Posted on 04/10/2016 12:35:25 PM PDT by heye2monn
One of the victims, identified in court documents as "Individual D," told prosecutors that Hastert "put a 'Lazyboy'-type chair in direct view of the shower stalls in the locker room where he sat while the boys showered."
Sandusky II
With Pecker Tracks down the front of the chair.
Newts follies were with adult consenting females, and not hookers. Luddite. Not progressive...
Really freaking disgusting. You just never know. Makes me sick.
[[Well, how about giving the guy the benefit of the doubt.]]
Five witnesses against him. Not much doubt there.
When are the Victims going to sue Lazyboy?
Hillary wants Gun Manufacturer’s to be liable for the misuse of their Legal Products. What’s the difference?
LOL, just shut up, mindf###er.
You are correct....I was,for years, a correctional officer in a maximum security juvenile facility. We had 40 boys of each unit. At Hygiene time, after supper, we would sent them into the shower/bathroom about 10 at a time....1 officer supervised the day room where the rest were in various states of undress, and the other officer supervised the shower room. These were both male and female officers and either could do either post.. The officer supervising the shower room had a chair right outside the door but freely wandered in and out of the room to maintain order.
The information leaked by federal prosecutors about Hastert’s pedophilia and predatory homosexuality definitely ruins his reputation and applies the scarlet letter to him in perpetuity. Despite the new societal view of homosexuality in our politically correct era, the prosecutors know many Americans refuse to accept homosexuality as normal and the news of Hastert’s unwelcome homosexual advances to high school athletes in his charge will negatively impact voter views of both Hastert and the Republican Party which elected him Speaker of the House.
It is ironic progressive DOJ lawyers in a Democrat administration insist an enlightened society must fully embrace homosexuality at the same time they gleefully leak details of Hastert’s predatory homosexuality and pedophilia in the press. He is being tried for another crime (structuring withdrawals of his own money from his bank account to circumvent reporting requirements) yet prosecutors continue to leak information about personal behavior they have no intention of bringing him to trial for. To do so would communicate to the public Hastert’s obscene behavior was immoral and illegal, an admission they do not wish to make.
In a free society, dedicated to the preservation of individual liberty and limited government, the crime for which Hastert is being tried would not be a crime. Banks should not be routinely reporting the banking transactions of citizens. The language of the Fourth Amendment clearly guarantees the security of the papers and property of private citizens from unreasonable searches and seizures. Private transactions, with money legally acquired, are none of the government’s business.
What is the business of the government are actual crimes involving harm to other citizens. In the Hastert case no one is being charged with real crimes. First, it can be assumed from the information leaked, Hastert was committing sexual crimes against minors. However he is not being charged for those crimes. If the statute of limitations pertaining to the sexual crimes has not passed, the prosecutors are either being derelict in their duty by not charging Hastert or they do not have enough evidence to secure a conviction. When prosecutors choose not to bring formal charges against an individual for purported crimes they should not be leaking information information about alleged crimes to the public. No matter how vile the behavior, if he isn’t being charged with the crime it is irrelevant to the crime for which he is being charged and in a nation adhering to the rule of law his rights to privacy will be protected by the prosecutors and the courts.
If the statute of limitations has passed on the sexual crimes then it is not the business of prosecutors to convey this information to the public. If the rule of law is to mean anything prosecutors and the state must be sticklers for upholding the law and the rights of individuals. The deliberate leaking of information about purported crimes by government officials is a blatant violation of the 6th Amendment right to a fair trial. Read the words: “In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defense.”
It is alleged Hastert committed the actual crime for which he was actually charged (structuring bank withdrawals) because he was being extorted by one or more former victims of his alleged predatory sexual behavior. Extortion is an actual crime and should be prosecuted when prosecutors have hard evidence of the crime. In this instance prosectors have chosen not to try the extortionist(s) for extortion, or make the name of the extortionist public, while at the same time releasing to the press information about alleged criminal sexual behavior by Hastert that will not be prosecuted. This unlawful behavior on the part of prosecutors is nothing more than a brutal exercise of government power, outside the rule of law, to punish one man (Hastert) while at the same time protecting another criminal (the extortionist).
Many feel Hastert deserves what he is getting because the crimes and behavior for which he is not being charged are heinous. When a society adopts the view the end justifies the means over the strict application of the rule of law, tyranny is the outcome, not justice. Prosecutors who will leak information about Hastert to destroy him will do the same to any citizen. Prosecutors unrestrained by the law will be lawless.
Hastert will experience the terror and horror he inflicted on those young boys when he is imprisoned and meets inmates that were molested as young boys. They may try to segregate him in prison but they will get to him. Then and only then will justice be done.
They’re all dirty and they all protect each other.
Hello, all parents. Please say something if you see something!! Seriously, I can’t believe NO ONE thought this was weird!!!
Think of the pages on Capitol Hill!! But if you recall, something like this was going on in Reagan’s White House tho I can’t recall any details.
As a scout master, I See no humor
Someone should have connected the rumors of skeletons in Hastert’s closet that had long been circulating among congressional staffers. and the time as Speaker of the House he did nothing when there were multiple attempts to intervene in the Mark Foley case. That in itself is appalling.
congressman Jerry Studds, democrat from Massachusettes (where else)? some sort of dalliance regarding male pages. never taken to task by the house, never booted by the voters in his district. Upstanding electorate, wasn’t it?
I stand corrected...Studds was censored by the House in 1983, but not removed. he continued to be elected to his seat until about 1998.
There was barely the concept of child protective services at the time. Even doctors didn’t have to report abuse in their child patients until the mid-60’s and states weren’t required to do so to the federal government until 1974. Life wasn’t easier, prettier or nicer in the 60s and 70s, and those were not the good old days, and I don’t ever want to hear nostalgia for it again. :)
“Only in America can one rise from a child molester to Speaker of the House.”
Rise? Meh. More of a lateral movement.
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