“I saw also that there was an ocean of darkness and death, but an infinite ocean of light and love, which flowed over the ocean of darkness.”- George Fox, Journal (1647)
While war chaos and carnage in the Middle East distract the American public from Jeffrey Epstein’s child sex crimes and those of his unindicted co-conspirators—exposed by the government’s release of millions of pages of documents, photos, and emails under the Epstein Files Transparency Act—many remain steadfast in their focus on truth and justice for survivors and accountability for perpetrators. “We are not a ‘hoax,’” asserted survivors in a November 2025 letter to Congress after President Donald Trump said the push to release the files was “a Democrat hoax.”
Among those committed to shining light on this crime network are Nick Bryant of Epstein Justice, along with many tenacious writers and reporters, especially young ones at college newspapers, and hundreds of victims who continue to speak out.
In his recent webinar, investigative journalist Nick Bryant defined the cognitive dissonance which is blocking further public scrutiny. It is “discomfort with conflicting beliefs, attitudes, or behaviors which causes mental tension, leading to efforts to reduce the inconsistency by changing attitudes, justifying actions, or ignoring new and contradictory information.”
Distract and minimize, confuse and deny, justify and excuse, become angry or enraged, and call crazy those who speak what others do not want to see or hear. In the throes of cognitive dissonance, people resort to all these ploys to relieve their internal discomfort. These horrible events could not possibly be true; the abuse could not possibly have been this widespread, some insist. Governments could not possibly have covered up this sex criminal’s harms, over decades, regardless of which political party was in power while people investigating are connected to those being investigated, as reported by Whitney Webb.
Jeffrey Epstein was arrested and charged July 9, 2019 with sex trafficking of minors and conspiracy to commit sex trafficking of minors. He was imprisoned and then died in prison before trial. In 2008, he had plead guilty to solicitation of a minor for prostitution and went to jail for thirteen months before continuing his crimes for years. Underage girls and their families reported Epstein’s crimes to Florida law enforcement previously, but the federal government ordered them to stop investigating, according to reports from Chicago-based criminal defense attorney Leonard Goodman and others. Files recently made public show that Epstein was connected to rich, powerful people all over the world.
Before the White House started this disastrous war with Iran, every major media outlet reported on this sex criminal’s connections, with tentacles extending to all parts of society: academia, government, business, sports, entertainment, the medical industry, technology.
Hellbound and Down 