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To: pompsander who wrote (205083)	10/3/2006 3:24:34 PM
From: Keith Feral	Respond to of 281500

Do you think that Foley would advertise anything about his special relationship with a young gay man to other members of the Senate? I'll bet he did everything in his power to cover up the relationship, the emails, the nature of the friendship, his drinking problems and all the other personal issues. Asking a young man for pictures is one thing. If Foley is smart enough to get elected to Senate, he is smart enough to put a positive spin on his friendship with the page. This man crossed the line, what else is new? At least he didn't go into a school, rape a bunch of young women, and then kill everyone in the room. There are much bigger problems in our midst than this inappropriate relationship between a Senator covering up latent homo issues and his drinking issues. The corruption of a young man is deplorable on every level. People have spent way too much time on the subject already. Let's talk about the young men that killed all the innocent girls in Colorado high school or the Amish school. There are terrorists in our midst that are just as bad as the Taliban and Al Quaeda. Thank God we don't have hundreds of these incidents every day like they do in Iraq or Afghanistan. Still, all these issues are troubling. There will be more shocking issues tomorrow and the next day. The sick thing is the way that we politicize these news events to make republicans and democrats symbols of these perversions.

To: pompsander who wrote (205083)	10/3/2006 3:46:21 PM
From: geode00	Respond to of 281500

Foley could face charges under child sex laws he helped create Investigators must decide whether former U.S. Rep. Mark Foley will be charged under tough new child sex-crime laws he championed. BY MARY ELLEN KLAS AND JAY WEAVER meklas@MiamiHerald.com A conviction for soliciting sex from a minor in Florida can draw five years prison time and a label: child sex predator, complete with your address listed on the Internet, searchable by Zip code for all to see. But until July, no one tracked the whereabouts of sex predators if they left the state. That changed when U.S. Rep. Mark Foley helped push through the passage of the Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006, which created a national sex-crimes registry and increased penalties for such crimes against children. As the FBI and the Florida Department of Law Enforcement investigate whether Foley broke the law when he sent sexually explicit Internet messages to congressional pages, they will be armed with cyber crime laws he helped pass, as well as others that impose tough new penalties on child sex offenders. Florida law prohibits anyone from ''encouraging, offering or soliciting sexual conduct'' over the Internet with anyone under 18. Child predators face a minimum of five years in prison and a $5,000 fine, with steeper penalties for repeat offenders. Congress has also passed laws that impose new penalties on child sex crimes, ranging from five to 25 years in prison...... miami.com