ACLU SUPPORTS SEN. CRAIG

No wonder that cops detest the American Civil Liberties Union. The ACLU has filed a lengthy brief with the court in support of shithouse sexual solicitor Sen. Larry Craig's attempt to have his guilty plea withdrawn. The ACLU contends that Craig was exercising his protected speech rights under the constitution when he solicited sex from an undercover police officer inside a public toilet. The ACLU also contends that Craig was a victim of entrapment.

In fairness to the ACLU, on numerous occasions over many years, that organization has come to the defense of individuals and groups that have been deprived of their civil rights or liberties. For that I must commend the ACLU. However, whenever someone complains about mistreatment by the police, the ACLU seems quick to assume that the accuser is being truthful in claiming that cops beat the supreme shit out of him or otherwise violated his rights.

Let's look at the entrapment issue. Legally, entrapment is a defense only when an officer entices someone to commit an offense which that person would not have otherwise committted. Let's take a prostitution sting operation as an example. When a female undercover officer, wearing a cleavage revealing blouse and a micro mini-skirt with fishnet stockings and garter belt, stands on a street corner or walks up and down the sidewalk, does that constitute entrapment if a man stops his car and negotiates a price with her for sex? Absolutely not.

In that situation, the motorist recognized what he believed to be a prostitute, stopped his vehicle and entered into a discussion of what kind of sex he desired and how much it was going to cost him. Regardless of how provocatively the female officer may have been dressed, he was already inclined to engage the services of a prostitute. Thus, there is no entrapment.

Now, had the female officer jumped in front of his car, forcing him to stop to avoid running over her, and then offered her services to him, that would definitely constitute entrapment. Entrapment would also occur if the officer flagged down the motorist from the sidewalk and she initiated the offer for sex. However, if the peovocatively attired officer had merely loitered along the curb, it is not entrapment if the motorist decides to stop and shoptalk sex with her.

In Craig's case, the arresting officer did not slide his foot into an adjoining stall to touch the senator's foot. He did not brush his hand underneath the partition. Nor did he stick his dick through any stall opening or otherwise expose himself to entice Craig into seeking sex. The officer was sitting in a stall during a shithouse stakeout, waiting for some creep to solicit him for sex. That was not entrapment. It was the senator who encroached an adjoining stall to touch the officer's foot and it was the senator who brushed his hand underneath the partition.

As to the senator's rights in a public toilet, the ACLU contends that soliciting sex in a private place is protected speech rgardless of where it happens. "It is not a crime to solicit sex that would occur in private. It is a crime to solicit sex that would occur in a public place." The ACLU argues that the state cannot prove Craig intended to have sex inside that public toilet. Accordingly, he committed no crime.

How about the ACLU's contention that Craig had a free speech right to solicit sex in a public toilet? What a crock of shit! I could care less if men have consentual sex with each other in the privacy of a home or motel room. I could care less if Sen. Craig had made sexual advances to another man in a gay bar. But in a public toilet? Bullshit!

What about the rights of "straight" men in a public restroom not to be subjected to unwanted and unpleasant sexual advances by other men? When Craig's actions in a public place infringe on the rights of others, that behavior constitutes an unlawful offense. The only right Sen. Craig had in that men's room was to enter, find an empty stall, take a crap and wipe his ass, and leave, all without bothering anyone else or being bothered by anyone else.

On this one the ACLU is full of crap! We may not like it when that organization comes to the aid of the KKK or neo nazis when their rights to hold a parade or public meeting have been denied, but these despicable groups have the same rights the rest of us do. But to defend Craig's lewd conduct in a public place on the grounds he has a free speech right to do so, that's a real stretch.