The John-Henry Westen Show - EXCLUSIVE： Marine jailed 113 days after COVID vax refusal

00:00:00.000 They take away your pay, they take away your car, they take away your license, they take away your job,

00:00:03.640 they take away your camaraderie with your fellow Marines.

00:00:06.400 Oh, let's take away her First Amendment right and sever her from her religious rights and freedoms. 1.00

00:00:19.000 Catherine Arnett, welcome to the program.

00:00:20.820 Hi, John Henry. Thank you so much for having me on.

00:00:23.460 Let's begin as we always do, with the sign of the cross.

00:00:25.220 In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen.

00:00:33.200 Okay. So, Catherine, tell us a little bit about yourself.

00:00:37.020 Why did you get into the Marine Corps in the first place?

00:00:39.800 I'm 25 years old. I joined the Marine Corps in 2018.

00:00:43.980 I wanted some structure, discipline, and rigidity in my life.

00:00:48.020 And I wanted leadership in my life, too, and to become a leader.

00:00:52.780 That's the short gist of it.

00:00:55.220 And so, what were you doing sort of before the VAX mandate?

00:01:01.460 Before the VAX mandate kicked off, I was just pretty much minding my business and helping my squadron members get their money back for travel.

00:01:09.180 I worked in the Defense Travel System program and the Citibank Government Charge Card program.

00:01:15.180 So, I was in a financial shop.

00:01:17.580 Okay. And this is in addition to regular training, or how does this work?

00:01:21.820 So, the financial occupation that I had in the Marine Corps was part of my training that I had done in 2019.

00:01:31.440 I had done boot camp in 2018, combat training in 2019, and I had gone to school for Aviation Supply.

00:01:40.060 And Aviation Supply has a bunch of other, like, wickets underneath it, like customer service, financial things.

00:01:47.000 So, I was basically executing what I had learned at the schoolhouse in Meridian, Mississippi in 2019.

00:01:54.000 Okay. Excellent. And you're living on base at this time. Where are you?

00:01:58.680 So, whenever the VAX mandate kicked off in 2021, I was stationed in Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, which is in mainland Japan.

00:02:08.840 I was overseas.

00:02:11.080 Okay. Okay. Did you like Japan?

00:02:13.520 I absolutely love Japan. It was lovely. Yes.

00:02:17.440 Okay. So, then tell us about this COVID jab mandate, what happened to you and the Marine Corps generally?

00:02:26.640 Generally, there was a lot of retribution, a lot of retaliation.

00:02:31.400 So, in September of 2021, when the Secretary of Defense had mandated the jab for the Armed Forces,

00:02:38.980 actually, he mandated in August, but it made its way down the pipeline to that base, that specific base that I was on by September, right?

00:02:47.780 So, when September rolled around, it was mandated, and it was said, if you don't have the jab by November, we're going to process you out.

00:02:55.060 And at that point, I was putting, you know, two and two together.

00:02:58.620 I'm just like, well, the vaccine mandate itself is not lawful.

00:03:03.620 It's lawful. So, anything, anything that comes after that, retribution, retaliation, separation, ostracization,

00:03:12.800 any way that they can make life hard for you and try to coerce you into getting the vaccine, and we can call it a jab.

00:03:19.260 I appreciate that.

00:03:21.800 It's unlawful, and it shouldn't be done.

00:03:24.560 So, I had submitted my religious accommodation request under the Catholic faith, objecting to the fetal tissue cells in there,

00:03:34.720 and 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.

00:03:46.000 I mean, you just follow the FDA publications and the FDA letters that they were, you know, sending and everything.

00:03:53.360 It's like, it's not even available.

00:03:55.300 There's no, you know, all the nuances and everything.

00:03:59.020 We 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.

00:04:08.960 So, it was a bunch of subterfuge and a bunch of, like, legal debacle and everything.

00:04:14.360 But I had religious ground, legal ground, administrative ground, personal ground.

00:04:19.420 I just wasn't going to get it.

00:04:20.520 So, a couple questions for you.

00:04:25.260 One, how did you even find out about the concerns around the vaccine itself or the jab, whatever you want to call it?

00:04:33.580 How did you learn of its being abortion tainted?

00:04:37.020 You know, where did all this information come from?

