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Is Ghislaine Maxwell Worse Than Jeffery Epstein?
Our collective, visceral horror at the alleged crimes of Ghislaine Maxwell exceeds the outcry against Epstein. Why?
The world over, since the beginning of recorded human history, a society’s most voracious, unslakable, and terrifying fury has often been reserved, not for its enemies, but for its traitors.
Traitors tend to invoke some of the most imaginative and brutal punishments; the most public and humiliating tortures; the most horrific and unspeakable executions.
Xerxes, of ancient Persian ruler fame, was famously portrayed as a ruthless torturer and murderer by the Spartans who faced him at the Battle of Thermopylae. Xerxes was a murderer and a torturer, certainly; but the Spartans would have probably been spared the worst of it.
Xerxes the Great- like many theocratic despots before and since who have ruled with an iron fist- reserved his most imaginatively cruel tortures for his own royal courtiers, friends, and even family members who betrayed him.
Kim Jong Un of North Korea is another instructive example. Captured American Otto Warmbier was imprisoned, certainly tortured, and eventually murdered by Kim’s regime, true enough. But for traitors within Kim’s organization, they experience all that, and then are publicly fed to a tank of piranhas whilst…