Boycott Minneapolis Airport for Larry Craig!! Too Funny!!

(Too funny – promoted by ek hornbeck)

A tip has appeared in my inbox that’s just to durned good to pass up.  Remember bad ol’ Richard Pombo?  Well, it seems his pals at the American Land Rights Association are OUTRAGED!!!

The Battle Ground (Washington) based association says airport police who arrested the senator [Larry Craig] in a men’s room sex sting are responsible for weakening private property rights in the West. Craig is a Republican member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee.

They’re calling for a boycott of the Minneapolis airport. Could be an interesting sidebar for next year’s Republican Presidential Convention in the Twin Cities, eh?

Cross-posted at Daily Kos.

Former Nixon staffer, and small-time game show host, comedian Ben Stein, has joined Arlen Specter in speaking out on behalf of the beleaguered Idaho Senator.  In his own words:

“On trumped up charges, they bring down the legislator and change the balance of power within the United States generally,” he says.  “This is a really serious case of police overreaching and the victim here is Larry Craig and the Constitution of the United States.”

That’s the complaint, and here’s the call for the boycott.

By ambushing Senator Larry Craig, the Minneapolis St. Paul Airport Police have effectively declared war on the west.  They are primarily responsible for greatly weakening private property rights and Federal land use advocates in the Senate…

We are urging you to make all your flight arrangemets avoiding the Mnneapolis-St Paul Airport for at least the next year and probably longer.  We’ll keep you posted as the boycott develops.
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We must inflict economic pain on the airport authorities to get them to change their behavior.

—And they must apologize to Senator Larry Craig.

You can’t make this stuff up!!

Nevermind that the cop didn’t even know Craig was a Senator until after he apprehended him.  Or rather, in the course of apprehending him.  One can certainly make a case for lightening up on these poor repressed, closeted homosexuals, desperately seeking to sneak a bit of satisfaction into their mixed-up existence.  That there’s better things for those airport cops to do than hound people engaging in consentual acts between adults.

But to argue that the airport cops’ motive was to change the balance of the Senate?  Gimme a break!!  Are these people morphed out of something that landed in Roswell nearly 60 years ago, or what?  Unbelievable!!