Request for Hearing with Joe and Lee Bennion Granted!

August 14, 2024 at 2 p.m. MST.

Today, IRA filed a Motion to Lift the Ex Parte Temporary Civil Stalking Injunction, along with a request for a hearing. That request was granted, and the hearing is set for August 14, 2024 at 2 p.m. M.S.T. You can read the full Motion here on Scribd. In the coming days, I will be posting an article detailing the full allegations against Joe and Lee Bennion in exhaustive detail, because they asked for it by filing a frivolous petition for a temporary restraining order.

Here are the facts about the Verified Petition for the Stalking Injunction:

1. Joseph Wood Bennion and Lee Bennion do not deny that they are members of the LDS Church of Satan in their petition.

2. Joseph Wood Bennion and Lee Bennion do not deny any of the allegations against them in the Hamblin Victims Statements within the Verified Petition.

3. Joseph Wood Bennion and Lee Bennion did not submit any sworn affidavits regarding the emotional distress and damages thereof, such as medical or psychiatric records, which they claim is connected to my alleged stalking.

4. Joseph Wood Bennion and Lee Bennion did not submit any sworn affidavits or unsworn statements from their children Louisa, Zina, or Adah Lee Bennion denying the allegations contained within the Hamblin Victims Statements, and to date, no child of any of the adults named in the Hamblin Victims Statements has publicly disputed or denied the allegations within those statements.

5. Joseph Wood Bennion and Lee Bennion’s Verified Petition was an unsworn declaration, likely because they wished to avoid the possibility of committing felony perjury.

6. At no point have I ever contacted Joseph Wood Bennion or Lee Bennion, nor have I ever visited their residence, their businesses, or stepped foot on their property.

7. I have never followed, monitored, observed, photographed, surveilled,

   threatened, or communicated to the Bennions (the Respondents), nor have I interfered with their property directly, indirectly, or through a third party by any action, method, device, or means. I have never approached or confronted either of the Respondents, and I have never appeared at their workplace, contacted their employers or coworkers, nor have I appeared at their residence, nor have I entered property owned, leased, or occupied by the Respondents. I have never sent material by any means to the individual for the purpose of obtaining or disseminating information about or communicating with the individual

   to a member of the individual’s family or household, employer, coworker, friend, or associate of the individual. I have never placed an object on or delivered an object to property owned, leased, or occupied by the Respondents, or to the Respondents’ place of employment with the intent that the object be delivered to the Respondents. I have never used a computer, the Internet, text messaging or any other electronic means to commit an act that would fall within the course of conduct of the the statute as defined by 76-5-106.5.

8. In addition, even if I had committed any of the acts outlined in the statute, it would fall within exception for the legitimate business purpose of 76-5-106.5(6)(a)(ii). IRA is a business, engaged in investigative journalism with regards to the Hamblin case and related matters, and as such investigative efforts fall within the legitimate business purpose exception of the statute. Even so, out of an abundance of caution, I never committed any of the acts outlined within the stalking statute.

9. The Bennions acknowledged in their petition that I had expressly instructed my readers, who they term “acolytes,” “to never “directly contact or harass

   any alleged member of the [Church of Satan].””

10. The Bennions also acknowledge that the harassing messages they claim to have received-which they present no proof of and no police report pertaining to-are from individuals, and “none of the individuals who have harassed the Petitioners have explicitly indicated whether they are affiliated with or taking cues from Respondent.” This is because I, Goel, have explicitly instructed my readers…my acolytes, no less…“to never “directly contact or harass any alleged member of the [Church of Satan].”
    
    In my nefarious efforts to see the Bennions held to an account for their alleged decades long criminal endeavors, which include child rape, child murder, torture, and other acts, I have instructed my acolytes to abstain from directly contacting or harassing the Bennions or any other member of the Church of Satan. I reiterate that commandment to you, my acolytes: do not directly contact or harass Joseph Wood Bennion and Lee Patricia Udall Bennion, the owners of Horseshoe Mountain Pottery and Mom’s Salve in Spring City, Utah. Do not indirectly cause third parties to contact or harass Joseph Wood Bennion or Lee Patricia Udall Bennion.

11. Do not follow, monitor, observe, photograph, surveil, threaten, communicate to or about the Bennions, or interfere with their property…unless, of course, you form a business for the legitimate purpose of exposing the criminal wrongs of the Bennions, such as a Substack or even an LLC, at which point you may fit your activities within the legitimate business exception of the stalking statute. Do not approach or confront the Bennions, or appear at their workplace, appear at their private residence or contact their neighbors, or enter property owned, leased, or occupied by the Bennions, unless you have a legitimate business purpose for doing so. If you do not, you may be guilty of stalking.

