Senator Craig Got Stung
This entry was posted on 9/1/2007 1:29 PM and is filed under political.
A Senator from Idaho stepped down from his office because he pleads guilty to doing weird things in an airport mens' room.
Think about this for a minute. No crime was committed, and nobody was hurt or threatened during this supposed gigantic breach of legal and moral rectitude.
The worst of what was going on was a man was trolling for the attention of another man. The other person involved was a cop.
Now, here is where the thing goes off the tracks.
In many locales, there are laws against prostitution, but, there are no laws against propositioning someone for sex. There are no laws against accepting a proposition for sex. In this case no money was offered nor asked.
If there were laws against looking for sex, then bars and singles groups at churches would go out of business real quick.
The public sin in this case is that the cop was setting up a public servant, who was coincidently weak-willed and did not belong to the Bill Clinton school of sex-oriented crisis management.
This whole charade reminds me of one of my former blogs, where I remind the world:
"It is not against the law for a Government Agent to lie to you".
The application of this principal is that the cop was masquerading as a homosexual looking for a sex partner. The cop was presenting himself as someone he was not, and this is the same as lying. I am against government sting operations for this reason.
Time and again we see law enforcement officials making-up stuff to get an arrest. In this case they made-up a whole crime.
I don't respect Senator Craig for doing what he did, but, if he could take a clue from one of the most egregious moral offenders in the history of the country, all he had to do was to deny, deny, deny.
Bill Clinton could make real money if he would just publish his patented method of escaping guilt.
Deny, deny, deny.
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