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The details coming out of the American Epstein Files are leaving many ordinary people angry, confused, and disgusted. This is understandable.
The files are records from an American criminal investigation into what was basically a slave brothel where young women and children were made available for the depraved sexual activities of influential men and women. The names involved include very senior, well-established and consequential people mainly from the West’s world of high politics, big business, high finance, media, academia, and entertainment.
The files are named after one Jeffrey Epstein, the man at the heart of these activities. We would have a lot less knowledge about all of this had it not been for the extensive cache of records that the Epstein households generated. They contain millions of pages of text and email communications, photographs, and other such data. To these are added official records about flights on Epstein’s private jet (a legal requirement) and his private emails.
This is a scandal that has been going on for many years; Epstein was first imprisoned in 2008 for soliciting prostitution from a minor. After his release, he went back to the same activities with even greater audacity. It only ended because public outcry and partisan politics forced the authorities to take a deeper look at it all. The uproar finally forced the Trump administration to make public all the records captured by the FBI when they first raided Epstein’s homes in the course of his arrest.
This itself was a battle because a lot of people in America and Western Europe, as well as some Arab elites in social, political, and financial circles, have had some kind of dealings with Epstein, which the eventual release of the records has confirmed. So now the Western media and the Internet are under pressure to ignore the scandal.
In many cases, these activities seem to have been elevated in the minds of the perpetrators into some kind of subculture, complete with rituals, symbolism, and justifications. The planning and organization seemed meticulous and well-financed.
Crimes too many to count have been committed, and many lives have been destroyed in the process. All of the victims were either tricked, or kidnapped, or otherwise forced into these activities. There is even some indication that some children were simply just bred for these purposes.
These events tell us a number of unfortunate things.
They reveal that members of the so-called global elite actually live a very bleak, intellectually sterile, and spiritually unimaginative existence. We are ruled by monsters with dead souls.
Secondly, after decades of a global focus on fighting antisemitism, these events have only served to bolster the age-old conspiracy theories and stereotypes about Jewish global domination through a financial elite, and dabbling in satanism. Epstein was Israeli, and a good number of his contacts – “customers” who were powerful figures in Western finance, politics, and media – were Jewish. He also had friends in Israeli power circles.
A third thing is that Epstein seems to have been more a mere fixer and manager. He did not display the temperament of a real mastermind, and nor did he have a convincing backstory to explain the source of his wealth.
The “debate” that remains is whether this was a typical intelligence operation aimed at placing influential figures in morally compromising situations and then recording them for purposes of blackmail, or just a private brothel for depraved wealthy individuals interested in illegal activity. This is then garnished with the supplementary speculation as to which agency would have the financial, social, diplomatic, and amoral capacity to do such a thing if the former were true.
All that is really beside the point. First, all intelligence agencies deal often, if not usually, with the underbelly of human nature. Information is gathered and used for blackmail, treachery, bribery and murder. In this world, the average jail cell, brothel, gambling den, bar, or any other venue of human weakness is the place where one is likely to find operatives on a mission of information gathering. So, even if the whole Epstein operation was set up for the purpose of just making money, one can be sure that many intelligence agencies would have found out and then taken a strong interest in seeing how to use it to gather information.
It is not an aberration; it is the norm. It is just that two types of interests come together: the type of human being whose natural lack of empathy and appetite for cruelty make them the perfect kind of people to serve illegitimate power. Bad government needs bad people.
Our concern should, therefore, not be who created the Epstein operation; our focus should be on the question of how such a den of iniquity could have been conceived, put into operation, and then attracted what are supposed to be the leading minds and figures of the Western world. In other words: why was it possible for such a thing to even exist?
When one reads the details of what has been done to the victims, one sees a Western elite mindset in which seeing other peoples as people, much less seeing the historical attainment of human morals as an inheritance to be protected, is simply not conceivable.
The reality is that the originally defined Caucasian world – Western and Eastern – has long been known for its sexual instability, reflected not least in their cultural anxieties about gender and sexual issues and in the invention of religions obsessed with the management of sex.
The real trouble for us non-Caucasians began when Western Caucasia became rich through exploration, forced trade, industrialization, and white settler colonialism. This created an opening for this depravity to become unleashed on the rest of the world. A straight line can be drawn between the depravity that Christopher Columbus and his men unleashed on the indigenous women and children of South “America” from their arrival there in 1492 and the events captured in the Epstein files.
The descendants of those first brutalized peoples, from the very north of the Americas to their very south, can tell you a long and detailed history of the sexual aspect of the genocide – from inside the settlers’ enclosures to the so-called Indian boarding school system, and to the now continuing story of the unsolved murders and disappearances of thousands of native women annually in the United States.
