This article argues that the reported arrest of pastor Rodney Howard-Browne for violating stay-at-home orders and holding a large church service was staged theater. The author, Colin Stayton, presents three main pieces of evidence: Howard-Browne’s alleged familial ties to De Beers diamond families, suggesting a connection to a global diamond cartel financed by Rothschild & Company and controlled by interrelated Jewish families; his celebrity pastor status and high promotion, implying connections to peerage, banking, and intelligence families through his hyphenated surname, linking him to historical aristocratic families like the Earls of Suffolk, Earls of Carlisle, Earls of Altamont, Marquesses of Sligo, and Viscounts Montagu; and the circumstances of his arrest, which was a negotiated surrender that lasted only 40 minutes.
Stayton further elaborates on Howard-Browne’s supposed connections, citing his relation to Johannes Nicolaas de Beer, Petronella Sophia De Beer, and Stanley Trevor Rodney Howard-Browne. He also points to Howard-Browne’s recent ancestry including Stadler and Flowerdew, linking him to peerage families like the Mackworth baronets, Barons Digby, Bulkeleys, and Gardiners, and also to Trefusis, Deere, Maddocks, Affleck, Mann, Blomfield, and Proctor. Other alleged ancestral links include Lt. James Hart IV, Tamplin, Johnstone baronets, Lords Somerville, Grahams, Earls of Montrose, Lords Oliphant, Hays, Earls of Erroll, Knoxes, Earls of Ranfurly, and Stuarts, Earls of Bute. Indirect connections are also made to Aldriches, Muir, McMasters, Lennoxes, Allisons, Le Granges, Krugers, Noonans, Rathbones, and Bothas, with notable descendants like Louis Botha and P.W. Botha.
The article also scrutinizes Howard-Browne’s public persona and past statements, highlighting his unusual worship style, his $10 million expenditure for Madison Square Garden in New York City in 1999, his past involvement with multi-level marketing companies Monavie and Jeunesse, his meeting with President Donald Trump in 2017 during which he claimed to know of a planned attack on the president, his support for Donald Trump as a check against a “New World Order” conspiracy, his allegations of child sacrifice and cannibalism in Hollywood and Washington, D.C., his response to the Sutherland Springs church shooting advocating for armed self-defense, his claims on Alex Jones’ InfoWars about the Austin, Texas bombings being orchestrated by “anarchist terrorists” and “globalist gremlins,” and his assertion that the Christchurch mosque shootings in New Zealand were a “false flag” operation.
The narrative of the arrest is further questioned by referencing Chad Chronister, the county sheriff, and his wife, Nicole DeBartolo, daughter of billionaire businessman Edward DeBartolo. DeBartolo’s past legal issues, including a guilty plea in a corruption case involving Edwin Edwards, former governor of Louisiana, a sexual assault accusation settled out of court, and his presidential pardon by President Donald Trump in 2020, are brought up to cast doubt on Chronister’s integrity and the legitimacy of the arrest.
The author concludes that Howard-Browne is a distraction, serving to discredit pastors who defy COVID-19 restrictions by labeling them as conspiracy theorists. Stayton argues that churches have voluntarily closed, not due to persecution, and criticizes their acceptance of “virtual church” as a sign of weakness and compliance with a “plandemic.” The article advocates for defying government shutdowns and re-opening businesses and churches. A comment from “Miles” echoes this sentiment, describing a staged arrest of a person in Cincinnati and asserting that governors lack the legal standing for shutdowns, relying on voluntary compliance.