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Peter Julian Eymard @PeterJEymard 12h Replying to @laralogan First, a New Year salute to three ladies who are tops in the field of journalism, bar none: Lara Logan, Liz Crokin, and Whitney Webb.

The Franklin Case helped me to understand that sex trafficking isn't a focus on the famous, although they are included, but on those with the wherewithal to afford it. And it includes all of a town's bureaucracies, all of its businesses.

Epstein must be seen as a distraction. Of course, as Whitney has written of in her 2 volumes One Nation Under Blackmail, sex trafficking is the vehicle of power over others, and Epstein was a kind of "blue collar" aggregator of the powerful in multiple fields.

But the glamor of the criminal must not distract us from the pervasiveness of the enterprise. Unfortunately, the "goods" most useful are the ones with the absolute least power: dispossessed children, urchins of the streets, the unwanted detritus of adult misbehavior.

One of our takeaways must be a concern for the children of our locales. We must keep an eye on them to prevent their snatching into a world of physical, psychological, emotional, and moral slavery.