If all the gay and paedophile clergymen

[lily]

Were criminal charges ever filed?

Do criminal charges have to be filed in order for someone to know they did something wrong? I don't think it will be from lack of trying.......or the fact that Foley knew just how to get away with it, since he's the one who wrote the law.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...100402002.html

Although the Justice Department's inquiry is still defined as a preliminary
investigation, the demand to preserve records and other moves by Justice
investigators significantly increase the likelihood that prosecutors will
soon open a full criminal investigation and bring the case before a grand
jury, several officials said.

<snip>

On other fronts, the Justice Department and the FBI are preparing to use
administrative subpoenas to obtain subscriber information for the e-mail
accounts at the heart of the case, according to law enforcement officials.
Authorities said their job will be made more difficult because providers
such as AOL do not keep records of instant messages, the real-time text chat
used in the sexually explicit exchanges Foley is accused of engaging in.

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http://www.sptimes.com/2006/10/04/Wo...to_face_.shtml
Foley likely to face criminal charges, legal experts say
As investigators look into the former congressman's actions, he could find
himself ensnared by laws he actually helped write.
By CARRIE WEIMAR
Published October 4, 2006



There's little doubt Mark Foley was morally wrong when he used the Internet
to send sexually explicit messages to teenage boys. Now legal experts are
saying he probably violated the law as well.

As facts emerge in the investigation into the former congressman, the
possibility of criminal charges - both state and federal - grows, said
Douglas A. Berman, a law professor at Ohio State University.

"Foley's hasty retreat from the House of Representatives suggests that this
is just the tip of a pretty sordid iceberg," Berman said.

While Internet sex crimes are a relatively new area of the law, the fear of
online predators has sparked a flurry of state and federal laws in the past
few years - some of them written by Foley himself as co-chairman for a
National Center for Missing & Exploited Children caucus.

[CockySOB]

As I said Lily, "Foley did some inappropriate things which I wanted him to resign for, but last I checked nothing he did was illegal. Not that such things matter to the left who want to make mountains out of mole hills."

First item, if his actions were illegal, then he would have been (or might still be) brought up on criminal charges as appropriate.

Second item, his actions were inappropriate IMHO. As such I support him resigning his seat in Congress.

As to the rest of your cited article's speculation: it all sounds rather Nifong-esque. I read a lot of "probably" and "likely" yet nothing of substance to indicate criminal activity. Despicable? Yes. Inappropriate? Hell yes. But unless the authorities have evidence that he committed inappropriate conduct to a minor, there is nothing to charge him with. (BTW, IIRC, one of the pages was 16 when Foley was IM'ing him. If charges are proffered, I expect that it will revolve around Foley's conduct with a minor.)

[lily]

Cocky........as usual I think we're both agreeing, but for different reasons.

[CockySOB]

Cocky........as usual I think we're both agreeing, but for different reasons.

Perhaps. But matters not how a man comes to that place, as long as he makes it there.

BTW, does this mean you're embracing conservatism finally?