Just a few thoughts re the events of the past week if I may be indulged.
On my weekly post I mentioned Jimmy Carter was very sick. Then a day later I read, on FreeRepublic coincidentally, that Carter will be participating in building new houses for Habitat for Humanity. How can he do that if he’s dying of cancer?
Folks, I am serious about this Joe Biden thing. Of course politically I am not on Biden’s side although you must smile, he WAS my state senator for a few years. But this guy is really losing it. Or has lost it one may think.
But he forgot he was in New Hampshire and called it Vermont? Not knowing the state you are in, that’s pretty serious, no?
Then there’s his hands all over kids and he never stops. And goodness, this is weird, his own wife told us to swallow hard and vote for the guy.
Please don’t let this guy get elected my President. I don’t think he’s a joke. I think he’s really losing it.
Finally I chanced upon a debate of sorts right here on FR about Epstein’s “victims”.
Bear in mind that the fine and holy Jeffery Epstein wrote up his will and no doubt much of his money will go to victims.
The debate on FR involved those thread commenters who suggested that many of those females knew what they were doing, many , if not most, willingly participated and there was money involved.
Big arguments followed as often happens on a controversial thread but it made me think.
I am quite sure that those young girls, and bear in mind that most of them were in their late teens, of legal age but very young and I do not admire creeps like Alan Dershowitz who jump on an 18 year old even if, technically, she is of age.
But there is something to be said that these females often willingly went with these men, probably for money.
This thing about everybody on this planet being a “victim”....it gets old.
This is not to say that any of these men pass my admiration test. Most of them were married. Many likely used taxpayer funds to get to Epstein’s famous island. And there were probably quite a few underage females and some rapes.
But there was some strange circumstances in that matter and we will soon find out that some of those “victims” had a choice and they took it.
King Charles IX of France, under the sway of his mother, Catherine de Medici, orders the assassination of Huguenot Protestant leaders in Paris, setting off an orgy of killing that results in the massacre of tens of thousands of Huguenots all across France.
Kind of like the Jews, hounded by a lot of people from a long time back
“Big arguments followed as often happens on a controversial thread but it made me think.”
OK, something to think about..
All/most of these girls were 16 yrs or older.
I haven’t seen any credible charge forcible rape.
It would be my guess that most of the male FReepers here had (or at least tried to) engaged in sex with girls under 18 when they were in their teen years.
Other than the age of the one doing the boinking and exchange of money, what is the difference?