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Re: Child Abuse Is Not Funny
By: patrick jane Date: May 28, 2020, 7:27 am
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Re: Child Abuse Is Not Funny
By: Firestarter Date: May 28, 2020, 10:32 am
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[quote author=Firestarter link=topic=370.msg13357#msg13357
date=1590333518]Her attorney dropped the case shortly before the
November 2016 presidential election. “Katie Johnson” seems to
have completely disappeared since, which for some reason was
completely ignored by our wonderful media.
In the following 29 minute video, starting at 21:30 Katie tells
about the rape (video was deleted) - vimeo.com/176181706[/quote]
The Wayback machine has the video archived.
For some reason it doesn’t play:
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Re: Child Abuse Is Not Funny
By: Firestarter Date: June 1, 2020, 11:40 am
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This is probably my last post on Jeffrey Epstein in this thread…
Jeffrey Epstein was the protégé of Leslie Wexner. By most
accounts, Jeffrey Epstein was made by Leslie Wexner, who gave
him tens of millions of dollars and his house.
Les Wexner was a member of the Mega Group that was founded by
some 20 Jewish billionaires, who met at the Manhattan apartment
of hedge-fund manager Michael Steinhardt, including:
Edgar Bronfman, chairman of the World Jewish Congress (father of
Sara and Clare Bronfman);
Charles Bronfman, Edgar's brother and top executive at Seagrams
Corp..
Because of the 2008 non-prosecution agreement, Jeffrey Epstein
was immune from prosecution for what he did from 2002 to 2005
(and his co-conspirators, including Ghislaine Maxwell and Alan
Dershowitz)...
Under this “sweetheart deal” Jeffrey Epstein was convicted to a
whopping 13 months in jail, for a total of 8 hours per day. Most
accounts claim that only every Sunday Epstein was locked up the
whole day... This means that Epstein was locked up for a total
of 56 whole days.
In July 2019, Epstein was suddenly arrested, and all the media
that had previously ignored the case were now suddenly appalled
over this scandal; most of the “bombshells” were old news
really…
By arresting Epstein, they sort of decided that the whole
non-prosecution agreement was worthless in the first place!
Then in August 2019, under responsibility of William Barr,
Epstein was found dead in his prison cell, “suicided”…
As for the motive for arresting and letting Epstein die of a
reported “suicide”. Epstein obviously had some dirt on very
powerful people (including Donald Trump and his cronies).
President Donald picked Alexander Acosta for Secretary of Labor.
Because Acosta was personally responsible for the “sweetheart
deal”, as Miami US attorney, he had to resign after Epstein’s
arrest in July 2019.
After his arrest, Jeffrey Epstein ordered his legal team to show
that several members that had been involved in the
non-prosecution agreement, besides Acosta, were now part of the
Trump administration and shouldn’t be allowed to charge him
again for the same crimes:
Sigal Mandeleker - serves as Trump’s Under Secretary for the
Department of the Treasury;
John Roth - Inspector General for the Department of Homeland
Security since 2014.
There are also links to the law firm Kirkland & Ellis (that
represented Jeffrey Epstein from 2008 to 2011, including
arranging the sweetheart deal).
Alexander Acosta had worked at Kirkland & Ellis.
In 2009, now Attorney-General William Barr joined the law firm
Kirkland & Ellis.
In 2008, Mark Filip was as Deputy Attorney General involved in
the Epstein deal, now a partner at the law firm Kirkland &
Ellis.
For more on Jeffrey Epstein:
HTML https://www.lawfulpath.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=1485
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Re: Child Abuse Is Not Funny
By: Firestarter Date: June 21, 2020, 11:28 am
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One of the interesting subtopics that came up when I
investigated the rampant paedophilia in Hollywood is the
Children of God sex cult. A couple of “famous” actors were in
this sex cult that promoted sex from the age of 4.
Interestingly my (first) post on the the Children of God cult
was deleted from the Davidicke.com forum before I found out that
David Icke was an associate of Zen Gardner of the “Children of
God” cult.
