The recent arrest of senior Fifa officials and their indictment in the United States of massive corruption have led many to wonder whether any of this corruption could involve Fifa President, Sepp Blatter. In other words, is Sepp Blatter as corrupt as those other high level Fifa officials who have been arrested? One way to respond to this question would be to say that no charges have been brought against Sepp Blatter and so the corruption does not involve him. This position would of course be correct in a legal sense because charges cannot be brought against him without probable cause. However, this legal sense is not the only way to accuse Mr. Blatter of corruption. Let me explain.
The leader of a corrupt organization could be accused of corruption by the very fact that the person leads a corrupt organization. And Fifa, as everyone knows, is a mafia and is run in that way. Like a mafia, Fifa is accountable to no one. When Fifa is accused of a crime, it does its own investigation and then hides the findings. Fifa is a scam. Its scam is especially displayed in how it cajoles countries to bid to host soccer events, gives the countries very little money towards the events, and then make huge profits out of such events. This is how a classic scam works: the scammer comes with promises of making you better off but leaves you worse off - like Fifa has done to all those countries that have been hosting the world cup. Its latest victim is Brazil. Fifa, supports slave labor. This is especially seen in what is now going on in Asia where those working to build the 2022 venues of the soccer world cup are currently being enslaved. Repeated complains about the treatment of these workers have drawn little response from Fifa. The corruption of someone who runs a mafia and scam like Fifa should hardly be in doubt. Doubting the corruption of Sepp Blatter is like thinking that the owner of a pornographic company is a paragon of virtue. That Fifa is allowed to continue doing business the way it is now doing, with Mr. Blatter at the helm, is the real scandal rocking world football right now. The man has got to go and the organization needs massive overhaul.
The leader of a corrupt organization could be accused of corruption by the very fact that the person leads a corrupt organization. And Fifa, as everyone knows, is a mafia and is run in that way. Like a mafia, Fifa is accountable to no one. When Fifa is accused of a crime, it does its own investigation and then hides the findings. Fifa is a scam. Its scam is especially displayed in how it cajoles countries to bid to host soccer events, gives the countries very little money towards the events, and then make huge profits out of such events. This is how a classic scam works: the scammer comes with promises of making you better off but leaves you worse off - like Fifa has done to all those countries that have been hosting the world cup. Its latest victim is Brazil. Fifa, supports slave labor. This is especially seen in what is now going on in Asia where those working to build the 2022 venues of the soccer world cup are currently being enslaved. Repeated complains about the treatment of these workers have drawn little response from Fifa. The corruption of someone who runs a mafia and scam like Fifa should hardly be in doubt. Doubting the corruption of Sepp Blatter is like thinking that the owner of a pornographic company is a paragon of virtue. That Fifa is allowed to continue doing business the way it is now doing, with Mr. Blatter at the helm, is the real scandal rocking world football right now. The man has got to go and the organization needs massive overhaul.
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