Jeffrey Epstein, R Kelly, John Landis

I was pleasantly surprised that Jeffrey Epstein was arrested and now R Kelly. I know nothing about R Kelly so I listened to a few seconds of him on YouTube singing something about believing he can fly. It's hard to imagine anyone defending him because of his music, but people defended John Landis murdering two first graders because he directed The Blues Brothers.

I don't know why anyone would defend Epstein. Is he a Zionist? Why is Dershowitz defending him? Is it just for the money or was there something else Epstein provided him with?

As Vicky Ward disclosed in an excellent piece for the Daily Beast, Alex Acosta told the Trump’s vetting team that he was told to go lightly on Epstein because he was “above his pay grade” and that “he belonged to intelligence.” Given Epstein’s enduring relationship with Dershowitz, we can perhaps deduce the intelligence agency with which Epstein was allied…

From Counterpunch.com

Epstein was a business partner of former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak. Barak hooked Harvey Weinstein up with an Israeli intelligence firm to silence the women he raped and assaulted. Weinstein was the Simon Wiesenthal Center's 2015 Humanitarian of the Year.

There was also this bit of information:

How small is the world of the rich, the powerful and the perverted? AG William Barr had to recuse himself from the Epstein case because his law firm once represented Epstein and Barr’s father, who ran an elite prep school in NYC, hired Epstein to teach math to high school boys and girls, even though Epstein lacked a college degree. Barr’s father later was removed by the trustees after a pattern of such questionable employments decisions was unearthed.

Back when John Landis was on trial, I was the only one I knew who thought he should be locked up. It was in the days before the internet, so I had no way of knowing what anyone else thought. I assumed everyone was pro-Landis. But now you look at the comments section of anything online about that scumbag and people haven't forgotten it. I was aware that there had been a crackdown on celebrities in Hollywood back then. They found themselves being prosecuted for things that would have been ignored before, but I didn't relate it to a backlash against Landis's acquittal.

It didn't seem to affect Landis' career. He was banned from working with children for two years but as soon as the time was up, he directed Macaulay Culkin in a Michael Jackson video.