Protecting Yourself From Government Overreach

Join the Virginia Medical Freedom Alliance and Feds for Freedom on October 10 and 11 at Patrick Henry College in Purcellville, Virginia where you and other freedom loving individuals and families from across the nation welcome: Alex Newman, Ivan Raiklin, Christine Dolan, Steve Krahling, Twila Brase, Garret O’Boyle, William Olson, Dr. Irene Mavrakakis, Dr. Sheila Furey, Matt Strickland, Marcus Thornton, Jim Erdman, Bernadette Pajer, and Rob Green. Share in their wisdom and experience. Take this weekend to forge new relationships and be empowered with the foundational principals of our Constitution. Register today to learn first hand that compliance is a dangerous road and how to be supported as you choose alternative pathways.

Alex Newman

Alex Newman is an award-winning international journalist, educator, author, speaker, investor, nationally syndicated radio host, and consultant who seeks to glorify God in everything he does.

In addition to service as the president for the Liberty Sentinel Media, Inc and hosting a nationally syndicated, Alex has written for a wide array of publications. He currently serves as a contributor to the Epoch Times, a correspondent for the Law Enforcement Intelligence Brief, foreign correspondent and senior editor for The New American magazine, a writer for WND (World Net Daily), a contributor to Range magazine, an education writer for FreedomProject Media, a columnist for the Illinois Family Institute, and much more.

William Olson

William Olson heads a small law firm with offices in Vienna and Winchester, Virginia. Now in his 49th year of private practice, he has filed just over 400 “friend-of-the-court” amicus briefs, of which about 225 have been in the U.S. Supreme Court. He was a White House intern in the Nixon Administration, appointed by President Reagan Chairman of the Board of the Legal Services Corporation, and was the recipient of a grand jury subpoena and bar complaint for assisting President Trump after the 2020 election. His practice includes a wide range of constitutional issues including First Amendment freedoms of speech, press, religion and assembly, as well as Second and Fourth Amendment work. He has worked to protect alternative and conventional health care providers, and resisted Covid-19 mandates.

Lieutenant Colonel (Retired) Ivan Raiklin

Lieutenant Colonel (Retired) Ivan Raiklin is a former Green Beret and Constitutional Attorney who served 25 years in the Department of Defense, Intel and Special Operations Communities and Defense Threat Reduction Agency as an enlisted, officer, civilian, contractor on active duty, reserves and national guard across five states, five continents in five languages (Russian, Spanish, Arabic, French, English). Ivan served as a Green Beret Commander countering ISIS in the Middle East, Taliban in Afghanistan, MS-13 in Central America, and countering Russian aggression as a military diplomat in the Republic of Georgia, Most recently he has been an instructor of the Joint Military Intelligence Training Center.

Twila Brase

Twila Brase is president and co-founder of the Citizens’ Council for Health Freedom (CCHF), a national organization based in St. Paul, Minnesota supporting health care choices, individualized patient care and medical and genetic privacy. She is a policy advisor for health care to the The Heartland Institute. In 2009, Modern Healthcare names her #75 on their “100 Most Powerful People in Healthcare” list. She worked to required parental consent for federally-funded research using newborn DNA. With “Obamacare”, she helped 38 states refuse Affordable Care Act exchanges, stopped government-issued treatment directives, added consent requirement for online access to patient data, and drawn awareness to nationwide genetic privacy violations regarding newborn DNA. She is the author of Big Brother in the Exam Room: The Dangerous Truth About Electronic Health Records.

Matt Strickland

Matt Strickland is an Army veteran who enlisted at the age of 17 as a Combat Medic. He also served as a private military contractor with Blackwater’s Counter Assault Team and in total spent almost a decade in Iraq & Afghanistan. He then operated in the intelligence community for a few years before embarking on his dream. In 2016, Matt opened his first food truck, Gourmeltz. His business quickly thrived, leading to the opening of Gourmeltz  restaurant in Fredericksburg, Virginia. As his business was flourishing, Matt almost lost everything because of the covid mandate lockdowns. Unlike most small business owners though, Matt fought back. He quickly realized those mandates were more about control than health & safety, so he refused to comply.  After a lengthy court battle, Matt proved in court that those mandates were in fact unconstitutional, and he won his case against the state of Virginia.

