Also, the City Manager, David Ready, is GAY.

These self-hating opportunists supported the Police and the chief.

Even AFTER the police chief testified and admitted what REALLY happened, NO COMMENT TO DATE from THE SELF-HATING city council.

Your comment goes to the heart of virtually every police v. citizen conflict: are the police there to make life better for all citizens, or are they there to slam down the “perps”? Are they there to facilitate life or are they there to enforce the law as they see fit?

Emily K is not part of our “staff”. She’s a regular reader and frequent commenter.

Officers patrolling Warm Springs with an aim to assure public safety and help all the parties there understand that there are rules to be observed so that all parties get to go home minimally injured are far more likely to be called in to assist when things really go wrong and serious crimes are discovered. Messages that more or less say, “Be Polite,” “Play Safe,” “Play in Private,” “Even when You are having a Good Time, There Are Some Rules,” “We are Here to Help You,” and “Call Us at_________” are going to contribute far more to public safety and satisfaction than a program of abuse, however moralistic its excuses. The officers involved will require a serious training program, but the good that can be done is huge. I’d even want them to publicly understand the Warm Springs part of their work as “Cruise Director Squad on the Landlocked Love Boat,” but I can see where some folks might find that going a bit too far.

Perhaps your form of communicating could be a bit more amicable? As adults, more like to engage than disengage. Your subtext implies the latter, which seems rather childish and unproductive.

I’m amazed a blog would even have you as part of its staff with such a disabling attitude towards gay men.

Also, you sound somewhat puritanical. Have you never had a sowing-your-wild-oats period in your life?

Nothing in Timothy’s article suggested any judgmental feelings about these sex resorts or anything against the men who operate or attend them.

So when a gay man doesn’t like going to “clothing optional” resorts for untamed sex and doesn’t enjoy cruising he’s “puritanical.” awesome.

I am curious, did what I wrote above all fly over your head when you were there, or did you pick up on it?
Also, you sound somewhat puritanical. Have you never had a sowing-your-wild-oats period in your life?

On the other hand there is lewd conduct that does arise, very discreetly however, very rare as guys want to go into the resorts.

It’s about $85 min for a room and lots of locals want the action but don’t want to pay, hence the hang’n out. So the bottom line is, guys don’t go there to have public sex outside the resorts, so it’s not really even a spot for focused playing around, outside that is. Cruising, yeh that’s the big thing. But if they can’t find someone to let them into the resorts, then boredom and mahem can erupt. And hot cops can make for buckling knees. Or they might get picked up by someone driving by, and the drivers drive veeery slooowly as they are there to cruise too, which is common. It’s actually fab fun for sexual explorers.

Glad the police are getting royally fuckt for the brash double standard. The main two are ones I’d like to see shipped back over the border. Though I like Mexicans a lot, I’m not into rotten enchiladas.

I wonder how many men who were entrapped have already had to register with Califoria’s sex offender registry?

None. If they are found guilty of the charge, they would then have to register. Also, the particular charge stipulates that because of the nature of the situation ONLY police officers would have access to a list of those who had to register. That’s in contrast to the very PUBLIC exposition of other types of sex offender.

This community KNOWS this sting was a SHAM.

Timothy,
Your report is BETTER than our local newspaper here in the Palm Springs area.

The police chief RESIGNED last week. There was an avalanche of outrage over his slurs and the heat just got too intense.

I’m hopeful about the new DA. Zellerbach appears to be an actual *sane* man compared to the MONSTER Pacheco. I’m also getting vibes that there is now way these guys will go to trial under the present charges, or maybe at all.