The guy had a ton of connections and wealth. That’s plenty of power.
Comment on Former Prince Andrew Arrested in Britain Over Epstein Ties (Live Updates)
cabbage@piefed.social 1 day ago
What I’m bitter about is that this piece of shit never had any power to begin with, he’s just some non-heir piece of shit royal.
By all means, lock him away, but start doing the same to the men who have actually been powerful in their lives.
FlexibleToast@lemmy.world 1 day ago
blarghly@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Yeah, I feel like the above is a perfect example of moving the goalposts to avoid ever being happy.
“God, just a prince? When are they going to arrest someone with real power?”
cabbage@piefed.social 19 hours ago
Considering the scope of what we’re learning about Epstein and his circles, yes, I am Indeed not happy at all with “just a prince”.
The system still protects its own, I can’t help but feel Andrew is arrested not for raping children as much as for not being well liked and/or powerful enough to have friends in high places to protect him.
It’s gonna take a hell of a lot more than this before I’m even remotely happy.
givesomefucks@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I highly doubt he doesn’t have any evidence on others…
This is how these rings should be treated.
If you got enough to take one down, do it. And pressure them to snitch as much as possible.
Then get the next, and keep going cleaning out everyone you can.
What was happening is they’d find a monster, pressure for info, then let them continue as intelligence assets.
And it just continued to grow until so many powerful people were in on it as “informants” that it was essentially state condoned. If everyone is “informing” and no one is getting prosecuted, then it’s actively harmful.
Ex-prince Andrew being prosecuted by his own government is huge. And likely to result in a lot more prosecutions in addition to him being held accountable.
floofloof@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Andrew doesn’t seem very smart, so they’d have a pretty good chance of tripping him up in questioning and getting him to incriminate others. But he has been arrested for handing over sensitive information (basically spying, or being a useful idiot for spies), so the questioning may not be about other things that went on with Epstein.
phoenixz@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
I highly doubt that if he has any evidence that he’d blab.
He’s seen what happened to Epstein