Former Republican Congressman and House Speaker Dennis Hastert may or may not have preyed on underage boys while he was a high school wrestling coach. Those claims slipping into the mainstream narrative — while likely, based on the curious phrasing in his indictment — are just unfounded speculation. Clearly the Feds could not make that case, or they would have charged him for it.
But there are much bigger questions to the Hastert affair, and they reveal the rot of the American system.
How could a former high wrestling coach/history teacher who lost his first election to an open seat in the Illinois House of Representatives, based in no small part on persistent rumors that he had had inappropriate contact with male members of his wrestling team, rise to such prominence and accumulate such wealth that he would have $3.5 million to pay a blackmailer? American government is all about bribes, influence peddling and favor granting. Special interests with the deepest pocketbooks get the favors. Everyone else gets the shaft. Congress and myriad alphabet soup government agencies have become a crony/fascist cesspool because of money printing and state-approved criminal activity in government for which the normal citizen would be jailed.
Blackmail is a crime. Why is the Federal government’s law enforcement apparatus enabling a blackmailer rather than protecting the victim of that blackmail?
Withdrawing one’s own money from a bank — for whatever reason — should not be a crime. A crime must have a victim. What gives the Federal government the authority to prosecute people for the non-crime of placing money — ostensibly gained through the government-approved means of working in government or as a registered (i.e., government-sanctioned) lobbyist — in a bank and then withdrawing it in whatever amount desired?
Of course, the laws requiring banks to snitch on their customers stem from the faux “war on drugs” and the faux “war on terror.” But those are just excuses for more government information gathering and currency controls. Hastert reportedly told investigators he “structured” his withdrawals and withdrew his money because he didn’t trust the banking system. In a curious twist, some of the financial “crimes” he’s charged with violating are found in the USA Patriot Act, an act that Hastert supported and helped steer through Congress.
But who can blame him for not trusting banks when the banks are required to report their customers’ activities with Suspicious Activities Reports on amounts over $5,000 and Currency Transaction Reports on amounts over $10,000, and have in place a plan to confiscate peoples’ savings deposits should the banks experience financial trouble?
Government snooping by proxy, using the banks as informants, is accomplished without warrants and is, therefore, a violation of the 4th Amendment. And any money deemed to have been removed from the bank for reasons the state finds “suspicious” can be and often is seized by the state without charges being filed or criminal activity being found. This is nothing more than robbery in the first degree. But since it’s done by government men wearing a badge and carrying the “force of law,” it is legal robbery.
Hastert was also charged for lying to investigators. In the American system, investigators and law enforcement personnel can lie as a matter of policy. They do this for the purpose of tricking people into confessions or into incriminating themselves. The 5th Amendment protects Americans from self-incrimination. But the creation of a crime of lying to investigators who can lie and do lie to you eats away at this right.
As to the rumors of inappropriate behavior: It is an old trick used by prosecutors and law enforcement to release spurious information on an individual charged with a crime in an effort taint the jury pool and keep the individual charged on the defensive and cast in the poorest light possible.
Americans often relish in the downfall of the rich, powerful and hypocritical members of society; and I’ve seen much gloating, particularly from the left, over Hastert’s legal troubles. But remember that what Hastert is charged with is withdrawing his own money from the bank and fudging the truth when questioned about it.
Government is using these same “laws” to persecute and prosecute average Americans. And with the bloated federal code being rewritten, changed and updated daily, you are likely committing at least three felonies a day yourself, every day. How long before the Feds decide to target you?
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