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Today’s post is the first in a recurring series I’ll be featuring on Fridays in support of the Decoding Culture Foundation, run by the PsyOp Cinema guys. With permission I’ll be using a screenshot of a document each week from their archives to highlight the kind of cooperation happening between America’s government and our entertainment industry on films like the one I’ll be discussing today, Contagion.

Not only will today’s post put the REAL people providing their expertise for this film into context, I’ll also be showing how principal advisors, like Ian Lipkin, are explicitly tied to the Epstein network.

Let’s begin.

This email from the Epstein files shows that the social connection between Ian Lipkin and Jeffrey Epstein was a guy named Ellis Rubinstein, but before we get to Rubinstein, let’s see how Ian Lipkin helped Hollywood develop their 2011 pandemic movie, Contagion:

Burns consulted with Larry Brilliant, renowned for his work in eradicating smallpox, to develop an accurate perception of a pandemic event. He had seen one of Brilliant’s TED presentations, which he was fascinated by, and realized that “the point of view of people within that field isn’t ‘If this is going to happen’, it’s ‘When is this going to happen?'” Brilliant introduced Burns to epidemiologist W. Ian Lipkin. With the aid of these physicians, the producers were able to obtain additional perspectives from representatives of the World Health Organization. Burns also met with the author of The Coming Plague, Laurie Garrett. Her 1995 book helped Burns consider a variety of potential plots for the film. He wanted to feature an official from the CDC, and ultimately decided to use an epidemiologist, since that role requires interacting with people while tracking the disease.

Another person we should get a better introduction to before meeting Rubinstein is Dr. Rima Khabazz, who the first document in this post is addressed to. For context, here’s an article where Dr. Khabazz helps bolster the credentials of the CDC’s Dr. Anne Schuchat, described as a 52 year old “Jewish woman” who became the public face of fighting pandemics in 2009:

Wearing her crisp uniform, Dr. Anne Schuchat presents a quiet, unadorned image in her office at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta one cool spring morning. Director of immunization and respiratory diseases for CDC, she is also the assistant surgeon general for the United States Public Health Service.

Career stature aside, this 5-foot-4, 52-year-old Jewish woman with salt-and-pepper hair and green eyes seems anything but intimidating. In fact, colleagues describe her as kind, calm and humble. Which is not to be confused with meek: Dr. Schuchat confidently steps into the limelight when need be. That is ironic for someone who grew up thinking she wanted to become a small-town doctor.

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Dr. Schuchat’s supervisor, Dr. Rima Khabbaz, CDC’s deputy director for infectious diseases, calls her a great leader. During the 2009 H1N1 pandemic, Dr. Khabbaz says, “She was the face of public health at CDC. She was on the screen in all of our living rooms, reassuring people. She was calm and credible.”

Dr. Schuchat will have an influence on the screen again—this time the silver screen. In Contagion, an action-thriller due out soon, Kate Winslet plays a disease detective battling a global outbreak of a deadly viral illness. While researching her role last winter, the Oscar-winning actor interviewed Dr. Schuchat.

And, of course, we can’t talk about a pandemic movie with mentioning Montana and our Rocky Mountain Laboratory–a NOT well secured facility in the Bitterroot valley, which I wrote about recently.

Here’s portions of the interview from the link above where Montana is referenced:

The characters in the movie are based on real people, the laboratory is modeled after real facilities that exist in places like Montana, but the incubation cycle was unrealistically shortened in order to maximize the “fictional” fear being depicted on screen.

Does this make the emotional manipulation more convincing?

Ellis Rubinstein, the President Emeritus at the New York Academy of Sciences, is an interesting figure, so let’s take some time now to get to know this dude:

Wow, Ellis, you sound AMAZING, almost more like a god than a mere mortal. If billionaires terrified of death want beat that pesky mortality problem, I bet you’re the kind of super-human who will help them achieve it, so see MORE of that AMAZING resume:

It’s really hard for me to understand how the world can be SO FUCKED UP when amazing people with names like RUBINSTEIN are clearly geniuses who work with ONLY the best people.

