Local (GOP) political operative busted in Internet (sex) sting

SEATTLE - An arrest is sending shockwaves through the halls of local political power.

Larry Corrigan has worked on a number of Republican campaigns, but now he's in jail after he was caught in an Internet sting, accused of trying to solicit sex from young girls.

Corrigan's orange jail uniform he was wearing in court Thursday is a far cry from the business suit he wore at the King County Prosecutor's Office for 25 years.

Until last year, Corrigan was the Director of Operations and Budget. Now he's suspected of attempted child rape and communicating with a minor for sex.

"The suspect was communicating online with someone whom he believed was a 13 year old girl." said Debra Brown with the Seattle Police Department. "In fact, that person was a detective from our Internet Crimes Against Children unit."

http://www.komotv.com/news/4795006.html

The G.O.P. is loaded w/ freaks.

off to goggle Larry Corrigan.

The right wingers and the fundies are all about repressing your sexuality. Unfortunately, the result is that they end up expressing their sexuality in inappropriate ways.

To have sex with children!

... Rick Santorum's Republican Child Molesters

Shouldn't it be "fortunately, this gentleman was caught"?

What the hell did she mean by that? Other than, it's unfortunate for him - great for everyone else. :crazy:

"Unfortunately" :wtf:

It's great this man was caught in the sting. I don't care who you are or what position you hold - you prey on kids you should be caught and prosecuted!
:grr::grr::grr:

This is the classic case of thought-crime. Lionel did a great dissertation about this last summer.

Since there were no underage people involved in this at all, where is the crime? Why, the crime was that he allegedly thought he was communicating with an underage girl. This is just baloney.

Let's say you're at, say, the Renaissance Fair and meet a 20-year-old who looks (to some people, at least) like she's underage. You chat her up, you click, and, as Laraine Newman would say, make "hot monkey love." Is there a crime? "No," one might say, "because she's 20 years old." But what if the man thought she was underage? Is he then guilty of a crime? Of course not. But what if the woman said she was thirteen? Would that make a difference? Again, no. There would be no crime.

These cases amount to the same thing. It's nothing more than the thought police punishing you for what you're thinking.

Different.

No underage people were involved here at all. So, again, we're at the thought-crime level.

to find people who would think that a child predator isn't better off behind bars, especially if the people you argue with have children of their own.

should probably be given more respect in these cases than the fallacious appeal to emotion, "if {they} have children of their own." This dismissal of "techincal correctness" sounds to me a lot like Fat Tony's infamous conclusion that "mere factual innocence is no reason not to carry out a death sentence properly reached." :shrug:

"Detectives say he told the 13 year old he was in his 50's and asked her to meet and perform a very specific sex act.

Police say Corrigan also sent the fictitious girl e-mails that contained pornographic images of the kind of sex he wanted to have."

Is this reasoning along the lines that you cannot arrest someone for trying to execute a crime, only if they manage to do it? Hmmm, I think I'll try to rob a bank and if I don't get away with it they can't arrest me because I didn't manage to do it!:rofl:

If you intend to keep flinging the word "thoughtcrime" around,
you might wanna look up what it actually MEANS. This particular
situation certainly does NOT fit that definition.

This man ATTEMPTED to commit a crime. The fact that his attempt FAILED
is not a valid legal defense, as you seem to think, nor is the
particular REASON the attempt failed considered relevant under the law.

"Thinking about" illegal acts is not against the law here in the USA,
but "attempting to commit" illegal acts certainly is, and always has been.
The fact that the attempt failed does not suddenly make the attempt LEGAL.

If a 35 year old male solicits a REAL 13 year old girl, whether in person or via the internet, then that is a crime.

If a 35 yer old male solicits another 35 year old male posing as a 13 year old girl, then that is not a crime. It is a fine line, but technically the person did not commit a crime against a minor because there was not a minor involved. Therefore a sting like this is technically wrong.

Some people have attempted to hire assassins, to commit
murder for money, but then discovered that the "assassin"
was actually an undercover cop who has been recording their
conversations.

By your line of reasoning, those ATTEMPTED MURDERERS
have committed no crimes either.

Billions have thought about it. However, they have never attempted the act. So they still are allowed to roam the earth with that wonderful thought....as long as they don't attempt it.:headbang:

from young kids is wrong until they actually have sex?

I could buy your argument if everyone knew there were no underage people involved but the pervert was busted for fantasizing about it being an underage girl.

That's not what happened.

What happened wasn't THOUGHT but ACTION in the direction of illegal preying on minor children. It doesn't matter if the person on the other end was ACTUALLY underage or just pretending to be. If he didn't want to break any laws, he didn't need to solicit her for sex.

