Aug. 11, 2019 - Freedomain Radio - Stefan Molyneux
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| Anybody who's had to deal with any kind of unfolding crisis knows this, that objectively verifiable information and transparency is key to containing a crisis of this magnitude. | |
| And make no mistake, the death of Jeffrey Epstein this morning, a mere 15 hours ago, is a massive, massive crisis for the Constitution. | |
| What is a country? What is a civilization? | |
| What is a culture? It is the desire to restrain one's own predatory mammalian amoral behavior out of respect for the rule of law. | |
| The idea that the law is virtuous, the idea that the law is good, and the idea that the law does not play favorites based upon the size of a man's wallet or his degree of political power. | |
| And if the law crumbles in terms of people's respect for it, then the society becomes almost immediately unworkable because people are then like, hey, you can do what you can get away with. | |
| You know, that old thing, conscience is what you do when nobody's watching. | |
| Well, if people don't believe in God and people don't have respect for the rule of law, what will they do? | |
| They will do what... Just about everyone in the third world does, which is whatever you can get away with, you will get away with. | |
| If you have a reasonable chance of not getting caught and the benefits outweigh the risks, you will just go and do it. | |
| And you can't have a society, you can't have a civilization if that's what people do. | |
| It just ends up dissolving into the usual, you know, chaotic, corrupt, oligarchical mess that we see throughout most of human history and throughout the world. | |
| So this is a massive crisis. | |
| And Attorney General Barr and other people should be damn well out front of this crisis. | |
| And they should be monitoring what's going on on Twitter and other places. | |
| And they should be getting the video footage out. | |
| They should be getting people in front of cameras. | |
| They should be getting the guards out there to explain. | |
| They should be publishing the documents. | |
| They should be getting everything out there right now. | |
| Before people's trust in the system they live under. | |
| Completely vanishes. And the country, although it remains geographically and it remains under the ostensible rule of coercion, no longer has respect for the rule of law. | |
| This is a massive crisis. | |
| And the fact that no information seems to be coming out, that, oh, well, there's an investigation that's starting up, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. | |
| It's like, they don't understand. | |
| This is a five-alarm fire and the credibility of the nation. | |
| A five alarm fire in the credibility of the nation. | |
| You've got to get this information out in front of people as quickly as humanly possible. | |
| Right now, out there on the internet, people are saying, oh, well, the ear folds of the guy taken out of the prison don't match Jeffrey Epstein's ear folds. | |
| Maybe a body was switched and a hobo was put in his place and he's been spirited out. | |
| This is where people are. | |
| They don't believe anything you're saying. | |
| If you're in the government, and of course, the little toady prostitutes in the media are just lapping it all up. | |
| The same people who bought you close to two years of frantic spiderweb Russia collusion conspiracy theories are now just swallowing this explanation of suicide. | |
| How do you know? All you have is a body. | |
| Oh, no, no, we know suicide. | |
| Before the body, before the autopsy, before, like, suicide. | |
| Come on, people. It's not credible. | |
| People don't believe it. People don't believe it. | |
| And why should they? I mean, after the FBI declined to go after or recommend prosecution to the DOJ for Hillary Clinton, the email scandal, that was a body blow to people's trust in the rule of law. | |
| The sudden and highly predictable death of Jeffrey Epstein is a kill shot to people's respect for the rule of law. | |
| And you lose the respect for the rule of law, you lose your damn country, you understand? | |
| It may be dead cultural walking, but the destination is the same. | |
| And this idea that, you know, there were supposed to be 15-minute checks on this guy, supposed to be video surveillance at all times. | |
| Oh, the check didn't happen. | |
| Oh, he was taken off suicide watch. | |
| The day, or the day before, all of the documents came out naming high-level, powerful people. | |
| Who know where he is. | |
| Oh, what a shame. | |
| The video just stopped working. | |
| Listen, I've been doing thousands of my own videos for the last 15 years. | |
| I have never once had a video camera fail. | |
| So I am appalled. | |
| I'm appalled. I mean, nobody wants to think the worst of this kind of stuff. | |
| But in the absence of any kind of objective information out there countering, What seems completely obvious to everyone that this guy was the first guy to die in forever in a New York City jail. | |
| The guy who was already supposed to be on suicide watch, not supposed to have anything in his jail cell that he'd harm himself with. | |
| This guy is supposed to be checked on every 15 minutes. | |
| This guy who's supposed to have a video feed and surveillance at all times. | |
| Every single system breaks down at the same time and he's carded out dead. | |
| The lack of communication about all of this. | |
| The lack of provision of essential information that counters what people strongly suspect. |
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