Epstein wasn’t a “bad apple”
He didn’t “slip through the cracks”
He was the logical outcome of systems designed to protect rich, powerful men & discipline the rest.
Prisons didn’t stop him. Policing didn’t stop him. The state didn’t stop him.
He was protected & enabled by institutions of power.
This is what the patriarchy looks like when it wears a suit and has friends in high places.
We’ve seen this before.
1/n
Jimmy Savile was hidden in plain sight while institutions closed ranks. Survivors were disbelieved. Abusers were protected.
The lessons were never learned. Just buried.
Those claiming to “protect women and children” demand harsher sentences, more police, more prisons. Yet they are silent when abuse implicates elites, governments, or the state itself.
That isn’t justice. That’s carceral theatre.
And silence isn’t neutrality. It’s complicity.
2/n
We have state systems that brutalise women every day.
The UK Home Office, like ICE, is not a safeguarding institution but an engine of harm.
The so-called “hostile environment” has traumatised, detained, and killed women, including survivors of sexual violence.
Detention is gendered violence.
Borders are gendered violence.
Deportation is gendered violence.
When women die in immigration detention, that is not a failure: it is the predictable outcome of policy.
3/n
You cannot claim to oppose sexual violence while defending systems that cage, deport, and criminalise women for crossing borders to survive. There is no feminist case for the Home Office.
Abolition means telling the truth:
• prisons do not protect survivors
• police do not prevent abuse
• borders do not keep women safe
They exist to protect property, power, and patriarchy.
4/n
Real justice is survivor-led, community-based, and rooted in care.
Not punishment for the powerless and immunity for the powerful.
If your feminism demands punishment but refuses to dismantle the systems that enable abuse, you are not challenging violence but managing it.
Scotland should be fighting for abolition, accountability, and an end to the hostile environment.
Not lending moral cover to a UK state that punishes the vulnerable while shielding abusers.
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@maggiechapman Epstein was bankrolled and who or what did so has not been made public if it is known.
I think that was ought to be at least as interesting as the contents of the files.
And Ghislaine Maxwell still is.
But there is more behind it. It sure is taking shape that Epstein was in fact at least a part time Russian spy, and sometimes Israëli.
The fundamental fear of Trump for the Epstein dossier is that he knows what the Russians have on him through Epstein.
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