In this episode, John Henry interviews Catherine Arnett, a former Marine who served in the U.S. Marine Corps. Catherine talks about her experience in the Marine Corps and how she was forced to participate in the controversial "Choose Life or Die" (VAX) vaccine mandate.
00:00:55.220And so, what were you doing sort of before the VAX mandate?
00:01:01.460Before the VAX mandate kicked off, I was just pretty much minding my business and helping my squadron members get their money back for travel.
00:01:09.180I worked in the Defense Travel System program and the Citibank Government Charge Card program.
00:03:21.800It's unlawful, and it shouldn't be done.
00:03:24.560So, I had submitted my religious accommodation request under the Catholic faith, objecting to the fetal tissue cells in there,
00:03:34.720and that was my religious grounds for, you know, objecting to it, but also there were plenty of legal reasons for objecting it to, objecting to it as well.
00:03:46.000I mean, you just follow the FDA publications and the FDA letters that they were, you know, sending and everything.
00:03:55.300There's no, you know, all the nuances and everything.
00:03:59.020We could talk on that a little bit more detail later, but whatever they were trying to force us to get, it was not even available on the market yet.
00:04:08.960So, it was a bunch of subterfuge and a bunch of, like, legal debacle and everything.
00:04:14.360But I had religious ground, legal ground, administrative ground, personal ground.
00:07:24.140So in April, right, after I had objected, April of 2022, after I'd objected to not receiving the vaccine to the jab,
00:07:32.860orders then came down the pipeline for me to separate.
00:07:37.940And back in April, it was like, all right, you have 30 days to exit the Marine Corps.
00:07:43.180And whenever they give you that 30-day letter, they shut off your pay because you're expected to be in the separation site in California.
00:07:50.440Now, because I had objected to even separating and I made it very clear to my leadership, look, all of this is unlawful and I will not comply.
00:08:00.000You know, they harassed me after that.
00:08:04.800And they're like, oh, well, she doesn't want to get the vaccine and she doesn't want to separate.
00:08:07.820Okay, we're going to make life hard for her.
00:08:09.200So that was the that was the pretense that they were able to shut off my pay.
00:08:13.560But basically, after April of 2022, I had to literally go in like twice a month and have like special pay allotted to me because I was still working.
00:08:23.960I was still working and, you know, I was still on base and, you know, contributing.
00:08:29.600So it's not like they couldn't not pay me, but it was I had to physically go.
00:08:41.000What's with them removing your driver's license?
00:08:43.700So my driver's license was taken away May 9th.
00:08:49.300It was taken away in May of 2022, right?
00:08:52.540May May 7th, May 8th, May 9th of 2022, because I didn't separate and because I didn't board the plane in Iwakuni that would bring me to California to separate.
00:09:07.860So and maybe those in the military understand a little bit more than most.
00:09:12.420But officer jargon and formalities, right, risk management, they're like, oh, you know, this Lance Corporal doesn't want to separate from the Marine Corps.
00:09:34.320That's what they'll put a little pretty, pretty little bow on it, whatever.
00:09:38.540But yeah, that that's that was basically their jargon that they launched my way for the rest of their retaliation that we'll kind of get into.
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00:10:03.380When I was in seminary, I was reading a book by Henry Nowen.
00:10:09.760He talked about a nuclear man, you know, and people who grew up in the 1980s were kind of formed by that immediate and constant threat of nuclear annihilation.
00:10:22.380My generation has grown up, you know, under the specter of priestly sexual abuse.
00:10:28.700What say you, Mr. Foreperson, is the defendant guilty or not guilty?
00:10:32.160I think that for many of us, that has also been all-encompassing.
00:10:37.480You know, I mean, I entered the seminary in January of 2004, and it's basically been there for me from in the beginning.
00:10:47.540One priest's sacrifice for many priestly sins.
00:11:00.080You had sort of, I guess you could call it, extracurricular activities that you were doing, and that was hampered, was it not, by not having a car?
00:11:13.840So, sometimes I would take travelers to the airport, and that's not necessarily extracurricular, but I would take travelers to the airport.
00:11:22.180I would pick up travelers from the airport, you know, because I was in charge of travel.
