[dramatic music]
* *
- The Shadowland project is really an examination
of how people come to believe in conspiracies...
- What do you think she was looking for?
- What makes conspiracy theories alluring?
- And what that can mean for the future of the nation.
- A line's been drawn in the sand.
- They want to destroy America.
- We've never seen conspiracy theories move from the margins
into the mainstream discourse
the way they have over the last five or six years.
- There are wealthy, powerful families
that want to control everything.
- We see families who feel torn apart
because they have different world views.
- He'd make me laugh a lot.
That all left once he got into Q
and conspiratorial thinking.
- It really has become, sad to say, us and them.
[crowd cheering]
- January 6th, an entire insurrection,
you know, the almost-overthrow of the United States government
happened because large numbers of people
are susceptible to conspiracy theories.
* *
- I know you guys are gonna take this,
and you're gonna spin it to make me look like
a crazy conspiracy theorist.
- I mean, you guys have spent three days with me.
You feel I'm a danger to society?
* *
- The strings are being pulled by a puppet master.
He's pulling the strings on both sides.
- I used to laugh so hard at conspiracy theorists,
and then I started seeing it on the inside.
* *
- My belief is that this was completely 100% planned.
- They use the coronavirus as their Trojan horse
to usher in whatever the hell they wanted!
* *
- When people play around
with these ridiculous conspiracy theories,
the result of it has been violence.
- We were really interested in exploring
the real systems behind, like,
why conspiracy thinking happens.
- The cabal, the illuminati,
they don't want you to find the truth.
I'm not a "pay-triot," P-A-Y.
I'm a patriot.
- There's something else going on,
something in the shadows.
- The Nazis aren't coming. They're here.
- The goal of the project is to bring what's happening
in the shadows out into the sunlight.
- We're at war because the rule of law
in this country has been eliminated!
[dramatic music]
* *
[soft dramatic music]
* *
- Police arrested two McKean County residents
in connection with the riot at the U.S. Capitol.
William Blauser Jr. of Ludlow and Pauline Bauer of Kane
face several charges.
- After their arraignment, they were released on bond.
* *
- We will-- you and I will endure.
- Guess I don't have a problem dying for my country.
Just don't want to be incarcerated.
* *
[soft guitar music]
* *
- I think you took my poached egg one.
- Yeah, I did, because the guy wanted...
- All right, what's our list look like?
[phone rings] Hey.
I would love to, but I got more important things
I gotta take care of right now,
'cause I have my hearing on Friday,
and I won't be able to make it tonight,
'cause I have to get stuff packed up and head out
by tomorrow morning.
You know, I would love to come
and hang out with you guys again, but...
If I don't go to jail...
Okay, I will. Thanks, Leo.
Mm-hmm. Bye-bye.
Pizza business I learned from my husband.
My husband had worked at pizza shops since he was 16.
Then he taught me.
He taught me, and he goes fishing now.
[laughs]
- If you know Pauline,
you know what a good person she is.
She's done a lot for the community
that a lot of people don't realize.
- I mean, yeah, people are prayin'
and thinkin' about me all the time, and I mean,
I just got that bear up there.
[soft music]
I grew up on a farm in Gibsonia, Pennsylvania.
It was hard work.
But it's what shaped me into--
where my work ethic came from.
I worked 18 years for Kmart,
and I lost my entire retirement
when the stock went from $30 to $5 a share overnight.
So at that point,
I said I will never work for anyone else again.
I came here with my husband in 2005.
We really wanted to move here.
So we found this for sale,
and we ended up buying the restaurant.
When we got started,
we had close to $50,000 in credit card debt,
and we worked very hard.
I had three years left
until everything was completely paid off
when the pandemic hit.
[ominous music]
- This virus has just exploded throughout
the state of Pennsylvania.
- I believed at first that it was an actual pandemic.
We had cleaned this restaurant top to bottom with bleach,
and a lot of my employees were overwhelmed.
It was a stressful, stressful time to be a business owner.
- New restrictions announced in the last hour
for the entire state of Pennsylvania.
- All non-life-sustaining businesses in the state
must close.
* *
- Everything started to change on March 17th of 2020.
The 17th is when they told them that startin' tomorrow,
you're shut down.
You cannot--you can't be open.
So of course, she complied. She shut down.
- At that time, I seriously thought I was gonna lose
everything I ever worked for.
[tense music]
* *
- She was a lot different.
She was not political.
She liked going more on her boat
and doing things like that,
instead of going to these rallies.
