In the United States, lynch mobs can come out of nowhere. As David Aaronovich wrote in The Times just this week, the film Sybil caused a sudden increase in the diagnosis of multiple personality disorder in the United States from less than 100 to several thousand, which led to false accounts of violence and innocent people sent to prison.
I also ask why it appears that former US Attorney General William Barr has launched a personal revenge against Ghislaine.
The most obvious answer is that Bar was embarrassed by his terrible failure to keep Jeffrey Epstein alive while in federal custody. The verdict is that Epstein committed suicide, but some believe he was killed, including his own brother Mark, and there is forensic support for that.
However, he died, the fact is that he could not stand trial and the case became so famous that there was a vacuum that required it to be filled. Bar achieved this by pointing to Ghislaine, which led directly to the TV show in the press publishing her arrest, which condemned her as guilty in the eyes of the world. This would never happen in the United Kingdom.
I have traveled in and out of the United States quite well throughout my adult life. Unfortunately, I have never tried his prison system, but Ghislaine’s experience has shown me that there is only one word for him: disgusting.
It is a country that has four percent of the world’s population, but houses 20 percent of the world’s prisoners. Milwaukee County District Judge Joe Donald said: “We’re closing nearly 2.4 million in this country. We imprison more people than China or Russia. Senator Bernie Sanders said: “We put more people in jail in America today than any other country on earth. China is second only to the United States with 1.6 million prisoners, and Russia is third with 642,470, according to the Institute for Criminal Policy Research.
Political observers often refer to cowboy culture, which rots the soul of the people of the United States. It leads to mass shootings as well as mass hysteria.
In 2021, 693 mass shootings took place in the United States, killing 703 people and injuring 2,842 for a total of 3,545 casualties.
Mass hysteria is well documented: a 2020 study by political scientists Joseph Uscinski and Adam Enders found that 35% of US citizens believe that the number of children who are sexually trafficked each year is around 300,000 or more. while 24% think it is much higher. This is a perfect example of gang hysteria; kidnappings do occur, but the FBI says there are about 100.
There is sexual trafficking in the United States, of course. In 2019, the US National Human Trafficking Hotline registered direct contacts with 14,597 potential victims of sexual trafficking of all ages. The average age of victims in first trafficking (age of entry) is 17 years.
“In 1996,” says The Atlantic, “the National Nonprofit Child Safety Council printed photos of missing children on three billion cartons of milk.” The article states that “one had to be careful to notice that all the photos were of the same 106 people.”
This panic has a huge effect on vote-hungry American politicians, driven by the influx of public opinion, no matter how crazy. The elected judiciary is in almost the same position. This is the reason for the accusations against Ghislaine.
The panic of white slavery in the early 1900s led to the passage of the Mann Act, a law that criminalized the transportation across state lines of “any woman or girl for prostitution or debauchery.” It was used against black men traveling with white women, and later against sex workers who were accused of trafficking!
The 1980s hysteria over child sexual abuse preceded the Child Protection and Obsceneness Act, which made sharing computer-based child sexual abuse material illegal, but also expanded the list of crimes for which the government can get eavesdropping.
Today, the difficult problem of child sexual abuse material on the Internet is being offered as a justification for law enforcement to gain backdoor access to encrypted communications or for Congress to oblige social media companies to constantly monitor their users in posts and personal messages. In other words, institutionalized state espionage.
I have great sympathy for all the girls or women who have indeed been abused, but their abuse does not automatically entitle them to believe them when they make unfounded allegations, especially when those allegations are extremely well rewarded financially. This happened to my sister.
Prosecutors have won huge sums. Lawyers in the Epstein case rode a gilded train and earned at least $ 60 million in agreements with an ethically failed administration that fears #MeToo.
Ghislaine’s main accuser all along is a woman named Virginia Juffre. She introduced herself out of court as a serial victim and repeated this in many interviews. But she was never called as a witness in the indictment against my sister.
Within a few months, however, Ms. Giuffre will not be able to avoid cross-examination in court by Alan Dershovitz, arguably the best lawyer in the United States. He claims that she lied about him and slandered him. Derschowitz also said she believed she had perpetrated perjury, and if that was correct and deemed to be perjury, she herself could go to prison for years.
This will not save my sister from sentencing next Tuesday, but we will make every effort to appeal her sentence.
I know that Ghislaine is innocent and that she would never be found guilty in any civilized country. We will never stop fighting for justice to secure its release.
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