Like Jeffrey Epstein?

Ok, so this is a bit worrisome, but what else about Ellis Rubinstein’s resume might raise red flags? How about China, AIDS, WEF, and Iran Contra?

Damn, Ellis! Spook vibes for sure!

To wrap up today’s inaugural Decoding Cinema blog post, I gotta give props to Contagion for having a CONSPIRACY BLOGGER try to screw shit up for the noble and heroic scientists with his lies and greed when deceptively suggesting a–GASP!–a homeopathic alternative could work better than the selfless science solution, which NEVER has a profit motive (or worse).

We don’t hate Hollywood enough.

Blogger Alan Krumwiede is quick to pounce on a business venture. That he is dishonest is lamentable. His ruse of having an antidote persuaded many people to skip taking the actual vaccine. Alan’s blog and videos reach a growing audience. Fear fuels a distrust of authorities on the part of the public. As time goes by and the number of deaths escalates, fears erupt into violence. With visions of dollar signs floating inside his head, Alan pretends to have been sick and magically “cured” by something he called Forsythia. You can bet everyone wants to get their hands on it and, so, the money rolls in. Widespread panic is often good for business and this situation was no different.

This blurb was written by Wanda Teays, the “Acting Director of the Bioethics Certificate Program” at Mount Saint Mary’s University, in Los Angeles, and it’s a good example of how cooked we are.

Unless, of course, people WAKE THE FUCK UP and stop believing everything they see on their infernal screens.

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Johnny Lee Perry was shot and killed by Sean Evans of Missoula County Sheriff’s Office on August 29th, 2021, but today’s post is less about the LEOs involved in killing Johnny than it is about the guy who drove Johnny out to the Deep Creek area that afternoon, Jack Maxvill.

For those fond of the days when we got to see mugshots (including my own), here’s Jack’s appearance on charges that occurred before Johnny’s death:

Oh LOOKIE THERE, I said to myself upon examining Jack Maxvill’s arrest record, it’s former Detective, GUY BAKER, who is listed as the arresting officer, which I find both interesting and confusing, since MPD stands for Missoula Police Department, and these charges stem from crimes alleged (PDF) to have occurred in Superior, Montana.

Hmmm.

Oh, LOOKIE THERE, I said to myself again upon seeing the name Deputy Funke. I paused, taking a moment to rub my new eyes in case maybe they were hallucinating or something.

Nope.

Seeing that Funke was listed as a Deputy at the time of these original charges told me that the Sheriff serving Mineral County was Mike Toth, which made me think of the County Attorney, Ellen Donohue, and the, ahem, shall I say better working relationship the two offices had?

Since Ellen Donohue is the County Attorney for Powell County now, where Montana’s main prison in Deerlodge is located, I called her office and left a very detailed message of what I was hoping to get from a call back, ensuring I probably won’t get a call back.

If I do, here are some questions Ellen Donohue can anticipate me asking so that she can tell me nothing because CCJI (Confidential Criminal Justice Information).

First question: if Jack Maxvill was on any kind of “supervision” (known on the street as being “on paper”), then WHO was Jack Warren Maxvill’s probation or parole officer?

Second question: is the Mineral County Courthouse bugged? Because I have had TWO people tell me this in the last 48 hours, leading me to believe that the Mineral County Sheriff’s Office really is monitoring activities inside the courthouse.

Third question: if Jack Maxvill was, I would assume, not able to have contact with his daughter, why did he claim to have called HER to communicate HIS concern about Johnny Lee Perry on the day Perry was killed, supposedly compelling her to be the one to call 911, thus setting in motion the events that led to Johnny Lee Perry getting shot in the back and bleeding out in the woods?

For context on the assumption I’m making that Jack Maxvill should NOT have been calling his daughter, here’s another screenshot from the court records:

If I’m mis-remembering how law enforcement was alerted to the alleged risk posed to Jack Warren Maxvill by Johnny Lee Perry, then I’m sure the transcripts of the Coroner’s Inquest are available and easily accessible for the public to peruse, right?

