TRANSCRIPT: Police Interview With Sen. Larry Craig

ABC News ^ | 08/30/2007

[brytlea]

The more amazing thing is that it works most of the time!
susie

[brytlea]

Excellent idea. Also, the *cost* of actually being caught in public sex acts should be steep. I am amazed that these people can’t get a room!
susie

[brytlea]

How about really doing something to them if you actually catch them in the act? Frankly, while I think it’s disgusting as all get out, I find it difficult to imagine that signaling someone that you want sex is illegal. Heck, you can toss the F word out in public and I don’t think they can arrest you for that.
susie

[brytlea]

(3) Engages in offensive, obscene, abusive, boisterous, or noisy conduct or in offensive, obscene, or abusive language tending reasonably to arouse alarm, anger, or resentment in others.

Hmmm would this include those bozos who talk on their cell phones and use the F word every other word??

susie

[brytlea]

If you don’t care what I say, why are you still posting to me? Let me put it bluntly. You are wrong. Maybe you’re embarrassed to admit it. I don’t really care. Plenty of people on this thread have pointed out your errors to you. I don’t understand why you don’t just accept it. YOU ARE WRONG. You seem to know zilch about human biology. It’s a waste of energy to discuss it with you.
susie

[brytlea]

Is that some sort of standard statement the police give someone? (I don’t know, I have never been arrested). The wording seems very awkward.
susie

[Ciexyz]

Thanks for that clarification of disorderly conduct.

[milford421]

[He DID NOT plead guilty to obscene behavior...]

“Yes, he did:”

No. He didn’t.

He pled guilty to disorderly conduct..

Of course, you chose your own personal favorite in this...you’re not entitled to exclusively pick and choose on this charge, however...

“Whoever does any of the following in a public or private place,
including on a school bus, knowing, or having reasonable grounds to know that it will, or will
tend to, alarm, anger or disturb others”

alarm, anger or disturb others...do you understand? I can’t explain it any more simply than I have. The charge is extremely, extremely broad...covering anger and disturbance. I know you only wish to see obscene behavior in this...you need to move on.

Craig’s own words on the transcripts...yes indeed. He denied wrongdoing, he denied being gay.

Actually, the tape exonerates Craig...and again, for the umpteenth time...there is no evidence of any wrongdoing by Craig...foot touching is not a crime.

“What kinds of things do homosexuals do in public restrooms? Obscene and offensive things.”

Well you’ve made your feelings perfectly clear now, haven’t you?

Actually, homosexuals probably do what all human beings do in restrooms...go to the bathroom.

[milford421]

“Exactly my point. Don’t try to explain yourself to the police. Leave it to your attorney to deal with them. There’s no such thing as an “innocent” explanation. The police go into the interrogation room with their mind made up that you’re guilty. They want you to admit to it. Its never in your interests to tell them anything. You will get your chance to tell your side of the story in court.”

Correct. Correct.

[21stCenturyFreeThinker]

Is that some sort of standard statement the police give someone? (I don’t know, I have never been arrested). The wording seems very awkward.

I doubt the police were directly involved with that statement. He would have worked out the language with someone in the District Attorney's office. It's not something he signed in the police interrogation room.

I don’t know, I have never been arrested

knock on wood, neither have I. lol

[21stCenturyFreeThinker]

Hmmm would this include those bozos who talk on their cell phones and use the F word every other word??

Not to mention the "alarm, anger, or resentment" generated after almost mowing somebody down with the car while talking on one.

[brytlea]

Yeah, I kinda want to keep it that way! LOL
I don’t know the procedure. So, do they have someone (like the DA) kind of walk a person thru their statement? I thought the wording didn’t sound like something someone would actually say.
susie

[brytlea]

You know....you have something there. I am almost as tired of being almost killed by cell phone user/drivers than anything I’ve seen in a public restroom. Of course, I’m female so the worst thing I usually see in a public restroom is women leaving dirty diapers on the floor...
susie

[VxH]

[you need to move on.]

 

No, I think I won't. 

 

LC: I don't, ah, I am not gay, I don't do these kinds of things and...
 
 
"gay"  "these kinds of things"

 

Mr. Craig makes an association between "these kinds of thing" and being homosexual.

 

Apparently he thought he was being arrested for "these kinds of [gay] things".

 

And... who said he's gay?   Mr. Craig IS the only one on the tape that makes that association.

 

I don't know why he felt the need for such a protest when nobody had accused him of being gay.   Perhaps he doth protest too much?

 

[He denied wrongdoing,]

 

Entering a guilty plea IS not a denial of wrongdoing.

 

 

[Actually, homosexuals probably do what all human]

 

 

 

Common name: Human

 

Humans are Mammals.  Mammals reproduce heterosexually.

 

 

 

[Well you’ve made your feelings perfectly clear now, haven’t you?]

 

Part of the purpose of Free Republic IS to oppose the homosexual agenda.

 

Do you agree with that purpose?

 

[VxH]

[catch them in the act?]

I don’t want my son to “catch them in the act” the next time we fly through that Airport.

And I don’t want them witnessing heterosexual reproductive behavior in public places EITHER.

There are reasons Plato referred to uncontrolled sexual urges as the “Tyranny of the Appetite”.

[brytlea]

Unfortunately I don’t think we can arrest people because of what we think they *might* do. I haven’t seen any evidence that Craig did anything illegal. I don’t really want cops running around deciding what someone might do. It would probably help if we put real teeth into the laws that make public sex illegal. I’m all for that.
susie

[Sue Perkick]

I think some people don’t understand “Minority Report” was just a movie :-)

[brytlea]

LOL
You know, I am appalled that I’m actually making the argument I am. My libertarian son will be amazed. In fact, I don’t think I will tell him! ;)
susie

[Sue Perkick]

I know exactly what you’re saying. I agree. Probably best to avoid that. LOL.

[VxH]

[*might* do.]

Let’s apply your logic to prostitution:

Soliciting prostitution would be OK, but actual intercourse with a prostitute would not.

No thanks.