I've heard several smart legal scholars say that the Adam Walsh Child Protection Safety Act of 2006 is not likely to be relevant in Foley's case, as was initially thought, for some technical reasons.

It probably doesn't matter, what with the flood of new revelations coming out against Foley's past behavior.

New Foley Instant Messages; Had Internet Sex While Awaiting House Vote

This message was dated April 2003, at approximately 7 p.m., according to the message time stamp.
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The exchange continues in which Foley and the teen both appear to describe having sexual orgasms.
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The House voted that evening on H...

I've heard several smart legal scholars say that the Adam Walsh Child Protection Safety Act of 2006 is not likely to be relevant in Foley's case, as was initially thought, for some technical reasons.

It probably doesn't matter, what with the flood of new revelations coming out against Foley's past behavior.

New Foley Instant Messages; Had Internet Sex While Awaiting House Vote

This message was dated April 2003, at approximately 7 p.m., according to the message time stamp.
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The exchange continues in which Foley and the teen both appear to describe having sexual orgasms.
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The House voted that evening on HR 1559, Emergency War Time supplemental appropriations.

According to another message, Foley also invites the teen and a friend to come to his house near Capitol Hill so they can drink alcohol.
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This is really beyond the pale.

hrm.. I agree.. He's sick.. but does not fit the description of "pedophile". He certainly doesn't belong in politics.. or anywhere near a Child Protection Act, if not mainly because the general public will not see a difference, I didn't know the difference until I looked it up....

FYI, from wikipedia: "Pederasty has historically been given sharply different meanings, sometimes referring to male homosexuality in general and sometimes specifically to homosexual male pedophilia. In academic usage the word has still a third meaning, referring specifically to the age-structured homosexuality practiced in classical Greece between older men and adolescents, and by extension to age-structured homos...

hrm.. I agree.. He's sick.. but does not fit the description of "pedophile". He certainly doesn't belong in politics.. or anywhere near a Child Protection Act, if not mainly because the general public will not see a difference, I didn't know the difference until I looked it up....

FYI, from wikipedia: "Pederasty has historically been given sharply different meanings, sometimes referring to male homosexuality in general and sometimes specifically to homosexual male pedophilia. In academic usage the word has still a third meaning, referring specifically to the age-structured homosexuality practiced in classical Greece between older men and adolescents, and by extension to age-structured homosexuality in other cultures." (from the article on pedophilia, which is a very disturbing read... especially the part about the research with male grad students )

He has no righteous defense. Anyone in an elected position is aware that the reason that the voter registration age is set where it is primarily is due to the fact that despite the various ages assigned to "maturity" that firm judgement and responsible decision making skills occurs at a later age for many Any one who is fully aware of that and is an elected official that would engage in any such person at an age younger than that is just premeditatedly manipulative and take advantage of someone who may not possess the ability to say no based on responsible judgement.

Whether he is found innocent or guilty and whatever they call it, if it is something he wouldn't want the voters to kn...

He has no righteous defense. Anyone in an elected position is aware that the reason that the voter registration age is set where it is primarily is due to the fact that despite the various ages assigned to "maturity" that firm judgement and responsible decision making skills occurs at a later age for many Any one who is fully aware of that and is an elected official that would engage in any such person at an age younger than that is just premeditatedly manipulative and take advantage of someone who may not possess the ability to say no based on responsible judgement.

Whether he is found innocent or guilty and whatever they call it, if it is something he wouldn't want the voters to know he did while campaigning then it shouldn't be done in the white house. That goes for all of them if you don't want your voter to know you do it, you already know you shouldn't do it in the place they voted you into. How hard is that?

One thing we should all note from the clip is that IM messages are recorded and time stamped and everything is screened by filters already for key words even if a watch or block system isn't obvious to you. Be careful what you im especially if you are known to be just playful and jesting. Bots that send in reports check for key words not the tone of the conversation or the interpretation of those words, Don't let off color humor put you on a weird scrutiny list.

I hate Foley, but Foley is NOT a pedophile. That's true.

There is NO physical difference age-wise between a 16-year-old and an 18-year-old. Really, there is NOT. We see it all the time, where a 16-year-old girl can easily lie about her age and say that she's 18 years old or 19 years old, and you really cannot tell the difference between the two, and that's because a 16-year-old has that of an adult-like body. Pedophiles are interested in that of the child-like body. A 12-year-old girl, for instance, could never pass as an 18-year-old physically-wise, and that's because a 12-year-old girl is that of a child-like body. Pedophiles sexually like children of ages 12 and under or a person who h...

