THE EPSTEIN THING

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Putting my “false allegations” series on hold for the moment, I want to address the Epstein thing.

I don’t have a problem acknowledging that Jeffrey Epstein was most likely a deep state intelligence operative. Nothing else explains how he got away with so much for so long. It also explains why the so-called “client list” remains elusive.

I am also quite on board with the assertion that Epstein rose mysteriously to unprecedented wealth and influence because he was extraordinarily adept at supplying a steady stream of sex-workers to powerful people.

I call them “sex-workers” and not “victims” on purpose.

Hardly an Epstein story goes by without the requisite media sobbing about his “victims.” There are two problems with this. First, they weren’t victims. Second, it’s a distraction from the real matter: uncovering Epstein’s deep-state connections and activities - in short, who Epstein was really working for and why.

His “girls,” minors or not, was just the currency he trafficked in to do his job, a job that made him a billionaire since no other business activity or financial venture can be identified as the source of his voluminous cash flow.

They weren’t victims

According to the court papers I have read, all of Epstein’s “girls” arrived at his many mansions willingly and were well-paid for their services. They were sex-workers, not victims, and it appears the majority of them not only liked their “jobs,” but recruited others for similar employment.

I saw and worked with real victims of sexual abuse in the Apuron case. At the time of their being victimized, they were young, trusting altar boys who thought they were only helping their pastor when he invited them to his house of horrors. They weren’t expecting to be molested, raped, and then threatened to keep their mouths shut for the rest of their now ruined lives.

That’s what a victim looks like. That’s what abuse looks like.

Underage?

Court papers say some of Epstein’s sex-workers were as young as 14. So? What’s all the fuss? Being less than 18 years old might keep you from buying cigarettes, but the law in most states, including Guam, says it’s okay to engage in consensual sex at 16.

Meanwhile, while the majority of Americans are all riled up about Epstein and his clients, according to the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry that same majority of Americans (67%) supports distribution of free contraceptives in schools. Ummm, what do you think these little girls and boys are going to do with that stuff?

Here in Guam, as advertised on the website for the Bureau of Women’s Affairs, contraception is free at all public health facilities. Apparently there is no age limit. Hmmm. Kids can’t buy cigarettes until they’re 18, but can help themselves to condoms and birth control pills as soon as they’re tall enough to peer over the counter and say “Please Sir, I want some more.”

Those who think “they’re just going to do it anyway” are probably thinking their teens are having sex with teens, so they might as well be “protected.” But as the Epstein story (and many others) demonstrates, why would a fourteen year old girl want to have sex with a broke fourteen year old boy when she can score thousands of dollars off an older man with means?

So don’t give me that “they were only 14 and didn’t know any better.” Parents (67% anyway) are practically handing their minor children contraceptives and signing a permission slip to have sex with whoever they want. Should we now be upset when those same kids figure out a way to make money at it - as Epstein’s girls did?

Pedophile?

It’s a useful word because of its “disgust” level, but Epstein was no pedophile - a pervert yes, but no pedophile. Pedophilia is clinically defined as a sexual preference for prepubescent children. While the record shows that Jeffrey liked them young, he didn’t like them that young.

The same with Apuron and just about all of the clergy sex abuse cases nationwide. The record (the John Jay Report) shows that the sexual preference was for adolescents, i.e. sexually mature, and in the clergy cases, overwhelmingly male. So pedophilia was not the operative perversion. I’ll let you figure out what was.

Given the filth and perversity we as a society unthinkingly accommodate daily, it’s hard not to see that all this righteous fixation on Epstein’s “list” isn’t a collective Freudian conscience-swabbing exercise in projection.

Tim Rohr has resided in Guam since 1987. He has raised a family of 11 children, owned several businesses, and is active in local issues via his blog, JungleWatch.info, letters to local publications, and occasional public appearances. He may be contacted at timrohr.guam@gmail.com