The Secret Service Hooker Scandal

[dgs49]

While this is nothing more than a silly diversion, some of the details seem a little odd to me.

The woman whose payment dispute brought this thing to light (a single mother, don't you know), claims to have provided $800 worth of services, but was only given the equivalent of $28 for cab fare.

Hmmm.

The whole episode began when a group of the Secret Service men [Why are there no Secret Service Women guarding the Prez?] went to a bar, got drunk, and took a bunch of women back to their hotel for post-drinking activities. They claim they did not know that the friendly gals were prostitutes. I assume they supposed the women were simply taken by their good looks, savoir faire and prominent bulges.

After a night of frolic, the girls asked to be paid, although it is worth noting that the aforesaid single mother defines herself as an "escort" but not a prostitute.

Now I don't have a great deal of experience with prostitutes, but I have the distinct impression that they ALWAYS insist on being paid in advance. In fact, I would hazard a guess that it would be one rare prostitute indeed who would perform her services without having been paid beforehand. I suspect fraudulent misrepresentation here. The girls went along as though it were social and voluntary, but then demanded payment. The guys, not being solicited for money beforehand, had reasonable grounds to believe that these activities were casual and consensual, and not professional services.

Would the President and his Administration be as aroused as they obviously are by this whole episode if the agents had simply "gotten lucky," en masse? Is there a non-copulation rule? And if not, what if there was a real misunderstanding about whether these women were professional sex workers?

These guys are VICTIMS! First by the gals, then by their employer - which is US!

Call the ACLU!

[Joe Guy]

The U.S. government should pay the lady $800.00 and the secret service agent should be demoted to an IT Specialist position.

[Gob]

[Lord Jim]

the secret service agent should be demoted to an IT Specialist position.

Do you think it's really a good idea to give the guy all that additional responsibility?

[Crackpot]

I'd love to live in Daves world where the good old pure as the driven snow Secret Service are duped by by a swarm of legal prostitutes into a night of debauchery only to find out they were supposed to pay in the morning.

I mean I don't buy for a minute that these guys were bragging about being SS and then invited there women into a personally compromising position and allowed them access to confidential documents.

Not our SS.

bunch of boy scouts all.

[Scooter]

According to Tony Perkins, head of the Family Research Council, the antics of SS agents cavorting with prostitutes can be blamed on, wait for it...








....the repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell :

President Obama shouldn't be surprised that the Secret Service solicited prostitutes during a trip to Columbia, Tony Perkins says, because that's what happens when you repeal the "don't ask, don't tell" policy.

"You cannot maintain moral order if you are willing to allow a few things to slide," said Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, on his radio show.

The comments, caught by Right Wing Watch, came during a discussion about why Republicans should do more on "the homosexuality issue," as fellow commentator Janet Mefferd put it.

Perkins said the Secret Service scandal is merely a symptom of the "total breakdown" in morality of the larger Obama administration.

"We intuitively know it’s wrong, there’s a moral law against that," Perkins said of prostitution. "The same is true for what the president has done to the military enforcing open homosexuality in our military. You can change the law but you can’t change the moral law that’s behind it."

Perkins went even further in his comparison of homosexuality to prostitution in a newsletter sent today to its followers. He said DADT repeal "introduced a new chapter of promiscuity into the U.S. military."

Something tell me the guy thinks about gay sex a lot more than most gay men, for whatever reason...