“The fact that it is a hypothesis specially uncongenial to the emotions of this investigator or that, is neither here nor there.”
― From “That Hideous Strength”, by C.S. Lewis, 1945
In the paleolithic age, in the area surrounding the Mediterranean sea, smaller caves situated away from the main body of the populace housed the H. neanderthalensis overlords of the hunter-gatherer tribe which they had forcibly taken over.
In the 1800’s, per Margaret Jacob and Frances Yates, secret societies were right at the heart of the political foment of the Enlightenment, with groups such as the Carbonari in Italy, the Comuneros in Spain, and the Decembrists in Russia incubating pretty much all the most important democratic institutions of the 19th century.
In 1886, per Thomas Peermohamed Lambert on unherd.com on February 25, 2026, a young German anthropologist named Franz Boas documented the indiginous people of British Columbia gathered in their long, rectangular houses to dance into the small hours of the morning, until the sun showed itself again.
They prepared special masks for these ceremonies, and wore complicated insignia made of cedar bark; at many gatherings, there were complicated stage magic techniques, even rudimentary pyrotechnics. The longer Boas spent among the Kwakiutl, though, the more he became convinced that the strangest and most shocking rituals were held behind closed doors, only accessible to those with considerable wealth and long periods of purificatory seclusion behind them. He asked a few villagers about the rumors though: no one seemed to want to talk. They did have a name, though, for the select group of men in the village who were allowed to attend them: the “Hamatsa” — meaning, the “cannibals”.
Boas spent the next decade exploring the Pacific Northwest region. The more indigenous peoples he visited, the more he became convinced that all of them had equivalent, secret brotherhoods. There were “Cannibal Societies” among Kwakiutl, the Bella Coola, and the Tsimshian peoples, not to mention “Grizzly Bear Societies” and “Wolf Societies” who were rumored to eat human flesh, too. What was more, studying the cedar bark insignia of the different brotherhoods, Boas began to suspect that they were all connected: what other anthropologists had believed were multiple different peoples were perhaps better thought of as just two different groups: a scared, confused rank and file, and a secretive, cannibalistic elite.
In 1902, a colonial administrator named P.A. Talbot began to notice some strikingly similar patterns in the region he had been tasked with governing in British Nigeria.
Talbot was first alerted to the fact that there might be a strange, second power system operating in his fiefdom by the road closures. Masked figures kept appearing on public highways and demanding they be shut for unspecified, ritual purposes. Soon they began to commandeer other public spaces: markets, town squares. Attending one of them, Talbot witnessed a masked man kill and eat a baby, only to “resurrect” it for the crowds of cooing onlookers (Talbot himself suspected the real explanation was that there were two different babies). Over time, he uncovered the truth: the masked men belonged to a shadowy group known as the “Ekkpo,” or “Leopard Society”, which had “usurped practically all the functions of government”, regulating trade, adjudicating disputes, imposing fines, and executing people they found guilty of non-observance of public rites, or having witnessed private ones. They had established a virtual monopoly on palm oil nuts, the main agricultural staple of the region.
In 1923, P.A. Talbot published his findings in a book titled Life in Southern Nigeria.
It documented the fact that the Leopard Society was a kind of state-within-a-state, their power maintained by a vast network of secret rituals including human sacrifice and cannibalism. “These were accompanied by mock beheadings, staged resurrections, feats of bodily invulnerability.”
Where actual beheadings are hidden behind “mock beheadings”.
Within a few years, colonial officials across West and Central Africa had begun to notice similar features in their own territories: in Liberia and Sierra Leone, the secretive Poro society wormed its way into just about every important political position with initiates sacrificing their own first-born sons to reach the highest ranks; in Rwanda, the Kubwanda Society maintained secret lodges outside villages where they plotted techniques for taking over political power.
By 1950, anthropologists were discovering secret societies on every continent on the planet: the Suque in Melanesia, with their mass sacrifices of pigs; the clown-fraternities of the American Southwest, with their black-and-white body paint; the “bear cults” among the Ainu of Japan, with their hidden feasts of ursine flesh.
The Hamatsa and Ekkpo and Poro and Suque were privy to the same, occult wisdom as the Rosicrucians, the Freemasons, or the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn.
In the 1960’s Margaret Jacob and Frances Yates argued that secret societies were right at the heart of the political foment of the Enlightenment, with groups such as the Carbonari in Italy, the Comuneros in Spain, and the Decembrists in Russia incubating pretty much all the most important democratic institutions of the 19th century.
In 1995, Stephen Deckoff founded Black Diamond Capital Management, which manages $10 billion in assets.
Here’s a picture of Stephen Deckoff, in a Satanic-purple tie.
(Epstein Island’s new owner, Stephen Deckoff)
In 1998, Jeffrey Epstein purchased Little Saint James Island for $7.95 million. It’s about 71 acres, the size of 54 football fields.
Wired.com’s Dhruv Marhotra said in comment in 2024 “He made the island his primary residence, and soon after, began welcoming visitors and throwing infamous parties where he was accused of having groomed, sexually assaulted, and trafficked untold numbers of women and girls.”
Where “groomed, sexually assaulted, and trafficked” omits “tortured, murdered and cannibalized”.
But, then, the key to any successful Confidence game is misdirection.
Epstein had a helipad on the island and owned at least one helicopter, a Sikorsky S-76 which he used often to transport himself, guests, and victims from the airport or elsewhere.
Visitors came over to the island from nearby hotels and luxury resorts, including the Ritz Carlton Hotel.
Wired.com’s Dhruv Marhotra said in comment in 2024 “Some landed at the Cyril E. King Airport on neighboring Saint Thomas Island. With its private jet and VIP terminals, it was the go-to hub for Epstein’s 200-seater Boeing 727 plane dubbed Lolita Express.”
To get to Epstein’s Island, many visitors got on a boat at a designated dock at the American Yacht Harbor, a private marina on Saint Thomas, co-owned by Epstein at the time.
Wealthy customers seeking to torture, rape and cannibalize young women came from 166 locations throughout the United States, in 80 cities across 26 states.
Topping the list were Florida, Massachusetts, Texas, Michigan, and New York.
In 2000, per the FBI in 2019, an anonymous victim of Jeffrey Epstein’s stated that he was taken on Epstein’s yacht and raped by former U.S. President George Herbert Walker Bush, Jeffrey Epstein and former U.S. President Bill Clinton.
He also stated that he had witnessed former U.S. President George Herbert Walker Bush, Jeffrey Epstein and former U.S. President Bill Clinton performing acts of “ritualistic sacrifice” including the dismemberment of babies, the extraction of their intestines, and the consumption of their feces.
