Posted: Aug 12, 2019 3:43 pm
One thought that crosses my mind over this, is that while alive, Epstein could have struck a plea bargain with investigators, in exchange for incriminating data allowing them to land a dozen or so other very big fish. He would almost certainly have been mercenary enough to do this if he had sufficiently explosive incriminating data.
However, if he was pushed rather than jumped, statements by the investigating team, to the effect that they're continuing the investigation, and will be giving Epstein's papers a microscopic examination, have made any murder of Epstein counter-productive. If indeed he was bumped off, doing so has made it even easier for the investigators to comb the data if it exists. Now that he's dead, the investigators no longer face any dilemma arising from arranging a plea bargain with an odious child sex trafficker, because they can now access that data without bothering with a plea bargain. That they've signalled their intent to do precisely that, means that some of those rich, powerful people who thought his death would save their necks, are now shitting themselves big time.
I'm willing to bet this development has much to do with her Maj making a public show of being seen with Andrew. Quite how Charles will react to seeing certain newspaper reports of Andrew being described as "her favourite son", is of course another juicy area of speculation. But if those investigators start digging deep into what Epstein knew about Andrew's shady dealings, the possibility becomes open that sexual shenanigans will be the least of Andrew's worries. Not least because Andrew has form with respect to schmoozing with dodgy characters in the world of arms dealing, at least according to some, shall we say, interesting paragraphs tucked away in corners of Private Eye. Even the Wikipedia page devoted to him mentions some shady goings on in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, for example (one juicy titbit being reported by no less a personage than a US ambassador), and there are a lot of outstanding questions extant over his role as a supposed 'trade envoy' for the UK, again covered in some detail on the Wikipedia page.
Now if Epstein possessed compromising intelligence on Andrew's activities in several former Soviet republics, not to mention less than desirable entanglements with arms sales to despotic regimes, that would, in the proper scheme of things, be far more damaging than where Andrew chose to dip his wick. Though one has to factor in here, the tendency of a segment of the newspaper buying public in the UK, to exhibit a perverse set of priorities in this vein. In particular, the sort that think the Daily Mail and Daily Express constitute newspapers in the genuine sense of the word, as opposed to being distraction mills working on behalf of slimy vested interests, have a habit of launching into pyroclastic paroxysms over sexual freewheeling (possibly motivated by envy), whilst responding to arms trade skulduggery and corruption with an apathetic 'meh', particularly if they're sold the line that said malfeasance means we're putting one over the Smelly Brown Foreign PeopleTM. Though the only way that the idolatrous royalist segment could be persuaded to disown someone like Andrew, is if he was caught in flagrante delicto being given a rear ending by several black guys, a scenario unlikely to come to pass in the light of the Koo Stark affair.
Even if any horizontal jogging with girls young enough to be his daughters did come to light and enter the public domain, the lyrically hypnotised royalists would still make excuses for him, in much the same vein as members of fundamentalist congregations break out the apologetics on a grand scale, when their 'pastors' are found to have played 'hide the sausage' with 12 year olds. And, of course, the Establishment machine would swing into full damage limitation mode, almost certainly involving execrable persecution of the victims. But shady financial dealings bearing the whiff of at least some level of treason, that's a different matter. Anything of that sort lurking in Epstein's papers, and being brought into the public domain, would be a solid gold gift to republicans here (which, I emphasise, have no connections with Americans of the same name).
But, of course, we will have to wait for the aforementioned microscopic examination of papers to begin, before any of the above bears even a remote chance of panning out. There'll be a few sleepless nights among the rich and powerful while that's taking place.
However, if he was pushed rather than jumped, statements by the investigating team, to the effect that they're continuing the investigation, and will be giving Epstein's papers a microscopic examination, have made any murder of Epstein counter-productive. If indeed he was bumped off, doing so has made it even easier for the investigators to comb the data if it exists. Now that he's dead, the investigators no longer face any dilemma arising from arranging a plea bargain with an odious child sex trafficker, because they can now access that data without bothering with a plea bargain. That they've signalled their intent to do precisely that, means that some of those rich, powerful people who thought his death would save their necks, are now shitting themselves big time.
I'm willing to bet this development has much to do with her Maj making a public show of being seen with Andrew. Quite how Charles will react to seeing certain newspaper reports of Andrew being described as "her favourite son", is of course another juicy area of speculation. But if those investigators start digging deep into what Epstein knew about Andrew's shady dealings, the possibility becomes open that sexual shenanigans will be the least of Andrew's worries. Not least because Andrew has form with respect to schmoozing with dodgy characters in the world of arms dealing, at least according to some, shall we say, interesting paragraphs tucked away in corners of Private Eye. Even the Wikipedia page devoted to him mentions some shady goings on in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, for example (one juicy titbit being reported by no less a personage than a US ambassador), and there are a lot of outstanding questions extant over his role as a supposed 'trade envoy' for the UK, again covered in some detail on the Wikipedia page.
Now if Epstein possessed compromising intelligence on Andrew's activities in several former Soviet republics, not to mention less than desirable entanglements with arms sales to despotic regimes, that would, in the proper scheme of things, be far more damaging than where Andrew chose to dip his wick. Though one has to factor in here, the tendency of a segment of the newspaper buying public in the UK, to exhibit a perverse set of priorities in this vein. In particular, the sort that think the Daily Mail and Daily Express constitute newspapers in the genuine sense of the word, as opposed to being distraction mills working on behalf of slimy vested interests, have a habit of launching into pyroclastic paroxysms over sexual freewheeling (possibly motivated by envy), whilst responding to arms trade skulduggery and corruption with an apathetic 'meh', particularly if they're sold the line that said malfeasance means we're putting one over the Smelly Brown Foreign PeopleTM. Though the only way that the idolatrous royalist segment could be persuaded to disown someone like Andrew, is if he was caught in flagrante delicto being given a rear ending by several black guys, a scenario unlikely to come to pass in the light of the Koo Stark affair.
Even if any horizontal jogging with girls young enough to be his daughters did come to light and enter the public domain, the lyrically hypnotised royalists would still make excuses for him, in much the same vein as members of fundamentalist congregations break out the apologetics on a grand scale, when their 'pastors' are found to have played 'hide the sausage' with 12 year olds. And, of course, the Establishment machine would swing into full damage limitation mode, almost certainly involving execrable persecution of the victims. But shady financial dealings bearing the whiff of at least some level of treason, that's a different matter. Anything of that sort lurking in Epstein's papers, and being brought into the public domain, would be a solid gold gift to republicans here (which, I emphasise, have no connections with Americans of the same name).
But, of course, we will have to wait for the aforementioned microscopic examination of papers to begin, before any of the above bears even a remote chance of panning out. There'll be a few sleepless nights among the rich and powerful while that's taking place.