On Sat, 03 Jul 2004 13:11:12 GMT, "Jeff McCann"
wrote:
"Gunner" wrote in message
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On Sat, 03 Jul 2004 08:10:22 GMT, Strabo wrote:
http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/found...v1ch12s25.html
No discussion of real property there.
You sure revealed ole Ben! He always did have a thing for royalty
and fancy trappings. Guess that's why he wasn't invited to some
of the meetings. :-)
He also had a "thing" for pubescent little girls. Which was
considered slightly eccentric, but legal in those days. From various
sources, he satisfied his tastes visa vis young girls in France, for a
very long time....
I hadn't heard that. When he was our representative to the French
Court, he was, IIRC, in his seventies. Even then, he was reputed to be
quite the ladies' man, but with the ladies of the Court, not little
girls. Got a source for his alleged paedophilia?
Jeff
Ill do a detailed search shortly. Keep in mind however..that when it
was proper and legal to marry a 13 yr old girl, etc...it was not
considered pedophilia. That was quite common in those days.
One of my favorite sayings about Franklin...
A pretty young French woman once tapped him on his ample pot belly and
said Dr. Franklin, "if this were on a young woman, we would know what
to think".
He replied " Half an hour ago, mademoiselle, it WAS on a young woman.
Now what do you think?"
http://www.libertymatters.org/libert...summer01-6.htm
"Franklin also earned a reputation as a philanderer, often seen in the
European brothels while serving as America’s Ambassador of France.
Although Franklin claims his wife changed his habits and made him an
honest man, history has accounted for this part of his life
differently."
Franklin was a member in good standing of the Hellfire Club, which was
a very famous S&M brothel of its time as well..
Google turns up some very tantalizing bits and pieces about this great
man.
Gunner
That rifle hanging on the wall of the working-class flat or labourer's
cottage is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays
there.
- George Orwell