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In Minneapolis in January of 1992 a prominent Democratic civil rights activist and one time Senatorial candidate, the middle-aged Earl Craig, was murdered by 1-year-old Jayme Starkey. Starkey had been picked up by Craig, who then took him to his apartment where Starkey killed Craig. According to reports, Craig had a history and predilection for sexual cruising for anonymous young males, including once being stopped by police with a fifteen-year-old hitchhiker.

Starkey was convicted of murder. His defense insisted that Craig had attempted to rape him and Starkey acted in self-defense. The Court prevented testimony to the jury about Craig's history of sexual cruising for anonymous youthful males. Also excluded were pornographic tapes that belonged to Craig that included depictions of homosexual rape. The Minnesota Supreme Court, upholding the conviction, said that though the tapes should have been admitted at trial, the exclusion was "harmless error".

At Craig's memorial, attended by luminaries from the Democratic Party, including Paul Wellstone and Don Frasier, DFL State Senator Allen Spear eulogized, "There was no aspect of his life that was dishonorable." The audience responded "Hear, hear." The Star Tribune editorialized on January 16, 1992 "Maybe no one is irreplaceable, but where will the Twin Cities find another Earl Craig." Jayme Starkey may in fact merely have been an opportunistic, cold-blooded murderer, but, nonetheless, Craig's acknowledged predatory behavior towards youthful males went virtually unquestioned (and even condoned) by Democrats and the local media. And through the words of Allen Spear and the response of his fellow Democrats, his predatory behavior towards young males was applauded.

p>That is the true moral character of the Democratic Party, not this phony outrage manufactured in part by the funding of Democratic bagman George Soros, compatriot of another drug addled predator, Allen Ginsberg, who once proudly proclaimed "We're going to get you through your children." br> -- Martin Vaala /p> p> How do Republicans respond to charges that Dennis Hastert resign? I have decided that Christopher Shays can speak for me: "Hastert didn't kill anybody" referring to that fat-pig-drunken-slob Kennedy. br> -- Jack Hughes br> Chicago, Illinois /p> p>

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