Zombie: The Military Industrial Complex Part 1
This isn't just about missing children. Iran Contra never ended.
THIS IS THE SECURITY YOU ASKED FOR.
I know you see the posters of missing children. Hundreds of them. It is widely believed that more than 800,000 children go missing every year. This number is highly debated. There are claims that state that the number is "flawed and overstated." Regardless, there are huge discrepancies between the official number of children who go missing every year and the agencies meant to protect them. Official sources are in conflict as you will soon see.
Here are the reported missing children under the age of 18 by year per the FBI, and those listed with no date of birth.
Why would there be children, or adults because we don't know how old they are, listed with no date of birth? Wouldn't the person listing them as missing have some idea as to the age of the person missing? Wouldn't there be a way to look this information up (especially if it is an adult) through other sources? And if it is a child, wouldn't they be registered with a medical doctor, school, sport, etc which would have their date of birth on file or family members who could be asked?
It could be human error or a data entry issue. But it is curious that this only started to be recorded in 2020 and not in any of the previous years.
Why 800,000 May Be The Right Number
“….. A child goes missing every 40 seconds in the U.S., over 2,100 per day. In excess of 800,000 children are reported missing each year; another 500,000 go missing without ever being reported.” - Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP).
It is commonly reported that a child goes missing every 40 seconds of every single day. We have heard this statistic quoted over and over again with credit that it came from the Department of Justice's Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP).
Mollie Halpern: Their laughter, their playfulness, their innocence. It’s unthinkable, but that can all be stolen when children become victims of crimes like sexual exploitation or kidnapping. A child goes missing every 40 seconds in America. That comes to 765,000 children a year.
Ernie Allen: “I think every day we discover how enormous and under-recognized this problem really is.”
FBI: Inside the FBI: FBI and the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children
We hear it being quoted by law enforcement agencies, such as the above podcast which is produced by the FBI.
A child goes missing in the United States every 40 seconds, or over 2,100 per day. At least 800,000 children are reported missing each year. Of these children, an estimated 200,000 children are abducted by family members and over 55,000 by non-family members.
And it is stated in congressional testimony and reports, as in the above example when legislation being proposed for a child and elderly alert program — the AMBER alert system.
H.R. 4305 would authorize the Department of Justice (DOJ) to make grants to nonprofit organizations to establish an alert system to assist law enforcement agencies in recovering missing children, elderly, and disabled individuals. Grants could also be used by recipients to improve the technology of the alert system, provide training for users of the system, and for other purposes.
Congressional Budget Office: H.R. 4305, Child and Elderly Missing Alert Program, August 10, 2012
Why are we being told now that this number is incorrect and has been grossly flawed and overstated? Was the number of children missing overstated in order to get congressional programs and budgets approved? Or do children go missing which don't get reported? It seems to me that both scenarios are possibilities.
Do Missing Children Always Get Reported?
Federal law says that missing children MUST be reported.
Federal legislation enacted in 2014 requires state agencies to report a missing child to both law enforcement and NCMEC within 24 hours of receiving information about a missing child under their care.
Internet Archive: National Center for Missing and Exploited Children: Our 2022 Impact
But does that actually happen?
Unfortunately, since many children are never reported missing, there is no reliable way to determine the total number of children who are actually missing in the U.S.
When a child is reported missing to law enforcement, federal law requires that child be entered into the FBI’s National Crime Information Center (NCIC). According to the FBI, in 2022 there were 359,094 NCIC entries for missing children.
Internet Archive: National Center for Missing and Exploited Children: Our 2022 Impact
In that very same report, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children states that they only received 110,153 calls for that year.
Of those 110,153 calls, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children only assisted with 27,644 of them.
Note: The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children data for 2023 is available. However I was unable to pull up the PDF version of this report and the webpage was overly and ostentatiously designed which made it difficult to search for information. The PDF is at the bottom of the page if you would like to try.
