<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0" xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" xmlns:googleplay="http://www.google.com/schemas/play-podcasts/1.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Maddie (Books Behind Borders)]]></title><description><![CDATA[Where empires write the stories and we read between the lies.]]></description><link>https://www.booksbehindborders.org</link><image><url>https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!pdZH!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7fa8a5fe-65cc-460f-8266-176589f9668a_1280x1280.png</url><title>Maddie (Books Behind Borders)</title><link>https://www.booksbehindborders.org</link></image><generator>Substack</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 18:34:42 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.booksbehindborders.org/feed" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><copyright><![CDATA[Books Behind Borders]]></copyright><language><![CDATA[en]]></language><webMaster><![CDATA[booksbehindborders@substack.com]]></webMaster><itunes:owner><itunes:email><![CDATA[booksbehindborders@substack.com]]></itunes:email><itunes:name><![CDATA[Books Behind Borders]]></itunes:name></itunes:owner><itunes:author><![CDATA[Books Behind Borders]]></itunes:author><googleplay:owner><![CDATA[booksbehindborders@substack.com]]></googleplay:owner><googleplay:email><![CDATA[booksbehindborders@substack.com]]></googleplay:email><googleplay:author><![CDATA[Books Behind Borders]]></googleplay:author><itunes:block><![CDATA[Yes]]></itunes:block><item><title><![CDATA[Tesla Made $100 BILLION In 2025 And Paid ZERO In Federal Income Taxes]]></title><description><![CDATA[One rule for them. Another for you.]]></description><link>https://www.booksbehindborders.org/p/tesla-paid-zero-federal-taxes</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.booksbehindborders.org/p/tesla-paid-zero-federal-taxes</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Books Behind Borders]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2026 15:47:16 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/d25948c0-04ae-477e-913e-e45b577ef55e_1200x800.avif" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>This content is information the American ruling elite do NOT want you to have access to. </em><strong>If you appreciate work like this, and want more of it, please consider becoming a paid subscriber</strong><em>.</em></p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.booksbehindborders.org/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption"><em>I&#8217;m running a special for $40/year or $5/month.</em></p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://buymeacoffee.com/booksbehindborders&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Or leave me a tip!&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://buymeacoffee.com/booksbehindborders"><span>Or leave me a tip!</span></a></p><p>Let&#8217;s talk about the greatest political transaction in modern American history.</p><p>Elon Musk spent somewhere north of $250 million getting Donald Trump elected in 2024. Not donated, <em>spent</em>. On rallies, on a Super PAC, on turning his platform X into a 24/7 Trump campaign operation. He didn&#8217;t do this because he&#8217;s a patriot. He did it because he&#8217;s a businessman. And businessmen expect a return on investment.</p><p>He got one. A big one.</p><p>Tesla, Elon Musk&#8217;s electric vehicle company, made <strong>nearly 100 BILLION in 2025</strong>. It also paid <strong>zero dollars</strong> in federal income taxes. Not a reduced rate. Not a settlement. Zero. The same zero that you would never, ever be allowed to pay.</p><p>And while Tesla was pocketing that bill? You were cutting a check.</p><h3>ELON MUSK&#8217;S SALARY</h3><p>Before I dive into Tesla, let&#8217;s talk about how much Elon Musk is actually worth.</p><p>He&#8217;s on his <a href="https://finance.yahoo.com/news/elon-musk-total-salary-2025-130507630.html">way</a> to becoming the world&#8217;s first <strong>TRILLIONAIRE</strong>. Not billionaire. <em>Trillionaire.</em> That word didn&#8217;t even exist in practical conversation ten years ago.</p><p>In 2025, his personal salary was <a href="https://finance.yahoo.com/news/elon-musk-total-salary-2025-130507630.html">nearly</a> <strong>$88 billion</strong>. <br>His net worth sits at <strong>$839 billion</strong>. <br>That&#8217;s larger than the entire economy of countries like Belgium and Argentina. One man&#8217;s wealth bigger than a whole country&#8217;s output.</p><p>That works out to roughly <strong>$241 million per day</strong>. </p><p>Here&#8217;s what that actually means: the average American family brings home about $80,000 a year. Elon Musk made that same amount in <strong>less than one second</strong>. </p><p>Every single day in 2025, he added more money to his pile than 3,000 American families earn combined.</p><p><strong>And at the end of the year, Tesla wrote a check to the IRS for zero dollars</strong>.</p><h3><strong>THE DEAL THAT BUILT AN EMPIRE</strong></h3><p>Trump campaigned on fixing the economy. Lowering costs. Putting money back in <em>your</em> pocket. Working class people, people drowning in credit card debt, people choosing between prescriptions and groceries, <strong>those people voted for relief</strong>.</p><p>What they got instead was the <em>One Big Beautiful Bill</em>, a <strong>tax package that handed corporations like Tesla a set of breaks so generous it effectively wiped their federal tax bill off the map entirely</strong>. <strong>The same bill gutted programs that millions of Americans depend on to survive</strong>.</p><p>Tesla was one of at least <a href="https://itep.org/88-profitable-corporations-paid-zero-income-tax-in-2025/">88 major profitable corporations</a> that paid zero federal income taxes in 2025. Together, these companies pulled in over $105 billion in pre-tax profit. If they&#8217;d been taxed at the standard 21% corporate rate (the rate that already exists, that&#8217;s already supposed to apply) they would&#8217;ve owed $22 billion in taxes. </p><p><strong>That&#8217;s $22 billion that could have gone to veterans&#8217; benefits, border security, roads, or any of the other things Trump told you he cared about</strong>.</p><p>Instead, it went nowhere. <br>Or rather, it stayed right where it was. <br>In the pockets of people who already had more than they could ever possibly spend.</p><h3><strong>YOU&#8217;RE PAYING TESLA&#8217;S BILLS</strong></h3><p>Here&#8217;s the part that should make your blood boil.</p><p>While Tesla paid nothing into the system, the system was paying <em>Tesla</em>. The federal government (funded by your paycheck) has been shoveling contracts and incentives toward Musk&#8217;s companies for years. We&#8217;re talking billions in Department of Defense contracts, NASA deals, and federal fleet partnerships. Programs that exist because taxpayers like you fund them every single April.</p><p>So let&#8217;s be precise about what happened here: </p><p>You paid taxes. <br>Tesla didn&#8217;t. <br>The government took your money and gave some of it to Tesla. <br>Tesla kept their profits and sent Washington a bill for $0.</p><p>That&#8217;s not capitalism. That&#8217;s a shakedown.<br>This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.</p><h3><strong>THE MAN WHO BOUGHT THE WHITE HOUSE</strong></h3><p>Elon Musk didn&#8217;t just donate to Trump&#8217;s campaign, he embedded himself in the federal government. He ran DOGE, a shadow operation that spent the first half of 2025 carving up the federal agencies that everyday Americans rely on. Social Security offices. Public health programs. USAID. Scientific research grants. Gone or gutted, one press release at a time.</p><p>The same man whose company pays zero taxes got to decide which government programs were &#8220;wasteful.&#8221;</p><p>Think about that: A billionaire who contributes nothing to the public treasury got handed the keys to that public treasury and was told to start cutting.</p><p>And he cut, <em>just not his own benefits</em>. <br>Not the contracts flowing to his companies. <br>Not the tax policies that let him keep every dollar of profit sheltered from the IRS.</p><p><strong>He cut yours</strong>. <strong>The average American, who was promised &#8220;more affordability&#8221;</strong>.</p><p>Something else that wasn&#8217;t discussed enough is that through DOGE, Elon Musk had access to his <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/interactive/2025/musk-doge-personal-data-tesla-companies">competitor&#8217;s</a> data, which could greatly benefit Musk&#8217;s businesses for years.</p><p>As you can see through the image below, Musk had the ability to access data in at least seven agencies. 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They can garnish your wages. They can charge you penalties and interest that compound while you sleep. In serious cases, they can prosecute you.</p><p>Tesla underpays its taxes by <strong>billions</strong> and gets a thank you note in the form of more government contracts, funded by the average American.</p><p>You work a second job to cover rent and still owe money in April. Elon Musk spends $250 million to elect a president and gets his entire tax bill erased.</p><p>Trump promised you a better economy. What he delivered was a better economy <strong>for the people who funded his campaign</strong>.</p><p>The audacity isn&#8217;t even that they did it. It&#8217;s that they did it in plain sight, called it patriotism, and dared you to complain about it.</p><p>Getting tired of winning yet?</p><p>PS: Palantir is effectively a CIA front company, and they raked in $1.6 BILLION last year and paid ZERO in federal income taxes. You&#8217;re literally funding the infrastructure being used to spy on you and the company building it doesn&#8217;t pay a dime in taxes while you shell over 30% of your paycheck to Uncle Sam. </p><p>Read more here: </p><div class="digest-post-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;nodeId&quot;:&quot;30110ffe-188d-4a28-98ea-821deb6c34ed&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;This content is information the American ruling elite do NOT want you to have access to. 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Your tax dollars. <br>And what are they paying back in federal taxes?<br>Zero. Not a reduced rate. <br>Not a loophole here and there. <br>ZERO.</p><p>Peter Thiel&#8217;s Palantir pocketed hundreds of millions in government contracts last year (taxpayer money) and used it to build out a surveillance network with the Department of Homeland Security to monitor the American people. And when tax season came around, they wrote a check to the federal government for exactly nothing.</p><p>You are literally funding the infrastructure being used to spy on you and the company building it doesn&#8217;t pay a dime in taxes while you shell over 30% of your paycheck to Uncle Sam.</p><p>THAT is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.</p><p>Palantir, which has <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/technology/trump-palantir-data-americans.html">landed multiple massive contracts</a> under the Trump administration made $1.6 billion in net income last year.</p><p>It grew so much last year <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/25/palantir-jumps-to-all-time-high-becomes-20th-most-valuable-us-firm-.html">that Palentir joined</a> the list of the 20 most valuable U.S. companies, with its stock more than doubling in value in the first half of 2025 alone. In <a href="https://investors.palantir.com/news-details/2026/Palantir-Reports-Q4-2025-U-S--Comm-Revenue-Growth-of-137-YY-and-Revenue-Growth-of-70-YY-Issues-FY-2026-Revenue-Guidance-of-61-YY-and-U-S--Comm-Revenue-Guidance-of-115-YY-Crushing-Consensus-Expectations/">a report</a> to shareholders, the company said it was &#8220;crushing&#8221; expectations in terms of growth, with revenue growing 93 percent year over year at the end of 2025.</p><p>Despite this growth, it did not pay any federal income taxes in 2025 due to tax policies allowing corporations to <a href="https://itep.org/88-profitable-corporations-paid-zero-income-tax-in-2025/">effectively dodge taxes</a>. The practice has <a href="https://truthout.org/articles/corporations-that-paid-zero-federal-income-tax-spent-400-million-in-lobbying/">been present for years</a>, but was worsened this year due to the combination of GOP tax breaks passed in last year&#8217;s One Big Beautiful Bill Act and the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.</p><p>Because of this, Palantir was one of at least 88 major profitable U.S. companies that avoided paying any federal income tax in 2025.</p><p>This includes companies like Tesla, owned by Elon Musk, who spent the first half of 2025 ravaging <a href="https://truthout.org/articles/doge-attacks-on-social-security-have-left-millions-in-the-lurch/">critical U.S.</a> welfare, <a href="https://truthout.org/articles/trump-is-trying-to-dismantle-public-health-and-replace-it-with-a-police-state/">public health</a>, <a href="https://truthout.org/articles/global-health-workers-describe-impact-a-year-after-trump-admin-shut-down-usaid/">humanitarian aid</a>, and <a href="https://www.help.senate.gov/dem/newsroom/press/news-sanders-releases-report-documenting-trumps-war-on-science">research programs</a>, under the Trump administration&#8217;s &#8220;Department of Government Efficiency.&#8221;</p><p>Other major companies also owed $0 or even got money back in the form of tax rebates, including ticketing company Live Nation Entertainment; airlines like Southwest and United; other military contractors like Honeywell; utility companies like American Electric Power, Dominion Energy, and Duke Energy; entertainment companies like Walt Disney; and many more.</p><p>Together, these companies enjoyed over $105 billion in pre-tax income. If this were taxed at the corporate tax rate of 21 percent, the companies would have paid $22 billion in taxes.</p><p>&#8220;What we&#8217;re seeing in this most recent year is corporate tax avoidance on steroids,&#8221; said Matt Gardner.</p><p>Palantir was able to dodge federal income taxes despite being the recipient of massive federal outlays.</p><p>&#8220;Palantir has been rewarded significantly through the second Trump term. On one end, the company&#8217;s domestic revenues surged in 2025, yet it paid zero federal income taxes,&#8221; said Spandan Marasini. Through the corporate giveaways in the most recent tax bill, the administration has made clear that being profitable is no longer sufficient reason to contribute to the public treasury.&#8221;</p><div><hr></div><p><em>This content is information the American ruling elite do NOT want you to have access to. </em><strong>If you appreciate work like this, and want more of it, please consider becoming a paid subscriber</strong><em>.</em></p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.booksbehindborders.org/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption"><em>I&#8217;m running a special for $40/year or $5/month</em>.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" 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in the year, a contract worth up to $10 billion that allows the Department of Defense wide latitude to purchase services from the <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2026/03/11/us-strike-iran-elementary-school-ai-target-list/">company like its AI</a> military system, Maven.</p><p>The company was tapped by the Trump administration to build a network to massively expand the federal government&#8217;s knowledge on Americans, allowing the government to consolidate information across agencies and granting federal officials &#8220;&#8203;&#8203;untold surveillance power.&#8221;</p><p>This partnership is just <a href="https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/palantir-deportation-roundup">one part of Palantir&#8217;s</a> prolific role in Trump&#8217;s fascist ICE campaigns and <a href="https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2025/08/usa-global-tech-made-by-palantir-and-babel-street-pose-surveillance-threats-to-pro-palestine-student-protestors-migrants/">targeting of</a> protesters across the U.S.</p><p>Palantir was also <a href="https://mike-scialom.medium.com/in-minab-palantirs-ai-shifted-humanity-from-a-long-stay-hades-resident-to-the-abyss-of-tartarus-c06ed5c75c1a">responsible</a> for the triple tap strike on the little girls school in Iran, killing at least 175 children.</p><p>Palantir and Tesla exploit every corporate tax break in the book, paying absolutely nothing in federal income taxes, and these are billion-dollar companies.</p><p>Meanwhile, if YOU make a mistake on your tax return, an honest mistake, the IRS can audit you, fine you, and in some cases, throw you in prison.</p><p>One set of rules for them. <br>Another set for you.<br>How&#8217;s that American Dream working out for you?<br>Getting tired of winning yet?</p><div><hr></div><p>If you&#8217;re tired of being told everything is fine while it clearly isn&#8217;t, you&#8217;re exactly why this publication exists.</p><p><strong>My work is 100% reader-supported</strong>. <strong>That means no advertisers, no political handlers, and no incentive to soften the truth</strong>.</p><p>I started this because too many people feel like they&#8217;re losing their minds trying to make sense of what&#8217;s happening, myself included. <strong>I wanted to build a space of like-minded people to make this journey feel less lonely for all of us</strong>.</p><p>To allow me to continue posting content just like this, please consider becoming a paid subscriber. <strong>I&#8217;m running a special for $40/year or $5/month</strong>.</p><p>If that price feels impossible to you, I understand. <strong>Share this article with everyone you know, it costs nothing but it matters more than you could possibly know</strong>.</p><p>If you prefer to make a<strong> one time donation</strong> in support of my work, you can do so by clicking <a href="https://buymeacoffee.com/booksbehindborders">HERE</a>.</p><p><em>This content is information the American ruling elite do NOT want you to 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Borders&quot;,&quot;author_photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Rsy9!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1f826b5b-9c1a-48d2-ba18-32f41b57d1cd_553x554.jpeg&quot;}}" data-component-name="CommunityChatRenderPlaceholder"></div><div><hr></div><p>SOURCE:</p><ol><li><p><a href="https://truthout.org/articles/palantir-paid-no-federal-income-tax-in-2025-as-it-partnered-with-ice-pentagon/">Zero Taxes</a></p></li></ol>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Violence Is Never The Answer, Until It's The ONLY Answer]]></title><description><![CDATA[The United States government is the greatest purveyor of violence and terrorism on the planet, but anytime somebody tries to fight back against it, they're condemned.]]></description><link>https://www.booksbehindborders.org/p/shots-fired-white-house-correspondents-dinner</link><guid 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To receive new posts and support my work, <strong>consider becoming a free or paid subscriber</strong>.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://buymeacoffee.com/booksbehindborders&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Or leave me a tip!&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://buymeacoffee.com/booksbehindborders"><span>Or leave me a tip!</span></a></p><p>So apparently, someone fired multiple shots at last nights White House Correspondents&#8217; Dinner.</p><p>Whether you believe a lone gunman actually made it through what is arguably the most fortified social gathering on the planet &#8212; that&#8217;s a conversation for another day. And honestly? Whether it was real or staged doesn&#8217;t even matter anymore. That&#8217;s the whole <em>architecture</em> of a false flag. The event is just the delivery mechanism. The narrative is the weapon.</p><p>And right on cue, the narrative arrived.</p><p>Within hours, people who have spent the last four years calling Trump a fascist were suddenly tweeting &#8220;political violence is never the answer.&#8221; And now Trump has fresh ammunition to build whatever monument to himself he&#8217;s been lobbying for, like a ballroom. Funny how that works.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!b4z7!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdf7c1cec-4039-46b1-baf9-93b2c6561f33_903x1811.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!b4z7!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdf7c1cec-4039-46b1-baf9-93b2c6561f33_903x1811.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!b4z7!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdf7c1cec-4039-46b1-baf9-93b2c6561f33_903x1811.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!b4z7!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdf7c1cec-4039-46b1-baf9-93b2c6561f33_903x1811.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!b4z7!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdf7c1cec-4039-46b1-baf9-93b2c6561f33_903x1811.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!b4z7!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdf7c1cec-4039-46b1-baf9-93b2c6561f33_903x1811.jpeg" width="903" height="1811" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/df7c1cec-4039-46b1-baf9-93b2c6561f33_903x1811.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:1811,&quot;width&quot;:903,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:374974,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:true,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.booksbehindborders.org/i/195541191?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2aeaafdc-f197-44df-a68c-1c3837bcdf96_931x1863.jpeg&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!b4z7!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdf7c1cec-4039-46b1-baf9-93b2c6561f33_903x1811.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!b4z7!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdf7c1cec-4039-46b1-baf9-93b2c6561f33_903x1811.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!b4z7!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdf7c1cec-4039-46b1-baf9-93b2c6561f33_903x1811.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!b4z7!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fdf7c1cec-4039-46b1-baf9-93b2c6561f33_903x1811.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" fetchpriority="high"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>But that&#8217;s not actually what I want to talk about.</p><p>I want to talk about the hypocrisy. The specific, nauseating, bipartisan hypocrisy that shows up like clockwork every single time something like this happens.</p><p>Because everyone&#8217;s been running around with half a quote. The full version &#8212; the one they definitely didn&#8217;t teach us in school &#8212; is this: <em>&#8220;Violence is never the answer, until it&#8217;s the only answer.&#8221;</em></p><p>The same politicians, journalists, and pundits who flood Twitter with &#8220;political violence is never the answer&#8221; the moment a domestic incident touches someone powerful &#8212; those exact same people say <em>nothing</em> when those same powerful figures are funding and facilitating mass slaughter abroad. Or worse, they cheer for it. They vote for the funding bills. They pose for photos with the defense contractors.</p><p>Let me be specific:</p><ul><li><p><strong>Hundreds of thousands of civilians have been murdered in Gaza</strong>, <strong>half of whom are children</strong>. The ICJ has ruled it a genocide, and the international community essentially shrugged and asked Israel to please be more careful.</p></li><li><p>To kick off the war in Iran this year, the <strong>U.S. and Israel slaughtered 175+ little girls by bombing a children&#8217;s school</strong>. <strong>And they didn&#8217;t just bomb the elementary school</strong>, <strong>they triple tapped it</strong>. That means they struck it, waited for parents and rescuers to arrive, then struck it again. Then again a third time. Let me be clear: you don&#8217;t accidentally bomb something with PRECISION missiles. And you definitely don&#8217;t do it three times.</p></li><li><p>At the hands of the U.S., <strong>Sudan is experiencing what the UN calls one of the worst humanitarian catastrophes in modern history</strong>, with <strong>famine being used as a deliberate weapon of war</strong>. Why? Because Sudan was on Israel&#8217;s target list in an effort to fulfill the Greater Israel Project.