Just to be clear, I am NOT believing any conspiracy nonesense the FBI is intentionally hiding anything. You just asked what prevents a victim in a hypothetical scenario to come forward.
Plausible in theory, but the reality says otherwise. Virginia Guiffre doesn't seem particularly intimidated: she's all over the news, and has taken Prince Andrew to court.
The fact that we know that Epstein abused multiple women but we have names on records of very few of them already tells you others don't wish to come forward.
As noted, some of the blacklisted names are those of other victims who did not wish to have their names publicly stated.
Just because one woman was brave enough to put herself in that public position doesn't mean they all will.
I am not aware that she has spoken of any threats or intimidation against her, nor of this coming from any of the other victims who have already come forward.
Again, you need to follow the imaginary scenario. Let's say Mr X is an incredibly rich and powerful man. He abused at least 1 woman through Epstein and is using his power and influence to get the FBI to remove his name from their lists - and his name alone as he clearly didn't protect Epstein, Maxwell, Andrew or Dershowitz.
In this hypothetical scenario, Mr X doesn't need to silence all the victims. He just needs to silence the people who know about him. Namely Maxwell and the specific victims that he abused. He shouldn't care about Virgina nor have any reason to bother her. But the woman he abused would be another story.
This should act as encouragement for any more victims out there to testify, especially if it's about someone who has thus far escaped justice.
There's an expression in my country, to roughly translate - "Should is a name of fish". Basically meaning "should" doesn't mean much.
Sexual assault is one of the most under reported crimes. There's a reason for that.
I think you may have misunderstood my question. See my answer above. If there is someone as yet unnamed, who was a perpetrator of the sexual exploitation, then simply not releasing that name from the list, or if that name is not yet on the list, won't protect that person. This is because their victims are still out there, and can come forward to ensure their particular abuser is brought to trial.
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I agree that the victim is yet another piece that could knock over the entire domino line of the so called imaginary conspiracy of Mr X.
It does make the conspiracy even less likely - but only by a tiny fragment as silencing the victim is by far the easiest thing to do compared to silencing the whole FBI.
But either way, we are in total agreement here - this whole conspiracy is just that and there is 0 evidence that any Mr X has actually done it.
