Curiosity, perhaps confusion, who knows what they were thinking. The question is not the victims' state of mind but what is going on with the perpetrator, as in Mr. Foley -- a member of the GOP House of Representatives Leadership and someone who supposedly knows better and who should be able to differentiate between right and wrong. If Foley doesn't know these things then the other House leadership, Hastert and House Whip Roy Blunt included, sure as hell should.
I'll say it again, but there needs to be an investigation to see what Foley did with these boys, not just what he wrote to them in emails. If he did criminal acts with them, there will be Hell to Pay, politically, morally, and through the justice system. If it isn't covered up further than it already has been...
As soon as I logged on this morning, the first article posted was that former pages knew about this for years. He also stated that they thought he was a flake and they knew what he was doing but never felt threatened so they never reported it. I am around teenage boys all the time, they are not stupid and most are quite street smart. As I said before, I would be furious that my son would respond to such nonsense, it is not a joke. Apparently lots of boys thought it was, I could see it, getting the messages and laughing about was an a$$ he was. I am really so disgusted by the fact that a man, a man who I saw just recently on BOR talking about child preditors and the need to enact tough punishment. It's scary that someone can be so resolute to your face and in the meanwhile be getting off on young boys. I am hoping, and not for Foley's sake, but for the sake of the boys, that this never went beyond messages.