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In March 2016, the Pedogate avalanche began with Wikileak's release of over thirty thousand emails from Hillary Clinton's hacked email server. Many of these emails contained known code language pertaining to pedophilia. The resulting Pedogate scandal soon became linked to almost every celebrity, royal family member, and politician in the land, suggesting they were part of an enormous underground Satanic ritual abuse cult. To add insult to injury, the victims of this alleged worldwide network of supposed abusers were children, including babies.
Pedogate is the revival of the Satanic Panic of the 1980s, when every curious kid played his or her heavy metal records backwards trying to detect hidden messages between electric guitar solos. Like the Satanic Panic, there is a blanket assumption that Pedogate is pure, unwarranted hysteria and that anyone who believes in it is a tinfoil hat-wearing nutter. This sort of blanket dismissal, despite compelling evidence such as the CIA's own Finder's Cult documents, the Franklin scandal, the Laura Silsby case, and Jeffrey Epstein's "gift" of twelve year old triplets from a still at-large Jean-Luc Brunel, lend support to the notion that powers that be are desperate to hide their own nasty habits, and that they are willing to resort to elaborate, media-assisted coverups to shield the ugly truth.
According to Satanic Ritual Abuse (SRA) survivors, underground Satanic cults have been doing their thing while hidden in plain sight since the age of the pyramids. No one is safe: even Ronald Reagan has been called out by an SRA survivor by the name of Cathy O'Brien. Supposedly Watergate was the original Pedogate, with the Nixon administration desperate to hide all they had achieved via honeytraps and other nefarious forms of blackmail.
Courting The Law of the Forbidden
Mention Pedogate in polite society and you will be immediately shut down. Pedogate is conflated with anti-Semitism because its promulgators don't shy away from pointing out the disproportionate number of Jewish people embedded within the entertainment, banking, and legal industries. Is everyone who believes in Pedogate an anti-Semite? I say no. A similar question would be: Is every Christian an anti-Semite? After all, Christians believe that Jews killed Jesus and have used that excuse to justify violence against Jews for centuries. By the same bifurcation fallacy, all Christians can be conveniently tarred with an anti-Semitic brush. Muslims as well can be uniformly labeled as anti-Semites if one uses the bifurcation fallacy.
By censoring all discussion of Pedogate, the inevitable result is to make Pedogate more appealing. In an ironic turn of fate, when polite society refuses to openly discuss Pedogate, it is subject to what Satanist Anton LaVey called the Law of the Forbidden. The Law of the Forbidden states that there is nothing more appealing than that which is not meant to be seen, and the forbidden is much more enticing than that which is obvious and "thrown into our faces". Pedogate could just be the result of imaginations running wild. I believe there is some truth to Pedogate, as evidenced by the examples I quoted above as well as Jimmy Savile's posthumously exposed crimes. I draw the line though when I am expected to believe that every royal, celebrity, and politician eats human infants and feces in a Satanic ritual setting before transforming into their final lizard form. Vile perverts exist in low and high places. Some of them are organized, some are not. I personally don't believe every single sitcom star, high ranking clergyman, Instagram influencer, and politician from presidential to local is involved in SRA. But just as there are heroin and crack dealers in the "nice" suburbs (hoity toity Naperville, Illinois is one of the heroin capitals of the free world), pedophile rings are similarly a dime a dozen.
The Class War: It's A Bad Time To Be A Celeb
Podesta did himself no favors by showing off his art collection. Alefantis should have thought twice before hitting the "publish" prompt of his Instagram. Despite all of his Oscars for knowing how to act, Tom Hanks wasn't clever enough to understand how badly his bizarre photographs of lost shoes would be interpreted, especially in light of accusations from Sarah Jane Ashcroft.
