Why Isn’t The Former Speaker Of The House Being An Admitted Serial Child Molester

[KamaAina]

A Bigger Fscking Story?

http://www.barstoolsports.com/philadelphia/why-isnt-the-former-speaker-of-the-house-being-an-admitted-serial-child-molester-a-bigger-fucking-story/

Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert on Wednesday was sentenced to 15 months in prison and ordered to pay $250,000 to a victims’ fund in a hush money case that revealed he was being accused of sexually abusing young boys as a teacher in Illinois. He was also sentenced to two years of supervised release once he finishes his prison term.

For the first time, Hastert, 74, admitted to Judge Thomas M. Durkin in open court that he abused an unspecified number of boys. “I’m deeply ashamed to be standing before you here today,” Hastert said in court during his sentencing. “I know I’m here because I mistreated some of my athletes as a coach.” Hastert apologized “to my constituents and my supporters and also my colleagues I serve.”

What the fuck? What Twilight Zone world are we living in where this isn’t bigger news? And it isn’t a Republican/Democrat or Liberal/Conservative deal. It’s a life thing. This is a man who would claim his moral high ground and faith in God would be more than enough to direct policy – As in shit that affects you, me, and our fucking country. This hypocrite piece of shit held the Speaker Of The House position almost longer than anyone else in our nations history. That means if the President and Vice President die, this guy was 3rd in line. Not to mention the overall Frank Underwood type of power he held in Congress. Whether you like it or not, he had a DIRECT impact on all of our lives. Why is a another fake and dumb post-wisdom teeth surgery video popping up all over the place and this is dead news? This country scares me sometimes. Fuck this guy and fuck even harder the assholes that still support him.

And I don’t like his cheesy as Kraft fake people on the street routines, but Jimmy Kimmel NAILS the topics that matter. He should be doing this kind of stuff all the time.

[blm]

1. I posted the same sentiment over the weekend.

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[blm]

2. I'll tumble for ya, K.

well….kick, anyway.

[Dont call me Shirley]

3. KICK!

[Phlem]

4. K&R!

Yep.

[malaise]

5. I wil rec every thread on this serial child abuser

Rec

[sofa king]

6. Just the tip of the iceberg.

Sibel Edmonds has been claiming for years that Turkey was blackmailing Hastert--now we know how. That also means the Bush Administration knew about Hastert's high crimes, because Edmonds was working for the US government when she translated the intercepted phone conversations, and it was they who silenced her.

And what about Congressional investigations into 9/11, blowing the cover of the US WMD spies, the false information used in the run-up to the Iraq war, the election thefts of 2000 and 2004, manipulating the appropriations process to punish enemies of the White House, and on and on and on and on. Everything Congress did in the Bush years, which benefited the Bush Administration, can now be considered to be illegally coerced, thanks to their knowledge--and presumed threats to expose--Hastert's crimes.

He wasn't just a child molestor. Dennis Hastert was a known child molestor whose liability was exploited to facilitate an unknown number of high crimes. He was a criminal bitch whose crimes were exploited for the benefit of even worse criminals--criminals who were in charge of our government.

[eggplant]

10. links?

I'd love to know more about the Sibel Edwards connection.

[sofa king]

12. A sampler

Sibel Edmonds, Hastert, and Turkey:

http://www.democracynow.org/2005/8/10/did_speaker_hastert_accept_turkish_bribes

http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/2015/10/19/the-peoples-campaign-the-real-hastert-case-all-in-one-place/

http://letsibeledmondsspeak.blogspot.com/2008/06/sibel-edmonds-case-dennis-hastert-to.html

Stealing Ohio:

http://archive.wired.com/politics/security/news/2004/11/65623

http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d05956.pdf

http://www.motherjones.com/media/2005/11/recounting-ohio

"In the year that has passed since the 2004 election, not a single major American news outlet has published a serious investigation of whether the victory was properly awarded to George W. Bush. Is that because Bush won fair and square and, as a spokesman for House Speaker Dennis Hastert put it, only the "loony left" claims otherwise? "

