LOS ANGELES—A pig is a pig is a pig, especially if s/he wears a badge and a gun and under the somber authority granted them by the people still sets motherfucking sodomy stings with the sole purpose of harassing gay men. Yeah, I know, the use of the term “pig” dates the person who uses it, but there isn’t a cop of any age who doesn’t still react negatively to its use, and rightly so: it’s a pejorative term used to describe a lowly creature whose best use is being served with eggs and coffee. In this situation, its usage is unfortunately appropriate. In Baton Rouge, Louisiana, the pigs are still setting up sodomy stings ten years after Lawrence v Texas supposedly settled the question.
You’d think they would know better, but some pigs just don’t care about the law, and why should they? The governor of the state, perennial presidential aspirant Bobby Jindal, hasn’t made a peep about the stings, according to Mother Jones, which reported today, “His office did not respond to multiple requests for comment on Monday, nor has he previously commented on the sodomy statute.”
No surprise there. Jindal and his anti-cocksucking compatriots in the 12 other states in the Union that still have anti-sodomy laws on the books (in direct contravention of Lawrence) obviously do it in order to ingratiate themselves to anti-cocksucking voters who pollute those states. But it’s still hard to see how the politicians’ attitudes—which swing from Jindal’s denial to Virgina AG Ken Cuccunelli’s public embrace of these ancient and abhorrent laws—will help them in anything but the primaries. And even there, unless they go out of their way to distinguish between gay sodomy and all sodomy, in the process branding themselves as even more fiendishly repulsive pigs (please forgive me, real pigs, for so sullying your name!), I don’t think campaigning on a platform of "no more dick sucking" will help them with the average Republican, who is, generally speaking, very fond of the practice.
But there you have it. Politicians at the top implicitly giving their consent to sodomy stings by undercover pigs who just love to harass gays. The Advocate has the blow-by-blow of the Baton Rouge operation, so to speak, and does a good job of presenting the situation professionally and calmly, even when terms like “unnatural carnal copulation” are used by law enforcement spokespersons who may or may not realize its inherent contradictions.
“An undercover East Baton Rouge Parish sheriff’s deputy was staking out Manchac Park about 10 a.m. one day this month when a slow-moving sedan pulling into the parking lot caught his attention,” wrote Jim Mustian for The Advocate. “The deputy parked alongside the 65-year-old driver and, after denying being a cop, began a casual conversation that was electronically monitored by a backup team nearby.
“As the two men moved their chat to a picnic table,” he continued, “the deputy propositioned his target with ‘some drinks and some fun’ back at his place, later inquiring whether the man had any condoms, according to court records. After following the deputy to a nearby apartment, the man was handcuffed and booked into Parish Prison on a single count of attempted crime against nature.”
That sting, which took place July 18 of this year, was one of “at least a dozen cases since 2011 in which a Sheriff’s Office task force used the unenforceable law to ensnare men who merely discussed or agreed to have consensual sex with an undercover agent, an investigation by The Advocate has found.”
Even more disgraceful for the arresting officers (not to mention their victims), not one of the arrests was prosecuted by the district attorney’s office, which found that no crimes had been committed. But the arrests keep occurring, and the Sheriff’s department is not only unapologetic, but defiant.
“This is a law that is currently on the Louisiana books, and the sheriff is charged with enforcing the laws passed by our Louisiana Legislature,” said spokesperson Casey Rayborn Hicks. “Whether the law is valid is something for the courts to determine, but the sheriff will enforce the laws that are enacted.”
Even the DA, Hillar Moore III, gives the pigs a pass. “The Sheriff’s Office’s intentions are all good,” he said. “But from what I’ve seen of these cases, legally, we found no criminal violation.”
How’s that for a good old boys club of deep-fried Southern pork? And it's not as if the DA couldn't order the pigs to stop arresting the victims of this victimless non-crime! And in case you were wondering what else the police officers taking part in these stings might have on their plate, according to The Advocate, “The 12 arrests were made by the Special Community Anti-Crime Team, a Sheriff’s Office task force that also conducts prostitution stings and Internet operations targeting child predators.”
In other words, taking down consenting adults for engaging in sodomy is more important than investigating online sex predators. We will definitely remember that one.
If anyone thinks these assholes with badges will just go away nicely because gay marriage is becoming legal in state after state, think again. The bid to control you begins with the ability to control all minority populations, which includes controlling the manner and place in which they are allowed to have sex. Controlling the sexual habits of straight people is on the agenda, but the first order of business is getting the abnormals under control. To the extent that control is being lost, pigs in states like Louisiana, Texas, North Carolina and others are panicking, and will not stop harassing 65-year-old men looking for some company, and maybe even looking to suck a dick, until a greater force makes them stop.
Domestic terrorists never just up and quit on their own.