</p></li><li><p><strong>The U.S. has bombed Somalia nearly EVERY SINGLE DAY for over 20 years</strong> &#8212; a country most Americans couldn&#8217;t locate on a map if their lives depended on it &#8212; and that is never discussed in the mainstream news. Why? Same reason as above, to foment the Greater Israel Project, no matter how many civilians have to die in the process.</p></li></ul><p>The list goes on and one, but I&#8217;ll stop there (for now).</p><p>And the United States isn&#8217;t a passive bystander in any of this. It is the largest arms dealer on Earth. It funds, it trains, it green-lights. When Benjamin Netanyahu addressed Congress last year, he received 58 standing ovations &#8212; while his military was actively killing journalists, aid workers, and entire families in Gaza. Standing ovations. In the building where they write the checks.</p><p><strong>The United States government is the greatest purveyor of violence and terrorism on the planet. </strong></p><p>But anytime somebody tries to fight back against this oppression and mass terrorism, they&#8217;re condemned. </p><p>So here&#8217;s the question I keep coming back to: what exactly is a population supposed to do? </p><p>When a nuclear-armed nation state, backed by the most powerful military alliance in human history, decides your population is expendable &#8212; what is the prescribed response? </p><p>File a complaint? <br>They&#8217;ve tried that. <br>The UN and ICJ acknowledged the genocide in Gaza and then did nothing. The U.S. vetoed the ceasefire resolutions. The bombs kept falling.</p><p>Okay, now what? Tweet about it? Write a strongly worded letter to a congressman who is literally on the board of a defense contractor making BILLIONS of dollars anytime a bomb falls?</p><p><em>Do people actually believe you can negotiate your way out of extermination?<br>Do people actually believe that the answer to terrorism is to negotiate?</em></p><p>Last I checked, the United States&#8217; answer to 3,000 Americans dying on 9/11 was to spend trillions of dollars killing millions of people in the Middle East.</p><p>And yet, the moment the oppressed <em>respond</em> with force, the entire Western press corps condemns them.</p><p>That&#8217;s not a moral position. 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url="https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/195480069/fb6b7046eb30da3cce652b7c538e3d3b.mp3" length="0" type="audio/mpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>This content is information the American ruling elite do NOT want you to have access to. </em><strong>If you appreciate work like this, and want more of it, please consider becoming a paid subscriber</strong><em>.</em></p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.booksbehindborders.org/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption"><em>&#8217;m running a special for $40/year or $5/month.</em></p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://buymeacoffee.com/booksbehindborders&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Or leave me a tip!&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://buymeacoffee.com/booksbehindborders"><span>Or leave me a tip!</span></a></p><p>In Season 1, Episode 2 of Law &amp; Order <em>SVU</em>&#8212;which aired in 1999&#8212;they featured a binder on Olivia Benson&#8217;s desk labeled &#8220;Epstein.&#8221; </p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption"><strong>Law and Order SVU: Season 1, Episode 2, aired in 1999</strong></figcaption></figure></div><p>This caught my eye, so I started digging.</p><p>In addition to the Epstein binder feature in Season 1, the show aired an episode titled &#8220;Flight&#8221; in 2011. It&#8217;s in Season 12, Episode 15.</p><p>It&#8217;s about a <strong>wealthy, well-connected businessman</strong> who:</p><ul><li><p>Uses a <strong>private jet</strong> to traffic underage girls</p></li><li><p>His <strong>parties make the society page</strong></p></li><li><p>Is friends with a <strong>former president</strong></p></li><li><p>Has a network of <strong>recruiters (&#8220;fixers&#8221;)</strong></p></li><li><p>Exploits <strong>runaways and vulnerable teens</strong></p></li><li><p>Avoids consequences due to <strong>money and influence</strong></p></li></ul><p>Does this bring anybody to mind?</p><p>If you search &#8220;law and order&#8221; in the Epstein files, you come across many instances where Epstein and others discuss the show, including this specific episode.</p><p>There&#8217;s 164 search results.</p><div><hr></div><p><em>This content is information the American ruling elite do NOT want you to have access to. </em><strong>If you appreciate work like this, and want 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https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9zEW!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F16854fcf-1ca8-4dc3-bc21-cb545a97423a_1420x252.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9zEW!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F16854fcf-1ca8-4dc3-bc21-cb545a97423a_1420x252.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9zEW!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F16854fcf-1ca8-4dc3-bc21-cb545a97423a_1420x252.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!9zEW!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F16854fcf-1ca8-4dc3-bc21-cb545a97423a_1420x252.png" width="1420" height="252" 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loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>This caught my attention even more, so I continued digging.</p><p>On July 24th, 2012, AFTER the episode aired with Epstein&#8217;s name on a binder, and AFTER the episode aired about the billionaire trafficking young girls via his private jet, I found this email:</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!EUnh!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc2bc39ba-552a-4acc-89e0-858c47b6d071_1332x1070.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!EUnh!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc2bc39ba-552a-4acc-89e0-858c47b6d071_1332x1070.png 424w, 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stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>This building was being used as a set for Law and Order (multiple times), while at the same time it was a hub for Jeffrey Epstein to assault young girls.</p><h3>JPMorgan And Epstein</h3><p>In September 2023, JPMorgan Chase agreed to a <strong>$75 million settlement</strong> with the U.S. Virgin Islands to resolve lawsuits accusing the bank of facilitating Jeffrey Epstein&#8217;s sex trafficking operations. The suit alleged JPMorgan ignored red flags and processed over $1 billion for Epstein from 2003&#8211;2013, with funds going toward sex crimes.</p><p>This is where it gets interesting:</p><ul><li><p>A JPMorgan employee literally <a href="https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/Court%20Records/Government%20of%20the%20United%20States%20Virgin%20Islands%20v.%20JPMorgan%20Chase%20Bank,%20N.A.,%20No.%20122-cv-10904%20(S.D.N.Y.%202022)/EFTA02815288.pdf">wrote</a>:</p></li></ul><blockquote><p>Epstein was the <strong>&#8220;ripped from the headlines story on Law &amp; Order SVU this week&#8221;</strong></p></blockquote><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!uOom!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F41b730ce-1e89-404d-97a9-f7b8eb0c11d6_1422x154.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source 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If they weren&#8217;t partaking in these crimes, they certainly knew about it.</p><p>Hollywood is as guilty as anybody.</p><p>They have been laughing in our faces for years. </p><p>Even before normal people like you and me knew who Jeffrey Epstein was, they were featuring him in shows that millions of Americans watched.</p><p>It&#8217;s truly unbelievable.</p><div><hr></div><p>If you&#8217;re tired of being told everything is fine while it clearly isn&#8217;t, you&#8217;re exactly why this publication exists.</p><p><strong>My work is 100% reader-supported</strong>. <strong>That means no advertisers, no political handlers, and no incentive to soften the truth</strong>.</p><p>I started this because too many people feel like they&#8217;re losing their minds trying to make sense of what&#8217;s happening, myself included. <strong>I wanted to build a space of like-minded people to make this journey feel less lonely for all of us</strong>.</p><p>To allow me to continue posting content just like this, please consider becoming a paid subscriber. <strong>I&#8217;m running a special for $40/year or $5/month</strong>.</p><p>If that price feels impossible to you, I understand. <strong>Share this article with everyone you know, it costs nothing but it matters more than you could possibly know</strong>.</p><p>If you prefer to make a<strong> one time donation</strong> in support of my work, you can do so by clicking <a href="https://buymeacoffee.com/booksbehindborders">HERE</a>.</p><p><em>This content is information the American ruling elite do NOT want you to have access to. </em><strong>If you appreciate work like this, and want more of it, please consider becoming a paid subscriber</strong><em>.</em></p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.booksbehindborders.org/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption"><em>I&#8217;m running a special for $40/year or $5/month</em>.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://buymeacoffee.com/booksbehindborders&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Or leave me a tip!&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://buymeacoffee.com/booksbehindborders"><span>Or leave me a tip!</span></a></p><div class="captioned-button-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.booksbehindborders.org/p/epstein-on-law-and-order?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;}" data-component-name="CaptionedButtonToDOM"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading Maddie (Books Behind Borders)! 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That does not prove wrongdoing. But it does show how tightly connected elite financial and social circles can be.</p><p>Now zoom out for a second.</p><p>A man with <strong>massive undisclosed wealth&#8230;</strong><br>&#8230;being considered for one of the most powerful financial roles on the planet&#8230;<br>&#8230;refuses to answer whether any of that wealth is tied to Epstein linked financial vehicles.</p><p>And the response is basically:</p><p>Trust me, I will deal with it later.<br>No different than, trust me, I&#8217;ll stop drinking when I get the job.</p><p>This is the Federal Reserve. The institution that influences interest rates, markets, housing, jobs, and the financial lives of millions of people.</p><p>And we are supposed to be comfortable with that level of opacity?</p><p>Because here is the pattern that keeps showing up:</p><ul><li><p>connections surface</p></li><li><p>names appear in documents</p></li><li><p>questions get asked</p></li><li><p>answers never fully come</p></li></ul><p>And somehow it always stops just short of real transparency.</p><p>At the same time, markets are swinging hard on geopolitical headlines, massive trades appear perfectly timed, and the biggest players always seem positioned ahead of major moves.</p><p>Maybe that is just how modern finance works.</p><p>Or maybe it is a system where access, information, and networks matter more than anything else.</p><p>Either way, the gap between what the public is told and what actually happens keeps getting wider.</p><p>At some point this stops feeling like coincidence,<br>and starts feeling like a closed system designed to benefit a select few.</p><p>It&#8217;s worth mentioning that Warsh&#8217;s father in law is Ronald Lauder, the Jewish billionaire behind Trump&#8217;s push to violently seize Greenland. Lauder is the heir to the Estee Lauder fortune.</p><p>I wrote an entire piece on Lauder here:</p><div class="digest-post-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;nodeId&quot;:&quot;4f9ff066-98df-4ace-906b-a447978f71fd&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;When Donald Trump first floated the idea of buying Greenland during his first term, the media treated it like a joke.&quot;,&quot;cta&quot;:&quot;Watch now&quot;,&quot;showBylines&quot;:true,&quot;size&quot;:&quot;md&quot;,&quot;isEditorNode&quot;:true,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;The Jewish Billionaire Behind Trump's Push to Seize Greenland&quot;,&quot;publishedBylines&quot;:[{&quot;id&quot;:165686828,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Books Behind Borders&quot;,&quot;bio&quot;:&quot;Deconstructing our manufactured reality. Read these forbidden books &#11015;&#65039; 200k on IG&#8212;follow me!&#128071;&#127996;&quot;,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/1f826b5b-9c1a-48d2-ba18-32f41b57d1cd_553x554.jpeg&quot;,&quot;is_guest&quot;:false,&quot;bestseller_tier&quot;:100}],&quot;post_date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-22T12:53:12.380Z&quot;,&quot;cover_image&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!yR0q!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4a8ce98c-522d-4d97-8a80-a369f82c9b0d_1206x748.jpeg&quot;,&quot;cover_image_alt&quot;:null,&quot;canonical_url&quot;:&quot;https://www.booksbehindborders.org/p/the-jewish-billionaire-behind-trumps&quot;,&quot;section_name&quot;:null,&quot;video_upload_id&quot;:&quot;e8a9d8e9-ca41-4e5d-a209-4fd40cf06f8b&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:185407124,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;podcast&quot;,&quot;reaction_count&quot;:2749,&quot;comment_count&quot;:678,&quot;publication_id&quot;:3596148,&quot;publication_name&quot;:&quot;Maddie (Books Behind Borders)&quot;,&quot;publication_logo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!pdZH!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7fa8a5fe-65cc-460f-8266-176589f9668a_1280x1280.png&quot;,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;youtube_url&quot;:null,&quot;show_links&quot;:null,&quot;feed_url&quot;:null}"></div><p>Lauder is also in the Epstein Files.</p><p>So the real question is simple:</p><p>Why is it so difficult to get a direct answer when Epstein connected financial ties come up?</p><p>And who benefits from that silence?</p><p>What do you think is still being hidden?</p><div><hr></div><p>If you&#8217;re tired of being told everything is fine while it clearly isn&#8217;t, you&#8217;re exactly why this publication exists.</p><p><strong>My work is 100% reader-supported</strong>. <strong>That means no advertisers, no political handlers, and no incentive to soften the truth</strong>.</p><p>I started this because too many people feel like they&#8217;re losing their minds trying to make sense of what&#8217;s happening, myself included. <strong>I wanted to build a space of like-minded people to make this journey feel less lonely for all of us</strong>.</p><p>To allow me to continue posting content just like this, please consider becoming a paid subscriber. <strong>I&#8217;m running a special for $40/year or $5/month</strong>.</p><p>If that price feels impossible to you, I understand. <strong>Share this article with everyone you know, it costs nothing but it matters more than you could possibly know</strong>.</p><p>If you prefer to make a<strong> one time donation</strong> in support of my work, you can do so by clicking <a href="https://buymeacoffee.com/booksbehindborders">HERE</a>.</p><p><em>This content is information the American ruling elite do NOT want you to have access to. </em><strong>If you appreciate work like this, and want more of it, please consider becoming a paid subscriber</strong><em>.</em></p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.booksbehindborders.org/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption"><em>I&#8217;m running a special for $40/year or $5/month</em>.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://buymeacoffee.com/booksbehindborders&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Or leave me a tip!&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://buymeacoffee.com/booksbehindborders"><span>Or leave me a tip!</span></a></p><div class="captioned-button-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.booksbehindborders.org/p/warsh-ties-to-epstein-trump?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;}" data-component-name="CaptionedButtonToDOM"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading Maddie (Books Behind Borders)! 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Does this remind you of anything?]]></description><link>https://www.booksbehindborders.org/p/the-franklin-scandal-pedophile-ring</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.booksbehindborders.org/p/the-franklin-scandal-pedophile-ring</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Books Behind Borders]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 13:05:40 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!s_Kd!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8d89efae-80d5-4643-aeb2-b703b2a7e80b_1206x660.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>This content is information the American ruling elite do NOT want you to have access to. </em><strong>If you appreciate work like this, and want more of it, please consider becoming a paid subscriber</strong><em>.</em></p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" 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After years of research, Rodriguez had compiled the necessary evidence to publish such claims.</p><p>He had <strong>uncovered a homosexual prostitution ring tied to the White House</strong>. One central figure, Craig Spence, a Republican powerbroker, <strong>had the political clout to bring prostitutes on midnight tours of the White Hous</strong>e. The report names <strong>multiple White House insiders</strong>, <strong>military personnel</strong> and <strong>members of major media institutions as clients</strong>, based on credit card records procured by Rodriguez.</p><blockquote><p>&#8220;Among the client names contained in the vouchers &#8211; and identified by prostitutes and escort operators &#8211; are government officials, locally based US military officers, businessmen, lawyers, bankers, congressional aides and other professionals...<br>Although the confiscated material was turned over to District police on the scene, witnesses and law enforcement agents say the Secret Service kept one box containing names and other information about high-level government officials who were clients of the male escort business.<br>District police officials say that, to their knowledge, this is the first time the Secret Service has ever become involved in such a raid in this area.&#8221; &#8211; <em>Washington Times</em></p></blockquote><p><strong>Craig Spence would throw extravagant parties for the Washington D.C. elite</strong>, with &#8216;call boys&#8217; freely available for interested party-goers. Various associates, including multiple of Spence&#8217;s body guards, came forward and admitted that his house, where the parties were located, was <strong>thoroughly bugged with audio and video recording equipment</strong>, <strong>with the intent of extortion and blackmail of those who ended up in compromising positions</strong>.</p><p>Spence was somewhat of a mystery man. What type of employment did he have? No one knew for sure, though Spence himself would often boast of his important connections. One of his associates told the <em>Times</em>:</p><blockquote><p>&#8220;He described Mr. Spence as &#8216;strange&#8217;, saying he often boasted that he was working for the CIA, and on one occasion said he was going to disappear for a while &#8216;because he had an important CIA assignment&#8217;. According to the businessman, Mr. Spence told him that the &#8216;CIA might double-cross him&#8217;, however, and kill him instead and then &#8216;make it look like a suicide.&#8217;&#8221; &#8211; <em>Washington Times</em></p></blockquote><p>Indeed, Spence would die just months after the interview, of an apparent suicide, but not before admitting that his parties were bugged by friendly intelligence assets which he refused to name. <strong>The investigation by Paul Rodriguez and his associates would also screech to a halt after all of the evidence was either classified by the Secret Service or tied up in red tape</strong>. <strong>Someone in a high position of power clearly did not want the full extent of the revelations to become public</strong>.</p><p>Homosexual prostitution on its own isn&#8217;t shocking, and depending on your conceptions of morality, no different than the heterosexual prostitution that is likewise rampant in Washington D.C. with the only tangible difference being the repercussions of entrapment (especially for Republicans). However, one particular part of the investigation leads us down a shocking rabbit hole:</p><blockquote><p><strong>&#8220;In addition to credit-card fraud, the investigation is said to be focused on illegal interstate prostitution,</strong> <em><strong>abduction and use of minors for sexual perversion, extortion</strong></em>**, larceny and related illicit drug trafficking and use by prostitutes and their clients.&#8221; &#8211;** <em><strong>Washington Times</strong></em></p></blockquote><p>In fact, the name Craig Spence would appear repeatedly in another major prostitution inquiry, this one centered around children, known today as the Franklin Scandal, one of the darkest stains in the history of the United States...</p><h3><strong>..To Franklin, Nebraska</strong></h3><p><strong>The story of the &#8216;Franklin Scandal&#8217; begins with Lawrence E. King, one of the fastest rising Republican stars of the 1980&#8217;s</strong>. He was a public figure in Franklin, Nebraska who ran the Franklin Federal Credit Union, along with a series of restaurants and bars. These various businesses apparently furnished King&#8217;s lavish lifestyle of private jets, extravagant parties and an entourage of assistants and bodyguards.</p><p>Larry King, as he was known, was <strong>accused by seven children of child abuse and prostitution </strong><em><strong>before</strong></em><strong> he sang the National Anthem at the 1988 Republican National Convention</strong>. But despite various petitions to local police and the FBI, no official investigations were ever undertaken.</p><p>One of the allegations began from the serious abuse of children at the hands of Jarret and Barbara Webb, the former a member of the Franklin Credit Union board; the latter a cousin of King, who adopted various foster children and would proceed to subject them to horrific physical, emotional and sexual abuse. The girls housed at the Webbs told of being taken to various parties in the Franklin area where Larry King and other important local figures sexually abused them. One of the girls, Eulice Washington, recalled being flown on King&#8217;s private jets to be abused across the country:</p><blockquote><p>Among the first accusers was Eulice Washington, who claimed King flew her to out-of-state pedophilic orgies. She had been adopted by relatives of King&#8217;s in the 1970s. Her new &#8216;mother&#8217; was King&#8217;s cousin Barbara Webb, and her new &#8216;father&#8217; was husband Jarrett Webb, who sat on the board of the Franklin Federal Credit Union. To Eulice Washington, King had been Uncle Larry. &#8216;Larry King set up the pedophile ring,&#8217; says Eulice. &#8216;From my knowledge and from what I saw go down, he was the man who got it moving and rolling. Everything went through him. He loves boys. He loves them like he shouldn&#8217;t. &#8211; <em>The Franklin Scandal: A Story of Powerbrokers, Child Abuse and Betrayal</em></p></blockquote><p>Despite Eulice passing various lie detector tests, charges were never pressed against the Webbs. <strong>The Foster Care Review Board was the first organization to come across various cases of abuse from Eulice Washington and others. They wrote numerous letters to Nebraska&#8217;s Attorney General Robert Spire urging an investigation, but their pleas were ignored.</strong></p><p>The FCRB testified to the State Legislature&#8217;s Investigative Executive Review Board Subcommittee in 1988 that:</p><blockquote><p>FCRB Chairman Dennis Carlson: The nature of these allegations are something that is going to shock the Committee. They deal with cult activities... they deal with sexual abuse, and there&#8217;s a correlation between these two different reports. We have, the Boys&#8217; Town report... prepared by a worker from Boys&#8217; Town named Julie Walters... (which) contains the allegations of the children that were in the Webb foster home, Nelly primarily. Years later, well, two years later, we have Loretta Smith in Richard Young Hospital who&#8217;s making allegations against Larry King, and as far as we know there is no relationship between Nelly and Loretta Smith... Both reports talk about the Omaha Girls Club, both reports mention a specific individual who is the superintendent of schools.