STOP REPUBLICAN PEDOPHILIA --- has been update with Mark Foley

[wakeme2008]

Newest three

* Republican Congressman Mark Foley abruptly resigned from Congress after "sexually explicit" emails surfaced showing him flirting with a 16-year old boy.

* Republican executive Randall Casseday of the conservative Washington Times newspaper was arrested for soliciting sex from a 13-year old girl on the internet.

* Republican chairman of the Oregon Christian Coalition Lou Beres confessed to molesting a 13-year old girl.

http://www.armchairsubversive.com/

[Bluzmann57]

1. Throw 'em in jail!

Seriously. Pedophiles are the sickest of the sick out there. So if gthe aforementioned pedophiles can be rehabilitated in prison, then that's ok. But they must see jail like all other pedophiles. And if something unfortunate befalls them while locked up, they should have thought of that beforehand.

[asthmaticeog]

2. STOP OVERWROUGHT DEMOCRATIC HYPERBOLE

Foley's not a pedophile. Look up the definition of the word.

Those other two desperately need to see the business end of the justice system, for sure, but I'm getting really sick of seeing Foley called a pedophile. It's untrue, and at best it's sloppy and ignorant, and at worst it's slanderous.

[wakeme2008]

3. WRONG... all the children he targeted where under 18

I call that a Pedophile...

[karlrschneider]

9. Well, that's unfortunate because your perceived definition is dead wrong.

Look it up. It's in that big book holding up the leg of the coffee table.

[wakeme2008]

16. Wrong again

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedophile

In contrast to the generally accepted medical definition, the term pedophile is also used colloquially to denote significantly older adults who are sexually attracted to adolescents below the local age of consent<1>, as well as those who have sexually abused a child.

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Strictly speaking, this definition would include many adolescents and prepubescents, for whom such an interest might be normal; thus, some experts add the criterion that the interest be toward children at least five years younger than the subject. However, according to some experts, a diagnosis of pedophilia can also be appropriate for a post-pubescent adolescent.<4> See entry for sexologist Dr. John Money.

[JI7]

11. a pedophile isn't someone who goes after underage kids

it's someone who is attracted to little children.

teenagers are not little children. legally they are still minors and there is still an age issue. but attraction too teenagers is not pedophilia.

[wakeme2008]

14. check

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedophile

In contrast to the generally accepted medical definition, the term pedophile is also used colloquially to denote significantly older adults who are sexually attracted to adolescents below the local age of consent<1>, as well as those who have sexually abused a child.

[asthmaticeog]

20. Local age of consent in the jurisdiction in question is -- wait for it...

16.

Next...

[Nutmegger]

4. STOP MAKING SENSE!

http://www.dictionary.com

[MichaelHarris]

5. OK

lets use Child Predator instead.

[KingFlorez]

6. You're right

But he's still a pervert

[lonestarnot]

19. A fucking freak! Just like the rest of them.

[OKNancy]

10. That bugs me too. Too much ignorance about what

pedophilia is.

Attraction to pre-pubescent children ie those who have not developed secondary sexual characteristics.

[WinkyDink]

13. Underage victims = pedophile perp.

And MY dictionary says "sexual attraction felt by an adult toward a child". Period. Nothing about "pre-pubescent".
"Child" is defined for criminal purposes as "minor". And the law happens to trump any DMS-IV.

[asthmaticeog]

21. For criminal purposes, the kid was of age of consent.

Pedophile isn't a criminal term, anyway. It's a clinical term.

[Hawkowl]

22. Congratulations

You've been awarded a position in the democratic party's firing squad! Please pick up your rifle and take your place in the circle.

JESUS H. CHRIST MAN!! Stay focused! We are trying to win an election here. If you are uncomfortable with the term pedophile than use "child molester" or "sexual predator" or "pervert".

What you are doing is defending Foley! Do you get that? Do you understand how you are being perceived? I don't think you mean to, but that is what is coming across.

The message is "Foley is a Bad Man." Can you live with that? Try to stay on message.

[Island Blue]

7. This one is also on that list (an oldie)

Remember the case of Susan Smith who killed her two little boys back in 1994? She had been molested by her stepfather as a teenager.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Smith

She was spared the death penalty in a decision by her South Carolina jury, after her stepfather, Beverly Russell, a prominent Union County citizen, Republican Party and Christian Coalition leader, testified that he had sexually molested her when she was a teenager (until the intervention of the local Department of Social Services), and again in the months before the drowning of the two boys. Russell was never charged with a crime, despite the fact that he was accused in court of, and did not deny, the molestation and incestuous sexual abuse of his teen aged stepdaughter.

[jseankil]

8. The P in GOP stands for Predator or Pervert /nm

nm

[cmkramer]

12. Definition of pedophilia

It's being sexually attracted to prepubescent children. If Foley was going after a 16-year old, he's not a pedophile. He's in trouble because the kid is still under-aged though.

[TahitiNut]

15. It didn't stop reichbots from calling Clinton a pedophile ..

... even though Monica was over 21 and far from being below the age of consent ... and even further from being prepubescent.

[WinkyDink]

17. Not according to The American Heritage College Dictionary.

[wakeme2008]

18. See

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedophile

the term pedophile is also used colloquially to denote significantly older adults who are sexually attracted to adolescents below the local age of consent<1>, as well as those who have sexually abused a child.


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Strictly speaking, this definition would include many adolescents and prepubescents, for whom such an interest might be normal; thus, some experts add the criterion that the interest be toward children at least five years younger than the subject. However, according to some experts, a diagnosis of pedophilia can also be appropriate for a post-pubescent adolescent.<4> See entry for sexologist Dr. John Money.