Omaha in the 80's

The franklin scandal and the epstein files

It’s a very strange thing to be living through this period of American history. To see daily hard evidence of the whacko conspiracies I was discovering back in 2008 is jaw-dropping, if I am honest.

Back then, I had been even more deeply radicalized than my already-radical upbringing had precluded me to via my then-burgeoning relationship with the Indians I was spending time with. That Star Knowledge stuff is no joke! My world view began to expand beyond its common-narrative perspectives, and I started to look into things like secret societies, ancient symbolism, occulted practices, mystery schools, and of course, conspiracies.

I listened to Coast to Coast with George Nori every night as we would wrap the kitchen. I watched everything David Icke produced up until 2014. I bought a membership to James Bartley’s Cosmic Switchboard to get the extended interviews with all the juicy bits not fit for public consumption. And, I found Freeman Fly TV when he produced his videos on the potential for mind control in the cases of Anna Nicole Smith and Britney Spears. It’s not that I really was a hard-core believer. It was more just fascinating entertainment, and an alternate view of reality to ponder, like reading the tabloids when I was younger.

I looked into Cathy O’Brien, Project Paperclip, MK-Ultra mind control programming(Virginia Guiffre’s butterfly, anybody?), and one day stumbled across a program called The Conspiracy of Silence. I had remembered the Franklin Scandal from my youth, but I was so young that I couldn’t remember any of the details other than that a bus load of underage boys had been brought in for a late-night Republican party in 1988 under the Bush Sr. administration.

What this story alleged was completely plausible, has testimony from several survivors and witnesses, and is a jaw-dropping account of corruption and abuse. In light of what has been unearthed in the recent dump of Epstein files for our perusal, this story looks even more likely.

Dang it all if that timing doesn’t line up with these two tales, as well…

For years, I’ve been happy to have shut down my seedy indulgences into the wild world of conspiratorial chats. Once the T-Bag got elected to office the first time, and all my beloved chat boards went completely cuckoo for the AntiChrist, I just stepped away. Everything that they had been warning of in terms of concentration camps, clamp downs on personal freedoms, movements toward totalitarian dictatorships and the like was coming to pass with that monster’s election, and they just couldn’t see it because of disinformation and allegiances to party lines. So, I concluded that my mother was right. No group could have their shit together enough for multiple generations to keep this wicked web of lies a secret, and to enact such wide-spread horrors upon us.

But, here we are.

And here I am, picking up this red thread again.

I do not believe that JE was the first human to run an operation like this, nor do I think he will be the last.

That leads us back to this Franklin Scandal business.

The Franklin Scandal was officially about a man by the name of Lawrence E King embezzling $39 million from a credit union in Omaha, Nebraska. But, just under the surface, we find a story of child abuse, trafficking of minors, weird culty rituals, and an entire system that has institutionalized these practices. Not to mention the incredible cover-up.

Sound familiar?

You know what else is familiar? The names Roberts, Scallia, and most especially, Thomas. Judge Clarence Thomas apparently has direct ties to the corruption and child abuse that came to light all those years ago in 1988. Though, I suppose that should come as no surprise. How convenient that he should fail up so successfully to have landed a seat on the highest bench of the land.

For reasons that remain as yet unclear, my intuition says these two events—The Franklin Scandal and those exposed in the release of the Epstein files—strike me as related, and not just because they contain the same content. The methods of procuring and grooming victims, the men and women involved, the unbelievable coverups, the pipeline from youth facilities to pedophilia operations—not only are the methods the same, but many of the names involved are, too. Larry King just happened to be a black man, and I have always suspected that he acted as a fall guy to help keep prying eyes off bigger fish.

I don’t have it in me to sift through any of the files currently, but I will be interested in witnessing what comes to light. After all, these guys needed to start somewhere.

That said, I don’t believe that the Franklin Scandal was even the start of this separate sect of society. A read of William Mann’s The Black Dahlia, though sounding crazily conspiratorial at first blush, is starting to sound more and more familiar as our current conundrum unfolds…

Though these random stories have sounded truly unbelievable over the years, especially when spoken outloud—though they have all seemed like disparate threads—they also have rung as true. Now, we see clearly, they are.

It will not surprise me in the least if we one day discover that the stories in True Detective, Eyes Wide Shut, and this unsolved murder from the golden age of Hollywood all point back to the same source of inspiration. For now, I don’t believe we have found the Grand Spider at the center of this shadowy web. But, the sun certainly seems to be rising, the web is coming into view, and perhaps someday soon, we will.

What a wild time to be alive.

This article was originally published on Substack. You can read the original here.