When asked why the allegations were not pursued, the FBI declined to comment.
In 2008, per wired.com’s Dhruv Mehrotra in 2024, “the disgraced financier” was sentenced to 18 months in jail after a guilty plea in 2008 for soliciting and procuring a minor engaged in prostitution, securing a secret “sweetheart” deal to avoid any federal charges."
Where “discraced financier” omits “pedophile” and “cannibal”.
On August 3, 2009, a 21-year-old model named Gabriela Rico Jimenez attended a private party at the Fiesta Inn in Monterray, Mexico where “an elite modeling event” was then taking place.
The “elite modeling event” quote “brought together prominent businessmen, politicians, and individuals whose names appeared in the Jeffrey Epstein files”.
On August 4, 2009, a video from a Mexican media outlet known as co.noche was posted on some redacted website or platform. The banner at the bottom of the screen says “ESCANDALIZA EN VIA PUBLICA”, below which it says “Reclamaria Muerte de Moureno” (She would claim Death the Brunette). T
In the video shot by the Mexican media outlet known as co.noche Gabriela hysterically screamed “They ate humans! Disgusting! They ate humans! I wasn’t aware of anything. I mean, about the murders, yes. But that they had eaten humans! Humans! They smell like human flesh.”
The fact that she says “about the murders, yes” is rich.
The police arrived, arrested Gabriela, killed her, and then claimed without any supporting evidence that “took her to a psychiatric facility for medical evaluation”, where the psychiatric facility is unnamed.
I’m surmising that the police made a great show of picking Gabriela up at the front of the hotel, and then drove her around to the back of the hotel and delivered her immediately back to Epstein at the kitchen door, so that he and his cronies and the modeling expo’s organizers could torture her, and then rape her, and then kill her, and then ritually consume her flesh.
Here’s a picture of Gabriela Rico Jimenez, right before she was arrested and handed back over to Epstein.
(Gabriela Rico Jimenez)
I have included Gabriela Rico Jimenez’s picture so that you could get a better idea of what a victim of literally blood-drinking generational Satanist Freemasons looks like.
In 2012, per labusinessjournal.com’s Grace Harmon, “Near was founded by former chief executive Anil Mathews…and uses a combination of consumer data and artificial intelligence to provide partnering businesses with insights into consumer behavior and trends”.
Between 2016 and Epstein’s final arrest in 2019, per wired.com, “Near collected data on more than 200 cell phones that visited the island. We don’t know why they did that, or which client or prospective client of Near decided to query the data in this way to produce the maps”.
Wired.com’s Dhruv Mehrotra has brazenly stated “We don’t know why they did that, or which client or prospective client of Near decided to query the data in this way to produce the maps”, when his own article documents that the NSA bankrolled Near Intelligence to do exactly that.
It’s an example of the propaganda technique known as “the big lie”.
In 2016, Jeffrey Epstein purchased Great James Island for $22 million.
In 2016, Near Intelligence’s ship came in, when the National Security Agency engaged them specifically to research the pedophilia and cannibalism operations which Jeffrey Epstein had established on his 70-acre private island in the British Virgin Islands.
To ensure plausible deniability, two shell organizations (the defense contractor Sierra Nevada and their subsidiary, nContex) separated The NSA from Near Intelligence.
Over the next three years, Near raked in some undisclosed among of taxpayer dollars from the NSA, and provided the Feds with nat’s-eyelash data on Epstein’s operations and customers.
Per wired.com’s Dhruv Mehrotra in 2024, “We don’t know who or why someone searched Epstein Island, but the reports and maps they created were sitting unprotected and totally searchable as publicly accessible code, and that’s where we found them.”
Wired.com’s Dhruv Mehrotra has brazenly stated “we don’t know who or why someone searched Epstein Island”, when his own article documents that the NSA bankrolled Near Intelligence to do exactly that.
It’s an example of the propaganda technique known as “the big lie”.
In 2019, the NSA-funded Near Intelligence had digital information on roughly 1.6 billion people in 44 countries.
In 2019, per Byron Tau, author of Means of Control, an exposé of the data-broker industry and its ties to the US surveillance state, the National Security Agency and the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency awarded the defense contracting firm Sierra Nevada six federal contracts to provide data the pedophilia and cannibalism resort which Jeffrey Epstein had established on his private island in the British Virgin Islands.
Sierra Nevada then subcontracted the contracts to their subsidiary, nContext, who then subcontracted the job to another firm called Near Intelligence.
Per Wolfie Christl, a Vienna-based researcher at Cracked Labs who investigates the data industry, “The pervasive surveillance machine that has been developed for digital advertising now enables other uses completely unrelated to marketing, including government mass surveillance.”
In 2019, per wired.com in 2023, Near Intelligence received $100 million payment from the NSA to research the pedophilia and cannibalism operations which Jeffrey Epstein had established on his 70-acre private island in the British Virgin Islands.
Per wired.com, Near Intelligence was “able to map the paths of these visitors to within centimetersincluding their neighborhoods, buildings of origins, and the paths they took to get to the island. These digital trails document the numerous trips of wealthy and influential individuals, seemingly undeterred by Epstein’s status as a convicted sex offender.”
Where, fantastically, wired.com omits the names of the only-generally-described “wealthy and influential individuals”.
That is an example of the propaganda technique known as “stonewalling”.
They’re doing it so brazenly as a massive mind-fuck for the general populace, who will be even more hopeless and cowed by the realization.
“Resistance is futile. We are the great and powerful Borg”.
Here’s the map, showing the chain of hundreds of trips to the island for some private pedophilia and cannibalism:
(The travel routes of Jeffrey Epstein, the girls he trafficked, and the rich and famous people who tortured, raped and cannibalized them.)
Here’s a map of the rich and famous people on Epstein’s private resort to torture, rape and cannibalize young women.
(Map of visitors to Jeffrey Epstein’s child torture, rape and cannibalization resort in the British Virgin Islands.)
In 2019, FBI officials interviewed an anonymous victim of Jeffrey Epstein’s who stated that he had witnessed acts of “ritualistic sacrifice” aboard Epstein’s yacht in 2000, including the dismemberment of babies.
The FBI did not investigate further.
In July 2019, per Dhruv Mahrotra of wired.com in 2024, a raid of Epstein’s Manhattan townhouse by federal agents yielded a cache of child sexual abuse material, nearly 50 individually cut diamonds, and a fraudulent Saudia Arabian passport, which had expired.
On August 1, 2019, nbcnews.com’s Rich Schapiro said “Jeffrey Epstein’s bizarre blue-striped building on private island raised alarm”.
