I recently viewed the Netflix doc on the abuse scandal in The Boy Scouts Of America, which, like its counterparts in the various religious communities thus poisoned, continued for many decades being denied and swept under the rug.  The details of the grim drama will astonish you as much as it did me: 80,000 victims joined the class action suit, where guilt was finally admitted but reparations have yet to be made.  The scout leaders, some of whom were also pastors, who were arrested, tried and found guilty are named but many managed to slip that net.

     Given the accounts of serial abuse by some on these young boys who trusted, as did their parents, the golden reputation of the Boy Scouts, and the sheer overwhelming numbers of victims, I found myself making comparisons to Jeffrey Epstein and his elite invitees.  That many scout leaders organised vacation trips from Europe to various scout camps for paying pedophiles that week long parties could be facilitated and the curtain of silence maintained under violent threat, is a factor not to be discounted. Whether wealthy attendees in private jets or bargain package tours on commercial jets the grimy privileges of perversion were catered to…

     But Epstein and his crew were favoured with the spotlight, that media frenzy we have become so familiar with, and to some extent are hitched to, despite elaborate and unconvincing denials, while the scout leaders are to a great extent forgotten, and despite this relentless investigation on film, will likely continue to be.  Yet the body count speaks for itself.

     In the new age community, we speak of souls choosing their life experiences before birth.  Despite much channeled information seeming to confirm this,  I have long suspected this is not a hard and fast rule, but a guideline where possibilities and probabilities are put forth.  Living in an earthquake or tornado zone sets you up but does not guarantee any particular outcome.  There is plenty of wiggle room in the game of free will and karma.

     Yet I can’t help thinking that the remorseless capture of the public spotlight tilts the playing field, giving us an unbalanced, if not completely false, impression of innocence and guilt, crime and punishment, forgiveness and retribution.