00:04:39.500 My first premise for it was objecting to the fact that it created a two-tier society by saying,

00:04:44.820 if you have it, you're in society, and if you don't have it, you're out of society.

00:04:48.640 So, I went down, you know, a research trail, if you will.

00:04:53.100 So, basically, what were the consequences that you faced for objecting?

00:04:58.360 The consequences were initially kind of enacted en masse to those who objected to it.

00:05:07.820 And then once those people had willingly separated from the Marine Corps, say, by April or May of 2022 timeframe,

00:05:17.160 I was still one of the only ones who hadn't received it.

00:05:20.300 But I also took a different approach to the separation orders.

00:05:25.120 Not only did I say no to not getting the vaccine, I said no to separation as well.

00:05:32.480 Because I didn't find either lawful, right?

00:05:35.840 If you're separating me for something I don't even have to legally get, then your separation is null and void.

00:05:44.460 And that, even though in September of 2021, I'd already started questioning my commanders on the legality of this order,

00:05:54.640 I'd already started, you know, as much as I hate to say it, there was already a big red target on my back as of September of 2021

00:06:02.780 because I was helping people, you know, with their religious accommodation requests.

00:06:07.980 I was, you know, I was helping them with their paperwork, taking care of, you know, those around me who wanted to object to it.

00:06:16.160 So I was already a very unpopular.

00:06:17.620 It's interesting because that type of action garnered a lot of retaliation.

00:06:24.480 We just had our gala in Toronto and we honored a few doctors who basically their medical licenses had been taken away

00:06:36.060 for doing the same thing, for trying to assist people to present their objections to the vaccine mandate,

00:06:43.860 to get medical exemptions, et cetera.

00:06:46.820 They were rather ruthlessly treated by the establishment.

00:06:52.040 So it's interesting to hear that was what was happening in your case as well.

00:06:56.500 Absolutely.

00:06:56.940 And then fast forward from September of 2021 to about April and May of 2021,

00:07:02.380 they had started taking away my automatic pay.

00:07:06.020 They started taking away my driver's license.

00:07:08.860 They started taking away just other things.

00:07:12.600 They segregated me.

00:07:14.640 Now, under what pretense are they taking away your pay and your driver's license?

00:07:20.280 How is that even a thing?

00:07:22.480 Sure, I can elaborate on that.

00:07:24.140 So in April, right, after I had objected, April of 2022, after I'd objected to not receiving the vaccine to the jab,

00:07:32.860 orders then came down the pipeline for me to separate.

00:07:37.940 And back in April, it was like, all right, you have 30 days to exit the Marine Corps.

00:07:43.180 And 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.

00:07:50.440 Now, 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.

00:08:00.000 You know, they harassed me after that.

00:08:04.800 And they're like, oh, well, she doesn't want to get the vaccine and she doesn't want to separate. 1.00

00:08:07.820 Okay, we're going to make life hard for her. 0.84

00:08:09.200 So that was the that was the pretense that they were able to shut off my pay.

00:08:13.560 But 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.

00:08:23.960 I was still working and, you know, I was still on base and, you know, contributing.

00:08:29.600 So it's not like they couldn't not pay me, but it was I had to physically go.

00:08:35.560 They turned off the automatic pay.

00:08:37.260 That is a distinction.

00:08:38.620 But, you know, after asking.

00:08:41.000 What's with them removing your driver's license?

00:08:43.700 So my driver's license was taken away May 9th.

00:08:49.300 It was taken away in May of 2022, right?

00:08:52.540 May 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.

00:09:04.920 I was like, no, I'm not complying.

00:09:07.860 So and maybe those in the military understand a little bit more than most.

00:09:12.420 But 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.

00:09:22.860 She's a liability.

00:09:24.160 She's a risk.

00:09:25.200 She's a hazard. 0.96

00:09:26.360 We have to take away her license and restrict her to base for 30 days. 1.00

00:09:31.180 You know, you know, mitigation policies.

00:09:33.060 That's what they call it.

00:09:34.320 That's what they'll put a little pretty, pretty little bow on it, whatever. 1.00

00:09:38.540 But 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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00:11:00.080 You 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?

00:11:11.240 Tell us about those.

00:11:12.900 Yes, absolutely.

