"If we prosecute everybody in the Epstein Files, the whole system will collapse"
For the record, I can't find evidence that directly ties her to this comment though, and in fact it has been deemed in accurate by Snopes (attribution here: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/bondi-epstein-files-system-collapse/).
Yet this is where we are in that the quote seems entirely plausible, given the dynamics of life and politics in the United States of America right now.
Yes, this is a posting about the Epstein files. Now, are some on the political left using the Epstein files as a tool to hammer the current presidential administration? Sure. This kind of stuff is as old as politics itself has existed. But discussions like that ("...well the left...") are utterly meaningless in the larger sense of things in that, motivations aside, one simple fact remains:
Jeffrey Epstein ran a criminal enterprise that allowed rich and powerful people to sexually assault children and young women.
I will also add the following:
The United States government (and other world governments) has done virtually nothing to bring the folks that engaged in that abusing behavior...towards children and young women...to justice. Why? Because those same folks are rich and powerful.
Take a step back for a moment and consider just how utterly terrible all of this actually is; it is as if the plot for some horrible thriller has actually turned out to be real life. Because it has.
In particular, if you are a father of daughter(s), regardless of their age, I am wondering why you are not personally outraged at all of this; if you have been publicly silent* on this horribleness, why? Because it doesn't directly impact you or your daughters? When all is said and done, none of us are really above others by design. Some folks achieve greatness in their lives, others live a quiet but good life. Others are deeply flawed. Regardless, we are all people. If you are a parent (especially if you are a father of daughters), do you honestly believe that the lives of the children and young women victimized by Epstein and his rich/powerful friends really don't matter all that much? Or are you afraid that the societal price for bringing to justice the rich/powerful people that engaged in this stuff will be too high?
To those last two questions, I offer the following quote, attributed to a labor lawyer (Attorney Ryan) I follow on social media:
"Anything that would be destroyed by the truth has no right to exist at all."
Citation HERE. Ratcheting this up, we have the president publicly stating that he thinks the country has/should move on from this issue (citation HERE). Well, I say that "getting on with something else" in the face of what we know now is a moral failure...second only to the fact the collective us took so long to recognize this whole thing in the first place.
The "collective us" includes me, and I have been guilty. Like many, when I first heard of Epstein and these allegations, my reaction was dismissive at what seemed like yet another in a series of Internet conspiracy theories running rampant on social media. I claim not to be perfect, but I also know that I can learn. And what I've learned about Epstein makes me wholeheartedly believe that our society as it stands now needs to fundamentally change, moving from the rotted belief that the life of some tech billionaire is so much more inherently important than the life of an innocent girl. Any innocent girl. Indifference is easy here, but if you are the father of at least one daughter, again, then would you allow your daughter to be sacrificed for the ego and pleasures of a billionaire?
If your answer to that last question is "yes" or "I don't care", then you have no right to call yourself a parent, let alone a dad.
Moving forward, everyone who supported Epstein and his evil empire needs to be brought to justice. All of them. Every. Single. One. For far too long, the cost of those crimes has been born by children; it's about time that the adults start to pay. No matter what the cost, we fail to live up to the title of being civilized with every passing day when perpetrators go on about their lives while victims remain damaged.
Once some measure of justice begins to be actualized, then we have an even greater challenge ahead of us: How was it that this was allowed to happen in the first place? Any system that allows this needs to be ritualistically burned. It needs to be destroyed. It needs to be fundamentally re-built in a way that recognizes the search for thrills among the rich and powerful is not more important than the very lives of children.
We either start acting on what we say we value, or we allow ourselves to completely decay into the nothingness that we deserve for turning a blind eye to all this stuff in the first place.
SILENCE ENCOURAGES THE TORMENTOR
(*) As opposed to taking action, including contacting your elected representatives in the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, to cite just one example.
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