Senator Larry Craig Takes Back his Resignation
by James Buchanan
A recent news article reports that Senator Larry Craig is reconsidering his resignation and may put up a fight to keep his Senate seat. This decision has no doubt evoked horror among other Republicans, who remember the election disaster of 2006, which involved a combination of the ongoing Iraq War and the Mark Foley Gay sex scandal.
While Joe Sixpack is stunned that a US Senator could be caught soliciting sex in a men’s restroom, more experienced political observers have a completely different perspective. The question isn’t “How could Larry Craig sink so low?” The real question is “Why was Larry Craig singled out?”
It would be no great surprise if it were revealed that one quarter to one half of our Congressmen were closet perverts, who routinely visit brothels or tap their feet in men’s restrooms. Why aren’t more caught? Because there is a secret system in place to “catch and release” Congressional perverts. A newsmax article reports “Watching Sen. Larry E. Craig’s press conference about his encounter with a police officer in an airport men’s room, I wondered how anyone could be so arrogant as to think he could credibly claim that his only mistake was to plead guilty to the charge stemming from the seamy incident. Then I remembered ‘unarresting.’ Unarresting is not a term you will find in any law. It’s not in any dictionary. But it’s a term known to every officer of the Capitol Police. Unarresting is what happens when a Capitol Police officer has the misfortune to learn, after having made an arrest, that the person charged is a member of Congress. In that case, a supervisor is called, and he drives the member of Congress home. No record is made of the arrest. In other words, it is covered up. Of course, if a Capitol Police officer learns before an arrest that the suspect is a member of Congress, the process is much simpler: He never makes the arrest in the first place….”
It’s debatable how often “unarresting” takes place outside Washington, DC. It seems likely there would be a “deal” in place so that Republicans don’t prosecute Democrat perverts and Democrats don’t prosecute Republican perverts. Senator Craig did get caught in a Minneapolis restroom so he was outside the Capitol and outside his home state. The first thing Craig did -after being arrested- was to advertise the fact that he was a Senator. It seems pretty obvious he thought that was a “Get out of jail free card.”
According to one Internet source Senator Craig joined three other Republicans to vote against the renewal of the Patriot Act. It’s highly possible Craig’s interest in privacy involved keeping his odd little secrets secret much more than he cared about our “Right to privacy.” Senator Craig did vote for Bush’s Amnesty Bill so any argument that Larry Craig is a patriot is highly doubtful. The neocons want to create a police state in America and they don’t appreciate anyone standing in their way.