The Epstein Honeytrap, “It’s blindingly obvious he entrapped and blackmailed some of the world’s most powerful people”

This should be of grave concern to all Americans who do not want to live in a banana republic ruled by a tiny group of libertine, monopoly capitalists.

(Editor’s note: In January 2024, Peter Maguire the surfer, war crimes investigator and author ofThai Stick: Surfers, Scammers, and the Untold Story of the Marijuana Trade. Law and War, Facing Death in Cambodia and Breathe, the Rickson Gracie bio, wrote about the unanswered questions surrounding the Jeffrey Epstein affair. We’re reprinting it here after the new Republican administration got chilled feet about releasing what they alleged during the campaign was some real hot stuff.)

After reading some of the Jeffrey Epstein documents released last week, I feel obligated to state the obvious. Although there are salacious, slightly disgusting new details—like the fourteen-year-old girl who told Palm Beach police investigators that Epstein “wacked off” during his massage, had a Chia Pet-like hairline “that continued to his buttocks,” and his “wee wee was very tiny”—blackmail, not sex, is at the center of the Epstein affair.

Last week, Lisa Hagan of PBS, and many others in the mainstream press, argued that it was a “conspiracy theory” to contend that what “the public is shown about Epstein isn’t the real story.” I reject this view because the mainstream press has failed so egregiously to report “the real story.” I would like to point out some basic facts:

• Alex Acosta, the Florida district attorney who allowed Epstein to escape serious punishment for his sex crimes against minors in 2008, allegedly told Vanity Fair’s Vicky Ward that he was informed by superiors that “Epstein belonged to intelligence and to leave it alone.”
• FBI Special Agent Kelly Maguire [no relation], who led the 2019 raid on Epstein’s NYC townhouse, testified under oath that she opened Epstein’s safes and they contained notebooks full of carefully labeled DVDs and computer hard drives.
When Maguire returned a few days later with a warrant to seize them, she “observed that all of the items that are in this photograph that I had previously seen were missing.” Although this evidence was eventually returned by Epstein’s lawyer, Maguire could only speculate that it had not been tampered with.
• Ghislaine Maxwell told a friend that Epstein’s island in the Caribbean “had been completely wired for video; the friend thought that she and Epstein were videotaping everyone on the island as an insurance policy, as blackmail.

The anomalies in the Epstein affair are endless. Suffice it to say, it is now blindingly obvious that Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell entrapped and blackmailed some of the world’s most powerful people. Honeytraps, compromat, and blackmail are some of the oldest tools in espionage.

If the mainstream press was actually willing to do their job, they would ask some simple questions that remain unanswered:

What happened to all of the DVDs and photographs seized at Epstein’s properties?

Who was featured in these DVDs and photographs?

Who were Epstein and Maxwell working for?

Who financed this sophisticated operation?

Today, when I hear members of the legacy media use the words “conspiracy theory,” “misinformation,” “disinformation,” “trope,” or “dog whistle,” I immediately grow suspicious because it means that another “counterspeech” campaign is coming.

In 2008, Harvard law professor and now Homeland Security official, Cass Sunstein, laid out the counterspeech doctrine in a paper entitled, “Conspiracy Theories.”

The prominent American legal scholar suggested the U.S. government recruit “nongovernmental officials” to pose as “independent experts with information” so they could “prod them into action from behind the scenes.”

Don’t like Hillary Clinton? Trump supporter!

Object to open borders? White Nationalist!

Don’t support an open-ended war in Ukraine? Putin stooge!

Don’t want digital currency? Conspiracy theorist!

If public ridicule and shame are not enough to silence and dissuade critics, the alphabet soup agencies in Washington can now reach out to the real arbiters of free speech in 21st-century America, the Sultans of Silicon Valley.

Not only do they now control the flow of information, they, as I learned in 2022, hold the power to silence by deplatforming. This matter should be of grave concern to all Americans who do not want to live in a banana republic ruled by a tiny group of libertine, monopoly capitalists whose transhumanist decadence would have impressed de Sade himself.