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In 2005, Florida Republican Congressman Foley proposed a law against children's nudist camps. He was later exposed for having sent sexual emails and texts to former Congressional pages, male pages, which was discussed here on the forum. (To not miss an opportunity to say "I told you so", I criticized his hypocrisy while maintaining he hadn't broken the law, a conclusion later reached by the FBI. The press abused the weasel-words "underage" and "teenage": all those Foley made passes at were above the age of consent, and he was within the law.)
In the current presidential campaign, Foley was seated on the platform at a Trump rally in August at Mar-a-Lago, where he said,
“Yes,” Foley told Roberts. “He’s been a friend of mine for 30 years and [was] one of my biggest contributors.”
That may tell us more about Foley than about Trump. However, in an article last Saturday in the Washington Post, Trump libeled Foley:
Foley of course was never accused of making passes at 12-year-olds. But if Trump will lie to attack those who support him, what are his limits against those who oppose him?
While on the topic, the Speaker of the House who was criticized for not acting more quickly against Foley was Dennis Hastert, eventually jailed for violating banking laws to buy the silence of a victim he'd improperly touched when the lad was 14 years old and Hastert was a high-school wrestling coach. He wasn't prosecuted for the abuse, which may have been beyond the statute of limitations. I haven't bothered to check.
The number of Congressmen breaking or skirting the law (if "skirt" is allowable in this context) is not the reason for posting here, but rather their tendency to pose as moralists, and attack convenient targets to "protect the children". Foley found nudist camps for children a convenient target. Would Trump be a similar danger for nudists?
My own feeling is that Trump would pose such a large danger for everyone, everywhere, that his specific impact on nudists can be ignored. If he's elected, we'll all need to worry about saving our skins, not about the right to expose them.
- Caipora
In the current presidential campaign, Foley was seated on the platform at a Trump rally in August at Mar-a-Lago, where he said,
“Yes,” Foley told Roberts. “He’s been a friend of mine for 30 years and [was] one of my biggest contributors.”
That may tell us more about Foley than about Trump. However, in an article last Saturday in the Washington Post, Trump libeled Foley:
Asked if there was any age limit in who he might go after, Trump said, “No, I have no age — I mean, I have age limit. I don’t want to be like Congressman Foley, with, you know, 12-year-olds.”
Rep. Mark Foley, a Republican from Florida, resigned from the House that year following allegations that he had sent sexually explicit messages to teenage boys who had been congressional pages. This August, Foley sat behind Trump at a rally in Florida, in seats reserved by the Trump campaign staff.
Rep. Mark Foley, a Republican from Florida, resigned from the House that year following allegations that he had sent sexually explicit messages to teenage boys who had been congressional pages. This August, Foley sat behind Trump at a rally in Florida, in seats reserved by the Trump campaign staff.
Foley of course was never accused of making passes at 12-year-olds. But if Trump will lie to attack those who support him, what are his limits against those who oppose him?
While on the topic, the Speaker of the House who was criticized for not acting more quickly against Foley was Dennis Hastert, eventually jailed for violating banking laws to buy the silence of a victim he'd improperly touched when the lad was 14 years old and Hastert was a high-school wrestling coach. He wasn't prosecuted for the abuse, which may have been beyond the statute of limitations. I haven't bothered to check.
The number of Congressmen breaking or skirting the law (if "skirt" is allowable in this context) is not the reason for posting here, but rather their tendency to pose as moralists, and attack convenient targets to "protect the children". Foley found nudist camps for children a convenient target. Would Trump be a similar danger for nudists?
My own feeling is that Trump would pose such a large danger for everyone, everywhere, that his specific impact on nudists can be ignored. If he's elected, we'll all need to worry about saving our skins, not about the right to expose them.
- Caipora
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