Posted on 07/21/2009 5:51:48 AM PDT by Islander7
BOSTON – Supporters of a prominent Harvard University black scholar who was arrested at his own home by police responding to a report of a break-in say he is the victim of racial profiling.
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"Gates continued to yell at me, accusing me of racial bias and continued to tell me that I had not heard the last of him," the officer wrote.
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That's the thing I'm wondering..Fox reported:
"Cambridge police say they responded to the well-maintained two-story home near campus after a woman reported seeing "two black males with backpacks on the porch," with one "wedging his shoulder into the door as if he was trying to force entry."
So I assume one of his neighbors turned him in...a joke gone wrong?
That was the arresting officer's true offense. How dare he question one so high born and elite as a black Harvard professor? </sarcasm>
"Don't you know who I am!?" had to have left the Perfesser's lips at one point. These people simply detest being questioned by those of lower station. And from a Storm Trooper no less. Heaven forbid.
I should have mentioned that the house, if owned by Harvard, is probably not taxable income to the “outstanding” people because the University expects them to utilize it from time to time regarding University business, like meeting with other “outstanding” people.
These perks will be renewed in the new tax code/regulations I have no doubt.
I hope there is no retaliation against the witness, the woman, who called the police.
ML/NJ
Read the police report, there was a concerned woman.
read the police report. I think the officer has more credibility than Gates.
A Harvard maintenance guy IDed Gates, BEFORE they took him downtown. Gates asked to be taken in, cannily sensing a PR opportunity.
Once the local flatfoot got a positive ID on Gates as the householder at that address, he should have had the common sense to fuggedaboutit and reassure the witness that everything was OK. File a report, Officer, go about your business.
Cop got played. Stand by for endless African-American Bullshiite.
Re-read "Mau-Mauing The Flack-Catcher." by Tom Wolfe.
You know something. I look at the Bill of Rights and I don't see anything about "concerned women." There is all sorts of stuff there about a man and his castle though. And to the latter I would always extend the benefit of doubt when it is his word against an agent of the state.
ML/NJ
The good prof. no doubt has visions of sugar plums dancing in his head in the form of a multi-million dollar award for the stigma of being confronted by the police “because of his race”—just like the suits against Denny’s because the patrons who had their feelings hurt didn’t feel they were being waited on promptly enough “because of their race”.
Yeah, there’s racism out there alright. The prof. of this very important field of pseudo-study just needs to look in the mirror.
Google “Endowment Director is on Harvard’s Hot Seat”
from the NYT in I think Feb of this year.
Jane Medillo hired as Endowment Director.
‘Going broke’ may be too harsh, but the overall prognosis
for Harvard has changed dramatically. Cash-strapped.
Affected by the same things everyone else is.
I don’t think they’ll fold, but I don’t think the NYT will
fold either.
Google “Endowment Director is on Harvard’s Hot Seat”
from the NYT in I think Feb of this year.
Jane Medillo hired as Endowment Director.
‘Going broke’ may be too harsh, but the overall prognosis
for Harvard has changed dramatically. Cash-strapped.
Affected by the same things everyone else is.
I don’t think they’ll fold, but I don’t think the NYT will
fold either.
Now stop that.
You're kidding, right? Besides the Constitution, you need a copy of the Bill of Rights, for which the Federalist Papers (and the anti-Federalist Papers) won't do you much good. These papers were written BEFORE the amendments which comprise the Bill of Rights, and so they do not consider them except indirectly in philosophical passages. You were supposed to learn this stuff in high school.
Here are the amendments which bear directly upon a man and his castle:
[Amendment III]Amendments 2, 9, and 10 are also relevant.No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.
[Amendment IV]The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
ML/NJ
In re Amendment IV: Fuggedaboutit. It’s gone.
ML/NJ
We have been given the saying, “driving while black”, now we get the saying “doing your job while white.”
You managed to summarize much of my experience with the NE in a few lines. Your use of ‘creeping crud’ brought this to mind.
Liberalism (collectivism in any form) is like what doctors once called ‘creeping irruption’, A.K.A. ring worm.
Like ring worm, Liberalism is surrounded by the rest of the body politic. And, like ring worm, Liberalism will have to be destroyed.
I suggest freezing them out in the voting booth.
FYI the all the Amendments are part of the Constitution, but then you knew that, didn’t you.
The arguments in the Federialist and Anit-Federalist papers are some of the reasons for the Bill of Rights being appended.
I’m having a much trouble finding the word “castle” in the Constitution. I did find it in a Faith Hill song though.
Did you notice in the police report that professor’s door stuck because home had been broken into sometime in the recent past? And that the policeman did not enter the house, but asked good professor to step outside? He did, moouthed off and then got into trouble.
Good luck at Saratoga.
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