Then she started into the politics.
She started on her cell phone,
goin' into things, lookin' things up.
* *
- I started to get involved
with researching the coronavirus.
- Welcome, everyone.
Log onto social media, and you'll probably find
some of your friends sharing
wild COVID-19 conspiracy theories.
Pretty much all of them are packed into one viral video
that's made the rounds.
- Then I came across the "Plandemic" video.
- It's called "Plandemic," a 25-minute video claiming
to show the real story behind COVID-19.
- Nothing is more insidious than this so-called
"Plandemic" conspiracy theory
now floating about, which alleges that coronavirus
was engineered to increase vaccinations
and make people rich.
- Pharmaceutical companies,
how much money are they making on the vaccine?
They brought upon the pandemic.
Event 201, in October of 2019 by Bill Gates,
proves they were gonna bring the pandemic.
* *
[mixer whirring]
- The textbook definition of a conspiracy theory
is the idea that a small group of people
are sort of collaborating in private, in secret,
to enact harm on the common person.
- The pandemic has given a boost to conspiracy theories
like those propagated by QAnon
with its claim that Satan-worshipping
pedophile elites are running our lives.
- The kind of conventional wisdom
about conspiracy thinking
is that it solves a few sort of psychological needs.
One is the need for belonging.
- Through online forums, these different conspiracy theories
brought more people together, especially over the past year.
- Another is the need for knowledge, the epistemic need.
It's just sort of like, make sense of the world around you.
- And when something big happens,
like a terrorist attack or a mass shooting,
we assume there must be
an equally big explanation for it.
- And believing conspiracy theories is a way
to sort of understand the bad things that happen.
* *
- I thought the pandemic would've woke everyone up,
but it didn't.
There are some people that still do not believe
in the New World Order.
- A one world government
controlled by the 13 elite families of the world.
- Well, it's controlled by the Vatican
and the royal family and the Rothschilds
and the Rockefellers and the Morgans,
and the more and more that we bow down to it,
the less liberties we're going to have.
We need to stand up.
We need to start fighting,
and that's why I went there on January 6th,
because our elections were stolen from us.
[dramatic music]
- We define a conspiracy theory
as a explanation for world events,
that there's secret and malevolent coordination.
Then that certainly applies to the notion
that people secretly worked together to steal the election.
- This is the most fraudulent thing anybody's--
this is a criminal enterprise.
- We know that that's not true.
But that's, in large part,
what incited the insurrection on January 6th.
- When you catch somebody in a fraud,
you're allowed to go by very different rules.
* *
- Who?
Where did you hear that at? - Four of five of them.
- All charges were dropped?
- I hope so.
Bill is my best friend.
He's a Purple Heart Vietnam veteran,
and Bill was by my side the entire time.
[indistinct shouting]
When I was standing on the Capitol building steps,
I got maced directly in the eyeballs,
and I could not see,
and thank God that Bill was there.
- She said, "You gotta be my eyes to get in there,"
you know, so I said, "Well, I really don't wanna go in."
We'll get out, and all she said--
so then the doors open.
- Whose house? all: Our house!
- Whose house? [horn blares]
* *
all: USA!
- There were a whole bunch of police there.
She told them that they-- she wanted to bring that--
bring that bitch out here and hang her.
- She wanted to go down into the Capitol
where the Senate chambers are.
I didn't wanna go down in there, for sure.
[indistinct yelling]
- Around 3:30, President Trump told us all to go home.
So we went home.
- Now, some of our not-so-dear friends,
they called the FBI on us.
[tense music]
- They're charging me
with obstructing an official proceeding,
and that is supposed to be a 20-year sentence.
* *
- You could've fibbed a little bit.
- Thank you.
On September 17th at 10:30 a.m.,
I have a status hearing in Washington, D.C.
* *
It's scary, but...
If this is the path where God's chosen me to take...
Everything happens for a reason.
* *
- One of our hypotheses going into "Shadowland"
was that a lot of this is about money,
and there are people who are
profiting off of conspiracy theories,
and we really wanted to open that world for people
to understand, like,
this is a billion-dollar industry, you know?
There's money to be made here.
[soft dramatic music]
* *
- Mimi? - Yeah?
- What can I help you with?
- Actually, I would just-- if you could just hang out,
we could listen to Tim Pool or something.
I could, like-- - Okay.
Let me get my phone and something to eat.
- My name is Zach Vorhies,
and I'm about to release my new social media network
to the world.
