1. Vanity Fair, Article Link & Curious Quotes

Father Barr and Baby Barr: The diseased tree and the rotten apple. It’s time to fire Barr.

Chock-full of anecdotes.

Missing, the likely dark CIA underbelly stories.

But there are ugly hints. https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/10/the-untold-tale-of-young-william-barr

2. “For his teaching staff, Barr brought in photographers, White Russian aristocrats, anti-Castro Cuban grandees, and a group of gifted college dropouts, including one Jeffrey Epstein.”

3. “‘It was a time in New York—the ’70s—when everyone was sleeping with everyone. Several of the teachers were openly carrying on with students and they would go to parties together. Jeffrey Epstein was the least of it.’”

4. “Meanwhile, my parents went to meet with Donald Barr. He said, ‘Don’t send Steve there. There are a lot of homosexuals who prey on boys there.’”

5. “Barr found a new job running Hackley, a more conservative private school in Westchester County. In an interview with the New York Times, he said, ‘Kids up here are…better-natured and less bitchy.’”

6. “Soon after Donald Barr left Dalton, he surprised many who knew him by publishing Space Relations, an odd sci-fi novel which imagined the kingdom of Kossar, a hellscape where power, drugs, and boredom have turned the ruling caste into vicious sexual (con’t next tweet)

7. predators.The hero, John Craig—‘a rising young Earth diplomat’ who is captured and enslaved—eventually triumphs, restoring virginity and monogamy to the colonized.”

8. “And what he discovered was shocking. ‘There was a long letter Barr had written accusing me of being a rabble-rouser and a troublemaker. He said I was ‘a latent homosexual’ and ‘could be a danger to the school.’ ”

9. “It was a humiliating end to Barr’s years at the school. ‘I fired him. It took years to get him out, but we did it.’”

10. “For Barr’s schoolmate Garrick Beck, there is no question how much Alfred Briggs, Horace Mann’s high school history teacher —would have approved of Trump’s Justice Department ....It was Briggs, after all, who was known to say, ‘We need more Roy Cohns in the world.’”

11. Hard not to have lots of thoughts and questions regarding the Barr family, no? END.

P.S. Then there’s this. Really? https://twitter.com/caslernoel/status/1204530372895289344?s=21 https://twitter.com/CaslerNoel/status/1204530372895289344

P.P.S. Donald Barr was advising parents not to send their kids to schools were there was supposed sexual predation, but that’s exactly the type of school he enrolled his own son in. So disturbing. https://twitter.com/loonyberg/status/1204733894429487106?s=21 https://twitter.com/loonyberg/status/1204733894429487106

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