Misplaced Priorities...

...or "For The Benefit of the Girl Who Is Still Upset That She Was Conceived in a Public Toilet"

This is very off topic, but relevant, since a troll has unfortnuately followed me over to this blog from my personal blog (sorry, guys) and posted the most disgusting personal attack I think I've ever had leveled at me.

It all started with an article from my local paper, which I posted on my blog and posted literally two sentences about before I posted a whole extremely long post about something else.

Some fun highlights of this story:

Now the mayor has shifted his attention to a robotic toilet, saying the invention could have a special edge over a traditional restroom in preventing the "homosexual activity" that he said plagues other public restrooms.

The robo-john the city might buy for $250,000 or more allows occupants to stay inside for only a short time before the door opens. Probably not enough time for "illegal sex," Naugle figures.

That's calling out ONLY homosexuals for having sex in public restrooms. How about heterosexuals? So that's gaybashing right there. And I, since I live here (and our idiot troll does not) will be paying for that with my tax money. Here's another nice little tidbit:

"We're trying to provide a family environment where people can take their children who need to use the bathroom," he said, "without having to worry about a couple of men in there engaged in a sex act."

Though police say sex in restrooms is no longer a hot crime, the mayor thinks it is. He talked about the illicit sex recently in public meetings, in an interview and in e-mails to residents.

Naugle, not a stranger to public controversy, particularly on the issue of gays, said public restrooms are pickup places for "homosexuals. ... They're engaging in sex, anonymous sex, illegal sex."

Again, the gaybashing. I know for a fact heterosexuals have sex in public restrooms. People in general, when desperate, will have sex anywhere they can (Glenn could tell us a funny story about his old house in Tallahassee). Police say that sex in restrooms is no longer a hot crime. That's a key statement.

Some good information on our wonderful mayor:

When the Christian outreach event Beachfest came to town in 2003, he said anyone who had a problem with the city's official embrace of the religious festival "can move to Iraq."

He angered middle class residents last year when he said housing prices would be affordable if people worked more hours instead of sitting on the couch drinking beer. Earlier this year, he refused to sign a mayor's pact to reduce greenhouse gases. Naugle said global warming is not caused by humans and that the pact contained "hate-America stuff that the environmental wackos want in."

Wonderful man, that is. Proud that my tax monies will go to that.

As one of the more, uh, sane commissioners said:

The beach needs more toilets, he said, and the decision shouldn't be made on whether people will use them for sex. And they still might, he said, even in the short time-frame.

"I'm not an expert on public toilet sex," said Trantalis, "but there are those who would say one minute would be enough. Or 30 seconds."

And lastly, this is just for you dear Linda, who thinks that public restroom sex is such a problem:

Police officials said male sex in restrooms is actually not a problem, anymore.

"There's no evidence, no reports or arrests made for any men having sex in any restrooms," said Sgt. Frank Sousa. NO reports and NO arrests made.

So it's not a problem. Just a problem for you, apparently. Which I'm pretty sure I diagnosed- people who have such insane and intense problems with such asinine things are usually that way because of something in their life- such as the preacher who obsessed about gay sex who we find out has gay sex. I don't even want to know Linda's preoccupation with public restrooms and sex.

And now, let's look at some numbers here-

In Broward County, about 8.7% of families and 11.5% of the population were below the poverty line, including 15.3% of those under age 18 and 10.0% of those age 65 or over. 15.3% of KIDS are impoverished.

Broward County as a 48.7% dropout rate. That means almost 50% of kids drop out of school here.

Broward County recorded 75,314 "index offenses" in 2006- index offenses being Murder, Sexual Offenses, Robbery, Aggravated Assault, Burglary, Larceny, and Motor Vehicle Theft. The violent crime rate was 614, the non-violent 3,612. Broward had 87 murders, 3,685 robberies, 6,152 aggrivated assaults, 13,218 burgularies, 44,240 larceny arrests, 7,092 grand theft auto arrests. We also had 840 forcible sex offense arrests. The ratio is 75,314 crimes committed in a county the population of 1,753,166- or 4,295 crimes per 100,000 residents. Crimes meaning actual crimes- not consentual sex of any kind, whether it is in a restroom, parked car, the bushes, an office, etc. Seventeen of the thirty-one cities within Broward saw crime increase, and homicides have gone up (even though crime for the State of Florida has dropped).

The North Broward Hospital District Health Care for the Homeless program estimates there are 8,000-10,000 homeless people in Broward, much of them children, with veterans, people who fought for this country, being a large chunk of them, if not a majority, and most of the rest of them homeless because of medical bills.

It's estimated that Broward County has 30,000 living without health insurance.

Because I work for a governmental entity within the County, I called BSO to find out if I could get numbers for arrests for public sexual acts. I was told that they could probably squeeze out some numbers, but they are so low they are lumped in with other "lewd and lacivious" acts, like streaking, flashing, etc. And all of those acts together are an extremely small number and in most cases carry little penalty and don't reflect Broward's crime index. Because it's not much of a crime or a problem. There's your fucking numerical analysis.

If you think that tax money should be spent on robotic bathrooms that open the door after one minute (and any man or woman will tell you that legitamate bathroom acts often take more than one fucking minute) while we have other things that are ACTUAL FUCKING CRIMES and we have children living in poverty and we have possibly 10,000 homeless people here. And you worry about sex in public restrooms; something so ridiculous I was almost laughed off the phone.

People who think that idiotic social victimless non-crimes are more important and more deserving of tax dollars than REAL crime (rapes, murders, robberies, assaults, etc.) and poverty and homelessness and health care for children and seniors, are disgusting people who don't deserve to be called American. That lack of perspective and compassion is the most disgusting thing I can imagine, and I can only hope that a sane majority will always keep people like that (read: Linda) in a fringe minority. I might not want to be in the stall next to two people getting it on. But I'd much rather see someone get the health care they need, or see children graduate from high school and not live in poverty, or see police policing actual crimes. Any sane person would.