Guilt and innocence aside, the three men above demonstrate a broader trend in leftist culture to elevate the status of the absurd and/or the grotesque to high art with room for little else. Art has become the inaccessible stomping ground of elites who use works by questionable talents to wealth signal via gestures of obtuse abstraction. In other words, the arts today (this includes filmmaking, architecture, music, and visual art) are the premier field where snobs weaponize vague meaninglessness and titillating shock value so they can impress other snobs. This is done with the intended side effect of mystifying/terrorizing the general public.
Elites have retreated into an insulated world of intellectual glitterati. From this hallowed place, they make both documented and implied rules by which to control the unwashed, contemptible people of whom they are afraid. Donald Trump is appealing to the deplorables because he -- with his golden toilets and tragic combover -- is what a deplorable born into wealth looks like. He is a hero to the deplorables who are a class who perceive themselves as increasingly oppressed and parasitized by the middle and upper classes.
You know what they want? They want obedient workers. Obedient workers, people who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork. And just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly sh***ier jobs with the lower pay, the longer hours, the reduced benefits, the end of overtime and vanishing pension that disappears the minute you go to collect it, and now they're coming for your Social Security money. They want your f***in' retirement money. They want it back so they can give it to their criminal friends on Wall Street, and you know something? They'll get it. They'll get it all from you sooner or later cause they own this f***in' place. It's a big club and you ain't in it.Why Pedogate?
-George Carlin
The upper classes from the comfortable middle class all the way up to the high .001 of yacht and private jet owners deny there is a class war. This is the same class war, however, that defines our times. Pedogate, like almost every other contentious subject these days, is about class conflict. Pedogate makes it easy to paint any member of the comfortable classes as a dirty, kiddy-diddling devil worshipper. Keep in mind there is a perception within Pedogate circles that every one percenter has been initiated into a Satanic cannibal cult, and it is a belief that is far from uncommon.
Nobody is willing to mention that since the 1970s, class tensions have been escalating due to the disenfranchisement of the lower classes as the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. In the West, the uprising of nationalist populism around the globe seemed to coalesce in an exclamation point with the election of Donald Trump and Brexit.
Brexit and Trump didn't happen in a vacuum. By the late 2010s, it was self-evident that the lower classes were tired of being looked down upon. This showed up in notable instances of popular culture rebellion in the 1990s: South Park's initial seasons mercilessly lampooned too-big-to-fail celebrities like Marlon Brando, Kathie Lee Gifford, and Sally Struthers. South Park was aped in its savage caricatures of the rich and famous by The Family Guy. Twenty plus years later, television itself has become irrelevant but cruelly roasting celebrities has not. CrazyDaysandNights.net, a site by an anonymous person who alleges to be an entertainment lawyer, raised eyebrows with its brutal exposés of celebrity debauchery. Over time, it wasn't entirely clear that power, physical beauty, and riches were awarded to the deserving via an inscrutable system of quasi-Calvinist randomness. As our culture ran off its postmodern rails, decorum went the way of driving gloves and whalebone corsets. Celebrities and political leaders became fair game in a vicious war. The bigger they are, the harder they fall. Take John Legend and his wife, Chrissy Teigen. Both have been disgraced for their association with Marina Abramović, an apparently talent-free Serbian performance artist who reenacts every gory detail of Satanic ritual in a museum theater context except for literal baby eating, and we're not entirely sure about that. Teigen, a compulsive Twitter addict and chronic motormouth, often babbles about how turned on she is by the children's pageant reality show Toddlers and Tiaras and once seemed to let on that she and Legend had a sordid ménage à quatre with the Obamas.
The belief in Pedogate sates a hunger that is extremely dangerous to leave unexamined, unrecognized, and unaddressed. The lower classes (which also includes people with money who lack the sophistication or desire to fit into upper class social circles, for instance, Donald Trump) don't see themselves as inferior to the upper classes. For the most part, the lower classes just want to live their lives. Of course the upper classes won't leave the lower classes alone; that would be like asking a swarm of mosquitoes to stop feeding on mammalian blood.
