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Former Speaker of the House and Serial Pedophile Child Molester Denny Hastert Sentenced to Fifteen Months in PrisonThe problem with his sentence is that he seems to be accused of an action which ought to not be a crime -- hiding one's transactions from the government by making them in increments below the level at which a bank must report them. Which is insane. It's insane first of all that there's a law that says anyone has to report to the government any size transaction to make. And then it becomes positively Lovecraftian that that isn't enough -- no, now it's a crime to "structure" transactions below that threshold as well. At some point, they'll expand the law to criminalize making transactions just below the phantom threshold to avoid being charged for the that. First, it was illegal to cross the threshold without reporting. Then, it was illegal to flirt with the threshold without reporting. Soon it will be illegal to flirt with the threshold of flirting with the threshold without reporting. As they often say: A government wants nothing more than to criminalize all behaviors. That puts all power of discretion into their hands, and makes the citizens scared and compliant.
The statute of limitations ran out on his real crimes. The AP article is about his actual crimes, and barely mentions the non-crime he's actually going to jail for. Dennis Hastert, the Republican who for eight years presided over the House and was second in the line of succession to the presidency, was sentenced Wednesday to more than a year in prison in the hush-money case that included accusations he sexually abused teenagers while coaching high school wrestling. This article provides more grim details about Individual A and other victims. Individual A was 14 when Hastert abused him, according to court documents filed by the government earlier this month. Hastert would have been in his 20s or 30s. You get the pattern. The guy Republicans called "Coach" for years. "Coach." The Flair Principle of Law: If the government will throw people in jail for not wearing 37 pieces of flair, they should at least make 37 the official legal requirement -- not tell them 15 is the minimum, but they'll encourage them (through prison sentences) to do more than the minimum. | Recent Comments
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