Who should be embarrassed? the Undercover Cop or the Under the Cover Senator

I have written this short piece – which is inappropriately posted in the context of this Website – for the betterment of my own psychic wellbeing; a therapy that is called for after a long day of hearing nothing other than the rebroadcast tape of the policeman’s interrogation of Senator Craig after the Officer had arrested the Senator for some, ‘Nasty…naughty…bad-boy,’ escapades in the airport toilettes.

I can say with all sincerity that I cringed during every second of the dialog between Craig and the Officer. The interrogation, of course, did not sound anything like what one might expect to witness if looking in on the processes of criminal justice. Rather, the back and forth resembled more of a situation involving an uptight dad questioning his kid over matters related to potty-training. However, even if this type of police activity - going undercover to breakup bath-houses - appears to be so extraordinarily petty and, indeed, authoritarian, we must keep in mind that this is the post 9/11 era, and we must expect police agents and members of DHS to be penetrating vastly more dimensions of American society than ever before in order to provide us comfort after being repeatedly reminded of the constant threat we are under. In this regard, we might think of those who look after us as our anonymous father figures, who are simply looking out for our own best interests.

I do not want to dwell too heavily upon the deleterious impact that this non-stop media recycling of contents - that qualified as one of the more discomforting parcels of human dialog to which I have ever been audience - had upon my own spirits and good health. However, I must admit that I have come to the point where all I feel for this hyperbolic hypocrite is immense sorrow and pity, and all that I want for this poor twisted, contorted life is for him to find some resolution to his dumbfounding cognitive dissonance. Therefore, I have no sardonic remarks to direct toward Craig.

I shall address, however, the most noticeable concern that should arise from one’s spectacle of the bath room incident and its considerable political fallout: Why the hell do we have undercover detectives infiltrating public rest rooms, in order to arrest individuals who are in search of a partner with whom to engage in ‘lewd’ sexual behaviors? For some reason, the ‘lewdness’ apparently attributable to this type of romance only seems to bother the people who are willing to sit in a stall waiting for it to happen.

Of all of the crimes for which resources could be designated in order to contravene and bring a secession to behaviors that are genuinely detrimental to public interests, for this type of crime - soliciting sex in a bathroom - to receive any funding over and beyond, perhaps, a yellow sign prohibiting against it, is demonstrative of a project in law enforcement that speaks worse of the people who are willing to execute it as well as those who deliberately sponsor it than it does of the people upon whom such investigations are targeted.

Russell Cole

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