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Nonviolent "vice" crimes are a complete waste of time and resources. No Federal crime-fighting entity should spend any time on them, and local police forces should make them minimum priority. Few things irritate me more than seeing my tax dollars paying for our government to hold up a hypocritical and archaic moral standard about sex, or an ignorant and racist standard for drug use. As far as I'm concerned, so long as no one gets hurt, the government has no business playing zipper patrol, or checking what people put in their pipes and smoke.
I look at investigations like this, and I think, "How much did this cost?" How much could we have improved a public school, or how many poor kids could we have fed lunch, or how many people's health care could have been paid, by the money we just pissed away to out a bunch of people who were fucking.
All I can see is that the FBI just spent a huge amount of money, and devoted an enormous amount of its resources away from catching murderers, rapists, armed robbers, and terrorists in order for us to find out two things:
1. Men will pay for sex, even if it's illegal.
2. A politician turned out to be a hypocrite.
Yeah, that's money well spent.
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Dull sublunary lovers love,
Whose soul is sense, cannot admit
Absence, because it doth remove
That thing which elemented it.
(From "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" by John Donne)
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