Foleygate
My opinion on this is as follows.
I don't care how old these pages were. I don't care if Foley ever touched anyone. Obviously, taken out of context this might seem innocent and nonthreatening. But within the true context, it is anything but. This is a guy with power. This is a guy that is in charge. I wonder what would have happened to a principal that was told five years, two years, six months, two weeks prior to information going public that a PE instructor was being sexually suggestive, inappropriate, "overly friendly" with students. I wonder what the board and the parents would expect if they found out that the principal had sat on this information. The point of this is that this man was in a position of authority. Everyone knew and no one did anything. Do we wait until the guy is on top of some fifteen year old page in a broom closet to do something? The fact that people knew, the fact that pages spoke amongst themselves about steering clear of this guy could do nothing but embolden him. Why would he curb any behavior when it was been condoned by being ignored? If a neighbor was behaving like this with neighborhood kids would I tell the kids to just steer clear? No. Because it is just a matter of time that the grooming phase ends and the action phase begins.
I find it absolutely staggering that the Ken Starr Party is actually whining now about this being in the news for over a week. Golly. How many months did we have to endure a stained dress, cigars, an endless parade of ever increasingly sordid and humiliating bits and pieces. Hannity actually had the balls to say last week - do we really want a party in charge that goes after someone, looking for every possible indiscretion, anything they can get on our leaders to bring them down?
Uh.
No.
That's kind of why we want you guys gone.
Although I find all of this distasteful, I believe that all those that knew about this, all those that allowed it to exist, allowed it to go on without recourse, I think they need to go. Looking the other way when people in power exercise their authority and control over those less powerful makes you an accessory.
My opinion on this is as follows.
I don't care how old these pages were. I don't care if Foley ever touched anyone. Obviously, taken out of context this might seem innocent and nonthreatening. But within the true context, it is anything but. This is a guy with power. This is a guy that is in charge. I wonder what would have happened to a principal that was told five years, two years, six months, two weeks prior to information going public that a PE instructor was being sexually suggestive, inappropriate, "overly friendly" with students. I wonder what the board and the parents would expect if they found out that the principal had sat on this information. The point of this is that this man was in a position of authority. Everyone knew and no one did anything. Do we wait until the guy is on top of some fifteen year old page in a broom closet to do something? The fact that people knew, the fact that pages spoke amongst themselves about steering clear of this guy could do nothing but embolden him. Why would he curb any behavior when it was been condoned by being ignored? If a neighbor was behaving like this with neighborhood kids would I tell the kids to just steer clear? No. Because it is just a matter of time that the grooming phase ends and the action phase begins.
I find it absolutely staggering that the Ken Starr Party is actually whining now about this being in the news for over a week. Golly. How many months did we have to endure a stained dress, cigars, an endless parade of ever increasingly sordid and humiliating bits and pieces. Hannity actually had the balls to say last week - do we really want a party in charge that goes after someone, looking for every possible indiscretion, anything they can get on our leaders to bring them down?
Uh.
No.
That's kind of why we want you guys gone.
Although I find all of this distasteful, I believe that all those that knew about this, all those that allowed it to exist, allowed it to go on without recourse, I think they need to go. Looking the other way when people in power exercise their authority and control over those less powerful makes you an accessory.
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