The Hollywood portrayal of pimps or the prostitute daddy of bright clothing, jewelry and an expensive Cadillac can be no further from the truth. That veritas lies in the persona of Jeffrey Epstein and the fifty shades of iniquity that walk among us without being exposed. The power of silence, guilt or apathy.
The pimp predators are not only in New York but nearly everywhere they can feed on the naive young men and women from the North American heartland and even the Caribbean Islands. Before pimping, there is the most venal of human behavior, grooming. Young men and women who are dazzled by the bright lights of the big city and intoxicated by free plane tickets or gifts of money, lay prostrate in the pool of salaciousness, almost too easily.
These poor souls from broken homes or straitened circumstances are easy prey for the smooth Epstein doppelgänger who makes easy work of naïveté or feeble minds. Hence the older use of the term, call girl. I call you come. They wander the four corners of the earth, low hanging fruit for the master manipulator and their often conspirator, the unrequited older woman.
Others who escape the pimp trap by firm moral parenting or good group associations can go on to become master groomers themselves in the social, corporate and legal world. They move around society believing they are invisible as they hide from disastrous home lives in the pursuit of destroying yet another family by envy. Misery loves company. The jealousy pimp.
Pimps are not restricted to prostitutes but are prevalent in nearly every aspect of Caribbean life. Merchants groom, then pimp their customers, from cell phones to cars in the new make believe world that the latest is best. Sometimes it is the ninth condo development or crypto deal. The business pimp.
Politicians groom the electorate and like good pimps, collect every four of five years. Their influence game is so refined, the ignorant and often poor voters are unaware of their mass selection to that personality cult. The benefits pimp.
Legislators and lawyers preserve their monopoly on the self fulfilling prophecy that more laws will solve all the problems of society and crime. Making life and business more complex is not the answer. Nothing could be further from the truth. People have to heal people, there is no alternative. The legal pimp.
So the deception train with a pimp engineer rolls across the Caribbean leaving a trail of broken families and mindless bodies waiting to be led by the nose to a destiny decided by others.
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Peter Polack is a former criminal lawyer from the Cayman Islands for several decades. His books are The Last Hot Battle of the Cold War: South Africa vs. Cuba in the Angolan Civil War (2013), Jamaica, The Land of Film (2017) and Guerrilla Warfare: Kings of Revolution (2019). He was a contributor to Encyclopedia of Warfare (2013). His latest book is a compendium of Russian espionage activities with almost five hundred Soviet spies expelled from nearly 100 countries worldwide 1940-88.
His views are his own.