While I haven’t made any recent effort to get the transcripts for this case, I continue to monitor how other people are trying to access public information in Missoula, so, for now, here’s some of the information that was reported about Johnny’s Coroner’s Inquest by local media at the time:

The inquest was the second of two such hearings scheduled in Missoula this week relating to deaths involving city and county law enforcement officers. On Thursday, a separate jury also found that the sheriff’s deputy who shot Johnny Lee Perry II last year did not commit a crime. Deputy Sean Evans, who is white, shot Perry, a 31-year-old Black man, in the back while he ran away from officers. Perry was carrying a machete but had not approached or tried to injure officers, according to vehicle and body camera footage. A toxicology report later found Perry had consumed THC and methamphetamine prior to his death.

During an inquest, the deceased person and their family are not typically represented by an attorney who is allowed to question witnesses. Members of the jury are allowed to ask questions, and members of the public may also ask questions if they are submitted and approved by the presiding coroner.

The description of the Coroner’s Inquest in Montana shows that the family of the victim aren’t represented by legal professionals, nor do they have the ability to ask questions. Maybe that’s because the “Coroner’s Inquest” is an antiquated relic of the past indicating Montana hasn’t evolved its processes for accountability beyond old world pretenses of keeping the King’s property accounted for.

To back up the idea that the Coroner’s Inquest is an antiquated process, here’s what Spokane County says regarding where the inquest process came from originally:

Coroners are an ancient English institution, and Coroner Inquests became outdated centuries ago when the natural and medical sciences had developed to the point of having practical application to death investigations, and began being used in most societies (including Scotland – Scotland never had coroners) outside of England and the sphere of the British Empire/Commonwealth.

Coroners and coroner inquests were not put in place to determine if a death was or was not justified.

Corner inquests were intended to force members of the public to be available to the coroner for questioning (“inquest” means “making an inquiry” – not the holding of a trial), done to serve the interests of the King of England – particularly property interests of the King.

Inquests were always supposed to be about the finding of facts, not the finding of fault.

That last part about facts vs. fault really grinds my gears. How is one to compartmentalize facts from fault? In Johnny Lee Perry’s case, he was ONE man with a knife vs. MANY men with guns, and I watched the entire scenario play out on camera as Justin White, the BIG DOG for the Sheriff’s Office, put his plan to “neutralize” a scrawny black dude into action because a piece of shit like Jack Maxvill had a daughter who claimed Daddy was in trouble call 911.

Yeah, BULLSHIT!

When I spoke with Zoe Tate during the time period of this lethal LEO incident, (which I call an execution for a reason), I got a much better sense of what kind of men are employed by the Missoula County Sheriff’s Office. Five years later, what I’ve learned only reinforces my concerns.

It takes LOTS of bad actors, though, to make things as corrupt as they currently are in western Montana, so let me conclude today’s post with the perspective of Ellen Donohue when she was being freshly interviewed at the beginning of her tenure in Mineral County:

One thing that has surprised Donohue is the high number of felony cases in Mineral County, given the size of the population. There were 92 cases in 2016, compared to 100 in the Anaconda-Deer Lodge area, which boosts a population of nearly 10,000. But, she understands that a number of those cases stem from Interstate 90, which stretches across the county.

There’s a pipeline of illegal drugs that transvers the Inland Northwest, where Interstate 90 sees a large volume of narcotics, though the exact amount is hard to guess.

“I understand Mineral County’s situation, where someone gets pulled over on the freeway and it can quickly turn into a drug case,” she said. “But it appears that there is a lot of well-trained law officials for the drug cases.”

Yes, I’m sure it appeared there were a lot of well-trained law officials managing that “pipeline of illegal drugs” when Ellen first started, because she didn’t know any better, but what would Ellen have to say now? If she calls me back, I’ll definitely let readers know, so stay tuned.

One final article I found from out neighbors in Washington state is from 2010 and details how Montana’s process of reviewing “officer-involved” deaths was being considered as a model to duplicate at the time. My thought?

DON’T DO IT LIKE MONTANA DOES!!!

