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Chrishayden
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Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 2796
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, October 02, 2006 - 03:21 pm: | 
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http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2006/10/fbi_opens_preli.html
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Renata
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Username: Renata
Post Number: 1408
Registered: 08-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, October 02, 2006 - 03:25 pm: |
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We should be concerned if anyone's still planning on ever voting for this fool again.....
I still think he should be in jail with every other child molester.
Which reminds me, one of the gubernatorial candidates here (the one who started the hope scholarship) is hoping to pass a law that would give the death penalty to repeat child molesters.
What do you guys think of that? |
Renata
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Username: Renata
Post Number: 1409
Registered: 08-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, October 02, 2006 - 03:25 pm: |
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My husband wants to vote for him just for that reason alone....I'm still undecided. |
Chrishayden
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Post Number: 2798
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, October 02, 2006 - 03:27 pm: |
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You can't kill somebody unless they killed somebody. Once you get into that killing somebody for a non lethal act no telling where you stop.
I am in favor of locking up child molesters forever or segregating them someplace. |
Renata
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Username: Renata
Post Number: 1412
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, October 02, 2006 - 03:35 pm: |
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I'm in favor of chopping their balls off and feeding them to them as their last meal. |
Mzuri
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Username: Mzuri
Post Number: 1723
Registered: 01-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, October 03, 2006 - 12:43 am: |
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This is going to get really messy:
Resign, Mr. Speaker
Published October 3, 2006
The Washington Times
www.washingtontimes.com
The facts of the disgrace of Mark Foley, who was a Republican member of the House from a Florida district until he resigned last week, constitute a disgrace for every Republican member of Congress. Red flags emerged in late 2005, perhaps even earlier, in suggestive and wholly inappropriate e-mail messages to underage congressional pages. His aberrant, predatory -- and possibly criminal -- behavior was an open secret among the pages who were his prey. The evidence was strong enough long enough ago that the speaker should have relieved Mr. Foley of his committee responsibilities contingent on a full investigation to learn what had taken place, whether any laws had been violated and what action, up to and including prosecution, were warranted by the facts. This never happened.
Rep. John Shimkus of Illinois, the Republican chairman of the House Page Board, said he learned about the Foley e-mail messages "in late 2005." Rep. John Boehner of Ohio, the leader of the Republican majority, said he was informed of the e-mail messages earlier this year. On Friday, Mr. Hastert dissembled, to put it charitably, before conceding that he, too, learned about the e-mail messages sometime earlier this year. Late yesterday afternoon, Mr. Hastert insisted that he learned of the most flagrant instant-message exchange from 2003 only last Friday, when it was reported by ABC News. This is irrelevant. The original e-mail messages were warning enough that a predator -- and, incredibly, the co-chairman of the House Caucus on Missing and Exploited Children -- could be prowling the halls of Congress. The matter wasn't pursued aggressively. It was barely pursued at all. Moreover, all available evidence suggests that the Republican leadership did not share anything related to this matter with any Democrat.
Now the scandal must unfold on the front pages of the newspapers and on the television screens, as transcripts of lewd messages emerge and doubts are rightly raised about the forthrightness of the Republican stewards of the 109th Congress. Some Democrats are attempting to make this "a Republican scandal," and they shouldn't; Democrats have contributed more than their share of characters in the tawdry history of congressional sexual scandals. Sexual predators come in all shapes, sizes and partisan hues, in institutions within and without government. When predators are found they must be dealt with, forcefully and swiftly. This time the offender is a Republican, and Republicans can't simply "get ahead" of the scandal by competing to make the most noise in calls for a full investigation. The time for that is long past.
House Speaker Dennis Hastert must do the only right thing, and resign his speakership at once. Either he was grossly negligent for not taking the red flags fully into account and ordering a swift investigation, for not even remembering the order of events leading up to last week's revelations -- or he deliberately looked the other way in hopes that a brewing scandal would simply blow away. He gave phony answers Friday to the old and ever-relevant questions of what did he know and when did he know it? Mr. Hastert has forfeited the confidence of the public and his party, and he cannot preside over the necessary coming investigation, an investigation that must examine his own inept performance.
A special, one-day congressional session should elect a successor. We nominate Rep. Henry Hyde, also of Illinois, the chairman of the House International Relations Committee whose approaching retirement ensures that he has no dog in this fight. He has a long and principled career, and is respected on both sides of the aisle. Mr. Hyde would preside over the remaining three months of the 109th Congress in a manner best suited for a full and exhaustive investigation until a new speaker for the 110th Congress is elected in January, who can assume responsibility for the investigation.
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Chrishayden
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Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 2802
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, October 03, 2006 - 09:43 am: |
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This is what we ought to be concerned about. Congress has become so corrupt child molesters can take and keep their seats with honor.
The whole country gets upset about a black woman having a dust up with a male cop and they sit and let a white male pedophile rape these children.
It's dispicable! |
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