Whoever Did It, Planned It

     A green anemone in a tidal pool, Washington, summer 1977.  I touched it, making it recoil, tensing its structure inwards.  Fear?  Helplessness?  Trust that some oaf won't dig up the beautiful anemone?  What does one do with an anemone?  Use it for decoration in an aquarium?  Clinging to a pebbled floor in some boy's bedroom.  Freedom of the beachfront missed in tactile memory, knowing the bubbling water flashing with little fish is hardly near the scope and grandeur of the sea's meetings with the shoreline, an endless waving, sometimes jagged line like an arc of stars given some mythological name.
     Imprisoned flesh.  Theme of the weekend beginning with the "finding" of Jeffrey Epstein's "unresponsive" body (doesn't mean he's dead), an "apparent suicide," his second "apparent" attempt at hanging since entering the pokey.  The New York Times put together, using three of its reporters, a story titled, "Before Jail Suicide, Jeffrey Epstein Was Left Alone and Not Closely Monitored" provides the clues pointing to his murder, or faked death.
     Would not an intelligence agency-connected "useful citizen," "asset," "secret agent," "provider of blackmail material to the CIA, State Department, or agencies of other nations," be questioned by spooky entities like the Mossad, the CIA, French Intelligence, MI-6.  Prince Andrew a fucker of underage girls?  MI-5 and MI-6 aren't interested in that?  Wouldn't it behoove the CIA to put Epstein in a black site after faking his death?  Interrogate him, find out what he knows, use psychological torture.  Get him back to work procuring girls for the rich and famous, but with a new face, name, passport, rejuvenation treatments, a guaranteed spot on the relocation to Mars before Earth becomes a glowing cinder of strife and have-nots warring each other for the remainder of precious and vital necessities.
     Epstein, according to the article, "...was supposed to have been checked by the two guards in the protective housing unit every 30 minutes, but that procedure was not followed that night, a law-enforcement official with knowledge of his detention said."
     Follow-up question not asked by New York's finest Fourth Estate representatives: why was the procedure in question not followed that night of all nights?"
     These three writers remind us that "Mr. Epstein's death has also unleashed a torrent of conspiracy theories online, with people suggesting, without evidence, that Mr. Epstein was killed to keep him from incriminating others."
     Which others?  Their next paragraph provides names.
     "Over the years, Mr. Epstein's social circle had included dozens of well-known politicians, business executives, scientists, academics and other notables, including President Trump, former President Bill Clinton, Prince Andrew of Britain and Leslie H. Wexner, the retail billionaire behind Victoria's Secret and Bath & Body Works."
     Good product plugs!
     I like their use of "Over the years..."  It's so glib.  It puts a sweet easy feeling over the next words, a lulling sound, over the years.  Plus, it's vague.  The evidence mounts, convincing evidence of mass sexual abuse and psychological manipulations of girls and young women.  As the NYT reporters put it big city fashion, "Mr. Epstein's social circle..." comprises an international group of rich men who get their kicks defiling humanity.  Epstein, if he is dead, may be hanging from a meathook in Satan's bedroom.
     Or, he's sitting in a chair in a blank room in Virginia, sodium pentothal making him ready for the interrogation.
     The Resurrection of Jeffrey Epstein.  We know now what an evil fuck he was/is.  That such a depraved man would have so many "nice" friends of a certain kind: the powerful in entertainment, news, politics, law, government.  It's obvious, isn't it, that people who were friends with Epstein are bad people.  When people such as they control images, making the powerful safe to plan their big schemes, most of which fail, we must fight back with counter-images, counter-narratives, and most of all, honesty.
     What I suspect is the case with Jeffrey Epstein is that in this scandal, he's not the worst player.

                                                                            Vic Neptune