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Jeffrey Epstein: Financier 'found dead in cell' in New York

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Re: Jeffrey Epstein: Financier 'found dead in cell' in New York

#71

Can we just shut down the Department of Corrections? They are, at best, massively incompetent and negligent, and at worst, massively corrupt and negligent.

Sadly, most jails and prisons in the US are state or city controlled, and wildly worse than Federal facilities. This happened in one of the "better" places.

Re: Jeffrey Epstein: Financier 'found dead in cell' in New York

#72
post #11

This sounds too convenient. If this was a suicide and not anything more sinister, this is gross negligence by prison authorities. It was their solemn duty and responsibility to see this person face trial. This will only inflame conspiracy theory minded people to believe there is a vast conspiracy by the powerful to protect themselves. This is depressing. I’m yet hopeful evidence will be used to bring guilty parties t…

If this guy attempted suicide before, shouldn't there be a permanent camera affixed to his jail cell (beside having a guard watch him)? If that is the case then we should have the video footage of his suicide even if the guard slacked off?

Re: Jeffrey Epstein: Financier 'found dead in cell' in New York

#73
post #56

My default perspective on this is that he was an intelligence asset tasked with blackmailing the worlds most powerful people.

Because a well known creep with a $B doesn't already explain it? Instead we postulate an extra hundred horrible people all keeping a terrible secret... that also have terrible OpSec so they pay people off all the time.

Or the "underage girls" were actually fembots designed in an underground lair by radio controlled sharks?

Re: Jeffrey Epstein: Financier 'found dead in cell' in New York

#75
post #18

This makes me so angry. Such an important case, so much on the line. And then this. And if you question the official narrative of "suicide", you will probably soon be labeled a conspiracy theorist. Oh an just by the way, this news broke first on 4chan (thread 222518349). That just on the matter of what the value of these sites are. edit: and already there are [dead] comments who question this

The problem, in my experience, is that for one legit fact usually there is a lot of actual fake news thrown in, along with context free facts, in those communities. This causes a lot of people believe false things and keep repeating it to others. A form of brainwashing. Also people who assume someone's guilt and then work backwards towards showing it, while ignoring other signs.

Re: Jeffrey Epstein: Financier 'found dead in cell' in New York

#79
post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think suicidal people much care about the legal or moral judgements of others. Unless you're talking about removing all means of suicide and forcefully keeping people alive.

> I don't think suicidal people much care about the legal or moral judgements of others. This is untrue. From what we can tell suicidal people care deeply about what other people think.

Do you mean more deeply than the average person?
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