Actress Rose McGowan spent some years of her childhood in “The
children of God” in Italy. These days she is probably best known
for accusing film producer Harvey Weinstein of sexual assault.
McGowan writes in her book that as a child she was physically
abused by the leaders of The Children of God, and that:
[quote]I saw an 11-year-old girl being forced to sit next to a
naked man, with his floppy d**k on his leg. They made her sit
between his legs so he could ‘massage’ her back.[/quote]
In November 1991, River Phoenix told Details magazine that when
his family was part of the Children of God (from 1973 till the
end of the 1970s called “The Family”) cult he had sex with other
children starting from the age of 4.
On the evening of 30 October 1993 (a human sacrifice day for
Satanists), Phoenix went to The Viper Room in Hollywood (partly
owned by Johnny Depp). He died under suspicious circumstances
the following night (on Halloween).
For more on paedophilia behind the scenes in the movies:
HTML http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?505159-Paedophilia-in-Hollywood
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Re: Child Abuse Is Not Funny
By: guest17 Date: July 2, 2020, 10:19 am
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Ghislaine Maxwell, Associate of Jeffrey Epstein, Is Arrested
Ghislaine Maxwell, a longtime associate of the disgraced
financier Jeffrey Epstein, was arrested Thursday on criminal
charges linked to his alleged sex-trafficking operation,
according to a law enforcement official.
Ms. Maxwell was arrested in New Hampshire, officials said.
The arrest came nearly a year after Mr. Epstein was charged in a
federal indictment with sexually exploiting and abusing dozens
of underage girls at his mansion in Manhattan, his estate in
Palm Beach, Fla. and other locations between at least 2002 and
2005.
The indictment said he paid the girls — at least one as young as
14 — to give him massages while they were nude or topless, in
encounters that typically included sex acts.
Mr. Epstein hanged himself in August in his cell at the
Metropolitan Correctional Center in Lower Manhattan, where he
was jailed pending trial on the federal sex-trafficking charges.
Ms. Maxwell, a longtime confidante and companion of Mr.
Epstein’s, had for years been accused of helping to procure and
groom young girls for the financier, including instructing them
on how to pleasure Mr. Epstein sexually.
The daughter of the British publishing magnate Robert Maxwell,
Ms. Maxwell also helped manage Mr. Epstein’s properties and
introduced him to the high-profile celebrities and business
executives who would form his social circle.
Civil lawsuits have accused Ms. Maxwell of managing a network of
recruiters that Mr. Epstein relied on to entice young and often
financially strapped girls and women into his scheme, promising
he would help them with their education and careers.
“They were like partners in a business,” Mr. Epstein’s house
manager, Janusz Banasiak, said in a deposition.
“She orchestrated the whole thing for Jeffrey,” one of Mr.
Epstein’s accusers, Sarah Ransome, who sued him in 2017, told
The New York Times in an interview.
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Re: Child Abuse Is Not Funny
By: Firestarter Date: July 2, 2020, 10:33 am
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[quote author=truthjourney link=topic=370.msg14769#msg14769
date=1593703187]
[b]Ghislaine Maxwell, Associate of Jeffrey Epstein, Is Arrested
[/quote]
I was just getting ready to post...
Several media report that the daughter of infamous British
intelligence agent, media mogul and arms salesman Robert Maxwell
– Ghislaine Maxwell – has finally been arrested by the FBI.
Reported by NBC and The New York Times amongst others:
HTML https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/ghislaine-maxwell-arrested-jeffrey-epstein-aide/2495762/
HTML http://archive.is/WvdEw
In the spring of 1989, Robert Maxwell and his daughter Ghislaine
hosted a party on his yacht in the presence of Donald Trump,
former US senator John Tower (involved in Iran-Contra), and
ex-navy secretary John Lehman.