</p><p>State Senator Remmers: The question that came into mind, it&#8217;s been in my mind since you&#8217;ve been testifying, and I think you&#8217;ve answered part of it just now, is you&#8217;re talking about these abuses from children from Boys&#8217; Town and Girls&#8217; Club and so forth. Now is there a common thread that goes over here to the Credit Union deal that we are investigating? In other words to the Franklin Credit Union? Is there a common thread there that kind of leads to that?</p><p>FCRB Member Carol Stitt: Well, <strong>the common thread is Larry King</strong>.</p><p>Remmers: Yes, that&#8217;s what I mean. It all goes back to him? OK.</p><p>Stitt: Yes, he seems to be more the organizer, or the high-class pimp, I mean if that helps fit this together.</p></blockquote><p><strong>Larry King would also be linked to embezzlement before he sang the National Anthem at the 1988 Republican National Convention, but again avoided an investigation</strong>. The facade unraveled in November 1988, when an IRS investigation revealed that King had stolen over $40 million from the coffers of the Franklin Federal Credit Union. The financial corruption alone shocked the city, but soon reports started circulating that in addition to various fraudulent accounting documents, <strong>investigators found a huge stash of child pornography as well</strong>.</p><p>More rumors of sexual abuse began to arise, with multiple allegations that Larry King was using children from Boys Town, the nearby Catholic charitable institution for orphaned youth. His yellow sports car was notorious on the Boys Town campus, where he would drive around and pick up minors for his pedophilic activities. The Catholic management denied any connection to King, but financial records showed that Boys Town had a close-knit relationship to the Franklin Federal Credit Union. Federal and local authorities immediately moved to close the investigation and seal evidence, claiming that allegations of child abuse were unfounded.</p><p>The authorities backtracked and stated that they had done everything in their power to investigate these claims. Attorney General Robert Spire said:</p><blockquote><p>We did receive some sensitive information in July. My office acted promptly and professionally and nothing was sat on.</p></blockquote><p>However, it would later be revealed that no authorities ever interviewed Eulice Washington and other children noted by the FCRB until three years later, after they made their report public.</p><p>Despite this, Omaha Chief of Police Robert Wadman stated to the press that: </p><blockquote><p>&#8220;Every step that should have been taken, was taken.&#8221; </p></blockquote><p><strong>However, Chief Wadman would later confess that he had never contacted Eulice Washington, one of the children abused at the hands of Webb, nor the Child Protective Services department that handled Washington&#8217;s claims. </strong></p><p><strong>Chief</strong> <strong>Wadman would later be identified as a child abuser at King&#8217;s parties by four different victims</strong>.</p><div><hr></div><p><em>This content is information the American ruling elite do NOT want you to have access to. </em><strong>If you appreciate work like this, and want more of it, please consider becoming a paid subscriber</strong><em>.</em></p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.booksbehindborders.org/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption"><em>I&#8217;m running a special for $40/year or $5/month.</em></p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://buymeacoffee.com/booksbehindborders&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Or leave me a tip!&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://buymeacoffee.com/booksbehindborders"><span>Or leave me a tip!</span></a></p><div><hr></div><h3><strong>Obstruction, Threats and Murder</strong></h3><p>In an early police investigation, low level police officers attempted to keep their inquiries a secret from Chief Wadman, seemingly knowing that he would be adamant about shutting down their investigation. Nebraska Foster Care Review Board official Dennis Carlson related Omaha Police Officer Carmean&#8217;s testimony to the Legislature&#8217;s Executive Board hearing:</p><blockquote><p>Officer Carmean told me some things which I found to be somewhat startling. I asked if he was interested in information regarding Larry King and he said, yes we are, we&#8217;re conducting what he called a supersensitive investigation of Larry King and he said this investigation was so supersensitive that they were not even using the steno pool in the Omaha Police Department. They were handwriting their police reports, and he also told me that Chief Wadman had come to their unit and directly asked if they were investigating Larry King.... Investigator Carmean told me, we lied to the Chief and we said, no, we are not investigating Larry King. That conversation took place on July 20th of 1988.</p></blockquote><p>Shortly afterward, Officer Carmean was transferred out of the Robbery and Sex unit and the investigation stalled. On July 5, 1989, in a lengthy &#8220;Inter-Office Communication&#8221; to Omaha Public Safety Director Pitmon Foxall (a cousin of Larry King), Chief Wadman announced that Officer Carmean needed a mental health evaluation.</p><p><strong>Many were not convinced of the Police Department&#8217;s conclusion that there was no substance to the abuse allegations, including a group of 12 State Senators who decided to create their own parallel commission to investigate the charges, lead by Senator Loran Schmit</strong>.<strong> Following the money trail, Schmit and his team quickly found that it could be traced directly to the sex parties and child abuse</strong>. <strong>It became clear to Schmit that he was uncovering some serious &#8216;dirty laundry&#8217;</strong>:</p><blockquote><p>I received a phone call on the floor of the legislature. The caller would not identify himself, but he said, Loren, you do not want to have an investigation of the Franklin Federal Credit Union, and I asked, who am I speaking to? And they said, that doesn&#8217;t matter, but you shouldn&#8217;t have that investigation. And I said, well, why not? And he said, it will reach to the highest levels of the republican party, and we&#8217;re both good republicans. &#8211; Loran Schmit</p></blockquote><p>Schmit wasn&#8217;t the only one to receive threats. The lead investigator of the State Senator&#8217;s Committee, Gary Caradori, had also specified that he had received a series of threats, such as obvious tampering with his vehicle, as to send a message. </p><p>In early July 1990, <strong>Caradori made a trip to Chicago to meet with a secret informant who had evidence which would &#8216;blow the lid&#8217; off the case</strong>,<strong> and reportedly confided to a friend that he was one step ahead of those who wanted to squash the investigation</strong>, <strong>saying that if &#8216;they&#8217; knew what information he had</strong>,<strong> he would be killed</strong>.</p><p>Upon returning from Chicago, <strong>Caradori&#8217;s plane crashed</strong>, <strong>killing him and his son</strong>. The National Transportation Safety Board investigation found that the wreckage was scattered over a radius between 3/4 to 1 mile, indicating without a doubt that the plane broke up in the air, instead of upon impact.</p><p><strong>Certain items were missing from the crash</strong>, <strong>most notably Caradori&#8217;s briefcase</strong>. <strong>Within 24 hours</strong>, <strong>all of the evidence was collected by the FBI and sealed</strong>.</p><h3><strong>The Paul Bonacci Trial</strong></h3><p>What information was so important that the pedophile network would kill the lead investigator and his son, in what looked like a blatant assassination? It turns out he was meeting with Russell &#8216;Rusty&#8217; Nelson, a photographer for Larry King, who attended King&#8217;s parties with the intention of photographing powerful men in compromising positions with minors, in order to blackmail them later.</p><p>Like Craig Spence, King was known to throw lavish parties for the Republican elite, with underage prostitutes allegedly in attendance. Rusty Nelson was in hiding for an entire decade after the Franklin Scandal broke, but ended his silence under oath during a court hearing in 1999, in order to &#8216;set the record straight&#8217;. He revealed that he had a very close relationship with King and kept hundreds of thousands of photographs of King&#8217;s business dealings and parties in various locations. <strong>Most of the evidence had been confiscated</strong>, <strong>and more had been destroyed in Gary Caradori&#8217;s plane crash</strong>.</p><p>Rusty&#8217;s testimony to the District Court was very interesting. Among other events, he revealed that he <strong>personally saw Larry King place a direct call to then-president Ronald Reagan when other associates could not resolve a specific problem</strong>. <strong>He also claimed to have seen and taken pictures of the Chief of Police of Omaha Robert Wadman at various parties</strong>,<strong> engaged in various sexual acts with minors</strong>,<strong> and had once seen Wadman accept a large envelope full of bearer bonds from King</strong>. </p><p>While most of Rusty&#8217;s evidence was confiscated, he was able to provide the court with photographs that corroborated his close relationship to King, such as photographs of King inside his private jet and limousine, and alongside male strippers.</p><p>The District Court hearing was not about Rusty Nelson, but rather for compensation for one of the victims, Paul Bonacci, who had first made accusations of abuse against Larry King in 1986, two years before there was even a <em>Franklin Scandal.</em> The testimony given was so convincing that the judge awarded Bonacci with $1 million. </p><p>The plan was to donate the proceeds to charitable organizations dealing with child abuse, but King has never paid. Paul Bonacci suffered from Multiple Personality Disorder, a diagnosis confirmed by three different state-appointed psychiatrists, from extreme abuse he had received beginning at the age of 3. At the age of 8, he became associated with Larry King and began attending his parties as a child prostitute.</p><p>The type of abuse Bonacci underwent at the hands of Larry King is shocking:</p><blockquote><p>Bonacci: &#8220;They put guns up to my head, they put guns in my mouth... Larry King sent out boys, men, to jump me, he had them pretty well beat the tar out of me from the waist down so no one would see the marks, i had my fingers broken... I can remember them burning me with hot instruments... placing stuff inside me... almost what I would call a cattle prod.&#8221;</p><p>Judge Urbom: &#8220;Done by Larry King at his direction?&#8221;</p><p>Bonacci: &#8220;At his direction. If they wanted to get something passed in the legislature, he would put some people that were against it in a compromising position, by using us boys and girls.&#8221;</p></blockquote><p>One of the men in Washington that Paul Bonacci claimed abused him is Democratic Senator Barney Frank. Bonacci was also taken on the very same midnight tours of the White House hosted by Craig Spence that journalist Paul Rodriguez wrote about in the <em>Washington Times,</em> as a child. He claimed that immediately after the tours of the White House, he was taken to another place to be sexually abused.</p><div><hr></div><p><em>This content is information the American ruling elite do NOT want you to have access to. </em><strong>If you appreciate work like this, and want more of it, please consider becoming a paid subscriber</strong><em>.</em></p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.booksbehindborders.org/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption"><em>I&#8217;m running a special for $40/year or $5/month.</em></p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://buymeacoffee.com/booksbehindborders&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Or leave me a tip!&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://buymeacoffee.com/booksbehindborders"><span>Or leave me a tip!</span></a></p><div><hr></div><h3><strong>The Grand Jury Coverup</strong></h3><p>Before his untimely death, Gary Caradori had compiled a leads list of 271 victims of sexual abuse in the Franklin area, though his death precluded interviewing most, and others recanted their stories under pressure from Federal authorities, often accompanied by the threat of jail time for perjury. Along with Paul Bonacci, the investigation proceeded with three other primary witnesses, Troy Boner, Danny King (no relation to Larry), and Alisha Owens.</p><p>Both Boner and Owens recounted tales, after passing multiple state-sponsored lie detector tests, of attending hundreds of parties hosted by Larry King where they were abused by King and other prominent men in Lincoln and Omaha. The three would repeatedly corroborate each other in interviews taken under oath by Gary Caradori, initially without knowledge of each others participation in the investigation. Most of the victims claimed that they were used to transport drugs across state lines, at the demand of Larry King and Alan Baer, a prominent Omaha millionaire.</p><p>Gary Caradori once followed a lead of Alisha Owens where she claimed that she was often abused at The French Caf&#233; in Omaha. He talked to the former manager on the telephone, Sheila McGuire, who told Gary that:</p><blockquote><p>&#8220;We had parties in my apartment above the French Cafe. Larry King would wine and dine potential investors downstairs at the Cafe. When the French Cafe closed about 1 AM, King and his man called Parking Lot Bob-who worked for him (and was our coke connection) - would bring people upstairs to my place. If Larry King investors wanted drugs, booze, children or hookers (male or female) we&#8217;d get them. While these guests of Kings took their pleasures with the kids or whoever, King would sit and watch while he drank, did coke and played with his young boys....<br>One time, when this guy Irv from NYC wanted Sandra who was about 12 or 13 years old and getting her 1st period, Larry intervened when Sandra refused. King pulled out a roll of $100.00 bills and gave Sandra 5 of them. King then pulled out a small gram of coke and gave that to Sandra. Sandra finally agreed and went off to bed with Irv. King took good care of the local and out of town high rollers. If you had the money to invest at Franklin, King would cater to your most deranged perversion.<br>And, let me tell you another thing. The boys in the board rooms around Omaha are shitting in their Brogans. If this case gets cracked open the list of involved will read like Who&#8217;s Who. King and his crew have ruined a lot of children&#8217;s lives.&#8221;</p></blockquote><p><strong>What happened next is amazing</strong>.<strong> </strong></p><p><strong>Instead of indictments of the accused perpetrators to develop cases against them, both Douglas County and Federal Grand Juries ordered the thousands of files to be sealed</strong>,<strong> declined to interview dozens of witnesses</strong>,<strong> and then brought charges of perjury against Alisha Owens</strong>.</p><p>Both Grand Juries concluded that Troy Boner and Alisha Owens had indeed been abused, but claimed that the adults they testified against were innocent.</p><p>Alisha Owens was later found guilty of perjury, and sentenced to between 9 and 15 years. She ended up spending two years in solitary confinement, more than any other woman in Nebraska history, and a clear message to other victims: Stay silent.</p><blockquote><p><strong>&#8220;This is unprecedented, probably in the history of the United States. If the children are not telling the truth, particularly if they have been abused, they need help, medical attention. You don&#8217;t throw them in jail!&#8221;</strong> &#8211; Dr. Judianne Densen-Gerber, a lawyer, psychiatrist and nationally prominent specialist on child abuse, during her visit to Nebraska in December 1990</p></blockquote><p>On the same day that Alisha Owens was convicted of perjury, the charges against Paul Bonacci, who told a very similar story, were dropped. Perhaps they did not want certain testimony to come to trial, such as Bonacci&#8217;s claim that Larry King would send limousines to Offutt Air Force Base and pick up CIA agents for his parties.</p><p>The Grand Jury trial was a mockery of justice, where the state-appointed attorney Samuel Van Pelt vigorously attacked the charges and mocked the allegations of the defendants. It has to be noted that a Grand Jury is a special type of proceeding where the attorney chooses all of the witnesses and what evidence is presented; there is no presentation of the defense or cross examination. A former Chief Judge of New York State once quipped that a special prosecutor could persuade a grand jury to &#8220;indict a ham sandwich.&#8221;</p><p>There are shocking irregularities with the Grand Jury proceedings. First, it never called Larry King to testify. In fact, the evidence of child abuse and child pornography has never been presented against King in <em>any</em> court of law. One member of the Douglas County Grand Jury claimed that the Van Pelt helped write the final report, which is illegal.</p><p>The report contained some very peculiar statements, such as &#8220;children do have the right to expect that <em>if they exhibit reasonable behavior,</em> they will not be abused.&#8221; (Emphasis added). It also contained blatant lies, such as the claim that Paul Bonacci&#8217;s doctor said that Bonacci was not capable of the truth, even though not only was the doctor not called to testify, he said elsewhere that he believed Bonacci&#8217;s story.</p><p>Owen&#8217;s attorney, Henry Rosenthal, found that the evidence shown to the Grand Jury was deliberately tampered with. The video testimony taken by Gary Caradori was edited to remove sections where Troy Boner and Alisha Owens corroborated each others claims. The lawyer representing originally Owens, Boner and (Danny) King claimed to have had over 100 clients who had suffered sexual abuse in relation to King and Boys Town, but then later claimed that their testimonies were all fabrications, only months before admitting she had an affair with an FBI agent who had bullied Troy Boner into temporarily recanting his testimony.</p><p><strong>There is also the curious trend of upward mobility for a group of men who were instrumental in rigging the Grand Juries</strong>:</p><blockquote><ol><li><p>US Magistrate Richard Kopf, who deposited Lawrence King in a federal psychiatric hospital so he wouldn&#8217;t have to appear before the grand juries, and signed off on the FBI&#8217;s federal search warrant of Alisha Owen&#8217;s prison cell, became a US District Court Judge and then Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the District of Nebraska.</p></li><li><p>Thomas Thalken, Assistant US Attorney for District of Nebraska, who prosecuted the federal grand jury in Nebraska, became a US Magistrate.</p></li><li><p>Gerald Moran, who was the Douglas County Deputy Attorney who prosecuted the Alisha Owen trial became a Douglas County District Judge.</p></li><li><p>Robert Sigler, who was the Douglas County Deputy Attorney who prosecuted Alisha Owen throughout her multiple appeals, became the Assistant US Attorney for the District of Nebraska.</p></li></ol></blockquote><div><hr></div><p><em>This content is information the American ruling elite do NOT want you to have access to. </em><strong>If you appreciate work like this, and want more of it, please consider becoming a paid subscriber</strong><em>.</em></p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.booksbehindborders.org/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption"><em>I&#8217;m running a special for $40/year or $5/month.</em></p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><div><hr></div><h3><strong>Troy Boner</strong></h3><p>Troy Boner had recounted his testimony during this period, after receiving threats that he himself would become the victim of perjury charges. However, in 1993 he submitted an affidavit detailing his intimidation and stating unequivocally that his testimony as well as those of his peers were truthful.</p><blockquote><p>I lied because I truly believed and still do believe that it was a situation where I must either &#8216;...lie or die&#8217; and at the insistence primarily of the Federal Bureau of Investigation officials who were dealing with me at that time... &#8211; Troy Boner&#8217;s Affidavit</p></blockquote><p>Boner repeated the allegations that the Chief of Police Robert Wadmann and the <em>Omaha Herald</em> editor Harold Andersen were primary players in his abuse and the abuse of his peers. <strong>He recounts the various tactics the FBI used in his intimidation, including alluding to harm that may come about to a family member if he persisted in telling his story</strong>.<strong> </strong></p><p><strong>Shortly after these threats</strong>,<strong> Troy&#8217;s brother Shawn was found dead from a gunshot wound</strong>. The official story was a game of Russian Roulette. Troy cites this as a primary motivating factor in coming forward with the truth in his affidavit.</p><blockquote><p>&#8220;But, maybe the most important thing any honest investigator should do is to ask me, Troy Boner, or any of the other kids such as Alisha or Paul Bonacci, to take polygraph, lie detector tests SIDE BY SIDE ON THE SAME QUESTIONS WITH THE PEOPLE WE ARE ACCUSING OF THESE THINGS. Example, ask Alan Baer if he shot mainline drugs into me and if he is a major drug dealer and if he had sex with me. Ask Eugene Mahoney if he met me at a bookstore in Council Bluffs and used to regularly pay me to have sex with him as a boy. Ask [redacted] to take a polygraph test on whether he is a big time drug dealer.&#8221; &#8211; Troy Boner&#8217;s Affidavit</p></blockquote><p><strong>The polygraph tests never happened</strong>.<strong> In 2004</strong>, <strong>Troy Boner entered an Omaha hospital visibly shaken and adamant that he was being targeted because of his testimony</strong>. </p><p><strong>The next day</strong>, <strong>he was found in a hospital room dead</strong>,<strong> drugged and beaten</strong>. <strong>The timing might be related to the reelection campaign of George W. Bush</strong>, <strong>who multiple victims claimed had attended Larry King&#8217;s parties</strong>.<strong> </strong></p><p><strong>Troy would round out a &#8216;suspicious death&#8217; list that reached 15 names,</strong> <strong>including</strong>:</p><blockquote><ol><li><p>Troy Boner, victim who testified against his abusers, found drugged and beaten shortly after.</p></li><li><p>Shawn Boner, Troy&#8217;s brother, found shot in the head shortly after Troy was to testify before court. The official explanation of his death was ruled to be a game of &#8216;Russian roulette.&#8217;</p></li><li><p>Bill Baker, associate of Larry King and alleged to be involved in the production of child pornography.</p></li><li><p>Gary Caradori, lead investigator of the State Senator&#8217;s Committee, and his eight year old son, Andrew, killed in a plane crash.</p></li><li><p>Newt Copple, a primary informant of Caradori, was 70 when he &#8216;died in his sleep&#8217; but exhibited no health problems before his death.</p></li><li><p>Clare Howard, the secretary of Alan Baer, the wealthy Omaha businessman who was alleged to be a prime member of the child abuse ring. Also &#8216;died in her sleep.&#8217;</p></li><li><p>Mike Lewis, former caregiver of victim-witness Loretta Smith. Death attributed to &#8216;severe diabetic reaction&#8217; at the age of 32.</p></li><li><p>Joe Malek, associate of King, died from a gunshot which was ruled a suicide.</p></li><li><p>Aaron Owen, the brother of victim-witness Alisha Owen, died in his jail cell hours before Alisha was supposed to testify, ruled a suicide.</p></li><li><p>Charlie Rodgers, alleged sexual partner of Larry King, died of a shotgun wound to the head, ruled a suicide.</p></li><li><p>Bill Skoleski, Omaha police officer said to be secretly keeping a file on Larry King, died of a heart attack.