00:11:13.840 So, sometimes I would take travelers to the airport, and that's not necessarily extracurricular, but I would take travelers to the airport.

00:11:22.180 I would pick up travelers from the airport, you know, because I was in charge of travel.

00:11:26.700 I was in charge of the fiscal, financial, and, you know, travel readiness section, basically.

00:11:31.400 So, I had brought that up to my leaders, and they're like, too bad.

00:11:34.420 Mm-hmm.

00:11:35.400 And how was that affected by, you know, these restrictions?

00:11:40.240 At the onset of it, like in May, right, I was still able to participate in a lot of these activities on base.

00:11:48.820 I was just restricted to base for 30 days.

00:11:50.960 And then 30 days later, they're like, oh, well, you know, you're proving not to be a liability.

00:11:57.720 Here's your ability to go off base back.

00:12:01.440 But they didn't give me my driver's license, so I was like, where's the driver's license?

00:12:04.880 They're like, we don't know.

00:12:06.520 I'm like, right, okay.

00:12:07.380 So, in the later months of, like, December and January of 2022, that's whenever my community outreach access was restricted.

00:12:22.040 And 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,

00:12:39.120 emailing, acting in unison to restrict me from basically every activity, everything that I had ever been involved in, gradually and gradually.

00:12:51.820 And, again, that was December of 2022 and January of 2023.

00:12:57.640 There are some publications, guidelines that we could definitely go into that they followed step by step by step by literal step.

00:13:08.040 And, of course, they'll deny it because, as many of us know, these shadow policies that are working against us, they're heinous.

00:13:18.280 And, you know, they'll try to say, oh, that's not what we're doing.

00:13:21.860 We're just looking out for readiness.

00:13:23.920 We're just looking out for, you know, whatever jargon they can throw our way.

00:13:28.800 But, yeah, I did a lot of research onto stuff like that.

00:13:32.500 And I was like, wow, that's really what y'all are doing to someone who wants to work.

00:13:37.520 That's crazy.

00:13:39.440 So how does this then go from this increased sort of pressure and almost mental torture to jail?

00:13:48.760 This is incredible.

00:13:49.840 So there is this very specific commander in my chain of command.

00:13:56.900 He was the commanding officer of the Marine Air Group 12.

00:14:02.200 Right.

00:14:02.700 And from September, I challenged him and many other officers on the legality of the vaccine, of the jab, excuse me.

00:14:11.820 And also in personal audiences that I had requested to have with him, I challenged him on his faith.

00:14:18.740 Right.

00:14:19.020 And that had started in September of 2021.

00:14:22.540 He professed the Roman Catholic faith to me.

00:14:25.580 He knew I was a Catholic.

00:14:26.820 I mean, we had seen each other at church.

00:14:28.200 And he's like, you know, I'm a Roman Catholic.

00:14:30.060 I got the I got the vaccine.

00:14:31.960 And look, long story short.

00:14:34.080 Right.

00:14:35.440 I was like, OK, cool.

00:14:38.920 Right.

00:14:39.360 But I wasn't buying it.

00:14:42.760 I wasn't buying it.

00:14:45.260 And I essentially had alluded that he was compromised in his faith.

00:14:50.180 He wasn't happy with that.

00:14:51.780 Right.

00:14:52.260 So after September of 2021, he made everything very uninviting and hostile for me.

00:14:58.620 Let's just say this commanding officer, he had it out for me since September of 2021.

00:15:03.560 Right.

00:15:04.120 He's at the Marine Air Group 12, and I was working at Squadron 152 at the time, which is a squadron under the Marine Air Group command.

00:15:15.600 Right.

00:15:15.940 So it's a top command that oversees multiple squadrons on the base.

00:15:19.280 I'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,

00:15:36.700 basically saying that separation for not getting the vaccine was illegal and should not be affected anymore.

00:15:45.200 There are some provisions that I had applied for.

00:15:47.620 And 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.

00:15:56.940 And 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.

00:16:10.380 This 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.

00:16:18.040 And you were like, no, thanks.

00:16:19.260 And he was like, that's it.

00:16:20.580 I'm going to come after that same guy.

00:16:22.540 Oh, absolutely.

00:16:23.380 Oh, absolutely.

00:16:24.040 That's the same guy.