Why was the building only-generally described as “bizarre”?
Why did it “raise alarm”?
“Raise alarm” is general.
Fantastically, Rich has described the building as “blue striped”, when, in fact, it is blue and white striped.
Here’s a picture of it.
(Jeffrey Epstein’s gold-domed, cube-shaped human sacrifice temple decorated in the colors of the flag of the state of Israel.)
Rich is desperately trying to obscure the fact that the building is decorated in the colors of the flag of the State of Israel.
The article goes on to say “The building was supposed to be a music pavilion. But the actual structure ‘bears little resemblance’ to the plans that were submitted to agency officials.”
Where the general “bears little resemblance” obscures the way in which the design was changed.
Why is nbcnews.com’s Rich Schapiro obscuring the way in which Jeffrey Epstein changed the original design?
Mr. Schapiro is desperate to keep you from recognizing that Jeffrey Epstein converted his music pavilion into a human sacrifice temple.
Why did Jeffrey Epstein conceal his actual design from the people approving the plans?
Jeffrey Epstein didn’t want the people approving his plans to know that he was building a human sacrifice temple.
The article goes on to say “The bizarre blue-striped building on Jeffrey Epstein’s private Caribbean island was supposed to be a music pavilion with a strikingly different design, according to permit records viewed by NBC News.”
Here, the general “bizarre” was used a second time, followed up with the general “strikingly different”.
Why is nbcnews.com’s Rich Schapiro obscuring what was illin’ about the building?
Mr. Schapiro is desperate to keep you from recognizing that Jeffrey Epstein converted his music pavilion into a human sacrifice temple.
In the paragraph we’re reviewing, Mr. Schipiro has repeated the ruse of a “blue-striped building”, where “blue-striped” obscures the fact that Epstein’s human sacrifice temple was decorated in the colors of the flag of the state of Israel.
Schapiro’s article goes on to say “The building, shaped like a giant box and initially topped with a gold dome, has fueled rampant speculation and online conspiracy theories.”
Where nbcnews.com’s Rich Schapiro has carefully obscured what sort of rampant speculations and “conspiracy theories” were being put forward.
Why is nbcnews.com’s Rich Schapiro obscuring what was illin’ about the building?
Mr. Schapiro is desperate to keep you from recognizing that Jeffrey Epstein converted his music pavilion into a human sacrifice temple decorated in the blue and white of the flag of the state of Israel.
Schapiro says “The building, shaped like a giant box and initially topped with a gold dome” to obscure “cube shaped”, and offers no suggestion as to why it might have had a gold dome.
Here’s a picture of the Dome of the Rock on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. Note the gold dome, and the blue and white color scheme.
(The dome of the rock on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem)
In regard to the cube, a current article on nabatea.net says “If you are looking for the origin behind the cube called the Ka’ba in Saudi Arabia, turn to the city of Petra in Jordan, known as the Mother of all Settlements, and there you will find the oldest sacred structure is nothing more than a cube shaped structure to remember the God of Abraham.”
Nabatea.net says “It is in Petra that the cube shape becomes associated with the symbol for God. All over the city you will find these symbols. Usually they are small altars. Each of these altars uses the cube shape to represent God. These are called Block Gods. You see, eventually the cube shape came to represent God.”
To underscore how important the human sacrifice temple at Petra is to Illuminists, here’s a picture of it from the film “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade”, from 1989.
(From the film “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade”, 1989)
It’s not like these people aren’t right up front about what they’re doing, and what they’re into. We’ve just been conditioned, over literally Millennia, not to notice.
Mr. Schapiro allows that Epstein’s cube-shaped, blue and white human sacrifice temple was “initially topped with a gold dome”, but doesn’t note why that dome was removed. You can clearly see the dome in the photo I’ve provided up above.
Epstein had it removed because it was a little too obvious, even for a private pedophilia and cannibalism resort such as his.
The article goes on to say “Drawings supplied by Epstein’s architects to the U.S. Virgin Islands agency that oversees coastal development show that it was designed to be a haven for music: an octagonal 3,500-square-foot pavilion housing a grand piano.”
Hey, it was originally octagonal, just like the Dome of the Rock. But then they backed off to the older-school cube design which originated in the ancient Israelite human sacrifice temple at Petra.
The article goes on to say “But questions remain over whether it was built according to the plans that were submitted to the Department of Planning and Natural Resources.”
Wait what? Whether it was built according to plan? It was originally octagonal, and then was changed into a cube.
Why is Mr. Schapiro questioning whether Epstein baited and switched the people who approved the plans?
Mr. Schapiro is desperate to keep you from recognizing that Jeffrey Epstein converted his music pavilion into a human sacrifice temple decorated in the blue and white of the flag of the state of Israel.
In 2024, wired.com’s Dhruv Marhotra said in comment “From the main house here with the pool, to the beaches and the large sundial, it’s all on display, including the enigmatic Hilltop Temple site over here, which has been the focal point and speculations about Epstein’s mysterious activities on the island.”
Where Mr. Marhotra used the general “enigmatic” and “templed” to replace the specific “human sacrifice temple decorated in the blue and white of the flag of the state of Israel”.
The nbcnews.com article goes on to say “Those 2010 plans, which were part of a permit application that raised concerns inside the agency, included drawings of a building that looks almost nothing like the structure that was built.”
Where Mr. Schapiro bravely hedged that a building that looks nothing like the plans presented for it looked almost nothing like the plans presented for it.
Why is Mr. Schapiro questioning whether Epstein baited and switched the people who approved the plans?
Mr. Schapiro is desperate to keep you from recognizing that Jeffrey Epstein converted his music pavilion into a human sacrifice temple decorated in the blue and white of the flag of the state of Israel.
The article goes on to say “The drawings show a building with a 10-foot facade, stone exterior and multiple windows on the front. The structure that was erected has no windows or stone exterior on its front and appears to rise at least 30 feet.”
When, in fact, the building has no windows of any kind. It is a human sacrifice temple, pure and simple.
The article goes on to say “One Department of Planning and Natural Resources official acknowledged that there were differences. “The major difference seems to be in the shape of the building itself,” Marlon Hibbert said in response to an email request for comment, in which NBC News had provided a link to a photo of the odd-looking structure.”
Where Marlon Hibbert described the building as “odd-looking”, but would not specify as to why, specifically it was, in fact, odd.
The Department of Planning and Natural Resources’ Marlon Hibbert is desperate to keep you from recognizing that Jeffrey Epstein converted his music pavilion into a cube-shaped, gold-domed human sacrifice temple decorated in the blue and white of the flag of the state of Israel.
