Although is possible that underage prostitution was used to blackmail people I don't believe that this was the case.
The evidence suggests it WAS the case, regardless of what you believe.
Most likely Epstein was simply a fixer and facilitator. By providing a secure place where famous people could indulge in activities that would have cause scrutiny elsewhere he created loyalty and a feeling of obligation.
And you don't think that abuse of children was included in "activities that would have cause scrutiny elsewhere"???
Straightforward blackmail would have quickly created bad name and potential retributions.
Here you seem to be missing a proper understanding of what the whole Epstein 'system' was designed to do. It was not designed to maliciously 'trap' people and in that way gather blackmailable information and then
use it. It was designed to first gain the confidence of many 'important' people, to the point where they would see Epstein as a close friend and divulge personal information to him, including about their sexual proclivities. All this occurred in a very natural way as far as the 'important' people were concerned.
This information, collected and passed 'upwards' by Epstein was never intended to be used in the sense of immediately sending it to the media. The point was that when Epstein was 'outed' as a child abuse trafficker, every single one of the people he had courted over the years were now on notice that the information they had shared with him, the 'services' they had accepted from him, too now be exposed
because Epstein had been exposed. IMO,
by design.
And of course, they all wondered, and are still wondering, who has the information that Epstein had. The threat of that alone is enough to have a chilling effect on them all, and make sure that all of them toe the line. There is, and never was, any need to 'expose' any of them, with the exception of Prince Andrew, who was used to set an example of what could happen, and also to trash the image of the British royal family.
The only person that we know that had sex with a underage girl was prince Andrew. This doesn't doesn't indicate that similar things were the norm.
It almost certainly does. With him used to set an example to the others.
To claim that Giuffrey was trafficked and rapped is an overkill. She was almost 18, payed $15000, slept with a very famous person and she was very happy to do so. She was sending pictures to her mother and bragging about it. I wish I had gotten paid $15,000 when I was 17 to have sex with a famous 45yo woman and to travel to an exotic island. Would have done it even without money... I feel sorry for Giuffrey because of her difficult upbringing and family the same way I feel sorry for every other person in her position. I don't feel sorry for her for having sex with a famous 45yo in an exotic island while getting payed $15000.
Again with this "legal age" bullshit. You talk about children as if they are just sacks of meat. CLEARLY, the most important point is not the physical age of a child/teenager but their psychological and emotional development, and the extent to which they are able to understand and defend themselves against psychological and emotional manipulation by predatory adults. The vast majority of teenagers are NOT adults in that sense, and therefore wide open to being psychologically and emotionally manipulated and abused by predatory adults. And that's precisely what happened, eventually leading to them being physically abused also. But all you focus on is the physical abuse and assume that, if they "went along with it" and "bragged about it" then it must have been fine. Talk about clueless!
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