Darrell Castle talks about the criminal case and investigation against Jeffrey Epstein, currently ongoing by the U.S. Attorney, Division of Public Corruption in the Southern District of New York.

WHO CAN CLEAN AMERICA’S AUGEAN STABLES

Hello, this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. Today is Friday, July 12, 2019, and on today’s report I will be talking about the Fifth of Hercules’ twelve labors. No, not really, this Report is not about Greek Mythology and its actual subject is, unfortunately,, not a myth. The actual subject is the premise that when a nation reaches the level of accepting child rape from those in high places, it is in the bottom of the pit.

In the mythology of Ancient Greece, Hercules was a demi god meaning he was the result of a union between the God Zeus and a mortal woman. It seems that Zeus deceived the poor woman into thinking that he was her mortal husband, but another woman the goddess Hera was enamored with Zeus and therefore hated Hercules. She set out to create hell in his life and was fairly successful in doing so. Since Hercules was half god or demi god he had great strength and ability.

He was assigned twelve labors that usually involved fighting and killing some legendary dragon or great beast but the fifth labor of Hercules is our subject for today. King Augeas had a great deal of land and the largest herd of cattle in the world. The stalls of his barn had not been cleaned in 30 years and so contained the filth of hundreds of thousands of cattle over 30 years time. Hercules task was to clean the stalls in one day so you can see that it was no small labor. Hercules was a clever and resourceful hero so he diverted two rivers to flow through the stalls thus washing them out in a single day.

The question for the day then is who will clean out the Augean stable that is America today. The filth and corruption has been accumulating for over 100 years and I suppose some would say for the entire 243 years of America’s existence. Every time a hero comes along that we think is up to the task he ends up being corrupted by the filth and just adds more to what is already there so the pile gets bigger day by day.

The matter that brought my mind back to Greek Mythology is the criminal case of Jeffrey Epstein filed recently in the Southern District of New York (SDNY) by the United States Attorney’s office, Division of Public Corruption. When asked why that particular department, the U.S. Attorney in charge said something like I wouldn’t read too much into that. How can we not read a lot into it? Why would the division of public corruption bring charges against a man described as a billionaire financier and who has no apparent connection with government.

The answer has to lie somewhere in the corruption accumulating in Washington, which most of us hope will be at least partially cleaned out by this process. I’m sure you are aware by now that Mr. Epstein has been charged with one count of sex trafficking of minors and one count of conspiracy to traffic minors and the two charges together carry a maximum sentence of 45 years in prison. He reportedly carries a lot of names in his rolodex. Not just any names but the kinds of names that might pay huge sums for silence and the kinds of names that can get a 45 year sentence reduced to almost nothing.

Please keep in mind that none of those names have even been charged, so it is all just speculation at this point, but Mr. Epstein himself has certainly been up to this behavior for decades and he has been caught and charged before. About a decade ago he was arrested and charged with running a sex trafficking operation in Florida and on his private island in the Caribbean in which several, perhaps hundreds of minor girls experienced rape and other forms of sexual abuse. I don’t like to use the terms abuse, trafficking, etc., when what we are really talking about is the rape of children.