What happened to the other 82,509 children that the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children received calls about? Why is there no data about them?
What happened to the 248,941 missing children that were put into the NCIC database but not reported to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children? Isn't it federal law that which requires state agencies to do this? Wouldn't law enforcement fall under this same legislation?
When you start looking at the reports given by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, the numbers don't come close to addressing the issue.
If the "at least 800,000 children are reported missing each year" statement is true, then this means at least 770,000 children go missing every year that are ignored or at least not addressed by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
WITH EVERY WEAPON OF THE STATE TURNED AGAINST US...
The Runaway Train Missing Children
On June 1, 1994, a band named Soul Asylum released a song with an accompanying music video called Runaway Train. The music video is what really went viral. There were multiple versions made of the video for the United States, Australia, and Germany.
The story line was simple and consistent for each version. There was mainly 3 scenes interspersed with multiple children showing various states of abuse or running away. In between each of the scenes, pictures of missing children were displayed with their names and the date they went missing. For the US, 36 children were displayed total in all the variations of the music video. It sent a very powerful message. Save us. And it was probably the largest independent awareness campaign that was orchestrated at that time.
In the first scene, during the first verse, a young boy witnesses the beating and murder of his grandmother by his grandfather. He then flees in fear at what he had witnessed.
In the second scene during the second verse, a young teenage girl is being pimped out. She is purchased by an older man. Later, she is abducted by a gang. She is later picked up by an ambulance and taken away presumably to a hospital.
In the last scene, a young mother is walking with her young child who is in a stroller. They are being followed and targeted by an older woman who is smoking a cigarette. When the young mother turns her back for a second, the older woman snatches the young babe away and drives off. The young mother is left hopelessly chasing the car on foot.
In one of the US versions of the song, one of the missing children shown was a young boy named Patrick Shawn Betz.
Before Amber Alerts and social media, there was Soul Asylum's video of 'Runaway Train' airing on MTV. In the video for the 1994 hit, the band featured powerful vignettes about 36 children who have gone missing. As a result of the video, 25 of the children were found — but the following 11 remain unaccounted for.
Patrick Shawn Betz (NCMEC Number 706544), who went by his middle name Shawn, is one of those children still missing.
The Patrick "Shawn" Betz Story
Shawn Betz bummed a few quarters off his mom to play video games in the back of a pizza joint in Upland, while she and his sister, Pamela, ordered a pie.
A few minutes later, he asked if he and a friend, who may have been the owner’s son, could go to Upland High School and watch the boy’s basketball game. Barbara Betz, his mother, said yes. As Shawn and the other boy left, he hollered: “Save me some pizza.”
Those were the last four words his family ever heard him say.
Daily Bulletin: What Happened To Upland’s Shawn Betz? Case Gets New Attention After 34 Years
Some people will tell you that the system to find missing children isn't broken. They will criticize you and attack you for pointing out the flaws in a system meant to protect us. They ignore cases like these.
It was initially believed that Shawn had run away from home. He had recently been in some sort of fight with another student at the Sierra Vista Elementary School. The extent of this fight is not clarified in the information available online, but Shawn was due to appear in Juvenile Court in relation to the altercation, so it must have been fairly serious. The original theory from investigators was that Shawn ran away to avoid this. Shawn’s mother disagreed, as Shawn apparently had brushed the matter off and had left his most prized possessions at home.
The investigators took a look at the owners of the Pizza Chalet, who closed the restaurant shortly after Shawn’s disappearance and returned to their country of origin. There was no evidence that the owners had any involvement in or knowledge of the disappearance.
The information in the following paragraphs was gleaned from a video by Crime Hound on Youtube, in which family members were interviewed directly. The morning after Shawn’s disappearance, an older-sounding woman called Shawn’s school to tell them that he had moved to live with his grandmother in Washington state. While Shawn’s grandmother had lived in Washington state for a time, she had recently moved to California. The family considered the idea that Shawn had been taken by someone and given them this false information in order to tip off his family that something was wrong.
