Rep. Foley Co-Sponsor of Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act

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Saturday September 30, 2006 · 9:56 PM PDT

2006/09/30 · 21:56

You can't make this stuff up! Talk about being hoisted on your own petard: According to Glenn Greenwald:

Despite all the irritatingly righteous (and overheated) "pedophile" language being tossed around, in the overwhelming majority of states, and in Washington DC, the legal age of consent for sex is 16 years old. That means that actual, in-person sex between Foley and a 16-year-old page in D.C. would not be criminal at all (though it likely could have other legal implications).
But under the so-called "Adam Walsh Child Protection and Safety Act of 2006" (of which Foley was a co-sponsor), along with 18 U.S.C. 2251, discussion or solicitation of sexual acts between Foley and any "minor" under the age of 18 would appear to be a criminal offense (see Adam Walsh Act, Sec. 111(14) ("MINOR.--The term 'minor' means an individual who has not attained the age of 18 years") and 18 U.S.C. Sec. 2256 (1) ("'minor' means any person under the age of eighteen years").
http://glenngreenwald.blogspot.com/...

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Monday September 11, 2006 · 8:58 PM PDT

2006/09/11 · 20:58

I will never forget Richard Clarke's opening statement at the 9/11 Commission Hearings. I hadn't realized until he spoke, how much the country needed to hear someone apologize for the failures that led to what happened on 9/11. His heartfelt and humble apology was healing and it was in sharp contrast to what we had become so accustomed to from other administration officials.

Until he spoke directly to the victims' families that day, all we heard was talk of killing and war. Talk of revenge rather than justice. Whenever they spoke, I felt a foreboding sense of hopelessness and knew that nothing could stop them from the path they were on to create more victims, more bloodshed and heartbreak and hatred, and more reason for those who wanted to do us harm to justify their own irrational, vengeful and murderous actions.

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