I'm not a big fan of sting operations in general (tho strongly favor these), but YOUR argument would render all sting operations as "thought crimes," and that just doesn't wash.

Are you saying intention does not matter?

not criminal. However this shithead was arrested while attempting to meet the "girl" at a video store. This is way past thought and if these are they facts I would vote guilty if I was on the jury.

The test is whether the accused has made a "substantial step toward the commission of the crime." If so, the attempt IS a crime, if what the accused believed he was doing would have been a crime. Here, if the Repuke believed he was soliciting sex from a 13-year-old, and if it's a crime to solicit sex from a 13-year-old, then he is guilty of ATTEMPT. Normally, attempt carries a penalty equal to the commission of the crime itself, though this may vary by state.

Law enforcement says they need the law of ATTEMPT in order to be able to thwart crime before it happens and prosecute those who attempt crimes that aren't completed. I have serious problems with this law, but my opinion on the subject is irrelevant, ultimately. As far as I know, an attempt is a crime in all 50 US jurisdictions.

-Laelth

enforcement of the law only, or also protection. Stop a burglary as the perpetrators approach the house, or not? Arrest someone who has only written plans to attempt a Columbine-type assault - or not? Limit criminal investigation to trying to catch child molestors in the act, or ferret them out?

He communicated with her with intent to commit a crime.

Now, you tell me, what ASSHOLE could be so hubris-laden that they see that ugly fucking mug looking back at them in the mirror every day, and they still actually think that thirteen year old children might WANT to have intercourse with their fetid old asses?

Seattle police say Corrigan used the AOL screen name LCOR102 to chat with the fictitious 13 year old girl. Court documents say he bragged he'd already "had sex with a 14 year old girl from Kansas."

Police say LCOR102 eventually switched to the screen name Palisade199. Detectives say he told the 13 year old he was in his 50's and asked her to meet and perform a very specific sex act.

Police say Corrigan also sent the fictitious girl e-mails that contained pornographic images of the kind of sex he wanted to have.

Court documents say on Wednesday, Corrigan showed up at a Capitol Hill video store to meet the fictitious girl. Instead, police threw him in jail. They also searched his Magnolia home and seized his computer.
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Sick bastard!

Explains why he is stalking children. No grown woman wants him. Shame on him indeed. Ass Carrot!

But I must say you as always demonstrate EXCELLENT taste and judgment--the guy IS an "Ass Carrot!!!" (Thanks for that laugh of the week!!!!)

Ass Carrot!!!! :rofl:

and apparently just as intelligent, 25 years in the prosecutors office, this sick fuck had to know he was going to get caught.

he sent to prison while simultaneously looking for 13 year old girls to molest.

Matter of fact, I wonder how many 13 year old girls he actually molested before he got caught. I always hear constantly that their is no way to reform pedophiles. I think the statistics show that they've molested numerous times before they're caught.

I'm picking December 3RD in the "I'm going to rehab" Office Pool.

(and, I should add, a clever Dem pundit might try this as a good career move as well- this is all me learning from them)

"Well, Mr. Whomever, I think the antigay, "family-values" wing of the republican party may actually be a haven for people who intend to prey on our children. Look at Mark Foley. Look at Larry Corrigan. I have a couple of other names as well, and I think there may be more."

"That's a serious charge, Mr. Zee. Do you think Republicans are child molesters?"

"Why no, Mr. Whomever, I won't go that far, but I do think we should put an eye upon those who trumpet so-called 'family-values' as a good thing to hold dear; they do seem to be all of a type, and both Foley and Corrigan are of that type. I think it is their values that ought to be questioned- based on the fact that it is the behavior of particular 'family values' type persons that is in question here."

And go from there.

:rofl:

Sure, like that'll happen. Like it would ever be allowed on the air. But I think you get my point. Enough of them have been found to have had, shall we say, an unhealthy fascination with quite young adults, to warrant investigations. :evilgrin:

Not that the victimization is a good thing, but... we need to show them we can indeed play on their level- except, we have the truth- about Foley and Corrigan and who knows how many others (you see how that meme works? you just sliiide it on in :D ) they've affected- on our side. Look, one thing these people respond to is money, but the other thing they respond to is shame; it has to be deep shame to make them stop. Public shame. Shame the likes of which has driven the sensitive to suicide, because They're Tough(tm), They're A Bush ((tm) this phrase is being used as a label for a particular type of person, and not a member of the Bush family: thus, they are Bushly), and by God Almighty, they can take it, come what may.

