Wm. F. Buckley Jr. The predator and the pages

Yawn.

http://www.sacbee.com/110/story/33640.html

William F. Buckley Jr.: The predator and the pages
By William F. Buckley Jr. -

Published 8:26 pm PDT Tuesday, October 3, 2006


One may be in favor of all the corrective and punitive things that have been done and are in prospect of being done to former congressman Mark Foley. Still, we should draw breath and ponder a couple of destabilizing points:


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(3) As things now stand, what is it that Mark Foley is guilty of having done? He has, to use traditional language, attempted to corrupt minors. The stopsexpredators blog does not record Foley as actually having engaged in sex. It goes no further than to reproduce e-mails from Foley that can't reasonably be construed as other than sexual foreplay. And that, apparently, is how he construed them, because a matter of minutes after he was shown the instant messages that ABC News had collected, he resigned his office, and a day later put in for treatment at a rehab center, pleading alcoholism and related disorders.

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(5) Several things combined to give the Foley case the amplitude it is having. It involved a live congressman. He was a Republican. In the most felicitous irony since the inventor of the guillotine was guillotined, Foley wrote the law proscribing the kind of corruption of minors he was engaged in attempting. So we had (a) a legislator, (b) a Republican and (c) a moralizer, electing a sexual way of life that all the engines of modern society are bent on protecting.

It is not unusual for a society derelict in affirming its own moral positions to leap, fiery sword in hand, to excommunicate a sinner. The Foley case is not going to lead to national concern over homosexual sex, or is not going to result in enforcing age codes (are they really expecting to stand guard at the movies to prevent 15-year-olds from seeing "Brokeback Mountain"?).

There is a mini-movement endorsed by a few congressmen that would rescind the congressional page program which put Mr. Foley in temptation's way. It might prove easier to rescind the laws that Foley violated.

and smoke it you obsolete old man.

hmmmm, that sounds familiar.
Kind of like Bush and torture laws.

Is that what he wants?

"If it was good enough for the patriarchs, it's good enough for Republicans!"

So all those stings, where someone contacted policemen/woman who were pretending to be underage conquests, and were arrested doesn't count. All that porno that Mark Karr had on his computer doesn't count.

Isn't it odd that if anybody but a republican did what Foley did he would not be sitting his ass in a jail cell while he was being given the "eye".

Just like if it was anybody but rush limbaugh who doctor shopped and bought and used all that oxycotin they would be sitting in jail right now. But it seems that republicans think they are above the law and should be allowed to do exactly whatever they want. AND if someone complains they are doing it because of politics. If it wasn't for politics these reprehensible republicans would not be getting away with all the crimes they are committing.

petty power hungry swine.