“In the link you provided the building looks rectangular and in the drawings it looked octagonal,” he wrote.
Where the Department of Planning and Natural Resources’ Marlon Hibbert has brazenly changed the human sacrifice temple’s design from cube-shaped to “rectangular”.
Why is the Department of Planning and Natural Resources’ Marlon Hibbert obscuring the fact that Jeffrey Epstein’s gold-domed human sacrifice temple decorated in the blue and white of the flag of the state of Israel was, in fact, cube-shaped?
The Department of Planning and Natural Resources’ Marlon Hibbert is desperate to keep you from recognizing that the oldest sacred structure in the Hebrew world is a cube shaped structure erected in the city of Petra to remember the God of Abraham.
The article goes on to say “But neither Hibbert nor his fellow top officials responded to subsequent requests asking if the agency approved the building as it now appears.”
Why are the Department of Planning and Natural Resources’ Marlon Hibbert and “his fellow top officials” who approved the plans for Jeffrey Epstein’s octagonal music pavilion not confirming if they approved a revised plan for a gold-domed human sacrifice temple decorated in the blue and white of the flag of the state of Israel?
They’re desperate to keep you from recognizing that they are members of the same literally blood-drinking cult of Iluminists that Jeffrey Epstein belonged to.
The article goes on to say “It’s no surprise that Epstein would have wanted a grand music room on his private island. Friends and former co-workers have described Epstein, a wealthy financier now accused of trafficking and sexually abusing young girls, as a talented pianist.”
Wait, what?
Schapiro’s own article confirms that the gold-domed human sacrifice temple decorated in the blue and white of the flag of the state of Israel did not contain a piano. Then why the enchantment that Epstein was a piano enthusiast, versus a human sacrifice enthusiast.
NBC News’ Rick Schapiro is bloodline-linked member of the same literally blood-drinking cult of Illuminists that Jeffrey Epstein was.
Schapiro is using an example of the propaganda technique known as “the big lie”.
The article goes on to say “The permit issued to Epstein’s company allowed for the building of an 1,800-square-foot music room, according to records viewed by NBC News. The blue-striped structure sits on a lookout point on the southeastern edge of Little St. James island, which Epstein purchased in 1998 for $7.95 million. The building is surrounded by an expansive terrace painted bright white with red shapes. Locals say the structure’s gold dome was blown away during Hurricane Maria in 2017.”
Where NBC News’ Rick Schapiro has, for a third time, used “blue-striped” to obscure the fact that that Jeffrey Epstein converted his music pavilion into a cube-shaped, gold-domed human sacrifice temple decorated in the blue and white of the flag of the state of Israel.
Schapiro used the general “lookout point” to carefully obscure the fact that Jeffrey Epstein’s cube-shaped, gold-domed human sacrifice temple decorated in the blue and white of the flag of the state of Israel was situated on the highest point on the island.
(Jeffrey Epstein’s hilltop human sacrifice temple decorated in the colors of the flag of the state of Israel.)
Mr. Schapiro is desperate to keep you from recognizing that, in the old days, Ba’al worshippers had their human sacrifice temples “in the high places”.
(Per biblicalarcheology.com, “Often referred to as “high places” in translations of the Bible, bamot were worship sites that usually contained an altar.”)
Here’s a picture of NBC News’ Rich Schapiro.
(Rich Schapiro)
I have included Rich Schapiro’s picture so that you could get a better idea of what a generational Satanist Freemason of marginal influence looks like.
They are all related to one another through the maternal bloodline. Generational Satanists comprise between twenty and thirty percent of the populace, and are hiding in plain sight in every city, town and village on Earth. It’s how the few have controlled the many all the way back to Babylon, and before.
But they say that the hardest part of solving a problem is recognizing that you have one.
Don Croft used to say “Parasites fear exposure above all else”.
How long do you think that these people have left in power, now?
Please consider doing what you can to help speed the transition.
On January 15, 2020, aljazeera.com Tom Metcalf and Anders Melin said “Lawsuit alleges Epstein trafficked girls as young as 11”.
The subhead goes on to say “Epstein’s planes, helicopters, and boats brought victims to his private islands, where he allegedly raped them: Lawsuit.”
Where the general “islands” omits “British Virgin Islands”, and where “trafficked” omits “tortured, killed, and rendered their flesh for the consumption of himself and his many guests.”
But, then, the key to any successful Confidence game is misdirection.
With “and he allegedly raped them”, they also omitted “former President Clinton”, and “Stephen Hawking”, and Bill Gates, among a multitude of others.
The article goes on to say “The extent of the abuse that took place on the sex offender’s private islands has been the source of much conjecture since Epstein’s arrest in July”.
Where the general “The extent of the abuse that took place on the sex offender’s private islands has been the source of much conjecture” allows the subconscious of the Coincidence theorist reader to aver that the abuse was not extensive.
The article goes on to say “Jeffrey Epstein is accused of trafficking and sexually abusing young women and girls, some who appeared as young as 11, in a lawsuit filed Wednesday by the government of the U.S. Virgin Islands.”
Where the charade is played that Epstein found and abused the girls for his own amusement, only.
And where “appeared as young as 11” plays the ruse that they were older than 11, but just looked younger.
Now here’s a photo from the Epstein files of Epstein with a girl on his lap who looks to be about seven, or perhaps five.
(Jeffrey Epstein with unnamed young girl.)
Why are aljazeera.com’s Tom Metcalf and Anders Melin downplaying how young the girls were which Jeffrey Epstein trafficked, tortured and raped, and whose flesh he rendered for his own consumption and that of his many wealthy customers?
Here’s a picture of Tom Metcalf, in a Satanic-purple shirt, and where he’s widening his eyes to simulate honesty.
(Tom Metcalf)
Now here’s a picture of Anders Melin, where he’s using a purportedly-secret Masonic “gesture of recognition”.
(Anders Melin)
Now here’s a 19th Century depiction of a Freemason using the same purportedly-secret “gesture of recognition” which Anders Melin is in the photo immediately above.
( 19th Century depiction of a Freemason using a purportedly-secret “gesture of recognition” )
I have included Tom Metcalf’s and Anders Melin’s pictures so that you could get a better idea of what generational Satanist Freemasons of marginal influence look like.
They are all related to one another through the maternal bloodline. Generational Satanists comprise between twenty and thirty percent of the populace, and are hiding in plain sight in every city, town and village on Earth. It’s how the few have controlled the many all the way back to Babylon, and before.
But they say that the hardest part of solving a problem is recognizing that you have one.
Don Croft used to say “Parasites fear exposure above all else”.