* *
Let's see here.
We have Infowars.
We also have Fox, OAN, Newsmax.
Steve Bannon's just amazing.
And some of it's conspiracy,
but most of it's pretty spot-on.
This is going to change the entire game.
I could end up as a millionaire
if people come in and want to help me do this.
* *
- My name is Maryam Henein.
I'm an investigative journalist.
Welcome to the channel where I address
chronic illnesses, autoimmune conditions.
I'm very active every day in reading and sharing information
about what's happening with the 'rona,
and these freedoms that are being taken away from us.
* This corona, fuck you, corona *
This was an opportunity to usher in many things.
[whispers] Brilliant Trojan horse!
[quietly] Inbox, inbox.
- Maryam is my girlfriend.
- I came across Zach while he was on Alex Jones.
- All right, Jack Vorhies is here with us.
- I looked at him on the screen.
His eyes looked familiar to me.
And then I reached out to him on Twitter.
- This is Zach Vorhies, the Google whistleblower here
with Maryam Henein.
- Investigative journalist.
So when we connected,
it was just--just awesome.
- The United States is in the state of war
against the world communist conspiracy.
Whether it scares some people or not, I don't give a hoot.
- [laughing] I don't think-- I don't think many people.
* *
- When this whole COVID mess came out,
me and Maryam were just beside ourselves with fear.
- COVID-19's greatest power is fear.
It is a psychological warfare weapon that has been deployed
against the people of the world to be the cover
for a controlled global collapse to consolidate power
in the hands of the globalists
and to establish their New World Order.
- There was one weekend we were actually on ecstasy,
and we were--we spent, like,
48 hours just watching all this fear porn.
- This is a 21st century war.
It's a gl--war about the globalists.
It's a psy-war trying to scare you,
and the answer to that is not be scared.
The answer is go...[screams]
- And so we just grabbed onto each other
and held on for dear life.
- He asked me, and he's like, "Would you be my girlfriend?"
It was, like, so cute.
- And we've been in this house ever since.
* *
I'm just gonna sit down in this pile of stuff, and...
So when can I tickle you?
Can we do that soon?
- I think there needs to be space on the bed for that.
- Really? - And there isn't...
- What if I proved you wrong? - Unfortunately.
[laughs] - What if I proved you wrong?
Huh? Huh? It's coming. It's coming.
- [laughs] - Okay, you're done now.
- Zach, I just saw you have a dimple.
- Where? - I just saw
you have a dimple here. - No way.
- I've never seen it before. - When does it show up?
- Now.
I have to take a picture-- you see it.
[children laughing]
- Hi, Zach.
* *
- I grew up in the forest of Oregon.
I went to the University of Oregon to study programming,
and Google was my dream job.
I actually worked there for 8 1/2 years,
first as an engineer on Google Earth,
and then later on YouTube.
That's how I came to San Francisco,
and that was my identity.
I was working for Google, working for the best company
in the world, and what I didn't realize
was how wrong that was all gonna turn out to be
8 1/2 years later.
- In the weeks since the election,
Facebook and Google have come under fire
for their supposed role in spreading "fake news"
throughout the election.
- A BuzzFeed analysis found that fake election news
generated more buzz than stories
from 19 mainstream news outlets combined.
- Now both companies are making changes
to stop this spread of false information.
- After Trump won the election,
Google decided that they were
going to start clamping down on fake news.
- Now Google and Facebook are targeting
how the creators of these fake news sites make money.
That's advertising.
- Bay area tech giants are taking action
against conspiracy theorist Alex Jones.
- iTunes, Facebook, Spotify, and YouTube
all removed his audio and video material.
- I saw that.
Conservatives like myself are getting censored.
I did not like the censorship,
and so I started to investigate
what the company was doing on the inside.
[tense music]
* *
- The Google whistleblower has come out of the shadows.
- I got this information out
to a right-wing investigative outlet.
- How did you obtain this document?
- So these documents were available
to every single employee within the company that was full-time.
The left wing basically called my disclosure a nothing-burger.
- Conservatives accused Google of political bias.
Is there any evidence of that?
- I think it would be really, incredibly difficult
to prove political bias at this point.
- You know, we do get concerns across both sides of the aisle.
- [coughs] - You know, I can assure you
we do this in a neutral way.
- But the right wing grabbed onto it.
- Zach, you've been a real hero coming forward.
Having you come to the forefront is amazing.
- And so people want
to understand, like, what's really going on.
