Posted on 08/30/2007 2:02:23 PM PDT by Eric Blair 2084
Seriously, why does the police officer have to explain to a US Senator how the criminal justice system works like he is a typical shirtless trailer park guy holding a Budweiser can and a Marlboro?
First, you... can... plead guilty...and mail in...your ....fine. Or...go to court...and plead not....guilty.....
At that point, Craig had already whipped out his Senate business card. Wouldn’t the cop expect a US Senator to know how the legal system works?
Has anyone found out any info on the cop? Just asking...
Craig may, or may not be, queer as a three dollar bill; but the audio only makes the cop sound like a jerk. If it's as Craig has been saying, he was incredibly dumb to not take it to court. But considering the witch hunt around that time, by the media about Craig's private life, he was probably more than a bit spooked that he had been set up.
My two cents.
P.S. If the Minnesota airport mens room stalls are anything like most modern-day ladies room stalls, there is hardly room for a normal sized person to maneuver in, to do what the bathrooms are designed for. Add a wheeled piece of luggage and a carry-on bag into the stall, and it's not difficult to imagine that one's feet may break the invisible plane between two stalls.
Who's the police dep't rooting for in that race?
To say the least
IF he was being
set up” why would “they” pick the airport in Minneapolis?
There’s too many variables to institute a set-up: making sure he would go into the bathroom in the first place is one, being sure there was a cop there etc.
Nope. I don’t see that he was set up. Screwed by whomever released the info perhaps but not set up.
Apparently the cop was in the stall to his right. But Craig allegedly leaned over with his left hand...the one with his wedding ring on it.
That’s strange. Now we are getting into 9/11 trutheriness and the OJ glove defense. God help him. He really blew it.
I would be skeptical of this transcript except for one thing:
Craig was offered the right to be silent, to have an attorney present, etc., etc. He declined that offer. Wedding rings don’t go on right hands.
I have one question. Is Larry Craig left-handed? If so, case closed imo.
Must.....not.....comment.
They are pretty small. I know this is a common practice. I never understood how they were able to pull it off.
It does seem awfully easy for one lying cop to threaten a public figure with having to go to court and defend himself against a spurious charge that would be embarrassing. And because it is a restroom, there can be no video or audio surveilance to prove your innocence.
Not saying that happened, but it would be easy to engineer.
I guess there is some rationale for public figures to have entourages, eh ? Just for the friendly witness value.
At this point I'm willing to back off and get some more info (like muawiyah mentioned in Post#5), like how many others were busted that day/week and if they displayed similar "signal" behavior or not. Still, he really screwed up with the guilty plea and it would probably be better to resign and fight the charge.
I really wanted a serious discussion for a few hours. After 9 PM the forum will be open to bathroom humor like:
Maybe he should just stall the investigation until all this crap stops swirling around.
“your lying” = “you’re lying” (doh!)
When was the last time you were in a public restroom and made contact with a person by foot in an adjoining stall?
Um..I would have to say that the answer would be 100 percent NO.
When was the last time you were in a public restroom and you showed in any way your hand to a person in an adjoining stall on their side of their stall?
Um.. I would have to say that the answer would be 100 percent NO.
When was the last time you picked up anything off the floor in a public restroom unless it was your property? Um.. I would have to say that the answer would be 100 percent NO. These things just don't accidentally happen. The guy is a perverted queer or wannabe who pled guilty and we still have people defending him GO FIGURE.
No doubt that it was and, if he was a Dummie, the left would be holding a national protest.
That said, when he pleaded guilty to the lesser charge, he sealed his fate and now should just resign gracefully. In the end, he will go, so he should shoot for painless.
One question that hasn’t been asked: Why did Craig go through Minneapolis/St. Paul??? There are direct flights from Salt Lake City to Dulles or Reagan, Washington...$600 round trip...leaves SLC in the morning and arrive around 2:30 pm Washington. I’ve bumped into Craig at the airport in Idaho Falls when he was on his way to D.C. This is a routine commute for him. Why the stop-over??
From what I’m hearing, the Minn. airport has a reputation for having restrooms where gay sex encounters are not uncommon.
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