00:11:26.700I was in charge of the fiscal, financial, and, you know, travel readiness section, basically.
00:11:31.400So, I had brought that up to my leaders, and they're like, too bad.
00:12:07.380So, in the later months of, like, December and January of 2022, that's whenever my community outreach access was restricted.
00:12:22.040And I have recently gotten a PDF of a Freedom of Information request that I did, also known as a FOIA request, that basically shows all of my commanders, many, many of my commanders,
00:12:39.120emailing, acting in unison to restrict me from basically every activity, everything that I had ever been involved in, gradually and gradually.
00:12:51.820And, again, that was December of 2022 and January of 2023.
00:12:57.640There are some publications, guidelines that we could definitely go into that they followed step by step by step by literal step.
00:13:08.040And, of course, they'll deny it because, as many of us know, these shadow policies that are working against us, they're heinous.
00:13:18.280And, you know, they'll try to say, oh, that's not what we're doing.
00:15:15.940So it's a top command that oversees multiple squadrons on the base.
00:15:19.280I'm working at 152 fast forward to December of 2022 through a lot of legal intervention from the states with a lot of the Florida court ruling that Judge Mary Day had afforded to the to the Marines,
00:15:36.700basically saying that separation for not getting the vaccine was illegal and should not be affected anymore.
00:15:45.200There are some provisions that I had applied for.
00:15:47.620And there was one provision that had been afforded to me to extend at that base and at that specific squadron of Squadron 152 for another year, all the way to November of 2023.
00:15:56.940And lo and behold, all of a sudden, in December of 2022, the Marine Air Group commander, he calls me up and he's like, oh, you're part of my squadron now.
00:16:10.380This same guy, this same guy who already had it out for you, who was publicly restricting you, who said he was Catholic, come and get the job like me.
00:16:47.620And yeah, so back in May of 2022, I had done another paper request that said that I kind of see this retaliation devolving into an arrest and going to the brig brig is military jail.
00:17:02.620And so I brought that up and no proper answer, no proper answer, have all these retaliatory things looming over my head.
00:17:13.660And I have this commander calling me to his command.
00:17:15.900And and I'm like, I just signed for a year as Squadron 152.
00:17:22.140And I know that if I move to this new squadron of Marine Air Group 12, I'm going to be arrested by this commanding officer.
00:17:40.960So, um, pardon my jovial attitude about it, but it's just it's it's a sordid string of events that you have your junior Marine calling attention to that nobody takes seriously nobody answers to and it's sad.
00:18:02.880I think sad is an understatement, but yes, um, this, this commanding officer had had it out for me for a very long time and he gets what he wanted and he arrests me and puts me in jail.
00:18:47.200Go to RomeLifeForum.com for more information.
00:18:51.820Watch Cardinal Burke give this snippet on demonic forces entering into the Vatican from his talk at Rome Life Forum in 2017.
00:19:00.760It seems clear from the most respected studies of the apparitions of Our Lady of Fatima that it has to do with the diabolical forces unleashed upon the world in our time and entering into the very life of the church.
00:19:16.260For the recovery of peace will be a gift from heaven, but it is not, properly speaking, the triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary.
00:19:25.920Her victory is of another order, supernatural and then temporal by addition.
00:19:32.260It will first be the victory of the faith, which will put an end to the time of apostasy and the great shortcomings of the church's pastors.
00:19:43.280So strange, you know, in the outside world, any hint of that kind of superior threatening someone, going after them, and the person presents evidence of said threats, and especially when they're a male and you're dealing with a female.
00:20:25.700Brief, I'll keep it brief for the audience, but I had been subjected to a court martial once in 2022, and I got those charges dismissed because they were contingent on not getting the vaccine, and the judge had basically tied the two together and was like, okay, you know, dismissed, whatever.
00:20:43.380Now, I was subjected to a second court martial in 2023, and that was the reason for my being incarcerated, right, because they were saying free trial confinement.
00:20:57.040This Marine should not be allowed to have her freedom before trial because of X, Y, and Z.
00:21:03.540One of the charges on this 2023 court martial was not being at a certain place, and keep in mind, this specific charge was not being in my barracks room because I was told.
