Sipsey Street Irregulars: Anecdotes of a collapsing civilization. . .

Saturday, April 2, 2011

Anecdotes of a collapsing civilization. . .

“A jail sentence doesn’t matter anymore. The only thing that gets you shunned in New York society is poverty.”

Despite the pedophile mogul's conviction for soliciting underage prostitution, his circle—a who's who of the rich and powerful, from Bill Clinton to Katie Couric—is standing by their man. Renowned scientists whose research Epstein funded also back the billionaire, writes Alexandra Wolfe.

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Happy D said...: “New York friends are suddenly hesitant to talk about Maxwell. "She's a high-end 'fixer'," and so what? they ask. "No one in café society gives a damn that a 15-year-old girl gives massages," says one frequent charity-benefit guest.”

Not at all like the aristocrats treated the surfs.

A massage that is all, sure it is. That conviction has no relevance. He could not afford a good lawyer.

Ever wonder why Muslims want to get rid of New York, New York?
I’ll give you a hint it’s not the architecture.; April 2, 2011 at 12:31 PM
Anonymous said...: Sodom and Gomorra. . . .

B Woodman
III-per; April 2, 2011 at 1:03 PM
John Smith said...: I would prefer to know how underage girls got to be prostitutes in the first place...; April 2, 2011 at 2:33 PM
Anonymous said...: I am one person in"flyover country" who has a huge disconnect with these folks. When Achmed sails his freighter loaded with a thermonuclear device up the Hudson and detonates it, I won't lose a minute of sleep. I only hope Evita Rodham and Schumer are close to ground zero. What can you say about a state and a culture which condones such behavior. Maybe New Yawk would be more civilized under Sharia Law. At least Epstein would be beheaded and Couric would be in a Burqa.; April 2, 2011 at 8:06 PM
Bad Cyborg said...: Just goes to show that in this country we really do have the best justice system money can buy. Personally I'm surprised he got any jail time at all. I hope he paid for his lawyer to be castrated and fed his balls in a bowl of chowder. The man didn't earn his pay at all.

Remember the "Golden Rule" boys and girls. No, not the one that begins "Do unto others" but the REAL golden rule. "The man with the gold MAKES the rules."

Always HAS BEEN that way, always WILL BE that way.; April 2, 2011 at 10:57 PM
Dick's Dad said...: John,
Where there is sufficient demand,and the price they are willing to pay is right, someone will provide a supply.

I don't blame the prostitute, but I certainly blame her clients.

Prostitution is the oldest profession, Far older than our species of Homo Sapiens. Even Bonobos* ("pygmy chimps") trade sex for food and vice-versa.

I was listening to some prostitutes being interviewed on the local radio a few days back, the rough ones were heroin addicts and one claimed that her mother (also an addict) had put her to work when she was about 9 years old. I guess they have to work extra hard to pay the inflated prohibition prices. Again a demand will prompt someone to produce a supply - for the right price, of course.
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*The people who researched Bonobos were hippies, naturally they found "peace and free love..." Similarly the bloke who has done most work on West African chimps is Communist, so no surprise he found "collective action".The politics of a researcher are possibly the most important thing to look at.; April 3, 2011 at 4:47 AM

"Progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress."

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.

And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

-- Mike Vanderboegh, The Lessons of Mumbai:Death Cults, the "Socialism of Imbeciles" and Refusing to Submit, 1 December 2008

"A common language of resistance . . ."

"Colonial rebellions throughout the modern world have been acts of shared political imagination. Unless unhappy people develop the capacity to trust other unhappy people, protest remains a local affair easily silenced by traditional authority. Usually, however, a moment arrives when large numbers of men and women realize for the first time that they enjoy the support of strangers, ordinary people much like themselves who happen to live in distant places and whom under normal circumstances they would never meet. It is an intoxicating discovery. A common language of resistance suddenly opens to those who are most vulnerable to painful retribution the possibility of creating a new community. As the conviction of solidarity grows, parochial issues and aspirations merge imperceptibly with a compelling national agenda which only a short time before may have been the dream of only a few. For many Americans colonists this moment occurred late in the spring of 1774." -- T.H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, Oxford University Press, 2004, p.1.

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