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Public statement source · YT453
The “Elite” hire their members to STEAL FROM ME
names the secret-society bodies that are literal defendants elsewhere in the tracker. the fullest on-camera statement of the chargeback-conspiracy theory pleaded in the Shopify-conspiracy cases.
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The most important thing to understand about these gangstalkers and these people harassing me is that they are low-level secret society members, Freemason, Illuminati, whatever it is. These are low-level cronies, uh, thugs, I don't know, whatever you want to call them, goons that are being promised or awarded for harassing me.
"Illuminati" is not rhetorical in this research — The Illuminati is itself a tracked defendant, named in C019, C048, C055, C059 and C064, and the Masonic lodges are named defendants too (White Plains Lodge #473, Union Lodge No 291, Free and Accepted Masons of Union Lodge No 291, and Beverly Hills Masonic Lodge). This is the theory behind those captions, stated in his own words 18 days after C019 and C055 were filed naming The Illuminati and White Plains Lodge #473. He describes no filing conduct — no case, court, docket, filing, judge or lawyer appears anywhere in this video. Tier: Moderate (No filing-conduct factor)
So although the CEO of Costco isn't directly placing chargebacks on my business, they are meeting in secret. They have group chats. They have I mean, there's millions of people. They have an endless list of people that can go online, place an order on my business, and place a fraudulent chargeback. And they probably even have contacts at the bank that ensure that those chargebacks are resolved in their favor.
The clearest lay statement of a pleaded cause of action found among the statements researched here. The case tracker describes C040 as raising a "chargeback conspiracy" and C054 as re-pleading "the same chargebacks-as-conspiracy theory and the same 18 U.S.C. 241 count that C040 lost"; C072 is described as "the same Shopify chargeback-handling grievance." Here the mechanism is spelled out — coordinated buyers placing orders and then fraudulent chargebacks, with bank contacts ensuring the outcome — while four actions in the Shopify dispute were live (C047, C050, C054, C095). It names no case, court, docket or filing, and Shopify is never mentioned. Note he expressly disclaims direct involvement by the Costco CEO ("isn't directly placing chargebacks"); clipping the quote to start after that clause would reverse its meaning.
I mean, the crazy thing is there actually have been business owners that have uh placed orders and then filed chargebacks and and there are a few like shorts I did on one guy. Someone was actually saying, "Oh, that guy owns like some type of business in New York."
Moves the theory from the abstract to a concrete instance — a specific person he says he made videos about, accused of placing a fraudulent chargeback. It is the only part of the video that could be checked against a docket. The second sentence is a viewer comment read aloud, not his own statement, and it is the sentence that supplies the identifying detail ("owns like some type of business in New York"). Any further quotation must carry that attribution; presented flat, it reads as his own assertion about the man's identity.
Why this classification: Takes the chargeback-conspiracy theory pleaded across the Shopify / business-platform actions from the abstract to a claimed concrete instance, while naming no case, court or filing and reporting the man's identity only as a viewer's guess.
the only thing I can do is expose them on social media. So when you go into Costco, when you go into pretty much when you go into any supermarket, when you purchase meat from any other online business, you are directly supporting the people who have made my life miserable.
States the remedy he says is available to him — social-media exposure, not litigation — and converts the grievance into a general boycott ask. Recorded because it is the same "speech is the remaining remedy" framing as oeSpe595gz0 [0:50] six days later, and because it names Costco, which is not a tracked party. No case, court, filing or lawyer is named. Tier: Context (No filing-conduct factor)