In the first chapter of our Epstein Class series, we dig into the elite culture that enabled so much abuse: obsessive network maintenance, "optionality" chasing, and the evaporation of courage
I know that by bystanders you are not implying that they are "innocent". On the contrary, these bystanders are/were "enablers". Evil never works alone. It needs enablers and plenty of them.
The crimes of ‘commission’ can be covered up and ‘sanitized’, as Donald Trump’s rape of E. jean Carroll had to be labelled a ‘sexual assault’ to GUARANTEE a conviction, which is on record for both trials.
The sins of ‘omission’ - such as the avoidance of charges and indictments - are just as guilt-ridden, because the perpetrators are smugly confident they will never pay…never face justice…GET AWAY WITH IT!!
In the case of the misogynistic Donald Trump, he really does not consider his rapes as a crime. The victims are ‘nothing’, while HE thinks of himself as the most important person in America…able to say and do whatever he wants with impunity, and the support of a pressured, coerced Supreme Court.
This disparity of reality, and resulting miscarriage of justice is not only wrong…but a disregard of the Constitution…being allowed because of moral cowardice by the sitting Congress.
POTUS #47 is acting in a most ‘suspicious’ way for ‘an innocent person with nothing to hide’… His roadblocks and stalling measures in the investigation of Epstein’s exploits - recorded in ‘the FILES’ - proves that he HAS committed something scandalous which he wants suppressed at all cost… particularly PRIOR TO the Midterm Elections.
The victims wait. The World wants the truth. The powerful avoid justice, because they CAN.
POTUS #47 demands silence re natural suspicion about what ‘beautiful secrets’ he shared with a known pedophile.
Meanwhile the ‘beautiful secrets’ struggle to get on with their lives after being used like KLEENEX and tossed away.
As always, your insightful look at the Epstein class is remarkable and a breath of fresh air on a Monday morning. I am an immigration activist and help get people released from detention. While I've perhaps never actually met folks in the "Epstein class" I meet people all the time who somehow know our neighbors are being detained but they are oblivious of the details that the detention centers, mostly in TX and southern states are being run by private firms who contributed mightily to Trump's election. Over 70,000 people live and sometimes die everyday in these concentration camps. Off topic here but I would SO appreciate you interviewing someone about the big picture on immigration, especially with the recent horrendous Supreme Court rulings. How about Erika Pinheiro is the Executive Director of Al Otro Lado, a binational non-profit organization that provides legal and humanitarian aid to migrants, asylum seekers, and deported families on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border. Others might be the New Yorker's Jonathan Blitzer (and author of the award winning Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here) or Aaron Reichlin-Melnick from the American Immigration Council. I have many more names. karen@hesternet.net.
I understand this deeply, Anand, because I lived it back then when I was an editor at HBR, especially when I was in Silly Cone Valley. I’m sure we have met several of the same people at those conferences, etc. I became painfully aware of how “useful” I was to lots of those people, and how disposable I became after I left the magazine. I’d be very wealthy indeed had I ignored my principles, but hey, I’m a happy old hippie in Vermont now.
I know that by bystanders you are not implying that they are "innocent". On the contrary, these bystanders are/were "enablers". Evil never works alone. It needs enablers and plenty of them.
This is such a good series. Your insight into the men at the table and the frictionless (womanless) life the super-wealthy love was priceless.
The crimes of ‘commission’ can be covered up and ‘sanitized’, as Donald Trump’s rape of E. jean Carroll had to be labelled a ‘sexual assault’ to GUARANTEE a conviction, which is on record for both trials.
The sins of ‘omission’ - such as the avoidance of charges and indictments - are just as guilt-ridden, because the perpetrators are smugly confident they will never pay…never face justice…GET AWAY WITH IT!!
In the case of the misogynistic Donald Trump, he really does not consider his rapes as a crime. The victims are ‘nothing’, while HE thinks of himself as the most important person in America…able to say and do whatever he wants with impunity, and the support of a pressured, coerced Supreme Court.
This disparity of reality, and resulting miscarriage of justice is not only wrong…but a disregard of the Constitution…being allowed because of moral cowardice by the sitting Congress.
POTUS #47 is acting in a most ‘suspicious’ way for ‘an innocent person with nothing to hide’… His roadblocks and stalling measures in the investigation of Epstein’s exploits - recorded in ‘the FILES’ - proves that he HAS committed something scandalous which he wants suppressed at all cost… particularly PRIOR TO the Midterm Elections.
The victims wait. The World wants the truth. The powerful avoid justice, because they CAN.
POTUS #47 demands silence re natural suspicion about what ‘beautiful secrets’ he shared with a known pedophile.
Meanwhile the ‘beautiful secrets’ struggle to get on with their lives after being used like KLEENEX and tossed away.
As always, your insightful look at the Epstein class is remarkable and a breath of fresh air on a Monday morning. I am an immigration activist and help get people released from detention. While I've perhaps never actually met folks in the "Epstein class" I meet people all the time who somehow know our neighbors are being detained but they are oblivious of the details that the detention centers, mostly in TX and southern states are being run by private firms who contributed mightily to Trump's election. Over 70,000 people live and sometimes die everyday in these concentration camps. Off topic here but I would SO appreciate you interviewing someone about the big picture on immigration, especially with the recent horrendous Supreme Court rulings. How about Erika Pinheiro is the Executive Director of Al Otro Lado, a binational non-profit organization that provides legal and humanitarian aid to migrants, asylum seekers, and deported families on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border. Others might be the New Yorker's Jonathan Blitzer (and author of the award winning Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here) or Aaron Reichlin-Melnick from the American Immigration Council. I have many more names. karen@hesternet.net.
I understand this deeply, Anand, because I lived it back then when I was an editor at HBR, especially when I was in Silly Cone Valley. I’m sure we have met several of the same people at those conferences, etc. I became painfully aware of how “useful” I was to lots of those people, and how disposable I became after I left the magazine. I’d be very wealthy indeed had I ignored my principles, but hey, I’m a happy old hippie in Vermont now.
Insightful and powerful as you help the reader understand better the environment .. thank you
wow, that story takes my breath away.