The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #104322 Message #2138200
Posted By: GUEST,heric
01-Sep-07 - 02:41 AM
Thread Name: BS: Senator Larry Craig (R-Idaho)- lewd conduct
Subject: RE: BS: Senator Larry Craig (R-Idaho)- lewd conduct
>b) his "explanation" defies credulity<
Not to me. I have brought carry on luggage into the stall (I thought the TSA wanted me to.) I have looked through the crack to see if a stall was in use. I have put my foot close to the imaginary line. (I may even have tapped my foot!)
To think that a single cop could, only if he wanted to, destroy me (my family or career) for some combination of those things, because he thought I might be thinking about his cock, is something I find truly horrible.
I still don't get a lot of this. As I understand it, he never even saw this cop except through the crack in the door. What made him think the guy was a target? If the guy was a legitimate mark, what were they going to do in that crowded restroom when the barriers (stall walls) were only about a foot off the ground? (Leaving his carry-on near the door of the crowded stall was an exprerssly stated item of circumstantial evidence against him. I just don't get that.)
I can easily accept the conclusion that he was probably cruising. To think that the criminal justice system could be brought down in full force, for a sex crime, just because he might have been thinking salaciously is, to me, an awful thought.
And I agree with Bobert that it shows a society with its priorities way out of whack.