How long do you think that these people have left in power, now?
Please consider doing what you can to help speed the transition.
The article goes on to say “The late sex offender’s planes, helicopters, boat and automobiles transported victims to his private islands in the Caribbean where he raped and held them captive, according to the suit filed in superior court in St. Thomas. The government is seeking the forfeiture under criminal enterprise laws of assets in the islands it estimates at around $578 million, including entities that hold properties in New York, Palm Beach and Paris.”
Where “he raped them” erases the hundreds of high-powered visitor who did the same, and completely omits the fact that a subset of the girls were killed and rendered into food for the cannibal feasts that Epstein hosted for the rich and famous.
The article goes on to say "In a press conference on Wednesday, U.S. Virgin Islands Attorney General Denise George said the lawsuit was separate from the several brought against Epstein’s estate by individual victims. “Today the Virgin Islands is standing up on its own for justice,” she said.
A lawyer for Epstein’s estate, which has been seeking to set up a compensation fund to resolve victims’ claims, didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment.
The extent of the abuse that took place on the islands, Great St. James and Little St. James, has been the source of much conjecture since Epstein’s arrest in July on charges that he sexually abused and exploited dozens of girls. Epstein died by suicide in jail in August."
Where hundreds of girls have been walked back to “dozens”, and where hundreds of rich and famous rapists have been walked back merely to “he”.
And where the murder and cannibalism of those hundreds of girls has been redacted.
The article goes on to say “As well as his estate, the lawsuit also targets — but doesn’t name — associates of Epstein who helped him carry out his crimes. The suit describes a “trafficking pyramid scheme,” where associates would target underage girls on the pretext of providing massages before they were then pressured to engage in sexual acts. Those victims were then forced to recruit others.”
Where “raped” has been walked back to the Mil-speak “pressured to engage in sexual acts”, and where “pressured to engage in sexual acts” redacts “and were then murdered and cannibalized”.
The article goes on to say "Epstein carried out “an expansive scheme of human trafficking and sexual abuse of young women” and concealed it with an elaborate scheme of entities, said George, who took office in April.
Epstein’s resources — his estate is valued at almost $600 million — enabled him to skirt scrutiny, according to the suit.
“Monitoring a sex offender with his own private islands and the resources to fly victims in and out on private planes and helicopters presented unique challenges.”
That included refusing to let investigators step foot on Little St. James when they came to check up on the sex offender. Instead he met them at his St. Thomas office. To preserve that privacy and seclusion, Epstein went so far as to spend more than $20 million on Great St. James, the nearest island to Little St. James in a bid “to ensure the island didn’t become a base from which others could view their activities or visitors.”
The complaint details a 15-year-old girl who attempted to escape by swimming from Little St. James. Epstein and others organized a search party that found her and confiscated her passport. A computerized database was maintained with a list of underage girls."
Evidence cited in the complaint, including flight logs, allege that the crimes started at least in 2001 and carried on until 2019, a decade after he served time in a Palm Beach jail on charges of procuring a minor for prostitution, in a case involving a secretive plea deal. The filing is frank about the difficulty of unpicking the web of assets through which Epstein conducted his activities.
“Epstein maintained a deliberately complex web of Virgin Islands corporations, limited liability companies, foundations, and other entities, not all of which are yet known to the Government of the Virgin Islands,” the lawsuit says."
In 2021, Ghislaine Maxwell was convicted in on five counts, including sex trafficking of minors by force.
Maxwell was arrested in Bradford, New Hampshire, tracked to a million-dollar home by federal agents using location data pulled from her cell phone.
On November 11, 2021, prnewswire.com said “Near Appoints Gladys Kong as COO to Support Global Demand for Data Intelligence”.
The article goes on to say “In the last year, the company generated a customer net retention rate of more than 120 percent, driven by market demand for global data intelligence across marketing and operations use cases.”
Here, a Trojan Horse named Gladys Kong was in position to do the job that the Chinese paid her to do.
In 2022, per labusinessjournal.com’s Grace Harmon, Near “accrued approximately $100 million in net losses”.
Where “accrued net losses” is Mil-speak for “Near’s Chief Operating Officer Gladys Kong stole $100 million from the firm in 2022”.
In 2022, prior to COO Gladys Kong’s theft of $100 million from the firm, Near’s valuation was $675 million.
In November 2022, the estate of Jeffrey Epstein settled with the U.S. Virgin Islands for $105 million, with $80 million going to his victims, and $25 million to the territory. The settlement also required the estate to fund anti-trafficking initiatives in the Virgin Islands.
In December 2022, per wired “CRIPPLED BY DEBT, Near Intelligence filed for bankruptcy protection in December, reporting liabilities of approximately $100 million, less than a year after being listed by Nasdaq. An independent investigation commissioned by the company’s board alleged multiple executives engaged in a years-long “concealed scheme” to cheat the company out of tens of millions of dollars. (One of those former executives has filed a claim against the company alleging defamation.)”
What Really Happened:
The company known as “Near Intelligence” was formed in 2016 by the National Security Agency specifically to research Jeffrey Epstein’s pedophilia and cannibalism operation. To ensure plausible deniability, two shell organizations (the defense contractor Sierra Nevada and their subsidiary, nContex) separated The NSA from Near Intelligence.
In March 2023, per labusinessjournal.com’s Grace Harmon, “Near went public via a business combination with special acquisition company KludeIn I Acquisition Corp., a deal that was based on Near’s pre-money enterprise valuation of $575 million at the time”.
In May 2023, billionaire investor Stephen Deckoff, purchased both Little Saint James and Great Saint James for $60 million.
He’s currently building a luxury resort on Little Saint James, that he says could open as early as 2025.
Stephen Deckoff, is that an Irish name?
Deckoff’s net worth is valued at almost $3bn by Forbes.
In November 2023, per per labusinessjournal.com’s Grace Harmon, CEO Anil Mathews and Near’s chief financial officer, Rahul Agarwal, were terminated from the company in November based on an investigation into allegations of financial mismanagement and potential fraudulent actions.
Mathews later filed a statement of claim against Near alleging defamation, breach of contract and “intentional and negligent interference with prospective economic relations.”
In November 2023, Gladys Kong, who previously served as Near’s Chief Operating Officer, was appointed as Near’s Chief Executive Officer.
In December 2023, per wired.com in March 2024, “CRIPPLED BY DEBT, Near Intelligence filed for bankruptcy protection in December, reporting liabilities of approximately $100 million, less than a year after being listed by Nasdaq.”
Did you notice how wired put “CRIPPLED BY DEBT” in block capitals?
