TL;DR If I were to ever create a secret society, this is how.

The purpose of this thread is going to likely rehash old information for a lot of you, but I think it's important to go over the many facets of how and why pedophilia is supremely important for a secret society. I'm going to also state explicitly that a lot of what I'm going to put here is conjecture, as this is meant to be a thread to talk about the ideas and reasonings of using child pornography--not necessarily to show how it might correlate with current events just yet.

Let's start with the obvious, in basically every country, child pornography is highly illegal. And with damn good reason--that's fucking sick stuff. It's one of the most heinous acts an individual could partake in, furthermore it's dangerous. Why would elected officials ever be interested in doing such terrible activities? The easy answer is that there would never be any conspiracy about it and that a pedophile would naturally gravitate towards a position of authority that would allow them to harm children with impunity for as long as possible. I don't think any of us are here for an easy answer, so let's delve off into other possibilities. Myself, I think this comes down to an easy system of control.

In that method of obtaining a system of control, let's just state the obvious. If an internet savvy person was determined to find it, they could likely find pictures of child pornography somewhere deep in the web. It might require patience, and they could get caught doing it, but I'm sure finding the pictures themselves is not an impossible task. Not that I'm willing to test that and get vanned for something that never would have interested me in the first place, but let's not be idiots here. Once the pictures were obtained, flash drives exist, getting the files onto someone else's computer if you had access to it is also not an impossible task.

Do I even have to state how badly it could impact your life, an elected official's life, or anyone's life if child pornography was found on your computer? The accusation alone, and any evidence of it, is enough to ruin your reputation permanently. Later being found out that it was planted is irrelevant--finding conclusive proof it was planted could take weeks or months, but the accusation hitting the headlines happens much faster than that.

So theoretically, getting the CP and placing it on someone's computer are not impossible, and you certainly don't need to start with the elected officials themselves--only people close to them. You know where a fantastic place to start would be? College. Senators' sons and daughters go to college, congressmen and women have families, everyone has family after all. Naturally starting a fraternity or sorority at Yale, Harvard, or other prestigious schools would be ideal--but again, I'm just an average joe and couldn't do that yet. I could however, go to my local college and start small. I've seen guys and gals in their 20's, 30's, 40's, 50's, and 60's in college--it's not that suspicious that people want to go back.

And all I would have to do is ask to borrow someone's laptop for a moment, plug in a flash drive, and the beginnings of owning that person are mine. Hide the CP in a random hidden folder, then later on use proxies and a series of ways to anonymously contact the person, tell them to find the CP on their own computer, and then wait for them to panic. Then all I would do is make them do an innocuous, stupid, simple task for me or the obvious threat of contacting the authorities would come next. The activity they do is irrelevant, possibly slightly humiliating, it's just something to ingratiate them to me (although I would remain steadfastly anonymous). To make them concede that doing the first task is easier than running to the authorities themselves.

Next it would be a progressive system of more and more illegal activities for this individual. Nothing has to happen fast, I could wait weeks, months, or even years in-between each contact with this specific individual and task required of them--but it would get progressively more illegal in order to snare them further. Probably start with something small "obtain some marijuana, leave it in x bathroom on campus" but done in a way to collect more evidence against the individual (for instance having a camera setup in that bathroom to catch them doing the illegal activity). This would make it to where they are actually complicit in increasingly dangerous/illegal activities in order to increase control of this individual. The inevitable culmination would be to force the individual to participate in CP in some capacity, then keep incriminating evidence of it myself AND force them to keep incriminating evidence of it. Most importantly, a different person in the conspiracy would later also have incriminating evidence of other members of the conspiracy. Only I would know everyone in on it, and all members would have evidence of some other members, but no other member would know about all members besides myself.

You may be thinking, I've only described how I would control one individual. And that's fine, but just remember I could just as easily do this to more. Furthermore, once I have the one, I could convince HIM as part of his tasks to basically repeat the exact same process on another individual of my choosing that he would be close enough to do that. My first victim would essentially be my patsy in this regard--if he fails, it's no skin off my teeth and I can begin again. If he succeeds... I would then have someone powerful under my control and I could begin my campaign in earnest.

In this way I could easily create a machine that builds based on fear and anonymity. The inevitable goal would be to create a cabal of powerful people, elected officials, party leaders, cops, military officers, etc. Once the first person was under control, and they had obtained a second under direct control by me, I could advise them to find a powerful person all on their own to come into the umbrella but with specific instructions to never name them to me.

The only tricky parts that remain are a communication network, and the ability to meet with large segments of important members of the group. With the rise of TOR and the demand for anonymous communication in the wake of the NSA revelations given to us by Snowden, I don't deem this to be an impossible task either though.

It doesn't matter in this way what my ideology was, I could start a secret society based on it like this, and the members would have no say so about it. This would be a game played for the long term, but a patient man could accomplish all of the things I described.

And if I could do it, then so could someone else. And maybe, someone already has. All I know is that these ideas coming up over in Europe about the pedophile-sex-ring-scandals are disturbingly reminiscent of the practices of a secret society, and the public at large doesn't seem to be aware of just how big of a deal those revelations are.

Thoughts and constructive criticism very welcome! This is my first attempt at a post like this.