Only in America can one rise from a child molester to Speaker of the House.
And of course a guy with this background ends up as the Speaker of the House. You’d almost think that this was intentional, the way that it all happens....
If it was as obvious as that, how'd the guy ever get elected?
Since Hastert was sexually attracted to young men as a High School coach isn’t it logical that he was attracted to them as a congressman? If Hastert was that way with young men as a congressman wouldn’t he have had just as much opportunity to engage in perverted behavior? Also, wouldn’t Hastert have had help engaging young men in Washington DC?
Dennis Hastert should commit suicide.
Sandusky II
With Pecker Tracks down the front of the chair.
Really freaking disgusting. You just never know. Makes me sick.
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?
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.
As a scout master, I See no humor
What an effing perv
Put his ass down
Sitting in a chair watching boys takes showers isn’t by itself nefarious. Why is this the only “detail” that is mentioned? Surely all this angst isn’t built on boys resenting being watched while showering.