The family took up the search for Shawn on their own, because the police refused to start the search. They took four whole months to begin searching in earnest. Shawn’s brother, who was 15 at the time of Shawn’s disappearance, was apparently coerced into confessing to harming his brother, despite the fact that he was over four hundred miles away with several witnesses. An anonymous tip was called in, accusing the family of having buried Shawn in their yard. The yard was consequently searched and nothing was found.
There is something else that was, in my opinion, largely overlooked. The owners of the Pizza Chalet closed their restaurant and moved out of country shortly after Shawn's disappearance.
The investigators took a look at the owners of the Pizza Chalet, who closed the restaurant shortly after Shawn’s disappearance and returned to their country of origin. There was no evidence that the owners had any involvement in or knowledge of the disappearance.
Patrick Shawn Betz went missing in what most would call suspicious circumstances on January 20, 1988. Despite getting national attention by being featured as one of the missing children in the Runaway Train video, the date Patrick Shawn Betz was entered into NamUs was on April 15, 2010 — 22 years after he disappeared. He was also entered into the DOE Network, the International Center for Unidentified and Missing Persons on January 10, 2006 — 18 years after he disappeared.
Is this type of investigation typical in missing children's cases? Do missing children get overlooked by law enforcement? I address some of these questions in depth here.
It has been an ongoing problem.
For decades, the Chicago Police Department handled missing persons cases in the same way. When a person was reported missing, a patrol officer took a report. The information was passed on to the missing persons bureau, where the names and descriptions of the missing were written down in huge log books piled up on the wooden desks. The rest of the police report, along with whatever other information was available, was put into file folders that were stuffed, alphabetically, in row upon row of file cabinets. Most of the files were never looked at again.
Police Magazine: Missing Persons: If the Police Won't Search, Who Will? (Published 1980)
The issue has only become more problematic with today's current policies.
Your Missing Child's Age Matters
In March 2023, USA Today did an investigation on how different law enforcement agencies treat missing children depending on their age. Here are some excerpts from one of their report.
Law enforcement agencies across the country operate under a patchwork of rules that govern how intensely they search for missing children. The degree of effort often depends entirely on a child's age or an officer’s discretion. As a result, kids the same age can disappear under similar circumstances and receive vastly different responses from police.
In dozens of cities and towns, the child’s age alone can move them to the bottom of the priority list... Once that happens, it takes a preliminary investigation or an officer’s initiative to move them back up.
More than 60% of the agencies examined by USA TODAY set a maximum age at which missing children are considered “critical” or “at risk” and therefore worthy of thorough investigation regardless of the circumstances.
Often, children who fall outside the age limits or special circumstances listed in department rules receive virtually no attention from law enforcement, said Melissa Snow, an executive director at the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children.
“In many scenarios … the only person that’s aware that the kid is missing is the person that made the report and the person that took the report,” she said. “In many situations, there is absolutely nobody looking for that kid other than people that intend to do harm to them.”
How rapidly and thoroughly law enforcement responds to a missing child can make a crucial difference in the outcome. Thousands of missing kids a year are never reported to the FBI because they are quickly found.
The longer children are missing, the more likely they are to be harmed. A 2006 study by the Washington state attorney general’s office and the U.S. Department of Justice reviewed the cases of nearly 800 missing children later found murdered. In 76% of cases, the child was killed within three hours. In 88.5% of cases, they were killed within a day.
Do I have your attention yet? Maybe the system is working as it was intended to work.
A Brief History on the NCMEC
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) is private, non-profit organization (i.e. NGO) which was established in 1984. Its creation was due to the Congressional passage of the Missing Children's Assistance Act in 1984. It operates closely with the government and law enforcement and receives federal grants through the Department of Justice. Technically, because the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children has special privileges afforded to it and is congressionally charged with performing certain duties, we could call this organization an entity of the federal government.
