>It disgusted we when Foley announced yesterday -- through a spokesman, making it doubly disgusting -- that he was himself molested as a teenager. How convenient a disclosure! (Surprise, surprise -- the priest who supposedly molested him was not named, so we're in the "Trust me" realm). That doesn't excuse his own behavior. It may, or may not, help explain it, but it deosn't excuse it.
Sure, it's America's favorite defense... "It's not my fault. I'm a victim".
The American Republic will endure, until politicians realize they can bribe the people with their own money.
- Alexis de Tocqueville
No man’s life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session.
– Mark Twain (1866)
