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 or covertly gather blackmailable information and then use it.
It was designed to first, over many years, gain the confidence of many 'important' people, to the point where they would see Epstein as a close friend. That lead to many of them divulging sensitive personal information to him, including about their sexual proclivities. All this occurred in a very natural way as far as these 'important' people were concerned, to the extent that many of them came to see Epstein as a trusted friend to whom they could, safely, reveal such information.
Having gained the confidence and gathered the information, when the time was right, the plan was to 'out' Epstein as a child abuser and trafficker [shock revelation, Epstein wasn't working alone, but for Israeli/US intelligence]. At that point, every single one of the people he had courted over the years were put on notice; not only were they now associated with a child sex trafficker, but more seriously, because of the information they had shared with him, the 'services' they had accepted from him, they too could theoretically be exposed because Epstein had been exposed.
This was all by design. Think about it. People with the power and influence to extract Epstein from a high security prison and replace him with a 'John Doe' lookalike stiff with ZERO repercussions, could easily have prevented their guy from ever being sent to prison in the first place. They wanted him prosecuted and in prison, at least for a while.
And of course, Epstein's 'friends' are all still wondering who now has the information on them that Epstein had, and what might they do with it. 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, and think twice about speaking out about something that the 'deep state' would prefer they not. There is therefore no need to 'expose' any of them.
With the notable exception of Prince Andrew. No one seems to be wondering why he, alone, among the 'elite' was dragged through the media and made a pariah due to his ties with Epstein. The reason is that
he was used to set an example of what could happen to the rest. And also to trash the image of the British royal family, which alone among the European royals still held a modicum of respect and sense of propriety, at least in the eyes of much of the British and wider global population.
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 that have reached "reproduction age" or haven't.
The most important point is not the "reproductive potential" 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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