Comments on: Should Larry Craig Have Been Arrested? http://donklephant.com/2007/08/28/should-larry-craig-have-been-arrested/ Big Teeth. Huge Ass. Surprisingly Reasonable. Mon, 23 Nov 2009 19:41:00 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: frank burns http://donklephant.com/2007/08/28/should-larry-craig-have-been-arrested/comment-page-1/#comment-381592 frank burns Sun, 02 Sep 2007 01:32:34 +0000 http://donklephant.com/2007/08/28/should-larry-craig-have-been-arrested/#comment-381592 Definitely should not have been arrested. The cop was "moving his foot up and down slowly" near the edge of his stall -- just sitting there with his cute little boy's face (I saw his picture) and asking for it. Craig took this bait discreetly. If the cop didn't like it, just pull his foot away and be done with it. This is not soliciting, just flirting. Craig did not have sex in the bathroom, and maybe wnated just titllation and to exchange phone numbers. If flirting is now illegal, even in a public place, it is time to have our collective head examined. Definitely should not have been arrested. The cop was “moving his foot up and down slowly” near the edge of his stall — just sitting there with his cute little boy’s face (I saw his picture) and asking for it. Craig took this bait discreetly. If the cop didn’t like it, just pull his foot away and be done with it. This is not soliciting, just flirting. Craig did not have sex in the bathroom, and maybe wnated just titllation and to exchange phone numbers. If flirting is now illegal, even in a public place, it is time to have our collective head examined.

]]> By: Jeremy http://donklephant.com/2007/08/28/should-larry-craig-have-been-arrested/comment-page-1/#comment-381453 Jeremy Thu, 30 Aug 2007 14:08:55 +0000 http://donklephant.com/2007/08/28/should-larry-craig-have-been-arrested/#comment-381453 "Doesn’t the whole notion that we have police pretending to be gay so they can arrest gay people for their assumed intentions of having sex sound a little absurd to anyone these days?" mark snyder, ever watch Dateline NBC's "To Catch a Predator?" It's seems that the mass ignorant public in its extreme paranoia believe that our police should spend their time setting up elaborate sting operations to catch perverted 40 year old virgins trying to get laid by anything that has a mean temperature of 37.0 degrees celsius. Meaning they will screw anything with a hole. The point is this, is there bad perverted sickos roaming our streets looking for children? you betcha. Is there prostitutes willing to do any blow joe for a dime bag? Absolutely. Is there diseases and vices that go hand-in-hand with these felonious activities? Right again. The question is this: Do we want to live in a society where everything you do or everything you say is subject to arbitrary surveillance or persecution regardless if you are actually engaged in these activities or not? I would hope that most people would say no. What's most interesting about this case though is that the people that advocate for these strict draconian "surveillance stings" if you will, are conservative Republicans running on a "tough on crime" agenda. Yet, here we have the law maker getting caught by his own laws, these laws wern't meant for him of course, because he's an upright, family orientated, christian conservative and most importantly, a Senator. Now we all know that Republican senators are god-fearing men, heterosexuals that only wish to instate the Holy Trio of politics. God-Family and Tax Breaks. Now, isn't it a shame that Congressman Craig wasn't caught on Dateline NBC's show To Catch a Predator, where only the average schlep is dumb enough to get caught trying to shag the kiddies. So it is...it's a little hard to feel bad for these guys that are off in public bathrooms trying to score a homosexual trick in bathroom stalls. And the most poetically just thing about it all is that it is these same conservative, anti-gay, homophobes that pass some of the most zealous anti-gay legislation, perhaps to escape any suspicion that someone might find out about Craigy's lil' secret. That the most ardent proponent of the Christian "ethics and family values" is looking to get sucked off before his 12 O'clock flight. If these Republicans must insist that the average everyday citizen must be held accountable for their illegal sex acts then perhaps they should live by their own ethos: Don't do the crime if you can't do the time. “Doesn’t the whole notion that we have police pretending to be gay so they can arrest gay people for their assumed intentions of having sex sound a little absurd to anyone these days?”

mark snyder, ever watch Dateline NBC’s “To Catch a Predator?” It’s seems that the mass ignorant public in its extreme paranoia believe that our police should spend their time setting up elaborate sting operations to catch perverted 40 year old virgins trying to get laid by anything that has a mean temperature of 37.0 degrees celsius. Meaning they will screw anything with a hole.

