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I'm surprised. I would have thought we would agree on this issue.

Webb may very well be a mental mess. A Reaganite war hero transformed into a Democrat certainly manifests something strange happened. That sort of transformation usually brings political beliefs that I see as dangerous. So although I have lost much enthusiasm for Allen, for the way he votes and to keep the Senate Republican, I very much want Webb to lose. The only Republican I would wish to lose is Chafee. He badly deserves to lose, hell, to be tarred and feathered just for denying Bolton a confirmation. Too bad there isn't a dirty play on him, or something to save Santorum.

To the issue at hand.

I was in the car and was listening to Mark Levin on these Webb writings. He said they were too sick and graphic for him to read. I had imagined that Webb had written something sado sexual with it obviously arising out of some personal experience. Maybe that would be damning or at least evidence of where he had been.

But later that evening I read the excerpts. Maybe it's me. I know that I know sex. I am certain I could recognize pedophilia. I read the sentence in question and I thought of neither. It's not sex. And pedophilia occurs in shadows, not as a greeting. My reaction was WOW but it seems to have been for reasons other then most. It was WOW, what a strange cultural habit.

I don't know if it's kissing, as described by the Maine court, or as Webb describes something more. But it remains something different then a sex act. Weird, you bet. Disgusting, you bet. Another nail against multiculturalism, you bet.

But is Webb guilty of anything for describing, in what he hopes is a realistic novel, an act that may be common to the locale of his writing? I think not.

There is a high rated TV show now in I believe it's second season, Criminal Minds. I've seen it several times. Whoever is the writer needs to imagine all sorts of depraved minds. If the writer or producer or even the actors ran for office would they be disqualified because their thought in fiction can run to the macabre? How about the viewers?

I imagine that when Webb heard about or personally witnessed this strange father/son act in some strange place it also jarred him. It is not surprising- or damning- that an author would use this to elicit from his reader the same reaction.

Webb's books are in all the libraries. Should they be banned? If it's sick to write them, is it sick to read them? I've never read anything by him, but I am now curious. Does that paint me?

He was also criticized for his characters use of N. It's just as nonsensical. That's how some people speak. Does it make him a racist? Should authors all write for children?

I've thought of the process that made me a Republican, first and foremost is that Democrats always insulted by intelligence.

This is that kind of attack. It insults my intelligence. Depicting this scene, which is not sexual and not pedophilic in my opinion, just a very very weird custom of some strange people, says nothing about Webb's psyche.

But it very well may work.

My opinion. Obviously different then yours, and almost every other Freeper.