00:16:25.480 So he wants you in his squadron.

00:16:28.040 Oh, yeah.

00:16:28.480 He wants me in his squadron for for get it rehabilitative efforts, rehabilitative efforts.

00:16:36.820 And I'm like, and so so again, I start the whole paper formal redress request.

00:16:43.020 And I'm like, sorry, this is this looks like retaliation.

00:16:47.020 Retaliation.

00:16:47.620 And 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.

00:17:02.620 And so I brought that up and no proper answer, no proper answer, have all these retaliatory things looming over my head.

00:17:13.660 And I have this commander calling me to his command.

00:17:15.900 And and I'm like, I just signed for a year as Squadron 152.

00:17:22.140 And 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.

00:17:29.840 January 23rd, right?

00:17:31.940 2023.

00:17:32.780 January 23rd comes around.

00:17:35.600 I'm arrested.

00:17:36.940 And guess who signs off on the finding order?

00:17:39.820 The same commanding officer.

00:17:40.960 So, 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.

00:18:02.880 I 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.

00:18:16.060 Take a look at this.

00:18:17.060 This is Cardinal Burke talking in 2017 about demonic forces entering the church at that time in 2017.

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00:18:51.820 Watch Cardinal Burke give this snippet on demonic forces entering into the Vatican from his talk at Rome Life Forum in 2017.

00:19:00.760 It 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.

00:19:16.260 For the recovery of peace will be a gift from heaven, but it is not, properly speaking, the triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary.

00:19:25.920 Her victory is of another order, supernatural and then temporal by addition.

00:19:32.260 It 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.

00:19:43.280 So 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.

00:20:04.460 Well, that's like all over the place.

00:20:07.560 HR goes insane.

00:20:08.780 The guy can lose his job.

00:20:10.060 He can, he can go to jail.

00:20:12.680 It seems like here it's like, man, whatever.

00:20:15.320 It's the reins.

00:20:15.960 Get used to it.

00:20:17.240 Does anything go?

00:20:19.240 It's red flags everywhere.

00:20:21.640 Sometimes almost anything goes.

00:20:24.120 Get this, get this, because.

00:20:25.700 Brief, 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.

00:20:43.380 Now, 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.

00:20:57.040 This Marine should not be allowed to have her freedom before trial because of X, Y, and Z. 0.92

00:21:03.540 One 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.

00:21:21.360 I 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.

00:21:44.720 Yeah, 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.

00:22:03.960 Four 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.

00:22:10.780 Supposedly, 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.

00:22:19.980 They'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.

00:22:29.920 It'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?

00:22:37.440 They 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.

00:22:44.760 So it was just, it was red flags everywhere.

00:22:47.900 I'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?

00:22:56.760 Almost four months. It was January 23rd, 2023 to May 15th of 2023. I think the math checks out to 113 days.

00:23:09.800 It was incredibly boring in the brig. Very, very boring. Number one word that I always say whenever I'm asked about it is boring.

00:23:21.160 Because 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.

00:23:30.580 So what these commanders did and what that specific commander did to me was deliberate, was heinous, was, you know, intentional.

00:23:38.700 It 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.

00:23:55.080 But 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.

00:24:11.100 I don't know. Like once we get into it, it only it only invigorated me more and it, you know, made me more passionate.

00:24:19.480 So 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?

00:24:28.000 What is it?

00:24:28.920 So I was kept on the Okinawa base for about.

00:24:35.700 70, 80 days, the Okinawa break.

00:24:40.220 Right. And please keep in mind, one of the biggest things that I would like to present to your audience is how a self-professed.

00:24:48.900 Roman Catholic commander had specifically crafted retaliation for his Catholic subordinate, right? 0.59

00:25:03.660 Just just someone under his command, but who proved to be so, I don't know, irritating to him that he crafted this.

00:25:14.660 And 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.

00:25:32.000 I didn't do that. No, come on.

00:25:33.900 Just oh, my God. Just follow the logic. Right.

00:25:36.320 All right. So he he deliberately did this in order to keep me away from the sacrament of the Eucharist and hear me out on this. Right.

00:25:48.060 When I was stationed in Iwakuni, there's a brig there. There's a there's a military prison on that base.

