Senator Craig wants to change his plea and wipe his "My Bad" slate clean.
Senator Craig wants to change his plea and wipe his "My Bad" slate clean.
Senator Craig participated in flirtatious behavior that was out of order for a public facility in a public transportation hub where one may be expected to allow touching of their bodies by way of a legally necessary procedure called a pat down. That would be done by a law enforcement officer or a specifically designated and licensed security officer employed by a civil authority.
Such behavior could have led to unwanted violent outcomes or other crimes such as robbery. Senator Craig put himself in danger and created a state of insecurity that had a very good chance of becoming disorderly. It was ill mannered and completely out of bounds for the place and the reasonable expectation of absence of social discomfort that others, not of Senator Craig's predilections and sexual mores, would find outrageous and insulting. The same standard for heterosexual flirtation would fall under the same expectations of manners and orderliness.
If there had been a drink or eating establishment on site with a name such as "The Raging Queen" then there might be some indication that behaviors and ritual which Senator Craig displayed would be permissible within and that limits for outrage would be much more accommodating within the confines of that establishment.
That the behavior for which Senator Craig has been sanctioned had risen to the level of outrage for the public mores, and was cause for complaint from a citizen, then he has not a legal leg on which to stand for avoiding a charge or the reversal of conviction for disorderly conduct.
The plea and conviction must stand for the general good and orderliness of the most public of public places.
A reversal would be based in hair splitting and a signal for the privileged and powerful to make up the rules as they go along . It is the worst kind of justice.
Lantern Bearer
Senator Craig participated in flirtatious behavior that was out of order for a public facility in a public transportation hub where one may be expected to allow touching of their bodies by way of a legally necessary procedure called a pat down. That would be done by a law enforcement officer or a specifically designated and licensed security officer employed by a civil authority.
Such behavior could have led to unwanted violent outcomes or other crimes such as robbery. Senator Craig put himself in danger and created a state of insecurity that had a very good chance of becoming disorderly. It was ill mannered and completely out of bounds for the place and the reasonable expectation of absence of social discomfort that others, not of Senator Craig's predilections and sexual mores, would find outrageous and insulting. The same standard for heterosexual flirtation would fall under the same expectations of manners and orderliness.
If there had been a drink or eating establishment on site with a name such as "The Raging Queen" then there might be some indication that behaviors and ritual which Senator Craig displayed would be permissible within and that limits for outrage would be much more accommodating within the confines of that establishment.
That the behavior for which Senator Craig has been sanctioned had risen to the level of outrage for the public mores, and was cause for complaint from a citizen, then he has not a legal leg on which to stand for avoiding a charge or the reversal of conviction for disorderly conduct.
The plea and conviction must stand for the general good and orderliness of the most public of public places.
A reversal would be based in hair splitting and a signal for the privileged and powerful to make up the rules as they go along . It is the worst kind of justice.
Lantern Bearer
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