:D :thumbsup:

Sorry, I'm wandering. But it really is pretty fucking amazing, isn't it, that all these carrotass republicans (thank you, whoever coined that earlier tonight) seem to be going to jail or otherwise having serious problems for crimes or indiscretions related to particular types of involvement with minors, and yet these very selfsame people have advocated against another group (we GLBTers) in terms that, were they placed in a mirror, would only accurately describe them.

:think: :freak: :scared:

We need to learn how to use their own sorts of arguments against them, that tone of voice, that construction of sentence, that sort of logic, to communicate with the people about the deeds that have been done. The difference is, we have the truth with which to construct those arguments, that tone of voice, that construction of sentence, that sort of logic. There is nothing dishonorable about using their tactics against them to hammer them into the oblivion they (the neocons and their ilk) so richly deserve.

The GOP has, for the last six years (and beyond; they went well past merely setting the stage for this in the Clinton years), adopted a particularly caustic mode of thought and inflicted it upon an unsuspecting public; the end result is a generally more crass society, and to their liking: many of the societal changes we've seen are tilted toward an anger, a frustration, a carrot-and-stick societal philosophy in which the carrot is seen, but rarely, if ever, given (here, I'm speaking to the anger, the crassness, and the general rude attitudes I've seen developing in myself and around me- yes, I'm a victim of it as well; we all are). If you have trouble with that, examine your common ideal of the American Dream(tm).

It is time, and past time, that we engaged this fight with every trick that has ever been used against us: with the truth on our side, those tactics shed their ghastly connotations, and become strategies of a People lost in the valleys of the night.

Good Monster, that took a while to do. I'm going to bed now.

ed.: fixed smilies

The reason why these GOoPer pols are so pro-family values is because they have none themselves. It is nothing more - and nothing less - that wishful thinking that drives them to pursue social engineering policies that will apply to everyone else BECAUSE they themselves cannot bring themselves to act in accordance to their own version of morals and rules. In effect, they recognize that they are sick and the cure, they hope, will be forcing everyone else to comply with their deranged demands.

Kinda like, "stop me before I sin again."

The Family Values brigade is a cynical ploy to appeal to the bigoted, arrogant, self-righteous religious right AND to divide Americans from one another by feeding the "holier than thou" delusions of said religious right.

Those Repub family values are shining though....

Repukes may not have a monopoly on this stuff, but they sure have a majority interest.

The list isn't complete, but it gives you an idea of how twisted the Repug "family values" are.

How hard would it be for Freepers to assemble a similar list for Dems?

Pretty hard, I suspect.

Now the budget he oversaw will be used to prosecute his case and put him in jail. Oh, the irony.

Pity the gears of justice move a month too slowly.

I posted about it in the Washington forum. He worked on his campaign for sheriff. If only this had happened a month ago indeed...

...connection, I'm all ears.

Any theories?

Do pedophiles sense that other Republicans are pedophiles or supportive of those crimes?

I grew up with a hard-core, right-wing conservative nutjob for a father. He
was also an abuser and a psychopath who hid his secrets behind his CEO status
and church activities. He was drawn to the Republican party like a moth to the flame.

It feels as if psychopaths/sociopaths/narcissists understand that the power structure of the Republican party validates their pathology--and makes it ok to be abnormal.

One cannot deny that there are scads of pedophiles in the Republican party. The
list is so long. It's really remarkable that the press hasn't dug deeper into
this.

The current Republican party is malignant. Their policies seem to embolden perversity,
as this political cancer within the GOP grows further.

Republican sex animals are on the prowl.

The article reveals that the local prosecutor has turned the case over to the state prosecuting Attorney General, Norm Maleng (who Corrigan supported). Norm Maleng, a Republican, oversaw the recount in 04 that put Democratic Governor, Christine Gregoire, in office by 32 votes, much to the chagrin of the state Republican party. Maleng was re-elected in 06 by a wide margin.

Rep. Dave Reichert (R) just won a narrow re-election victory. This would have killed his chances if it happened a month ago.

Redstone

"Family values".......what a freakin joke! They're going to need something else to run on. Their values are in the bottom of the cesspool. :rofl:

Now get the image of some homosexual hot chatting with a young man over legal age of consent and you've got a sex scandal.

Every 13 year old female has to put up with inappropriate advances from the day they start showing breasts. It's only news if it's a 17 year old male who had a homosexual ask for his picture. Females just need to learn to live with it no matter how young. Males must be protected from that kind of crap no matter how old.

Nope. It's not sexist. It's not homophobic. This story will be just as big as the Foley scandal.

Anybody need some swampland in Louisiana?