Posted on 10/04/2006 10:33:20 AM PDT by Ellesu
WASHINGTON -- The FBI is investigating a possible threat against the north Louisiana teenager who was on the receiving end of suggestive e-mails from disgraced former Rep. Mark Foley, a Louisiana congressman said Tuesday.
Rep. Rodney Alexander, R-Quitman, said Tuesday that the young man's life wasn't threatened, "but close to it."
"There are people out there who feel like he is the one who (accused) Foley," Alexander said. "There are some bloggers out there who sent him some ugly stuff."
(Excerpt) Read more at nola.com ...
Heck, we've had a poster or two intimate that the kids who responded in the emails and IM's shared the blame with the pedophile.
So, it doesn't surprise me that some are unable to keep their heads out of their political backends.
Or that the same people who are orchestrating this attack on all Republicans are the ones sending the threatening notes. After all, who else knows who this kid is? I haven't heard that he's been identified in such a way that just anyone could find him to send him stuff.
It's the perfect Act 2.
ping
Do I read this wrong or is Alexander accusing conservatives of doing this? It sounds like he's inferring that the kid is being blamed for putting a GOP seat at risk. If that's not what he meant he should clarify it pronto.
It is very easy to find him. A poster on FR with minutes of the page story breaking was able to find the kids myspace page. Half of North Louisiana knows who this kid is
I listened to him. He is not at all blamming conservatives. However dont be surprised if some misguided conservative sent him something. Some people are just sick
I thought the kid in Louisiana who received the 'overly friendly' emails was not the same person who engaged in the salacious IMs with Foley. The emails and the IM's are not the same thing. The email guy in Louisiana was a page in 2005 and the IM's go back two or three years.
This is such a great story for the Dems and the DBM. They can keep adding layer upon layer so that it may never be full sorted.
You wanna back that up, newbie?
Please provide the link to any such post on FreeRepublic. I'm not saying it isn't there, I'm just not willing to take the word of someone who signed up during this election cycle on this little bit of information. There are too many folks cruising through here dropping DU bombs for me to be comfortable with a bald assertion like that, and your post doesn't constitute evidence without a reference or link to the post.
What thread? What FR member? Have they been around any longer than you have?
Have you ever heard of Moby? If not, or if you don't understand the reference in this context, click on the link for some background info. It's important to source anything that you say like this in this context, otherwise all sorts of alarms start going off.
What's Jason Blair been up to lately?
The media is doing it's best to confuse the email vs. IM issue and apparently doing a darn good job. Sorry if I took the phrase "The kid played the game by choice and unfortunately he is feeling the consequences" as meaning he deserved it.
Ok daddy whatever you say
Give me a few minutes. Those individual post were rightly removed form the thread. ALso that FR poster of course did not mean any harm. It was done in the context of disproving a relationship to another LOuisiana politician. I shall pull up the thread and give you the post where the comments were removed. I also shall pull up another thread from last night from another FR person who will confirm that she saw it.
I hope that satifies you and gets me past your background check.
The point is to show how was easy it is to id the kid and the above is not impossible. Think - The house has about 40 pages a session. Pretty prestigious. All you have ot do is go to the local paers where it was announced.
All right I shall return with the evidence that I am not a DU plant
"His life wasn't threatened, but it was close to it..."
Next:
"Well, it wasn't that close"
"Actually, it wasn't so bad at all"
"Looking back at it, it was almost complimentary"
"It was an encouraging message"
"This was a really nice message"
"Wow, that was the best mesage I ever received"
The bs never stops with these people, does it?
Ok here It is
Sorry for going off the handle a little but at times I think I am going to have to be here 10 years before I don't get this charge of NEWBIE or DU plant if I say a tad thing controversial lol.
Ok last night we were having a similar conversation about the death threats and I made this smae point how easy it was to find the poor kid-
GO to this thread and see response 43
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1713268/posts?page=43#43
Now, I am thinking that he is referring to the thread I was talking about.
I have tried to moniter these threads because I know some of the staff for alexander and one ex staffer that I am looking out for to make sure nothing incorrect is said about their actions.
THe thread I am referencing and I am pretty sure he referencing is this one
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1710786/posts?page=431#431
Let me freepmail you the rest
The ONLY people who know are CREW and the Fibbies CREW gave the emails to.
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