</p></li><li><p>Kathleen Sorenson, foster parent of children who had escaped the Webb family, and outspoken activist on raising awareness of the abuse of the children she cared for.</p></li><li><p>Curtis Tucker, an associate of Larry King, who allegedly jumped out the window of a Holiday Inn in Omaha.</p></li><li><p>Harmon Tucker, a school superintendent in Omaha.</p></li></ol></blockquote><h3><strong>Conspiracy of Silence</strong></h3><p><strong>In 1993, a television station in Yorkshire</strong>,<strong> England traveled to Franklin to uncover the truth about the tale of child abuse in Franklin</strong>, <strong>working in tandem with the Discovery Channel</strong>. <strong>It was called &#8220;Conspiracy of Silence&#8221; and the very day it was set to air</strong>,<strong> it was pulled</strong>. No explanation has ever been given, though there are rumors that an anonymous person paid the Discovery Channel $500,000 to revoke the television rights to the film.</p><p>It would only be unofficially released two years later, when someone who helped produce the video and felt it was so important it needed to be public, leaked a rough draft from the copy room to attorney and former State Senator John DeCamp. <strong>It is now</strong> <strong><a href="https://www.wanttoknow.info/060501conspiracyofsilence">available for viewing online</a></strong>.</p><p>Overall, eight high profile Omaha figures would be accused of sexual assault, with testimonies corroborated between victims. They were:</p><blockquote><ol><li><p>Larry King</p></li><li><p>Robert Wadman, Omaha Chief of Police</p></li><li><p>Harold Anderson, retired Editor of the <em>Omaha World-Herald</em></p></li><li><p>Alan Baer, wealthy businessman</p></li><li><p>Deward Finch, Superintendent of schools</p></li><li><p>Peter Citron, media personality</p></li><li><p>Judge Theodore Carson</p></li><li><p>PJ Morgan, Mayor of Omaha</p></li></ol></blockquote><p>Of these men, only one would be convicted of child abuse, Peter Citron, on an unrelated breakout of pedophilia claims which launched a separate investigation. Before the allegations leading to Citron&#8217;s arrest broke, he was threatening to sue John DeCamp for naming him as a child abuser in a memo sent to the Omaha press.</p><p>How could such a massive and orchestrated coverup take place? It involved the FBI withholding all sensitive files, including explicit videos and pictures of the relationships between King and his associates and young children. It involved a campaign of denial by the Omaha Police Department, who&#8217;s chief was a primary member of the child abuse ring, and a disinformation campaign by Nebraska&#8217;s media, who also had important members implicated in the ring.</p><p><strong>It involved zealous FBI agents who were self-expressed &#8216;good friends&#8217; with Chief Robert Wadman</strong>. <strong>And it involved a campaign of suspicious deaths designed to silence testimony</strong>. <strong>Lastly</strong>,<strong> and perhaps most importantly</strong>,<strong> it involved an American public unwilling to believe that powerful men could be implicated in child abuse</strong>,<strong> child prostitution and drug running</strong>.</p><p>As you read both of these stories, did it remind you of anything?</p><p>History always repeats itself.</p><div><hr></div><p>If you&#8217;re tired of being told everything is fine while it clearly isn&#8217;t, you&#8217;re exactly why this publication exists.</p><p><strong>My work is 100% reader-supported</strong>. <strong>That means no advertisers, no political handlers, and no incentive to soften the truth</strong>.</p><p>I started this because too many people feel like they&#8217;re losing their minds trying to make sense of what&#8217;s happening, myself included. <strong>I wanted to build a space of like-minded people to make this journey feel less lonely for all of us</strong>.</p><p>To allow me to continue posting content just like this, please consider becoming a paid subscriber. <strong>I&#8217;m running a special for $40/year or $5/month</strong>.</p><p>If that price feels impossible to you, I understand. <strong>Share this article with everyone you know, it costs nothing but it matters more than you could possibly know</strong>.</p><p>If you prefer to make a<strong> one time donation</strong> in support of my work, you can do so by clicking <a href="https://buymeacoffee.com/booksbehindborders">HERE</a>.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.booksbehindborders.org/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption"><em>I&#8217;m running a special for $40/year or $5/month.</em></p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://buymeacoffee.com/booksbehindborders&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Or leave me a tip!&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://buymeacoffee.com/booksbehindborders"><span>Or leave me a tip!</span></a></p><div class="captioned-button-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.booksbehindborders.org/p/the-franklin-scandal-pedophile-ring?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;}" data-component-name="CaptionedButtonToDOM"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading Maddie (Books Behind Borders)! 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How could Clinton fly to Epstein's private island and see all these young girls and NOT KNOW that something wrong was going on? There are stories on the internet about Hillary accompanying Bill on some of these trips to Epstein's island and having their own individual sexual experiences with Epstein's underage sex-slaves. </p><p>For the Clintons to get away with this horrendous crime against young girls would be yet another traumatizing memory for these girls to endure for the rest of their lives. Talk to these girls and ask them about Bill and Hillary Clinton. </p><p>Taking it a step further....has anyone looked into the real possibility of Epstein murdering some of these girls and burying their bodies somewhere on his island? Because out of all these young girls there must have been some who were difficult, threatening to expose Epstein by going to the police, crying or hysterical and wanting to contact their relatives or trying to escape or find a place to hide. </p><p>What did Epstein do with "those" girls? What did John Wayne Gacy do with the young boys he had sex with when he was done with them? Epstein must have used drugs on these poor girls. To calm them down and put them into a stupor. I'm sure he used Spanish Fly. </p><p>Another possibility...did any of these girls have parents, adoptive parents, relatives or caretakers that gave these girls to Epstein in exchange for cash? Were any of these young girls fixed so that they couldn't get pregnant? Did any of these girls become sick and die? Were they exposed to AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases? </p><p>Worst case scenario...were babies aborted, born and sold? Killed or left to die? And buried somewhere on Epstein's island?</p><p>Please investigate into these possible crimes that I've brought to your attention. Because there's much more to this story. </p><p>Epstein was not only a molester, pervert and child molester, he was also a rapist, pimp, panderer, torturer and maybe a murderer of his captives and their babies.</p><p><strong>What a nightmare feeding dead bodies of girls and their babies to the sharks that swim around his island</strong>. </p><p>Make sure you grill Epstein's staff, past and present. </p><p>What could be buried on that island? Drugs, money, young girls, babies, staff that intended to reveal Epstein's secrets?</p></blockquote><p>The first portion of this email looks like Kendra is raising some questions on things the Clinton&#8217;s and Epstein were allegedly involved in. </p><p>The last portion changes tone where she says &#8220;<em>Epstein was not only a molester, pervert and child molester, he was also a rapist, pimp, panderer, torturer and maybe a murderer of his captives and their babies. <strong>What a nightmare feeding dead bodies of girls and their babies to the sharks that swim around his island</strong>.</em>&#8221;</p><p>From my view, she seemed to be quite certain about what she was alleging&#8230;</p><h3>So How Was She Connected to Epstein?</h3><p>Her uncle is reportedly Philip Levine, Mayor of Miami Beach from 2013 to 2017, and he&#8217;s in the Epstein files too.</p><p>Philip&#8217;s name appeared in Epstein&#8217;s Little Black Book. When that came out, he was quick to deny it, publicly stating he had &#8220;no friendship or business relationship&#8221; with Jeffrey Epstein.</p><p>The recently released Epstein files tell an entirely different story. <strong>His name appears over 600 times</strong>. The documents depict a close, ongoing relationship between Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, and Philip Levine. He even sent Epstein words of encouragement during the 2008 case, the one involving the prostitution of minors, and Maxwell slept over at his house on occasion.</p><p>That&#8217;s not a casual acquaintance. That&#8217;s someone who knew exactly who Jeffrey Epstein was, and stood by him anyway.</p><p>Here&#8217;s just one email that Philip Levine exchanged with Ghislaine Maxwell:</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!S63D!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fca47b5d5-0293-4e58-a75c-1060dd11ca55_1599x432.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!S63D!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fca47b5d5-0293-4e58-a75c-1060dd11ca55_1599x432.png 424w, 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The files are scattered and massive, so I&#8217;ve organized the most horrific, verified and disturbing findings into one place.</p><p>This covers the &#8220;worst of the worst&#8221; from the emails regarding infants to the &#8220;snuff&#8221; allegations. <strong>Feel free to comment below if there&#8217;s anything that I should add to this list</strong>. </p><p>I&#8217;d like this to be a one-stop-shop for the worst of the Epstein Class depravity, that way we can have a more organized effort in the hopes of waking more people up.</p><p><strong>Please share this article with everybody you possibly can to help spread the message</strong>. We outnumber the Epstein Class, and that&#8217;s our greatest strength. We need to wake up as many people as we can, and I believe this article can help with that.</p><h1>Disturbing Emails &amp; Communications </h1><ul><li><p><strong>The &#8220;Torture Video&#8221; Email:</strong> An <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce82xgd2g3yo">email of Epstein telling a redacted name</a> that he &#8216;loved the torture video.&#8217; The name was eventually unredacted and it was <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sultan_Ahmed_bin_Sulayem">Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem</a>.</p></li><li><p><strong>The &#8220;Littlest Girl&#8221; Email:</strong> An email to Epstein <a href="https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2010/EFTA01930501.pdf">casually reads</a>: &#8220;Thank you for a fun night&#8230; Your littlest girl was a little naughty.&#8221; Perpetrators name is of course hidden.</p></li><li><p><strong>10 Year old Email:</strong> Email of a perpetrator <a href="https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2010/EFTA01743628.pdf">inquiring about 10 year old</a> with an image attached. Image is hidden.</p></li><li><p><strong>Party with a dozen 1 year olds</strong>: Email regarding <a href="https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2010/EFTA01756604.pdf">party with a dozen 1 year olds</a> &amp; <a href="https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2011/EFTA02221499.pdf">talking about what makes babies suck better</a>. These were between <a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty-issues/2026/03/10/latest-epstein-exits-include-uclas-tramo-chapmans-horner">Mark Tramo</a> (a UCLA professor), John Brockman (literary agent) and Epstein.</p></li><li><p><strong>Commodifying Infants:</strong> Strange emails regarding babies</p><ul><li><p><a href="https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00165118.pdf">Birth babies for black market use</a></p></li><li><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/1qw6pm7/babies_warningcontent_is_disturbing/">Emails regarding babies and their ages to Epstein</a> (original post was deleted so can someone find original justice files?)</p></li><li><p><a href="https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00678699.pdf">Offering to buy a baby</a></p></li><li><p><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Epstein/comments/1qu3l34/awful_lot_of_documents_referring_to_babies_and/">Series of emails regarding babies and buying blankets</a></p></li><li><p>Sent an email about <a href="https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA01031042.pdf">youngest child to give birth</a></p></li></ul></li><li><p><strong>2 FBI Agents Killed Who Were Investigating Epstein and a Seal Team 6 Commander</strong>: Ken Turner was part of a task force investigating the sex trafficking of minors involving Jeffrey Epstein from 2000-2017. As his investigation unfolded it implicated Epstein, Richard Marcinko (Seal Team 6 Commander), Earl Anthony Wayne (US Ambassador), and other US officials. He was being heavily surveilled, faced interference, and multiple people were killed.</p></li></ul><p>I dedicated an entire article to Ken Turner&#8217;s emails detailing his investigation and subsequent interference from the Intelligence Agencies, you can read that here:</p><div class="digest-post-embed" data-attrs="{&quot;nodeId&quot;:&quot;91b565ac-554d-455b-a130-bd5861341ac6&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;This content is information the American ruling elite does NOT want you to have access to. 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Read these forbidden books &#11015;&#65039; 200k on IG&#8212;follow me!&#128071;&#127996;&quot;,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/1f826b5b-9c1a-48d2-ba18-32f41b57d1cd_553x554.jpeg&quot;,&quot;is_guest&quot;:false,&quot;bestseller_tier&quot;:100}],&quot;post_date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-06T13:54:19.006Z&quot;,&quot;cover_image&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/8a102142-8357-4188-a395-90f9dc2d5bb3_1449x804.jpeg&quot;,&quot;cover_image_alt&quot;:null,&quot;canonical_url&quot;:&quot;https://www.booksbehindborders.org/p/fbi-agents-killed-investigating-epstein&quot;,&quot;section_name&quot;:null,&quot;video_upload_id&quot;:&quot;e8e3c918-94a1-4e2b-b2ee-3d1de9fc7742&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:192396748,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;podcast&quot;,&quot;reaction_count&quot;:2003,&quot;comment_count&quot;:309,&quot;publication_id&quot;:3596148,&quot;publication_name&quot;:&quot;Maddie (Books Behind Borders)&quot;,&quot;publication_logo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!pdZH!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7fa8a5fe-65cc-460f-8266-176589f9668a_1280x1280.png&quot;,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;youtube_url&quot;:null,&quot;show_links&quot;:null,&quot;feed_url&quot;:null}"></div><h1>FBI Evidence: The Logistics of a Nightmare </h1><ul><li><p><strong>The &#8220;Snuff&#8221; Photo:</strong> The FBI explicitly <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Epstein/comments/1r5dhzc/cannot_believe_what_im_reading/">references a photo</a> showing men holding a prepubescent girl&#8217;s legs open, with her vagina gashed and blood gushing out.</p><ul><li><p><strong>Abusing girl as young as 5:</strong> <a href="https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00078198.pdf">girl who was trafficked to and sexually assaulted by Epstein </a>and others beginning <a href="https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00078209.pdf">when she was 5 years old.</a></p></li><li><p>When she sought therapy, the network allegedly sent those exact photos to her phone, threatening: &#8220;This is what will happen to you if you talk&#8221;. <a href="https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00078198.pdf">She sent evidence of these texts</a> and intimidation but nothing was done.</p></li></ul></li><li><p><strong>The &#8220;Baby Hair&#8221; iMessages:</strong> A PDF of text screenshots shows <a href="https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2010/EFTA01619306.pdf">handlers casually debating if a victim can get a bikini wax</a> because her hair is &#8220;too short.&#8221; She is explicitly described in the texts as having &#8220;BABY HAIR.&#8221;</p><ul><li><p>The <a href="https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2010/EFTA01619306.pdf">same logs</a> coordinate moving a child from a salon to &#8220;the house,&#8221; equipped with an iPad portfolio for what handlers explicitly call a &#8220;pornhub introduction.&#8221;</p></li></ul></li><li><p><strong>The Nightmare Journal:</strong> Investigators <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Epstein/comments/1qrtjiw/four_files_scanned_from_a_childs_journal/?share_id=H3ZprfcQeLVu59fG_3C7c&amp;utm_content=2&amp;utm_medium=ios_app&amp;utm_name=ioscss&amp;utm_source=share&amp;utm_term=1">scanned four pages of a child&#8217;s personal journal.</a> These pages describe in the first-person some of the most disturbing acts imaginable. It&#8217;s alleged that Epstein kept girls locked away, got them pregnant then raised the babies.</p></li><li><p><strong>Accused found Dead</strong>: A victim who made rape accusations against Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein <a href="https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%208/EFTA00020517.pdf">was found with her head blown off</a>. The DOJ never interviewed the witness and police determined it was impossible for her to have died by suicide.</p></li><li><p><strong>The &#8220;Blood &amp; Injuries&#8221; Extortion:</strong> A 2020 letter <a href="https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00078198.pdf">describes a victim alleging she was violently assaulted</a> in images showing &#8220;blood, injuries, [and] multiple adult men&#8221;. When she sought therapy, the network allegedly sent those exact photos to her phone, threatening: &#8220;This is what will happen to you if you talk&#8221;. She sent evidence of these texts and intimidation but nothing was done.</p></li><li><p><strong>The Tiffany Doe Affidavit:</strong> A 2016 <a href="https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA01250883.pdf">federal lawsuit included an affidavit </a>from a recruiter (&#8221;Tiffany Doe&#8221;) claiming to have procured victims for Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein. Tiffany Doe withdrew her lawsuit several days before the election after receiving many death threats.</p><ul><li><p>It appears that the DOJ took it down, <a href="https://cdn.factcheck.org/UploadedFiles/Johnson_TrumpEpstein_Lawsuit.pdf">but here it is</a>.</p></li></ul></li></ul><div><hr></div><p><em>This content is information the American ruling elite do NOT want you to have access to. </em><strong>If you appreciate work like this, and want more of it, please consider becoming a paid subscriber</strong><em>.</em></p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.booksbehindborders.org/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption"><em>I&#8217;m running a special for $40/year or $5/month.</em></p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://buymeacoffee.com/booksbehindborders&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Or leave me a tip!&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://buymeacoffee.com/booksbehindborders"><span>Or leave me a tip!</span></a></p><div><hr></div><h1>Allegations of Extreme Depravity, Assaults &amp; Murder</h1><p>Many of the following are extreme allegations, and it&#8217;s worth mentioning that just 2 months before this latest release, victims came forward with allegations of extreme depravity.</p><p>One such example is <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84PHEMLab6g">Iraq Veteran William Sascha Riley</a>, an alleged victim, who had a first-hand account of child trafficking, torture, rape, and murder conducted within a criminal enterprise that was allegedly run by Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein over the course of several decades. </p><ul><li><p><strong>The Leon Black Mutilation:</strong> Files allege that billionaire Leon Black <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Epstein/comments/1r31hzq/israeli_billionaire_leon_black_allegedly_raped_a/">raped a 7-year-old girl</a>, bit her private parts, jammed sharp objects inside her, and made her bleed.</p></li><li><p><strong>The Prince Andrew Torture Allegation:</strong> The files contain allegations of the sexual <a href="https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA01249597.pdf">torture of a 6-to-8-year-old child involving Prince Andrew</a>.</p></li><li><p><strong>The &#8220;Dog&#8221; Incident:</strong> A specific tip found in the files alleges that a 5-year-old victim was forced to <a href="https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA01249860.pdf">engage in sexual acts with a dog</a>.</p></li><li><p><strong>The Donald Trump &#8220;Punch&#8221;:</strong> A witness statement alleges that when a <a href="https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2010/EFTA01660679.pdf">victim bit Donald Trump while resisting oral sex</a>, he &#8220;punched her in the face.&#8221;</p></li><li><p><strong>&#8220;Fertilizer&#8221;: </strong><a href="https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2010/EFTA01660679.pdf">Disturbing tips</a> stating that girls were &#8220;disappearing&#8221; and &#8220;ending up as fertilizer for the golf fields.&#8221;</p></li><li><p><strong>Burial Sites:</strong><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/1qvyb3v/email_claims_epstein_and_ghislaine_buried_two/"> An email claims Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell &#8220;buried two girls&#8221; after strangulation and that video proof exists</a>. <strong>But it&#8217;s likely not credible due to him asking for 1 BTC worth 9K at the time.</strong></p><ul><li><p><a href="https://www.threads.com/@ravencroftblr/post/DUJf_9Tj7bs/this-is-the-only-bit-i-found-about-bodies-being-buried-it-mentions-rancho-palos">Another tip points to bodies being &#8220;murdered and buried&#8221; at a facility in Rancho Palos Verdes.</a><a href="https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00067072.pdf"> 2 girls strangulated during sex buried in Zorro Ranch.</a> These are only alleged but we do know that Zorro Ranch was never searched/investigated.</p><ul><li><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/21/epstein-fbi-maria-farmer-annie-farmer">Maria Framer and her sister</a>, along with other witnesses have mentioned Zorro Ranch as a a place where much of the abuse happened.</p></li></ul></li></ul></li></ul><p>Keep in mind, the DOJ has only released roughly 300GB of the estimated 15 Terabytes of data seized from Jeffrey Epstein. 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Bush Were Accused Of Raping a Child, And Melania And Donald Trump Watched It Happen]]></title><description><![CDATA[When are we going to stop allowing these psychopaths to dictate every facet of our lives?]]></description><link>https://www.booksbehindborders.org/p/clinton-bush-accused-of-rape</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.booksbehindborders.org/p/clinton-bush-accused-of-rape</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Books Behind Borders]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2026 18:57:04 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fC1h!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fbf33e779-dc29-449d-8e95-f89f91e502d1_1498x1168.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>This content is information the American ruling elite does NOT want you to have access to. </em><strong>If you appreciate work like this, and want more of it, please consider becoming a paid subscriber</strong><em>.</em></p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.booksbehindborders.org/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption"><em>I&#8217;m running a special for $40/year or $5/month.</em></p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://buymeacoffee.com/booksbehindborders&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Or leave me a tip!&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://buymeacoffee.com/booksbehindborders"><span>Or leave me a tip!</span></a></p><p>This might be the most disturbing file I&#8217;ve read thus far.