Burning Valerie Plame and the US WMD team:

http://www.democraticwhip.gov/content/democratic-leaders-speaker-hastert-congress-must-investigate-leak-cia-agent%E2%80%99s-identity

Cheney's bitch:

http://www.historycommons.org/context.jsp?item=amid0101hastertoffice#amid0101hastertoffice

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/brad-friedman/fbi-whistleblower-hastert_b_277704.html

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24895-2005Jan20.html

"So what was House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) doing on the stage at the West Front of the Capitol yesterday administering the oath of office to Vice President Cheney?
Hastert seemed a bit tense reading the oath to a relaxed Cheney. Could be because Cheney had done this before, but it was a first for Hastert."

[eggplant]

15. thx!

[herding cats]

23. I wish I could rec this.

You get the debth of what took place under Hastert's corrupt rule.

It was so bad it manages to make his being a child molester dim in comparison.

[gademocrat7]

7. K&R

[Takket]

8. Jeery Sandusky was the #1 story on the news for weeks................

[They_Live]

9. K & R

[kairos12]

11. Rethugs always get a pass by the "liberal" media.

[betsuni]

13. Because Republican.

[Scuba]

20. Bingo!

[harrose]

14. I'll bet that every Rethug is probably a serial child molestor...

... and since they all get away with it, why should this one be any different?

[greymattermom]

17. maybe that explains their fixation on bathrooms

They certainly think a lot goes on in there.

[Fumesucker]

16. Because spinning it is so damn difficult

Any story the M$M can't spin to the satisfaction of their owners simply gets ignored.

If a high powered politician does something despicable and the media does not report it, did it really happen?

[mhatrw]

18. Because most Repukes are sick fucking sadistic predators and so have no problem continuing

to support their sick fucking sadistic predator brethren?

[Warren DeMontague]

19. 15 months in prison, well it's not like he was growing weed in his basement or anything

I mean, that's a "real crime"- the sort of thing that will get you 10 years.

http://www.wptv.com/news/region-martin-county/stuart/stuart-woman-faces-10-years-in-prison-in-medical-marijuana-case

[lostnfound]

21. I'd also like to know why Turkey was paying him when he was Speaker also

That seems huge, too, and a decent national press would be raising it and investigating it as well.

[KamaAina]

22. See post 6 upthread.

[TipTok]

24. It's the former bit...

[Quantess]

25. Yeah, no kidding!

K & R

[Euphoria]

26. K and R

[Mike Nelson]

27. The US House of Reps...

...should issue a formal apology and retroactively reprimand this man. I recall FOX "News" went ape over a story about a pretty blonde teacher having sex with underage students - for months on end. They barely mention this story.

[elfin]

28. Another question .... Is he still getting his juicy pension

And other benefits from the taxpayers?

[KamaAina]

29. Most of it.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-crime-hastert-pensions-idUSKCN0XP038

The state Teachers’ Retirement System moved swiftly after Hastert’s sentencing by ending his $16,622-a-year annuity from 16 years of teaching in a far western suburb of Chicago, where the sexual abuse to which he admitted occurred.

But Hastert will not lose his $28,025 annual pension from his six years as a member of the Illinois House of Representatives.

The Teachers' Retirement System, in ending Hastert's pension, cited an Illinois law that prohibits retired educators from drawing pensions if they are found guilty of a felony arising from their service as teachers....

But his benefit from his years as a member of the Illinois House of Representatives will continue because the crime to which Hastert admitted happened after 2010, more than two decades after his departure from the Illinois statehouse, said Timothy Blair, executive secretary for the state General Assembly Retirement System.

[elfin]

31. Thanks

An ancillary issue - much less important than the other ones, but I hate he is supported in any way. Now if we could just get Cheney and the rest in prison as well