If such are the people who run the world of business and politics, we are all doomed
Now we know why they didn’t want to release the Epstein files. It’s not just about implicating US President Donald Trump, who was a long-time close friend of the infamous paedophile and sex trafficker, Jeffrey Epstein. Rather, they basically implicate the ruling and business elites of the Anglo-American world.
In the 1980s and 1990s, there was a wave of mass hysteria sweeping across the United States based on fear of satanic cults, child abuse and sacrifices.
Well, it turns out maybe it wasn’t ordinary Americans but the elites who are more into that sort of thing.
I will skip the revelations about former prince Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor; there are a lot more juicy bits from the latest release of millions of pages and photos from the US Justice Department on the order of Congress.
On a vast estate owned by the late Epstein on Little St James – which is part of the US Virgin Islands in the Caribbean – there stands a creepy cube-like structure adorned in blue-and-white stripes, flanked by palm trees and overlooking the sea on a stone terrace decorated with bold pink geometric shapes.
Epstein, who died in prison, owned a number of such properties where young mostly female victims were trafficked to rich and powerful people. Some were allegedly beaten and tortured. The official conclusion of prison suicide has been questioned in many quarters, thereby fuelling conspiracy theories about Epstein’s death.
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Multiple victims, including the late outspoken Virginia Giuffre, said they were subjected to sadistic and other forced sex acts as well as subsequent threats to keep them quiet.
In an email dated April 24, 2009, Epstein allegedly wrote: “Where are you? Are you ok, I loved the torture video.” Another document, dated September 9, 2011, reads, “do you want me to try to do her … or just torture her on fri”. The names of both email recipients were redacted.
Several of the world’s richest men regularly partied on Epstein’s multiple island estates and elsewhere. In an email dated July 18, 2013, Epstein claimed one of them complained about having caught a sexually transmitted disease from “Russian girls” and tried to obtain antibiotics from Epstein to secretly give it to the rich guy’s wife.
One document alleged brutal sex acts on a yacht resulting in victims suffering heavy bleeding. Others claimed sex acts involving at least two former US presidents as well as the current one. There were also more outlandish claims about murder and cannibalism. US federal investigators have framed some claims as unsubstantiated. But it’s not clear if they have investigated all of them.
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Earlier revelations suggest that one of Harvard’s most famous law professors partied with the Epstein crowd while he was also helping to negotiate a non-prosecution agreement involving serious sex charges in the late 2000s. A former Harvard president and Treasury chief asked him for sex and romantic advice about a young up-and-coming female economist.
Of course, we shouldn’t be surprised by these outrageous acts and allegations, even if just half of them are true. It’s not like we haven’t seen this before.
Remember former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn who, according to the BBC, “told a court in northern France that he took part in only a few rare sex parties”? “He said prosecutors had greatly exaggerated the frequency of his ‘licentious evenings’. There had only been 12 in three years.”
Those parties were, needless to say, attended by the rich and powerful in France as well as other countries. The career of Strauss-Kahn – a French finance minister who was at the time widely considered a top contender to be president – ended after he was arrested and charged with attempting to rape a hotel maid in New York in 2011.
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Then there were allegations of “bunga bunga” sex parties held at the Arcore villa of the late Italian prime minister and tycoon Silvio Berlusconi, near Milan. Maybe Tiberius and Caligula weren’t all that exceptional after all.
I am reminded of Eyes Wide Shut, Stanley Kubrick’s last film. Towards the end, the character played by Tom Cruise is confronted by a friend who knew he went uninvited to a ritualistic sex party where everyone wore a mask.
The friend tells Cruise’s character that if he told him the names of the people at the party, “I don’t think you’d sleep so well at night”.
Well, it turns out reality is more disturbing than art. And you wonder why the West is so messed up by those who run it.