See Donald showing his thumb, John Tower to his right and Robert
Maxwell on the far right:
HTML http://web.archive.org/web/20190401040734if_/https://fitzinfo.files.wordpress.com/2018/06/3a29093300000578-0-wallace-a-97_1478625492404.jpg
See Donald Trump’s entry in the flight logs of Jeffrey Epstein’s
private plane.
[IMG]
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The wife of Donald Trump’s associate CNN president Jeff Zucker,
Caryn Stephanie Nathanson, has repeatedly been pictured with
Ghislaine Maxwell.
For example on 2 April 2014, Caryn Zucker (front right) with
Ghislaine Maxwell (left) at Holly Peterson´s HIM book party,
with Epstein´s and Trump´s friend Barbara Walters in the
background on the right, New York.
[IMG]
HTML https://archive.is/pYKyi/18d1ebf5cdd373b828ed1739f7b82041b9817f92.png[/img]
For more on Jeffrey Epstein:
HTML https://www.lawfulpath.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=1485
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Re: Child Abuse Is Not Funny
By: guest17 Date: August 7, 2020, 4:10 pm
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Will Ferrell: Child Trafficking Comedy Skit
HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqeAxMw7Ahk
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Re: Child Abuse Is Not Funny
By: patrick jane Date: August 10, 2020, 7:45 am
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Re: Child Abuse Is Not Funny
By: patrick jane Date: August 20, 2020, 11:02 am
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Re: Child Abuse Is Not Funny
By: patrick jane Date: September 22, 2020, 7:07 pm
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Why ‘Cuties’ Isn’t Just Netflix’s Problem
The sexual exploitation of children is a symptom of a larger
disease—one that we’re complicit in.
On September 9, independent French film Les Mignonnes made its
American debut on Netflix under the title Cuties. While director
Maïmouna Doucouré intends the film as a critique of the sexual
exploitation of children, she quickly found her work facing
condemnation for participating in that very thing. Within days,
#CancelNetflix was trending and the film had received an
astounding 1.06/10 audience rating on Rotten Tomatoes (as of
publishing date).
Part of the public outcry targeted Netflix’s problematic
marketing of Cuties earlier in August. If design is
communication, the chosen images, description, and subtext did
not critique a culture that sexually exploits young girls. It
actively played into it, issuing an invitation to come gaze on
the actors as they engage in “free-spirited” dance.
The film itself also faces difficult questions about the ethics
of using child actors to portray the process of sexualization.
Abuse survivor and advocate Rachael Denhollander tweeted: “One
can’t protest sexualizing children by … sexualizing them.” And
Vox movie critic and former Christianity Today columnist Alissa
Wilkinson pointed out that “trying to depict something in the
context of critiquing it isn’t always successful.”
The ambiguous nature of sexual exploitation within Western
culture explains both the controversy surrounding Cuties and the
thesis of the film itself. While public condemnation has been
sure and swift, it sometimes misses the pressing questions about
whether our society is safe for children: What if the
sexualization of young girls is not a bug but a feature? What if
Netflix knows something about us that we don’t about ourselves?
The central character of Cuties is Amy, an 11-year-old
Senegalese immigrant living in France with her mother and two
younger brothers. The story echoes Doucouré’s own childhood,
caught between a permissive Western culture that exploited girls
one way and a traditional culture that exploited them in other
ways. Longing for love and connection, Amy quickly intuits what
Western culture values and begins to adapt. She recognizes that
this new land of smartphones, social media, and
hyper-sexualization rewards her for objectifying herself. But
limited by both age and her outsider experience, Amy does not
know where suggestive pop culture ends and pornography begins.
As she discovers increasingly explicit material online, she
mimics it adding erotic behavior, dress, and mannerisms to her
dance repertoire—all while oblivious to Western culture’s tacit
agreements about which sexual behaviors are socially acceptable
and which are not.
The challenge of the film is that there are no obvious villains.