00:21:21.360I was literally told there are going to be four or more male Marines in your room who are going to ask you some questions, and keep in mind, this was in January of 2023, right, this January, and I was like, wow, that's an uncomfortable situation.
00:21:44.720Yeah, I'm not going to enter that room if they want to come outside and ask me questions, that's fine, but I'm not going in there without a trusted witness, and then boom, that's an article charged against me because I wasn't in that room.
00:22:03.960Four guys, four Marines who are going to be in there questioning you, and you're not even allowed to have a witness. It's unreal.
00:22:10.780Supposedly, right, right, supposedly, and of course, once the Marine Corps gets whiff of this interview and everything that I'm saying, they'll rebut everything.
00:22:19.980They'll say this, they'll say that, they'll have their buddies, you know, make false statements and whatever, but no, I have everything on what happened.
00:22:29.920It's like, you're expected to be in this room in the evening, in the evening, right, where they're going to ask you questions, right?
00:22:37.440They didn't say interrogate, but I was like, oh my gosh, they're going to interrogate me because I've been interrogated before in 2022.
00:22:44.760So it was just, it was red flags everywhere.
00:22:47.900I'm just wondering, when you were eventually jailed, taken to the brig, how long were you there? How did that work? What did things look like on the inside?
00:22:56.760Almost four months. It was January 23rd, 2023 to May 15th of 2023. I think the math checks out to 113 days.
00:23:09.800It was incredibly boring in the brig. Very, very boring. Number one word that I always say whenever I'm asked about it is boring.
00:23:21.160Because I was always on the move. I was always, you know, getting stuff done. I was always in community outreach programs, volunteering, coaching, very active athletics and everything.
00:23:30.580So what these commanders did and what that specific commander did to me was deliberate, was heinous, was, you know, intentional.
00:23:38.700It was intentional retaliation. And, you know, these gentlemen in these positions of power, you would think they would use their wits and their intelligence to do the right thing and use their intelligence to, you know, hone in on the actual enemy.
00:23:55.080But whenever they use their intelligence to retaliate against a Marine in a specific way that they know or they think will get her to act up or, you know, hurt her.
00:24:11.100I don't know. Like once we get into it, it only it only invigorated me more and it, you know, made me more passionate.
00:24:19.480So you were released. Why were you released? What what happened to sort of say now that you're now you're innocent or now you've served your time or whatever?
00:24:40.220Right. And please keep in mind, one of the biggest things that I would like to present to your audience is how a self-professed.
00:24:48.900Roman Catholic commander had specifically crafted retaliation for his Catholic subordinate, right?
00:25:03.660Just just someone under his command, but who proved to be so, I don't know, irritating to him that he crafted this.
00:25:14.660And I'm making some claims here that shadow policy, right, that fall into shadow policy and that obviously any commander in his position would refute, would rebut, would say, oh, that's not true.
00:26:18.320Would have been I would have more than likely been released within three to 10 days.
00:26:23.400But I was deliberately flown from mainland Japan to the Okinawa base because, first of all, there is only one priest for that entire island.
00:26:31.480Right. Of military bases and a 60 mile island. Right.
00:26:35.880Second of all, with one priest going around, you know, you're not going to have ample opportunities to get, you know, daily mass and Eucharist.
00:26:46.780And please keep in mind, I had been attending daily mass for about two years aboard aboard my base.
00:26:54.700Like daily mass was like my sustenance.
00:26:56.400I was in love and still am still in love with the Eucharist.
00:26:59.400But that was a very strong source of spiritual recourse for me.
00:27:04.260So, you know, they they take away your pay.
00:27:06.960They take away your car. They take away your license.
00:27:08.520They take away your job. They take away your camaraderie with your fellow Marines.
00:27:11.540Oh, let's take away her First Amendment right and sever her from her religious rights and freedoms.
00:27:20.000So they fly me to Okinawa and I only get Eucharist once, one time in the 80 or so days that I'm there.
00:27:32.480You have this shadow policy that will object to all of these things.
00:27:35.860And I don't I don't care what refutation that the Marine Corps or my commander can give to this story of what I'm saying about the Eucharist and, you know, being flown, transported from A to B to whatever.