In Montana, coroner’s inquests are conducted for every fatal police shooting in that state and whenever someone dies in law enforcement custody. The same requirement exists in Nevada, with Las Vegas authorities taking the extra step of televising their inquests. And elsewhere, communities are embracing inquests to help ensure public accountability as the number of officer-involved shootings escalates.

Now, following a rash of fatal police shootings statewide, including four in the past four months in Spokane County, some legislators want to make inquests mandatory in Washington, too. King County typically holds inquests into officer-involved shootings and allows a lawyer for the family of the deceased to participate. Legislation to require inquests for all fatal law enforcement shootings and in-custody deaths in the state is expected to be introduced during the 2011 session.

“This is a quicker, more transparent way to understand what taxpayer-paid servants – public servants – are doing,” said state Sen. Adam Kline, D-Seattle, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee and an intended bill sponsor. “These inquests answer what long, drawn-out litigation otherwise would have answered … and when they do it, they speak with authority.”

Well, in Montana, the authorities are corrupt, and no one at the State level is capable of dealing with it.

Prove me wrong, Austin!

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When Iran burned effigies of Baal recently, it was said to have been a symbolic statement about Western corruption and, more specifically, the dark influence of the Epstein network:

During state-organized rallies marking Iran’s 1979 revolution anniversary, demonstrators in several cities burned large statues of a horned, bull-headed figure identified by organizers as “Baal,” an ancient deity referenced in biblical and Islamic tradition.

The burnings, some reported to have taken place at the same time in different cities, were presented by organizers as a symbolic protest linked to renewed online conspiracy theories surrounding the late financier Jeffrey Epstein and alleged child abuse by Western elites.

While the Wikipedia entries for “Baal” are numerous, the entry about its modern application to the Epstein files indicates how flimsy the reference actually is, since most of the BAAL references in the files aren’t actually referring to a deity, but to a bank account:

On January 30, 2026, the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) released a portion of the Epstein files that mention the word “Baal”. Some online claims attach the worship of Baal to satanic rituals and the occult, and link it to allegations involving American financer and child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein; however, the released materials provide no clear evidentiary basis for that inference. The appearance is said to be consistent with financial-document field text and, in at least one widely circulated example, appears to be an optical character recognition (OCR) or scanning artifact in which “Bank Name” is misread as “Baal. name”.

Was connecting “Baal” to Jeffrey Epstein a stretch? Or, even worse, was it spreading anti-semitism, like this link suggests?

Instead of stripping the references in the files of its context, I’m going to do the opposite with etymology and the one reference to “Baal” in the Epstein files that is NOT a reference to a bank account.

First, the etymology:

The spelling of the English term “Baal” derives from the Greek Báal (Βάαλ) which appears in the New Testament and Septuagint, and from its Latinized form Baal, which appears in the Vulgate. These forms in turn derive from the vowel-less Northwest Semitic form bʿl (Phoenician and Punic: 𐤁𐤏𐤋). The word’s biblical senses as a Phoenician deity and false gods generally were extended during the Protestant Reformation to denote any idols, icons of the saints, or the Catholic Church generally. In such contexts, it follows the anglicized pronunciation and usually omits any mark between its two As. In close transliteration of the Semitic name, the ayin is represented, as Baʿal.

In the Northwest Semitic languages—Ugaritic, Phoenician, Hebrew, Amorite, and Aramaic—the word baʿal signified “owner” and, by extension, “lord”, a “master”, or “husband”. Cognates include the Akkadian Bēlu (𒂗),[b] Amharic bal (ባል), and Arabic baʿl (بعل). Báʿal (בַּעַל) and baʿl still serve as the words for “husband” in modern Hebrew and Arabic respectively. They also appear in some contexts concerning the ownership of things or possession of traits.

And second, here’s the Epstein file about the Epstein foundation with a reference to an organization that has “Baal” in its name:

The above content shows the impressive influence on American culture from a man with a DEEP appreciation for Jewish philanthropy, like the organization that helps provide FREE housing and medical care, but only for a certain group of people.

