Another American government entity shames its President, its country, and itself as a group and its individual members. Or is it possible for any part of this government to even feel shame? All assholes in government grabbing for what they feel entitled to, whether it's GSA members partying it up in Vegas, the sanctimonious members of Congress chewing them out for doing that while taking every cent they can get from lobbyists, or Blackwater punk-ass wanna-bes running amok in every country thinking that because they dress up in black suits and wear dark glasses and run alongside or maybe even drive smoke-tint windowed limos and SUVs, the world belongs to them.
So Americans are picturing a Colombian hooker looking like an overdone Sofia Vergara screeching to the hotel manager that she hadn't been paid by the American 'john'. Next, it apparently goes up the chain, she gets paid, but the police have to get involved (somewhat ironic, this being Colombia after all), and they have to file a report with the U.S. embassy.
What seems to have 'allegedly' happened, because her ID was still at the front desk of the hotel, the woman was still known to be in the hotel room after checkout time. When the hotel investigated, she says she's waiting to get paid and the manager uncovers (like he didn't already know) the fact that he was a member of the Secret Service; the guy is hunted down, (now THERE'S a conversation I'd like to have been a fly on the wall during), her 'man friend' says he did pay her, and it seems that he finally did, but because of Colombian rules covering just this eventuality, reports have to be filed with embassies, and lo and behold, an international incident ensues. LITERALLY, an INTERNATIONAL INCIDENT!!!
So it appears that we now we have a new bunch of entitled punk-ass bullies throwing themselves around the world like Blackwater assholes, fucking the local women and refusing to pay for legal services rendered, as shitty as that sounds.
Their swaggering attitude says "Don't you know who I am? Who's going to say anything, since we are these are big-time American Presidente guards, so that should be very awesome to these pissy local whores. What are they going to say? Pay me? They should be thanking us, the men, goddamit!! This is a big deal, a big business (remember that word, I'll come back to it later) for this crappy little hotel, crappy little community, crappy little country, dammit. Now, because of a stupid whore who didn't know what was good for herself and her job and the overall betterment of her society that probably won't see anything like this come their way again, (see, there's that business connection, and it's probably now broken) she let her private principles overcome public policy."
Well, good for her, I say. Unless, of course, they go all New Jersey mob on her ass for insisting on payment, embarrassing the hotel and city and possibly costing everybody a lot of upfront cash, let alone the kickbacks and bribes, and decide to drop her in an ocean or a rain forest without her head.
Everything about this is so ridiculously sleazy, from the lazy tawdriness of the 'good old boy' suggestions that nothing was THAT wrong, that there were no really long-term problems, that they're ONLY HUMAN, (GODDAMN I hate that one!), to the other end of the spectrum of more guys slamming them into the ground. All guys, I've noticed.
Also, there's the always overlooked issue about the conditions that contribute to the multiple humiliation of the women who have to make their living in the trade of prostitution.
For whatever reasons, prostitution is legal in Colombia, and so it is disgusting and immoral and ILLEGAL to refuse to pay for it. It is a service that is rendered, and as such it is wrong to partake of it and refuse to pay for it.
Without a doubt there are some kickbacks to be paid to the hotel, to the concierge, to the police, it wouldn't surprise me even possibly to the embassy, one or both. These women earn their money, and deserve every cent of it ($47.00 I heard on a news show! Od's Fish!!)
Now there are a whole bunch of Secret Service guys probably out of jobs, already scrounging for book deals, bottom feeding over to Fox News for any open spot on their self-pity line-up, because as we all know, there is a WAR ON WHITE MEN, and these guys are the ultimate VICTIMS of the Obama administration!
It was Obama's JOB to protect the Secret Service from itself, especially after the Salahi fiasco at the inauguration ball in '09! The shameful shoddiness from that period has apparently gotten fixed, not as in repaired, but fixed as in firmed up and cemented in place, leading to a legacy of disgraceful attitudes and behavior.