I don’t want to be that guy who throws the red challenge flag on the victims of child sex trafficking at the hands of Democrat Jeffrey Epstein and his co-conspirator and fellow Democrat Ghislaine Maxwell, but someone has to. Someone has to because the “justice” these women are demanding, or are claiming to demand, is fully and completely within their grasp, and their grasp alone. Yet, they don’t seem willing to take it. Sooner or later, they have to put up, or shut up, don’t they?
There comes a point at which you either put your money where your mouth is or you stop talking trash. People who talk about how tough they are, or how good they are at something, often get really quiet when challenged to a fight or a game. If I didn’t hate basketball, if I loved it and thought I was a really, really good free-throw shooter and told everyone how I was the best at it, it’d look pretty bad if I passed on every $20 shoot-off I was challenged to.
I’m not trying to belittle the abuse the accusers of Epstein suffered, but some of them have come out and admitted to being escorts or adults when their entanglement started. If you were an adult, even if you were only 21, you’re a consenting adult. When I was 21, I was pretty stupid, but I was still an adult. It’s not any different for anyone else. When a handful of these women are demanding something – in this case, the names of abusers – that, at least theoretically, is fully within their ability to provide…and then they don’t, I have questions.
They know who abused them. If those men are out there, living their lives and likely abusing more women (because I can’t imagine a pedo stopping), then the refusal to name and charge them becomes something akin to enabling further abuse, doesn’t it?
But we don’t get those questions; we don’t get any real questions at all. People in the media are afraid to press these women on anything for fear of being accused of being insensitive. Personally, I’ll happily be insensitive if it gets monsters off the streets. I’ll also happily be insensitive if it helps expose fraud.
I don’t know which is the case here; all I know is that Epstein is in Hell, so he can’t refute anything. Maxwell is trying to avoid spending the rest of her life in prison, so she’s not going to talk. The only direct source for information is the accusers, so I want them to talk.
I’m not referring to the women who have not come forward – everyone has the right to privacy and keep their personal torment to themselves, should they so choose – I’m talking about the women who hold press conferences regularly in Washington, DC. They aren’t shy about accusing the Trump administration of “covering up” things they could easily “uncover” by simply talking, yet they don’t. I just find it odd.
Just like I find it odd that Democrats seem to be coordinating with them at hearings, or maybe it’s just a major coincidence.
And then there are Congressmen Ro Khanna, D-CA and Thomas Massie, R-KY, who keep promising to release “names” if the Justice Department won’t un-redact them in the files. These two have absolute immunity for anything they say on the Floor of the House, thanks to the speech or debate clause of the Constitution. They can’t be criminally prosecuted for revealing top secret information, and they can’t be sued civilly for slandering anyone at all, even in the most heinous and deliberate way. There’s a reason Congresswoman Nancy Mace only accused her ex-fiancé and some of his friends of horrible sexual abuse against her on the House Floor and not anywhere else, including a criminal complaint.
Khanna and Massie can expose monsters, if they exist, and save more victims…but they aren’t. Why the hell not?
I would never presume to tell anyone how to grieve, nor would I tell anyone how to deal with trauma. But if you enter the public arena and make allegations, wild or not, I will question you, even if it’s considered politically incorrect to do so. I’m sympathetic to the cause – as a father of 2 girls, I want all sexual predators sunk to the bottom of the ocean – but that sympathy will not override my logic. I have a question, and first among them is why are these people demanding someone else release information they have themselves?
The reluctance to simply do it themselves, what they insist they want, has me wondering why. No one will sue – you can’t enforce a non-disclosure agreement to cover up a crime and even if someone sued them, how do you think that would work out for them? Could you imagine? Anyone accused would immediately be assumed guilty in the court of public opinion and all the sympathy would remain with the accusers.
The only things stopping them from talking – from the women who regularly attend press conferences demanding things to Members of Congress demanding things – is them. It’s time to put up, I think.
Derek Hunter is the host of the Derek Hunter Show on WMAL in Washington, DC, and has a free daily podcast (subscribe!) and author of the book, Outrage, INC., which exposes how liberals use fear and hatred to manipulate the masses, and host of the weekly “Week in F*cking Review” podcast where the news is spoken about the way it deserves to be. Follow him on Twitter at @DerekAHunter.
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