The Vice of Kings

This dark book, partly based on the author’s own family history, is ominously subtitled ‘how socialism, occultism, and the sexual revolution engineered a culture of abuse’ - and digging into the underworld and investigating such characters as Jimmy Saville and how his crimes were covered up for so long. Relevant organisations involved include the Fabian Society, the Groucho Club, the Albany Trust, the CIA (MKULTRA), Common Wealth, IPCE (International Paedophile and Child Emancipation), Paedophile Action for Liberation (PAL), the LSE, Ordo Templi Orientis, and the Tavistock Institute. Many prominent individuals are also cited, including Lord Keynes (who was a pederast), Sir Richard Acland and Glynn Faithfull - whom I knew - Lord Boothby, Tom Driberg, Havelock Ellis (Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Wilfred Trotter (The Instincts of the Herd in Peace and War), Edward Heath, Alfred Kinsey, Gore Vidal, Robert Wasson and, most notoriously and covered in some abhorrent detail, Aleister Crowley. This tangled skein of nefarious networks reflects the power of privilege, and the privilege of power, often leading ultimately to self-destruction, as was the case with Jasun’s brother Sebastian. A veneer of respectability can mask involvement in glamorised vice and normalised corruption permitting controlled covert access to power.

The Fabian plan is about social control and cultural engineering so prominent in our time, while Crowley’s twisted occultism justified ritual child sexual abuse as a form of ‘liberation’ – do what you will to avoid destructive self-repression – involving extreme trauma and repression of memories so that witnesses can be dismissed as unreliable (p. 258); this can be carried out within a scheme of mind-control. Such activity is fundamentally a manifestation of the will to power, including sadism as power-over. Kinsey’s ‘scientific research’ provided a cloak for serial rapists to participate, while spreading a gospel of free love and the sexualisation of children (p. 213) now promoted by the WHO – all this under the name of social progress.

Another strand is well-documented sexual abuse in public schools leading to what the author calls betrayal trauma. As he himself notes, the process of delving into this world gives rise to disbelief, horror and revulsion: ‘The prevalence of child sexual abuse in our society is a bitter pill to swallow’ naturally manifesting in resistance – surely this can’t be true. Even in the case of the well-informed author, he finds ‘a strange disconnect between what I am aware of and what I am able to believe.’ This feeling is likely to be reflected in readers bold enough to embark on the sinister journey involved in this eye-opening book. However disturbing, though, it is crucially important that such frankly satanic activities be brought to light.