I will not bother to link to any of these disgusting sites. They do not deserve the eyeballs. The story for those who are unaware is that a right wing small time blogger figured out who one of the pages were. Links to his name appeared on such respectable pages such as InstaPundit and Freak Republic. They are now doing the typical Republican damage control.
Think of how it must be like to be one of these pages. You are from a prominent Republican family, and your family juice got you the page job to begin with here. Mark Foley spends some attention on you, and you find it really weird. You are either gay or not. You did something in reply to his advances that you are ashamed of or not.
Now in this climate, your identity is going to be plastered all over the internets on sites that your family, your friends, the people whose opinion you value the most are going to be watching.
What would you do as a young man in a situation like this? They are now blackmailing the pages. If you come forward anonymously and do the right thing, we are going to rip away your anonymity and humiliate you in public and destroy your relationships with the party, your friends, and your family.
There must be alot of serious conversations going on right now in the families of former pages who haven't come forward at this point. This right wing tactic is going to do a serious job of shutting down all avenues of inquiry so the proper authorities will not get an accurate scope of what happened, when, and why.
I would like to throw out a question there to any legal types. Is there nothing like a rape shield law that would apply here? If the events took place before the page was 18, does it matter that they are now 18 and are they then "fair game" for the right wing assault machine?
This tactic is disgusting. Even if it is legal, it is loathesome beyond belief to picture these brown shirt assholes waiting for these pages to hit 18, with a birthday present of all their personal information released across the right wing media. It truly is beyond words how low these cretins will sink.