The National Chapter for Missing and Exploited Children's law enforcement powers extend well beyond those enjoyed by private citizens — and in this way it seems to mark it as a fair candidate for a governmental entity. The National Chapter for Missing and Exploited Children's two primary authorizing statutes — 18 U.S.C. § 2258A and 42 U.S.C. § 5773(b) — mandate its collaboration with federal (as well as state and local) law enforcement in over a dozen different ways, many of which involve duties and powers conferred on and enjoyed by the National Chapter for Missing and Exploited Children but no other private person.
For example, the National Chapter for Missing and Exploited Children is statutorily obliged to operate the official national clearinghouse for information about missing and exploited children, to help law enforcement locate and recover missing and exploited children, to “provide forensic technical assistance... to law enforcement” to help identify victims of child exploitation, to track and identify patterns of attempted child abductions for law enforcement purposes, to “provide training . . . to law enforcement agencies in identifying and locating non-compliant sex offenders,” and of course to operate the CyberTipline as a means of combating Internet child sexual exploitation. Responsibilities and rights Congress has extended to the National Chapter for Missing and Exploited Children alone “under Federal law” and done so specifically “to assist or support law enforcement agencies in administration of criminal justice functions.” This special relationship runs both ways, too, for the National Chapter for Missing and Exploited Children is also empowered to call on various federal agencies for unique forms of assistance in aid of its statutory functions.
Why does the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children assist with less than 30,000 cases per year? Why is this agency "statutorily obliged to operate the official national clearinghouse for information about missing and exploited children" when it cannot even assist in less than 1/10 of the children who go missing every year? Why is this agency a parent's only hope?
I said it before, I will say it again, maybe because the system is working as intended. Let's look at that system.
Information Is Key
The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) acts as a national clearinghouse for missing children. It links and has listed state clearinghouses that list missing children. These are central repositories used to publish information in order to raise public awareness and help find these missing children. These are databases that are used by both law enforcement and the general public.
You click on the link for your state and this pops up on your screen.
Here is a list of state missing clearinghouse websites where the above is exactly what happened when I clicked on their link:
North Carolina
When I clicked on North Carolina's link, I got a message which said "Access denied".
I received these error messages on August 1, 2023 for these 7 states. I went back on February 18, 2024 and received the same results.
On both these dates, I researched the state clearinghouses themselves to see if they were functional. Here are 7 more states with broken links and missing resources:
Arkansas
Links for resources are broken.Colorado
PDF from 2021 with just a list of names. No other information is available.Connecticut
The only links that work are to its state lottery.Georgia
Last missing person entry was on March 2, 2022.Kentucky
Missing children's link is broken.Maine
Last missing person entry was in 2017.Oklahoma
Broken links.West Virginia
Last missing person was in 2019.
Another 9 states have no information or database provided for missing children.
Out of 50 states plus the Navajo Nation only 28 have functional websites for missing children. That is a little over half. Does the system work as intended?
Living In A Digital Age
In a digital age when everyone has a cell phone and a camera on that cell phone, why do so many missing children have no available photos submitted to these clearinghouses? Who doesn't have at least one photograph of their child?
Between May 2 and May 16 in 2023, at least 27 children were reported missing from the Cleveland, Ohio area. Their ages ranged from 12 to 17.
There's always peaks and valleys with missing persons, but this year it seems like an extraordinary year. For some reason, in 2023, we've seen a lot more than we normally see, which is troubling in part because we don't know what's going on with some of these kids, whether they're being trafficked or whether they're involved in gang activity or drugs. It is more likely a majority of cases are runaways versus abductions, but young teenagers are naive and susceptible to predators, who are wolves in sheep's clothing.
Their disappearances do not make the news unless there is an Amber Alert, and their stories are not being shared on social media.
It's a silent crime that happens right under our noses. The problem is where are they? Where do they go? They can be in a drug house or farmed to prostitution or caught up in drug trafficking or gangs.
