“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 Middle East war chaos and carnage distracts the American public fromJeffrey Epstein’schild sex crimes and those of his co-conspirators, exposed by the government’s release of millions of pages of documents, photos, and emails, under the November 2025Epstein 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 Trump said the push to release the child sex trafficking files was “a Democrat hoax”.
Among those committed to shining light on this crime network areNick Bryantof Epstein Justice; many tenacious writers and reporters, especially young writers at college newspapers; and hundreds of victims, who continue to speak.
Cognitive dissonance may block scrutiny and further action on Epstein’s co-conspirators, but those working for exposure and accountability remain clear-sighted and committed. In hisrecent webinar, investigative journalist Nick Byrant, with the group Epstein Justice, defines cognitive dissonance. 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, call crazy those who expose and 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, their dissonance, when facing difficult truths. Cognitive dissonance grips us when confronted with extreme, widespread child sexual abuse, perpetrated by leaders and elites all over society and covered up by the government, as we confront with Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes, Bryant asserts. 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 child 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 byWhitney 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 without a trial. In 2008 he had plead guilty to solicitation of a minor for prostitution and went to jail for 13 months then continued his crimes for years. Underage girls and their families reported Epstein’s crimes to Florida law enforcement years previously, but the federal government ordered them to stop investigating, according to reports fromChicago-based criminal defense attorney Leonard Goodmanand others. Files recently made public show that Epstein was connected to rich, powerful people all over the world.
“Sex trafficking of minors” and “conspiracy to commit sex trafficking of minors,” and “solicitation of a minor for prostitution.”
Struggling with my own cognitive dissonance, I dislike saying this man’s name, so will call him E or “the child sex trafficker”. I wish we never had to read or hear these horrible phrases in media outlets all over the world. I wish that my current and former students, 11- and 12-years olds, 14-year-olds, 16- and 17-year-olds, whom I remember with love and care, would never have to navigate a world where these terms become commonplace.
I remember them as bright AP English students, as middle school students, many now in college or graduate school or in their first jobs. I remember them in their ebullience and innocence, in their mischief and rebellion, as musicians and artists, thespians, academic club and D and D club members and athletes. I attended their performances and posted their creative work in my classrooms.
Source: Global Research
