Re: family values

["Petem" <petem001@xxxxxxxxx>]

Bass why don't you post all this crap to Comp.Home.Automation too?

I am sure its only a slight mistake,don't worry I will forward it for you


"Robert L Bass" <sales@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> a écrit dans le message de
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> "It's vile. It's more sad than anything else, to see someone with
> such potential throw it all down the drain because of a sexual
> addiction." Rep. Mark Foley, on President Clinton's affair with
> Monica Lewinsky.
>
> In March of 2002 Rep. Mark Foley asked the House to hold hearings to
> investigate web sites operating legally, but showing pictures of
> pre-teen girls wearing sexually revealing clothes and striking
> provocative poses. The sites contained no nudity and the girls modeled
> with the full knowledge and consent of their parents. Needless to say,
> even though these sites were perfectly legal and not breaking any more
> laws against pedophilia than Calvin Klein-in fact, an argument could
> be made they were even less exploitative than Calvin Klein-it
> certainly didn't take a genius (witness Foley's awareness of it) to
> figure out that these pre-teen modeling sites were getting most of
> their hits not from agents, but from predators. So, kudos to Foley for
> bringing attention to it. Still, one can't help but wonder if Foley
> would have been so quick to bring these sites down if they'd been
> featuring young boys cavorting around.
>
> Is there anyone really surprised that a leader in the fight against
> internet porn was himself an abuser of it? How many times must we go
> down this road? I suppose those who are expressing their shock that
> internet porn crusader Rep. Mark Foley was engaging in sexually
> explicit e-mail conversations with an underage male page-and at first
> those expressing the most shock were the Republican leadership who, it
> turned out, had known about Mark Foley's pedophilic predilections for
> at least a year-were probably also shocked by Jim Bakker and Jimmy
> Swaggart's sexual escapades at the same time those two were making
> millions by damning other people as sinners in the 80s.
>
> The Republicans have ridden to great heights on their promises that
> they alone stand for family values and can protect America from going
> down the road to debauchery. They also have ridden high on their claims
> that they alone can protect the US from terrorist attacks. Well, heck,
> if they don't even want to be bothered protecting one sixteen year
> old boy from a pervert they all know and toss back drinks with, why in
> the hell would any even remotely intelligent person want to entrust the
> security of the entire country to these hypocritical bastards?
>