For a few years now, many people have been talking about Jeffrey Epstein and his alleged blackmail scheme. In short, Epstein and his associate Ghislaine Maxwell allegedly lured members of the ruling elite to their parties filled with young underage girls, who in turn lured the elite members into rooms with hidden cameras that recorded the illegal sex acts, and the videotapes were used as collateral to force these powerful men to do favors for them.
Personally I believe in the veracity of this scheme. And I also believe that Epstein was a Mossad agent and the whole scheme was done for the benefit of Israel. The Mossad is an intelligence agency with few effective members, as it uses thousands of Jews around the world as agents and has done far worse things than this blackmail scheme, such as the assassination of important political figures and false flag terrorist attacks. And it is even clearer that Ghislaine Maxwell – daughter of a top Israeli agent, Robert Maxwell, who was instrumental in the creation of the State of Israel – operated for the Mossad. I also believe that the Mossad in partnership with the CIA assassinated Epstein so as not to risk him testifying and handing over the whole scheme. But something that certainly did not exist was a ring of child rape among the ruling elite. This case simply involves neither children nor rape, and to say otherwise is to minimize the horrendous crime of child rape.
First of all, it is necessary to define “rape”, because the left in recent years has tried to redefine this crime to pit men against women in its goal of divide and conquer. For the progressives, women who had consensual sex with men, but later regretted it, were raped. This complete perversion of justice gained momentum with the MeToo Movement and its most prominent case in which women who had consensual sex with film producer Harvey Weinstein in exchange for film roles and later repented accused him of rape. This is a complete disrespect for the women victims of the real terrible crime of rape, which consists of forced sexual acts, without the consent of the victim. Considering the alleged victims’ own testimonies of Epstein’s case, no actual rape occurred.
Yet, many who speak of a “Child Rape Ring” claim that children are unable to consent or refrain from consenting to sex, and any sexual act with them is rape. I certainly agree with this, and I consider that the crime of child rape is infinitely more heinous than the rape of adults, and these pedophile criminals deserve the most brutal punishments. However, the Epstein case, in addition to not involving forced sexual acts, also does not involve any children. Child is generally defined as a person from about 1 to 12 years old. At Epstein’s parties, the girls involved were at most teenagers of 19, 18, 17 and possibly some 16-year-olds, but definitely no children. And all of them not only with an active sex life, but already living as prostitutes – exchanging sex for money, trips, expensive dinners – before going to Epstein’s parties or island.
Epstein was a pervert who used to hire teenage girls on the West Palm Beach streets to go massage him at his mansion. During the massage he insinuated his desire for that interaction to evolve into sex. The many who refused simply went home with the money received for the massage. Those who consented, consummated the sexual act, received extra money and left, and Epstein kept their contact for invite to future meetings with him and to his well-known parties. Maxwell also used her network to recruit young women to parties. Epstein was not a rapist and did not get involved with children. He at most may have violated the positivist American state law of the age of consent for sex, which varies by states from 13 (restricted by age difference) to 21 years old (unrestricted).
Libertarians in the Rothbardian tradition are adherents of natural law, a rule valid for everyone in every place and time, so it is unfortunate to see great libertarians, such as Dave Smith and Scott Horton, defending technicalities of positivist state law and calling Epstein’s blackmail scheme a “Child Rape Ring”. The correct libertarian approach would totally discard the notion of legal age for sex or any other act, since people develop and mature at different rates. And in the extreme they don’t even develop, so there may be 40-year-old person with a mental age of 3 years old, and a sexual act with someone like this should be considered rape, while there are teenage girls who have already had more consensual sex than sexually active adult men will ever be able to have in their entire lives. And for sure, the girls at Epstein’s parties belonged to the latter group. Many of them have repented, just as I hope that each and every woman who has prostituted herself will regret it someday, but this does not transform her consensual sexual acts of the past into rape, as the progressives claims it does.
On the other hand, it’s almost to be expected that a statist who despises libertarianism like Darryl Cooper—a friend of Smith and Horton—would hold up legislation enacted by politicians as the standard of morality and be an extreme legalist to the point of considering that a man’s attraction to a young, enticing woman in her prime of beauty and fertility is fine if she’s 18 or older, but if she’s 17 years and 364 days old, then that man is a pedophile and child rapist who deserves the harshest punishment. And in the case of the interaction on board, this would also depend on where Epstein’s plane was flying at the time, because if it were over a state where the age of consent was 14 or 21, then the morality would be instantly altered. In his conversation with Tucker Carlson, Cooper exposes important facets of the history of Epstein, Maxwell, and the entire blackmail scheme, but ridiculously keeps switching between characterizing the case as “sex with legal minors” and “child rape”—two very different things. And Cooper considers himself the bastion of morality by defending the purity of children against pedophile predators, but he fails to consider the fact that in the Epstein case there are no children involved and the young girls concerned have lost their purity long ago.
The United States is particularly strict in its state impositions of behavior, largely due to the dominant Protestant religion in its “evangelical” form of pietism that influences its legislations. That’s why they even banned alcohol altogether with the 1920-33 Prohibition, and after the repeal, alcohol continues to be heavily regulated, with some states fully controlling the sale exclusively in state-owned stores. The age for alcohol consumption is one of the highest in the world, as is the age of consent for sex. But for libertarians it is meaningless for an act to be a crime in a place and when crossing an imaginary line it is no longer a crime. Or something that was perfectly legal yesterday, today became a crime. It makes me wonder that the fanatical postmillennialist American legislators have gone so far as to criminalize the divine conception of Christ, since it is known that when Mary conceived Jesus, she was between 13 and 16 years old. Although this was a case of conception without a sexual act, – Mary consented to the Holy Spirit with her Fiat, the perfect “yes” – for many centuries and in many parts of the world this was the normal age when women had sex and had children. In any case, according to God and according to Nature, a normal teenage woman is already fit for sex and its reproductive function, and to consider that a mentally capable teenager who consents to a sexual act is being raped is at the very least to go against Christianity and against Biology.
But above all, to say that the Epstein case involves child rape is to belittle the abominable crimes in which real children (11, 8, 5, 2 years old, etc.) are raped for real. The three monsters arrested in this Bibb County, AL, case are child rapists; Trump, Bill Clinton, Prince Andrew and Epstein are not!
To designate pedophile rapists in the same way with men who have consensual sex with grow up teenagers based on the technicality of a puritanical piece of legislation is repugnant and irresponsible and that is why – although pressure must continue for full disclose of this alleged blackmail case involving the Mossad – everybody should stop talking about a Child Rape Blackmail Ring.
