Edit: this is a throw-away account, I will not be using it further nor

answering any questions

Edit2: impossible to get such a piece passed my editor, so I'm leaving it
here for people to distribute (send it to journos if you have the emails, it
will silently resonate)

We are told the work on /r/Pizzagate (and other message boards) is illegitimate
because people are rushing to conclusions, or because they are being paranoid, or
partisan (despite so many of different political complexions provably working
together). The subtitle here of course is that the State is solely legitimate to
suspect and investigate crimes.
But what if the State itself is, in a systemic way, responsible for said crimes? It
wouldn't be a first; after all, democide (death by government, a word surprisingly
absent from conversations) was the first cause of non-natural deaths in the 20th
century. Whether one is from the right, left, or center, one cannot deny
government is the number one abuser, enslaver and serial-killer in History. We may
honestly disagree on the ways to eradicate the phenomenon, or we may regret that
fact, but we cannot deny it.
So, if the State itself is committing crimes, it is the people's sovereign and sacred
duty to expose it. Those who understand this truth best tend to become journalists.
At least, that's what drove me to the profession.
Now specifically on this work. First, there is context; institutional child abuse is
already a common-knowledge phenomenon. From the Presidio affair to Jimmy
Saville and the BBC, or from the Vatican's historic involvement in covering-up
pedophilia to US legislators' documented trips on the "Lolita Express", from the
questions still surrounding Dutroux to the Hampstead doubts, the scourge has been
featured in the news, movies, documentaries, art work. There have also been many
policymakers, prosecutors, investigators and victims denouncing the very
phenomenon; see for example British MP John Mann passionate speech before
Parliament on the subject last year, or the extensive report by former undercover
Interpol agent (Bannon). Indeed it is a secret de Polichinelle. So the only possible
disagreement can be on the scale and systemicity of the phenomenon.
To honestly decide whether that's what we are seeing in the Podesta emails, please
have a look at this one example. Look at the invitation at the end of the thread. Ms
Luzzatto is inviting people (among which are John and Mary Podesta) to a farm in
Lovettsville. This is what she says:
We plan to heat the pool, so a swim is a possibility. Bonnie will be Uber Service to
transport Ruby, Emerson, and Maeve Luzzatto (11, 9, and almost 7) so youll have
some further entertainment, and they will be in that pool for sure.

Impossible, you say? They couldn't possibly be speaking about abusing the
children! After all, what step-grandmother would offer three innocent children up
for group abuse?
This is how invitee Drew Littman answers the invitation:
I've never had an affair, so I pass the Walter Jones test.
If you aren't aware, Walter B. Jones has for 20 years been the U.S. Representative
for North Carolina's 3rd congressional district; in DC he's regarded as the absurd
caricature of a do-gooder, i.e. he is a noble man indeed.
Agreed, if that example was the only one, one could dismiss it as baroque
misinterpretation. But there's more, much more. Let's not even get into the
handkerchiefs and codewords - even though "cheese pizza" is a known euphemism
for "child porn" (and there are abundant examples in the Podesta emails where that
term is used in very strange and out-of-context manners).
How about the fact that John and Tony Podesta are old friends of Jeffery Epstein,
Dennis Hastert and Clement Freud, three convicted child molesters? Who has so
many child rapists as friends? Who stays friends with child rapists after they're
exposed and convicted?
How about the Katy Grannan photos plastered around the Podestas' mansion,
depicting naked teenagers?
How about Tony Podesta writing he's "very good and a little wired" from being
seated next to "the kids" on an airplane?
How about the underground vault on the Podestas' property which admittedly
allows them to watch "very complicated video pieces"?
If you are feeling ill-at-ease, that reaction is honorable. And the worse thing is you
haven't yet seen much. But for more, you'll have to look for it. Indeed one might be
breaking statutory laws by linking to some of the clues Internet sleuths have found
in the past three weeks.
For example, did you know James Alefantis, listed 49th "most influential" person in
DC by GQ, chef and White House regular, boyfriend of David Brock, owner of Comet
Ping Pong, had an Instagram account filled with references to and depictions of
child abuse and torture? Indeed it's not just the frescoes in his restaurant or the
"artists" he hosts there; it's not even the fact his menu and the logos of three other
iconic businesses next door feature FBI-recognized pedophilia symbols. No, this is
about his own posts, pictures, comments and friends on social media. Again, you'll
have to look it up for yourself. It is hardly ambiguous. Indeed it is Alefantis who
puts the pizza in #Pizzagate.
If that surprises you, did you know Arun Rao was caught "liking" several of
Alefantis' creepiest toddler Instagram posts? Again, that could be dismissed - only

there's all this context, and the fact Mr Rao is a Assistant US attorney, and charged
with prosecuting child pornography and abuse.
And if you're still not distinguishing the pattern, did you know that Laura Silsby
(Gayler), the woman caught trying to smuggle thirty-three children out of Haiti (a
country where the Clinton Foundation isn't without controversy), whose release
from jail became a personal matter for Ms Clinton, thereafter became an associate
of MyStateUSA, which changed its name to AlertSense, and which is the one
providing the technology to issue Amber Alerts?
Enough already. If anything I have proven the legitimacy of the following question:
Is there a systemic pedophilia problem in Washington DC, as we already
suspect there is one in Hollywood?
In terms of national systemicity, the statistics are eloquent. The International
Centre for Missing Children (ICMEC) estimates that 8 million children are reported
missing each year around the world. Of that number, according to U.S. Department
of Justice research, an estimated 800,000 children will go missing in the United
States alone a rate of over 2'000 missing children each day with 466,949 of
those cases entered into the FBIs National Crime Information Center (NCIC)
database in 2014. With a current child population (aged 0 17) of around 74
million in the United States, the U.S. Department of Justice figures equate to
around 1 child in every 92 going missing in the United States each year.
This looks like a systemic problem indeed. Childhood disappearances outnumber
cancer deaths in the United States by one third.
Therefore, given the sheer amount of leaked emails, and the suspected
phenomenon's scale and repartition, it is likely the data dumps (Podesta and other
Wikileaks, Guccifer 1/2, DNCLeaks, etc.) provide some clue to the problem.
Therefore, they should be investigated thoroughly under than particular lens, and
suspicions need to be corroborated with other (and previously) known facts.
So, my fellow journalists, why aren't you all looking into this? Is it easy for you to
dismiss it as confirmation bias?
I'm not going to answer the question for you. At least hop on the bandwagon: this
is coming out with or without your help. But remember some moments are
defining, in one's career, for one's conscience.
I'll conclude with two excerpts of the Munich Declaration of the Duties and Rights of
Journalists (kind of our own Hippocratic Oath).
The responsibility of journalists vis-a-vis the public has precedence over any other
responsibility, in particular towards their employers and the public power.

[A journalist's duties include] respecting the truth no matter what consequences it

may bring about to him, ... defending the freedom of information, of commentaries
and of criticism, [and] not suppressing essential information.
... and one question:
If this doesn't matter, what does?