If Bill Clinton was a member of Jeffrey Epstein’s child sex trafficking ring, he should rot in prison forever.
If Donald Trump was a member of Jeffrey Epstein’s child sex trafficking ring, he should rot in prison forever.
That wasn’t so difficult, was it?
The wealthy and their minions all have more in common than they do with the rest of us.
Doesn't matter if Dem or Rep, they'll defend their class and privileges above all.
Side note: Trump's greatest talent is convincing people he is not the selfish elite that he so obviously is.
Bill Clinton was a conservative who just so happened to be Democrat. The more I learn of him, the more despicable he seems.
Check out Gore in the 80's!
@Strandjunker
Agreed. Anyone who participated in that willingly should be rotting in prison, regardless of social status or political party.
How anyone can think otherwise is absolutely alien to me.
@biplanepilot @Strandjunker @fishidwardrobe
That's so sad.
@Strandjunker Following Kavanagh's confirmation hearing, some comment-section guy was arguing with me about it and was like "If they can do that to someone you don't like, let's see how you feel when they do it to someone you like."
And I responded "Well, if someone I like is credibly accused of rape, they stop being someone I like."
And it's, like, worrisome that I have to explain this to people.
@Strandjunker honestly Bill Clinton and Epstein were why I wished Hillary hadn't run as I thought (at the time) that the Epstein scandal would sink her candidacy
Shows what I know
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@Strandjunker
Andrea Junker, if I may, it is, of course, not difficult to ‘say’ this, but the most important question is: what is the relevant evidence which could be brought to the court of LAW in these accusations?
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@Strandjunker
Now, a case of similar stance is not entirely novel, but there have been many in retrospect who got persecuted for committing offenses similar to Jeffery Epstein (JE) not only in the US, but also in many other parts of the world.
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@Strandjunker
Some of those who committed these outrageous offenses also got a way with it because they had a ‘nesting and accommodating environment’.
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@Strandjunker
If the justice system is independent to begin with - cannot be accessed by lobbyists or lurking corrupts from secret societies which includes the Illuminati and freemasonry and the like; the state of the social affairs either in the US or elsewhere wouldn’t have reached to this stage [kindly, see this: https://www.democracynow.org/2019/7/8/jeffrey_epstein_a_billionaire_friend_of].
Billionaire hedge fund manager Jeffrey Epstein, who has been accused of sexually assaulting underage girls for more than a decade, will appear in federal court today in Manhattan on sex trafficking charges. He was arrested on Saturday for allegedly running a sex trafficking operation by luring underage girls as young as 14 years old to his mansion in Manhattan. Epstein was previously accused of molesting and trafficking dozens of underage girls in Florida, but he ended up serving just 13 months in county jail after the U.S. prosecutor in Florida, Alexander Acosta, cut what’s been described as “one of the most lenient deals for a serial child sex offender in history.” The plea deal allowed Epstein to avoid a federal trial and possible life in prison, and effectively ended an FBI probe into the case. Acosta is now Donald Trump’s labor secretary. Epstein has counted Presidents Donald Trump and Bill Clinton among his friends. We speak with Vicky Ward, an investigative journalist who profiled Jeffrey Epstein for Vanity Fair in 2003 in a piece headlined “The Talented Mr. Epstein.” The magazine’s editor at the time, Graydon Carter, cut out the testimonies of two young women Epstein allegedly molested who had spoken to Ward on the record. Ward later wrote about the incident for The Daily Beast in an article headlined “I Tried to Warn You About Sleazy Billionaire Jeffrey Epstein in 2003.”
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@Strandjunker
The relevant part here is: “Epstein was previously accused of molesting and trafficking dozens of underage girls in Florida, but he ended up serving just 13 months in county jail after the U.S. prosecutor in Florida, Alexander Acosta, cut what’s been described as “one of the most lenient deals for a serial child sex offender in history.”
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@Strandjunker
“The plea deal allowed Epstein to avoid a federal trial and possible life in prison, and effectively ended an FBI probe into the case. Acosta is now Donald Trump’s labor secretary.”
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@Strandjunker
In other words, JE was ‘protected’, the same way now Trump is being ‘protected’, at the expense of the safety of many people in the community where JE had reach. Who protected him? Alexander Acosta (AA), the prosecutor who handled his initial case, and who was also named as the labor secretary back in 2017 before his resignation in 2019 due to the same case; and who also made a proposal to cut funding for victims of sex trafficking [https://www.democracynow.org/2019/7/11/alex_acosta_jeffrey_epstein_sex_trafficking].