Garret O’Boyle

Garret O’Boyle is a suspended FBI agent, who saw and experienced inconsistent and concerning patterns within his agency, which, in May 2023 led him to blow the whistle to Congress. Due to his appeal to Congress, the FBI put him on leave without pay, now close to 1,100 days.

Irene Mavrakakis, MD

Irene Mavrakakis, MD is a physician in private practice, Clinical Assistant Professor-Department of Surgery Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine and founder of Liberty Speaks with Dr. Mav podcast. She lectures on medical freedom and its Constitutional basis. She is the author of the medical freedom chapter in the book A Gold New Deal. She is also the author of the recent peer reviewed published paper entitled IgE-mediated Cytokine Storm in Vaccinated Populations: Call for Further Investigation and caution.

Dr. Sheila Furey

Sheila Furey, MD is adult, child and adolescent psychiatric in private practice in Richmond, Virginia. In almost 30 years of practice, she has worked in the outpatient and inpatient settings, residential treatment for children, the juvenile justice system, completed forensic evaluations, and testified as an expert witness. In 2020, in the midst of Covid, she began to question the “science” and watched in real time as physician communications platforms were shut down. Inspired by the FLCCC, she worked to found and lead the Virginia Medical Freedom Alliance, a state wide organization seeking to restore and protect the unalienable individual right to medical freedom within the Commonwealth of Virginia. She has contributed a chapter in the book Urban Legends by Christine Dolan documenting the the history of gender dysphoria and the clinical evaluation.

Christine Dolan

Christine Dolan is a broadcast and print investigative journalist, photographer, author, and recognized as one of the most seasoned investigators on human trafficking in the world. Her book, Shattered Innocence-A Shared Global Shame shares her journey through the corrupt underbelly of society hiding in plain sight. She continues to use the paradigm used to investigate human trafficking to understand the corruption in the medical world as she shares her new book, Urban Legends.

Steve Krahling

Steve Krahling is a research scientist in the field of molecular and cell biology.  As a laboratory scientist at Penn State University, he published research on phospholipid membrane dynamics and cell recognition systems involved in immune regulation.  As a virologist in the Virus and Cell Biology Department at Merck, he was responsible for characterizing Merck’s live virus vaccines. In 2010, he was one of two relators to file a qui tam lawsuit for fraud related to the safety and efficacy of Merck’s MMR vaccine. Steve will discuss how changes to the vaccine product, including overfilling, are hidden from public view, and how the package insert is missing key information required for informed consent.

Marcus Thornton

Feds for Freedom, President and Co-Founder

He previously served as a Border Patrol agent and in other capacities with the Department of Homeland Security from 2007-2016. Marcus has over1000 mission-flight hours as a crew member with DHS and as a Major in the United States Air Force Auxiliary. He speaks three foreign languages including two critical-needs languages. Marcus is the recipient of three Meritorious Honor Awards for his recent work defining human rights, rescuing victims of human trafficking and religious persecution, and advancing national security issues.

Jim Erdman

Feds for Freedom, Co-Founder

Co-founder Feds for Freedom is a former NCO at 2/75 Ranger Battalion and subsequently served in the National Guard. He worked as a Senior bioinformatics and biometrics consultant in the private sector. James served in the Middle East, South and East Asia, and Europe. He speaks fluent Mandarin and Arabic, and earned the DNI Intelligence Award.

Bernadette Pajer

Bernadette Pajer is a wife, mom, and advocate for informed consent and scientific integrity in public health policy. She is the volunteer TN Director and State Policy Advisor of Stand for Health Freedom, helping inform members when their action is needed to support good bills and stop bad ones. Her current focus is on stopping legislation that provides liability shields to pesticide manufacturers, improved reporting on psychotropic drug adverse reactions, and protecting vaccine exemptions with the ultimate goal of ending all vaccine mandates.

Rob A. Green, Jr

Commander Rob Green has written Defending the Constitution Behind Enemy Lines, a book about his ordeal at the hands of Navy leadership that is both inspiring and disturbing. A man of deep faith, Rob was shunned and abused by Navy leadership for holding fast to his Christian beliefs and his constitutional and legal rights as a service member and citizen. Rather than submit to taking an experimental vaccination, he refused to be coerced into following an order that was at once illegal and against his religious conscience.

Patrick Henry College
Barbara Hodel Center
Patrick Henry Circle
Purcellville, VA 20132

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