Jeffrey Epstein’s cover-up is an offense to American democracy | Rebecca Solnit

rApes are crimes against democracy when both individuals and us have certain inalienable rights. Most rapists are premised that they can not only torture their victims physically, but also do it socially and legally. They rely on a system that discounts the voice of victims and often make men run obscene legal instruments run by men at the expense of women and children through shame, intimidation, threats, smears, obscene legal instruments known as non-disclosure agreements. That is, rapists rely on escaping it because of a system that puts them in power and steals from victims. They count on the silence system. About profound inequality.

This is what makes rape so strange: it is the ritual formulation of the perpetrator’s power and the incompetence of the victim, supported by the circumstances in which each character is placed in those roles. This is due to the desire to exploit sexuality to cause physical and psychological harm to dominate, celebrate the power of the rapist and the powerlessness of the victim, to see another person as a person without rights, including the right to set boundaries, to refuse and speak. A society that permanentizes and protects this desire and arrangement is the culture of rape, which is our culture throughout our existence.

In this case, democracy means a society and system in which everyone’s rights are important, everyone’s voice will be heard, and everyone is equal under the law. Rapemen expect this is not true, but has become more real in the past half century due to feminism and has changed more significantly in the past twelve years due to more feminism. From arresting officials to inquiry, judges and juries (not men due to feminism), the voice of the legal system, rights and support for equality have turned. It didn’t change enough, but it changed a lot, and that’s where a hundred survivors of Jeffrey Epstein’s rape club were able to come together with the support of Republican Congressman Thomas Massie in Kentucky, while Democratic representative Ro Khanna from California told the world about their experiences and their needs for justice Wednesday morning.

They became victims, some of whom were abused for years because of the power differences between Epstein and girls and young women. His power includes not only his enormous and still unexplainable wealth, but also the help of many others. Some people actively cooperate to manipulate and abuse them as hosts of beauticians and pimps Ghislaine Maxwell Indeed, Epstein provided them with these rapists of children and young women. Others know and choose to protect him and his abuser, some will still do so until the highest.

House Speaker Mike Johnson defended Donald Trump earlier this summer by postponing Congress to prevent votes on measures related to Epstein. As the New Republic Report On Tuesday, “House Speaker Mike Johnson provides Republicans with the cowardly to avoid voting on bipartisan discharge petitions to fully release Epstein’s archives.” Johnson’s main focus on this (and almost everything else he does) is protecting Trump. He is not alone. Jamie Raskin explain July: “They called up a thousand FBI agents to work 24 hours a day and told them to post any mention of Donald Trump … This is probably one of the biggest cover-ups in American history.”

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi ordered this crazy censorship program to protect Trump, which should have been a thousand former page news report asking to know that a thousand people are hiding us, and Trump is precisely the one he demands such anti-democratic protection. Like Johnson and Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, she had a long and serious softball interview with Maxwell, who was serving a man, not the 342 million people in the country. Trump himself seemed to be scared throughout the summer and longed to distract anything about his role in all of this, and once again tried to silence the victim by immediately calling the whole thing a “Democratic mischief” after the press conference. Survivor Haley Robson called out Trump and announced: “I sincerely invite you to meet me in person so you can understand that this is not a scam.”

Women speaking at a press conference Wednesday morning made it clear that they remained worried about threats and that the mechanisms of silence were still working. Katie Tarrant of the Washington Post write a letter,” said Lisa Phillips, a victim of Jeffrey Epstein and her attorney Brad Edwards, who said the victims were afraid to speak publicly about other abusers because they were worried about legal action. Another postal reporter reported: “Anouska de Georgiou said she was a victim of Jeffrey Epstein, and she said she and her daughter were threatened when she volunteered to be a witness in the lawsuit against Ghislaine Maxwell. ”

This attempt to curb the truth about crime and silence victims with the Republicans and Trump administration. Attacks on immigrants, refugees, blacks and browns, women, trans people, positioning the government as the above laws in the cooperation of the rogue Conservative Party of the Supreme Court: all of which are attempts to withdraw democratic achievements in the past few decades, but rather rights and rights in law and law in accordance with the provisions of democratic rights and equal rights in the Law.

Making women second-class or perhaps 11th grade citizens is once again at the heart of the current right-wing agenda, which pursues convictions of pregnancy, denial of reproductive rights, including the right to obtain birth control, the right to choose whether to raise a child, and the right to care for women suffering from miscarriage or otherwise needing pregnancy to save lives. But it’s just part of the attack on women. The government disproportionately fired black women from government work. 300,000 Black Women Leaving – Or was launched – the labor force of the past three months.

Pete Hegseth, who settled himself Rape accusation Appearing in court, fired women in high-level positions in the army, claiming that women are not as qualified as men Always re-released Videos of Christian fanatics assert that women should not have the right to vote. Trump’s is actually a pro-crime administration, as major federal branches are evacuated to pursue criminals to persecute immigrants, often doing so in violation of the law. The government tries to cut Funding and demolition plans for plans to address domestic violence. Of course, the Trump administration is led by Donald J Trump. Donald J Trump found in a civil lawsuit that Trump raped journalist E Jean Carroll was “substantive”. It has been a rapist and has always enabled him to promote upwards.