00:25:55.180 I could have I could have been easily kept there for either 72 hours up to 10 days.

00:26:02.000 And in the military, you have a 10 day reviewing period that an unaffiliated officer comes in.

00:26:08.420 Here's why you should be released and determines why you should or shouldn't be released. Right.

00:26:13.060 Look, I was a resident on that base.

00:26:16.120 I worked there.

00:26:18.320 Would have been I would have more than likely been released within three to 10 days.

00:26:23.400 But I was deliberately flown from mainland Japan to the Okinawa base because, first of all, there is only one priest for that entire island.

00:26:31.480 Right. Of military bases and a 60 mile island. Right.

00:26:35.880 Second 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.

00:26:46.780 And please keep in mind, I had been attending daily mass for about two years aboard aboard my base.

00:26:54.700 Like daily mass was like my sustenance.

00:26:56.400 I was in love and still am still in love with the Eucharist.

00:26:59.400 But that was a very strong source of spiritual recourse for me.

00:27:04.260 So, you know, they they take away your pay.

00:27:06.960 They take away your car. They take away your license. 0.74

00:27:08.520 They take away your job. They take away your camaraderie with your fellow Marines.

00:27:11.540 Oh, let's take away her First Amendment right and sever her from her religious rights and freedoms. 1.00

00:27:20.000 So they fly me to Okinawa and I only get Eucharist once, one time in the 80 or so days that I'm there.

00:27:30.820 And. Right.

00:27:32.480 You have this shadow policy that will object to all of these things.

00:27:35.860 And 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.

00:27:50.100 It was deliberate.

00:27:51.160 It was absolutely deliberate to to keep me from from the precious sacrament of the Eucharist.

00:27:57.680 So one one time I received the Eucharist in 80 days, 80 or so days aboard aboard that brig.

00:28:06.140 It was intentionally to sever me from everything, including my ultimate love of the Eucharist, John Henry.

00:28:12.940 When I hear that, especially as a dad, makes me very angry, I have to say.

00:28:26.480 I want to quote like Greta Thunberg with how dare they.

00:28:30.040 How dare you?

00:28:31.560 Earlier, 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.

00:28:42.940 That 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.

00:28:59.340 You're messing with.

00:29:01.740 Access to Jesus, right?

00:29:05.000 And everyone's going to say, oh, you have access to Jesus in your heart.

00:29:08.160 You have God all around you.

00:29:09.640 Absolutely.

00:29:10.300 Yes, you do.

00:29:10.920 But to Catholics, you know, the sacrament of the Eucharist is the most esteemed and precious thing that we have.

00:29:17.660 So I just wanted to highlight on that, that that egregious action that my commander did, that that only invigorated me more.

00:29:26.360 So 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.

00:29:35.900 I'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?

00:29:44.400 Like, yes, Jesus is in my heart.

00:29:45.540 But, but yeah, that, that just, that, that, that sparked a very important chord note.

00:29:57.400 I don't even know, but, but that's what I wanted to elaborate on, because earlier I had said.

00:30:02.060 No, you know, Catherine, I, I, from what you've said, I mean, I can tell you are a Marine.

00:30:11.720 Gosh, you're a Marine.

00:30:12.660 You'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.

00:30:29.200 But you're truly a Marine.

00:30:31.360 In fact, even better than that, you're one of God's Marines.

00:30:34.260 You're fighting spirit in there to continue the fight, especially when it gets hard.

00:30:38.920 In fact, invigorating you when it gets hard, that must be the stuff of Joan of Arc and the type of heroes that we've had in the church.

00:30:49.220 So, first of all, at this juncture, I want to tell everybody, we are supporting Catherine.

00:30:55.640 There is a LifeFunder set up for her. 0.99

00:30:58.080 Go to LifeFunder.com and support her legal challenges there. 0.98

00:31:04.240 But finish off the story for us, Catherine.

00:31:06.980 What happens next?

00:31:09.580 How do you get out?

00:31:10.400 How are you free now?

00:31:11.860 Where is your situation right now?

00:31:14.200 Right.

00:31:14.500 I apologize.

00:31:15.180 I didn't answer you.

00:31:15.940 I got off on the tangent with the other thing.

00:31:18.160 But 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.

00:31:31.620 Get her out. 1.00

00:31:32.200 Something like that, right?