When, in fact, Near’s Chief Operating Officer Gladys Kong who stole at least $575 million from the company andframed founding CEO Anil Mathews for it.
Wired is covering up a massive, bald-faced lie.
I’ll explain.
We know that, in 2019, the NSA awarded Near Intelligence $100 million U.S. tax dollars to research the pedophilia and cannibalism operations which Jeffrey Epstein had established on his 70-acre private island in the British Virgin Islands. We know that Near was worth $675 million in 2022, inexplicably lost $100 million in 2022, was worth $575 million a year late in 2023, and then15 months later, in March 2024, was bankrupt, worth nothing, zero, bupkis.
In 2024, wired.com’s Dhruv Mehrotra said that “Many of the visitors (to Jeffrey Epstein’s pedophilia and cannibalism resort - ed) were likely wealthy, as indicated by coordinates pointing gated communities in Michigan, as well as homes in Martha’s Vineyard, Nantucket in Massachusetts and even one (of Donald Trump - ed) across the street from Trump Tower in New York City”.
“Before we jump to conclusions, some sources have highlighted interactions between Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein at social events. But after Epstein’s 2008 conviction, there are no verified reports of Trump maintaining a relationship with a convicted pedophile.”
Where “convicted pedophile” redacts “and cannibal”.
On January 1, 2024, labusinessjournal.com said “Jan 1, 2024 · Consumer data company Near Intelligence Inc. has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection less than a year after going public”.
On March 21, 2024, azira.com said “A New Beginning - Azira”.
The article goes on to say “At the beginning of this month, we introduced our new company: Azira. Learn more about what’s to come from CEO, Gladys Kong.”
Here we have learned that, sixty days after declaring bankruptcy, Glady’s Kong’s Near Communications opened their doors again as “Azira”.
For those keeping score, the name Azira is of Hebrew origin, meaning “A rising star which is symbol of strength”.
That would be Lucifer, son of the dawning.
It’s why the secret society’s name is “The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn”.
“Yea, ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god Remphan, figures which ye made to worship them: and I will carry you away beyond Babylon.”
From “The King James Bible”, Acts 7:43, 1611
The “star of Remphan” is a hexagram, a six-pointed star, which was later rebranded as “the Seal of Solomon”.
On April 11, 2024, twenty days, or less than three weeks after the ostensibly-bankrupt Near was rebranded as Azira, the firm announced that it had been selected as winner of the “Data Intelligence Platform of the Year” award in the 5th annual Data Breakthrough Awards program conducted by Data Breakthrough, an independent market intelligence organization that recognizes the top companies, technologies and products in the global data technology market today.
Let me get this straight. Near was worth $675 million in 2022, inexplicably lost $100 million in 2022, was worth $575 million a year late in 2023, and then15 months later, in March 2024, was bankrupt, worth nothing, zero, bupkis. Then, twenty days later, they won " “Data Intelligence Platform of the Year” award in the 5th annual Data Breakthrough Awards program.
Since former Near COO Gladys Kong is now CEO, we may safely presume that founding CEO Anil Mathews, was the Fall Guy, the Patsy in the Confidence Game being run by Gladys Kong, who is, wait for it, Chinese.
Here’s Gladys Kong’s picture.
(Near’s COO Gladys Kong, who stole at least $575 million from the company, framed founding CEO Anil Mathews for it, and then brazenly relaunched the company under her own control eight weeks later. In business terms, this is known as a “Palace Coup”.)
“How, then, is it possible to prove that Clodius conspired against Milo? For such an audacious, nefarious monster it is enough to show that he had a great reason, that great hope resided in the death of Milo, and that there was great purpose to it. And so, let that proverb of Cassius “Who profited from it?” [cui bono fuerit] frame the players on the stage, if truly good men are compelled to deception by no prize while the wicked often are moved by a small one."
From “Pro Milone”, by Marcus Tullus Cicero, 32 A.D.
I have included Gladys Kong’s picture so that you could get a better idea of what a generational Satanist Freemason of marginal influence looks like.
They are all related to one another through the maternal bloodline. Generational Satanists comprise between twenty and thirty percent of the populace, and are hiding in plain sight in every city, town and village on Earth. It’s how the few have controlled the many all the way back to Babylon, and before.
But they say that the hardest part of solving a problem is recognizing that you have one.
Don Croft used to say “Parasites fear exposure above all else”.
How long do you think that these people have left in power, now?
Please consider doing what you can to help speed the transition.
In 2026, a Florida woman between the ages of 20 and 40 known only identified as Jane Doe brought suit against the estate of Jeffrey Epstein, saying that she was brought to the island under false pretenses, sex-trafficked, and then coerced into silence.
She said that she was induced to travel across state and national borders and that layered logistics kept her from knowing the identities of her abusers.
On August 30, 2025, telegraph.co.uk’s Benedict Smith said “Epstein island’s grand re-opening delayed”.
The article goes on to say “However, the US Virgin Islands government said it had not received any planning applications for development and locals have been baffled by the lack of construction work since the announcement.”
No construction work has been done because Deckoff is covering for the late Jeffrey Epstein by not allowing construction work which would reveal the mass graves of hundreds of young women who were murdered and cannibalized.
On January 28, 2026, palmbeachpost.com published “Attorney: Epstein documents suggest ‘occult activity’ on private island”.
It goes on to say “The lawyer said his client was recruited through what she believed was a religious organization. He described it as ‘sinister’ and …”
Why does the general “religious organization” obscure what type of sinister religious organization recruited the sex slave to Epstein’s pedophilia and cannibalism island?
The article goes on to say “The allegation centers on a purported yacht excursion involving Epstein, former President Bill Clinton, and Bush, referred to as “George Bush 1” in the report.”
Where the general “Bush” and “George Bush 1” deliberately obscure the specific “Former President George Herbert Walker Bush”.
Those are examples of the propaganda technique known as “stonewalling”.
The article goes on to say “The complaint describes extreme and graphic scenarios, including rituals.”
Where “lawsuit” has been walked back to merely a “complaint”, and the general “rituals” obscures “human sacrifice and cannibalism”.
Those are examples of the propaganda technique known as “stonewalling”.
The article goes on to say "A notable quote from an internal FBI email exchange highlights the skepticism surrounding the claims. In the correspondence, an agent responds: “Thanks (…), I didn’t realize Bush (******) him too. Ok.”
The report explicitly notes the absence of any supporting documentation or verifiable contacts."
You know, like snapshots, or clandestine tape recordings.
The article goes on to say "The agent who conducted the interview said it is “not recommended that any additional investigative resources be expended” regarding his claims.
