[lit-ideas] Re: [SPAM] Soap Opera Politics

  • From: "Andy Amago" <aamago@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2006 19:50:19 -0500

> [Original Message]
> From: Judith Evans <judithevans1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 10/29/2006 1:20:12 PM
> Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: [SPAM] Soap Opera Politics
>
>  For Judy, given that Mark Foley is prosecuted for what is age
> > of consent in "other countries",
>
> 1.Mark Foley has not been charged with an offence under US law.
> If it's your contention that he has, please give proof.
> 2.  Yes he has been penalized.  So would he be in many "other
> countries".
> 3. In various US states, the age of consent is the same as the
> age
> of consent in "other countries".
> 4.  Can this (3.) be why Mark Foley has not as yet been charged
> with
> an offence under US law?
>

Andreas answered this.  In addition, Foley is being prosecuted in the court
of public opinion.  There was also an uproar here over Monica Lewinsky. 
Monica Lewinsky was a 21 year old intern.  Again, people were outraged as
much about the age as about the affair.  




> Or submitting an insult, whichever is more convenient.  Or
> > simply agreeing with an insult, as seems most convenient.
> >
>
> It is, Irene, a damn sight more convenient than posting data in
> response to
> you only to have it ignored or its import misunderstood.
>
>

Well, then you have to do what's most convenient for you.  If insults
satisfy you, then no need for anything further.




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