A similar story unfolds with the enslavement of Africans by both Western and Eastern Caucasians. With the West, right from within the slave ships, raping victims of all ages was the norm for the crew members. And once landed in the Americas, the enslaved were subjected to more rape, which culminated in the creation of human breeding farms. Amidst all that, the rape of children by the slave owners and their employees was common. Black children were also used as bait for hunting crocodiles, and it was not unknown for slave owners to sometimes even eat black babies and adults. As slavery continued, and even after it ended, many of these pathologies remained part of the heritage and psyche of those who had historically racially benefitted from that system.
In Africa, stories about the missionaries are legion, but a lot less documented.
Semakula Mulumba, the most erased but most significant Ugandan anti-colonial activist, once challenged the white Anglican bishop of Uganda in a 1948 letter:
“My Lord, are you surprised that some filth of the foul activities of the Missionaries and British Government have leaked? My lord, have you ever heard that the pope sent a papal delegate to look into the Mill-Hill Fathers’ houses and contemplate the inmates drown their sanctity in bottles of beer and play with black sows in the backyard?”
These patterns of depravity continue among the lives of young people on the Kenyan coast, where sex tourism involving the underage has been a longstanding issue.
In short, nothing revealed so far about personal behaviour in the so-called Epstein Files should surprise us. What should worry us, however, is that these practices persist, showing a particular outlook among people who, in one way or another, have been wielding immense power and influence over key sections of public and commercial life and who are from countries whose economies and cultures are still firmly embedded in Africa.
The root problem is the illegitimate nature of the power structures that rule us, both at home and globally. As said, illegitimate rule requires humans of a certain mindset to hold it up. It cannot be held up by upstanding people of principles and good moral character.
So, the Western European entered the 20th and 21st centuries as a damaged and warped person, but still one with power. This is where we are today; this is how they bond, entertain each other and develop a sense of exclusivity.
It is also how they hold themselves aloof from the international governing and justice systems in which the rest of us have placed so much hope.
The names involved include those of past and present United States presidents, people involved in health schemes (mainly African and Asian), global finance, commercial projects, international finance and development money, digital knowledge, and education. Basically, the future of humanity.
Expect nothing good from this situation. Not that there has been much good thus far.
But for every conscientious African journalist, activist, politician, researcher, academic, policy-maker, and the like, this is an enormous game-changer. It will take quite some time to fully take in the vast scope of the personalities involved and their linkages to matters of particular concern to Africans. However, these revelations about how the rich and powerful really conduct themselves in relation to how they make decisions about how to run the world demand that we all rethink the way in which we have been negotiating with them our place in the world, and our assumptions about the intentions of those with whom we have been engaging.
It is now abundantly clear that Western-led global development initiatives have all been a sham; people who steal, rape, eat, and torture babies are fundamentally anti-human. They cannot possibly be interested in actual human progress.
A simple example is Bill Gates whose name pops up severally in the records, the least embarrassing of which reveals that Gates sought Epstein’s advice about how to get hold of some antibiotics for an STD he had picked up from some Epstein-supplied victims (note the plural, and that the ages are not specified), and how to slip the same drugs into his wife’s food in case he had passed the infection on to her.
An old friend who was part of the resistance work in the western Uganda countryside during the war to oust Milton Obote once told me how his work often caused peasant women to confide in him.
He told the story of how one lady complained about her husband, who had asked her to accompany him to the local government clinic as he was not feeling well. She said that as soon as they entered, her husband and the medic both grabbed hold of her and lifted her on the treatment table. As her husband kept her pinned down, the medic then grabbed a prepared syringe and injected her. She had no idea what was going on, but later found out that the husband had contracted an STD and, not wanting to tell her, had simply conspired with the medic to trick her into getting treatment.
Now, all Africans in the development and health sectors associate Mr Bill Gates with the supply of condoms in partnership with the United Nations Population Fund, to which he donated over one hundred million dollars just last year alone.
So by the time we learn from the Epstein Files that Gates has been engaging in the exact same risky sexual behaviour and then violating his wife’s right to informed treatment as some random peasant man from rural Uganda did, we should begin to think hard about whether he is really the best qualified to speak about sexual and reproductive health in Africa, and in particular, on the use of condoms.
We now have to comprehensively reevaluate everything about the intent and the substance of the entire body of so-called humanitarian and development assistance to Africa, right across the policy spectrum and for every African country, as a matter of continental national security.
However, our current crop of African leaders, as well as the national, regional, and continental bodies they head, do not seem to even be aware of the need for such a task. They simply lack the bandwidth to process what all this new information means about their key donors and work out a plan of analysing it systematically so as to decide what we do next.
But the critical question now is, since we now know that “aid” is being sent to us by monsters, what do they really want from us?
