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> WHAT ADMISSIONS?
>
> <Nonsense Larry. You know what the admissions are and you have
> addressed them. Don't you remember your idiotic claim that "flirting"
> is all Sam does with with young prostitutes? Don't you remember your
> idiotic claim that he's not a child molester because soldiers on leave
> have done worse things? Don't you remember your fairly reasonable claim
> that Sam might not have correctly judged the girls' ages?> Vince Hart
>
> Once again, Vinnie Hart talks about Sam Sloan's "admissions"
> without providing them. Once again, Mr. Sloan has been accused of
> having sex with and molesting children.
>
> No proof has been presented. None.
>
> A Vinnie Hart talks ABOUT his proof, but he chooses not to give
> it. Typical.
>
> The word "flirt" was the definition of a word that Sam's
> critics hit upon to convict him of sex with children. I looked up that
> word, and a main definition was "to flirt." It turned out that after
> all the ballyhoo that Sam was a rapist or a child molester, it was
> based upon a statement that he flirted with a girl of indeterminate age
> on a Thai street somewhere.
>
> Mr. Hart then tries to turn on its head my argument about
> soldiers on leave and sex. The point I made was that even were the
> charges against Mr. Sloan substantiated (which they were NOT)nothing he
> did amounted to half of what a typical American soldier does on R &R.
>
> I was not attempting to condone what Sam Sloan was not shown to
> have done; I was noting that even were the charges true as detailed
> (flirting on a street with a girl of indeterminate age) they were not
> in the same league as the typical sexual conduct of "our boys." My
> tacit premise was that the likes of Booz, Brock, Vinnie and their
> stripe were abominable hypocrites.
>
> Finally, since I stipulated that my comments about being
> portrayed in mutually exclusive terms were not part of the main
> argument here, the charge that I tried to divert discussion by
> employing a strawman is absurd.
>
> Vinnie Hart is a wannabe prosecutor who makes charges without
> producing proof. That makes him a rotten lawyer and a worse human
> being.
>
> He is a greater menace to the commonweal than Sam Sloan will ever
> be.
>