00:28:31.560Earlier, I had said that their retaliation, everything, the devolution of their retaliation kind of only invigorated me more and everything that that that's one of the one things.
00:28:42.940That that really just ignited my fire more right to to continue my fight, to continue this pursuit of justice, that not only are you messing with, like, you know, worldly stuff, you know, normal, basic amenities and decencies.
00:29:10.920But to Catholics, you know, the sacrament of the Eucharist is the most esteemed and precious thing that we have.
00:29:17.660So I just wanted to highlight on that, that that egregious action that my commander did, that that only invigorated me more.
00:29:26.360So that that that is what has kept me very, you know, invigorated for the pursuit of justice to have something so heinous done unto unto me.
00:29:35.900I'm just like, no, I'm going to keep fighting you, you can't, you know, you think you can sever me from from these things?
00:30:12.660You're like that kind of Marine that we hear about in the stories and we think in days of old, a lot of the reputation, the honor of Marines has left because of scandal.
00:31:15.940I got off on the tangent with the other thing.
00:31:18.160But I was released in May due to some gracious intervention from higher up people who heard about my story and were like, hmm, that's not checking out.
00:32:27.340Now, my commanders from overseas who had allowed that extension, right, to go upward and be signed off, especially by headquarters Marine Corps, that one-year extension.
00:32:36.980Now, those commanders have retaliated against me and they've gotten me to the States, right?
00:32:42.520So, now in the States, they can just administratively separate me and kick me out on the streets, literally.
00:33:39.620And at 4 a.m. on June 24th, with nothing but the Green Marine Corps uniform on my back and a binder of crumpled up papers,
00:33:50.880they take me to, like, a gas station a mile or two out, dump me unceremoniously, and they're just like, good luck.
00:33:59.680So, yeah, that's what I'm dealing with right now.
00:34:02.880I have a federal trespassing charge on me and still waiting for the court summons, but that's what I'm looking at because, quite frankly, my fight's not over.
00:34:18.480Okay, so let's unpack that just a little bit more.
00:34:26.480Like, okay, so they dump you at 4 in the morning with basically nothing but the clothes on your back and some briefcase or whatever it is you had.
00:34:40.260You have no money, no nothing, and they just dump you there.
00:34:45.060Now, keep in mind, whenever they transfer me, well, whenever they incarcerated me in January of this year,
00:34:50.660I had been asking, I had been taking all the proper measures, I'm like, hello, gentlemen, I know I'm going to be arrested in a few days, please tell me what to expect.
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00:37:29.000Three Hail Marys in Latin for these commanders doing these heinous things to me.
00:37:33.240And especially, especially the Marine Air Group 12 commander, the supposed, I shouldn't say supposed, but the self-professed Roman Catholic commander who has had much oversight on all this abuse and retaliation enacted upon me.
00:37:52.300So prayers, first and foremost, please, for the leaders above me and for the military leaders in the Marine Corps and in the armed forces at large.
00:38:01.740You'll have to pardon me and my hesitation here because I'm, you know, I don't ask for help much.
00:40:06.340But, yeah, I joined, as I alluded to at the beginning of this interview, right?
00:40:12.460I joined because I wanted to see leadership, and I wanted to be a leader myself.
00:40:16.140And whenever I saw these leaders and these men and women in positions of power were not living up to their oaths,
00:40:26.360be them the enlisted or the commissioned officers, I was like, and disheartened is a very soft way of putting it, right?
00:40:37.820Disheartened is a very soft way of putting it, but I was disheartened.
00:40:40.940I was very troubled by the fact that the leadership and what should be fighting for everyone has been sold out to some kind of shadow policy or bureaucratic underpinnings.
00:40:57.900And I was like, you know what, I have a duty to defend my country and the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic.
00:41:08.680And unfortunately, as many feathers as it ruffled and it got me into jail,
00:41:13.100I combated the domestic enemies who were in the ranks, and they still are.
00:41:21.620And so that's why I asked for prayer, because I've had an opportunity to go after these commanders,
00:41:28.640to go after these men and their jobs and their paycheck and their retirement and their pension.
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