The Blame Game

Rep. LaHood urges pause in page program
By ANDREW TAYLOR, Associated Press Writer

Meanwhile, LaHood, who also is from Illinois, said that it's not the speaker who should go and said the page program should be shut down, at least temporarily.
He questioned an "antiquated" congressional page system that brings 15- and 16-year-olds to the Capitol and has resulted in scandals in the past.
"Some members betray their trust by taking advantage of them. We should not subject young men and women to this kind of activity, this kind of vulnerability," LaHood said in a CNN interview. He said the program should be shut down until problems can be resolved.

OK then, it couldn’t be the fools who abuse the pages it must then be the system. Makes sense to me, why hold the people abusing a system responsible, when you can just as easily put the program on hold.
While we are at it, lets go ahead and put the Boy Scouts on hold, the Catholic Church and all youth sports. Of course we have found pedophiles in schools and many other assorted arenas so the key may be to just shut down everything. Did I mention Michael Jackson?

I’m curious about one thing though, how is it possible that Mark Foley is not getting his mug shot taken? Where do we get the idea that there is a separate justice system for the rich and powerful? Wouldn’t any other person at least be taken away to the cop shop for a little chat? Hey they do it every week on NBC’s dateline. I’ll grant you that Foley didn’t end up at a high school in Colorado or a school in Amish country, but still.

I suspect all the recent actions by pedophiles is not so much a new phenomena as it is just a tad more on the news. And yes I guess I do lump Foley into the same lot. In this case however, it makes me cringe, to watch the politicians scramble in DC to protect themselves. The system isn’t nearly as broken as the people are. I’m afraid to think that simply doing away with any program will remove the sick people that are involved. Even when you clean up a barn the rats simply find a safer place to hide, this isn’t much different.