My posts, as well as Time For Truth’s Time Capsules, are, as anyone who reads them knows, never going to win me or our ministry any popularity contests. As I was once told by my own publicist, I have an itsy-bitsy niche audience; but, alas, such is the plight of any prophet. As Plato said, “No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.” And in today’s world, where truth is absolutely intolerable, the mere mention of it, as George Orwell once opined, “is a revolutionary act.” Having prefaced today’s Time Capsule post with these cautionary words, permit me now to proceed with it, despite the fact that hardly anyone is going to like it.

Have you noticed that our country is currently buried beneath an avalanche of questions on a plethora of perplexities and cascade of controversies for which there is never any clear or forthcoming answers? Question after question is asked for which no forthcoming answer is ever given. We are left in the dark, our government dodges and evades, our politicians preen and parry, and our mainstream media rattles on repeatedly like a broken record. Have you ever wondered why, or even considered that the explanation for it all could be our country’s loathing of the truth and of the facts, as well as love of lies and fiction? 

Allow me to offer you a prime example of what I’m talking about, in the on-again off-again and never ending story of Jeffrey Epstein, which has not only been going on now for twenty years and counting, but also through six presidential administrations. Jeffrey Epstein was a monster and all who participated in his monstrous crimes should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. This, is unquestionable; but it’s here that the unquestionable part ends and all the unanswered questions begin.

Who was Jeffrey Epstein? How did he accumulate such a fabulous fortune? How did he end up in the inner circles of our world’s most wealthy and powerful people. Was Epstein a foreign spy? Did he really kill himself in prison? Who were all of Epstein’s accomplishes, coconspirators, and clients in his pedophilia and sex trafficking ring? Why have those we know about not been indicted, such as Prince Andrew? Why did Trump’s DOJ redact from the Epstein files the names of Epstein’s child sex trafficking coconspirators, like Les Wexner, the founder and former owner of Victoria Secret? Is this simply to be chalked up to incompetence or is there a far more nefarious explanation, such as an intentional coverup to protect wealthy and powerful people? Why has Trump’s DOJ failed to meet thus far with some of Epstein’s victims, who have requested to meet with Attorney General Pam Bondi’s office? Why did Trump’s DOJ release and fail to redact the names of Epstein’s victims from the Epstein files? Why, if they want to remain anonymous, do Epstein’s victims continue to write books, hold press conferences, and show up at congressional hearings where they repeatedly stand up and raise their hands at Democrats’ beck and call? Why, if they want everyone in Epstein’s pedophilia and sex trafficking ring brought to justice, do Epstein’s victims refuse to publicly name names, could it possibly be that they fear being sued for libel if they should ever do so?

All of these questions, as well as many more, remain either unanswered or partially or implausibly answered. In fact, many of these questions remain not only unanswered, but even unasked. Why? Could it be that if ever asked, the truthful answers to these questions would prove to be absolutely intolerable, in today’s truth-hating America? 

To prove the above point, permit me to conclude today’s Time Capsule post with a most important, but unasked question. What has happened to personal and parental responsibility in today’s America? By asking this question, I’m well aware of the fact that I need to brace myself for fierce backlash. Still, this important question needs to be asked, if we are not only to understand how this never-ending horror story of Jeffrey Epstein was written, but also to prevent another story like it from ever being written. 

Numerous victims of Jeffrey Epstein allege that they were forcefully took to Epstein’s island and held there as captives. Others tell of being groomed and enticed to go to Epstein’s island by being promised financial incentives or future careers as models or actresses. Granted, once there, many allege that they were kept there by being threatened with violence, having their passports confiscated, and by having all outside communications cut off. Still, there were some, who for the promise of additional pay, helped recruit their own friends to the island. Now, apart from those who were forcefully trafficked, as well as some who were as young as 11 and 12, those who voluntarily went to Epstein’s island of their own free volition, especially older teens and young women, certainly bear some degree of personal responsibility for their own decisions and actions. However, personal responsibly is practically unheard of in today’s America, where no one is ever to be personally held accountable for their own personal actions anymore. 

In addition to the discomforting question of personal responsibility, there is also the far more troubling question of parental responsibility. Where were the parents of all of these underaged victims of Jeffrey Epstein when they were being sexually exploited on Epstein’s island? Indeed, many of the vulnerable young girls sexually exploited by Jeffrey Epstein were brought to his island from abusive homes. Although unconscionable to me, one of the main complaints lodged by Epstein’s victims over their outing, by the DOJ’s failure to redact their names from the Epstein files, is that their parents have found out for the first time that they were sexually exploited by Jeffrey Epstein. This leads to a most pungent question: What kind of a parent is not only totally oblivious to their underaged daughter being taken to the Virgin Islands to be sexually exploited, but also still totally ignorant about it all years after the fact?

Talking about a discomforting, inconvenient, unpopular, and intolerable truth, here’s one for sure. At the center of the sad and never-ending story of Jeffrey Epstein is not only the breakdown of personal and parental responsibility in America today, but also the breakdown of the family and the home, which is not only the God-ordained bedrock of all orderly society, but also essential to the protection and proper upbringing of children. Once we realize that the majority of Epstein’s victims were Americans, we Americans are forced to face a most frightening fact. The never-ending horror story of Jeffrey Epstein could have never been written if it were not for the breakdown of the home in America. The real problem was not on Saint James Island in the Virgin Islands, but in the home in America, which made the monstrous crimes of Jeffrey Epstein possible.