Did Mark Foley show up drunk at the pages' dormitory located one block from Capitol Hill?
http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/1004gns-foley-incident04-ON.html
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,217899,00.html
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/politics/content/nation/epaper/2006/10/14/a25a_foley_1014.html
http://www.newstalkzb.co.nz/ccContent/512978.htm
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/13/AR2006101300591.html?nav=hcmoduletmv
U.S. Capitol Police did not "lose" a report concerning the allegations/rumors that Mark Foley showed up drunk at the pages' dorm. "Can't find the report" implies that there was a report and that it was lost. Fact is, there WAS no report to be lost.
Did Mark Foley show up drunk at the pages' dormitory located one block from Capitol Hill?
The current evidence does not substantiate this allegation/rumor. There was no report filed and there are no eye-witnesses that have been identified to date.
If he did, the evidence does not show it.
radical sapphoq says: Didn't happen.
Did Mark Foley send Instant Messages to pages [who were all at or above the age of legal consent in the District of Columbia btw] of a sexual nature?
http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/BrianRoss/story?id=2509586&page=1
http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/BrianRoss/story?id=2509586&page=4
http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/BrianRoss/story?id=2509586&page=5
http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/BrianRoss/story?id=2509586&page=6
http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/BrianRoss/story?id=2509586&page=7
http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/BrianRoss/story?id=2509586&page=8
http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/BrianRoss/story?id=2509586&page=9
Also:
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6122045.html
radical sapphoq says: Yup.
Was any investigation into this matter delayed or is that complaint part of name-calling [chiefly by liberals]?
http://citizensforethics.org/press/newsrelease.php?view=163 and their homepage
http://citizensforethics.org/ . Interesting is that George Soros is their biggest donor:
http://citizensforethics.org/press/pressclip.php?view=3574.
More name-calling by Dan Savage and others:
http://www.laweekly.com/index.php?option=com_lawcontent&task=view&id=14750&Itemid=9 and
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/charles-karel-bouley/please-go-back-in_b_31500.html and
http://hotlineblog.nationaljournal.com/archives/2006/10/hotline_after_d_98.html
For some well-thought out opinions, please goto:
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6122045.html and
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1719370/posts and
http://www.unogateway.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2006/10/10/452c8aaea0416
The Citizens for Ethics article claims that the FBI was forwarded copies of the "e-mails" on July 21, 2006 by their Executive Director. Nothing further was heard until September 29, 2006.
radical sapphoq says: Unsubstantiated so far. Two months is not a long time to begin or to publicize an investigation-- if the article in question is accurate.
Given the nature of the articles, columns, and blogs published by Dan Savage, Charles-Karel-Bouley, and the "What's a dem to do?" section in the hotline blog,
radical sapphoq says: yes, name-calling is going on chiefly by liberals. The republicans [who tend to vote against glbt civil rights measures] were accused of a cover-up and knocked for then conducting a thorough investigation of that which they stand accused of delaying.
Is Mark Foley gay or a pedophile? Is he an alcoholic or sex addict?
radical sapphoq says: We don't really know. There is not enough evidence available to decide.
Sending e-mails or instant messages to minors is not illegal. There is no evidence that Mark Foley had sex with any male page under the age of consent [which in the District of Columbia is sixteen] nor that he solicited said sex. He may be a gay man or a bisexual man with a taste for twinkies ["blond on the outside, fluffy on the inside"] which may or may not be the result of the sexual abuse that he may or may not have endured at the hands of a member of the clergy in his youth. We don't really know.
Radical sapphoq does not want him in "our" community but recognizes that we cannot take away his right to call himself gay, a survivor of sexual abuse, or a member of any other tribe. Much as some of us in the glbt community would rather label Mark Foley a pedophile, there is no legal grounds for it. We also do not know if he is a "sex addict."
Mark Foley is blaming his actions on drunkeness. Again, we really do not know if he is an alcoholic or not.
Mark Foley, rightly or wrongly, is in a rehab. The Ethics Committee and the FBI are conducting investigations. As things stand now, there will be no criminal trial. Name-calling does not help address the issues at hand. Let's let the investigators do their jobs.
~radical sapphoq
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