Posted on 06/10/2015 10:04:58 AM PDT by Kaslin
It could just as easily be a young teen girl being used to set up a heterosexual man who is thinking with the wrong head.
This Unnerving C-SPAN Call to Dennis Hastert Makes His Indictment Quite Interesting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1miAo9bCK0E
Just wait until they get rid of physical cash and go all electronic.
LOL. Uh, yeah. What you said.
Many of these criminal offenses have been on the books for decades -- some conceived at the same time as our Internal Revenue Code a full century ago; others the offspring of the War on Drugs in the late 1960s. However, the zeal with which Uncle Sams agents target individuals who seek nothing more than to keep certain personal activities private, has become pronounced in recent years.
We live in a world in which the federal government not only makes it nearly impossible to engage in any private financial transaction, but actually resents the person to the point of making them a felon -- who dares try to evade revealing to federal regulators and investigators what they are doing with every red cent of their own money.
Actions defined as crimes have proliferated to the point that the average American now inadvertently commits an estimated three felonies a day.
-- from the thread Criminalizing America
I would agree....let him have the just punishment of the deal. But I’d also turn around and get the amount used set by a judge, then hand it to the IRS folks to go after the blackmail guy on tax evasion. By the time, he pays off his lawyers and IRS, with fines.....he’ll have a quarter of the original amount in his hand, and be quiet well known as the gay friend of Dennys (not a great reputation if you ask me).
The supposed “procedural safeguards” that SHOULD have shielded Dennis Hastert to some degree have been pretty much eroded, and while what happened long in the past was reprehensible, that was not the snare that was used to entrap him. Something suitably vague, like “lying to the FBI”, a cover that is conveniently overlooked when dealing with mischief by a political figure of the “protected class” (i.e., someone of liberal Democrat connections), and which is only capriciously applied, if and when an “unperson” has to be removed from the scene.
One could apply the same standard to Herself, Madame Benghazi, the Cold & Joyless, but nobody has the testicular fortitude to even attempt that degree of even-handed application of the statutes.
Freepers: The Hastert story is not about Hastert. It is about the media. It is about the media’s creation of news. It is about Hillary and Bengazi, etc.
Don’t take the bait. Whatever the merits of the Hastert issue, the real story is that your local radio, television, and newspaper news editors are pulling this manufactured story off the wire services and running it at the top of every hour, at 5:30, and on the front page.
Dennis Hastert is a former high school teacher who spent a couple of decades in Washington, earned something on the order of $125,000 per year in one of the nation's most expensive metropolitan areas, and was a multi-millionaire when he retired from Congress ... to the point where he was apparently willing to pay $3.5 million to cover up an old crime that was no legal threat to him at all.
Good riddance to a Beltway scumbag by way of Illinois.
The oligarchy running the world now does not allow men and women to reach positions of power unless they have ‘things’ to fill pup the blackmail file. Look at the void-of-character Roberts soiling the bench in the subPreme Court!
Agree about Roberts.... the question is why did Bush appoint him? Was there no conservative judge or lawyer with a decent background to appoint? Robert’s past could not have been that difficult to discover. It makes no sense.
That's how the con was sold - and the anti-drug zealots swallowed it hook, line, and sinker.
They already have all the other politicians in these traps.Its the only thing that explains their behavior
Mention the name Gary Studds to them.
Yep. When Rush keeps repeating that he’s being prosecuted simply for “taking his own money out of his own bank account and giving it to someone” I get a bit annoyed. Had he not molested a boy, there wouldn’t be any need to pay a blackmailer.
The second amendment represents the ultimate recourse for injustice.
Just sayin’.
Why isn’t the blackmailer in prison?
See Post #7. I suspect the $3.5M payments had nothing to do with blackmail, and the “hush money” story is a cover for the fact that the payments were being made for some other reason.
My guess is that no one cares, the powers that be don’t care about destroying the blackmailer.
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