I could give two shits about Dennis Hastert. He's not my guy. But his arrest this weekend reveals three huge scandals in American politics:

(1) The government is watching everyone, doing whatever, all the time, and has extended its panopticon through "mandatory reporting requirements" imposed to require all of us to inform on each other. That's not acceptable as a matter of personal liberty.

(2) We have regulations which limit what we can do with our own money.

(3) Dennis Hastert, a man who had a career as a schoolteacher before being elected to Congress, where he never earned more than US$200,000 a year while having to maintain two households, somehow had amassed a personal fortune sufficient to allow him to pay US$3.5 million in hush money.