00:31:33.980 I don't know all the details, but that's basically what happened.

00:31:37.720 So, May 15th, I'm out.

00:31:39.980 I still have court martial going on at that time.

00:31:42.780 Now, fast forward to June of 2023.

00:31:45.820 June 5th, my court martial charges are pulled.

00:31:49.240 And the Marine Corps instead opts to administratively separate me again.

00:31:54.300 So, hear me out.

00:31:58.140 They had already tried administratively separating me three or four times prior to that.

00:32:05.220 But now, because here's another important, sorry, little detail.

00:32:08.760 I was transported from Okinawa to California via military police escort on April 19th, right?

00:32:18.480 So, then on April 19th, April 20th, I made it to the California brig at the Miramar base in San Diego.

00:32:24.380 So, now they have me in the States.

00:32:27.340 Now, 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.

00:32:36.980 Now, those commanders have retaliated against me and they've gotten me to the States, right?

00:32:42.520 So, now in the States, they can just administratively separate me and kick me out on the streets, literally.

00:32:47.960 And that's what happens.

00:32:49.560 So, June 5th, they pull the court martial charges.

00:32:52.460 And on June 23rd, 2023, is my last day, last day, right?

00:32:58.640 I have to stress that for the audience, last day in the Marine Corps.

00:33:04.380 I don't see it that way.

00:33:05.820 I have never seen it that way.

00:33:07.500 They have been, the Marine Corps has been messing administratively with many unvaccinated service members and Marines. 0.88

00:33:15.140 So, on June 23rd, in San Diego time, at 2359, almost midnight, sorry, military time, almost midnight, I go to the police station on base.

00:33:30.360 I'm like, look, I'm not willingly separating from the Marine Corps.

00:33:33.240 What are you going to do about it?

00:33:34.640 And, of course, they arrest me.

00:33:37.680 They detain me.

00:33:38.560 They fingerprint me.

00:33:39.620 And 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,

00:33:50.880 they take me to, like, a gas station a mile or two out, dump me unceremoniously, and they're just like, good luck.

00:33:59.680 So, yeah, that's what I'm dealing with right now.

00:34:02.880 I 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.

00:34:18.480 Okay, so let's unpack that just a little bit more.

00:34:23.240 So, did you have money on you at all?

00:34:26.100 No.

00:34:26.480 Like, 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.

00:34:40.260 You have no money, no nothing, and they just dump you there.

00:34:44.480 Correct.

00:34:45.060 Now, keep in mind, whenever they transfer me, well, whenever they incarcerated me in January of this year,

00:34:50.660 I 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.

00:35:01.200 No answer, right?

00:35:03.480 I tried.

00:35:04.340 As far as I know, all of my personal items are still in Japan.

00:35:08.500 Whenever they transported me to the brig, and ooh, keep in mind the FOIA request that I talked about earlier.

00:35:14.260 Again, I apologize to you and your audience if my attention span and everything is all over the place,

00:35:19.240 but there's just so many juicy nuances to this story, it's insane.

00:35:23.040 So, that FOIA request had basically had the Miramar brig in San Diego saying that they didn't know that I was on the way,

00:35:35.860 and two, that this Marine doesn't have anything she needs to be incarcerated here, right?

00:35:42.380 So, whenever I'm released from the brig, basically all I have are the clothes on my back.

00:35:48.320 And so, then I'm expected to just go forth like that for another month or two,

00:35:52.900 while they administratively separate me in the background and everything, but still have me under the guise of Fort Marshall, right?

00:36:00.660 I'm in the States, they can kick me out now.

00:36:03.200 But yeah, no, that's literally no money on me.

00:36:06.360 Yeah, and those papers that I had, they were like some legal papers, but nothing sufficient for, you know, anything afterwards.

00:36:18.860 So, yeah.

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00:37:02.940 May God bless you.

00:37:05.820 What can people do now to support you and what will be done with the funds?

00:37:11.240 What are you planning on?

00:37:12.220 Prayer, first and foremost.

00:37:16.340 I ask yourself, your audience, everyone who hears and sees this video for prayer.

00:37:21.880 Please lift up rosaries.

00:37:23.780 And if you can't make time for a rosary, I understand.

