Beneath the uniforms, costumes of power or the suits of fashionable exuberance lurks naked flesh. Often flabby and unimpressive. The victims of such know the putrid stench on their breath, the sickly odour of sweat, the repulsive effluent of discharge as it penetrates where it’s unwanted. The predators are human. Nothing more. Government, wealth and ‘the system’ suggest otherwise. To their victims, whose bodies quiver in innocent disdain, blood running from where they have been stabbed, there is seldom justice. Wealth, power ensures such.
When an individual man, the unexceptional, pins and takes their victim, the brutal act is generally easier to punish. The paid agents of government do so with a self righteous assertion, ‘justice is done.’ Should the brutal act involve power, the rich, the anointed important, then those same uniformed paid agents of government will bury, redact and make sure the indignities are lost or forgotten.
The system, government is too important. The power base itself requires preservation, so those slobbering beasts from within, are generally protected, or act with confident recklessness because they, unlike their victims and the commoner, understand the nature of power. It’s absolute. Not because of law, or because it’s enforced by mostly men with guns. Because it’s believed to be so. Too many profit from it, they are dependent upon it. Morality or the pretence of it is purchased or willed away, with context. Bribery and blackmail or simply belief ensures justice is blind at seeing some victims because of who the violator is.
Humans can scroll past a dead child, knowing a sanctioned justification for their death. The child is not an individual but a member of a prescribed demographic, a “them.” Those killing the child are doing so with writ of law or the weight of policy on their shoulders. The killer may belong to a collective of familiars. “Look what you made our warriors do.” Or just as easily, “They deserved it.” They being a child unborn when the political wrong was conjured up.
When it comes to the rape of the innocent, most understand that taking a child against their will, or coercion itself is wrong. Except when politics, or religion or some perceived greater good is involved. It’s how countless people were able to look the other way and placate the lusts of Jimmy Saville and his peers as they went on decades long orgies of pillage. The ruination of lives a calculated cost the government, royalty and those profiting from his brand could tolerate.
From within the church, Catholic and otherwise, the many victims disregarded and those who would harm and abuse with unpious acts of rape and torture did so with official knowledge. The message of religious doctrine and importance of the church higher than the innocent victim. The faithful see any allegations as a slur against the faith, not that a bad man with wet penis in hand, their victim whimpering to a god who never hears their prayer. Apparently only his. How many Hail Mary’s per child?
Youth detention is polluted with the weeping “children” or “juveniles” incarcerated by the state, many abused and molested by the officers guarding them. The under age status of the youth is fluid, depending on their crimes, they are both too young to consent, or have the ability to make decisions for themselves but can also be punished and treated as if they should have known better. Any sexual violence they suffer, a shrug of indifference or a sigh of “fuck around find out,” as though justice is being served with each penile baton into their young bodies.
A fighting age male, is anyone old enough to hold an AK-47. Boys as young as ten, to be tortured or killed under the assumption they are warriors. Their existence in the proximity to a war zone, or any region map pointers conjure up, is enough to at times terminate them or validate their termination with the pretence, “fighting age male.” Governments at war drop the moniker of child when it comes to their victims. Is it now hate speech to bear witness to IDF soldiers killing children or to read about those raped by them?
Whether the Heiner affair, or the Franklin scandal or the ‘Family” killings each indulgent conspiracies bound close to uncertain facts. The mystery and intrigue of each is a miasma of legendary knowledge for school children to share. Adults expressing with confirmed authority. Cops and prison officers openly discussing, as if the very entity they protect and serve is complicit, that power and wealth owns justice. It’s a known fact, whether confirmed or not. Yet, they show up. The public still trusts. Even if they know what they don’t know. What they do know is that children are fodder for the powerful. Or predators. But so long as the predators are deemed important or attached to that which is most important, the government, then there is nothing to be done. So injustices become folklore and legends to be whispered.
In the Soviet Union, the terrible reign of NKVD head Lavrentiy Beria, was notorious. He was responsible for the suffering of countless victims of rape, torture and murder. Comrade Stalin, the dictator himself warned his own daughter to avoid Beria. Well aware of Beria’s predilection for children. Beria was useful to Stalin and the regime of terror that was the Soviet Union. Because of his usefulness, he and his agents could do as they pleased. Beria only met his justice once Stalin died. Suddenly cowards and fellow predators who had served and enabled found the bravery to kill him. Not out of any justice for the many victims, rather as an act of political self interest.
