SDNY / NYC, March
26 -- Like a moth to a flame, a
blogger to a take-down of a powerful hypocrite
- but suddenly Kurt doubted, this could be
different from the United Nations.
The
UN threw
him out, then did its best to
ignore him. In Power New York, people
sued and tried to silence their critics or
exposers. But wasn't there a New York
anti-SLAPP law? Kurt jotted down he need to
look into it.
And
still the Reporters Committee for Freedom of
the Press had not responded. Two tiers
everywhere - in which Johns were outed and
which were protected, in which media got the
protection, and which was left out in the
cold.
Beyond
the requests and threats to take John List
down, even as it was clear that they
patronized a young woman who was being
chained up and suffocated by a mad man,
Larry Ray, there was a push from another
side. A self-described high-class hooker
wrote in to say that the Johns shouldn't be
stigmatized. It made Kurt pause.
Could
they not have known that Claudia Drury was
being tortured? Randy Levinson, given
immunity, recalled thinking he would get a
good deal, since Claudia was so in need of
money. Is exploitation a sin? Is it a crime?
Levinson was given immunity - but was it for
the structuring of his payments to defeat
the Suspicious Activities Report system, or
because of the crime of being a John? Was
that a Federal crime?
Could
the SDNY prosecutors offer any assurance
that local authorities wouldn't prosecute
this local crime? In New York City, they
wouldn't. And so the hedge funder had his
name on a children's museum. Another was
described as a diplomat inspired by the
current president, wanting rapprochement
with China. But first, #JohnListGone, a
diamond dealer, on Patreon here
[It, like a song
about Lev Parnas was also
covered, behind a paywall, by
New York Magazine which had this
to say about Inner City Press'
covered in late 2021 of the
Ghislaine Maxwell trial, book
here
via one of the companies with
an executive on the John
list.]
When Inner
City Press for investigative
reporting was roughed up and thrown
out onto First Avenue
from covering the United
Nations of/by UNSG Antonio
Guterres, many did nothing.
But as we've previously noted,
the First Amendment stops at
First Avenue. We'll have more
on this, here and on other
platforms.
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