Sweet sweet irony
Here's something else that will keep the Sen. Larry Craig story in the headlines .. he's like those trick birthday candles that won’t blow out.
Now he's the new poster child for the ACLU. As much as he's bashed them and called them all kinds of evil, he just might be the guest speaker at their next banquet.
Yep, the ACLU is going to bat for restroom tap dancer Sen. Larry Craig.
They have filed a "friend of court" brief with the Minnesota Court considering Craig's motion to withdraw his guilty plea over his restroom sting arrest.
From aclu.org: NEW YORK – The American Civil Liberties Union today submitted a friend-of-the-court brief to a Minnesota District Court urging it to allow Senator Larry Craig to withdraw his guilty plea because the secret sting operation used to arrest him was likely unconstitutional.
"The real motive behind secret sting operations like the one that resulted in Senator Craig’s arrest is not to stop people from inappropriate activity. It is to make as many arrests as possible – arrests that sometimes unconstitutionally trap innocent people," said Anthony Romero, Executive Director of the ACLU.
"If the police really want to stop people from having sex in public bathrooms, they should put up a sign banning sex in the restroom and send in a uniformed officer to patrol periodically. That works." [..]"
Yeah, like you'd want to explain that sign to little kids when you take them to a public restroom.
Reminds me of the sign in the movie "Airplane" with the silhouette of two people having sex with the red cross-out circle through it, next to the No Smoking symbol.
The ACLU, bless their hearts, defend gays, blacks, virgins, hobgoblins, Republicans and other mythical things that go bump in the night. A principled bunch indeed, they think we ALL are STILL entitled to due process and other rights .. no matter how many warts we have.
Rabid righties like Bill O'Reilly and Rush Limbaugh howl that the ACLU is a "dangerous left-wing organization. But Rush accepted a brief from them on the issue of his medical records when he got busted for drugs .. then he went right back to bashing them.
The ACLU deserves credit for defending the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. It's the principle of the matter, not Larry Craig. I'm surprised it took this long for them to show up .. maybe it was the pleading guilty aspect.
The ACLU said -- "It is a crime to have sex in public. It is not a crime to propose or solicit sex in public, whether it's in a bar or in a bathroom."
I'm just not comfortable with the double standard thing. I'm a woman and have been "hit on" oodles of times by men .. no one came running to arrest them.
Old joke: Definition of "liberal" -- a Republican who just got arrested.
Whatever happens, we all know that even if Craig manages to win his legal case, he is history. Idaho voters seem to have a much lower standard of proof when it comes to branding someone guilty.
I got a kick out of this: "Airport Restroom Becomes a Tourist Attraction "
