In the luckiest thing to happen to Tom DeLay all week, the Washington media's attention was distracted when a deputy press sec'ty in the Dept. of Homeland Security (sic!) was arrested yesterday for soliciting sex with a minor over the internet. The "minor" was, of course, a cop posing as a minor -- "an undercover Florida sheriff's detective," no less.
These stories of would-be pederasts hoodwinked by cops (and feverish vigilantes) are becoming utterly familiar, and this case is only notable because the man arrested -- I almost said "the victim," which may be understandable because it's hard to call anybody else in the case the victim -- is a mid-level Bush Administration official.
My focus is not on him -- he's just one more pathetic idiot who did not think things through. My focus is on all these people out there, cops and others, who are posing as children in order to bring other people down. Has anyone actually gone to the trouble of finding out how many people are employed in this weird enterprise? Is it safe to say there are, at least, hundreds of people out there, pretending to be children just so they can entrap men into soliciting sex with them? What kind of job is this? What kind of person do you have to be to pose -- apparently successfully, in many cases, since we hear about so many -- as a child who is maybe-probably interested in having sex? What kind of mindset do these people posess?
It's fucking weird, in my opinion. This is not to suggest that these men are not, at the very least, disturbed and in need of therapy; in some cases these operations have probably snagged men who have already committed crimes with children. But how strange it is to trick people this way.
*I'm guessing on the status. Is the deputy press secretary of a cabinet-level agency "mid-level?" I really don't know. But enough to get the case widespread attention, if only for one day.
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