Mark Foley is going to get away with IT--the seduction, solicitation, luring, enticing or attempting to seduce a child--a third degree felony in his home state of Florida.
Although everyone in this country--and in the world--witnessed Foley's predilection with male pages, Scripps Howard News Service is reporting that sources close to the investigation indicated that the disgraced congressman "...is unlikely to face criminal charges for sending sexually explicit e-mails to teenage boys."
Unless something surfaces in the next few days, Mark Foley--THE poster boy for the seduction of young men supervised by authority figures--could walk away relatively unscathed.
The writing was on the wall yesterday when the FDLE--planning to wrap up the investigation in the next few days--indicated the inability to gain access to Foley's congressional computers.
"House officials blocked the release of the computers and the documents contained in them, citing a court decision that protects congressional working papers. Authorization to review such documents must be granted by the individual lawmaker involved, House officials said."
Right. I guarantee the FDLE can get their hands on just about anything that want...if they try hard enough.
Mark Foley-- former Missing and Exploited Children's Caucus Co-Chair--in cahoots with 12 other congressmen who pushed through the Adam Walsh Act under suspension of the rules--in total disregard of the citizens who faxed the Speaker to put the act before a full vote--is just one more member of a Republican administration who stands above the law while ruthlessly subjecting American citizens who have engaged in the same type of inappropriate behavior--to a lifetime of ex post facto shaming and shunning from the community through the branding of the modern day Scarlet Letter known as sex offender registration.
It's the biggest witchhunt since McCarthy trashed those with "Communist sympathies."
If this guy walks-America's most innocuous Predator-who used his position as a U.S. Congressman to legislate a Fear-based Child Named Law to criminalize the very behavior in which he engaged-every single person in this county need demand that Congress open congressional hearings investigating not only the passage of the Adam Walsh Act but the obvious schizophrenic double standard that screams unethical and unconstitutional.
John Conyers, sir... as House Judiciary Chair...I'm speaking to you. Do you hear me?
Are you listening?
Families are suffering the collateral damage of these laws while those with power and connections walk away.
Mark Foley is just another "HAVE" treading on a world of the rest of us--the "HAVE-NOTS".
Don't Tread on ME.
Hold your government accountable.
"It's amazing how many politicians get away with immoral acts and behavior. Proof again that money can and will set you free."
--Soconcerned, 8/24/2007
Where were you when this Congressman fled into rehab to avoid the consequences of his actions?
Take a walk down Mark Foley Lane and remember.
The Mark Foley Chronicles