Beware the Freedom Cult
A public service announcement
I’ve recently been informed that a cult has strategically infiltrated our government. The cult’s plan has evidently been unfolding for decades. It targeted state bureaucracies responsible for criminal justice and public health. Little is known about the cult apart from its mission statement, “Live Free or Die,” and its symbol, “Ø.”
A CIA official noticed a strange pattern in classified cases of institutional homicide. This is when someone dies in state care and it looks like a suicide, but the state acted negligently in a way that increased the individual's risk of suicide. The government classifies and routinely destroys all evidence of its role in these institutional homicides. The number of cases has abruptly increased in recent years, largely due to the suspected activities of the freedom cult.
In each of the noteworthy cases, cult members with full access to state intel and logistics present the homicide victim with a fatal choice. I am leaking a selected portion of these accounts to the public below. I have taken the liberty of synthesizing the facts of the cases into unified narratives.
Ø Account #1: The Homeless Addict
A homeless man fell from a skyscraper in a major American city. Three months earlier, he received housing from the state. He had been on the waitlist for six years. He would have received housing years earlier, but his phone was stolen while he slept on the street, and he couldn’t be reached. He went to his much-anticipated home. When he walked into the space, he wept before leaving to buy heroin, which he had been addicted to for over a decade.
The man was ambushed during the nighttime handoff. Men in black robes appeared out of nowhere. They blindfolded the man and covered him in a black cape. They held him by the neck and forced him back to his new apartment. The man didn’t resist. They chained him to his bed, which was bolted against the wall. They told him that they had been sent to give him a choice, but explained that he wasn’t able to make this choice yet because of his addiction.
Over the next three months, the robed men brought the vagrant back to health. They gave him drugs to help with his withdrawal, treated his wounds, and even cooked him nutritious meals. He became healthier than he had been since he fell into drug addiction.
On the third-month anniversary of his new lease, one of the robed men entered his bedroom to present the former addict with his choice. The man was offered a choice between heroin far purer than he’d ever shot up before and a new life in a program similar to witness protection. He’d be given a new identity, a job, and a homey apartment in a safe neighborhood. The man had the rest of the day to decide.
When the man made his decision, he was asked to shower and wear only a black robe with a dark hood. He was escorted to the top of the tallest skyscraper in the city and handed the purest heroin available. He injected it, smiled, and fell backward off the ledge. The robed men cleaned his body off the sidewalk and cremated his remains.
Ø Account #2: The Traumatized Orphan
A gang leader brutally murdered the parents and siblings of a young boy in front of him. The boy grew up in foster homes and juvenile detention centers. When he was 16, he was arrested for his involvement in a gang-related homicide. He drove an older gang member to the house where the murder occurred.
In the night, a robed man entered his cell. He told the boy that he would give him a choice in three years. The boy was transferred the next day to one of the top psychiatric facilities in the country. He was diagnosed with PTSD and spent the next three years undergoing intensive treatment for his trauma. He participated in many individual and group therapy sessions and took his prescribed medications. He became psychiatrically healthier than he’d been since his family was murdered.
On the three-year anniversary, the 19-year-old awoke to find himself in the basement of a secure government facility. The man who murdered his family was tied to a chair in front of him. The two of them were surrounded by men in dark robes. One of the robed men gave the boy his choice. The boy could choose between a pistol with two bullets and a wiped record. They gave him the day to decide, but the boy made up his mind immediately. He took the pistol, shot the gangster in the head, smiled, and then shot himself. The robed men secretly disposed of their bodies.
Ø Account #3: The Drowning Schizophrenic
A young woman with severe schizophrenia was resuscitated in the hospital after almost dying from excessive water intake. The voices in her head repeatedly told her that she was dying from dehydration, so she consumed a dangerous amount of pure drinking water. She went into a state of hyponatremia (acute water intoxication). The doctors rebalanced her electrolytes and saved her life.
That day, case workers located the woman’s family. They told the family that a secret donor who had seen the woman in the hospital had dedicated a million dollars to her rehabilitation. The donor only asked to meet the woman in three years. The family agreed to help and partnered with the case workers to care for the woman. She saw the best psychiatrists in the state and took the best drugs on the market.
A year into her treatment, she stopped hearing voices all the time. When they did speak, she could identify them as hallucinations and clear them from her mind. She moved out of her family’s home and lived independently in an apartment on the other side of town.
The day before the third anniversary of her resuscitation, a dam burst. The flood was estimated at that time to have killed at least 200 people (a tragic underestimate). Every member of her family was confirmed dead.
The next day, a group of robed men entered the woman’s apartment. They showed her footage of her family members drowning inside their home. They presented the woman with a choice. She could receive lifelong funding for her mental healthcare or be taken to a secluded pool that had been created specifically for her. It was located on a private beach and filled with triple osmosis filtered drinking water. She had the day to decide.
She told the men in robes that she didn’t like either option and asked them to leave. The men then pulled down their dark hoods to reveal that they were wearing the faces of her dead family members as masks. A camera from a corporate building next door recorded her standing motionless in front of them for almost an hour.
She laid down on her bed and watched her ceiling fan spin until sunset. The men stood silently in the room the entire time. As the last of the sun was dropping below the horizon, she rose to her feet and made her decision. She walked to the man wearing the face of her father, kissed him, and followed the men out of the apartment. They blindfolded her and drove her to the pool. She stripped off her clothes, dove into the water, and drank it until she drowned. The robed men sank her remains into the ocean.
These three accounts present the freedom cult’s typical MO. I have been privy to backroom talks among high-ranking intelligence officials regarding the classified investigation of this cult. It is suspected to have perpetuated thousands of institutional homicides.
However, the cult has also used private and state resources to drastically improve the lives of several hundred individuals. For instance, I have personally reviewed over 50 cases in which homeless drug addicts who recently qualified for state-funded housing were given choices similar to the one presented to the homeless man in the first account. They are still alive. The survivors chose to enroll in the program that provided them with a new identity and livelihood. The life of every individual in this cohort has flourished in ways that previously seemed impossible. Each adamantly refuses to acknowledge the cult’s existence.
Some agency leaders have observed that the cult’s institutional homicides will save taxpayers millions of dollars worth of care over time. They have been obstructing the investigation into the cult. It’s unclear whether they simply want to save money or are ideologically aligned with the cult. It’s possible that they are secret members of the cult themselves.
I share these accounts as a public service announcement. Of course, as a member of the public, there is not much that you can do to impact the cult directly. What you can do is make a choice that influences the culture of our society, one that indirectly affects the cult’s power.
Choose between caring freedom, the kind that the government aims to provide its citizens, and daring freedom, the kind that the cult forces upon its victims. Make your choice now, for doing so may save you from a real encounter with the cult in your personal life.
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