Mr. Webb -- You must withdraw (Sign Petition)

PetitionOnline.org ^ | 10-27-06

[truthandlife]

To: Jim Webb Campaign Headquarters

Mr. Webb,

As you well know, the American people want to protect our children against child predators. Recently, Congressman Mark Foley resigned from Congress on September 29, 2006 as allegations surfaced that he had sent sexually explicit instant messages to male former Congressional pages, through AOL Instant Messenger. As a result of the disclosures, the FBI and the Florida Department of Law Enforcement opened investigations of the messages to find possible criminal charges. Mark Foley did the right thing and resigned. In February, DOJ launched Project Safe Childhood, an initiative to “combat the proliferation of technology-facilitated sexual exploitation crimes against children.” Some of your writings are very disturbing for a candidate hoping to represent the families of Virginians in the U.S. Senate and do not help the cause of combating the sexual exploitation crimes against children. Most Virginians and Americans would find passages such as those below shocking, especially coming from the pen of someone who seeks the privilege of serving in the United States Senate, one of the highest offices in the land:

– Lost Soldiers: “A shirtless man walked toward them along a mud pathway. His muscles were young and hard, but his face was devastated with wrinkles. His eyes were so red that they appeared to be burned by fire. A naked boy ran happily toward him from a little plot of dirt. The man grabbed his young son in his arms, turned him upside down, and put the boy’s penis in his mouth.”

Bantam Books, NY, 1st Edition, 2001, (hard cover), page 333. Quote is from para. 10,.Chap. 34.

We therefore call on you to immediately withdraw your candidacy from this race. We the undersigned ask that you put your personal ambitions aside, think of the greater good of the people of the United States and do the right thing — drop out of the U.S. Senate Race rather than persevering in one of self-interest that only serves to hurt the cause of combating the proliferation of sexual exploitation crimes against children.

Sincerely,

The Undersigned

[Petronski]

Unlike Torie, I have called Webb a pervert. And I stand by it.

We can disagree on whether he is a pervert and still all oppose Webb. It's just that I also oppose him because IMO he is a pervert.

[Petronski]

One, I'm not arguing to put Webb in the Senate.

Let me make it clear. I know you're not. It was just a hypothetical that unfairly made it sound like you were. I should have been more clear at the time.

Be well.

[Sabramerican]

Then we should have defined the issue at the start.

I don't think we disagree that much at the end.

Argue that writing war novels of this kind is not preparatory to the Senate is a legitimate argument. Arguing he should not be in the Senate because this proves him a deviant is not.

The Republican attack seems to be the later.

[jwalsh07]

I know of no culture that has Dads greeting their 4 year old sons by turning them upside down and putting juniors unit in Dads mouth. Kissing a babies penis and swallowing a 4 year olds are not analagous acts. More to the point there is no contextual reason for it in Webbs book. It is gratuitous crap used to sell books and evidently Webb is into gratuitous crap to sell books.

He wrote it, he owns it.