And here’s more context on the “Reb Meir Baal Haness charity” and how they help their people:

The concept of Reb Meir Baal Haness dates back to the very first settlers of Eretz Yisroel in the 1500’s. The great mekubalim (kabbalists) of Sephardic Jewry, among them the holy Bais Yosef and the Alshich, ascribed the merit of the holy Tanna, Reb Meir, exclusively to those who support the resettlement of Eretz Yisroel. The Gemara in Avoda Zara relates a fascinating episode, where the great Tanna (sage of the Mishna), Reb Meir, revealed a secret formula for miraculous salvation. As a reward for someone who had done him a personal favor, Reb Meir shared with him that should he ever be faced by any danger he should recite the words “Elaka D’Meir Anaini” – The G-d of Reb Meir please answer me – and he will miraculously be saved. The Gemara goes on to reveal a series of miraculous events invoked by the recital of “Elaka D’Meir Anaini” – hence the name Reb Meir Baal Haness.

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In keeping with its mission, Kollel Shomrei Hachomos, Reb Meir Baal Haness was the first to build large-scale free housing units outside the Old City walls. The famous Batei Ungarin complex, with its hundreds of rent-free apartments, provided the nucleus for the development of today’s bustling Meah She’arim neighborhood.

To conclude today’s post, let me anticipate the claims of anti-semitism that always come when a certain group of people are criticized, since no one plays the victim card as expertly as the tiny hats.

To remind Montanans how terrible they were decades ago, the Washington Post ran an op-ed last December about what happened in Billings in the early 90’s so that Jews in 2025 could recall a simpler time period of purer victimhood status:

To my non-Jewish friends asking what they can do about antisemitism: This Sunday and for the next eight days, light a Hanukkah menorah. It’s a small but powerful way to stand shoulder to shoulder with Jewish communities under attack—and it’s a tactic that’s defeated such hate in America before.

In 1993 Billings, Mont., was rocked by antisemitic attacks from white supremacists seeking to establish an Aryan state. They desecrated the Jewish cemetery and made bomb threats against the synagogue. Then they threw a brick through the bedroom window of a 5-year-old Jewish boy, Isaac Schnitzer, aiming for the menorah on the sill.

The police advised his mother, Tammie, to take down her Hanukkah decorations to avoid drawing attention. That didn’t sit well with Tammie. She expressed her concerns to the Billings Gazette, which printed them. How, Tammie asked, could she explain to a child that today in America Jews must hide their menorahs—especially during a holiday celebrating their freedom to worship?

Well, Tammie, just explain to little Isaac that he’ll only be safe when every enemy of the Jewish faith is slaughtered without mercy in a vast sea of blood because that is what a just God would want for His people.

My Montana/Epstein coverage will continue, and it will continue to be the MOST EXTENSIVE coverage of Montana/Epstein connections out there because I don’t stop at what other news sources tell me, I go to the files themselves to find out what’s REALLY going on with the psychopath class and the playground they call Big Sky Country.

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Sue Reber Orr is one of the reasons Democrats have ZERO chance of flipping Montana’s Senate seat, so let’s meet Susie (and her eviction lawyer hubby, Tom) to see why, exactly, Montanan Democrats find themselves in such a sorry state of affairs while OTHER states look to build on Donald Trump’s plunging popularity.

One of the things Sue Reber Orr’s political advocacy highlights is that no one hates women more than other women, especially if they are younger and more popular. Just look at the reaction to Sydney Sweeney’s tits and the hilarious condemnation coming from an actress who flashed her pussy to become a movie star:

Speaking with People at Variety’s 2026 Power of Women: Los Angeles event Wednesday, Sharon Stone, 68, critiqued Sweeney, 29, over her viral ad for the platform, suggesting the actress needs to “take responsibility” for her actions after the video sparked backlash from female athletes.

“I think that it’s up to her to take responsibility for her actions, not up to me to judge her for her actions. It is up to me to be a cheerleader for the women who have made it through and become champions in women’s sports,” Stone told the outlet.

If women truly supported other women in the way they like to claim they support other women, then Sue Reber Orr would be voting for Alani Bankhead, since Bankhead is the Democrat candidate for the Senate, and Sue has proudly worked to elect Democrats for over 20 years.

