Could this be Karma?
Let me say this first and most importantly… everyone accused of the crime is presumed innocent until proven guilty and we are strongly against sexual abuse of any kind. It is important to establish that this post is not to implicate someone of a crime before they have been convicted and certainly not to celebrate the commission of an offense.
That said… some news that came out last night got my attention… Florida Congressman Matt Gaetz is under investigation for sex trafficking a minor.
This is the same Matt Gaetz, who when running for office put out a television commercial announcing he plans to “fix” sex offender laws by creating longer mandatory minimum sentences (see: https://floridaactioncommittee.org/longer-prison-terms-only-works-for-politics/). This is also the same Matt Gaetz whose father, former Florida Senate President Don Gaetz, promised to make Florida “Scorched Earth for Sex Offenders” (see: https://www.orlandosentinel.com/opinion/os-xpm-2013-12-21-os-ed-sexual-predator-epidemic-20131220-story.html).
Isn’t that a bit fortuitous (again, not the offense but who the accused is)? We’ve always said that ‘until it happens to them or their child’ they won’t realize or care about the draconian laws they created.
If the allegations are proven and Matt Gaetz has to do time and register as a sex offender, he will become the beneficiary of all the “scorched earth” laws he and his father helped create. Could this be Karma?
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Here is a direct quote from Gaetz: “”It is a horrible allegation and it is a lie. The New York Times is running a story that I have traveled with a 17-year-old woman and that is verifiablably false.” I find it interesting that he defines a 17 year old as a woman rather than a child. I was busted for CP because the feds said images.on my computer were of “children” the same age as Gaetz describes as a “woman.”
I’ve forgotten the year that Congress changed the cutoff age for CP from 16 to 18. Federal prosecutors argued that it was hard to distinguish between legal and illegal pictures. Of course this “logic” still applies with the age at 18. This change was made even though the federal age of consent is 16, as it is in 34 states.
So even though a 16 year-old can engage with another over that age, she would be guilty of production of CP if she took a sexualized photo of herself. Go figure!
Veritas.
Ed, I think that the child porn cut off has been 18 for a long time. What may have still been 16 was stuff like what used to be called a Mann Act Really need to interstate travel and also the laws that say that if you travel to a foreign country with the intent of having sex with someone under 16, 18 or whatever. My recollection is that was 16 for the international travel at least three or four years ago because there was a case in the news about some couple that I travel to Thailand specifically to fool around with young kid. That’s the first time I’ve ever heard that that age limit was still 16. But we’ve seen things like this before where someone is dating a 16-or 17 year-old and it’s perfectly legal under state law, but they send a nude picture of them to someone else and it’s a “child pornography offense” Point being is that I do believe that for anything they would try to classify as “child porn” The age has been 18 for quite some time.
I would like to know why Floriduh State Senator Lauren Book was quick to condemn her pediatrician for an accusation but is absolutely quiet about her political ally getting accused. I guess only some accusations are worthy of her condemnation?
That’s going to be a tough row to ho as they would say back in the day.
If he is convicted he’s going to finally understand what it’s like to be on the receiving end of endless discrimination and public shaming.
Hopefully if he is proven guilty he can’t buy his way out with favors from friends. He could use a dose of his own medicine..
Karma? Epistiens little black book of secrets would end the registry
Epsteins’s you mean right? I agree completely, and there has to be one.
I’m not really a conspiracy theorist. However, did Epstein really commit suicide or was he offed due to his ties with political big wings? He could have been a victim off another inmate. The more politicians I see get investigated for sex crimes. I start to lean more towards that either Epstein did infact commit suicide either from guilt or to fall on his sword to protect his inner circle or his inner circle had connections to tie up any loose ends with him.
It is quite obvious… MI5 … eliminate a witness against the crown’s Prince Andrew.
Whether Karma or just hypocritical greed grasping for the low hanging fruit to promote and advance themselves, being exposed for who they really are. The problem is ,even if now he recognizes the injustices of his former laws he will no longer be in a position to change any of them. For no one will be willing to listen to him anymore. Because of the world he has helped create.
Amen.