The lower classes resent the interference and being parasitized by the classes above them and resentment has reached an all-time high. Enter Pedogate. By characterizing the upper classes as unpunished Satanic pedophiles who participate directly or indirectly in SRA of children, the People of Walmart can immediately perceive themselves as superior to those who sneer. Pedogate takes away the classiness of the upper class and reveals them to be a lower life form than pond scum. The sneerers become the sneered at. Better to be downtrodden, eccentric, sloppy, broke, and fat than to be a gorgeous, rich, Adrenochrome-addicted pedophile.
Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.
The Way The Left Sees Itself Versus How They Are Seen
Prince Andrew most likely saw young Virginia Giuffre as a high class prostitute. In his class, other people are automatons born to serve and to be used. What Pedogate condemns as depraved acts forced upon a child, Prince Andrew and his ilk see as normal business as usual. Prince Andrew was never trained to perceive the significance of emotion as demonstrated by other human beings. It is likely he saw Guiffre's forced smile as evidence of enthusiastic consent, age be damned. Life for Prince Andrew was a great big party until getting old and getting caught conspired to end his fun.
Leftists and liberalism err on the side of the permissive. The free love era of the 1960s ushered in a loosening of the limits of heterosexual marriage, an openness to drug experimentation, and the exploration of non-Christian religions, including the religion of Marxism: the belief in a socialist utopia that has never actually been achieved by socialism. Unfortunately, Marxism is back in vogue at the moment and in true liberal fashion, there is a rush to erase its limits and apply it as a one size fits all, final solution to those problematic masses of people who do not agree with Marxists.
The Left is not helped by the way it sees religion. To the Left, sincere belief in God/gods is a foreign phenomenon to be made fun of, othered, or museum-displayed for profit. The Left is also fascinated by Satanism.
Help Wanted: Adversary to Boost Legitimacy of Failing Religion
Christianity isn't doing so hot. American Christianity has lost credibility within the last hundred years and is a shadow of what it was at the turn of the twentieth century. The Left as it currently exists provides the perfect adversary to strengthen what is left of a feeble, increasingly irrelevant religion. Pedogate is a force majeure in a war the Left cannot admit it is fighting. Christianity needs Pedogate. There's nothing like a Satanic Panic to get warm butts into chilly church pews.
Pedogate, with its obsession with accusing adults of molesting and killing infants, naturally lends itself to the more indiscriminate side of the pro-life movement, which prioritizes the life of the unborn fetus well above that of the mother who is but a mere vessel for delivering the precious infant into the world. Pedogate makes it easy to demonize a pregnant mother, who can be caricatured as a cartoonishly evil idiot who would offer her newborn up to elite Ba'al worshippers to make a quick buck. This further dehumanizes the expectant mom in a way that is astoundingly convenient if you are running a clandestinely for-profit Christian adoption mill like the one I was born in forty-seven years ago, the type of which still proliferates today.
As long as Christianity remains the refuge of hypocrites and spiritually insensitive know-nothings who nonetheless scream at the top of their lungs that everyone who does not follow in their footsteps will burn in eternal hell, it will need Pedogate to prove there is an evil out there worse than itself. Christianity needs Pedogate in order to make itself seem more appealing and less secular, especially when honest, Jesus-loving Christians rightfully question the failings of an increasingly materialist, downright atheist set of approaches to worship. Desperation is palpable in the Christian right; desperation scares off potential converts. Pedogate scares them back into the arms of a failing religion.
Less than forty short years ago, the Christian right dominated the scene in the way the Left dominates now. Christians used their considerable power and influence to imprison suspected pedophiles, not all of whom were proven guilty.
The rise of Pedogate could be the advent of Terrors with a capital "T" for the Left. Considering the punishment the Left has dealt to by attempting to crush populism, crashing the economy by overreacting to COVID, and cheering on riots, looting, and murder in the name of BLM and Antifa, one could say they had it coming.
Instead of ignoring Pedogate and threatening all who don't shove it under the rug, I think leftists would do well to start paying attention.
In Part II of this series, I'll be discussing how I believe Pedogate should be dealt with.