When Sue describes her ass being worked off for Montana Democrats, it’s important to note that not everything Sue does is obviously in support of her once beloved political party. For example, six years ago, while watching a Zoom meeting about homelessness, I caught “Susie’s” support of Susan Hay Patrick, a non-profit leader in Missoula who is NOT supposed to be a political partisan.

Here’s the NBC Montana news article that quoted “Susie” like she was just some normal citizen and NOT a covert political operative:

Missoula leaders and the organizations running the site held a meeting for Missoula residents to voice their opinions.

Some topics brought to their attention were traffic concerns, who is living there, how quickly it happened and what the site will mean for businesses in the area.

“I’m against the project, as a whole, in principle, for a number of reasons. I think it’s just another location to distract law enforcement,” Missoula resident Andy Medford said.

Others thanked the groups for what they are doing.

“I just want to say thank you for all you’re doing. A lot of people think homeless people are homeless because they want to be homeless, and all I can say is walk a mile in someone’s shoes before you think that,” Orchard Homes resident Susie said.

When I found out that “Susie” was a Democrat influencer helping Susan Hay Patrick control the narrative around homelessness, I started realizing what I was up against with my new mission (at the time) to expose the disgusting individuals who used homelessness to advance their political agenda in Missoula, one of whom I can’t publicly name currently or else I will be charged with a crime, like my arrest on June 19th after the Justice Court judge I’ve connected to Epstein signed my arrest warrant:

Don’t worry, Sue, I have ALREADY educated myself about this town, but what I found with my deep research doesn’t cast a very good light on the local power structure, especially when we’re talking about the liberal white women who champion a New York Muslim socialist from Big Sky country (after a trip to San Francisco, of course):

Eating oysters in San Francisco while championing a socialist to be the Mayor of New York? No wonder Democrats in Montana found a use for this woman and her husband, who also likes to publish words in local newspapers while evicting people:

22 owners in The Hollywood Mobile Home Park off of North Russell Street have less than two weeks to respond to a series of court complaints that will end with evictions if not dealt with. KEI Property Management Attorney Thomas Orr says trying to determine just who all the park residents are has been difficult.

“Right now we are attempting to, one: determine the identities of all of our park residents, which is somewhat problematic given the kind of the transient nature of some of our residents. Then two: to address rule violations and failure to make rent payments,” Orr said.

So, for those keeping track, Tom Orr helps MAKE people homeless, then Sue Orr takes those homeless people and uses them to empower her Democrat friends, like Susan Hay Patrick.

See how they keep this scam going with minimal criticism from knowledgeable critics, like me?

Paying lip service to economic issues, like having no where to live because you’re too poor to afford rent, is a rich irony when coming from Boomers who have seen the value of their homes go UP and UP and UP, like the publicly available information shows Sue Orr has enjoyed with her home residence, now valued at 3/4 of a million dollars (I omitted the address to avoid triggering the victim gene):

Not everyone will suffer under a Mandani-loving Boomer white women regime, though. Some ladies, you see, will find “a real path forward” on…

Testosterone?

While Sue Reber Orr is a near-perfect caricature of the Karen/Boomer “left”, she’s at least smart enough to know Montanans are FIERCELY nativist, meaning I would never dream of claiming MYSELF as one of them, having been born in Spokane, then spending only 26 uninterrupted years in Missoula. Because of this dynamic, Sue knows the Bankhead candidacy is a recipe for disaster on JUST THOSE TERMS, but, like Frankenstein, Alani Bankhead is the monster its creators couldn’t control, which is a fate the Sue Orrs of the party richly deserve.

Enjoy the political loss, ladies, no one deserves it more than you!

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Missoula is supposedly a liberal college town with progressive values, but is it really?

Because, if Missoula IS a liberal college town with progressive values, how can the city’s prosecution team justify engaging in malicious prosecution against an anti-war whistleblower for the crime of KNOWINGLY making LOUD and UNUSUAL noises?

