By the Prince of Darkness, Roger Stone
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Elite deviance is a condition sociologists say exists in a society when the elite no longer believe the rules apply … to them. “It is not due primarily to psychopathological variables, but to the institutionalization of elite wrongdoing,” said Professor David Simon in his landmark book now in its eighth printing, Elite Deviance.
Elite deviance is a phenomenon in which a tiny few people with enough material wealth, political influence and personal connections immunize themselves from considering the consequences of their most abhorrent, destructive, vile, and even criminal behavior.
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Elite deviance protects and perpetuates moral depravity and debased ethical relativism among the powerful and wealthy in our midst. It is an aberration of civil society that is only possible through the elites’ cadres of supporters, sycophants, apologists, and fellow travelers in media, academia, politics and high finance.
In short, elite deviance means the rules don’t apply to a select few among us. They are above the American criminal justice system; they can behave with impunity in ways that would otherwise incur severe, if not life-ending, repercussions for all others.
From 2006 to roughly 2008, Democrat mega-donor Jeffrey Epstein was the subject of extensive criminal investigations by both state and federal authorities for child sex crimes. When all was said and done, the authorities had compiled copious witness evidence establishing that the hedge fund billionaire had been serially molesting dozens of underage girls for years.For Epstein, it was a lifestyle he shared with powerful friends.
For over a year, the Palm Beach Police scrupulously built a multi-layered case against Epstein centered on his repeated sexual abuse of five minor girls. The lead victim was just 14 years old. Many more victims either came forward or were uncovered by detectives. The Palm Beach investigation substantiated Epstein’s extensive child sex crimes, leading to what was to be Epstein’s only prosecution.
Despite a plethora of evidence establishing that Epstein – along with adults he employed to procure young girls on his behalf – had engaged in serial child molestation if not systematic child sex trafficking, an Epstein-friendly prosecutor in Florida, Barry Krischer, led a grand jury by the nose to indict him on just one single charge: solicitation of prostitution. That’s the sex crime equivalent to jaywalking.
Considerable public outrage in Palm Beach forced prosecutors to up the ante, but barely. As if the minimized charge in the plea deal wasn’t grotesque enough, the sentence was even more outrageous. The state cut a sweetheart plea deal resulting in Epstein’s conviction on just one count of the solicitation of a minor.
In the end, Jeffrey Epstein walked away with a “punishment” that would be a low-level drug dealer’s drean in our justice system: 13 months of a 15 month sentence, served in a county lockup during nighttime only, during which Epstein was free to travel daily to his office. He even took trips to New York City.To say Epstein was “incarcerated” is to misuse the word. To say Epstein was “punished” is to mock the serious criminal nature of child sex abuse.
In the immediate wake of the astonishing abdication of duty by Florida prosecutors to pursue criminal justice against a dangerous and prolific child sex predator, Epstein’s varyingly famous and infamous defense attorney, Alan Dershowitz, along with a platoon of high-dollar lawyers including Kenneth Starr of Clintonian Special Prosecutor fame, cut a mystifying deal with federal prosecutors. Everyone in Epstein’s camp – including Dershowitz – was granted immunity from any further prosecution.
Not only were the terms of this astounding deal sealed from the public, by court order, but they were withheld from Epstein’s victims throughout, and only revealed after the deal was done. No one in officialdom has even attempted to explain, much less justify, why federal prosecutors chose to violate the federal Crime Victims Rights Act on behalf of Epstein and his cohorts, as a United States Circuit Court of Appeals held in 2008.
Epstein’s “prosecution” ended without any vindication for his many victims of his elite deviancy, nor for the broader public and its interest in true justice for dangerous predatory criminals.
In December 2014, the case returned to the front pages after two more women came forward. Their Florida Jane Doe lawsuit, first filed by other victims in 2008, sought Epstein’s federal prosecution for child sex trafficking. In joining the two original plaintiffs, Jane Doe number three, a now-married-with-children woman named Virginia Roberts, alleged that Epstein forced her to have sex with none other than Alan Dershowitz and British royal Prince Andrew.By any objective standard of typical criminal liability imposed anywhere in the United States, it is beyond question that Epstein, along with his billions and his clever, well-connected lawyers, managed to either buy, bargain or bully his way out of any meaningful legal or moral accountability for countless sexual abuse offenses perpetrated against dozens of children for years.
As if this travesty of justice itself were not enough to sate their sense of impunity, Epstein’s fellow elites have routinely praised, defended and otherwise excused Epstein, and now do the same for Dershowitz amongst Epstein’s other sex cohorts, including Prince Andrew – and yes, Bill Clinton, who visited Epstein’s hedonistic private Carribbean island many times.
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