It's coming out that not only was he a paedophile before his
political days but there's definitely some evidence to suggest his activities
continued into his time in office. In addition there's a largely ignored story
about homosexuality within the congress and in particular a gay clique in
Republican circles. The Congressional Page scandals of 1983 and 2006 went away
but they shouldn't have. It was never fully pursued.
This is the same media that went after Bill Clinton to the
extent that some of the reporting was beyond what could be said on television
or radio without violating FCC decency standards. I remember sitting in my
recliner and being more than a little shocked as I read Time magazine and some
of the details evangelical Ken Starr had dug up and had made sure to put in the
report. It was nothing less than salacious and that's why it sold and the media
ran with it. In addition there were powerful forces at work that wanted to
bring Bill Clinton down.
So why is there no interest in pursuing Hastert? It's every
bit as sensational and scandalous.
In fact the story is bigger than the paedophilia, a false
marriage and other deviant behaviours. He was just plain corrupt, and beyond
the normal corruption we all know about and have come to expect from our fine
government officials. There were stories surfacing about this a decade ago. He
was giving information and doing deals with foreign governments, Turkey for one
and there were likely more. In fact some of his jaunts to Istanbul are somewhat
suspicious if reports are to be believed. There's reason to believe he may have
been blackmailed or that perhaps his perversions were being accommodated...
thus also setting him up for blackmail etc...
There's much to suggest that Hastert is one of the dirtiest
and most corrupt politicians we've ever seen. The fact that he was also an
Evangelical hero with a department at Wheaton named after him is just icing on
the scandal-cake and yet another mark of shame for the Constantinian theology
that dominates the Evangelical world.
But apart from the banking indictment and guilty plea...
which all but hid the charges from the public... the media hasn't pursued it.
Why?
This man was one of the most powerful members of the
Republican Party, led the charge to impeach Clinton and as House Speaker was
behind only the Vice President in terms of the succession to the White House.
This should be a huge story, one on the scale of Watergate. The guy was a
pervert and perhaps guilty of foreign espionage. There's obviously a cover-up
under way. Why? There are probably many more names of people involved, there's
certainly the suggestion of foreign involvement, corporate corruption and
perhaps conflicting investigations within the government and a long history of
suppressed information.
Since leaving office, Hastert was working as a lobbyist,
raking in millions of dollars. There's a story there too, the people he was
working for and the way he was moving money around.
But the Mainstream Media has moved on. The story seems to be
over.
If they were really leftist in persuasion then we should expect
a witch hunt to be underway. But they're not leftist, they are protectors and
defenders of the Establishment. They are corporate owned and controlled and the
media's job is to protect the system itself. Revealing Hastert and the web that
surrounds him could quickly spiral out of control.
The same forces that suppressed Iran-Contra are also working
to suppress this story. Iran-Contra almost got away from them and was very
revealing to those who were paying attention. Had the Internet existed then it
might have been a lot bigger.
But ironically in our Internet age, the Hastert story seems
to be fading away.