During a press conference Wednesday, Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta dismissed calls for his resignation and defended the 2008 plea deal given to the billionaire serial child sex abuser Jeffrey Epstein while he was the U.S. attorney in Florida. Acosta has also come under fire for his proposal to cut funding for victims of sex trafficking. His 2020 budget proposal for the Department of Labor includes an almost 80% decrease in funds for the Bureau of International Labor Affairs, the office tasked with fighting child sex trafficking. Critics of the proposal argue it would effectively dismantle many programs aimed at preventing child sex trafficking and put large numbers of children at risk. We speak with Taina Bien-Aimé, executive director of the Coalition Against Trafficking in Women.
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@Strandjunker
Where is he now? He is, according to unconfirmed sources, living in Miami, Florida with his family away from the public eye. Is he ever going to face any consequences for his misconduct and for abusing his court position back then? I leave this question to the Department of Justice and to the Supreme Court to answer, where we today see just-ICE in the scene; and we see JUSTICE shrinking.
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@Strandjunker
For good and brief review of JE’s case, please refer to this, too [https://www.democracynow.org/topics/jeffrey_epstein].
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@Strandjunker
Why do I refer to
Democracy Now! quite often? Although I personally wish that they have chosen a different label that does not give an impression of any political affiliation, I’d say this is due to the following reasons: they’re independent; it’s non-profit organization; and most importantly, they do not accept funding from advertising, underwriting, or government agencies.
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@Strandjunker
Now, how can we unpack all this?
First, what is the LAW? Who is licensed to ‘define’ and ‘practice’ the LAW? We will first answer the first question.
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@Strandjunker
The ‘LAW’ - a reconstructed word from the Proto-Germanic proto-form *lagam which means ‘put or lay’; from the PIE root *legh- which in turn means ‘to lie down or lay’ which all in turn point to ‘to set or to establish’ [https://www.etymonline.com/word/law].
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@Strandjunker
Now, then, we know what the word ‘LAW’ means, but who prescribes, i.e. defines, the set of ‘legislations’; or which institution does that?
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@Strandjunker
Let’s begin by the prescriber or who ‘defines’ the LAW in the US. The Constitution of the US is the supreme LAW for the US and its institutions. The legislative body in the US is the Congress - which consists of the house of representatives and the senate.
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@Strandjunker
The Judicial body in the US, which includes the Supreme Court and the Federal courts have the legal power to interpret the LAW, to decide on the constitutionality of the LAW, and to apply the LAW to individual cases.
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@Strandjunker
The Constitution, in some cases, grants also the Supreme Court “original jurisdiction” which cannot be overridden even by the Congress. This is the legislative framework in a brief in the US. [https://www.whitehouse.gov/government/]
The Federal Government is composed of three distinct branches: legislative, executive, and judicial, whose powers are vested by the U.S. Constitution in the Congress, the President, and the Federal courts, respectively. Powers not granted to the Federal Government are reserved for States and the people, which are divided between State and local governments.
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@Strandjunker
So now, we know what the word ‘LAW’ means; and we know about the legislative prescribers and legislative framework; but what are the set of ‘legislations’ relevant to this case?
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@Strandjunker
The relevant legislations are as follows: [Title 18 U.S. Code § 1591 - Sex trafficking of children or by force, fraud, or coercion] which can be reviewed here: [1. https://law.justia.com/codes/us/title-18/part-i/chapter-77/sec-1591/
Sex trafficking of children or by force, fraud, or coercion - 18 U.S. Code Section 1591 (2023)
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@Strandjunker
…and [Section 1589 of Title 18, United States Code] which can be also reviewed here with section 1591 for a simpler and easier language: [https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdin/human-trafficking-0]
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@Strandjunker
Section 1591 and subsection (a) and paragraph (1) reads: “Whoever knowingly……recruits, entices, harbors, transports, provides, obtains, advertises, maintains, patronizes, or solicits by any means a person; or” and paragraph (1)
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It's not difficult, it's impossible. The US has a two-tiered legal system, and all those people are on the tier where nothing happens to them.
I can't believe I'm going to quote dirtbag Bill O'Reilly, but he put it well, "The powerful protect each other."
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