On January 29, 2026, South Florida Attorney Travis Walker said that documents released under the Epstein Files Transparency Act show that occult activity took place on Epstein’s private island.
Walker said that it was religious, sinister, and “something different”.
“It’s definitely not Christianity. It’s something different.”
On February 11, 2026, news18.com’s Shreyanka Mazumdar questioned “Why Gabriela Rico Jimenez, Mexican Model Who Accused Jeffrey Epstein Of ‘Cannibalism’, Back In News***?***”
That’s actually how she wrote it, redacting “is”, “the”, and “the”.
The article goes on to say “At the time, local police detained her and reportedly took her to a psychiatric facility for medical evaluation. However, following her hospitalisation, she disappeared from the public eye, which led to some conspiracy theories.”
Where the arresting officers names are redacted and the psychiatric facility is unnamed, and so we may safely presume that the State secret police killed her and put forward the plausible-deniability excuse that they had “taken her to a psychiatric facility”.
On February 25, 2026, unherd.com published “On cannibalism and Jeffrey Epstein Liberal institutions function like secret societies”, by Thomas Peermohamed Lambert.
There are two main ways of understanding the case of Jeffrey Epstein, whose shocking correspondence with hundreds of celebrities, politicians, and businesspeople and academics has been giving its readers a mild form of schizophrenia for the past three weeks. The first holds that Epstein was a serious flaw in a basically just system — a virtuoso corruptor of well-meaning public servants who, through his sheer charisma, managed to commandeer our precious liberal institutions for his own ends. Viewed this way, the story is almost tragic: we should pity the men and women who, when forced to pick between private jets, island getaways and sex with underage girls on the one hand, and civic rectitude on the other, made the wrong choice. It is also strangely hopeful: after all, the rot has now been scoured away; Epstein has taken his life, his co-conspirators are being diligently tracked down by the law, and if we all work hard and pay our taxes and vote for the right candidate in the next election, a new era of public trust will dawn once again.
This article is about the second way of understanding the Jeffrey Epstein case.
In 1886, per Thomas Peermohamed Lambert on unherd.com on February 25, 2026, a young German anthropologist named Franz Boas documented the indiginous people of British Columbia gathered in their long, rectangular houses to dance into the small hours of the morning, until the sun showed itself again.
They prepared special masks for these ceremonies, and wore complicated insignia made of cedar bark; at many gatherings, there were complicated stage magic techniques, even rudimentary pyrotechnics. The longer Boas spent among the Kwakiutl, though, the more he became convinced that the strangest and most shocking rituals were held behind closed doors, only accessible to those with considerable wealth and long periods of purificatory seclusion behind them. He asked a few villagers about the rumors though: no one seemed to want to talk. They did have a name, though, for the select group of men in the village who were allowed to attend them: the “Hamatsa” — meaning, the “cannibals”.
Boas spent the next decade exploring the Pacific Northwest region. The more indigenous peoples he visited, the more he became convinced that all of them had equivalent, secret brotherhoods. There were “Cannibal Societies” among Kwakiutl, the Bella Coola, and the Tsimshian peoples, not to mention “Grizzly Bear Societies” and “Wolf Societies” who were rumored to eat human flesh, too. What was more, studying the cedar bark insignia of the different brotherhoods, Boas began to suspect that they were all connected: what other anthropologists had believed were multiple different peoples were perhaps better thought of as just two different groups: a scared, confused rank and file, and a secretive, cannibalistic elite.
In 1902, a colonial administrator named P.A. Talbot began to notice some strikingly similar patterns in the region he had been tasked with governing in British Nigeria.
Talbot was first alerted to the fact that there might be a strange, second power system operating in his fiefdom by the road closures. Masked figures kept appearing on public highways and demanding they be shut for unspecified, ritual purposes. Soon they began to commandeer other public spaces: markets, town squares. Attending one of them, Talbot witnessed a masked man kill and eat a baby, only to “resurrect” it for the crowds of cooing onlookers (Talbot himself suspected the real explanation was that there were two different babies). Over time, he uncovered the truth: the masked men belonged to a shadowy group known as the “Ekkpo,” or “Leopard Society”, which had “usurped practically all the functions of government”, regulating trade, adjudicating disputes, imposing fines, and executing people they found guilty of non-observance of public rites, or having witnessed private ones. They had established a virtual monopoly on palm oil nuts, the main agricultural staple of the region.
In 1923, Talbot published his findings in a book titled Life in Southern Nigeria.
It documented the fact that the Leopard Society was a kind of state-within-a-state, their power maintained by a vast network of secret rituals including human sacrifice and cannibalism. These were accompanied by mock beheadings, staged resurrections, feats of bodily invulnerability.
Within a few years, colonial officials across West and Central Africa had begun to notice similar features in their own territories: in Liberia and Sierra Leone, the secretive Poro society wormed its way into just about every important political position with initiates sacrificing their own first-born sons to reach the highest ranks; in Rwanda, the Kubwanda Society maintained secret lodges outside villages where they plotted techniques for taking over political power.
By 1950, anthropologists were discovering secret societies on every continent on the planet: the Suque in Melanesia, with their mass sacrifices of pigs; the clown-fraternities of the American Southwest, with their black-and-white body paint; the “bear cults” among the Ainu of Japan, with their hidden feasts of ursine flesh.
The Hamatsa and Ekkpo and Poro and Suque were privy to the same, occult wisdom as the Rosicrucians, the Freemasons, or the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn.
In the 1990’s, archaeologists in France and Italy began to notice some strange patterns in the Paleolithic cave dwellings that littered the Northern Mediterranean".
Where the general “Paleolithic cave dwellings” obscures the specific “Homo neanderthalensis.”
“With surprising regularity, they noticed, there would be smaller caves, positioned a little way away from the main dwellings with hidden apertures, with unusual concentrations of cultic artifacts, and — entirely unheard of in other dwellings from the period — evidence of cannibalistic human sacrifice.”
This is vital, and groundbreaking information, documenting that human sacrifice and cannibalism was confined exclusively to the distinct and separate species of human which we known as H. neanderthalensis.
“What was more, such dwellings tended to belong to very specific types of peoples. The cannibal cults invariably seemed to emerge in “transegalitarian” societies — that is, societies who were caught somewhere between flat, egalitarian hunter-gatherer bands and stratified, feudal societies with established hereditary classes. In such societies, the archaeologist Brian Hayden explains, everything was up for grabs: greedy “aggrandizers” needed to recruit deputies and cronies, and quickly; but in the absence of standing armies and sophisticated ruling-class ideologies about the importance of giving tithes to the local baron or paying back one’s student loan, they needed to get creative.”
