Andy Stanley and Eastview Christian Church and Trump

1/13/2021

Dear Mayor Tari Renner,

Our country is made up of many different people and cultures. I am writing to you today to appeal to you how our town of Bloomington and the community we live in is also being affected by this. As communities change with the times and grow, they become more and more diverse. Long ago our country’s leaders stood for what they believed in. Today it is also important that we talk about and educate our community about the importance of diversity and accepting the changes that come with the change in the dynamics of culture. This is our civic duty our Founding Fathers fought for. How do we keep our town of Bloomington together and safe with all the division in our country and how do we honor our American heritage?

Living in the "Land of Lincoln”, The Lincoln Memorial honored President Abraham

Lincoln and how during one of the most divided times in our nation when American's fought each other, Lincoln kept our country together and unified. The constitution was written when our country was being formed to make sure the rights of all citizens were protected and gave us our freedoms with respect to our great nation and everything it is founded on and what many great leaders in the past fought for to form our heritage as Americans. The Statue of Liberty is a symbol of how our nation extends these freedoms to all people who come to our great country.

With that being said, I have great respect for our nation and the town of Bloomington and would like to honor our American heritage by upholding these values as we see the former dynamics of our town change and becoming more diverse with the assimilation of new cultures, customs, immigrants and diversity.

Keeping our community safe and unified is a burden on my heart.

Coming from a diverse background myself, I have often been ashamed of my race and nationality and often felt discriminated against because of it. My mom is American and my dad is Iranian. We grew up in the US and lived a portion of my childhood in Iran under their strict Islamic culture and regime. Later in middle school we came back to the US to stay. I often felt and experienced how people thought of me as a terrorist or an enemy to the country for saying I am part Iranian. Being ashamed of this and not wanting people to think that of me, I started to lie about my race and started telling people I was Greek, German, Danish and Italian as my mom is Danish and German, I figured the Greek and

Italian would explain my dark complexion. It wasn’t until I became a Christian did Christ really start freeing me from this shame and despise I had for my nationality and race.

So many times I felt like I had to try and rid myself of my heritage and try to become American as much as possible so I could fit in and not be looked at as an enemy to the nation or an evil person. This was especially challenging in a small rural town like Bloomington. I know the people of Bloomington are very traditional and come from a less diverse make up. Being of this origin really puts pressure on me in this small town as change in culture and dynamics as far as diversity and or immigration goes is not welcomed so easily. In fact, some of our Amendment rights that our country fought hard to implement have been greatly violated for having this nationality.

My Amendment rights as well as Illinois laws and statutes have been violated in a heinous way. This includes Statute 775 IL CS 5, human Rights Act Article 6 in particular. The Constitution of the State of IL Article I Bill of Rights, Section 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7,15, 20, 22. To name a few.

On October 17th, 2016 my privacy was severely compromised as a local church in our Bloomington/Normal community hacked into my WIFI and rooted my phone with his Bloomington PD security police officer he used in the church. This all started on Sept 6, 2016 when I had a friend from church over for a playdate. We both had toddlers the same age and she had invited me on playdates in the past. I had previously lied to her about my race and nationality when she had asked me where I was from. Feeling guilty now as a Christian and lying to a fellow Christian and friend from church I was really convicted that I need to be honest with my race and just tell her that I am part Iranian. While I know the normal reaction to that isn’t welcomed favorably, I felt like I can’t lie anymore about this.

So she asked me again all the places I had lived as it came up in normal conversation. I did not want to deny or lie about my nationality again or be ashamed of it any more. If Christ freed me from all my shame, I should put it into practice and be honest about my race. So I proceeded to tell her I was part American and part Iranian. How I lived and grew up part of my childhood in Iran and now my parents are separated and my dad lives there. I told her how someone gave me a Gideon Bible outside of my middle school right when we moved back to the U.S. and soon after high School I put my faith in Christ. While I didn’t understand it all and my dad stopped me from going to church when he found out because of his muslim beliefs he imposed on us. Later in 2008, I was pregnant with my son & told he was a high risk for Down Syndrome, had cyst on his brain and wasn’t getting all the nutrients via the umbilical cords. We were highly pressured by doctors and family to abort the baby. While my dad had now left my mom a few years ago and went back to Iran, my new husband and I decided to pray for the baby to be healed a to keep him. We started going to Eastview Christian Church together and dedicated our lives to Christ. We have been going to Eastview Christian Church for 8 years at this point in 2016. We are well respected, hard working, educated (accountant) and my husband works for a major insurance company (State Farm) in our town. Our name and integrity are highly important to the nature of the work and business we are in. When I told my friend about my race and Iranian background and roots she seemed timid and scared. She grabbed her kids, thanked me and left my house. The next few Sunday's at our local church, the pastor was preaching on a topic that highlighted some division that happened in the church over whether people of a nation that is anti-Israel can or should be able to come to church. At this point I was going there for 8 years and no knew that I was part Iranian. My confidentiality I put in my friend was shattered as she told her husband who told the church pastor and staff. This led to a big division breaking out over my race and if I can even worship there as a Christian. One sermon that Mike Baker the senior pastor preached commented on how “some would rather see me punched in the face than become a Christian.” I listened to this sermon over 20 times at home that day in shock of the big division hatred people have for a new kind and ethnic background being in their church. The Church is very traditional & rural small town values or change or others not like them being apart of the church culture was very disturbing to them.

