[trek]

I'm not defending Foley. But I have not heard any allegations that he engaged in sex acts with this boy. He is only accused of sending suggestive e-mails. That may also be a crime. But sending e-mails, even those with suggestive content, is categorically different from actually engaging in sex acts with children (or interns). Engaging in fantasy is a thought crime. Even solicitation of actual acts is a real crime. The facts would appear to be getting lost rather quickly in all this.

For the record, I believe this sudden outing of Foley (whose behavior appears to have been common knowledge) is the Democrat's attempt at a values agenda. And that defense would appear to be a variant of the argument that "everybody does it." The Democrats would like nothing better than to silence Republicans on the values agenda by protraying them as hypocrites. My guess is that if Hastert had forced Foley to resign (as they are now suggesting he should have) the Democrats would be condemning him as a paranoid homophobic bigot.

[muawiyah]

Here's the crime ~ sexual solicitation of a minor.

It can take various forms. Just over a decade ago the Washington Post sent an homosexual reporter down to the Boy Scout National Jamboree to ask a group of Boy Scouts what they thought about sex and homosexual sex.

The children he querried were all minors.

The Washington Post ran the whole article.

I and others sent letters to the Board of Directors of the Washington Post demanding to know why they'd hired a General Manager for their paper who thought it was acceptable for his editors and writers to querry minors whose parents had not approved questions about homosexual sex? It was noted that we were certain they, the Board members would come up with some sort of explanation once charges were filed against the offending reporter, and his editor boss should either set foot in Virginia, and, "oh, by the way, that big enormous printing plant you people own over there in Springfield Virginia, there's a civil suit in this for you too, and we'll take your plant".

Their Board acted quickly to fire the reporter and censure his boss.

Foley has commited a similar crime. Going beyond that we have Valerie Plame and Joe Wilson involved in this one, and that special interest lawfirm with which they're involved had information that crimes had been commited against a child and they kept it quiet.

I can only imagine the civil suit someone could cook up to take George Soros and his stooges to court and ruin them.

Oh, yes I can imagine it.

Someone commit an act of barritry ~ those parents gotta' be told they can get rich!