I’ll translate that for you.
Smaller caves situated away from the main body of the populace housed the H. neanderthalensis overlords of the hunter-gatherer tribe which they had forcibly taken over.
The article goes on to say "Perhaps, the archaeologists began to suspect, all the machinery of terror was simply a way of solving a technical problem of government: how to cleave apart a group of people who formerly believed themselves to be bound together in structures of reciprocal obligation. Masked ceremonies and mock-beheadings to terrify those excluded. Cannibalistic ceremonies to lock in the initiates. After all, were you really going to go crawling back to your family for forgiveness when you had just sacrificed your first-born son?
It is a surprise, then, that despite the question of the origins of social inequality having bedeviled political, social and legal thinkers since Rousseau, the ubiquity of such grisly, occult rituals isn’t better known. Secret societies are not just a vestige of older, quirkier times; they remain one of the most empirically sound explanations we have for why groups that have hitherto been bound together by bonds of community and family suddenly explode into hierarchy. Indeed, they are perhaps best thought of as social technologies for creating hierarchies. As such, they are also tell-tale signs that a group of people, however much they claim to be acting in the name of the common good — however many reputable chieftains they sponsor, however much of the local Congolese rubber industry they own — plan on sowing division.
In an important sense, the Epstein revelations are simply the latest chapter in the ancient history of secret societies designed to enforce boundaries between a cozy elite and a terrified rank and file. The evidence — the testimonies of all those underage girls trafficked for sex, the trapdoor into the ocean, the torture video, the suspicious order of 300 gallons of sulfuric acid the day after Epstein’s indictment — certainly seems grisly enough to guarantee a similar kind of bond of secrecy among those involved. What is more, Epstein really does seem to have had a coterie of powerful people willing to give him the benefit of the doubt against all evidence: not just among the celebrities who flocked to him long after his conviction, but also, perhaps, in institutions like the FBI, which gave him peculiarly lenient plea deal back in 2007, not to mention the virtually unprecedented guarantee of “immunity for all co-conspirators”. But in a sense, it is the more feverish rumors, like the cannibalistic orgies in the upstairs rooms of pizza restaurants posited by QAnon, that are most telling of Epstein’s sociological significance. Suddenly, spontaneously, people with no familiarity with the Hamatsa, the Ekkpo or the Poro, are devising imagery straight out of the ethnographies of Boas and Talbot. It is as if ordinary people know, instinctively, that the greater the inequality, the stranger and more occult the rituals that reinforce it need to be.
Of course, this view of Epstein does give the lie to a certain, complacent view of our own society — one that sees it as founded in a set of liberal institutions whose principles include “transparency” and “democratic accountability” and “not killing babies in cannibalistic orgies”. But perhaps this correction is overdue. After all, mainstream historians such as Margaret Jacob and Frances Yates have been arguing for decades that secret societies were right at the heart of the political foment of the Enlightenment, with groups such as the Carbonari in Italy, the Comuneros in Spain, and the Decembrists in Russia incubating pretty much all the most important democratic institutions of the 19th century. Even today, it is hard to spend too much time among politicians and barristers in London without noticing, say, the preponderance of freemasons in the livery companies of the City of London, or the tendency of entire political dynasties to be drawn from the alumni of Oxford drinking societies with humiliatingly macabre initiation ceremonies involving dead pigs. As hard as it might be to imagine some horsehair-wigged judge staging the mock-execution of an infant, Ekkpo-style, our most venerable institutions do seem very good at devising ways of getting their members ensnared in a web of each other’s humiliating secrets, even without an Epstein to orchestrate it all.
But perhaps this conspiratorial reading misses the most important way in which our liberal institutions have begun to function like secret societies. After all, far more potent than the way these institutions operate behind closed doors is the way they operate out in the open — specifically, the way they strike fear into those who do not belong to the elite guild. Take the law, for instance. Reading over the Epstein files, one of the most shocking things one discovers is that for Epstein and his affiliates the whole function of the legal system seemed to be to frighten and bully those who did not really understand it. Epstein appears to have been serenely comfortable using his lawyers to hound and pester people who fell afoul of him: for him, with the best lawyers in the world on retainer, a few dozen lawsuits were easily navigable; for his victims, with normal jobs and families and no savings to pay for counsel, just one lawsuit could quite plausibly ruin their lives. This technique – using what are supposed to be neutral procedures for administering justice as a punishment in their own right – is so widely acknowledged today that it even has a nickname in America: the SLAPP, or “Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation”. But we should not be seduced by the jargon into thinking this is anything new. The underlying logic is exactly the same as the Hamatsa and the Ekkpo: the law is a secret guild, that works in the service of initiates, and terrifies everyone else.
This logic seems to be increasingly popular among politicians, too. In the UK, our political class seems to be gleefully shedding the Enlightenment commitment to accessibility and transparency in legislative affairs and embracing the occult techniques of the Ekkpo. The last five years have seen pieces of legislation creep into force that are unprecedented in their sheer vagueness: the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Act of 2022, with its decade-long sentences for those who cause “serious annoyance, serious inconvenience or serious loss of amenity”, whatever that means, or the Public Order Act of 2023, which renders illegal all protest that might cause “serious disruption to the life of the community”. Now ask yourself: what are these bills meant to achieve? What any of these legal widgets really means is a secret, known only to initiates who have sifted through reams of case law and sat in on the relevant closed discussion groups at Chatham House. It doesn’t matter. You are not supposed to obey rules like these. You are meant to cower before them in holy terror.
This is why the anthropological record is such a useful corrective. If we in the UK suffer from one national defect above all others, it is a kind of deference to bourgeois authority: a nice, public-school accent, the flutter of a gown, a well-timed “hear ye”, and we all become as obedient as lambs. The British public has become very accustomed to asking whether things are legal or illegal, harmful or not harmful, sanctioned by the bureaucracy or not sanctioned, but tends to forget to ask what the function of these designations actually is, how strange they look from the outside — to a visitor from the black fjords of the Pacific Northwest, perhaps, or an anthropologist fresh off the boat armed only with a notebook. If there is some small good that comes from the Epstein case, it will be that it has helped us to recapture some of that strangeness. For the first time in decades, people seem to be viscerally, instinctively aware that when it comes down to it, power is never actually about laws and regulations and procedures. It is about what goes on in hidden caves and smoky rooms. It is about the infinite terror of what we do not understand, and the suspicion, even if we cannot prove it, that the person ordering us around might just have a taste for human flesh.
Jeff Miller, Honolulu, HI, March 2, 2026
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