There are ominous images and footage of Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, taping the shoulders of young girls and women. It is alleged his body guards and goons would take the girls where he could rape them. Over his forty plus year reign it’s unknown how many of such victims he “took”. It’s the domain of dictators to take victims, eating them as Idi Amin or Papa Doc were said to have done. The power of government giving these men absolute rule, what they may do with intimate terror, liberal democracies through the power of an executive or vote, can do en masse. Bombing cities, starving millions and waging war, is an impersonal act of savagery, except for the victims. Those in the distance see themselves as better, cleaner and more moral than a tinpot dictator who would carve his victims with his own sword. It’s more civilised to order a drone to blow a family to pieces from afar. Children included, their brutalised bodies draped with the words, “collateral” if any one cares to notice them at all.
The status of innocent is fluid. A child’s blood can be washed or cried over, depending on how it serves power and authority. People will vote for politicians whether they kiss babies, kill them or fuck them, so long as the politician promises the voting masses welfare and bullshit jobs, or whatever can buy ignorance.
Which brings us to the many allegations and claims surrounding Jeffrey Epstein and those who he provided facilities and the innocent for. Such people are able to do what they do because of the institutions of power allowed them to circumvent the magical realm of legalese and obligations government beats their populaces with, choosing to ignore whenever it suits a particular regime, or personality. The latest “dump” has outlandish claims, condemning, such as email exchanges to reports from witnesses who have made allegations in the most severe and extreme.
What is known is that law enforcement and legal masters sat and concealed this information. The apparatus of government protecting those considered too important and wealthy. Like the church, the reasoning perhaps being that distrust and a loss of faith among the masses is far worse than any need for justice. It’s such reasoning as to why whistle blowers are pariah and journalists face greater violence and legal coercion than ever. Why freedom of speech is under further attack, why the state is obsessed with not only censorship but surveillance. It’s with some hubris those claiming such measures are crucial in order to protect children or, to go after terrorists-criminals. Time and time again such measures are often used to target human rights organisations. And kids continue to be starved and blown to pieces in their endless wars.
Remember, “he didn’t traffic to anyone,” meaning to anyone like you. But above all else, justice is told to drop a case, because the violators of the innocent are above it’s pay grade.
The new information coming out will be used as content fodder by those interested and those who are only concerned with engagement. The nature and volume of such allegations and information can muddy the waters as to what is actually factual, and what’s a claim or a false witness statement. The very real evidence will be marginalised and down played. Or, dismissed. But let’s for a moment pretend all of it and more is true, absolutely and irrefutable, clear footage and images and credible sources blaring us all in the face. The fact that cops, and the legal lords and government covered it and enabled it. The fact that those named are important according to wealth status and political stature did such repugnant things. Would change what exactly? Is your government any better than those who served Stalin or Qaddafi?
There is a moment in history, a glimmer of optimistic reality. During his tyrannical narcissistic rant Nicolae Ceausescu, the head of state of Romania experienced the mob turn on him and his regime. The wider backdrop, the Cold War had been lost, the Soviet benefactor was sick and in it’s own death spirals. The mob booed. Then, he and his wife were shot. The same soldiers and cops who had terrorised in his name, who had made his rule absolute and had lived above that very mob, turned on the dictator. The tides had shifted. It turns out, power only exists because the common person allows it. The mob frightens the powerful, that’s why they must pay cops to protect them, surveillance and censorship exists to manipulate and deter. Welfare and debt, a means of bribery and dependency. Division between collectives incited to suggest the common person should hate one another, to be ruled over. The powerful, respond to the boos of the mobs, the disobedient dignity of the people, the proletariat is really where the power lays. But, few realise this. So, we tolerate indignities, injustices and the destruction of innocence.
Turns out, no matter how many bombs are dropped on kids. How many children are raped. How many are tortured. People go to work for the violent monopoly, so long as they get paid. More hands reach out for the welfare, because its all most know to do. The belief in the system remains, even if shaken. Just like a catholic must reason after mass, how many rosaries must one recite to pretend no boys were buggered against their will? Faith kept them in power. Devotion made them mighty. The innocent were failed, everywhere. In every country, because this is not just an Epstein related event. On smaller scales, or in the case of prison regimes like North Korea, a larger one, victims of power exist everywhere. But because the rapists are important and because the system, regime or church is so absolute and permanent, it will continue. And not even Jim can fix that. I doubt you would even want him to.
