Re: the conviction of Dennis Hastert, former Speaker of the House:
Child molestation used to be seen as a less objectionable crime, and prosecutions for it were difficult. If it was as in the case of Dennis Hastert it would have been "He said/he said".
Murder is usually far easier to prove.
Severity of a money-laundering charge depends upon the circumstances. Concealing assets from creditors of a bankrupt business is not quite in the same as money laundering of drug money or money involved in terrorism.
....Something that we seem to be missing: the grown-ups whom Hastert had molested as teenagers were able to do far less damage to the US than some organization adept at blackmailing Americans with troubles like those of Hastert. He was Speaker of the House, holder of one of the most powerful offices in American politics.
Here is its emblem:
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and its infamous office building until the group was formally disbanded in 1991:
![[Image: 220px-RIAN_archive_142949_Lubyanka_Square_in_Moscow.jpg]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/RIAN_archive_142949_Lubyanka_Square_in_Moscow.jpg/220px-RIAN_archive_142949_Lubyanka_Square_in_Moscow.jpg)
It's the KGB. Dennis Hastert was a security risk.
Child molestation used to be seen as a less objectionable crime, and prosecutions for it were difficult. If it was as in the case of Dennis Hastert it would have been "He said/he said".
Murder is usually far easier to prove.
Severity of a money-laundering charge depends upon the circumstances. Concealing assets from creditors of a bankrupt business is not quite in the same as money laundering of drug money or money involved in terrorism.
....Something that we seem to be missing: the grown-ups whom Hastert had molested as teenagers were able to do far less damage to the US than some organization adept at blackmailing Americans with troubles like those of Hastert. He was Speaker of the House, holder of one of the most powerful offices in American politics.
Here is its emblem:
and its infamous office building until the group was formally disbanded in 1991:
It's the KGB. Dennis Hastert was a security risk.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.