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To: Brumar89 who wrote (181484)	10/4/2006 12:03:04 PM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (2) of 793568

I don't really think snideness is required, B. I abhor any abuse of power or sexual predation and it's irrelevant to me what side of the aisle they sit on. Everything else is superfluous to the behaviors. If HAstert or others had even a suspicion, a hint, that the Page Program was being used in this way, I hold them ethically responsible. The legal questions (were they legally obliged to report) mean nothing, imo. And if someone sat intentionally on these emails waiting for a politically opportune time to reveal them, and by doing so placed pages at continued risk, that is equally damnable. I think both Foley and Studds are disgusting. (Maybe someone should tell the author of Andrew's Newsmax article who believes 17 year olds are adults and wrote with a most astonishing spin on this story). The other incidents you mention involved consenting adults. I would object to them because they were abuses of power and/or and failure to take responsibility, but I don't find them comparable to what Foley and Studds did. (ALthough Barney Frank as far as I know isn't guilty of anything except being gay and using poor judgment in choosing a partner.) What I believe alters numbers is the intentional use of cases that will skew statistics- and a 16 year old with an 18 year old does just that. That is not predatory - as is a 57 year old and a teen- it's not even ephedophilia. Both sides of any issue can be guilty of subjective data gathering, which is why I said I didn't want to argue about it. Your views about this are quite obvious and it would be a waste of both our time to try to convince each other why one study is more valid than another. This is not some odd partisan competition of evil. I see nothing positive in efforts to mitigate or absolve or deflect from Foley's acts by pointing at any one else's. Nothing makes what he did more acceptable. If you want to take pride in the fact that he resigned and you believe that the Republicans really are acting righteously rather than out of political expediency, that's ok. I am way too cynical these days to find much of anything ethically admirable in either party. I also don't find Foley's resignation to be a true taking of responsibility. Had he not been revealed, he would have continued his behavior. It took a humiliating exposure and he still is coming up with many excuses why he is a victim rather than a responsible adult.

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