In a soon-to-be-held jury trial here in Missoula, drone whistleblower, Brandon Bryant, will be facing prosecution for “disturbing the peace”, a criminal charge defined in the preliminary jury conference hearing as “knowingly making loud, unusual noises“.

To better understand why I think this criminal case is an example of malicious prosecution, lets look at a definition of malicious prosecution from a law firm’s website:

When someone is unjustly the target of criminal or civil procedures without probable cause, and when the real motivation behind the case is not justice but rather personal animosity, harassment, or retaliation, this is known as malicious prosecution.

For instance, you might have been the victim of malicious prosecution if you were detained or brought before the court without sufficient evidence and it later transpired that the allegations were unfounded and brought out of animosity or bias.

In addition to wasting time and money, this type of legal abuse can harm a person’s independence, profession, reputation, and mental health. Indeed, you have the right to pursue justice if this has happened to you.

Six years ago, amidst tensions surrounding the use of Tax Increment Financing, which led to the documentary, Engen’s Missoula, Brandon Bryant faced felony charges after someone else edited his videos and emailed City Council members the content.

For those who don’t recall this effort to prosecute Brandon Bryant, which included Judge Vannatta REFUSING to lower his bond, here’s KPAX’s initial reporting:

The man that was banned from Missoula City Council meetings for making threats has been formally charged.

Brandon Bryant of Missoula appeared in court on Thursday, after making a threatening YouTube video about city council members.

Bryant is accused of threatening mass murder-those threats apparently directed at Missoula City Council members. He is charged with one felony count of threats/improper influence in official and political matters.

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Bryant is banned from contacting any city council member, or entering city property. As of Thursday afternoon he is still in jail on $100,000 bond.

Judge Shane Vannatta refused to lower the bond amount because he said the court is disturbed by the nature of the allegations.

Brandon Bryant was ultimately acquitted of the felony criminal charge that Missoula authorities spent thousands and thousands of dollars to prosecute, but this town wasn’t done with him yet. Here are several posts I’ve written over the past year which document the latest campaign to extinguish this unwanted subversive from our local landscape:

“A Preemptive Local Threat Assessment” (August 25th, 2025)

“How Does This Protect And Serve The Missoula Community, PD?” (August 29th, 2025)

“A Challenge To Local Media: Cover The Brandon Bryant Case!” (October 28th, 2025)

“Weaponized Protection Orders, Non-Compliant Sex Offenders, And The Case Of Brandon Wayne Bryant” (February 14th, 2026)

That last post about a weaponized restraining order is the context local prosecutors do NOT want introduced into Bryant’s trial for “disturbing the peace” because the violation of the order of protection charge got dropped after the protection order itself was, from my understanding, similarly dropped.

That means the entire setup for Bryant’s police interaction that day, outside, where the anti-war protestors do their thing on Fridays near Higgins bridge (sorry progressives, I’m not playing the rename game) has been excised like a tumor so that ONLY Brandon Bryant’s reaction at being legally harassed remains under the legal microscope.

Is this what Missoula taxpayers want done with their peace and justice dollars?

We’ll return to destroying subversives in a moment, but, before we do, the clown is my pivot to bring in the “Covid conscious” lesbian bar called “The Last Ditch” into this discussion, since it highlights why all the mutated forms of “leftist” ideology have essentially become an insane circular firing squad of vicious attacks capable of utterly destroying a local business after a modest attempt by this financially struggling business at going “mask optional” one day of the week.

And the clown connection?

Apparently, one of the three lesbians saw the writing on the woke wall, so to speak, and literally entered a clown school to flee this hellscape of leftist annihilation before it went nuclear during a Zoom meeting that has now, quickly, become an almost archetypal example of how truly insane this behavior appears to the casual observer.

Going straight (pun intended) to the poor woman left holding the debt, even her emotional appeal during the Zoom meeting didn’t satiate these hive-minded monsters of destruction, as reported by the New York Post:

When it came time to hear from Last Ditch’s last remaining owner — the other two quit months ago — she broke down in tears saying she’d just been trying to help her friends with their business before ending up in charge.

