@Frederick Foresight, I thought my bit about the forest trees and the moral responsibility etc was pretty clear? Did it make sense to you?
That’s probably because we’re both fairly sharp thinkers, endlessly curious but grounded enough to avoid the conspiratorial hall of mirrors. We don’t default to blame-shifting or inventing secret-knowledge narratives to impose false order on a chaotic world.
Scholarly, Inquisitive, Methodical, Perspicacious? I guess he does keep me intellectually honest. He was however the first person to like that post, so was the natural person to ask if my meaning was clear.
Especially now, as more harm emerges, like the tragic death of Virginia Giuffre, we have a moral duty to revisit the systems that enabled Epstein. If institutions or networks helped shield him, those connections matter. Dismissing discussion of such links as inherently anti-Semitic or conspiratorial only serves to silence necessary scrutiny. Intelligence agencies, including Mossad, are state actors... not sacred symbols... and deserve the same scrutiny as any powerful institution. If a conversation starts with documented ties, like those of Robert Maxwell, father of Ghislaine, it's neither irrational nor bigoted to ask what role those ties might have played.
What I’d ask @gwb-trading is this: by vociferously accusing others of anti-Semitism with the same tone and intensity only used by ultra-nationalist defenders of Israel, despite not being Jewish yourself, what drives this choice? Why make the defense of Israel's reputation, or of Mossad specifically here, your personal hill to die on, especially in a conversation that began with a legitimate question about historical intelligence ties?