</p><p>It&#8217;s a chain of internal emails dated August 28, 2019, exchanged between law enforcement personnel &#8212; specifically an NYPD detective assigned to the Child Exploitation/Human Trafficking Task Force and FBI New York Squad C20 agents &#8212; regarding an interview conducted the previous day with a man who claimed to be a <strong>victim of Jeffrey Epstein, former Presidents Bill Clinton and George H.W. Bush</strong>. He also <strong>alleged that Melania and Donald Trump were present during the assaults</strong>.</p><p>Here&#8217;s the key points from the interview:</p><ul><li><p>He claimed he was sexually abused by his own great uncle from age 5 through age 22</p></li><li><p>He said he first encountered Jeffrey Epstein at a yacht club in Rhode Island, where his relatives were members, first at age 5 and later at age 8</p></li><li><p>He alleged that in the year 2000, aboard a large yacht off Rhode Island, he was raped by Jeffrey Epstein, as well as former Presidents <strong>Bill Clinton </strong>and<strong> George H.W. Bush</strong></p></li><li><p>He claimed that President <strong>Donald Trump</strong> and <strong>Melania</strong> were both present on the yacht during that same 2000 trip</p></li><li><p>He stated he was in a heavily drug-induced state during the alleged assaults by Epstein and Clinton</p></li><li><p>He alleged that while on the yacht he witnessed African Americans having sex with white blonde females who were &#8220;bleeding during intercourse&#8221;</p></li><li><p>He claimed he was the victim of a <strong>ritualistic sacrifice</strong> in which his feet were cut with a scimitar</p></li><li><p>He alleged that on the yacht he witnessed <strong>babies being dismembered</strong>, their intestines removed, and people consuming fecal matter from those intestines</p></li></ul><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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url="https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/192396748/4ea524225ecae45bcf7b5aaca26b69bf.mp3" length="0" type="audio/mpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>This content is information the American ruling elite does NOT want you to have access to. </em><strong>If you appreciate work like this, and want more of it, please consider becoming a paid subscriber</strong><em>.</em></p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.booksbehindborders.org/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption"><em>I&#8217;m running a special for $40/year or $5/month.</em></p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" 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It appears that as his investigation unfolded it <strong>implicated Epstein</strong>, <strong>Richard Marcinko</strong> (Seal Team 6 Commander), <strong>Earl Anthony Wayne</strong> (US Ambassador), and <strong>other US officials</strong>.</p><p>This email correspondence appears to be between Ken Turner (investigating child trafficking in Mexico) and NYPD Detective <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/11/07/us-news/nypd-detective-whose-family-roots-with-dept-span-4-generations-retires/">Walter E. Harkins</a>, FBI-NYPD Child Exploitation and Human Trafficking Task Force, retired November 2025.</p><h2><strong>The July 27, 2019 Email</strong></h2><p>Document ID: <a href="https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00164984.pdf">EFTA00164984.pdf</a></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xJ9p!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9041965d-b380-442c-82fe-9c51c836cd96_1472x888.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xJ9p!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F9041965d-b380-442c-82fe-9c51c836cd96_1472x888.png 424w, 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Anyone assigned from the NSA, CIA, or U.S. State Department?&#8221;</em></p></li></ul><p>He then warns, explicitly:</p><blockquote><p>&#8220;Please understand &#8212; people&#8217;s lives here are in jeopardy.&#8221;</p></blockquote><p>According to the email, there had already been:</p><ul><li><p><strong>Four armed attacks</strong> against their team (agents investigating a child sex trafficking ring they believed was connected to Epstein)</p></li><li><p>A partner who had allegedly <strong>shot and killed two and wounded five American agents</strong></p></li><li><p>Surveillance by &#8220;white American agents&#8221; driving vans assigned to the U.S. Embassy</p></li><li><p>An associate named Jorge who was attacked and <strong>lost his arm</strong></p></li></ul><p>The email claims the <strong>President of Mexico was aware of the case</strong>, which allegedly involved <strong>U.S. officials </strong>such as Earl Anthony Wayne (and others), and a figure named <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Marcinko">Richard Marcinko</a> (former Seal Team 6 commander).</p><p>Turner alleges that <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_Anthony_Wayne">Earl Anthony Wayne</a> was sentenced in Mexico in 2017 to life in prison for <strong>impregnating an 11-year-old girl.</strong></p><p><strong>In the email Turner states:</strong></p><ul><li><p>DNA evidence showed a 100% match to Wayne.</p></li><li><p><strong>Wayne </strong><em><strong>avoided</strong></em><strong> serving the sentence</strong> by allowing a former US Marine to serve time in his place, calling it an<strong> arrangement facilitated by the US State Department and a Mexican judge</strong> following a &#8220;huge payoff.&#8221;</p></li><li><p>Wayne currently has an outstanding arrest warrant in Mexico for avoiding sentencing.</p></li></ul><p><strong>Earl Anthony Wayne</strong> (born 1950) is a former American diplomat. Formerly Assistant Secretary of State for Economic and Business Affairs, Ambassador to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argentina">Argentina</a> and Deputy Ambassador to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghanistan">Afghanistan</a>, Wayne served nearly four years as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Ambassador_to_Mexico">Ambassador to Mexico</a>. He was nominated by President Obama and confirmed by the Senate in August, 2011.</p><p>Then comes a line that stands out:</p><blockquote><p>&#8220;The case we have here is almost certainly connected to yours. We have the proof. Our case will help bring a whole new dynamic to what you know and who is involved. <strong>Prince Philip is a small fry compared to what we have uncovered.&#8221;</strong></p></blockquote><p>These are not the words of someone casually speculating. They read like someone who believes they are sitting on evidence &#8212; and believes powerful interests are trying to stop it from surfacing.</p><p>Turner was not writing in hindsight.<br>These emails were written <strong>in real time</strong>, <strong>while Epstein was aliv</strong>e and <strong>while investigations were actively unfolding</strong>.</p><div><hr></div><p><em>This content is information the American ruling elite does NOT want you to have access to. </em><strong>If you appreciate work like this, and want more of it, please consider becoming a paid subscriber</strong><em>.</em></p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.booksbehindborders.org/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption"><em>I&#8217;m running a special for $40/year or 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stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>The unknown redacted U.S. contact responds cautiously, stating:</p><blockquote><p>&#8220;My task force is not affiliated with the intelligence community.&#8221;</p></blockquote><p>What follows is a brief back-and-forth attempting to arrange a call time.</p><p>No dismissal.<br>No denial of concern.<br>Just careful distance.</p><div><hr></div><h2><strong>August 5, 2019: Another Escalation</strong></h2><p>Document ID: <a href="https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00165013.pdf">EFTA00165013.pdf</a></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 processing" target="_blank" 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<strong>August 5, 2019</strong>, Turner emails again.</p><p>This time, the tone is even more personal &#8212; and more alarming.</p><p>He writes that his nephew, <strong>Logan Turner</strong>, was shot and killed in the <strong>Dayton, Ohio mass shooting</strong> the night before, and that he is rushing home to be with family.</p><p>But he adds something else:</p><blockquote><p>&#8220;All investigative work on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Marcinko">Richard Marcinko</a> and Epstein is still in process. And we&#8217;ve uncovered more videos and photos of the two of them together.&#8221;</p></blockquote><p>He then claims that <strong>U.S. Embassy security</strong> stopped his partner, searched her car, and attempted to prevent her from leaving Mexico &#8212; allegedly looking for those videos and photos.</p><p>They were not found.</p><p>Turner writes plainly:</p><blockquote><p>&#8220;Someone does not want this data disclosed.&#8221;</p></blockquote><ul><li><p>Link to actual Logan Turner involved in mass shooting in Dayton&#8217;s Oregon District: <a href="https://www.fox19.com/2019/08/06/dayton-mass-shooting-victim-be-laid-rest-springboro/">https://www.fox19.com/2019/08/06/dayton-mass-shooting-victim-be-laid-rest-springboro/</a></p></li><li><p>FBI press release document about Aug 4, 2019 mass shooting in Ohio: <a href="https://www.fbi.gov/contact-us/field-offices/cincinnati/news/press-releases/investigative-report-on-the-august-4-2019-attack-in-dayton-ohio">https://www.fbi.gov/contact-us/field-offices/cincinnati/news/press-releases/investigative-report-on-the-august-4-2019-attack-in-dayton-ohio</a></p></li></ul><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8jtV!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F78a3a931-e0fe-4da2-9299-355ca8ec3788_800x450.webp" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!8jtV!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F78a3a931-e0fe-4da2-9299-355ca8ec3788_800x450.webp 424w, 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stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption">Logan Turner was shot and killed in a mass shooting in Dayton, Ohio.</figcaption></figure></div><p><strong>Could this have been a warning to Ken Turner to stop his investigation</strong>? History tells us they&#8217;d do a whole lot worse than this to stop this information from surfacing&#8230;</p><div><hr></div><h2><strong>August 10, 2019</strong></h2><p>Document ID: <a href="https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00165013.pdf">EFTA00165013.pdf</a></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MoFg!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7208b7c4-1ec3-451b-bc69-3ef069ea6412_1434x102.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MoFg!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7208b7c4-1ec3-451b-bc69-3ef069ea6412_1434x102.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MoFg!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7208b7c4-1ec3-451b-bc69-3ef069ea6412_1434x102.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MoFg!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7208b7c4-1ec3-451b-bc69-3ef069ea6412_1434x102.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MoFg!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7208b7c4-1ec3-451b-bc69-3ef069ea6412_1434x102.png 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MoFg!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7208b7c4-1ec3-451b-bc69-3ef069ea6412_1434x102.png" width="1434" height="102" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/7208b7c4-1ec3-451b-bc69-3ef069ea6412_1434x102.png&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:102,&quot;width&quot;:1434,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:53001,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.booksbehindborders.org/i/192396748?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7208b7c4-1ec3-451b-bc69-3ef069ea6412_1434x102.png&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MoFg!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7208b7c4-1ec3-451b-bc69-3ef069ea6412_1434x102.png 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MoFg!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7208b7c4-1ec3-451b-bc69-3ef069ea6412_1434x102.png 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MoFg!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7208b7c4-1ec3-451b-bc69-3ef069ea6412_1434x102.png 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!MoFg!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F7208b7c4-1ec3-451b-bc69-3ef069ea6412_1434x102.png 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>An email dated <strong>August 10, 2019</strong> &#8212; the same day Epstein was found dead in federal custody &#8212; Turner writes: </p><blockquote><p>Just heard about Epstein. Based upon what we have discovered here and who was involved here in Mexico <strong>we don&#8217;t believe it was suicide</strong>. When you have 5 minutes you need to listen to what we have as evidence.</p></blockquote><p>Jeffrey Epstein was found dead in his cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York &#8212; a federal facility that has since been permanently closed.</p><p>This timing does not prove anything by itself.<br>But it does matter.</p><p>Because it shows that <strong>active investigators believed Epstein&#8217;s case was connected to something larger</strong>, believed people were being harmed or threatened, and believed evidence was being suppressed &#8212; <strong>before Epstein&#8217;s death</strong>, not after.</p><p>They prove that inside investigators were:</p><ul><li><p>Expressing fear for their safety</p></li><li><p>Describing interference tied to U.S. government entities</p></li><li><p>Claiming possession of photos and videos involving Epstein, Marcinko, and others.</p></li><li><p>Believing their case intersected with Epstein&#8217;s in ways that had not been made public</p></li></ul><p>And they were saying this <strong>while Epstein was alive</strong>.</p><div><hr></div><p><em>This content is information the American ruling elite does NOT want you to have access to. </em><strong>If you appreciate work like this, and want more of it, please consider becoming a paid subscriber</strong><em>.</em></p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.booksbehindborders.org/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption"><em>I&#8217;m running a special for $40/year or $5/month.</em></p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://buymeacoffee.com/booksbehindborders&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Or leave me a tip!&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://buymeacoffee.com/booksbehindborders"><span>Or leave me a tip!</span></a></p><div><hr></div><h2><strong>Why This Matters Now</strong></h2><p>For years, discussion of Epstein&#8217;s death has been framed as &#8220;conspiracy theory vs. official conclusion.&#8221;</p><p>These emails complicate that framing.</p><p>They are not anonymous forum posts.<br>They are not social media rumors.<br>They are <strong>government-released documents</strong>, written by people who believed they were inside a dangerous investigation.</p><p>At minimum, they raise serious questions about:</p><ul><li><p>What evidence existed but was never disclosed</p></li><li><p>Why investigators believed intelligence agencies might be involved</p></li><li><p>And why so many names in Epstein-related releases remain redacted</p></li></ul><p>The public has been told the story is finished and to "stop talking about Epstein.&#8221;<br>The documents suggest otherwise.</p><div><hr></div><h3>Inside Look Into Turner&#8217;s Investigation</h3><p>Ken Turner and his investigation can also be found in this document: <a href="https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA01249790.pdf">EFTA01249790.pdf</a>, text is copied below:</p><blockquote><p>In July or August 2018, Turner flew to his hometown , contacted the FBI and provided all information he had accumulated since 2000-2017, regarding sex trafficking with minors that involves ex-Navy SEAL commander, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Marcinko">Richard Marcinko</a> <em>(mentioned in the above email)</em> and ex-USA Ambassador in Mexico, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_Anthony_Wayne">Earl Wayne Anthony</a>.</p><p>In April or May or 2014, the American Embassy in Mexico was raided by the Mexican Federal Police where 107 American Citizens, employees and contractors, including Anthony, were there. Turner said Ambassador Anthony left the country immediately; however, in 2015, Anthony was tried in absentia in Mexico. Turner reached out to the American Embassy, but they refused to acknowledge what was going on.</p><p>A month ago Turner and the Mexican Federal Police, found what Turner calls &#8220;a vault&#8221; containing approximately 10,000 videos of minors from Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico and some white girls that later on was determined they had been brought into Mexico from South Africa by now convicted and in a Mexican prison, <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/naason-joaquin-garcia-charged-racketeering-conspiracy-sex-trafficking-and-child">Mr. Nissan</a>.</p><p>Turner said that approximately a month ago, in one of Marcinko&#8217;s secret locations, sex tapes and videos were found with Jeffrey Epstein in it. Turner assumes that Marcinko was probably going to use them to blackmail Jeffrey Epstein (Epstein).</p><p>Turner added he found the <a href="https://epsteinsblackbook.com/flights">flights log</a> of Epstein coming in out of Mexico, going to the Virgin Islands to fly girls there. In 2005, Epstein flew to Mexico, landed in Cancun Airport, stayed overnight, filled the tank, which is very rare because to fly back to Miami you do not have to fill out your tank for just 1 4 hour flight. Turner said that&#8217;s the only time he cannot find where Epstein went afterwards.</p><p><strong>Turner was aghast when he clearly saw a very prominent figure from the United States in one of the videos</strong>. <strong>Turner said the American Embassy is mad at him for what he is doing</strong>. Turner spoke with the Mexican president and discussed with him the findings. Turner said the Mexican president gave him the "go" to contact the FBI and let them know he has this information.</p><p><strong>Turner said the American Embassy in Mexico doesn't want to admit they have agents in charge of investigating him</strong>.<strong> Turner knows what he is doing is very dangerous, and that even one of his partners' arm was cut off</strong>.</p></blockquote><div><hr></div><p>I believe the person referenced in this document (above) &#8220;Mr. Nissan&#8221; is <strong>Naas&#243;n Joaqu&#237;n Garc&#237;a </strong>which is not in the Epstein files (that I could find) but it is on the Southern District of New York DOJ website here dated Sep 10, 2025:</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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threaten, coerce, and sexually abuse girls, boys, and women in the LLDM Church; to engage in financial crimes; and to obstruct criminal investigations into their misdeeds.</p></blockquote><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vG_a!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa6096419-a695-4bf6-871c-a213189227d5_1980x734.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!vG_a!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa6096419-a695-4bf6-871c-a213189227d5_1980x734.png 424w, 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Jeffrey Epstein died in the Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC) in New York City on August 10, 2019.</p><p>See the article about Epstein here: <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/jeffrey-epstein-charged-manhattan-federal-court-sex-trafficking-minors">https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/jeffrey-epstein-charged-manhattan-federal-court-sex-trafficking-minors</a></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!kuvJ!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd2de0fcf-8886-4d81-8de2-f3228644a35c_1456x1247.webp" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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href="https://buymeacoffee.com/booksbehindborders"><span>Or leave me a tip!</span></a></p><div><hr></div><h3>Who is Richard Marcinko?</h3><p>Ken Turner alleged that he uncovered videos and photos of Marcinko together.</p><p>So who is Marcinko?</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!2fQS!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa28d46ee-fa34-4293-9d98-7fdd118a257b_230x300.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!2fQS!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fa28d46ee-fa34-4293-9d98-7fdd118a257b_230x300.jpeg 424w, 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class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p><strong>Richard Marcinko</strong> was a U.S. Navy SEAL commander and Vietnam War veteran. He was the <strong>first commanding officer of SEAL Team Six</strong>. After retiring from the United States Navy, he became an author, radio talk show host, military consultant, and motivational speaker.</p><p>Marcinko was <strong>indicted for conspiracy</strong>, conflict of interest and lying to the government on July 13, 1989, in connection with a kickback of $113,000 paid to Ramco International, a company set up by Marcinko and former SEAL John B. Mason, by Accuracy Systems, a Phoenix, Arizona-based arms manufacturer owned by Charles M. Byers. Byers was convicted of conspiracy and conflict of interest on October 20, 1989, but Marcinko was acquitted of conflict of interest.</p><p>Marcinko was convicted of conspiracy to defraud the government on January 24, 1990 and <strong>was sentenced to 21 months in federal prison and fined $10,000</strong>.</p><div><hr></div><p>A HUGE shoutout to <span class="mention-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Redacted Report&quot;,&quot;id&quot;:435949271,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;user&quot;,&quot;url&quot;:null,&quot;photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/d383c4bd-e1ed-4286-94ab-70b7fb12f89e_826x826.png&quot;,&quot;uuid&quot;:&quot;f85e988b-a574-4f7f-97b8-9b59331759bd&quot;}" data-component-name="MentionToDOM"></span> for uncovering these emails in the recent drop. This was a collaboration post from previous reporting done by Redacted Report. 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I know it's not harsh enough, but it's getting closer.]]></description><link>https://www.booksbehindborders.org/p/us-ruled-by-psychopaths</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.booksbehindborders.org/p/us-ruled-by-psychopaths</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Books Behind Borders]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2026 16:23:46 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/962e3c3b-98e5-4061-8b7e-efb5fb117b60_426x261.jpeg" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div id="youtube2-pev_zhXCem0" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;pev_zhXCem0&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/pev_zhXCem0?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><p><em>This content is information the American ruling elite does NOT want you to have access to. </em><strong>If you appreciate work like this, and want more of it, please consider becoming a paid subscriber</strong><em>.</em></p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.booksbehindborders.org/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption"><em>I&#8217;m running a special for $40/year or $5/month.</em></p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://buymeacoffee.com/booksbehindborders&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Or leave me a tip&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://buymeacoffee.com/booksbehindborders"><span>Or leave me a tip</span></a></p><p>From 1971&#8211;2021, the United States has killed 38 million people through economic sanctions alone.</p><p>That&#8217;s not including war, drone strikes, genocides, bombing campaigns, or anything else&#8212;<strong>38 million people murdered through sanctions alone</strong>. </p><p>Over half of those are children under 5 years old.</p><p>Sit with that for a second, because it&#8217;s the kind of number that should make your stomach turn.