They're--they come to me.
Google is this company hell-bent on enslaving you.
What Google is pushing is-- they're pushing ideas
that will destabilize the United States
and make it fall without the enemy firing a shot,
and the question is,
who's the enemy?
People want to know, well, who's pulling the strings?
Because obviously, there's a puppet master,
and the thing is, is that, we don't know who they are.
There is a New World Order, and Google is a part of it.
They're just a front group in the same way
that Facebook is a front group.
You know, the bag men of the New World Order.
- And that's why I'm here fighting today,
because I know what the deep state is able to pull off.
I know that they're able to pull off
this global warming scam.
I know that they're able to put
zoonotic mouse retroviruses in our vaccines.
They're able to put mercury in our filling.
You know, they put fluoride in our water
and in our toothpaste,
and they're able to do this in order to make us sick
so that we're--it necessitates
the need of a socialized healthcare.
I feel like I'm a hero.
- I want to hand you the floor,
'cause I'ma tell you, you're smart, man.
- I've got this new part of my life
where I'm an international celebrity now.
I think that I'm, like, the right wing hipster.
Like, I was, like, red-pilling before it was cool.
I'm not here to, like, get famous or anything.
I'm the Google whistleblower. [cheers and applause]
And I don't really charge for it.
It's just something that I want to do
because I wanna get the information out there.
- Um, the way that I make money--
I mean, look, I don't do any of these appearances for money,
and people often ask me, like, how do I make my income?
And the answer to that is I've got some wealthy donors
that are scared to death
that their businesses are going to be more destroyed
than they are by regulation and the government.
* *
- So this is my sauna.
This is great because it's portable.
Right now, it's cold in San Francisco,
so I use this a little-- my space,
and then I just listen to the podcast or the news
or do my work.
I grew up in Montreal, Canada.
I was very curious,
and I wanted to be a private eye.
My first story that I wrote for the "Montreal Gazette"
was at 18 years old, and then when I came here
to California, I was writing for "The Hollywood Reporter,"
and I was writing for "Maxim,"
and I was writing for "Penthouse."
I'm best known for directing a film
called "Vanishing of the Bees."
It's a documentary on colony collapse disorder.
I thought I was a Democrat
and thought I was liberal in my views
and then had a kind of rude awakening
in this past year and a half.
The shift in my thinking, as far as my politics,
was meeting Zach and the coronavirus.
It's not that I think this is not real,
because I know people who've been sick.
I just feel this is-- these responses are not kosher.
Fuck you.
Take your poisons,
and shove 'em into your veins,
and let us see what it does.
You are hypnotizing an entire planet by fear...
To get injected, to make money.
You're using humans as pawns.
You all think that this is about a virus?
This is about ushering in a New World Order.
This is about training people to be obedient slaves.
How did they do it during the Nazis?
This is how.
And, of course, getting personally all this hate--
I just got a message from--I don't know who.
"I honestly feel bad for you and your followers.
"So incredibly stupid and misinformed,
"just spreading the stupid and misinformation
amongst yourselves."
Okay, buddy. Just block.
I went to a conservative event with Zach
and saw that the people were super polite and welcoming.
Then felt like, "Oh, these people will accept me."
* *
[keys clacking]
So I'm writing a book, and it's been challenging,
despite my writing skills,
to sell this story because of, uh,
how controversial it is.
- I do believe we're gonna be able to get you
a syndicated space in several online publications
starting this month. - Okay.
I'm not doing this for money or for fame.
I grew up watching Alfred Hitchcock movies
and Hardy Boys and Agatha Christie.
I think people like whodunits.
People like the truth.
And then is there any word on this network?
Are they still interested? - Mm-mm.
He did say he was interested after I shared with him
what you had already done. - Okay.
- I do feel that once I have it written,
that someone will publish it.
It's going to be that good.
- I have always been interested
in why people believe in conspiracy theories,
because I understand firsthand
that anyone can believe in conspiracy theories.
[dramatic music]
When I was a teenager,
I had a teacher who believed in the illuminati
and who taught our class that the illuminati was real,
and I believed it.
* *
It was totally intoxicating.
It feels really good,
especially when you are a teenager,
to feel like you understand things that other people don't
and to feel like you kind of get the way the world works,
and someone told me
that the key to the universe, basically,
is that there's a shadowy cabal of rich people
who are pulling the strings, and that worked for me.
It feels really good to feel like you've unlocked
the secret of how wealth and power works,
and to seek fairness
and to prevent bad actors from acting badly.
