Why Capitol Pages Fear Retaliation

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2006/100206.html


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It now appears that one of the chief reasons why Foley’s e-mails remained secret for so long – and why some former pages still won’t speak publicly – is that they recognize that divulging what Foley did to them could kill their hopes for future careers in politics.

This fear of retaliation from today’s take-no-prisoners Republican power structure in Washington has been a little-noted subtext to the stories about Foley’s sudden resignation on Sept. 29 over his e-mails to pages since 2003.

The congressional pages who received the “creepy” e-mails “didn’t do anything beside telling other pages about it,” said Matthew Loraditch, 21, who runs the U.S. House Page Alumni Association’s Internet message board. Loraditch, a senior at Towson University, explained that three of the former pages have refused to comment, citing fear of long-term damage to their ability to land jobs.

Fear of retaliation also has limited the willingness of adult Republican staffers from commenting about the Foley case.
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fear

we have to get rid of the SCUM that thinks this way.......Bush Crime Family must go.

and that the GOP leadership knew it was going on.

:headbang:
rocknation