Privilege Above the Law

Andrew

The former Duke of York, second son of the Queen Elizabeth II, has already lost his royal status.  His brother, King Charles III, stripped him of the title he held since birth, Prince, as well as his Duke-ship and other royal privileges.  Andrew became “simply”, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, private citizen.  In the United Kingdom, the business of the Royals is called “The Firm”.  It provides the financial basis for the royalty, the Windsor family, tracing it’s lineage back to George I in 1714.  That wealth is based on all the land and wealth accumulated over hundreds of years.   “The Firm” takes care of its own.  And it still provides “citizen” Andrew with a home.  But, other than that and a stipend, Andrew is “fired”.

How fired is he?  This week, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor was arrested for, what here in America we would call corruption in office.  It’s the first time a Royal, a member of the Firm, has been arrested since the 1600’s.  Mountbatten-Windsor was a companion of Jeffrey Epstein, and as a result of the partial release of the EPSTEIN FILES, Andrew is accused of giving classified British economic reports to the convicted child sex-trafficker.  

Charges

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has not been charged with any sex offenses, yet.  There is ample evidence to show that he engaged with sex with at least one underage woman, brought to London by Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. (Let’s define a term.  An underage woman is a euphemism for a child, that makes the crime sound “better” for the perpetrator.  I don’t want this to “sound better” for Andrew, Epstein, or any of the other creeps involved, so it’s child from here on out). But, other than one photograph, the public evidence consists of the written testimony of Virginia Giuffre, the child in question.  

A technical note:  the English system arrests someone when they are under suspicion.  The American system doesn’t arrest until actual charges are indicted.  So we are earlier in the investigative process than an arrest would indicate if it were in New York, Florida or Ohio. (All those are places where Epstein trafficked children, including, according to Giuffre, just up the road from here in New Albany).

Power

Rape and sex with children is about power.  It’s the power of an individual to engage in illegal “indulgences” with little concern of being held accountable.  Power is all relative:  the coach or youth leader or teacher over the child, or the politically powerful over the victim, or the financial control of one person over another.  The powerful take advantage of the victim’s relative lack of power, and their inability to get justice.  

In our current world, there is no one more powerful than the “billionaire” class.  Billionaires: a million dollars to them is the one-one thousandth of their wealth.  That’s  equivalent to $200 to a “regular person” with $200,000.  For some, that access allows them to engage in unacceptable and illegal activities.  Want to have child-sex?  Buy a private island in the Caribbean where there is no greater authority beyond you.  Invite your friends to come enjoy “forbidden pleasures”.  Then use their illicit actions as “kompromat” to increase your private wealth, or power, or protect you from the authorities.

Ohio

All of those who participated are compromised, even beyond the death of Epstein.  And many of them still hold such enormous power, that they can continue to control the narrative, and deny justice.  How credible is Ohio’s billionaire Les Wexner, the namesake of one of the biggest hospital systems in the state (OSU’s Wexner Center)?   He testified that he was “fooled” by Epstein.  But he gave Epstein full power of attorney over his financial empire.  Epstein built his wealth on Wexner’s, and built his child-sex trafficking on it too.  Wexner trusted Epstein with his most important possessions. But, Wexner says now, that they were only “business associates”.  

Governor DeWine still defends Wexner.  The financial “goodwill” Wexner has built is so great, that’s it’s nearly impossible for Ohio’s establishment to even consider that he might have known, or participated, in Epstein’s debauchery.  New Albany is in the jurisdiction of the local police, the county sheriff, the state Bureau of Investigation.  But rest assured, Wexner is safe from justice, insulated by walls of money.  

This is nothing new. We all heard rumors of such activities back in the 1990’s, rumors that were never investigated.  Rumors about young people lured as “models” for Abercrombie and Fitch, or Victoria’s Secret, who found that modeling wasn’t really what was expected.  

Justice

At least in Great Britain, France, and Norway; there is some retribution for those associated with Epstein.  It’s gone as far as high as the son of the Queen.  But here in the US, two and a half million pages of documents are still hidden from view by the Department of Justice.  Though Epstein dodged prosecution by suicide (maybe?),  only one other person, Maxwell has been legally held accountable for Epstein’s action.

For the perpetrators, money bought them illegal pleasure, and now power is buying them protection.  For the victims, the children now grown and permanently  scarred by adult actions, justice is denied.  

The information is there.  The time is here.  The Department of Justice should live up to its name, and release the rest of the EPSTEIN FILES.