Hazardous morals
by digby
This is a horrifying real tale of government run amok, in which a strange, obsessive IRS agent relentlessly chases down one man and puts him in jail ... for lying on a mortgage application. It illustrates exactly why we have a right to be suspicious of the authorities. It seems obvious that this government agent either had a personal vendetta or wanted to make an example of a homeowner who admitted to lying on loan paperwork for some reason.
It's hard for me to believe that this guy doesn't have a political agenda. He became suspicious when he saw that this man had run a marathon across the desert for a charitable cause bringing water to Africans. I don't know about you, but it's very difficult for me to believe that this would be the kind of thing that would set off alarm bells in someone who was apolitical.
And I don't have to tell you how absurd it is that they are prosecuting someone who signed a fraudulent loan document and allowing the mortgage fraud perpetrators to roam free. But then, "moral hazard" is only a problem for the polloi. Important wealthy people can't be hampered by such plebeian concerns or they might just stop creating all our wealth for us.
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