00:37:26.940 Sometimes I fall short of that, too.

00:37:29.000 Three Hail Marys in Latin for these commanders doing these heinous things to me.

00:37:33.240 And 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.

00:37:52.300 So 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.

00:38:01.740 You'll have to pardon me and my hesitation here because I'm, you know, I don't ask for help much.

00:38:12.500 Financially, I have a go fund.

00:38:14.920 I have a give, send, go.

00:38:17.060 And John Henry has mentioned a life, life funder, right?

00:38:21.580 So a life funder.

00:38:23.160 These funds will be used for independent research, making time for additional FOIA requests.

00:38:28.860 Any legal consultation I may pursue, it'll be used for travel.

00:38:34.120 It'll be used for personal safety, personal items, basically anything to fill in for what I'm missing right now.

00:38:46.980 And what are you looking to do in the future?

00:38:48.720 I'll be frank with you, John Henry.

00:38:51.440 My ultimate goal was, is, right?

00:38:55.280 Kind of saying is is a little bit idealistic with our current leadership and regime right now.

00:39:01.180 But all I wanted to do was be a Marine, excel in my job and be a drill instructor.

00:39:07.880 Maybe those things are a little bit far off right now.

00:39:10.060 I don't know.

00:39:11.460 You know, they shouldn't be.

00:39:13.900 If America wants to come back from the brink of whatever demonic pit it's heading into right now.

00:39:24.020 Absolutely.

00:39:24.960 Amen, it does.

00:39:25.740 Amen, it does.

00:39:26.400 I want it to.

00:39:27.260 That's why I've been so invigorated to do what I have been doing.

00:39:31.580 Because I said in an RFK, I interviewed with RFK about a year ago.

00:39:38.400 And I said to him in the interview, I said to someone in one of my past interviews,

00:39:43.140 I said to someone, right now, we have good men in positions of power

00:39:47.880 who have been made to do very, very, very bad things, right?

00:39:51.460 This next influx, God forbid, there's a next influx of illegal orders.

00:39:57.320 But, you know, this next influx of orders, we're going to see bad men deliberately doing bad things, right?

00:40:04.380 When that'll happen, I don't know.

00:40:06.340 But, yeah, I joined, as I alluded to at the beginning of this interview, right?

00:40:12.460 I joined because I wanted to see leadership, and I wanted to be a leader myself.

00:40:16.140 And whenever I saw these leaders and these men and women in positions of power were not living up to their oaths,

00:40:26.360 be them the enlisted or the commissioned officers, I was like, and disheartened is a very soft way of putting it, right?

00:40:37.820 Disheartened is a very soft way of putting it, but I was disheartened.

00:40:40.940 I 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.

00:40:57.900 And I was like, you know what, I have a duty to defend my country and the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic.

00:41:08.680 And unfortunately, as many feathers as it ruffled and it got me into jail,

00:41:13.100 I combated the domestic enemies who were in the ranks, and they still are. 1.00

00:41:21.620 And so that's why I asked for prayer, because I've had an opportunity to go after these commanders,

00:41:28.640 to go after these men and their jobs and their paycheck and their retirement and their pension.

00:41:33.300 I don't care about that.

00:41:34.500 I care nothing for retribution like that.

00:41:37.220 I think the strongest example that can be sought after, the strongest thing that can be pursued,

00:41:45.160 is a call to repentance and a call to conversion, because that is the only way that we are going to save our nation.

00:41:52.720 Catherine Arnett, it has been an honor to speak with you.

00:41:56.980 And I will indeed pray those three Hail Marys in Latin for your commanding officers and that one officer as well.

00:42:05.280 Thank you.

00:42:05.800 Amen to that.

00:42:10.020 Amen.

00:42:10.320 God bless you, Catherine.

00:42:11.300 We'll be in touch.

00:42:13.080 And I'm sure there's many people who will be not only praying for you, but also supporting you at LifeFunder.

00:42:18.880 God bless you.

00:42:20.420 God bless you too, John Henry.

00:42:21.880 Thank you so much.

00:42:23.980 And God bless all of you.

00:42:26.140 And we'll see you next time.

00:42:27.000 Hi, everyone.

00:42:35.940 This is John Henry Weston.

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The John-Henry Westen Show - August 07, 2023

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