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The third witness was Professor Elizabeth Loftus, a psychologist and specialist in false memory. An expert witness in perhaps as many as 300 trials, she asserted that fake facts could be implanted in people: “False memories … can be very vivid, detailed. People can be confident about them, people can be emotional about them, even though they’re false.” She told the jury “emotion is no guarantee that the memory is authentic”.
Prosecutor Lara Pomerantz noted that Loftus was being paid $600 an hour by the defence and that she’d written a book, Witness for the Defense.
“You haven’t written a book called ‘Impartial Witness’, right?” said Pomerantz, whose voice is so high-pitched she sounds like a very scary bat.
“No,” said Loftus, glumly.
Pomerantz moved on to Loftus’s research. She got the professor to cite the catchphrase of a figure in one of her studies– “What’s up, Doc?”. Loftus had shown that 16% of people said they’d seen Bugs Bunny at Disneyland, a false memory because the fictional rabbit is a Warner Bros character, correct? Correct, the witness had to agree. Hanging in the air was the thought that 84% didn’t see Bugs Bunny at the wrong theme park. Next, we were on a second study, where Loftus and co had tried to implant the false memory of people having had a rectal enema. No one did so, the point being that people remember trauma clearly. False memory did not have a good day in court. No wonder Maxwell seemed distraught.
liminalOyster » Sun Dec 19, 2021 11:53 pm wrote:The hangout is no longer limited. It's 100% out in the open
Wombaticus Rex » Tue Dec 21, 2021 11:22 am wrote:liminalOyster » Sun Dec 19, 2021 11:53 pm wrote:The hangout is no longer limited. It's 100% out in the open
That would be great. It would be awesome to see a frank discussion in Federal court about blackmail in Washington, DC. It would be great to have the intelligence connections of this operation discussed by someone other than bloggers being handed portfolios from Ari Ben Menashe (or Wexner's defense team) as grist for their latest round on the podcast circuit. I would welcome greater exposure of the operations in New Jersey, New Mexico, and especially France.
As MARIOICHIBAN alludes above, I think that Epstein and Maxwell were involved in a lot more than grooming 14 year olds. I also think that narrative has been carefully shaped for a long time by assets in Florida, by Vicky Ward at Vanity Fair, and most especially by Nick Bryant, who is a curious character that bears a strong resemblance to operators like Barbara Honegger or Oswald Le Winter. Or, gosh, come to think of it, like John DeCamp.
People get burned all the time, often to cover for networks and operations that cannot. And what Maxwell is currently going through is extremely kid gloves, even in the face of what little evidence we do have in the public record.
liminalOyster » Tue Dec 21, 2021 2:47 pm wrote:But there are, at bare minimum, enough pieces quietly laid out openly on now major news networks that RI c.00s would be shocked. No?
liminalOyster » Tue Dec 21, 2021 2:47 pm wrote:I also still think that's why the Q-NLP machine exists - quickly recast any such syntactic assemblage into a buncha of JPUSA type Jesus freaks waiting on a Kennedy's second coming in Dallas.
According to The Rundown Live host Kristan T. Harris, the incident – which took less than 2 minutes and resulted in only his laptop being stolen – happened mere hours after he had his photo taken outside the courtroom by none other than the sister of accused underage sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell, Isabel Maxwell.
Ghislaine Maxwell convicted in Epstein sex abuse case
By TOM HAYS and LARRY NEUMEISTER 10 minutes ago
NEW YORK (AP) — The British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell was convicted Wednesday of luring teenage girls to be sexually abused by the American millionaire Jeffrey Epstein.
The verdict capped a monthlong trial featuring sordid accounts of the sexual exploitation of girls as young as 14, told by four women who described being abused as teens in the 1990s and early 2000s at Epstein’s palatial homes in Florida, New York and New Mexico.
Jurors deliberated for five full days before finding Maxwell guilty of five of six counts. With the maximum prison terms for each charge ranging from five to 40 years in prison, Maxwell faces the likelihood of years behind bars — an outcome long sought by women who spent years fighting in civil courts to hold her accountable for her role in recruiting and grooming Epstein’s teenage victims and sometimes joining in the sexual abuse.
As the verdict was read, Maxwell was largely stoic behind a black mask. Afterward, she could be seen pouring herself water as one of her attorneys patted her back. She stood with her hands folded as the jury filed out, and glanced at her siblings — faithfully in attendance each day of the trial — as she herself was led from the courtroom. She did not hug her lawyers on the way out, a marked change from previous days during which Maxwell and her team were often physically affectionate with one another.
No sentencing date was set.
https://apnews.com/article/ghislaine-maxwell-convicted-jeffrey-epstein-trial-verdict-63a71a2825eab41184a79e37bb967e90
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