</p><p>The level of death and suffering this country has inflicted across the Middle East and Africa is so extreme that most people don&#8217;t even know how to process it, so they just&#8230; don&#8217;t. They hear the word &#8220;sanctions&#8221; and think it&#8217;s some kind of diplomatic pressure, something clean, something controlled, when in reality it&#8217;s a system that cuts entire populations off from food, medicine, fuel, and the ability to survive.</p><p>The consequence of sanctions is mass starvation and immense suffering. </p><p>Iran has been living under this for nearly 50 years. Cuba for over 60. Sudan spent decades under sanctions and is now sitting in one of the worst hunger crises on Earth. In Yemen, four out of every five people are living in poverty.</p><p>And we&#8217;re still pretending this is about policy.</p><p>Our government is murdering people&#8212;mainly children and the elderly&#8212;at scale, all over the world, and calling it strategy. They are deliberately making innocent people suffer in order to pressure them into rising up against their own governments, as if starving a population is some kind of moral or effective path to political change.</p><p>It doesn&#8217;t even work.</p><p>This strategy has failed over and over again. The people in power stay in power, and the civilians take the hit - <strong>Every. Single. Time.</strong> - paying the price for decisions they had no part in making.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!OEUj!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6ed36835-87d4-429d-9ea1-6699536029a7_413x268.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!OEUj!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6ed36835-87d4-429d-9ea1-6699536029a7_413x268.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!OEUj!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6ed36835-87d4-429d-9ea1-6699536029a7_413x268.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!OEUj!,w_1272,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6ed36835-87d4-429d-9ea1-6699536029a7_413x268.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!OEUj!,w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6ed36835-87d4-429d-9ea1-6699536029a7_413x268.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw"><img src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!OEUj!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6ed36835-87d4-429d-9ea1-6699536029a7_413x268.jpeg" width="413" height="268" data-attrs="{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/6ed36835-87d4-429d-9ea1-6699536029a7_413x268.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:268,&quot;width&quot;:413,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:105728,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:true,&quot;topImage&quot;:false,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https://www.booksbehindborders.org/i/192954292?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6ed36835-87d4-429d-9ea1-6699536029a7_413x268.jpeg&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}" class="sizing-normal" alt="" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!OEUj!,w_424,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6ed36835-87d4-429d-9ea1-6699536029a7_413x268.jpeg 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!OEUj!,w_848,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6ed36835-87d4-429d-9ea1-6699536029a7_413x268.jpeg 848w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!OEUj!,w_1272,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6ed36835-87d4-429d-9ea1-6699536029a7_413x268.jpeg 1272w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!OEUj!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6ed36835-87d4-429d-9ea1-6699536029a7_413x268.jpeg 1456w" sizes="100vw" loading="lazy"></picture><div class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption"><strong>The bodies of dead children in Iraq. Over 1.5 million people were killed there through US sanctions.</strong></figcaption></figure></div><p>So what&#8217;s the justification for continuing it?</p><p>Because at a certain point, you can&#8217;t keep calling something a failed strategy when it produces the same outcome, over and over, across decades and across countries. If millions of people are dying, if entire populations are being pushed into starvation, and it changes nothing politically, it&#8217;s no longer a failure. It&#8217;s their intention.</p><p>OUR GOVERNMENT HAS KILLED 38 MILLION PEOPLE.</p><p>Say it again, because most people can&#8217;t even grasp a number like that.</p><p>38,000,000 people.</p><p>For perspective, it&#8217;s estimated that around 6 million people died in the so-called &#8220;Global War on Terror.&#8221; That number alone defined an entire era. Now multiply that several times over.</p><p>We&#8217;re not talking about isolated incidents or unfortunate collateral damage. We&#8217;re talking about tens of millions of innocent human beings, who never posed a threat to anyone, who were starved to death over policies they had absolutely no control over.</p><p>And somehow, we still talk about the people responsible for this like they&#8217;re just normal, as if they&#8217;re just politicians doing their jobs, like this is all part of some complicated system we&#8217;re not supposed to question too deeply.</p><p><strong>At what point do we stop pretending they&#8217;re just &#8220;politicians,&#8221; and call them what they are</strong>: <strong>psychopath terrorists</strong>.</p><p>There is no serial killer in history who has come anywhere close to numbers like this, not even remotely close, and yet people will bend over backwards to defend presidents and congressmen, argue endlessly over elections, and convince themselves that swapping one name for another is going to fundamentally change anything.</p><p>They&#8217;ve been murdering innocent people for decades, no matter whether there&#8217;s a &#8220;Republican&#8221; or a &#8220;Democrat&#8221; in office, and the outcome somehow never changes for the people on the receiving end of it. The suffering continues, the policies continue, and the excuses just rotate with the news cycle, while the average American finds ways to say something positive about Trump, Obama, Bush, or Biden like we&#8217;re talking about ordinary people instead of mass murderers that have the blood of millions on their hands.</p><p>Does anyone have anything positive to say about Jeffrey Dahmer, Ted Bundy, or BTK? What about mass shooters? Of course not, because nobody feels the need to sit around and debate their legacy or weigh their &#8220;pros and cons&#8221; like there&#8217;s some kind of upside to what they did. </p><div><hr></div><p><em>This content is information the American ruling elite does NOT want you to have access to. </em><strong>If you appreciate work like this, and want more of it, please consider becoming a paid subscriber</strong><em>.</em></p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.booksbehindborders.org/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption"><em>I&#8217;m running a special for $40/year or $5/month</em>.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://buymeacoffee.com/booksbehindborders&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Or leave me a tip!&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://buymeacoffee.com/booksbehindborders"><span>Or leave me a tip!</span></a></p><div><hr></div><p>Now imagine, for a second, talking about a serial killer the way people casually talk about politicians.</p><p>&#8220;Well yeah, he killed millions of people, but the other guy might be worse.&#8221;<br>"Sure, he killed some people, but he might lower my taxes.&#8221;</p><p>It sounds insane when you say it out loud.</p><p>And yet that&#8217;s exactly how people talk.</p><p>For a clear picture of what this looks like in real time, the U.S. government is directly engaged in collective punishment of the population of Cuba at this very moment. </p><p>Collective punishment of civilians is a war <a href="https://www.latimes.com/opinion/story/2026-04-01/sanctions-cuba-geneva-conventions-war-crime">crime</a>.</p><p>&#8220;The U.S. has cutoff oil shipments to Cuba and it has had deadly consequences. More than <a href="https://news.un.org/en/story/2026/02/1167046">90%</a> of Cuba&#8217;s electricity is dependent on oil-based fuel, and hospitals have been hit especially hard as blackouts have worsened. The New York Times interviewed doctors there and <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/world/americas/cubas-health-system-us-oil-blockade.html?unlocked_article_code=1.WFA.SxZz.Cn4RxDM8rCKv&amp;smid=nytcore-ios-share">reported</a> last week that &#8220;rapidly deteriorating conditions at hospitals and clinics across Cuba were causing deaths that would otherwise be preventable.&#8221; Fuel shortages are keeping doctors and nurses away from work and hospitals are canceling surgeries and delaying vaccines for children and life-saving treatments such as kidney dialysis and radiation therapy.&#8221;</p><p>This blockade is illegal and using economic policy to make people suffer is immoral. The US is trying to strong-arm Cuba, while completely ignoring any sense of sovereignty or fairness. They&#8217;re also threatening the rest of the world with sanctions <strong>just for trading with Cuba</strong>, which<strong> </strong>is a total violation of international rules and basic human rights. </p><p><strong>No country should have the power to starve out another nation</strong>.<br>We have to stop acting like they&#8217;re just &#8220;politicians.&#8221;<br>These are not normal human beings.</p><p>I would be on the verge of suicide if I was involved in the death of a child, let alone the deaths of MILLIONS of children.</p><p>Yet, the politicians in the US government sleep fine at night knowing they&#8217;re murdering innocent people. </p><p>They are overseeing policies that result in people dying at scale, across entire regions of the world, and there is nothing normal&#8212;or defensible&#8212;about that.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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At that time, 30 percent of Iraq&#8217;s children under 5 were malnourished because of the shortage of food and medicine as a result of US sanctions.</strong></figcaption></figure></div><p><strong>Half a million children died during the sanctions in Iraq, and US politicians think the price of dead kids was &#8220;worth it.&#8221;</strong></p><p>Iraq is now a failed state. These children died for NOTHING. A completely despicable thing to say. </p><div id="youtube2-KP1OAD9jSaI" class="youtube-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;videoId&quot;:&quot;KP1OAD9jSaI&quot;,&quot;startTime&quot;:null,&quot;endTime&quot;:null}" data-component-name="Youtube2ToDOM"><div class="youtube-inner"><iframe src="https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/KP1OAD9jSaI?rel=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;enablejsapi=0" frameborder="0" loading="lazy" gesture="media" allow="autoplay; fullscreen" allowautoplay="true" allowfullscreen="true" width="728" height="409"></iframe></div></div><p>These people are truly sick in the head.</p><div><hr></div><p>If you&#8217;re tired of being told everything is fine while it clearly isn&#8217;t, you&#8217;re exactly why this publication exists.</p><p><strong>My work is 100% reader-supported</strong>. <strong>That means no advertisers, no political handlers, and no incentive to soften the truth</strong>.</p><p>I started this because too many people feel like they&#8217;re losing their minds trying to make sense of what&#8217;s happening, myself included. <strong>I wanted to build a space of like-minded people to make this journey feel less lonely for all of us</strong>.</p><p>To allow me to continue posting content just like this, please consider becoming a paid subscriber. <strong>I&#8217;m running a special for $40/year or $5/month</strong>.</p><p>If that price feels impossible to you, I understand. <strong>Share this article with everyone you know, it costs nothing but it matters more than you could possibly know</strong>.</p><p>If you prefer to make a<strong> one time donation</strong> in support of my work, you can do so by clicking <a href="https://buymeacoffee.com/booksbehindborders">HERE</a>.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.booksbehindborders.org/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption"><em>This content is information the American ruling elite does NOT want you to have access to. </em><strong>If you appreciate work like this, and want more of it, please consider becoming a paid subscriber</strong><em>.</em></p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://buymeacoffee.com/booksbehindborders&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Or leave me a tip!&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://buymeacoffee.com/booksbehindborders"><span>Or leave me a tip!</span></a></p><div class="captioned-button-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.booksbehindborders.org/p/us-ruled-by-psychopaths?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;}" data-component-name="CaptionedButtonToDOM"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading Maddie (Books Behind Borders)! 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The ones who make decisions about war, money, media, and power, and then expect me to shut up and fund it.</p><p>My enemies are the ones who turn entire countries into targets and then tell me it&#8217;s about &#8220;freedom.&#8221;</p><p>They flatten cities and call it security.<br>They kill families and call it strategy.</p><p>My enemies aren&#8217;t in some country overseas.<br>They&#8217;re the billionaires wrecking our society, making everyday life worse, and using our own money to fund the killing of innocent people.</p><p>My enemies are the ones using my tax dollars to bomb people I&#8217;ve never met, in places I didn&#8217;t even know existed&#8230;<br>&#8230;and then act like I&#8217;m the problem if I question it.</p><p>My enemies are the psychopaths who can erase entire cities off of the map&#8230;and feel nothing.<br>&#8230;then step in front of a camera and call it &#8220;self-defense.&#8221;</p><p>My enemies are the ones who&#8217;ve twisted reality so much that people can watch something horrific happen&#8230;<br>and still not really <em>see it</em>.</p><p>Because it&#8217;s not just the news.</p><p>It&#8217;s how everything gets framed.<br>The constant dehumanization of entire ethnicities. <br>What they show you&#8230; and what they don&#8217;t.<br>What they repeat over and over until it just sounds true.</p><p>My enemies are the ones who&#8217;ve trained people to see horror&#8230; and feel nothing.</p><p>War? Scroll.<br>Dead kids? Scroll.<br>Entire cities wiped out? Keep scrolling.</p><p>That&#8217;s not normal.<br>It&#8217;s certainly not human.<br>It&#8217;s brainwashing.</p><p>My enemies are the producers and directors in Hollywood who are poisoning our culture with a constant stream of sex, porn, drugs, and alcohol.</p><p>My enemies are the ones who have turned politics into theater.<br>Where you can argue, vote, post, protest, and nothing ever changes.<br>Because the outcomes are paid for and decided long before you ever step into a voting booth.</p><p>My enemies are the ones who are slowly making dissent feel dangerous.<br>Where criticizing governments and their &#8220;allies&#8221; starts to come with consequences. Where speaking out against true evil, like genocide, somehow makes me the bad person.</p><p>My enemies are the ones who convince ordinary people to defend all of this.<br>Who make people attack each other instead of looking up at the system that&#8217;s exploiting them all.</p><p>My enemies are the ones who have built a world where:<br>War is constant.<br>Right and wrong is inverted.<br>Power is concentrated.<br>And people are too distracted, divided, or exhausted to stop it.</p><p>The people of Iran post no threat to me.<br>They didn&#8217;t rig my system.<br>They didn&#8217;t hollow out my country.<br>They didn&#8217;t turn my government into something that operates with total impunity.</p><p>The system I live under did.<br>And it expects my loyalty anyway.</p><p>I don&#8217;t have loyalty to that system.<br>I have loyalty to people.<br>To truth.</p><p>To whatever is left of basic human decency in a world that seems to be actively trying to erase it.</p><div><hr></div><p>If you&#8217;re tired of being told everything is fine while it clearly isn&#8217;t, you&#8217;re exactly why this publication exists.</p><p><strong>My work is 100% reader-supported</strong>. <strong>That means no advertisers, no political handlers, and no incentive to soften the truth</strong>.</p><p>I started this because too many people feel like they&#8217;re losing their minds trying to make sense of what&#8217;s happening, myself included. <strong>I wanted to build a space of like-minded people to make this journey feel less lonely for all of us</strong>.</p><p>To allow me to continue posting content just like this, please consider becoming a paid subscriber. 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Authorities say he was <strong>running a secret drug distribution network using WhatsApp that supplied cocaine</strong>, <strong>ketamine</strong>, and <strong>MDMA</strong> <strong>to tourists</strong>, with <strong>drugs worth over 50 million baht</strong> seized, roughly $1.5 million in USD.</p><p>Alfasi owned a beach-side restaurant on the island and the case has raised serious questions about how such an operation managed to run quietly in one of Thailand&#8217;s busiest tourist destinations.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!hnbr!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F4cd9d1d9-84d0-46cf-a9f9-18efe1d035a9_1200x800.jpeg" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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It looked like a normal beach bar, but behind the scenes, police say it became a <strong>hub for arranging drug deals</strong>. Tourists could visit the area without suspecting anything unusual, which made the operation harder to detect.</p><p>What made this case stand out was how modern and organized the system reportedly was. Police say Alfasi used WhatsApp Business to communicate with buyers, <strong>often using a Hebrew alias</strong>.<br><br>The process was simple and discreet. Customers would place orders through messages. The drugs were then hidden in black socks and dropped at secret locations. Buyers received photos showing exactly where to pick them up and payments were often collected later, usually in cash.<br><br>Investigators also noted that chats were set to disappear automatically, making it harder to track conversations. This mix of technology and street level tactics allowed the operation to run quietly for some time.</p><p>The operation came to an end around mid February 2026 when Thai police launched a sting. Officers posed as buyers and ordered a small quantity of ketamine. When Alfasi arrived on a motorbike to collect the marked cash, he was arrested on the spot. What followed was a major raid on his property and business.<strong> Police say they recovered large quantities of drugs</strong>, including <strong>cocaine</strong>, <strong>ketamine</strong>, <strong>MDMA</strong>, <strong>LSD</strong>, <strong>heroin</strong>, and <strong>magic</strong> <strong>mushrooms</strong>. The total estimated value crossed 50 million baht, roughly 1.5 million US dollars. <strong>Officials described it as one of the biggest drug cases linked to tourists on the island</strong>.</p><p>Thailand has strict drug laws, especially when it comes to trafficking large quantities. Charges in cases like this can lead to very long prison sentences. While the death penalty exists under Thai law, it is rarely carried out in recent years.<br><br>Foreign nationals in similar cases often face extended jail time, sometimes followed by sentence reductions or pardons later. As of now, Alfasi remains in custody, and there is no confirmed update on trial outcomes or sentencing.</p><p>I wouldn&#8217;t be surprised if this case quietly goes away and Alfasi is extradited back to Israel, similar to how the <a href="https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20250818-senior-israeli-official-flees-us-after-paedophilia-arrest-sparking-debate-over-israeli-impunity/">Israeli official</a> who was facing pedophilia charges, fled to Israel after being arrested in a sex trafficking sting in Las Vegas last summer. </p><p>Let me know in the comments what you think is going to happen to Alfasi. 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He <strong>admitted that you cannot foment a revolution from the air, that there needs to be a ground component</strong>. He said &#8220;there are many possibilities for a ground component&#8221; but wouldn&#8217;t share what they are. </p><p>When Israeli leadership starts talking about &#8220;ground components&#8221; in a conflict like this, they&#8217;re <strong>not</strong> talking about sending massive numbers of their own troops deep into a country like Iran. </p><p>That&#8217;s not how this works and it&#8217;s never been how this works. <strong>The US has been fighting Israel&#8217;s wars for decades</strong>. <strong>It&#8217;s American lives that will be lost, not Israelis</strong>.</p><p>And then, almost right on cue, you&#8217;ve got Benny Gantz, former ISRAELI Prime Minister, saying that boots on the ground are &#8220;not off the table.&#8221;</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;4753f0e5-534f-4043-82a1-01f72a751cda&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p><strong>Why are Israeli politicians making combat decisions regarding AMERICAN troops</strong>? I don&#8217;t remember a single American voting for Israeli officials to have any say (direct or indirect) in whether U.S. troops get sent into another disastrous war in the Middle East.</p><p>Listen, if I was still in the US Navy right now, and I saw these videos floating around social media, I cannot even express how furious I would be. This is completely disgraceful.</p><p>And to make matters even worse (shocking, I know), is the way its being talked about on the American side. </p><p>Trump&#8217;s response to all of this was to say he&#8217;s not worried about it turning into another Vietnam, and that he&#8217;s &#8220;not afraid of anything.&#8221; And I understand the instinct to project strength, especially politically, but there&#8217;s a difference between confidence and carelessness.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;db135017-5da9-4be1-bacf-57db728081e7&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p><strong>If you&#8217;re the one making decisions that could send thousands of people into a war zone</strong>,<strong> fear (or at least a healthy respect for the consequences) is kind of the bare minimum</strong>. </p><p><strong>You&#8217;re supposed to be thinking about what happens after the first strike, after the first deployment, after the first casualties</strong>. That&#8217;s the job.</p><div><hr></div><p><em>This content is information the Deep State does NOT want Americans to have access to. </em><strong>If you appreciate work like this, and want more of it, please consider becoming a paid subscriber</strong><em>.</em></p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.booksbehindborders.org/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption"><em>I&#8217;m running a special for $40/year or $5/month</em>.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><div><hr></div><p>Instead, what this feels like is a kind of detachment from the actual cost of what&#8217;s being discussed. Like we&#8217;re talking about strategy on a board, not the soldiers and their loved ones who are going to be the ones dealing with whatever this turns into.</p><p><strong>I cannot think of anything more disgraceful than sending American young men and women into a war zone to die for a foreign country</strong>.</p><p>Iran is not a threat to the United States of America.<br>The politicians and commentators cheering this war on are a threat to you, your family, and this country.</p><p><strong>Since it appears as if boots on the ground is a likely scenario, I want to make my position abundantly clear</strong>:</p><p>The United States and Israel launched a sneak attack against Iran, when they were in the MIDDLE of NEGOTIATIONS.</p><p>Negotiations that <a href="https://substack.com/redirect/e3a49a90-2b68-402e-b6ed-9d8d081330ae?j=eyJ1IjoiMnFuOHJ3In0.HV_J518BLHITK2C4TYzRdZnQQUj-JIDgEtPtGeMor3U">even insiders admit</a> Iran was approaching in good faith.