Letters to the Editor
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Smells like entrapment to me, though
Everything about this seems fishy to me. I think it's entirely believable that this cop went to that mensroom to catch someone misbehaving and snared the first person who sat down next to him. Ordinarily it would have been some poor innocent anonymous anyman, who would have pled guilty, paid the fine, and spent the rest of his life on some sex offender registry, but this time around it was Senator Grampa.
The first thing that bothered me was the explanation about how if someone puts their luggage against the stall door, that they're doing it to block the view so they can do sex. Where else in a bathroom stall are you supposed to put your luggage?! Think about it. It doesn't fit next to you, and you're not going to hold it in your lap. It infuriates me that no one in the media has raised this observation.
And what's this stuff on the tape about the right hand versus the left? I find it difficult to believe, as the officer proposes, that Craig reached across with his left hand, turned the palm upward, and stroked the underside of the stall wall on his right side. That's just not physically possible. Right hand, right stall wall, maybe... but not with the hand from the opposite side of the body, and definitely not while wearing a business suit coat. Try it.
Sure, Craig's a scumball, and probably deserves to have see firsthand the results of the society he clamored for, where the slightest deviance merits a public castigation and "faggots," real and suspected, lose their jobs, reputations, privacy (and worse), but I still think this arrest was a setup worth of a much more critical examination than I have so far seen in the media, Salon included.