One of the most outspoken members of the US Republican Party over the Epstein files has told the BBC he is “not satisfied until the survivors are satisfied”.
Thomas Massie, a congressman representing Kentucky, told the Newsnight programme: “Men need to be perp-walked in handcuffs to the jail, and until we see that here in this country… we don’t have a system of justice that’s working.”
Massie has criticised the Department of Justice (DOJ) for the number of files that it redacted or withheld after it complied with a law - co-written by Massie - to release all its material.
DOJ officials have said they have released all of their files other than certain items permitted to be exempt.
In contrast with the situation in the US, the UK was “the only place that we’re seeing arrests”, Massie said. He said it was “ironic that [the US] thought we could have more justice by becoming independent from Britain”.
I’d be okay if we redid that scene from GoT where Khal Drogo pours molten gold over the whiny viserius guy.
Can we get someone to pour molten got gold over Dump’s head?
Let’s melt down his shitty new dollar coins as a source of gold!
Death by molten gold does seem a very fitting punishment for a certain someone
Perp walked, perp whipped, while being perp livestreamed, and perp televised live, on every station in every state, before being perp encarcerated forever.
Arrested and tried sure. But perp walks are a violation of the presumption of innocence. If, by some wild turn of events, someone named in the Epstein files is innocent, we shouldn’t drag them through the mud in the process.
No no no no no no. PERP WALK. None of this weak ass apologetic shit. When it’s one of us little people they fuck us over and eat us alive. PERP WALK.
You see how that is also bad, right
You can be against when it happens to poor people, and for when it happens to the rich. Hell, even if you really believe in “equal treatment under the law”, you can be in favor of the rich getting some of the “equal treatment” for a change— until the treatment changes for the poor.
But perp walks are a violation of the presumption of innocence.
Only when you’re rich, at which people the presumption is that you were entitled to commit crimes and this prosecution infringes on your right to look good in camera.
Perp walks when you’re poor, foreign, or in opposition to the state are a foundational ritual of humiliation needed to justify the existence of an enormous military police presence.
If we can’t get that viral libidinal moment, how are elected officials supposed to prove they are serious about Fighting Crime?