The church pastor proceed to somehow see my IP address 20 times on that one sermon and hacked illegally into my phone WiFi. They had no search warrant, no probable cause or even authority to do so. It was out of their own prejudices that they decided to hack into my stuff and go through all my emails, all my texts, my conversations with my family in Iran, my phone calls, watching me and invading my privacy in my own home through my cameras being hacked. They also hacked my audio and microphones and now can hear everything we say in the privacy of our own home as well as watch me through cameras on my phone & computers. My Amendment rights and privacy have been severely compromised and violated. I feel like I have been raped. They next proceeded to hand out my IP address and access to my phone to random members in the congregation, on staff and other pastors. I became a spectacle for everyone to come watch the “convert” come watch “the foreigner” “someone not like you”, “someone so far from God”, "some one so different than us”. Mike Baker next made rounds to pastoral conventions throughout the nation & handed out my IP address for whoever wanted to come see. This has now grown to be so large that my safety privacy, my dignity and my integrity are completely marred.

While I became aware of this privacy invasion as many times they would name a very specific thing you did or said that week and in a blackmailing, manipulating way made fun of you and belittled you as they crept into your privacy and watched. While I didn’t want to give the Church of Christ a bad name by publicly exposing this crime or make a big racial tension in our nation by taking them to court, I thought the would leave by now since they could see that I’m not a

terrorist or anti Israel or a bad person, but a good Iranian - American Christian., But it has now been 9 years and they are still hacked into my WiFi and they won’t leave. This led to other lead pastors like Andy Stanley of Northpoint Church in Georgia to try and manage this but it only led to immorality and sexual assault. Because of my cameras being hacked into, many have seen that I am an attractive girl, half their age and started sexually harassing and assaulting me. They started watching me on cameras in my house that then led to watching me on devices and the cameras in the church after they had seen and recorded and distributed a sex tape they made of me and my husband. The church has cameras with HD 1070ip full body surveillance. As I led woman’s small groups and Bible Study Fellowship and life groups for women, I was on the campus everyday. The pastor started talking about my breast size and making it into sexual things. They constantly started harassing me because of my breast size and making sexual comments and jokes about them. Stanley now brought media sources, new people and networks like ESPN, Fox News, CNN, local news, Twitter, Moody Radio, local radio, Sirius XM Radio, Late Night Comedy Show hosts, Saturday Night Live, celebrities, random people from the community like my doctor (who looked down my shirt to check the boobs out for himself while I was knocked out for a colonoscopy), my kid’s teachers and many other random people including President Trump. Andy Stanley having a status in the Church went to Trump to try & use heinous blackmail, abuse, assault, and ultimate humiliation and degrading techniques to cover his immorality in the church and this scandal.

President Trump used his resources & power to have all media sources spurn me as evil and promiscuous, slander my name and reputation, twist this like I am the bad guy and not them. They Sexually assault me & then act like I’m promiscuous as they creep in my privacy with governmental tools such as satellite imaging and AI that goes through my walls. I now have no privacy whatsoever, as Trump invited thousands to come watch on this satellite app as third party made for him for this cause as I take a shower, use the restroom, get dressed, sex with my spouse etc. Andy Stanley also with Trump took naked pictures of me and my breast in the shower and posted them on the internet. President Trump continues to threaten me with false imprisonment or to kill me or have me come up missing if I report this to anyone.

If I even mention anything in the privacy of my own home, the President and Andy impose more blackmail like exposing my HIPPA Records or personal family things then makes up flagrant lies to intentionally harm my reputation. I thought by now t leave, but everyone is backing them up as the whole media is on here watching me shower and dress and have intimacy. I am constantly threatened by Mike Baker, Stanley, Trump and random members and doctors in the community if I tell anyone about this. Andy Stanley also stole personal property of my including a trust he tampered with that was my inheritance left at the state of IL for $300,000 unclaimed that I didn’t know about. This has become the biggest national hate crime and sexual assault of a nation on one person.

Media continues to relentlessly mock me or slander me daily no matter if it’s the radio or news or sports show. They all have used their platforms and their power to control the narrative and this crime and oppress me in it. My life and my family’s life is forever in constant danger. All our passwords and our accounts are open for all to see. The community I live in is now pitting me as some kind of terrorist, if you defend me, your are anti-Israel. He drummed up an army of people against me because he doesn’t want to get caught. He also had President Trump put cameras on my car to creep through my window when the churches got shut down for Covid and he could no longer creep on me there. This man has severely ruined and damaged my life. Mr. Trump using government tools to sexually assault me and harass me is uncalled for. He has no Fisa Court warrant, no probable cause, no search warrant or reason, no cause for wire tapping so to speak of any kind. Everything they do is highly illegal. They continue to threaten me if I do anything as all my stuff is under their eye constantly. It has now been 9 years that I have been without privacy. My life and safety are at risk constantly.

Technology has really contributed to this hate crime. With the access of cameras, phones, apps, social media, AI, drones and satellites etc, these guys are able to tell more & more people faster and faster with the push of a button to harass and assault women and intrude on their bodies and spread their privacy accessing it with a click. Pictures of me in real time and live footage can be accessed anywhere anytime making sexual advances and abuse available unlike any other time period.

So I appeal to you today for the safety and dignity as well as the unity for all people despite national origin, race, diversity or culture.

As more and more foreigners and ethnicities are moving into rural suburbs like my town, we must be a people prepared to welcome a embrace these changes without hostility, abuse or violence. Many cultures that have come to America have kept their traditions and try to pass these important heritage traits down generationally to their children. We need to honor our American heritage the Founding Fathers fought for by making our towns and communities safe places where all people have the freedom to tell and share their life stories and pass their family heritage and traditions and culture down generationally as well as even share horizontally within society without fear or discrimination.

All this abuse and scandal has happened to me as a result of sharing my story and my ethnic identity. I would not wish anyone else to have to endure the same kind of treatment I am now facing.

Please join me in upholding the heritage of our great nation by cultivating safe places for all citizens despite ethnicity, religion, culture clashes or heritage to be able to maintain their diversity generationally yet be a unified people and community.

Sincerely,

Laila Cheek