Learn about JE's life journey and the crimes he's been accused of through this documentary.
As a rich, powerful and qualified man, he knew how to hunt the right game and hide his crimes. He also knows how to use his resources to help himself escape the law. Even in the United States, where the legal system is relatively sound and the system is relatively reasonable, with professional lawyers and police standing by the victim's side to help them charge JE, JE can still escape punishment in the first accusation more than ten years ago.
It's hard for me to empathize with the various "professionals" who help JE, I don't know how they're going to convince myself to help a pedophile suspect escape punishment so he can stay on the loose in the world and then go home and embrace his future grown daughter.
I know that society does not and cannot rely on saints to fulfill their duties in all areas of the system to achieve social justice and normal operation. I understand and support the establishment of different positions and different interest groups to hold each other accountable. The system is optimistic. This also led to my shock after watching this documentary. Under these systems, among these interplays of different strengths, a pedophile suspect can actually have a good relationship with international authorities, and can actually pull his strings and buy his way out, and those in power who laugh and put their arms around underage girls in those photos can escape investigation. Is this because they are all men? Even because of different political stances, different races, different family education backgrounds, essentially they all have the same needs? So in order to meet their common illegal needs, they became ally?
The second feeling is that from the narrative of the victims, they can understand their fear and the source of their fear, not intuitive physical abuse or a lot of verbal threats, but micro aggression. It suddenly dawned on me that this "condescending" gesture was more useful than any other verbal or physical gesture. They are a form of psychological oppression, telling you the fact that "there is an asymmetry of power between us", and then it is enough to act as a deterrent, and the victim voluntarily chooses to hold hands and keep silent.
So in 2020, the case can be retried again, the victims can have the courage to stand up, and I am happy for their overdue justice. But also understand that the timing of the second retrial shows that this is not just a victory for the judicial process. There are still countless threads behind the re-exposure of the incident. It is the confrontation between different interest groups. In the final analysis, perhaps the fundamental purpose of those who really promote justice is not justice itself, but the political and economic benefits that justice can bring to him or them. Benefit.
But it’s okay, this is probably an effective system. After all, we can no longer rely on human beings who have too many human weaknesses. It’s not bad to use interests as a carrot to pull forward.
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