Posted on 10/03/2006 1:28:59 PM PDT by Congressman Billybob
"who pray on children " pray sb prey
I listened to a radio host today, whose guest is the Speaker of the House. The host believes the reason why the Speaker did not act sooner, was because of political correctness. It appears, if the Speaker would have said something like: "A member of Congress, who is a homosexual, had contact with underage teens", it would label the Speaker a homophobe.
From my understanding, a homophobe is someone who has a phobia about homosexuals. You need a physician to declare one suffers from a 'phobia'. No doctors note, no phobia.
What Foley did was the standard "modus operandi" of homosexuals. If only America would rise up against this moral decay.
I am reminded of that old saying, "Your sins will find you out".
I think you just flunked reading comprehension. Surely by now, you have read that the emails were investigated, found not to be sexual, and a request was made by the boy's family to drop the investigation. You failed miserably, to use your own words.
The GOP knew that the guy was gay and a little creepy, but the voters elected him anyway. You have to remember that Foley worked to stop abuse, and voted that way. Sure maybe the leadership should have taken a closer look at him, but that is hindsight.
Everyone knew that Foley was gay and was asking young male pages for pictures and buying them gifts. What else did they need to know. Hastert should have taken him behind closed doors and told him to resign or be publicly disgraced.
A gay man buying a 16 year old boy gifts and asking him for photos is a sexual advance. They kid sent the messages to a member of Congress and called them sick. He obviously thought they were sexual.
I didn't read anything about any gifts that were bought. Foley asked the guy what he wanted, but he didn't give him anything, as far as I know. The kid and his parents, requested that the investigation be dropped and after following the proper channels, the investigation was dropped.
I didn't read anything about any gifts that were bought. Foley asked the guy what he wanted, but he didn't give him anything, as far as I know. The kid and his parents, requested that the investigation be dropped and after following the proper channels, the investigation was dropped, but not before someone had a talk with Foley and told him to cut it out.
Look, the guy is undoubtedly a creep, and may have done worse things than we know about, but Hastert had no knowledge of any thing that would
I still have not found text of the actual e-mails he sent, have the actual word for word writings come out? If so, can you point me to a link to read them????
"I think you just flunked reading comprehension. Surely by now, you have read that the emails were investigated, found not to be sexual, and a request was made by the boy's family to drop the investigation. You failed miserably, to use your own words."
I agree. The emails were found according to the FBI not to be criminal. The emails in question were all that Speaker Hastert had at the time and he did the appropriate thing which was to tell Foley to knock it off. Not only that but even the NY Times and several other liberal publications knew about the emails and found them not to be newsworthy.
With all the information, the numerous threads, I'm amazed that you still don't get it. The republican leadership didn't "sit" on the emails. The republican leadership never SAW the emails. The parents shared them with their representative and asked that they not be shared with anyone else. They emails were not criminal or sexual in nature so, figuring that the parents actually knew what's best for their child, (what a concept) the representative shared the information (not the emails) with those responsible for overseeing the page program and then shared it with Denny Hastert (again, the information, NOT the emails). Foley was called on the carpet and evidently the email exchange stopped. Now what is it that the republican leadership should've done? Asked Foley to resign on the basis of 2nd or third hand information about unseen emails? Hire a hacker to break into Folely's and/or the kid's computer(s) to see if they could find any evidence of a crime that was never committed? Remember, this isn't the same young man who Foley was IMing, they had no idea any of that was going on.
Should we, as a society, start investigating all men who we THINK (based on a smile, a phrase, an email) are acting inappropriately and thus "probably" committing some kind of crime...sounds like a feminist wet dream to me. Hindsight is 20/20. I bet even someone such as yourself has looked back on certain situations in your life and wondered why you didn't see something that in hindsight was so obvious. In this particular case it wouldn't just be Foley's privacy that was violated but the family's who SPECIFICALLY asked this remain private. I trust the parents to know what's best for their child...or should we adopt Hillary's point of view and let the whole village decide what's right for our family?
Cindie
This just gets more and more ridiculous by the minute. How do you KNOW the leadership "never really" asked him what was going on? Were you at the meeting where he was questioned and told to stop emailing pages? It'd be refreshing if you'd just think about what people are telling you instead of just regurgitating the same nonsense over and over again. I expect this kind of stuff from the left but I would hope conservatives would be able to think critically.
How did "everyone" know he was asking male pages for pictures and buying them gifts? Only the boy, Foley and their representative saw the emails. While Foley did ask what he wanted for his birthday there was never any indication he bought the kid anything. Hastert should've asked him to resign because of emails that asked for a picture and what he wanted for his birthday? That's absurd! We're dealing with reality here, not dem talking points.
And everyone should know Mark Foley was a homoxexual Democrat in Florida who was suddenly joining the Republican party - with the support of his "former democratic supporters" to run for Congress?
I smell a sting.
If you think the feigned "outrage" we're seeing over Foley is bad, just realize that it would pale in comparison to the relentless sh!t the media would dump on Hastert after the scenario you suggested was spun by the Democrats as a homophobic outing of a fine Congressman.
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