It feels like being a little high,
and I--that feeling has stayed with me
even though the thoughts that undergird it haven't.
So that's part of why I wanted to do this project.
I think it's so important to not lose sight of that,
that this is something that is really pulling people in.
[somber guitar music]
* *
- "Dear Pauline, I hope they hang you
"by the neck till you die after convicting you of treason.
"You're not only an embarrassing nutcase
"that humiliates our democracy by your very existence.
"You're the usual idiot redneck
"who votes for con artists like Trump.
"You Trump cunt, treasonous, fucking pig.
"Suck on Trump's tiny, shriveled, wrinkled,
"spray-tanned dick, you bimbo-ditz whore.
Choke on a confederate flag. You're a traitorous cunt."
- I just learned to blow it off.
You know, when I was in middle school,
my best friend came to me and said that
a lot of the girls in my grade
told her not to hang out with me
'cause I smelled like a cow,
'cause I grew up on a farm.
So I've learned to...
not to pay much attention to words.
You know? It's not their fault.
They're just uneducated.
* *
[tense music]
* *
- Well, I have it. There is your document.
All 127 pages of it.
- I came across Bobby Lawrence at the rallies,
and Bobby was talking about how
we needed to not be "citi-zens" anymore.
- We have had the biggest fraud perpetrated on us
in the history of mankind.
- There is a group of people living amongst us
who walk like us, talk like us, and act like us,
but they say they are different.
- Sovereign citizens basically believe that
the current federal government is illegitimate and illegal.
- What we have are corporations
that are owned by a small group of people
that are pretending to be government.
This fight is real. This struggle is real.
We have a giant cabal called
the Corporation of the United States,
and the Bar Association that seeks to keep us slaves.
* *
You can find out who the top 20 people are
that own the Corporation of the United States.
And why they do it is to make money--
simple, plain and simple.
And they do it through fraud, fear, and intimidation.
* *
- I love my country.
I'm patriotic as you can get.
I have always stood for the national anthem.
I've always pledged allegiance to the flag.
I believe in our constitutional rights
and our Declaration of Independence
and liberty,
and I feel that we have lost our liberties.
So when I sat down with Bobby and I listened to him,
I decided to go on this path.
- You are making history right now.
You're in a federal district court in Washington, D.C.,
with--a part of one of the biggest events,
legal events, in the history of our nation,
and you have chosen to stand up
and fight for God's law, fight for what is real,
fight for what is righteous.
- My defense is that their rules, codes, statutes
and ordinance do not apply to sovereign people,
to an American state national
who is no longer part of their corporation.
I don't want an attorney.
They don't care about the welfare
of the people they're representing.
They're only in it to make money.
Okay, so I'm gonna enter the courtroom and say,
"I'm here, Your Honor, by Divine Special Appearance."
- That's cool.
You can say, "I am Pauline from the house of Bauer,
"and I seek a settlement today
of these issues before the court."
And you have to believe these words.
If you've gotta read 'em from a piece of paper...
- I know. - You know, it's not gonna--
you know, you gotta look 'em in the eye when you say it.
You can't be readin' off a piece of paper.
He's gotta--he's gotta know you believe it.
He's gotta know that it's in your heart and it's real.
And you're talking to him, one woman to one man,
not some vessel in talking to shit made up.
He is a man.
Okay, and I doubt very seriously if he knows
he's part of a cabal.
I'm gonna get you ready for what may come, okay?
So when you walk in there tomorrow,
I want you to feel and know what I know.
Don't be afraid to quote the Bible, okay?
The Bible is what our nation was founded on.
It's illegal-- is the undoing of God's law.
It's shit made up.
They can't force you to surrender God's law
for the legal shit made up.
So they try to get you to capitulate
and give a tacit agreement by giving your "sig-nature,"
surrender nature's law on their land.
If you sig-nature their document, you surrender law.
Sig, surrender, nature.
Under God's law, we created government.
We were directed by God to take dominion
over the land, the air, and the water.
What I'm doing right now--
this is why that judge doesn't want me
in that courtroom.
I will eviscerate that federal judge
and any prosecutor they put before me.
They can't out-debate me,
'cause they don't know half this shit.
But I can tell 'em where to go look it up.
And I'm just a construction worker that puts windows in.
They're the ones that's been practicing law
their entire career.
I'm a people.
You're a restauranteur.
You did nothin' wrong.
You harmed no one. You touched no one.
