Another great report filled with common sense observations from you, Ed.

I wanted to point out how the Eric Joyce story came about. You might note that in the two articles you screenshot of the events, in the top piece he is stated to have created child porn. If he was indeed being kept on his leash with extortion because of his kiddy diddling, this use of the blackmail material was triggered when he headbutted two of the opposing political party in a bar.

This reveals all kinds of things about the blackmailers. Clearly they wanted him to capitulate to the opposing party politically, which he appears to have been unable to do because of his extreme emotional aversion to them, or their policies. You don't headbutt folks casually. You don't do it twice unless you're damned motivated to violently reject whatever they're representing.

This is how the extortion works. If you don't do as you're told politically, you get outed as a pedo. That's what happened to Joyce, and likely the threat of it is why he headbutted the opposing politicians in the bar. No doubt they are under the identical threat, but obey better.

If you want to follow the rabbit hole of extortion, the identity of the headbutting victims is certainly the identity of the blackmailers (and who could only have gotten the blackmail pics if they were present during the crimes against children, or from someone who was), and will lead to whoever has the goods on them.

Thanks!

Edit: I wanted to add that Ghislaine had a pretty full schedule to be posting on social media to the extent the /u/maxwellhill account was. Do folks functioning as highly in criminal cabals as she must have been to be recruiting child sex slaves for the intelligence agencies, running international NGOs to save the oceans, and becoming submarine pilots have the time to post on Reddit so much that they surpass all other Reddit posters?

Color me dubious.