10 Replies to “I Wants to Make Your Flesh Creep [Dan Collins]”

1. TomB says:

   September 2, 2007 at 12:57 pm

   I read Steyn’s article this morning and my first thought was he mistakenly thinks Karsnia was the arresting officer. Now this doesn’t make a lot of difference in his conclusions, but it will cause him no end of grief if I’m right.

   A pox on both their houses (Craig and the cops), I say.

2. Dan Collins says:

   September 2, 2007 at 12:59 pm

   Karsnia was the arresting officer in the Craig case, but not the Oosnik (or whatever the violinist’s name is) case.

3. TomB says:

   September 2, 2007 at 1:18 pm

   I thought it was Officer Wingate. But it might be me who is conflating the Craig and Greencycles case.

4. Robin Roberts says:

   September 2, 2007 at 3:06 pm

   Both Beldar and Steyn are right, IMO.

5. Dan Collins says:

   September 2, 2007 at 3:14 pm

   Is Beldar right about what I said, Robin?

6. SteveG says:

   September 2, 2007 at 5:14 pm

   I’m laughing here. Karsnia is obviously on the shit list at the airport. Sitting in a stall all day in a mens room not only sounds awful, but it has gotta smell bad.
   After a while Karsnia could probably tell depature details and airline by the stench from the next stall. Ah, San Antonio tex-mex mixed with Northwest’s chicken sandwich… the guy works in hell

7. Beldar says:

   September 2, 2007 at 6:53 pm

   Steyn’s column is a hoot, as usual. As is Protein Wisdom! (In a Viking sort of way.)

   Some of the other cops in the biking fiddler encounter came off looking badly, but … the jury verdict looks like a compromise that ended up reflecting slightly worse on the fiddler than on the cops. My guess is the fiddler probably had some of the jurors ready to stomp his glasses, too, but that’s just a guess. Anyway, I just don’t see much of a role from Karsnia in that case, nor much connection between it and Craig’s.

   Being any kind of vice cop would be an unpleasant job, and I don’t think I could bring myself to do it. Seems like anyone who enjoyed it would be inclined to abuse it. But I haven’t read or heard anything much that made me think Karsnia was doing anything other than his best at what surely was an unpleasant job.

   I presume that assignment did let him catch up on his reading.

8. happyfeet says:

   September 2, 2007 at 7:22 pm

   There was an AP article that came out in their frenzy to flood the zone on the Craig story that didn’t get much pickup it seems. I think this might be because it seems to me that they give enough information to compromise the identities of certain of the 40 or so other guys who have been busted at the Minneapolis airport in the past few months, and maybe editors recognized that. But they report something in that article I didn’t see elsewhere:

   Police nabbed a few of the suspects by other means, such as responding to posts on Internet sites by men looking to arrange a quick hookup as they passed through the airport.

   That proactivity contrasts with the passive lurking spider metaphor that Steyn and others employ.

9. happyfeet says:

   September 3, 2007 at 3:23 am

   By the way Dan – I changed my mind about the timing. Craig was set to announce whether or not he would seek re-election in just 2-3 weeks from when the story broke. The scandal would have had a different tone if all the news stories had included “Craig, who has already announced that he is not seeking election…”

10. Dan Collins says:

    September 3, 2007 at 6:23 am

    Good digging, hf. I’m going to point that out around the block.

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