You were invited in.
But all you said was, "Bring that bitch out here."
Dismiss these charges,
and when you walk in that courtroom tomorrow,
you remember that good and righteousness
is on your side.
* *
[tense music]
* *
- I am here in Duluth, Georgia,
and I'm here to talk to Sarah Lewis,
whose childhood best friend, Rosanne Boyland,
was one of the people who died on January 6th at the Capitol.
What I'm really here to do is
to try to understand, on a person level,
why conspiracy theories are so compelling
and how someone's whole worldview
can change so quickly.
- New information tonight about the death of a Georgia woman
who died during the January 6th attack
at the U.S. Capitol in D.C.,
trampled under a stampede of rioters.
- Rosanne Boyland's family
called her a happy, wonderful person.
- Rosanne's social media posts show how she was caught up
in pro-Trump conspiracy communities involving QAnon.
- Many believers of QAnon
believing factions of the government
are run by pedophiles
running an international sex-trafficking ring.
- Rosanne's family and friends
wishing the woman they loved so dearly
had not gotten herself so wrapped up
in conspiracy theories they consider dangerous.
- Hi! - Hi, I'm Ellen.
- I'm Sarah. both: So nice to meet you.
- Tell me about Rosanne.
What do you wish people knew about her?
- I wish that people knew
that before this QAnon exposure,
before that, she was a regular Trump-roastin',
good-time-havin' person.
We literally were exchanging memes about the man,
like, two days, three days
before she "went down the rabbit hole."
- Mm-hmm.
- She was my best friend,
and best friend is really an understatement.
We were more like family because of the fact
that we were introduced to each other so young.
We were only 17 months.
So there's no memory that I have without her until now.
* *
She had an amazing sense of humor.
She was always joking.
But my friend was hurting.
You know, her whole life, she was hurting.
I guess it was middle school,
things started to change for her.
I started doing drugs in, like, late middle school.
So come to find out, we had both started to branch out
kind of on our own little drug journeys.
Her opiate use turned into heroin
some point after high school,
and it took a lot for me to accept that.
But she just struggled and struggled.
And then her nieces were born.
Her sister had her first baby,
and nothing could've been better for Rosanne.
Like, somehow that just triggered her
to wanna do something better, and she cleaned up for them,
and she started going to NA.
But you know, her life was just pretty basic.
Taking care of the girls,
you know, watching TV, playin' on her phone.
That was really it, you know? She didn't have a job.
She never left home. Didn't have a home of her own.
Didn't get married. Didn't have children.
And then when quarantine happened,
it messed with Rosanne.
She had nothing but her room and her phone
and that isolation.
- Not going to meetings.
- Right, she's taking it seriously.
She wasn't going to meetings, wasn't going out
because she took COVID seriously at first,
and so, um, she goes down this "rabbit hole,"
they like to say, and that's what she called it too.
Immediately--the first night she found out about this shit,
she admitted that she was up all night reading it,
that she hadn't slept.
The very next message I have from her is,
"I've been up all night. Haven't slept."
Like, she was immediately that hyper-fixated
that she forgot everything else.
We never disagreed on anything!
Like, we grew up, same mind on all this stuff.
So sh--I'm just blown away
when she's like, "No, you have to understand,
"Donald Trump is the only person
"that knows about all this
and that wants to do anything about this."
- What do you think she was looking for?
- I think she was looking for a purpose,
and I think, for her, that created--
like, she felt like a failure to launch.
She felt like a loser.
She felt like, you know, she had no purpose
other than drain society,
which was totally the opposite of what she was.
She was everyone's support who needed her.
I think she just found in QAnon
all of the things that she, at that moment, needed.
* *
It was gonna be an opportunity to rescue these children
and be a part of something huge and historic and productive.
And for once, it wasn't gonna be, you know,
"I'm not being found in the Walmart parking lot
"with foam coming out of my mouth
and a needle hanging out of my arm."
You know, "This is something I can be proud of
is fighting for this."
I wish I had really tried more to stop it,
but I thought, "You know, what harm is it gonna do
for her to just keep posting this shit?"
- Right. Well, and you've said that it happened
really, really fast. - It did.
Literally just less than a year.
- Yeah. - Less than six months, really.
I just woke up one morning, on the 7th, I guess.
A friend of mine had sent me a text,
and she was like, "Oh my God, I can't believe this."
And she had attached a news story,
and I just remember screaming.
[sniffs]
Just like that, my best friend is gone.