I hate Foley, but Foley is NOT a pedophile. That's true.

There is NO physical difference age-wise between a 16-year-old and an 18-year-old. Really, there is NOT. We see it all the time, where a 16-year-old girl can easily lie about her age and say that she's 18 years old or 19 years old, and you really cannot tell the difference between the two, and that's because a 16-year-old has that of an adult-like body. Pedophiles are interested in that of the child-like body. A 12-year-old girl, for instance, could never pass as an 18-year-old physically-wise, and that's because a 12-year-old girl is that of a child-like body. Pedophiles sexually like children of ages 12 and under or a person who has just hit puberty...age 13, but not individuals past that who bare an obvious resemblance to adult-hood, like a 16-year-old, or a 17-year-old would. (Although some opportunist pedophiles also go for adults.)

There may be a world of difference between a 16-year-old and a 22-year-old mentally, but not physically-wise. I mean, really, I see on a daily basis, when I go to clubs, no physical difference when it comes to the age of young women who are 23 (as I see them in clubs or in business meetings) and 17-19 year olds that I see elsewhere. A lot of women from ages 20 to 23 still look like teenagers, which is why a store clerk will hassle a 22-year-old about showing their ID more so than a 32-year-old. It's also why 22-years-olds can easily portray 16-year-olds, or 17-year-olds in televisions shows and film. Watching the MTV show called NEXT is a great example of how 22-year-olds easily look like 18-year-olds.

Foley is not mentally ill for being sexually attracted to a 16-year-old or 17-year-old. If he were, then that would mean that most men who are sexually attracted to a 17-year-old who they think is 18 years old, is mentally ill. There's a huge difference from being sexually attracted to that of a child-like body and that of an adult-like body (as mid-to-late teenagers

(as mid-to-late teenagers are that of an adult-like body, which is why they don't look any different age-wise from most young adults...ages 18-23). It's also why the DSM IV does not have ephebophilia (sexual attraction to a mid-to-late teenager) as a diagnostic category...because most men and women are ephebohiles, as in 18-year-olds are teenagers as well, and 16-year-olds can easily look 18.

Foley would be a statutory rapist in some places for engaging in sex with 16-years-olds or 17-year-olds, but he has NO mental disorder, like pedophiles have a mental disorder...just as a 19-year-old who has sex with his 17-year-old girlfriend has NO mental disorder. Foley instead has a problem with o...

(as mid-to-late teenagers are that of an adult-like body, which is why they don't look any different age-wise from most young adults...ages 18-23). It's also why the DSM IV does not have ephebophilia (sexual attraction to a mid-to-late teenager) as a diagnostic category...because most men and women are ephebohiles, as in 18-year-olds are teenagers as well, and 16-year-olds can easily look 18.

Foley would be a statutory rapist in some places for engaging in sex with 16-years-olds or 17-year-olds, but he has NO mental disorder, like pedophiles have a mental disorder...just as a 19-year-old who has sex with his 17-year-old girlfriend has NO mental disorder. Foley instead has a problem with obeying the law, and what he did by sexually coming onto people who are not legal adults is against THE LAW. I hate what his scandal has done, and I'm an Independent (when it comes to either being a Republican or a Democrat). He has created mass hysteria with people calling him a pedophile when he clearly is not. This type of thing creates craziness because it would almost be like saying a 18-year-old who has sex with his 16-year-old girlfriend is a pedophile, when that 18-year-old surely is not. Mark Foley is a sexual predator in the sense that he thought he could get sex a lot easier from a 16-year-old than he could from a legal adult, which is also how men are who are caught on Dateline NBC’s "To Catch A Predator"...who think teenagers are easier to trick into having sex. Dateline NBC never labels it as "To Catch A Pedophile"...because they know there's a difference, and the words sexual predator can apply to four different categories...which are pedophile...statutory rapist, opportunist about to become statutory rapist, and rapist in the traditional sense as of forcing a person to have sex against their will.

Mark Foley would be Number 3...although the age of sexual consent is age 16 in Washington DC.... Also, I cannot believe that some of us out here are acting as though o