Comments sent to the Orange County (Ca.) Register’s
Opinion editor for publication:
Mark Steyn (“There were two creeps in the men’s room,” Sept.1) is correct that police officer Sgt. Dave Karsnia is the truly creepy man. Like the reputedly closeted J.Edgar Hoover, the fascination of some strong male personalities with homosexuality, particularly in repressing and persecuting it, is very strange behavior indeed.
Former Congressman Bob Barr has made a new career after losing his re-election a few years ago. He was best known for his role in the Clinton Senate impeachment trial. He also was able to ban the District of Columbia from counting the votes in favor of medical marijuana (a vote count a year later showed the referendum passed). Now Bob Barr is on the Board of the Marijuana Policy Project and a national committeeman of the Libertarian Party.
Senator Larry Craig is a very intelligant man. I worked with him in the 1980s in Congress. He was elected to Congress as a social conservative, so he had to play that role to get re-elected. Term limits might have helped him discover his libertarian principles, which he seems to have practiced in private.
Larry Craig, you can make big money and become a genuine new leader if you follow Bob Barr and become an outspoken advocate of freedom and privacy. Cut government spending on salaries for men’s room police patrol and send Sgt. Karsnia out to write traffic tickets instead.