Bruce Barclay Update: Accuser recants, but Bruce is still a perv
 We can’t decide whether to 1) make a crack about how much Bruce Barclay looks like Drew Carey, or 2) ask if Karl Rove was a client (or employee?) of harrisburgfratboys.com. Anyway, this picture, lifted from Barclay’s Web site (which now bars the whole world from seeing it, but you can see an archived version on The Wayback Machine), has been making the rounds on the Web. And getting laughed at. A lot. Click to enlarge. |
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So, William Marshall McCurdy, the 20-year-old hustler who accused Bruce Barclay of rape, was lying, and now the kid faces charges of “making false reports to law enforcement authorities and unsworn falsifications to authorities. The former charge is a second-degree misdemeanor punishable by up to two years in prison and a $5,000 fine … and the latter is a third-degree misdemeanor punishable by up to one year in prison and a $2,500 fine.”
So, if Barclay was innocent, why did he resign? Because there’s still that little business about having sex with hundreds of callboys in his home, and videotaping the encounters without their knowledge. This is not debatable; Barclay admitted it:
The search turned up hidden cameras throughout Barclay’s Monroe Township home — in bedrooms and bathrooms, in radios, motion detectors and intercom systems…Barclay, a Republican, admitted to troopers that he used the cameras to film between 100 and 500 sexual encounters on the cameras — and that the people he filmed did not know about the surveillance, according to the Cumberland County district court records.
Barclay told troopers on Monday that he also had a hidden camera at his business, and that at least five men were filmed in sexual encounters without their knowledge. His home video surveillance fed directly into his computers, where he saved the footage, court records show.
Ironically, it was the video of Barclay and McCurdy having consensual sex that exonerated Barclay — yet ended his political career, and could still result in criminal charges:
Prior to McCurdy’s confession, Trooper Bryan Henneman reviewed seized video surveillance footage from the night in question and observed both McCurdy and Barclay in the hot tub area together having what appeared to be consensual sexual intercourse, he wrote. …McCurdy then got on Barclay’s bed “of his own free will and accord” and waited for Barclay to enter the bedroom, Henneman wrote. Barclay then turned off the light in the room, Henneman wrote, and he was unable to see any more footage until the lights were turned back on, at which point “it appeared that McCurdy was not in distress and acted casually.” …
Corbett’s announcement supported what Gover [Barclay’s attorney] has been saying since the case broke: That he did not believe a rape charge would ever be filed against Barclay” who has not commented or appeared publicly since the allegation was made. …
Although Barclay, as a prominent person, did things he probably shouldn’t have done, Gover said, the tapes “were a double-edged sword.”
“At least he won’t face a rape prosecution,” Gover said.
However, he admitted that Barclay may face other prosecution. Police say they are investigating invasion or privacy and prostitution charges against Barclay.
So, Bruce Barclay remains a permanent inductee, in bad standing, in the Conservative Babylon Hall of Shame — regardless of whether or not criminal charges are ever filed against him.
As for William McCurdy, if he were actually anyone important, he’d get his own entry in ConBab, because — well, get a load of this:
William Marshall McCurdy was enrolled at Messiah College, a Christian school in Grantham, for three semesters…Messiah College’s “Community Covenant” lists homosexuality as one of a list of “sinful practices” students are to avoid.
McCurdy was also an Eagle Scout — you know, the highest rank in the rabidly anti-gay Boy Scouts of America.
Here are some interesting factoids (not facts, mind you, but factoids) from the U.S. Scouting Service Project:
What happens to a Scout? For every 100 boys who join Scouting, records indicate that:* RARELY will one be brought before the juvenile court system
* 2 will become Eagle Scouts
. . .
* 12 will have their first contact with a church
* 1 will enter the clergy
* 5 will earn their church award
* 18 will develop a hobby that will last through their adult life …
Well, McCurdy did develop an interesting hobby!
Meanwhile, Mechanicsburg Area Senior High School really needs to re-think the naming of its newly renovated auditorium, no matter how much money the “honoree” donated.
