“Ben Stein is one of the good guys, but I’m baffled by his take on this.”
Ben Stein is not one of the good guys. He has mostly very liberal views and he gets too much attention from conservatives for his very few and limited things he does agree with us on.
He wrote a column last week that the GOP should have tax hikes. It looked like what a liberal would write because he is a liberal. Don’t be fooled. He is not a conservative.
My view on this is probably NSFW. I think Stein (who is no conservative) is way wrong on this. Though I have personal reservations about such behavior, it was the spitz’s choice. Nothing new about guys paying for whores if they are so trashy, perverted, deprived, depraved, or immoral to do so. They will pay more in the hereafter than what they were after. Essentially, individual, raw, mercantilistic freedom trumps someone telling someone else what to do or not do when it comes to paying for sex. However, free will acted upon is not free in the long run. God will sort it out.
In my view, it’s between the john or johnette, his or her conscience, the whore, the whore monger’s family, and each participants’ god (please note lower case).
Spitz got it (I mean caught) because he is and always will be an as#h@le. Almost self-made instant karma. Lovely. Almost as good as Obama and HRC eating each other.
I do think the feds would have looked the other way on this if spitz were not so sanctimonious and holier than thou, at least if serious infractions like money laundering, RICO and other offenses could be eliminated. Let’s face it: Spitz was covering up not to aid an illegal enterprise but to keep Silda from whipping his butt.
The aspect that concerns me is the role the Patriot Act played in forcing the Bank to reveal this info to the feds. That is not to suggest that I am against a vigorous branch of the DOJ keeping tabs on elected officials. I am just concerned about the manner in which the info was derived.