Epstein and Maxwell ran a “honeytrap” operation for Mossad, which survivor Maria Farmer described as a “Jewish supremacist” blackmail ring

The conclusion, then, is not a lurid morality tale about “bad people doing bad things,” nor the tired revelation that royals, celebrities, or billionaires behave with impunity. That much is already obvious. Child abusers exist across every class and every society. What does not exist everywhere is a system that records, archives, weaponises, and protects that abuse for strategic ends.

The Epstein case points not to isolated depravity, but to structured leverage: an architecture of blackmail in which sexual crimes become instruments of power rather than grounds for prosecution. That is why the fixation on individual scandal – princes, parties, and gossip – functions as misdirection.

The real scandal is the evidence of an intelligence-linked operation in which Mossad repeatedly appears as a point of reference, protection, and utility; an operation that embedded itself across politics, finance, media, and celebrity culture.

  • itisileclerk@lemmy.worldEnglish
    42·
    2 months ago

    Mossad is a terrorist organization. What can you expect from them? Law and Order? Mossad is opposite of Law and Order. They blackmail or kill, whatever is more beneficial for them.

  • perestroika@slrpnk.netEnglish
    24·
    2 months ago

    Besides the speculations about Israel and Russia having some relation to Epstein’s “work” (which sure looks like a honeypot, even if typically the operator of a honeypot doesn’t dive into honey) there is another avenue of extortion open currently.

    It is imaginable that US special services could offer people “deals” worded like:

    • “would you like your name to be redacted from, or published with the Epstein files?”

    …and it’s foreseeable that some people would do a lot to have their name redacted. I hope that in the DoJ, it’s a large crew of many people doing the redactions, since that would reduce risk of someone trading favours.

  • Windex007@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    2 months ago

    It’s so jarring to me to hear a sentence structured like that, and I can put my finger on why. It sounds like it was written by Charlie Kelly.

  • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    101·
    2 months ago

    I’ve started thinking that it’s not so much about blackmail after all, instead it’s about connections and relationships.

    Consider this: Epstein clearly had thousands of customers. I don’t have any actual number in my head, but clearly it must have been a lot and seemingly everybody knew about it. Like, if you look at how many people are related to all this, it’s impossible to think that nobody knew anything. Probably, a very large number of people knew what was going on; but nobody bothered to do anything about this. Why? Because they didn’t care. To them, it was just business as usual, everybody’s all in on this anyways, those that aren’t have no actual power, so who’s gonna do anything?

    Like, even if it did get public, i’m pretty sure most of the people involved felt certain enough that nothing bad would happen anyways. Considering there were mostly no consequences till today, they’re mostly right, i’d say.

    Instead, they just used the parties and connections as a networking platform, getting to know other influential people and stuff. That’s IMHO the bigger reason why mossad is involved in all of this. Not for blackmailing purposes, but to be in the center of a network of connections that gives them a lot of strategic influence in the world.