My person, the only person who knows me on this planet.
She's the only person on this planet who remembers
everything about my life
and can talk about things with me
and can frame things for me.
"Well, Sarah, this is why you do that,
"'cause don't you remember,
your grandma was kind of like this way?"
That's valuable.
Like, I would have done whatever it took
to make this not happen.
[somber music]
And I'm being selfish for my fucking self.
I would have done everything to make this not happen
for her, for the world.
People needed what she had.
And now nobody will have it.
* *
- It helps me understand more this sort of
"search for meaning" piece of this.
It does seem like Rosanne
really wanted something to believe in
and something that, more than that, made her feel
like she was working towards something.
* *
- Okay. Here we go. Here we go.
This is what I was looking for.
She says, "I want to say thank you to everyone
"involved in this movement.
"My family thinks I'm crazy,
"but I'm heading up from ATL to be shoulder to shoulder
"with my true brothers and sisters.
"I finally feel like everything and everyone has a purpose.
"And I'm super grateful that God kept me alive long enough
"and woke me up just in time to see all this.
"So thank you. God bless you all.
See you on the 6th. Where we go one, we go all."
It brings me a small measure of comfort
that her final act
was, in her mind, so heroic.
So heroic and brave.
- I came here to figure out
what brought Rosanne Boyland to the Capitol.
Purpose.
Like, she said it herself in her own words,
and that, I think was really meaningful.
* *
[tense music]
* *
[computer dings]
- Howdy.
- What's up, Maryam? - What's up?
Okay, here we go. Okay. I'm ready.
[dramatic musical sting]
- All right, guys, thanks for tuning in.
First of all, today we're gonna be hearing a conversation
between myself and my friend Maryam Henein.
She and her partner, Zach Vorhies,
the Google whistleblower, do a lot of work together.
Maryam's been a health freedom advocate for a long time,
and now she is finding herself part of another club:
people who are getting their bank accounts shut off
because they don't hold the right political views.
- So this is the story from the "New York Post"
"JPMorgan Chase accused of purging accounts
of conservative activists."
- They sent us this little letter that just said,
"You represent reputational risk to our bank,
and so therefore we're canceling those two accounts."
- Recently, Maryam had her bank account for her business
completely shut down.
And we're gonna be right back with the interview
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All right, everyone. Welcome back.
Maryam, how are you?
- I'm well. Thank you for having me on.
- Yeah. No problem.
- And it was my business, just to make that distinction.
They did say that they would send a check.
And so that's on its way.
And I asked, "Why?
"Is it because I'm unvaccinated vermin?
Is it because I sell vitamins?"
And they straight up say, "We don't have to give you
a reason why we've canceled you."
I'm not doing anything wrong.
I'm a successful, intelligent, hardworking entrepreneur
that actually cares about people's health,
wants to empower people.
And how do I explain to my parents
that I'm not an eff-up?
That there's a reason why a 48-year-old woman
is in need of help
because she doesn't have access to her funds?
- Right. Well, thanks a lot... - Thank you.
- For getting in touch with me, Maryam.
I appreciate it, and say hi to Zach for me too.
- I will. Bye.
I've been totally attacked.
I'm banned from PayPal.
I've lost channels on YouTube. I'm banned from Amazon.
I just got shut down by Chase.
[sighs]
My livelihood is totally impacted.
I'm on food stamps
and constantly struggling.
- If you find out about this stuff,
if you get obsessive
about these conspiracy theories,
what it does is it wrecks who you are as a person.
It separates you from society.
You think that your friends and family would be happy
to find out that they've been lied to,
but instead they turn on you.
[somber music]
- Yeah, I've lost lots of supposed friends.
Over and over again, "What's happened to you?"
If you give a shit about what's happened to me,
pick up the phone and speak to me
and ask me what's happened.
Nothing's happened to me.
My mother said she "disagrees" with me,
but she hasn't read anything that I've read,
and she doesn't know
what the fuck she's disagreeing with.
My parents are vaccinated.
My dad worked for Pfizer.
And my dad said, straight up, quote,
"I don't care what you have to say."
* *
The people that I thought were intellectuals
don't really think for themselves anymore.
Right? - Mm-hmm.
- Or they have this huge blind spot.
- Doesn't matter.
I don't even like the old friends.
Like, I want to get new friends
'cause the new friends treat me different.
This polarization is happening all over America.
It's almost biblical where they talk about
how family--brother would turn against brother,
father against son.
- Very little.
