Letters to the Editor
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Enough already
I'm getting pretty uncomfortable with the glassy-eyed schadenfreude from both the right and the left on this one...it seems no one is going to be happy until this guy literally hangs himself from a lamp post in shame.
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I agree with WS WIlliams
While I'm glad to see yet another conservative homophobe get his comeuppance, the sordid details that are emerging are embarassing and painful. I cringed while reading about how the Senator claims he tends to pee.
I'm almost starting to feel sorry for him.
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Yes.
I, for one, am going to stop reading these articles about Craig. Soon. Just one more, maybe. Or two.
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Twisted Christ on a Twisted Cross
Fanatic extremists get labeled conservative: Larry Craig is a Hayden Lake Hitlerite. Think you know the signs? Think again.
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More, please
I remember the voices on this site which said to leave Mark Foley alone. It was unseemly, they said. It would hurt Democrats. It was bad to want to learn the truth about Republican sex criminals.
They were wrong. The people who want the Larry Craig reporting to stop are wrong, too. And they'll be wrong again if they feel that way with the next Republican sex criminal, as well.
I suspect the media will stop reporting this news story once it's fully reported. And I certainly hope they don't stop one second before. Otherwise, they aren't doing their job -- no matter who doesn't like it.
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Jesus H Christ! Enough already.
The horse is dead. Fuck it or walk away from it, but for the love of anything you hold dear, PLEASE quit beating it.
This is preposterous now.
Hypocrisy? Yes, certainly. I believe it's been mentioned a number of times. If you cleared every hypocrite out of Washington, it would be a ghost town. Let's not get too excited.
Felony crime? Errrrrm. No. He was busted for a misdemeanor. He copped to a lesser in plea bargain.
Please knock it the fuck off now unless there is a real development.
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If the transcript is correct
I find it very interesting that he would say "I don't do THESE things" as opposed to "I don't do THOSE things". I think that "these" implies he is familiar with the activity he was charged with. Now, that being said, I think making it a crime to hit on people in the toilet is ridiculous. Why is it a crime to solicit sex? Every man in every bar on every friday night in America could be arrested if that's the case.
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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.
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Enough about this guy but
this part here: Karsnia says, "You're sitting here lying to us ... I'm just disappointed in you, sir. I just really am. I expect this from the guy we get out of the 'hood. I mean, people vote for you." is just wow -- but kinda not given the types of people who tend to become cops.
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Don't let up
I'd say pursue this as far as you can. I'm tired of getting lectured on how to be virtuous by people who are anything but. Taking the high road will allow these hypocritical mofos to continue to steal moral superiority while dictating how we should live our private lives.
Somebody needs to be made an example of. He is as good as any.
And for the remark that, if we were to remove hypocrisy from Washington, it'd leave the place barren? I'd say, "Good. Let it be."
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Does anybody else think this is just sad?
It's sad on so many levels. A man's career is ruined because he has desires that he can't acknowledge because society (or at least his part of society) considers his desires sinful. The media are celebrating his downfall as if he had actually committed a serious crime. Millions of people are getting the message that "homosexuality is a crime".
I know, he's a hypocrite. So what? He's probably ruined politically, socially, and possibly even economically. Can we stop tearing him down? He can't help what he believes any more than he can help feeling the sexual desires that drove him to that bathroom. His whole world tells him that he can't be what he is. I can't imagine the walls he must have put up, and the effect that breaking them down must be having on him. Eventually, he will come to terms with what he is. He doesn't have much of a choice, now that it is exposed. Hopefully, he will be happy with himself in his new world. And, hopefully, the thousands of gay people who live in conservative areas will someday be able to be what they really are without fear of persecution.