No basement-dwelling perverts luring Amy over the internet. No
trusted family friend grooming her for abuse. Instead, the film
presents the banality of evil and how easily a young girl
dropped into Western culture might be exploited by subtle cues
and behaviors that exist in the light of day. There are no
pedophiles hiding behind every corner on whom we can neatly
blame the sexualization of girlhood.
One could undoubtedly argue that the exploitation of young girls
overflows from a decadent society, one where sex sells. It’s
true: Sex does sell. And at some point, the most hardened don’t
care who is being sold. Child trafficking is real, and Netflix
did market the film in a provocative way.
Yet the hyper-sexualization of our society doesn’t answer why
children are sexualized. What kind of culture exploits their
young this way? What kind of culture both condemns pedophilia
and sells padded bras to pre-pubescent girls? Why did Netflix
think that their marketing would work?
To answer this question, we must understand the degree to which
our society does not value childhood in the first place.
Denhollander’s memoir exposing the serial predator Larry Nassar
asks the question in her title: What Is a Girl Worth? She
presses into the structures and value systems that allowed
Nassar to continue abusing young girls for years. Ultimately,
children are threatened by both predators and a culture that
does not hear them when they cry out for help.
Protecting children at the risk of destabilizing powerful
organizations or indicting beloved adults means asking ourselves
not just "What is a girl worth?" but “What are we willing to
pay?” This question ultimately exposes our larger cultural value
systems. We prize efficiency. Children are inefficient. We value
wealth creation. Children are costly and can’t pay their own
way. We honor independence and radical autonomy. Children are
dependent and hamper our freedom. We drive toward what Wendell
Berry calls “the objective.” Children like to take the long,
meandering route home.
It’s no wonder, then, that such a society, would increasingly
find ways to truncate childhood. Instead of making space for
children to be children, we under-support and undervalue those
who care for them, whether in the home or the classroom. We ask
fifth-graders to map out their career goals. We hire private
coaches to improve their pitching, not so they can enjoy
baseball with their friends, but to prepare them for the
“future.” And thus by rushing our kids through childhood, we
ensure that prolonged adolescence extends in both directions.
With a smaller window of childhood, children naturally begin to
adopt postures and traits associated with burgeoning adulthood.
In a society that worships unchecked sexual expression, these
attitudes necessarily include overt sexuality. The more children
are led this way, the more likely they are to be abused by those
who manipulate their intellectual and emotional
naiveté—proffering “she looked older” as an excuse. While
pedophilia certainly exists, the objectification and
sexualization of young girls in Western culture has as much do
with our complicity in viewing them as women before they truly
are.
If you are outraged by the sexual exploitation of young girls,
you’re in good company. In Matthew 18, Jesus warns that those
who would harm children will face his wrath, and it would be
better for them to have a millstone hung around their neck and
be thrown into the sea than cause a little one to stumble.
But Jesus’ strong words do not stem from a selective focus on
child trafficking or pedophilia. Instead, they are rooted in a
holistic understanding of the goodness of childhood and the
unique role that children play in God’s kingdom. Just before he
warns us that we must not harm children, he commands us to
actively welcome them. And he said:
“Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little
children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Therefore,
whoever takes the lowly position of this child is the greatest
in the kingdom of heaven. And whoever welcomes one such child in
my name welcomes me.” (Matt. 18:2–5)
Part of the goodness of childhood is that children remind us of
our own dependence on God. Vulnerable, limited, and wholly
reliant on others to protect them, children show us how we must
come to the kingdom. They show us the only way we can come. The
very things that our culture disdains about childhood are the
very things that God honors.
If we are to truly protect children in such a culture, it will
require more than boycotts, political posturing, or public
stances. It will require a willingness to disturb our own
organizations and question the value systems that tell us that
children are not worthy of our time, resources, and care. It
will require aligning our hearts with the heart of God who
delights to care for children in their weakness, who celebrates
them despite their inefficiencies, and who honors them as
image-bearers, even now.
Hannah Anderson is the author of Made for More, All That’s Good,
and Humble Roots: How Humility Grounds and Nourishes Your Soul.
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