How much do you know about pedophiles? Maybe not a lot, because it's a repulsive subject, arguably the worst of all crimes. Nobody likes to think about it.
But there's one sick, sordid fact that comes up again and again in scientific studies of pedophilia: It's a compulsion. They can't stop without some kind of medical treatment.
http://www.theatlantic.com/...
So now, as it looks like a second victim of Hastert the teacher/coach may soon come forward, it's time to ask: How many of us are going to choose to believe this was only happening before Hastert reached Congress? Please follow me below the serpentine squiggle of schadenfreude for further rumination, previous forgotten history and few hypothesis that are beyond unsettling but deserving of consideration and debate.
The $3.5 million question: Are we all ready to believe that as Hastert became more powerful and untouchable, he somehow summoned a discipline he couldn't manage as a teacher and coach?
Let us also recall that Hastert was Speaker of the House during the Tom Foley debacle, which Hastert's office admitted he knew about nearly a year before the story broke.
http://www.nytimes.com/...
So let's cross the pond for a moment. Have you been paying any attention to what's been going down in the UK for the last couple years, since the death of that horrible BBC TV host Jimmy Saville? Saville was revealed as a serial pedophile over the course of his career, but was knighted by the queen and given a skeleton key to the country's children's hospitals!
Story's not gotten much -- if any -- play in the corporate media, which is a strange fact worth an entire dairy on its own, but in the UK it's been massive. Since the Saville revelation came out, the dominos have kept falling, exposing a cabal of hugely powerful elected officials, VIPs and celebrities who were molesting and in some cases killing children, while the Thatcher government and UK intelligence services covered it up.
http://www.independent.co.uk/...
As you dig into these stories, one singular theory emerges again and again: Sexual deviants and psychos have been groomed for office because they are easier to blackmail and control.
Once you start that digging, it begins to dawn that something similar has been going on in the US as well. Try Googling "Franklin Scandal" and Craig Spence. Then you could Google the Finders and the reporting done about that creepy CIA-affiliated cult and see where it takes you. These incidents have been discovered before in the USA, but, again, the combined efforts of Fed coverup and media obsequiousness makes them fade and disappear.
But the paper trails remain, and if you study them, patterns emerge, it very much looks like a significant number of elected officials with twisted and violent sexual interests are blackmailed by America's intelligence operatives. Which, when you think about it, could explain a lot.
It's kind of what looked like was happening on Jeffrey Epstein's sex island in the Caribbean, with all his hidden cameras and teen "sex slaves," before that story....went away.
http://www.nydailynews.com/...
We're all good people here, or at least mostly. It's hard for us to conceive of this kind of evil, much less imagine that people game it out, strategize it out, remove the human element entirely in the quest for power and money and control. But we need to consider it.