</p><p>A couple days into the war, the US and Israel bombed a SCHOOL, killing nearly 100 little girls.</p><p>If Iran or Russia or China or Iraq had done this, it would be on the cover of every major outlet for months. It would be used as the justification to continue the war.</p><p>The US and Israel are now punishing the civilian population of Iran by destroying their power and WATER infrastructure, which will cause mass suffering and death.</p><p><strong>The United States and Israel have committed war crimes of the highest order</strong>. </p><p>Anybody in the Armed Forces is under no obligation to follow an ILLEGAL order.</p><p>In fact, it is your duty to RESIST it.</p><p>I would be interested in getting the perspective from someone close to this crazy situation so if you are currently in the military serving in the Middle East (or have inside information), message me. Also, if you know somebody who is deployed or will be deploying to the Middle East, PLEASE MESSAGE ME.</p><p>If you prefer using email, you can reach me here: maddie@booksbehindborders.org</p><div><hr></div><p>If you&#8217;re tired of being told everything is fine while it clearly isn&#8217;t, you&#8217;re exactly why this publication exists.</p><p><strong>My work is 100% reader-supported</strong>. <strong>That means no advertisers, no political handlers, and no incentive to soften the truth</strong>.</p><p>I started this because too many people feel like they&#8217;re losing their minds trying to make sense of what&#8217;s happening, myself included. <strong>I wanted to build a space of like-minded people to make this journey feel less lonely for all of us</strong>.</p><p>To allow me to continue posting content just like this, please consider becoming a paid subscriber. 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The $37 Billion Woman Running The Most Powerful Political Operation in The World]]></title><description><![CDATA[Trump admitted it himself: Miriam Adelson loves Israel more than America. Here's the full story of who she is and where she came from.]]></description><link>https://www.booksbehindborders.org/p/miriam-adelson-story</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.booksbehindborders.org/p/miriam-adelson-story</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Books Behind Borders]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2026 17:56:10 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/191746744/4e33d55f920d0209f28033490000451d.mp3" length="0" type="audio/mpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Miriam Adelson is one of the most powerful people in American politics, and most people couldn&#8217;t tell you a single thing about her until a few months ago.</p><p>Suddenly she&#8217;s everywhere because she was Trump&#8217;s biggest donor in 2024. But the Adelson&#8217;s (Miriam and her late husband Sheldon) have been around for years and they&#8217;ve been one of the <strong>largest donors to the Republican Party</strong> going all the way back to the early <strong>2000s</strong>. </p><p>She and her husband provided the <strong>largest donation to Trump&#8217;s 2016 campaign</strong>, <strong>his presidential inauguration</strong>, and his <strong>defense fund</strong> against the Mueller investigation into Russian interference.</p><p>Miriam Adelson is one of the wealthiest people on the planet, often ranked as the <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/miriam-adelson-becomes-richest-israeli-as-covid-year-boosts-world-billionaires/#:~:text=Miriam%20Adelson%20becomes%20richest%20Israeli,been%20the%20wealthiest%20Israeli%20national.">richest Israeli</a>, with a net worth north of <strong>$37 billion</strong>. She inherited that fortune from her late husband, casino magnate Sheldon Adelson, and now controls a major stake in the <a href="https://www.forbes.com/profile/miriam-adelson/">Las Vegas Sands empire</a> and casino&#8217;s in China&#8217;s Community Party (CCP).</p><p>This is a story of <strong>fraud</strong>, <strong>corruption</strong>, <strong>genocide</strong>, <strong>money laundering</strong>, <strong>prostitution</strong>,<strong> attacks on the US first amendment</strong>, <strong>drug trafficking</strong>, <strong>fraudulent campaign donations</strong>,<strong> illegal kickbacks</strong>, the <strong>Epstein Files</strong>, links to <strong>China&#8217;s CCP</strong>, and how one couple managed to steer the<strong> American Empire&#8217;s foreign policy to the Middle East</strong>.</p><p>Instead of dumping everything on you at once, I&#8217;m breaking this expos&#233; into pieces.</p><p>Because there are really two versions of Miriam Adelson:<br>The one <em><strong>before</strong></em> Sheldon Adelson&#8230; and the one <em><strong>after</strong></em>.</p><p>This part is about the foundation:<br>who she actually is,<br>where she grew up, <br>what her credentials are,<br>where her money came from, <br>what her motivations and desires are,<br>and why someone this deeply tied to Israel is so heavily involved in American politics.</p><div><hr></div><p><em>This content is information the Deep State does NOT want Americans to have access to. </em><strong>If you appreciate work like this, and want more of it, please consider becoming a paid subscriber</strong><em>.</em></p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.booksbehindborders.org/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption"><em>I&#8217;m running a special for $40/year or $5/month</em>.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><div><hr></div><h3>Where Was She Born?</h3><p>Miriam likes to say she&#8217;s an Israeli, but how could that be, if she was born BEFORE the creation of the State of Israel? She was born in 1945 but Israel didn&#8217;t exist until 1948.</p><p>Her parents emigrated from Poland to&#8230;you guessed it, <strong>PALESTINE</strong>. She doesn&#8217;t like to admit it, in fact, she does everything she can to avoid it, but <strong>Miriam Adelson is a Palestinian</strong>.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1vvS!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fadc5d4b1-a4bc-4902-aea3-905b8e92b705_1378x917.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!1vvS!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fadc5d4b1-a4bc-4902-aea3-905b8e92b705_1378x917.png 424w, 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stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption"><strong>I cannot even look at this photo without getting pissed off</strong>. <strong>Absolutely shameful how much they&#8217;ve stolen from the Palestinians</strong>.</figcaption></figure></div><p>After the Nakba in 1948, when Israel violently displaced 750,000 Palestinians from their homes, Miriam and her family settled in Haifa, on <strong>stolen Palestinian land.</strong></p><p>Miriam&#8217;s father made his living building and operating movie theatres throughout Israel and he was a prominent member of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mapam">Mapam</a>, a left-wing political party in Israel.</p><h3>Miriam&#8217;s Education and Military Experience</h3><p>She attended the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_Reali_School">Hebrew Reali School</a> for 12 years, and one of the school&#8217;s fundamental values is Zionism.</p><p>She received her degree in microbiology and genetics from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and then received her medical degree from Tel Aviv University of Medicine.</p><p>Prior to her marriage to Sheldon, Miriam was married to Ariel Ochshorn, a physician, and together they had two daughters. The couple were divorced by 1986.</p><p>She <strong>served in the IDF</strong> as a medical officer and after her service, she went on to become the chief internist in the emergency room at a hospital in Tel Aviv.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!3R2n!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8e5ecd9e-8a04-4502-929a-e6b89d7ca294_400x250.webp" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!3R2n!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F8e5ecd9e-8a04-4502-929a-e6b89d7ca294_400x250.webp 424w, 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stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption"><strong>Miriam and Sheldon Adelson at a fundraising event for Friends of the IDF in NYC. $35 million dollars was raised for supporting Israeli soldier</strong>s. <strong>This is a gala on AMERICAN soil, raising money for FOREIGN soldiers</strong>. <strong>Soldiers who are committing a genocide</strong>. </figcaption></figure></div><h3>Move to NYC and the Rockefeller Unviersity</h3><p>The same year Miriam and her first husband divorced, she relocated to New York City and attended Rockefeller University, where she was mentored and collaborated with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Jeanne_Kreek">Mary Jeanne Kreek</a> (who is famous for the development of Methadone) for two decades.</p><p>Miriam dedicated much of her career to treating substance use disorder.</p><div><hr></div><p>If you prefer to make a <strong>one time donation</strong> in support of my work, you can do so by clicking <a href="https://buymeacoffee.com/booksbehindborders">HERE</a>.</p><div><hr></div><h3><strong>Blind Date with Sheldon Adelson</strong></h3><p>Miriam met businessman <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheldon_Adelson">Sheldon Adelson</a> on a blind date in 1989, and they married in 1991, having two boys together. </p><p>In 1993, Miriam and Sheldon opened the first branch of the Adelson Clinic, a substance abuse clinic, in Israel.<sup> </sup>They opened a second location in Las Vegas in 2000.<sup> </sup>The clinics specialize in the use of medically assisted detox techniques, such as methodone.</p><p>A quick Google search will show that the Adelson clinic has horrific reviews. They have 2.2 stars on Google, which I honestly think is the lowest I&#8217;ve ever seen for a business. </p><p>Here&#8217;s just one of the many bad reviews&#8230;</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!bt62!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb408aeb9-122a-4a4a-b4fd-58ad975452c9_1222x710.png" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!bt62!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb408aeb9-122a-4a4a-b4fd-58ad975452c9_1222x710.png 424w, 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stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>In present day, Miriam is not as focused on medical and treatment advancements, instead she&#8217;s <strong>dedicated to the advancement of the State of Israel</strong>.</p><h3><strong>Publisher of Israel Hayom</strong></h3><p>In 2018, Sheldon Adelson invested at least $50 million into the <em>Israel Hayom, </em>and in that same year, Miriam was named publisher of the newspaper, which is the most widely read and consumed publication in Israel.</p><p>Miriam still holds that position.<br>Effectively, <strong>her job is to curate and publish propaganda</strong>.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2" 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class="image-caption"><strong>A headline from the Israel Hayom, whom Miriam Adelson is the publisher and major investor in</strong></figcaption></figure></div><h3><strong>Business and Ownership Holdings</strong></h3><ul><li><p><strong>Las Vegas Sands Corp. (LVS):</strong> Miriam Adelson is the controlling shareholder, holding over 50% of the New York Stock Exchange-listed casino company. LVS also <strong>operates casinos in Singapore</strong> (Marina Bay Sands) and <strong>Macao, China</strong>.</p></li><li><p><strong>Dallas Mavericks:</strong> In January 2024, Miriam Adelson purchased the Dallas Mavericks. </p></li><li><p><strong>Las Vegas Review-Journal:</strong> The Adelson family owns Nevada&#8217;s largest newspaper, which was purchased in 2015.</p></li><li><p><strong>Israel Hayom:</strong> The family is the primary shareholder in the most widely-read newspaper in Israel.</p></li><li><p><strong>Adelson Clinic:</strong> Miriam Adelson, a physician, operates substance abuse treatment and research centers (addiction clinics) in Tel Aviv and Las Vegas.</p></li><li><p><strong>Adelson Family Foundation:</strong> A private foundation established in 2007 that <strong>provides $200 million annually to Jewish and Israeli causes</strong>. The primary purpose of the Foundation is to strengthen the State of Israel and the Jewish people. They are Israel&#8217;s largest individual donor. </p></li><li><p><strong>Adelson Medical Research Foundation:</strong> A nonprofit foundation focused on accelerating research in diseases, particularly in healthcare.</p></li></ul><h3><strong>Key Board Positions and Roles</strong></h3><ul><li><p><strong>Miriam Adelson:</strong> Publisher of <em>Israel Hayom</em>.</p></li><li><p><strong>Board of Trustees (USC):</strong> Miriam Adelson is a voting member on the board of trustees at the University of Southern California (more on this later!)</p></li><li><p><strong>Republican Jewish Coalition:</strong> Miriam Adelson remains a major benefactor and power broker for the organization.</p></li><li><p><strong>Maccabee Task Force</strong> (MTF): an organization aimed at combatting the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement on college campuses and spreading pro-Israel sentiment among young people. This is the organization involved in getting Pro-Palestinian students deported. </p></li><li><p><strong>Israel Birthright Trip</strong>: Adelson is a prominent supporter of Birthright Israel, a program that brings young Jews to Israel for free. With her husband she was the program's largest donor; the couple had given more than $250 million to Birthright Israel by 2015.</p></li></ul><p>Please note, neither of these is an exhaustive list. We&#8217;ll dive deeper in future pieces.</p><h3>Where Do Their Loyalties Lie?</h3><p>Adelson has said that her heart is in Israel and that she got &#8220;stuck&#8221; in <a href="https://fortune.com/2012/02/08/meet-the-woman-behind-sheldon-adelson/">America</a> after meeting her husband, Sheldon.<sup> </sup>She is credited with <strong>influencing Sheldon Adelson&#8217;s political views on Israel and inspiring him to donate large sums of money to Zionist causes</strong>. Adelson is a financial supporter of the Zionist Organization of America, the Yad Vashem Holocaust museum and memorial in Jerusalem, and various U.S. groups that fundraise for the Israeli military.</p><p>Donald Trump is on record saying, &#8220;<em>Miriam and Sheldon had more trips to the White House than anybody. They were very responsible for so much, including getting me thinking about the Golan Heights, which was one of the greatest things to ever happen&#8230; Nobody has done more for Israel than I have, including the recent attacks with Iran, wiping that thing ou</em>t.&#8221;</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;4f7df6fe-947d-4cbe-8d6f-dc8e0396c1f7&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>&#8220;<em>I actually asked her once, so Miriam, I know you love Israel, what do you love more, the United States or Israel? She refused to answer, which might mean Israel.</em>&#8221;</p><p>Those who deal regularly with the Adelson&#8217;s treat Miriam with as much deference as Sheldon, and crave her <a href="https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/rosiegray/miriam-adelson">approval</a> just as much. There&#8217;s a head of an organization that received a lot of funding from Sheldon who says, &#8220;<strong>If you keep Sheldon happy, that&#8217;s helpful, but to keep Miriam happy is critical.</strong>&#8221;</p><p>In July 2010, at a talk in Israel, Sheldon Adelson said: &#8220;I am not Israeli. <strong>The uniform that I wore in the military, unfortunately, was not an Israeli uniform</strong>. <strong>It was an American uniform</strong>.&#8221;</p><p>I think it goes without saying that this couple is not loyal to the United States of America, and Miriam holds all the cards. They&#8217;re looking out for the best interest of a foreign nation, and any political contribution they make is to further Israel&#8217;s interests, a lot of times, <strong>at the detriment of the US</strong>.</p><p>If you missed Part 1&#8212;where I break down how Miriam Adelson is funding a major settlement militia operating in the West Bank&#8212;you can read it <a href="https://open.substack.com/pub/booksbehindborders/p/adelson-funds-west-bank-militia?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&amp;utm_medium=post%20viewer">HERE</a>.</p><p>In Part 3, I&#8217;ll break down their political involvement in detail: who they fund, how much they give, attacks on the First Amendment, and how deep their influence actually goes.</p><p>And in Part 4 and beyond&#8230; we get into the scandals, allegations, and lawsuits. 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The Billionaire Funding Trump, Netanyahu, and Israel's Largest Militia]]></title><description><![CDATA[The billionaire donor behind Trump's presidency and Netanyahu's political survival has also been financing Israeli settler movements in the West Bank for years.]]></description><link>https://www.booksbehindborders.org/p/adelson-funds-west-bank-militia</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.booksbehindborders.org/p/adelson-funds-west-bank-militia</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Books Behind Borders]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 21 Mar 2026 17:42:53 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/191676177/a289cb47714d96ff80aa5bc3be27deb3.mp3" length="0" type="audio/mpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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The more I dig into her, the more it stops feeling like I&#8217;m looking at a donor and starts feeling like I&#8217;m looking at someone who&#8217;s been quietly shaping outcomes for decades.</p><p>She&#8217;s not just rich, she&#8217;s powerful in a way that most people don&#8217;t even realize exists.</p><p>She&#8217;s the <strong>largest political donor</strong> <strong>to both Trump and Netanyahu</strong>. She&#8217;s been backing Netanyahu since the 90s, and she&#8217;s been pouring money into the US Republican Party since the early 2000s. Not small checks either&#8230;serious money, over and over again, for years.</p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dvQf!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe389ffdc-7829-4e93-895c-a9287a6a6219_2400x1395.webp" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" srcset="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dvQf!,w_424,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe389ffdc-7829-4e93-895c-a9287a6a6219_2400x1395.webp 424w, https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!dvQf!,w_848,c_limit,f_webp,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe389ffdc-7829-4e93-895c-a9287a6a6219_2400x1395.webp 848w, 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stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a></figure></div><p>Miriam Adelson donated<a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/miriam-adelson-gives-100-million-to-trump-campaign-making-good-on-reported-pledge/"> 100 million</a> dollars to Trump&#8217;s 2024 presidential race, and a few of his Adelson-driven policies this term include:</p><ul><li><p>Giving <a href="https://costsofwar.watson.brown.edu/paper/AidToIsrael">23 billion dollars</a> worth of weapons and aid to Israel to continue the genocide in Gaza</p></li><li><p>Funding Al-Qaeda in Syria to overthrow Assad</p></li><li><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/15/us/politics/us-attack-houthis.html">Bombing Yemen for Israel</a></p></li><li><p><a href="https://archive.is/u5e6N#selection-2043.139-2043.150">Bombing Iran</a>, by his own admission, &#8220;for Israel&#8221;</p></li><li><p>Funding the so-called &#8220;<a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/us-announces-funding-gaza-humanitarian-foundation-despite-deaths/">Gaza Humanitarian Foundation</a>&#8221; which set up fake aid sites, guarded by IDF soldiers and US mercenaries,<a href="https://archive.is/3LjoW"> who fired at starving Palestinian</a> civilians once they reached them</p></li><li><p>Attempting to<a href="https://archive.is/T44te"> deport legal residents</a> for protesting against Israel</p></li></ul><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.booksbehindborders.org/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Books Behind Borders is a reader-supported publication. <strong>To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free </strong><em><strong>or</strong></em><strong> paid subscriber</strong>. </p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><p>Miriam Adelson has openly said that she believes under Donald Trump, Israel will be able to annex the West Bank. Which brings me to the part I haven&#8217;t heard anybody talk about: her <strong>financial connections to settler violence in the West Bank</strong>.</p><p>If you&#8217;ve spent any time on social media since the genocide in Gaza has broken out, you&#8217;re bound to come across a horrific video showing an Israeli  settler (sometimes even accompanied by the IDF), violently seizing Palestinian territory. </p><p>While I was digging into Adelson, I found that she&#8217;s donated millions of dollars to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashomer_Hachadash">Hashomer Hachadash</a>, which is a volunteer militia that without a second thought, will wipe out a Palestinian, young or old, and seize their land, violently.</p><p>Adelson literally<strong> funds volunteers to take heavy weaponry into Palestine</strong>, and <strong>forcibly remove Palestinians from their homes</strong>, <strong>steal their land</strong>, and <strong>settle on it</strong>.</p><p>These are the people who come into the destroyed and blown up Palestinian territory,<strong> with children buried under the rubble</strong>, atop of bulldozers, and build ILLEGAL settlements.</p><p>With the help of Miriam Adelson&#8217;s money, and the protection of the IDF, this militia (among others) are helping to speed up the process of stealing every piece of land from Palestinians that they can.</p><div class="native-video-embed" data-component-name="VideoPlaceholder" data-attrs="{&quot;mediaUploadId&quot;:&quot;22dba4fd-61b7-4be0-b97b-8fb9112cfa2f&quot;,&quot;duration&quot;:null}"></div><p>The video above shows an Israeli settler, alongside soldiers, beating a Palestinian farmer in front of his wife.</p><p>And just to be clear&#8212;that&#8217;s one of the least violent videos I could find.</p><p>The one at the top of this article is much worse. And even that isn&#8217;t close to the worst of what&#8217;s happening.</p><p>On March 17th, 2026, the <a href="https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2026/03/israels-settlement-expansion-drives-mass-displacement-west-bank-un-report">UN reported</a> that Israel has accelerated unlawful settlement expansion and annexation of large parts of the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, <strong>forcibly displacing over 36,000 Palestinians amid increasing violence by Israeli security forces and settlers</strong>.</p><p>The report stated that over a 12-month period, there was 1,732 incidents of settler violence resulting in casualties or property damage, compared to 1,400 in the previous reporting period. This includes relentless harassment, intimidation, and destruction of homes and farmland.</p><p>Miriam Adelson funnels millions of dollars to Israeli settler movements through her foundation, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adelson_Foundations">Adelson Foundation</a>.</p><p>Stay tuned for part two of this expos&#233; where I&#8217;ll show you that Miriam Adelson is behind Donald Trump&#8217;s crackdown on Pro-Palestinian demonstrations on college campuses, her ties to the Epstein Files, and a background on her.</p><div><hr></div><p>If you&#8217;re tired of being told everything is fine while it clearly isn&#8217;t, you&#8217;re exactly why this publication exists.</p><p><strong>My work is 100% reader-supported</strong>. <strong>That means no advertisers, no political handlers, and no incentive to soften the truth</strong>.</p><p>I started this because too many people feel like they&#8217;re losing their minds trying to make sense of what&#8217;s happening, myself included. <strong>I wanted to build a space of like-minded people to make this journey feel less lonely for all of us</strong>.</p><p>To allow me to continue posting content just like this, please consider becoming a paid subscriber. 