№ 637.3: EXTRA! More Time For Epstein

(with apologies to Alan Jay Lerner and Fredrick Loewe)

IN THE MALE ID (July 13)

Each time I think about the fate of Monsieur Jeffrey Epstein,
I recall the film Gigi and contemplate the headline:
“Thank Heaven For Little Girls.”
This is, I guess, what dear old Jeffrey thought.
“Thank heaven that little girls
can for some trifling sum
because I'm rich be bought.
Those little eyes so helpless and appealing
provide such pleasure, my wrinkles set them squealing.
Thank heaven for little girls.
Thank heaven for them all
and for prosecutors who,
for a fee, ignore what I do.”


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№ 637.2: EXTRA! So It's Only A Crime If It's Printed?

Jeffrey Epstein: how US media – with one star exception – whitewashed the story

The Miami Herald exposed a vast criminal network and a government cover-up – but why the silence elsewhere?

HERE AND NOW (July 13)

Madison, sadly, could not foresee

what the country would turn out to be.

(Or did he?)

James makes no mention of prostitution

anywhere that I read in his Constitution.

(Why would he?)

He and his southern slave-owning cohorts

would never trifle with common town whores.

And to respect puritan New England bores,

they kept their activities entirely indoors,

observing completely, discreetly and privately

all of the trappings of upright society.

There was no prostitution. There was no fee.

They were “maintaining” their property.

Again, end of story, the moral of which

the only crime is not being rich.

Politicians, the press and billionaires:

one goes for the other, then they get theirs.

They, therefore, prefer keeping hands off

and we get this classic Mexican standoff.

By Martin SoulStealer - Flickr: Mexican Standoff, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=27011723

№ 637.1: EXTRA! I Mean, It's Not Like He Were Some Illegal Immigrant Toddler

Epstein’s Lawyers Push for Home Detention in Manhattan Mansion

Attorneys seek to keep financier out of prison pending sex-trafficking trial, dismissing U.S. prosecutors’ flight-risk concerns

BUSINESS CASUAL (July 12)

The single thing Jeff Epstein most fears

is not being judged by a jury of “peers”.

A jury with Clinton or JFK

would likely let him just walk away.

A jury with Cosby, a jury with Woody

would ignore “did he”, and decide he could.

A jury make up of Weinstein's and Spacey's,

not low-pay immigrant salesgirls from Macy's.

His dream team attorneys, I hope, will at least

seat on the panel a pædophile priest.

When convicted, he'll appeal to Augustus

where he'll get his one shot at justice.

Jeff — baby, sweetheart — keep up your gumption.

A pardon from Donald is a safe assumption.