What makes this issue more troubling is the lack of photos. Scrolling through Cleveland's missing persons page, there are more blank squares with the words, "Photo not available," than there are pictures of the missing person.
This creates all sorts of headaches for law enforcement, Majoy said. "Unless someone knows that person, then we're not going to have any luck."
On the flip side, if the family has photos, police can use social media and blast out messages to the public, which he said is law enforcement's "greatest asset" in missing persons cases, to stockpile tips and potential leads.
Fox News: Dozens of kids vanish in Cleveland area as police probe alarming trend
Something Doesn't Add Up
This is Part 1 of Zombie: The Military Industrial Complex. A few weeks ago I posted a video on X with the same name. This article explains the first 25 seconds of that video and highlights just some of the major issues regarding the safety nets that are meant to protect us and our children.
Let's add some clarity on the issues.
IT HAPPENED WHILE WE WERE SLEEPING
Note: I sped up the video to get past censorship. Unless you are a speed reader, you are going to have to slow it down. I am pretty certain that as I post this as threads on X I will be shut down.
Further Reading and Research
Runaway Train Missing Children
The Guardian: ‘We found 21 missing kids’: Soul Asylum on making Runaway Train
True Crime Society Blog: The Missing, Murdered and Reunited of Runaway Train
Runaway Train 25
Twenty-five years ago, the song "Runaway Train" featured missing children in its music video and helped close 21 cases! For the 25th anniversary of the song, we reimagined "Runaway Train" with new artists and a dynamic music video that updates itself with missing children from the NCMEC database based on a user's location. That means more missing children in front of more people in more relevant places.
Watch #RunawayTrain25 and help us bring home #Missingkids.
National Center for Missing and Exploited Children: The Issues: Endangered Runaways
NOTE: Despite my best efforts, I could not get the new reimagined version of Runaway Train to play from the NCMEC website. Maybe you will have been luck than I.
Other Research I Have Done
WARNING: Justice Not Served
Missing And The NCMEC
Sources
FBI Website: National Crime Information Center (NCIC) Missing Unidentified Person Statistics
[PDF] NCIC Missing and Unidentified Reports 2015 Statistics
[PDF] NCIC Missing and Unidentified Reports 2016 Statistics
[PDF] NCIC Missing and Unidentified Reports 2017 Statistics
[PDF] NCIC Missing and Unidentified Reports 2018 Statistics
[PDF] NCIC Missing and Unidentified Reports 2019 Statistics
[PDF] NCIC Missing and Unidentified Reports 2020 Statistics
[PDF] NCIC Missing and Unidentified Reports 2021 Statistics
[PDF] NCIC Missing and Unidentified Reports 2022 Statistics
[PDF] NCIC Missing and Unidentified Reports 2023 Statistics
Internet Archive: National Center For Missing and Exploited Children: Our Impact 2020
Internet Archive: National Center For Missing and Exploited Children: Our Impact 2021
Internet Archive: National Center For Missing and Exploited Children: Our Impact 2022
National Center For Missing and Exploited Children: Our Impact 2023
Not only is it increasingly apparent that the very ‘child safety systems’ were not established to succeed and, like so many more of the corrupt agencies, non-profit organizations and even many local groups, the stated purposes are the exact opposite of what the organization intends. This includes the entire foster system where true horror stories can be found. Speaking of Amber Alert founded in 2012….2 years after the Haiti earthquake where Laura Silsby was arrested for stealing children who were not orphans, vs what she told the officials. Then the Clintons helped her get released; she then went on (with a different last name) to serve on the Amber Alert board. She’s not still there according to my recent search, unless she changed her name. It is readily apparent that the vast majority of these groups are actually trafficking children for all manner of evil…including organ harvesting. This, including much darker evil, is what will eventually be revealed and the world’s people will unite against all who perpetrated or are complicit. These evil criminals must be brought to justice here first; God will ensure final justice for His innocents.
God bless you for this work.🙏🙏