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For a moment I will consider the conspiracy: If you kill a judge, another will simply take their place and the process will continue. Ergo the only way the cons

For a moment I will consider the conspiracy: If you kill a judge, another will simply take their place and the process will continue. Ergo the only way the conspiracy holds water is if the judge could not be persuaded to violate her oath, etc. or the chances of a judge who would be more favorable would be set to take her place. It's madness.

mclightning 6y ago
well, unless you know/or have power over who the next judge is.
ponker 6y ago
If you are the replacement judge for a judge whose son was murdered you will probably save your own family and rule in favor of the powerful party that ordered the hit.
- jariel 6y ago
  Probably the opposite. There will be so much oversight now, and 'all eyes will be on'. I don't think the system is likely to cower like that in the face of such a big, literally international issue.
  - mercer 6y ago
    Considering the limp-dicked response to Epstein's 'suicide' , what makes you have so much faith in 'the system' when possible powerful elements in this system are implicated?
    - eternalban 6y ago
      That begs the question of why was asset Epstein left out to dry. Wexner, for example, is still protected by media shading lack of investigation of that prime 'sponsor' of Epstein's very well promoted career as a financial genius. Since this was like a mob hit, I think the global protection racket you refer to as 'the system' is possibly manifesting conflict in 'the commission'. You see this at every level these days. There is a re-alignment going on, it seems, and not everyone is on board. (Just speculation.)
      - mercer 6y ago
        > That begs the question of why was asset Epstein left out to dry. Perhaps he threatened someone that he'd talk. Perhaps some scapegoat was needed to take some pressure off. Perhaps it just wasn't worth protecting him because of mounting evidence. Or perhaps someone just hated his guts. If it's possible to have someone 'whacked' in jail with little repercussion (which seems to me a somewhat plausible assumption), I can think of all sorts of reasons why things happened the way they did.
stx 6y ago
If this was a hit/ attempted hit by a party that is worried what the Epstein case would uncover something more incriminating then I would think would serve to intimidate any future judge put on the case. To be clear though I think judges, prosecutors and law enforcement face threats on a regular basis and many of them have the guts to do the right thing. Granted with Epstein case this is a bit more scary then the usual cases. Its connected to such powerful people.

mclightning 6y ago

well, unless you know/or have power over who the next judge is.

ponker 6y ago

If you are the replacement judge for a judge whose son was murdered you will probably save your own family and rule in favor of the powerful party that ordered the hit.

jariel 6y ago
Probably the opposite. There will be so much oversight now, and 'all eyes will be on'. I don't think the system is likely to cower like that in the face of such a big, literally international issue.
- mercer 6y ago
  Considering the limp-dicked response to Epstein's 'suicide' , what makes you have so much faith in 'the system' when possible powerful elements in this system are implicated?
  - eternalban 6y ago
    That begs the question of why was asset Epstein left out to dry. Wexner, for example, is still protected by media shading lack of investigation of that prime 'sponsor' of Epstein's very well promoted career as a financial genius. Since this was like a mob hit, I think the global protection racket you refer to as 'the system' is possibly manifesting conflict in 'the commission'. You see this at every level these days. There is a re-alignment going on, it seems, and not everyone is on board. (Just speculation.)
    - mercer 6y ago
      > That begs the question of why was asset Epstein left out to dry. Perhaps he threatened someone that he'd talk. Perhaps some scapegoat was needed to take some pressure off. Perhaps it just wasn't worth protecting him because of mounting evidence. Or perhaps someone just hated his guts. If it's possible to have someone 'whacked' in jail with little repercussion (which seems to me a somewhat plausible assumption), I can think of all sorts of reasons why things happened the way they did.

stx 6y ago

If this was a hit/ attempted hit by a party that is worried what the Epstein case would uncover something more incriminating then I would think would serve to intimidate any future judge put on the case. To be clear though I think judges, prosecutors and law enforcement face threats on a regular basis and many of them have the guts to do the right thing. Granted with Epstein case this is a bit more scary then the usual cases. Its connected to such powerful people.