Jack funding ONLY open-sourced protocols for financial currency freedom while validating Elon's discovery of direct govt control of Twitter, etc. However, Elon is actually MANUFACTURING mRNA and still wants brain chips in people so there is no clear cut picture.

DJT is the same. Borders yes. Put in judges that seem to be actually allowing headway. Meanwhile he didn't just fund a worldwide bioweapon, he was instrumental in ACCELERATING it without any scientific or moral restraint even to the point of dumping RFK Jr's Vaccine Safety Committee when he took money from Pfizer and big tech. (And he STILL continues to lie about it while the CDC shows AT MINMUM 250,000 American children having died directly from the vaccine.) Is DJT controlled opposition or is he running an immoral military op for some larger - grander goal or a permanently free election after it has all come crashing down devastating the country? In 2020 - BEFORE the VAX - The military intelligence association DEAGEL estimated 65% of the US population would die by 2025, departing from fairly accurate predictions for 30 years. Oddly these numbers EXACTLY correlate to Pfizer's once secret trial studies showing that fertility in the vaccinated has essentially turned negative and turbo cancers and more are on the rise by THOUSANDS - not hundreds of percent.

If you believe Q - there are gray hats. But then again Q said 'not all vaccines are bad' which is an outright lie based upon observable multi-decade research. If Q/DJT are NOT secretly involved in the worst psyops against America - even the world - then I'm not sure what to conclude accept the 'military planning at it's finest' is engineered to used the gray areas - even literally and allied contolled opposition - to let the bad guys run the world into the ground while getting people ready to rebuild. NOT my cup of tea - but the entire Q area has lived in this world of controlled ops on both sides.

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Spot on.

Q is a fantastic example of controlled opposition itself. And it has achieved its aims extremely well. It's just a rerun of Operation Trust - which was almost certainly itself a rerun of earlier operations with which I'm not familiar.

For heaven's sake, the Ukraine war now has its own Z-anon movement. No globalist operation is complete without an anon these days :-).

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I was recently glad to read in a private group that some of the contentious "controlled opposition" accusations between those who should be allies in medical reedom and truth are being addressed in dialogue. Thanks to Dr. McCullough et.al.

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I think Trump is controlled opposition. He gets persecuted and impeached but he never really gets jailed like J6’ers and he promotes the jabs as if he saved the world with them. Dr. Shiva makes this claim time and again. It’s about what they DO, not what they say. I’m sad about this because he was putting American people first. It only went just so far. Just controlled opposition

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Listen to your own very good advice. Trump wasn't putting American people first, he was just saying (loudly and repeatedly) that he was putting American people first.

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