“It was not my passion project,” Jackie Matellian cried through her mask, explaining she’d been left responsible for the $50,000 business loan taken out with her friends and that she’d been living in a car for six months to stay ahead of bar payments.

Matellian also claimed she’d been working four jobs to keep up with the payments.

“I never really wanted this,” she said. “I don’t think I’m doing a very good job.”

Her critics weren’t impressed.

“You chose to use your time to spill tears and center your feelings,” one person responded. “This is incredibly racist and deflecting behavior.”

It’s at this point we should realize that Jackie Matellian wasn’t facing a “reasonable” audience of critics, she was facing a bloodthirsty mob of dangerous zealots who had already condoned threats of fire-bombing her business, and these threats were issued without fear of consequence because this entire class of victims has been told their victim status totally absolves them of accountability for anything they do.

I put the word “reasonable” in scare quotes, though, because CIVIL legal claims, like protection orders in Montana, hinge on what a “reasonable” person would perceive. Here’s the actual language of the statute from Montana Code Annotated:

The intent of protection orders, as the name suggests, is to PROTECT the petitioner, not PUNISH the defendant, but enough people are using protection order to punish people that a Virginia law firm outlined why this is NOT the intent of the process:

In some cases, individuals falsely claim to be victims to gain an advantage in a dispute, using the protective order process as a means of punishment. The legal system, however, is not designed to resolve minor relationship or familial disputes rooted in personal grudges.

Weaponizing a protective order not only limits a person’s freedom of movement and ability to live freely but also has lasting effects on their reputation and relationships. The misuse of these orders can have long-term impacts, and it’s essential to address them with the seriousness they deserve.

When protective orders are weaponized in this way, they distort the purpose of the legal system and consume valuable legal resources.

For additional inquiries on this process, and how it might be abused, here’s a post on Reddit asking what would happen if someone did essentially what Brandon Bryant’s former roommate has done to him, with assistance from local authorities:

And here are some replies. Notice how the person being harassed by the weaponized protection order is expected to change their routines and take on the expense of hiring a lawyer to combat someone inclined to show up where they know the defendant is going to be:

One final online source on this topic continues asking the important questions about this process, and identifies those who are most likely to abuse the process–WOMEN!

Orders of protection are crucial legal instruments designed to protect individuals from harassment, abuse, and threats. However, there have been numerous cases where these orders are weaponized, particularly in contentious personal relationships. Some individuals, particularly women in this context, obtain these orders under false pretenses to gain leverage in disputes, causing undue harm to the accused.

One troubling aspect of this misuse is when the alleged victims, who sought protection, initiate contact with the person from whom they are supposedly seeking protection. This behavior not only undermines the integrity of the legal system but also causes significant emotional and legal distress to the accused party.

I propose the enactment of a new law that holds alleged victims accountable if they initiate contact with the person against whom they have an active order of protection. The key provisions of this law would include:

Clear Definition and Evidence: Establishing clear guidelines on what constitutes initiation of contact, including electronic communications, phone calls, and in-person meetings. Evidence of such contact must be thoroughly documented.

Lying about me and making my life as unlivable as possible is one thing, but when I see the name of my petitioner appear in print, in the Missoulian, to preach compassion about “urban camping”, where drug abuse and sexual abuse is happening with ALARMING frequency, I know how important it is that I continue to fight back against the kind of people who say shit like this in public while lying to the courts to destroy a REAL truth teller:

As the former Homeless Outreach Coordinator of the Poverello Center, I once relied on supposedly “empathic” people to do what I thought was an important community service, but now I see this “empathy” for what it is: a toxic method of attaining cultural power and, like all power, it corrupts the people who wield it.

If this town chooses to keep ignoring what’s happening with weaponized protection orders, and all the time and money being wasted to punish and destroy undesirables, then REAL threats to community safety, like cop-protected drug dealers killing people with dangerous substances, will continue to proliferate.

If that’s what this community wants, then just sit back, do nothing, and let the people who mistakingly stood up for what they believed in get destroyed so that you liberal cowards can pretend this type of legal destruction will never come for you.

Thanks for reading.