- He thinks something darker is happening with me.
I miss my dad all the time.
I wish, like-- he used to be my confidant.
You know, he used to be the person that I looked up to.
I can't even talk to him anymore
without us getting into, like, a fight
where we start screaming at each other.
And I don't know whether I'm gonna ever have
a good relationship with him again.
I'm sorry.
[pensive music]
Just hold the whole screen 'cause this is gonna pop off.
- Okay. [drill whirs]
- Thank you. - Thank you. That's it.
- I believe in freedom,
and I don't want to play these games anymore.
Okay.
At this point, I am trying
to save myself by escaping San Francisco.
I never liked San Francisco.
Especially don't like it now with the 'rona
and these mandates.
And so I'm leaving to go to Florida
to maybe just buy some time
and then figure out whether I need to leave America.
I mean, lots of people who...
don't believe in this vaccine are in the same position.
- [grunts]
In all possibility, I'm gonna be following her
in a few weeks myself.
- There's one underneath.
We're all in the same boat of, where are we gonna feel safe?
Are they gonna take us to the gulag
because we're unvaccinated vermin?
I will continue to pack everything
and have it all sorted,
and then we can just circle back.
But are you pretty much have come to terms
with the fact that you're leaving this--
- I have to leave. This city isn't safe for me.
Like, I was in doubt that it was happening.
I was like, "Oh, it's not gonna happen."
And then it's like, boom, now they're trying to push
for unvaccinated to not be able to travel on airplanes.
At what step am I not gonna be able
to even drive across state boundaries?
- Well, there'll be checkpoints.
Maybe by the time you go there might be a checkpoint.
- Maybe. Maybe it'll happen in 30 days.
I don't think so.
I think I got a little bit more time.
[tense music]
- I would love to be making plans with Zach.
I hope to be with him. I adore him.
* *
But he has his own path.
* *
[pensive music]
* *
[phone ringing]
- Hello?
- Same to you, Billy.
- I will.
- Pauline, gonna leave in about two minutes.
- All right, well, we're getting ready to leave here.
- All right. You too, Billy.
- So is he coming?
- So he doesn't have to go?
- Okay. - All right.
* *
- I'm a little nervous.
- You ready to go do this thing?
- Yeah.
* *
- Okay.
- Your stomach's messed up?
- What are you concerned about today specifically?
- I'm concerned because the prosecution has asked
for my conditions of release to be revoked
and hold me in contempt.
I mean, you guys have spent three days with me.
Do you feel I'm a danger to society?
I mean, do I walk around with a weapon on me?
Do I harm anyone?
I hug people. [laughs] I don't harm people.
- All right. All right.
And we're off to the races.
[pensive music]
* *
I don't care if they flood it or blow it up.
It's a satanic city.
[tense music]
* *
MSM is the whole reason why this country's so messed up,
'cause they're owned by six companies.
George Soros-funded companies.
You print lies.
- None of your business.
[laughter]
- Am I gonna have a choice?
I mean, our court systems are corrupt.
They've been compromised.
[foreboding music]
* *
- Okay.
The judge is in the room.
[dramatic music]
- Hmm.
- He's gonna lock her up.
- The judge said she believes she's above the law
and he can't allow that.
She's not claiming to be above the law.
She's claiming that the judge needs to follow the law.
So he's taking her into custody.
He's locking her up.
- Oh, my God.
* *
- Now he's holding her in contempt of court.
And he wouldn't allow her to testify to give testimony!
To rebut that shit made up by the prosecution!
The judge is full of shit.
- Let's see, there were two, four, six, eight marshals.
We're talking about a lady that runs a restaurant.
Not somebody--
they treat terrorists better than they did her.
Then they wanna know why so many people
are buying weapons and ammo.
There you have it.
- Yeah, about-- she's looking at 30 days,
by my understanding.
- She said she'd rather be shot then put back in prison.
- We're at war!
We're at war with the court systems.
We're at war with the Bar Association.
We're at war because the rule of law in this country
has been eliminated!
[tense music]
* *
[tense music]
What's happening?
[sobbing]
- So the basic thing
I'm working on is sort of the intersection
of conspiricism and capitalism, essentially.
The way that conspiracy theories
sell themselves.
- My belief is this was
completely, 100% planned.
- A warning tonight about a fake coronavirus cure
being sold.
- Should I be worried about me
being put in jail, like yourself?
- I'm not gonna say 100%
they won't arrest you.
* *
Look at us.