12. Do not make HeyGen AI videos of a minute in length, which you can do for free by logging into https://www.heygen.com, uploading a picture of the Bennions or any other alleged member of the LDS, and typing in text that can be converted into a voiceover. That activity is expressly protected under the First Amendment, and Supreme Court decisions such as Hustler Magazine, Inc. v. Falwell, 485 U.S. 46 (1988), which held that Hustler’s mock advertising campaign claiming that televangelist Jerry Falwell had incestuous sex with his mother in an outhouse was protected under the First Amendment, so long as it could not be reasonably construed to state actual facts about its subject. Satirical videos are clearly not stating actual facts about their subject, especially if you include the word “allegedly” in the video, but don’t do it because you might also be served an ex parte temporary restraining order when Joseph Wood Bennion and Lee Patricia Udall Bennion are upset by the contents of your satirical video. I made Joe Bennion sing “I Feel Pretty” in one of my HeyGen AI videos, and he was apparently offended. Do not donate money to IRA to enable us to produce videos utilizing HeyGen AI for a $288 yearly Creator subscription, or an $828 Team subscription that would enable us to produce unlimited videos of up to 60 minutes in length and have a multi-user collaborative workspace, with one seat per video, or if you double that amount, two seats per video so that we produce an AI talk show where Joe Bennion interviews other alleged members of the LDS Church of Satan in satirical videos. Don’t do it. Do not do it, my acolytes. Do not make videos where Joe Bennion talks about having donkey sex or fellating Lucifer. That would be juvenile, immature, and inappropriate, even though it would fall under protected speech via the First Amendment and Supreme Court precedent.

Also, my acolytes, if you donate for the purpose of having custom made t-shirts with the IRA screaming head logo and the word ACOLYTE on it, I might be inclined to have those t-shirts made for my acolytes to wear to protests and other such events. As an added bonus, I might even include my custom slogan “This Machine Kills Satanists” which I have on a hat I made for myself. Of course, if you simply wanted to make hats or t-shirts yourself, you could just right click on the logo in the upper right hand corner of the site and select save, then go on Amazon and customize this $6.00 custom baseball cap with the logo and the slogan, and pay a nominal fee for expedited shipping. Because you are my acolytes, I will not sue you for trademark infringement or copyright violations. You could do the same thing with a $5.99 t-shirt as well, and you could wear it at any protest in Spring City, Manti, or anywhere else around Sanpete County.

Do not fear, my acolytes, for Heavenly Father is with us, and if He is with us, who can be against us? As a matter of law and fact, I should be able to prevail on August 14th and get the temporary stalking order lifted, and perhaps obtain sanctions and criminal referrals against the Bennions and their counsel, their daughter Zina’s boyfriend Caleb Proulx. After all, knowingly submitting false unsworn declarations is a misdemeanor under Utah law, and I believe the misrepresentations within the Verified Petition submitted by the Bennions do rise to the level of knowing false declarations.

Then again, I could be wrong, and Judge Bagley may not read the statute, or understand its plain language, or he could just simply decide he isn’t going to follow the law or consider the facts. I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt, and I encourage you, my acolytes, to do the same. Again, do not contact or harass any member of the LDS Church of Satan. I’m serious. Doing so might imperil or jeopardize our ability to hold these people accountable for their alleged criminal acts, and deny victims justice. The war is merry, and ongoing, and I am never happier than when I am in a fight against those who abuse and torment children and innocent people.

After all, this machine-figuratively-kills Satanists. Perhaps this machine evangelizes those under Satan’s power to Christ, or this machine debates and defeats Satanists with superior reasoning and rhetorical skills, but this machine does not literally kill Satanists. Neither should you, my acolytes. That privilege is reserved for the State of Utah when it executes murderers on the collective behalf of its citizens, and Joe and Lee Bennion are allegedly murderers.

If this article causes Joe and Lee Bennion emotional distress with its proposal that they suffer criminal and civil sanctions for their alleged rapes, murders, and other crimes, so be it. The stalking statute is for those individuals who do not engage in illegal conduct, and who don’t have hundreds of pages of victims statements setting forth allegations of decades of child sexual and physical abuse, including rape, torture, and murder. The Hamblin sisters did not fabricate those allegations, and it is my belief based on two years of investigative research that Joe and Lee Bennion are guilty of the allegations against them. A future article will set forth every single one of those allegations in exhaustive detail.

Thank you for supporting IRA, and if you’d like to donate you can do so here in any amount. We are reader supported, and for two years you’ve kept us going. Thank you. As an added bonus, here’s the front page article in the Sanpete County Messenger on the recent Hamblin protest. Charlene Stott has managed to get some serious traction and is building a protest movement for every hearing in the Hamblin case in American Fork and Manti. Thanks for showing up to those protests, and may many more of my acolytes join with Charlene and her crew in the future.