An announcement from England:
Thames Valley Police said in a statement that authorities arrested “a man in his sixties from Norfolk” but declined to name him. [MS NOW]
This politic announcement masks the identity of the alleged offender, the former Prince Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor. It seems likely that his arrest has to do with his name being found in the Epstein Files.
If you’re part of the super elite who subscribes to the assertion that the elite .1%, however it is you wish to measure it, should not be subject to the rules applying to the hoi polloi[1], then this is another attack upon the rights and, let’s be wry here, superlatives, of said class.
President Trump has demonstrated through his pardons of both domestic and foreign rich felons that he has at least some regard for the elite, and I’m wondering how he’ll react to the fall of the former Prince, shorn of rank, privilege, and now even liberty. Legally, Trump cannot intervene: panicky pardons will look foolish and be impotent. Will he rant and rave as he has with a few other former privileged who discovered they were vulnerable? Will he predict terrible, or at least terribly incoherent, futures for England if Mountbatten-Windsor is not at liberty?
Or will Trump repress himself? Suggest Mountbatten-Windsor isn’t part of the super-elite? Or maybe the Epstein Files have exonerated Mountbatten-Windsor just as he keeps proclaiming they’ve exonerated him?
The dangers of the super-rich, super-privileged have always been present; many famous despots, etc, have had failsons as their progeny. I suspect Mountbatten-Windsor is a prime example of this grimly human failing.
1 From Wikipedia, The English expression “(the) hoi polloi” (/ˌhɔɪ pəˈlɔɪ/) was borrowed from Ancient Greek (οἱ πολλοί), where it means “the many” or, in the strictest sense, “the people”.
