An Introduction to the Deepest Burrow
There is an almost universally acknowledged deepest depth to which one can dig to in the conspiracy world, and that is the issue of child abuse.
There are still multiple levels to this issue — one can choose just how lost in the darkness they feel they are able to get whilst still being able to find their way back. But there is no avoiding this wombat hole altogether: you have to go there, getting at least some sense of the darkness we are talking about here, before you are able to gain proper clarity for the levels that lie above it.
Above all else, it makes you realise just what is at stake. When you do, it puts many things into perspective.
Let’s play a spicy hypothetical. If one was to adopt the opinion — as the Qtards and Galactic Federation folk do — that one of the main purposes of the Orange Man Presidency is to break open an organised elite child abuse system, you can see how it would flip the geopolitical game on its head. Suddenly, every complaint you might make against Donald Trump has a new benchmark to be compared against — whether it is a more emotional if still righteous infuriation that his warped masculine archetype was able to become leader of the free world, or more practical and serious considerations such as whether he might start a Civil War. The pragmatic moral negotiation that is required to accept his Presidency, which I have written about here, comes into sharp focus.
But I don’t want to make this a political thing. This is about the children.
So, where to even start? Well, how about a meme. I have been meaning to up my meme game, so this seems like a good place to start.
At first, it seems controversial — probably a partisan distraction to an issue right wingers seem to care about more from an issue being forwarded most vigorously by the left. But it isn’t. It is really — like most good memes — a blunt and effective expose of collective cognitive dissonance.
Let’s fact check it first. As of mid-July 2020, according to this website, which I assume is legitimate, the total number of worldwide deaths is 576,505.
As I’ve written about before, I’ve got a few issues with the official COVID-19 numbers. Lies, damned lies, and statistics comes to mind. But I’m happy to leave that aside for now, and take them for what they appear to be.
According to the website Global Missing Children’s Network, there were 421,394 reports of missing children in the United States in 2019. Ok, so that isn’t quite up to the COVID numbers, although it may still have been when the meme was originally made. The meme-r is also a bit vague about the time-frame they are referring to for missing children in the United States.
But, anyway, I think we can all agree that this nit-picking is missing the point. Because, just like COVID and America's ability to win at things you don't want to be winning, the story is similar if less acute across other countries: 25,000 per year in Australia; 40,000 in Canada; 80,000 in the UK.
In this context, what does missing actually mean? According to the same website, it includes “any person under the age of 18 whose whereabouts are unknown”. This is a staggering number of children to have been reported missing over the space of 12 months. Many of these cases would be entirely innocent and be quickly resolved. But many wouldn’t be — many become victims in organised child trafficking rings, where they are routinely abused by pedophiles.
According to the US Institute Against Human Trafficking, there are 40.3 million human trafficking victims across the world, 75% of which are women and girls and 25% of which are children — that is, approximately 10 million children who have been trafficked. In reality, however, these numbers are essentially a stab in a very deep dark, given how hidden this practice has been up until recently.
But how often do you hear about it? You get the occasional detailed report like this one from a local news network, sure — which despite being specific to Oregon has had almost 3 million views.
To give mainstream outlets their due, they do not avoid the topic completely. Every major American news outlet — CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS — has a story on child sex trafficking online, although none that come up immediately are from 2020. So it is there: you just need to look for it, rather than having it shoved down your throat like many other social issues.
And that’s the thing: alongside other social justice issues — racism, sexism, LGBTQ rights, economic inequality — it barely registers.
There are many reasons for this I’m sure. This is the one I see as most likely. Go to that Oregon video, and go to the comments. Things get wild pretty quickly. Secret underground tunnels. Elite child sacrifice rituals. Satanists and adrenochrome. And, of course, Jeffrey Epstein.
Maybe this is why the subject of missing children is difficult for those who create and take in the mainstream news narrative: once you decide to dig into it, things get conspiratorial pretty quickly.
Let’s talk about Epstein. After his not-at-all suspicious ‘suicide’, after Ricky Gervais made that Golden Globes speech, after the flight record of his personal plane became public, it provides us with a ‘safe’ entry point into the child abuse wombat hole.
