2007-08-29 05:12:39 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Yes, there is an expectation of privacy.
But Craig plead guilty to a lesser charge, so that part is over.
All that is left, as they say, is the shouting.
2007-08-29 06:59:58 · answer #1 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A liberal cop - what the heck is that? Never was one.
That cop was involved in 30 arrests in that restroom this month. He wasn't hoping to get Craig. He just got him.
Entrapment..... How sad the way conservatives will just excuse every darn thing their folks do, even if they actually oppose those things...
I think the society men like Craig created, a homophobic one, has hurt Craig terribly and reduced him to such sick behavior as looking for sex in the bathroom. Too bad he couldn't have just been gay all along - he'd have a partner, a beautiful townhouse on the Hill featured in House Beautiful, and still be senator.
Yes, there is an expectation of privacy in a bathroom stall - that's why Craig staring through the crack in the bathroom door for a full two minutes, by his admission, is a sign of a real problem.
Face it - the republican party is a party of 'do as i say, not as i do - with penalties...'
2007-08-31 22:32:22 · answer #2 · answered by cassandra 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. I believe the cop.
I think the public needs to be protected from people soliciting sex in bathrooms - I want MY right of privacy protected, not some creep's - and I'm glad we're all in apparent agreement that people soliciting sex in restrooms should be arrested.
If I'm in there, I don't want to have to worry about being "propositioned." That's not too much to ask.
PS I'm a Republican. I'm not a gay-basher. But Craig should resign - for criminality, hypocrisy, and squalid behaivor.
PS A GENERAL, broad-brush rule on entrapment is that merely giving someone an opportunbity to commit a crime is not enough. Entrapment is an amount of enticement that would get the average person, not just someone with a proclivity to commit the crime, to engage in a criminal act.
All this cop did was move his foot. If that happened to me, I would not reciprocate by doing the things Craig did.
2007-08-29 12:19:51 · answer #3 · answered by American citizen and taxpayer 7 · 7⤊ 0⤋
In a public bathroom? Privacy? Who started the foot tapping? The cop?
He lost his expectation of privacy when he tried to get the attention of the cop I would think.
Entrapment, I believe would only be if the cop started this whole thing and lured him into it.
2007-08-29 12:23:32 · answer #4 · answered by midnight&moonlight'smom 4 · 5⤊ 0⤋
An expectation of privacy means he could not be video taped in the bathroom stall....it does not mean that its legal to troll for sausage in a bathroom...... Besides an expectation of privacy does not orotect you when breaking a law...if that were the case all drug deals would be executed in the bathroom with no fear of arrest
2007-08-29 12:21:18 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
Oh, yeah, that must be it.
Since there are laws against having security cameras in bathrooms, then I'd say that yes, there is a reasonable expectation of privacy in a bathroom stall.
But no, it must be the liberals.
Craig didn't do anything wrong when he was playing footsies with the cop under the stall divider. It was the liberals.
2007-08-29 12:18:51 · answer #6 · answered by Bush Invented the Google 6 · 9⤊ 1⤋
You've GOT to be kidding. Okay, this takes the cake. I've seen some strange questions trying to blame the "libs" for everything from 9/11 to the decisions that George Bush has made, but this really takes the cake. He got caught, plain and simple. He's a foolish old man who represents the worst type of hypocrisy that we see from Republicans when it comes to being gay. I just saw your reply in another question where you said you had a lengthy opinion about this. How about sharing that with us in "additional details?" I'd love to hear it lol.
2007-08-29 12:26:55 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
The expectation of privacy starts and ends with physical action inside an actual stall itself as long as its not illegal. anything said is not protected as private as you are still in a public area. that means if he was telling his lawyer he killed a man while sitting on the john and someone else overheard him, its not protected
2007-08-29 12:27:20 · answer #8 · answered by somethin_fierce 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Entrapment involves an officer of the law promoting the actions that he arrests you for, not waiting for you to do them.
Craig had all the privacy he needed, until he waved his hand under the stall, and started trying to get intimate under the stall.
just look at the guy! he looks like a NAMBLA poster-boy. I don't understand why right-wingers keep trying to defend him.
If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and swallows hotdogs whole like a duck, sorry but its a duck!
2007-08-29 12:19:25 · answer #9 · answered by avail_skillz 7 · 6⤊ 1⤋
Damn Liberal cops hangin'out in public restrooms and parks,waiting to entrap conservative politicians....
2007-08-29 12:27:07 · answer #10 · answered by ? 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