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There will be a Release the Files: Epstein Accountability Project protest at the Colorado Capitol at 3 p.m. today, February 28. In honor of that, we’re sharing this poem by Aurora resident Billy Eddy:
Some of us are not surprised that men with ample riches
Behave in ways unethical to satisfy their itches.
Unafraid of censure or of statutes that condemn
Because the laws for commoners do not apply to them.
Millionaires and billionaires aren’t governed by the rules.
They are immune from laws that govern ordinary fools.
Their offspring, too, will rarely suffer consequences
Of drug use or assault or an array of gross offenses.
Helping rich men to evade the fallout from their deeds
Are teams of lawyers paid to obfuscate and to impede.
A series of denials and delays make up their plans
They know our indignation fades from short attention spans.
So news of wealthy married men enjoying interludes
With teenage girls, acts most consider moral turpitude,
Are dalliances as common to those men as drinking milk,
Are accepted as a sacred right for Brahmins of their ilk.
A period of public condemnation is expected
Before our moral outrage pauses, then is redirected
By the newest exposé of moneyed men and their misdeeds,
Who then hide behind attorneys until public scorn recedes.
Before our courts of law, blindfolded Lady Justice stands.
She holds a sword and set of scales in her impartial hands.
Her face impassive, but she hides a patronizing grin:
Those who buy the best attorneys almost always win.
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