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Susanna J. Sturgis's avatar

Wow, wow, and wow. Whenever I think I can't get more horrified & disgusted, it gets worse. I don't think for a minute that Epstein's "operation" was unique, except perhaps in its reach.

Small weirdness: I accidentally clicked on the "2009 email" link, and it took me to a Justice Department site that wanted me to say that I was 18 or older before it showed me the email. If I'd been thinking, I would have clicked "No" to see what would have happened then.

Jim Sanders's avatar

I have read how the British were shocked by and condemned the French Revolution and how extreme it was beheading the elites. Similarly, I had some empathy for the Russian nobility.

Now I see the problem. The nobility deserves their justice but then the vacuum is filled by power hungry commoners who are probably worse. Thus, the root of the problem is humanity itself.

Susanna J. Sturgis's avatar

Where do you suppose those "power hungry commoners" learned how government worked?

Jim Sanders's avatar

Misses the point.

Lindy's avatar

It is almost hard to believe that anyone could be such a sickening, misogynist person. Does anyone know what Epstein's early childhood was like? How does anyone become such a horrible, disgusting pedophile?

Susanna J. Sturgis's avatar

Well, in a culture that accords men unlimited access to anyone of lower status, I don't find it hard to believe at all. Consider the abuse of boys and young men by priests of the Catholic Church, and the way those higher up the ecclesiastical ladder covered it up for decades.