Now it makes sense. Remember Eric Williamson? He was the Fairfax, Virginia man arrested for making coffee while naked and alone in his own kitchen. He was 'viewed' by a woman and her 7-year-old who were taking a shortcut across his property. Rather than apologize, knock on his door to complain or just shrug it off, the woman called the police to report a pervert and Williamson now faces a year in jail. Why does it make sense now?

According to the Washington Post: As officers tell it, the 45-year-old woman, the wife of a Fairfax police officer, was walking her son to school about 8:40 a.m. along a well-traveled path between public tennis courts and the house where Williamson had been living for three months when a noise drew her attention to a side door. That's when she first noticed Williamson standing nude in the doorway, she said.

It was the wife of a Fairfax police officer whose delicate pupils were seared by peeping through the window of a neighbor. it was the son of a Fairfax police officer who knows now to call the police on a pervert when you peep through windows and see things you don't like. Those who are 'insiders' of the legal or political system in America are a de facto elite class and, so, receive "protections" to which the rest of us are not privy.

Does anyone believe this case would be pursued if it was a clerk at WalMart married to a gas jockey who complained? The husband-cop got angry...and this is what happens when cops want to vent. Rank has its privileges. That used to mean those with rank had generous expense accounts; now it means they have special status under the law. I guess there are no murders, rapes, thefts, assaults and other real crimes stacked up on police desks in Fairfax.

Unhappily for Williamson, the fact that it is a cop's wife and the case has garnered international attention means the police are likely to pursue a conviction zealously in order to prove themselves in the "right." He could take a plea deal, like so many innocent people do. But that is likely to land him on a sex registry along with a notation that his offense involved a 7-year-old child. Such a listing would make him largely unemployable, unable to attend public places like church or a park and banned from living in most areas of most cities.