Oh my.
Ok, so was I prescient, or what?
It now appears (according to Druge at (
http://drudgereport.com/flashmfa.htm)), and I quote:
On Tuesday ABC news released a high-impact instant message exchange between Foley and, as ABC explained, a young man "under the age of 18." ABC headlined the story: "New Foley Instant Messages; Had Internet Sex While Awaiting House Vote" But upon reviewing the records, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned, the young man was in fact over the age of 18 at the time of the exchange.Oops. Or, perhaps better said – “See, I told ‘ya so.”
Folks, there’s nothing
legally wrong with soliciting an adult like this on the Internet. It happens daily.
As I pointed out in my last posting, there’s something deeply wrong with a society that criminalizes the idea of liking someone who is sexually mature. The Foley Pedophile Sex story lacks two things – Pedophilia and, it appears, actual Sex!
So
exactly what is it that rankles people about this story? It is what
should rankle people, but usually doesn’t in this country – the abuse of power. The same thing that gets you sued as a private businessperson when you try to turn your Secretary into a Sexatary, with the obvious (if not explicit) threat that if she doesn’t open wide you’re going to find someone who will to replace her!
The problem here isn’t that Foley liked young men. Let’s cut the crap and tell the truth, ok? We are, as human beings, at our core animals. We can resist our animal instincts but they remain within us, whether we want to admit it or not. We are hard-wired to be attracted to those who are young (albeit sexually mature)
because this confers reproductive advantage. The human race exists
precisely because of this “feature”. It is not, as many would claim, a bug.
Now, of course as creatures with “higher thinking powers”, we can suppress acting on those urges. But we cannot deny that they exist. They do – and not just in humans. Up and down the animal kingdom, you see the young and “pretty” preferred over the old and “wizened” -
by the old and wizened!So what’s the real scandal here? It is two-fold:
- Rep Foley abused his position to pressure young men in ways that are wholly inappropriate when the person doing the pressuring holds power over the person being pressured. This is the same situation that arose with Clinton and Juanita Broderick, or Clinton and Lewinski – it doesn’t matter whether Monica “came on” to him or not – he was obligated, due to his position, to say “No Thanks.”
- The entire House of Representatives covered this up instead of drumming this old fool out of the chamber. There is no plenty of evidence that Foley’s desire for young men was known in the House for ten years, and you will never convince me that this knowledge was confined to Republicans. It was communicated by one outgoing Page class to the next incoming, around them in general, and was considered an “open secret” around Washington DC. In short, the House simply didn’t give a damn – until certain members saw the ability to raise political hell five weeks before an election.
Sorry guys and gals, but
both parties deserve to burn in Hell on this one.
It would be nice if there was a credible third party in this country, say, perhaps, the Libertarians.
They’d win by a landslide.
