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binarymax ◴[] No.20575710[source]
An independent activist journalist has been digging into the case and has come up with some interesting and alarming connections and history. Worth a read: https://libertyblitzkrieg.com/2019/07/08/the-jeffrey-epstein...
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cletus ◴[] No.20576439[source]
That is interesting although I'm wary of any allusions to a suicide or accident (of Robert Maxwell) being nefarious without some pretty significant proof. Like... it's just a recipe for getting painted as a tin foil hat wearing conspiracy theorist.

As for the relation to Robert Maxwell, didn't his connection to underage girls at that time come from him being a teacher at an elite school? Wouldn't you expect such students to have famous and/or rich parents?

But here's the big one... can we please stop shoe-horning long form content into "Twitter threads"? That's not a thing. It's a terrible way of presenting long form content and it needs to die.

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anbop ◴[] No.20576465[source]
That’s true in average cases but at the highest levels of power, having inconvenient people killed is just another power like getting caviar delivered by private jet.
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el_cujo ◴[] No.20576643[source]
I don’t think what you’re saying is wrong, but all of these people live in the real world where accidents/sudden illness/etc do happen every day, so it would be nice to have some evidence beyond “this guy benefitted from this other guy dying.” I’m not a lawyer or anything, but even the legal system isn’t really supposed to look at motivation as evidence in a case, though I’m sure it sways juries.
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1. Zircom ◴[] No.20576792[source]
>I’m not a lawyer or anything, but even the legal system isn’t really supposed to look at motivation as evidence in a case, though I’m sure it sways juries.

"Motive, means and opportunity" is typically what investigators need before charging someone with a crime so not quite sure if it follows that it's not supposed to be brought up in court?