Do you think Sen. Larry Craig's arrest was justified?

Question

This sounds like it could've happened to anybody? He did not actually solicit sex. He did plead guilty but I have heard the interrogation tapes and it sounds like he really had no choice. The officer was telling him that the easiest way to get out of it without going to court was to plead guilty and pay a fine. Sen. Craig kept telling him that all he wanted to do was use the bathroom. I feel sorry for the guy because now he is being forced to retire! It just sounds ridiculous to me that someone can be arrested for tapping their foot! He wasn't caught in the act afterall. Is this his only incident?

Steven C in what way was he soliciting? By tapping his foot? Come on? How would anyone know that this is a so called signal for solicitation. I guess we better be careful not to tap our feet. What other signals shoul we know about? How sad!
By the way I am a democrat, it doesn't really matter but I know it will to some. It is not about the parties it is about justice and it seems like the republican senators are being a little harsher than the dems. Why is that?

Don c you bring up some good points but why haven't we heard any of this? I know he is very anti gay so if he really is guilty then it would be hilarious! But the whole picture has not been presented to the public and it should be.

Answer 1

We a re supposed to believe that a man who spent 35 years as a law maker plead guilty because he was innocent?

Gays around the country have confirmed that is the code for gay sex.

If your foot came over into my stall and rubbed against mine, you'd be very lucky to have the police there because I would take it as a come on and probably kick your butt.
How many people do you know that pick up paper off bathroom floors IN OTHER PEOPLES STALLS????

Craig had several prior incidents where his being gay came up

Rogers broke the news on the Ed Schultz Show, which has a huge audience in the heartland - including Idaho.

On the show I have called on Senator Larry Craig to end his years of hypocrisy by leveling with Idahoans about who he really is. I am also calling upon several prominent Idaho social conservative leaders to ask them how they square their anti-gay positions with their support for this leader.

I have done extensive research into this case, including trips to the Pacific Northwest to meet with men who have say they have physical relations with the Senator. I have also met with a man here in Washington, D.C., who says the same -- and that these incidents occurred in the bathrooms of Union Station. None of these men know each other, or knew that I was talking to others. They all reported similar personal characteristics about the Senator, which lead me to believe, beyond any doubt, that their stories are valid.

Larry Craig being mentioned as possibly connected to Congressional scandals is nothing new. Check out these video clips from 1982 when he preemptively denied his involvement in a Congressional sex and drug scandal. (I love what he says about unmarried people back then and how often do politicians issue preemptive denials based on rumors?)

Senator Craig has consistently relied on the support of Idaho's "values voters," but he has not been honest with them about his own conduct. Conservatives and liberals are both standing up and recognizing the hypocrisy of elected officials like Senator Larry Craig. The time for treating Americans one way and behaving in another is over.

Answer 2

He is a senator, not an 18 year old kid. He was fully aware of the repurcussions of a guilty plea. In pleading guilty, he is asked a series of questions, and in each case, he must acknowledge to the court that he is not pleading guilty for any reason other than the fact that he did commit the crime in question. A guilty plea is not taken lightly by the court and is conducted in a very methodical way so that no one can come back and say that they did not know what they were doing. He is a Senator. He already knew this. He plead guilty, so that's a case closed to me! If he was not guilty, he could have chosen to fight the charges, but he didn't.

Answer 3

The guys a liar! Why do you think they have to have cops in the bathroom, because of guys like him, the cop didn't know who he was, so what would be the motive? He's another Mark Foley and he needs to go. He wasn't born yesterday, he wouldn't have pleaded guilty unless he was. He would have asked for a lawyer, but he was trying to keep it out of the press. You are right, it could have happened to anyone (soliciting sex in a public bathroom.) Do you accidently rub your foot on the guys in the next stall, and stick your fingers under the wall when you know someones on the other side? I know I don't, he didn't say he didn't do those things. Why would you want to protect someone, regardless of who he is, for such behavior? People bring their kids to the airport, it's not like it was in a gay bar.

Answer 4

I had in no way heard of Senator Craig in the previous and that i stay in an adjoining state to his. So he's no longer precisely a well-liked determine interior the information. The quote above replaced into Leno's shaggy dog tale final night; this is not what occurred interior the restroom. Supposedly he tapped the foot of the guy interior the stall next to him. i replaced into bowled over to assessment that it is the "sign" utilized by ability of adult males attempting to attach with different adult males. in no way heard of it in the previous yet i assume I lead a sheltered existence. till somebody comes forward and says they have been as quickly as his companion, i will supply him the income of doubt. i do no longer think of a guy or woman ought to be tried by ability of the media. If he's gay, i do no longer care (as long as he does not hit on me!); there are others interior the Senate who're overtly gay. What i hit upon extra stressful is that if he has been 2-confronted approximately it. Lie approximately one factor and additionally you in no way understand if different statements are lies, too. this is asserted this is sweet to continually tell the fact; this is much less complicated to remember.

Answer 5

Yes, it was justified.

There are plenty of gay bars that Larry Craig could have gone to to pick up a stranger for oral sex and sodomy.

It has gotten to the point where a man can't even go to the bathroom without a Republican trying to pick him up for bathroom sex.

It's bad enough what they Republicans have done to the Page Boys and the Boy Scouts. Now they're cruising for young boys in public men's rooms.

Answer 6

Yes, soliciting a Under Cover Police Officer for Gay Sex in a public restroom is never a good thing.

I know that Senator Craig has to get his freak on, but he should do it at a motel, rather than in a public restroom.

My goodness, children can walk in to that restroom.

Answer 7

Come on he didn't just tap his foot…..He peered into the crack to see if someone was in there, he reached his leg into the other stall, who does that??
Also what was he doing in the airport in the first place, did he have a scheduled flight?

He is guilty!!

Answer 8

Where are all the 'thought crime' cons on this one? I think it's very unfair. And no I don't condone public sex. I'm betting if you put a hot female in a public place to hit on/flirt with guys and arrested every guy that responded, we have prisons filled in about a day and a public outcry. I read one of the officers saying that crime is crime and then he went on to equate public sex with terrorism. I thought you've got to be kidding me! Aren't there more important jobs for the police to be doing?

It is hard to feel sorry for the guy though. He basically fell victim to the homophobia that he and his party have been cashing in on for years.


***Judging by the thumbs down I'm getting.....it must be ok for heterosexuals to have sex in public.

Answer 9

He can't unring that bell now. What's done is done.

John-how many times have you touched someone in the stall next to you? Let me guess...you have a 'wide stance' too.

I believe it is the only time he's been arrested but there have been rumblings about his sexuality for awhile.

Answer 10

No. Nothing he did was illegal. He made a huge mistake in pleading guilty to disorderly conduct.
Any half decent attorney could have walked him on the charge.