Posted on 10/04/2006 1:58:14 PM PDT by Gribbit
Mark Foley is a scumbag! Mark Foley is a scumbag! Mark Foley is a scumbag!
Now that that is out of the way I will reveal how I (and a few others) discovered Jordan Edmund was one of the former house pages that participated in sexually explicit instant messages with Rep. Mark Foley. Also I will explain to you why I believe it necessary to reveal Jordan Edmund's identity. You may not agree with my decision, but I hope to explain my reasoning by the end of this story.
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A [ABC] network source explains, messages with the young man and disgraced former Congressman Foley took place before and after the 18th birthday.
http://drudgereport.com/flashmfa.htm
Not a chance! This kid is not naive and was bragging about the IM's according to reports.
First, the emails regarding the first page, where this whole ordeal started, were innocuous and contained no sexual content at all. Those are the ones Speaker Hastert knew about. Foley didn't ask for sex nor had a sexual conversation with the page. However, you added some salacious IM's to your report that every member of the media was willing to portray as the “emails” sent to the first page, whose parents had no interest in doing anything beyond just stopping such communication.
The sexually explicit IM's belong to a willing EX-PAGE who was 18 years old at the time the IM's occurred. He was no longer working as a page since he finished the House Page Program in June 2002 and his 18 birthday was in February 23, 2003. The IM's happened in 2003 after he left the program and when he was already 18 years old... shall we say private IM's between 2 consenting adults? I'm sure you can't.
Funny, I was thinking last night, OK, let's assume those IM's are real... you know what? They read like IM's from a male escort, or from a willing partner. They don't sound like stuff from a child. Then I thought, 'why would a kid keep those IM's for so long (3 years)?' And that's why I was thinking about a male escort intending to save them for future blackmail. Why would a guy would want to keep cybersex IM logs with a older man he isn't interest in, unless he wants to use them someday?
The media isn't talking about the original emails because there's nothing there, but rather about the IM's, portraying them as Foley preying on a child. Keep in mind, and I'm not defending him or his actions (because of his stupid and irresponsible actions we might lose the House and the Senate and the consequences could be devastating not only for the Republican Party but for the nation as well.) So no, I'm not happy, I'm mad at Foley, but let's keep things into perspective, having cybersex with an 18 years old after he LEFT work as a Congressional page isn't the picture of a predator going after a child, is it?
And yes, the Republicans are still the Party of values and morals. As soon as any of its members of the House or the Senate are caught in a scandal they resign. Adios, Hasta la vista, baby! However, when the Democrats are caught in a scandal, like Gerry Studds who had a homosexual affair with a SEVENTEEN years old male page, Studds didn't resign. On the contrary, he kept getting reelected over and over again with the full support of the Democrat Party and enough support from his constituency. Bill Clinton didn't resign over the Monica Lewinsky scandal, and his Party supported him. And Berny Frank, Ted Kennedy, Mel Reynolds, to mentioned a few are still in power.
And by the way, just by watching the nightly news, I get the impression that the emphasis isn't on Foley as much as it is on the Republican leadership in Congress. The emphasis in on Hastert to resign. This whole thing reeks of politically motivated hacks determined to take control of the House and the Senate, and you are doing your part to help!
Oh yes, the link.
Its over for ABC and Nancy Pelosi.
Exactly. Which is why I believe his AIM account was 'jacked and used in this operation.
Remember the other night when posters on FR were saying we should be banned because we dared to question what Foley did and why it was illegal.
As always . . . you've posted a real winner here, Victoria!
PKM, you need to post the "report" so I can have something to refer to. This kids IM account wasn't used for a year before it was used to corrospond with Foley. No one abandons an IM account for a year then starts using it again. They usually get a new account.
LOL.
Contrary to popular opinion, SOME conservatives go to school at Cal Berkeley
Fighting the good fight
Cal's own Michael Davidson runs for the National College Republicans chair
By Andrew R Quinio
From the March 2005 Print Edition
From behind the enemy lines of UC Berkeley emerges a top contender for chairmanship of the National College Republicans.
http://www.calpatriot.org/magazine/issue/6/6/fighting-the-good-fight
I don't disagree with that assessment. I thought of that myself. Nevertheless, although he may have been an EXTREME minority, there are Republicans at Berkley. It is still a well respected law school and I'm sure there might have been some family tie to the school as to the reason he attended. Anyway, that is a good premise.
The Dems just lost any chance for getting the house and the Senate.
Not so fast. Drudge is reporting that some of the IM exchanges occured before his 18th birthday.
I think that yours is a pretty neat synopsis. The Demos better get their tweezers out to pull the schrapnel from their faces.
Yeah the some are the ones in which Foley said we'll do such and such after you are 18
I know, they were calling him a pedophile, a predator, etc, etc. No need for evidence or facts, just kiss the media reports and repeat them like parrots.
This is the only thing that makes sense to me.
I'm sure glad I have been banned, what about you?
We need to make our voices heard. We need to fight, we are not going to take this crap anymore.
oops haven't
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