It is not just the fact that he had an island full of underage girls where famous people came to have sex with. It is also the fact that this was obviously known about for so long without him being arrested, and that even when he was arrested the first time, was given an outrageous plea deal. It is also the fact that — as things start to become a bit more clear with the arrest of Ghislaine Maxwell — it seems as though the island was actually a honey-trap set up by various intelligence agencies in order to blackmail powerful people and further the ability of these agencies to manipulate world events.
That’s when it starts to become obvious why we don’t hear as much as we should about what Epstein and his entourage were up to. If we are to believe the record of names in the flight log of his private passenger plane “Lolita Express” (yuck), this scandal has the potential to implicate many of the most famous people in the world across politics, media, Hollywood and the music industry. Given the close knit nature of America’s elite circles, it is hardly surprising that they would close ranks to protect their own — as much good as this is likely to do if Maxwell is indeed cooperating with law enforcement.
Epstein is all the proof we need that a system of elite child sexual abuse is real, and it changes everything. And this is where we return to the Don.
Few people know for sure if Trump is innocent or implicated in this darkness. As I’m sure you know, the media has been adamant to show us just how good of pals he and Epstein used to be, and the fact that Trump hired the person responsible for Epstein’s plea deal seems damning. But in the end, we will have to judge him by his actions, and that of those who most fiercely oppose him.
We don’t have much in the way of tangible evidence to go by at the moment. Trump has made it a central point of his agenda to address human trafficking. While he isn’t without his critics in this regard, by numbers alone he appears to have done far more in enabling the arrest of those responsible for these crimes than the previous administration.
But perhaps it is his critics that provide the best form of support for not just his innocence, but for the theory that he is — as unlikely as it may seem — working to take down this system of abuse. When you start to realise that many of those who have been his most vocal and aggressive opponents are those directly implicated in the Epstein scandal… well, it is enough to make you wonder.
A final comment on how you might deal with this particular wombat hole, if it is one you are only just coming to grips with.
I understand the reluctance to not deal with this issue. This is dark, nasty stuff, and many people are simply not ready to face up to this collective shadow that our society is casting. Even the reliance on the term ‘trafficking’ puts a more generalised, palatable name on what is at its core a system of sexual abuse by pedophiles.
Then there is the fact that investigations into child trafficking and pedophilia are often associated with those on the right (unfairly, as it is a focus of Feminist and LGBTQ movements as well). In the case of more fringe theories such as Pizzagate and now the Wayfair scandal, these investigations are typically driven by those prone to donning tin foil hats. Acknowledging the true scale of this issue means giving these people we would prefer to write off as crackpots some credence. But that’s the thing: with the details of Epstein and now Maxwell open for all to see, these previously unhinged conspiracies now become less of a stretch.
But at its heart, this issue obviously isn’t right — literally. It isn’t right why some forms of injustice are given such prominent place in our society — are trumpeted in the media, are championed by our most visible politicians and celebrities, are marched and rioted for by the general public — while another type of indescribably awful injustice still lies largely in the shadows. For too long we have been scared to go into those shadows. We know we can’t overcome our own personal demons without dealing with uncomfortable truths — why would it be any different for us as a society?
I’m not saying to stop caring about other human rights issues. I'm not saying you should stop advocating for the end of overt and systemic racism, including by extension the institutionalised violence consistently inflicted on non-white races both at home and overseas. I’m not saying you should stop advocating for the rights of those of marginalised gender and sexuality. I’m also not saying you should stop advocating for the humane treatment of animals and the natural environment as a whole.
All I’m saying is that you may soon realise that the level of outrage that you have been channeling at these causes may need to be trumped (sorry), when the full extent of this form of injustice fully emerges.
There is no-one more innocent on Earth than a child, no-one more worthy of our righteous search for justice. And there is no-one on Earth more worthy of our disgust, fury and righteous outrage than those who wilfully traffic and abuse them, along with those who have been complicit in and covered up these crimes.