Ballad of Larry Craig and our civil society

It is truly disconcerting to see how people reason, or not, about matters of liberty and justice....and it is funny how some things have an effect on me when I see situations where some case comes to light (ie, in the news) where we see somebody famous, or not, has gotten in to some apparent trouble with the law and watching how things go down. The first case in point was when I saw the fiasco that was the reponse of the boston police department and city government to the supposed perceived "bomb threat", some lite-bright type of devices placed at various visible locations around the city, that was actually a promotional for some upcoming Aqua-teen Hunger Force movie (I don't have cable so don't know much about this adult cartoon...I do enjoy some other mature cartoons, however). It was at that time that I set up this blog page...but, lamely, failed to start posting...so lame...

Well, I am ambivalent about this senator from Idaho but the whole concept of what happened really troubles me....it is just all endemic of the post 9-11 malaise that we find our country in, the greatest "democracy" in the world with liberty and justice for all, blah, blah....

So, there is some sting at the Minneapolis airport to catch men that are attempting to engage other men in the men's room for a little bit of bathroom jiggliness. The good Senator (I like saying that) was apparently acting in a bit of an erratic manner, standing outside of the stall, then bumping the guys foot in the stall next door, running his hand palm-up under the edge of the stall. Then he gets interogated by the half-whit sargeant, who seemed to berate him for not coming clean or whatever. Well, what the hell do you expect someone to do when they've been entrapt before actually doing anything to break any laws or cause any harm. Craig apparently was not admitting anything. Can you blame him? That would be a weird. ...And you smug one's beware. If you think you are exemplary and above reproach, there are other analogous situations where you could get nailed. ie, anybody who's driven right after just 2 beers (especially microbrews) at an office party or bar, can get stopped at a DUI checkpoint; there's a good chance most people would blow over the legal limit and spend the night in the hooskow. People are usually pretty uppity about themselves ....until they get caught doing "fill in the blank".

Anyhow, then some brilliant reasonable dude that actually blogs on the webpage, www.libertyblog.com, writes this in response to some other blog postings that apparently attempted to defend the good senator:

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"Nobody has to go to a dogfight. But if I’m in the Minneapolis airport and have to pee, I need to use the men’s room, and I shouldn’t have to visit a pseudo-sex club, or even a pseudo-gay bar, to do so.

As to homosexuals in the military, also alluded to in the Gillespie op-ed, the analogy of government in the bedroom has to be properly considered. Government ought to stay out of your bedroom, but when government runs the barracks and assigns roommates, it’s already in your bedroom. It ought to behave responsibly and not impose homosexual roommates on military members.

Is this stuff so difficult to comprehend? "
-------------end quote from www.libertyblog.com-------------

I love his closing ....ahem, like, dude, "I'm mister F'ing Common Sense Man (but isn't this the universal syndrome) anyhow ....so lame ....giant douche

I mean, was it really getting to be like a bath house in the Minneapolis airport bathrooms? And is this stuff being forced on you? Is it really necessary to be expending precious law enforcement resources on this? And besides, people, including even pre-adolescents, should learn how to be cool and carry them selves in a savvy manner. Just say "yo, dude, not interested, don't roll that way, whatever". We can't sterilize the world.