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He's now bombing Iran &#8212; and 65% of Americans fear a full ground war is next.]]></description><link>https://www.booksbehindborders.org/p/trump-americans-reject-iran-war</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.booksbehindborders.org/p/trump-americans-reject-iran-war</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Books Behind Borders]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2026 13:15:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com/public/images/a8567f56-5b20-4db0-b4e2-a4aa831a959c_800x487.webp" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!bD4J!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd3ca0a17-0128-4329-b08b-0e82166a363b_1440x959.avif" data-component-name="Image2ToDOM"><div class="image2-inset"><picture><source type="image/webp" 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class="image-link-expand"><div class="pencraft pc-display-flex pc-gap-8 pc-reset"><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container restack-image"><svg role="img" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 20 20" fill="none" stroke-width="1.5" stroke="var(--color-fg-primary)" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g><title></title><path d="M2.53001 7.81595C3.49179 4.73911 6.43281 2.5 9.91173 2.5C13.1684 2.5 15.9537 4.46214 17.0852 7.23684L17.6179 8.67647M17.6179 8.67647L18.5002 4.26471M17.6179 8.67647L13.6473 6.91176M17.4995 12.1841C16.5378 15.2609 13.5967 17.5 10.1178 17.5C6.86118 17.5 4.07589 15.5379 2.94432 12.7632L2.41165 11.3235M2.41165 11.3235L1.5293 15.7353M2.41165 11.3235L6.38224 13.0882"></path></g></svg></button><button tabindex="0" type="button" class="pencraft pc-reset pencraft icon-container view-image"><svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20" viewBox="0 0 24 24" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" stroke-width="2" stroke-linecap="round" stroke-linejoin="round" class="lucide lucide-maximize2 lucide-maximize-2"><polyline points="15 3 21 3 21 9"></polyline><polyline points="9 21 3 21 3 15"></polyline><line x1="21" x2="14" y1="3" y2="10"></line><line x1="3" x2="10" y1="21" y2="14"></line></svg></button></div></div></div></a><figcaption class="image-caption"><strong>More than 2,000 people have been killed since the US and Israel began their bombing campaign on Iran, including 13 U.S. &#8203;service members</strong></figcaption></figure></div><p>Trump ran for president three times on the <strong>promise of not starting or getting entangled in any foreign wars</strong>. The people who voted for him believed that no matter what else Trump did, he would not start a new foreign conflict. </p><p>You could like him or hate him, but a lot of people voted for him because <strong>they thought he wouldn&#8217;t get the U.S. pulled into another disastrous war in the Middle East</strong>. Trump even refers to himself as the &#8220;Peace President.&#8221;</p><p>When Trump said his return to the White House was about doing things his way and not answering to anyone, his supporters didn&#8217;t think that meant abandoning one of his core positions. But since coming back into office, <strong>threatening and using military force has become a central part of his presidency</strong>.</p><p>He <strong>threatened to violently seize Greenland</strong>, <strong>sunk boats in the Caribbean </strong>that the administration labeled as &#8220;drug boats&#8221; (providing no evidence to support it), launched <strong>a bombing strike the White House claimed &#8220;obliterated&#8221; Iran&#8217;s nuclear program</strong>, kidnapped the president of Venezuela and his wife, and now he&#8217;s <strong>bombing Iran and collapsing the global economy even though they posed no threat to Americans</strong>.</p><p>If there&#8217;s one thing Trump should understand, it&#8217;s this: <strong>the American people do not want another war in the Middle East</strong>.</p><p>New polling from Reuters shows that <strong>43% <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/us/just-one-four-americans-support-us-strikes-iran-reutersipsos-poll-finds-2026-03-01">disapprove</a> of US strikes on Iran</strong>, 65% of Americans believe Trump will order troops into a large-scale ground war in Iran, and &#8204;just <strong><a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/americans-believe-trump-will-send-troops-into-iran-dont-like-idea-reutersipsos-2026-03-19">7% support that idea</a></strong>.</p><p>I think it goes without saying that <strong>no president has betrayed his supporters in such a grave way as Donald Trump</strong> has in his second term.</p><p>The bright side is that hopefully this treacherous betrayal <strong>will show Americans that no politician is on our side</strong>. They are all bought and paid for, on both sides of the aisle.</p><div><hr></div><p>If you&#8217;re tired of being told everything is fine while it clearly isn&#8217;t, you&#8217;re exactly why this publication exists.</p><p><strong>My work is 100% reader-supported</strong>. <strong>That means no advertisers, no political handlers, and no incentive to soften the truth</strong>.</p><p>I started this because too many people feel like they&#8217;re losing their minds trying to make sense of what&#8217;s happening, myself included. <strong>I wanted to build a space of like-minded people to make this journey feel less lonely for all of us</strong>.</p><p>To allow me to continue posting content just like this, please consider becoming a paid subscriber. I&#8217;m running a special for $40/year.</p><p>If that price feels impossible to you, I understand. <strong>Share this article with everyone you know, it costs nothing but it matters more than you could possibly know</strong>.</p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.booksbehindborders.org/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Maddie (Books Behind Borders) is a reader-supported publication. <strong>To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free </strong><em><strong>or</strong></em><strong> paid subscriber</strong>.</p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><div class="captioned-button-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.booksbehindborders.org/p/trump-americans-reject-iran-war?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;}" data-component-name="CaptionedButtonToDOM"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading Maddie (Books Behind Borders)! <strong>This post is public so feel free to share it</strong>.</p></div><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.booksbehindborders.org/p/trump-americans-reject-iran-war?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.booksbehindborders.org/p/trump-americans-reject-iran-war?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p></div><div class="community-chat" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://open.substack.com/pub/booksbehindborders/chat?utm_source=chat_embed&quot;,&quot;subdomain&quot;:&quot;booksbehindborders&quot;,&quot;pub&quot;:{&quot;id&quot;:3596148,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Maddie (Books Behind Borders)&quot;,&quot;author_name&quot;:&quot;Books Behind Borders&quot;,&quot;author_photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Rsy9!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1f826b5b-9c1a-48d2-ba18-32f41b57d1cd_553x554.jpeg&quot;}}" data-component-name="CommunityChatRenderPlaceholder"></div>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Another Unnecessary War That Nobody Voted For]]></title><description><![CDATA[The US can't fix roads, lower drug and food prices, or solve the housing crisis &#8212; but there's always unlimited money for bombs.]]></description><link>https://www.booksbehindborders.org/p/iran-unnecessary-war</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.booksbehindborders.org/p/iran-unnecessary-war</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Books Behind Borders]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2026 11:50:41 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/190923058/34f4c802ad6635c8464e0a7d73d7ad62.mp3" length="0" type="audio/mpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>According to the propaganda machine in the West, and judging by the endless stream of congressmen flooding my Twitter feed lately, Iran is apparently the source of all the problems in the United States of America.</p><p><strong>It&#8217;s starting to feel a lot like 2001 again</strong>. The same fear campaign. <strong>The same talking points</strong>. The same message that there&#8217;s some terrifying enemy overseas that we need to fight immediately.</p><p>And of course, the same politicians who claim they represent the American people are lining up to support it, fully aware that these wars never end quickly and never end cleanly. They drag on for decades, they leave entire regions destabilized, <strong>they create endless hatred toward the United States</strong>, and they <strong>always end with thousands of dead civilians and thousands of dead Americans</strong>.</p><p>Not to mention, <strong>they&#8217;re always based on a lie</strong>.</p><p>And I just have one question.<br><strong>Is Iran the reason why the US is in an irreversible decline</strong>?<br>Is Iran the reason six families own everything in the United States?<br><strong>Is Iran the reason corporations are squeezing every last dollar out of American workers while paying next to nothing in taxes</strong>?<br>Is Iran the reason fentanyl is flooding American streets and killing tens of thousands of people every year?<br><strong>Is Iran the reason young Americans can&#8217;t afford homes anymore</strong>?<br>Is Iran the reason people are going bankrupt just to get a hip replacement?<br><strong>Is Iran the reason kids are graduating from college with hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt&#8230; only to end up delivering DoorDash just to survive</strong>?</p><p>Because if you walked down the street in almost any American city right now and knocked on the door of someone who&#8217;s two months away from being evicted and asked them a simple question &#8212; &#8220;What happened? Why are you struggling?&#8221; &#8212; do you honestly think they&#8217;d say, &#8220;Yeah&#8230; it&#8217;s Iran.&#8221;</p><p>Of course they wouldn&#8217;t.</p><p>They&#8217;d tell you their rent went up again.<br>They&#8217;d tell you groceries are more expensive every single week.<br>They&#8217;d tell you about medical bills they can&#8217;t pay.<br>They&#8217;d tell you about working full-time and still barely being able to survive.</p><p><strong>In other words, they&#8217;d talk about the problems that actually exist in their lives</strong>.</p><p>So why is it that every time you turn on the news or scroll social media, the conversation somehow shifts back to another war?</p><p>Why is it that every time you see carnage, death, destruction, and war somewhere in the world, the United States military is either directly involved or quietly funding it?</p><p>And here&#8217;s the part that makes the least sense of all.</p><p>The United States itself is clearly struggling.</p><p>You don&#8217;t need to be an economist to see it.</p><p>Roads are falling apart. Bridges are crumbling. Entire towns look like they&#8217;ve been abandoned by the government that collects taxes from them.</p><p><strong>Millions of Americans can&#8217;t afford gas, groceries, or rent without putting it on a credit card</strong>.</p><p>Healthcare costs are bankrupting families.</p><p>And an entire generation is starting to realize that no matter how hard they work, they&#8217;re probably going to own less than their parents did.</p><p><strong>But somehow, despite all of that, there is always unlimited money for war</strong>.</p><p><strong>We can&#8217;t fix roads, but we can fund another conflict</strong>.</p><p><strong>We can&#8217;t lower healthcare costs, but we can ship billions of dollars in weapons overseas</strong>.</p><p><strong>We can&#8217;t solve the housing crisis, but we can bankroll military campaigns on the other side of the planet</strong>.</p><p>And if you turn on the news or open social media, the messaging is always the same.</p><p>&#8220;Pray for Israel.&#8221;<br>&#8220;I stand with Israel.&#8221;<br>&#8220;We need to help them.&#8221;</p><p>What about the people living in the country that&#8217;s actually paying for all of this?</p><p>What about the Americans who elected these politicians in the first place?</p><p><strong>What about the people who are struggling just to survive while watching billions of their tax dollars disappear into conflicts they never voted for and will never benefit from</strong>?</p><p>Because that&#8217;s the part of the conversation nobody in Washington ever seems interested in having.</p><div><hr></div><p>If you&#8217;re tired of being told everything is fine while it clearly isn&#8217;t, you&#8217;re exactly why this publication exists.</p><p><strong>My work is 100% reader-supported</strong>. <strong>That means no advertisers, no political handlers, and no incentive to soften the truth</strong>.</p><p>I started this because too many people feel like they&#8217;re losing their minds trying to make sense of what&#8217;s happening, myself included. <strong>I wanted to build a space of like-minded people to make this journey feel less lonely for all of us</strong>.</p><p>To allow me to continue posting content just like this, please consider becoming a paid subscriber. I&#8217;m running a special for $40/year.</p><p>If that price feels impossible to you, I understand. <strong>Share this article with everyone you know, it costs nothing but it matters more than you could possibly know</strong>.</p><p></p><div class="subscription-widget-wrap-editor" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.booksbehindborders.org/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe&quot;,&quot;language&quot;:&quot;en&quot;}" data-component-name="SubscribeWidgetToDOM"><div class="subscription-widget show-subscribe"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Maddie (Books Behind Borders) is a reader-supported publication. <strong>To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free </strong><em><strong>or</strong></em><strong> paid subscriber.</strong></p></div><form class="subscription-widget-subscribe"><input type="email" class="email-input" name="email" placeholder="Type your email&#8230;" tabindex="-1"><input type="submit" class="button primary" value="Subscribe"><div class="fake-input-wrapper"><div class="fake-input"></div><div class="fake-button"></div></div></form></div></div><div class="captioned-button-wrap" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.booksbehindborders.org/p/iran-unnecessary-war?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;}" data-component-name="CaptionedButtonToDOM"><div class="preamble"><p class="cta-caption">Thanks for reading Maddie (Books Behind Borders)! <strong>This post is public so feel free to share it</strong>.</p></div><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://www.booksbehindborders.org/p/iran-unnecessary-war?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Share&quot;}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://www.booksbehindborders.org/p/iran-unnecessary-war?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&action=share"><span>Share</span></a></p></div><div class="community-chat" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://open.substack.com/pub/booksbehindborders/chat?utm_source=chat_embed&quot;,&quot;subdomain&quot;:&quot;booksbehindborders&quot;,&quot;pub&quot;:{&quot;id&quot;:3596148,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;Maddie (Books Behind Borders)&quot;,&quot;author_name&quot;:&quot;Books Behind Borders&quot;,&quot;author_photo_url&quot;:&quot;https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Rsy9!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F1f826b5b-9c1a-48d2-ba18-32f41b57d1cd_553x554.jpeg&quot;}}" data-component-name="CommunityChatRenderPlaceholder"></div><p><br></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Judeo-Christianity Doesn't Exist, It's an Oxymoron]]></title><description><![CDATA[Watch now | Imagine the amount of propaganda it took to convince millions of Christians to pledge loyalty to a country that was created in 1948 by the ROTHSCHILDS.]]></description><link>https://www.booksbehindborders.org/p/rabbi-mocks-christianity-and-jesus</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.booksbehindborders.org/p/rabbi-mocks-christianity-and-jesus</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Books Behind Borders]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 07 Mar 2026 20:08:13 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/190222889/dacccb60472a2196577f1e13719c6742.mp3" length="0" type="audio/mpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Imagine the amount of propaganda it took to convince millions of Christians to pledge loyalty to a country that was created in 1948 by the ROTHSCHILDS</strong>.</p><p>Watch the short video above and then ask yourself an honest question:<br>If a Muslim leader had said the same thing, how do you think Christians&#8212;specifically AMERICAN Christians&#8212;would react?</p><p>Would the media shrug it off?<br>Or would it dominate headlines for weeks?</p><p>The reality is, <strong>Islam and Christianity have far more in common with their theology than Christianity has with Judaism</strong>. </p><p>Yet politically, millions of Christians have been brainwashed to view Muslims as their enemy, while forming unwavering political support to a made up country in the Middle East.</p><p><strong>This conversation is more important than ever right now considering the US and Israel have begun a Holy war in an effort to bring about their Messiah, which is the Anti Christ</strong>.</p><div><hr></div><p>If you&#8217;re tired of being told everything is fine while it clearly isn&#8217;t, you&#8217;re exactly why this publication exists.</p><p><strong>My work is 100% reader-supported</strong>. <strong>That means no advertisers, no political handlers, and no incentive to soften the truth</strong>.</p><p>I started this because too many people feel like they&#8217;re losing their minds trying to make sense of what&#8217;s happening, myself included. <strong>I wanted to build a space of like-minded people to make this journey feel less lonely for all of us</strong>.</p><p>To allow me to continue posting content just like this, please consider becoming a paid subscriber. 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They call it prophecy when Christians do it. The Bible doesn't justify genocide &#8212; but millions of Americans are pretending it does.]]></description><link>https://www.booksbehindborders.org/p/bible-prophecy-religious-extremism-israel</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.booksbehindborders.org/p/bible-prophecy-religious-extremism-israel</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Books Behind Borders]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2026 19:26:15 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/189386995/625d269c4b4c8474b3f5dfb1f7851432.mp3" length="0" type="audio/mpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;But God promised us this land 3000 years ago.&#8221;</p><p>Listen, I&#8217;m going to say this as respectfully and as clearly as I possibly can. I am speaking directly to the Jews, Christians, Zionists, Evangelical Christians, and <strong>any other group who is unwaveringly defending the state of Israel no matter how many people are killed, displaced, or buried in the process</strong>. If your support does not waver regardless of the body count, if no number of dead civilians changes your position, and if your ultimate justification for genocide and mass murder is that God promised the land thousands of years ago, then <strong>you are a religious extremist who is supporting a holy war</strong>.</p><p>Correct me if I&#8217;m wrong, but there&#8217;s a certain Arabic word for &#8220;holy war&#8221; that Americans have been trained to fear and despise. We have spent decades condemning it, invading countries in the name of stopping it, pouring trillions into wars over it, building massive surveillance systems to prevent it, and <strong>branding anyone associated with it as a terrorist or a fanatic without hesitation</strong>.</p><p>When other groups use a holy book to justify killing, we don&#8217;t bend over backwards to explain it away. <strong>We call it extremism</strong>. <strong>We call it terrorism</strong>. We don&#8217;t say it&#8217;s complicated, and <strong>we definitely don&#8217;t say it&#8217;s part of God&#8217;s divine plan</strong>. </p><p>When Zionists say they support the state of Israel because the Bible says that land was promised to them, suddenly the standards change. Suddenly it&#8217;s about faith, or prophecy, or being on the &#8220;right side of history.&#8221; </p><p>When Muslims cite scripture to justify violence, we call them radicals.<br>When Western Christians cite scripture to justify violence, we call it prophecy. <strong>Why is it only extremism when it comes from Muslims</strong>?</p><p>If a single <strong>individual knocked on someone&#8217;s door, held a gun to a family, and told them they had five minutes to leave their home before it was bulldozed with them inside</strong>, no one would call that complex geopolitics. No one would say we need to understand the bigger picture. </p><p>We would call it what it is: <strong>violent, criminal, deranged behavior</strong>. <strong>We would say it&#8217;s a home invasion, destruction of property, armed robbery, and psychological terror</strong>.</p><p>But when that same thing is carried out by a state, backed by a military, wrapped in a flag, and justified as &#8216;self defense&#8217; or divine promise, suddenly people start looking for Bible verses to explain why it&#8217;s necessary. And <strong>if you are supporting that because your church told you to, or because &#8220;the Bible told you to do so,&#8221; it&#8217;s simply religious extremism with better PR</strong>.</p><p>This isn&#8217;t about attacking Christians or Jews as a whole, and it&#8217;s not about hating America. <strong>It&#8217;s about having morals and values</strong>. If we are going to condemn religious violence in one context, we don&#8217;t get to baptize it in another and pretend it&#8217;s righteous. <strong>A Holy Book does not become a moral shield just because it belongs to you</strong>.</p><p>A lot of Americans were raised to believe that supporting Israel is automatically part of being a good Christian and a good patriot, and most people never stop to question where that connection came from or who benefits from it. But <strong>if your faith is the reason you are excusing mass death, displacement, and destruction, then at the very least you should be honest about what that is:</strong> <strong>terrorism</strong>.</p><p>And let&#8217;s be honest about something else:<br><strong>Anything that requires the mass killing of civilians to sustain it does not carry God&#8217;s approval</strong>. You can wrap it in scripture, you can quote prophecy, you can preach it from a pulpit, but if it demands blood on that scale, it is not holy. It is not righteous. You are furthering Satan&#8217;s plan, not God&#8217;s.</p><p>If you actually want to understand the true history of the Israel&#8211;Palestine conflict instead of just repeating whatever headline is trending this week, click <strong><a href="https://open.substack.com/pub/booksbehindborders/p/the-forbidden-reading-list?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&amp;utm_medium=post%20viewer">HERE</a></strong> for my <em>Forbidden Reading List</em>. It&#8217;s a curated list of 200+ books, broken down by category, that dives into this topic and many others, that the mainstream media never wanted you to find.</p><div><hr></div><p>If you&#8217;re tired of being told everything is fine while it clearly isn&#8217;t, you&#8217;re exactly why this publication exists.</p><p><strong>My work is 100% reader-supported</strong>. <strong>That means no advertisers, no political handlers, and no incentive to soften the truth</strong>.</p><p>I started this because too many people feel like they&#8217;re losing their minds trying to make sense of what&#8217;s happening, myself included. <strong>I wanted to build a space of like-minded people to make this journey feel less lonely for all of us</strong>.</p><p>To allow me to continue posting content just like this, please consider becoming a paid subscriber. 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