The point is this, is there bad perverted sickos roaming our streets looking for children? you betcha. Is there prostitutes willing to do any blow joe for a dime bag? Absolutely. Is there diseases and vices that go hand-in-hand with these felonious activities? Right again.

The question is this: Do we want to live in a society where everything you do or everything you say is subject to arbitrary surveillance or persecution regardless if you are actually engaged in these activities or not? I would hope that most people would say no.

What’s most interesting about this case though is that the people that advocate for these strict draconian “surveillance stings” if you will, are conservative Republicans running on a “tough on crime” agenda. Yet, here we have the law maker getting caught by his own laws, these laws wern’t meant for him of course, because he’s an upright, family orientated, christian conservative and most importantly, a Senator. Now we all know that Republican senators are god-fearing men, heterosexuals that only wish to instate the Holy Trio of politics. God-Family and Tax Breaks.

Now, isn’t it a shame that Congressman Craig wasn’t caught on Dateline NBC’s show To Catch a Predator, where only the average schlep is dumb enough to get caught trying to shag the kiddies. So it is…it’s a little hard to feel bad for these guys that are off in public bathrooms trying to score a homosexual trick in bathroom stalls. And the most poetically just thing about it all is that it is these same conservative, anti-gay, homophobes that
pass some of the most zealous anti-gay legislation, perhaps to escape any suspicion that someone might find out about Craigy’s lil’ secret. That the most ardent proponent of the Christian “ethics and family values” is looking to get sucked off before his 12 O’clock flight.

If these Republicans must insist that the average everyday citizen must be held accountable for their illegal sex acts then perhaps they should live by their own ethos: Don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time.

]]> By: mark snyder http://donklephant.com/2007/08/28/should-larry-craig-have-been-arrested/comment-page-1/#comment-381404 mark snyder Wed, 29 Aug 2007 14:46:20 +0000 http://donklephant.com/2007/08/28/should-larry-craig-have-been-arrested/#comment-381404 Doesn't the whole notion that we have police pretending to be gay so they can arrest gay people for their assumed intentions of having sex sound a little absurd to anyone these days? Doesn’t the whole notion that we have police pretending to be gay so they can arrest gay people for their assumed intentions of having sex sound a little absurd to anyone these days?

]]> By: ascap_scab http://donklephant.com/2007/08/28/should-larry-craig-have-been-arrested/comment-page-1/#comment-381397 ascap_scab Wed, 29 Aug 2007 10:12:33 +0000 http://donklephant.com/2007/08/28/should-larry-craig-have-been-arrested/#comment-381397 Yes, he was properly arrested. What part of "public" restroom don't you understand?? If perverted Larry Craig wants to cheat on his "wife" with anonymous, possibly diseased men, why should I care?? But for Dog's sake, go get a room and do it in private. Apparently, Craig traveled through the same airport during his weekly trips home and since his previous page scandal involvement, couldn't get his weekly fix of gay sex in Washington D.C anymore. So instead, he cruised the Minnesota Airport bathrooms during layovers for a quickie before heading home to kiss his beard. http://www.idahostatesman.com/localnews/story/143801.html Closeted gay dinosaurs like Craig haven't figures out how to "cruise" in modern society where he could have had his anonymous gay sex in private, you know, like Ted Haggard!! http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/051809.php Yes, he was properly arrested. What part of “public” restroom don’t you understand?? If perverted Larry Craig wants to cheat on his “wife” with anonymous, possibly diseased men, why should I care?? But for Dog’s sake, go get a room and do it in private.

Apparently, Craig traveled through the same airport during his weekly trips home and since his previous page scandal involvement, couldn’t get his weekly fix of gay sex in Washington D.C anymore. So instead, he cruised the Minnesota Airport bathrooms during layovers for a quickie before heading home to kiss his beard.

http://www.idahostatesman.com/localnews/story/143801.html

Closeted gay dinosaurs like Craig haven’t figures out how to “cruise” in modern society where he could have had his anonymous gay sex in private, you know, like Ted Haggard!!

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/051809.php

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