Posted on 07/25/2009 12:17:13 AM PDT by Schnucki
It’s looking as if Barack Obama has very seriously blundered over Gatesgate - implying a policeman was racist for arresting the pompous and abusive Professor Henry Louis Gates. The more details that emerge, the worse Obama – and Gates – appear:
Dennis O’Connor, chairman of the Cambridge Superior Officers Association, accused the president of blundering into something he knew little about.
He said: “When you don’t have all the facts, your next words should be ‘I have no comment’.”
Stephen Killian, the president of the Cambridge Police Patrol Officer’s Association said that Mr Obama’s comments were “disgraceful”
“For this to happen to Sgt Crowley is wrong. Cambridge officers are not stupid, and they should make an apology to us and every law enforcement person who took offence at this,” he added.
Alan McDonald, lawyer for the Cambridge police department, added: “There is no evidence whatsoever the arrest was race-based. It was in inappropriate of him [Mr Obama] to make the allegation.”
It has also emerged that Sgt Crowley has taught a racial profiling class at the Lowell Police Academy in Boston for five years with a black colleague and was handpicked by a senior black officer for the role.
Prof Gates called Sgt Crowley a “rogue policeman” and demanded an apology but has yet to elaborate on his initial account of the incident.
A charge against him of disorderly conduct was dropped on Tuesday, when the case was first made public.
Sgt Crowley said he made the arrest after Prof Gates overreacted and refused to end a stream of invective and accusations of racism that had followed routine questions and procedure.
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.telegraph.co.uk ...
How interesting. So the msm has been selective in reporting the nasty professor’s reply to the ‘beer’ invite.
Some have reported that he considers it an opportunity to discuss racial profiling..........(how sweet) but he has also commented that he doesn’t drink beer. (is he, too, a muslim?)
HA, it’s now a world wide incident.
I've seen statements that Gates' remarks were recorded on tape by the officer. I don't know how this stands, but it would explain a lot. It would create a strong position for the various police organizations that have jumped into the fray, kind of like the blue dress.
Carley .. my dear, he’s a Harvard professor .. he drinks only Chablis. Beer is for peasants.
When Obama took sides on this issue, he only knew two facts for certain. Gates was black and the arrresting officer was white. For Obama, that was all he needed to know.
Obama handled his remarks about people ‘clinging to their guns and religion’, the same way: He claimed he had chosen his words poorly. But his sentiments are still what they are.
He can go around the world and apologize for the actions of his own country (if indeed this is his own country), yet he can never seem to apologize for his own actions and thoughts.
Or Irish cops, so O thinks!
Twenty years of Reverend Wright's anti-white, anti-Jew sermons have taken root in his soul.
NO self-respecting Irish cop would drink chablis .. bring on the beer!
Exactly . He is a racist , pure and simple . Some of us already knew that of course - now the whole world does . Invites Gates and the police officer to the White House for a beer . What a jerk .
“”Association of African American Vintners””
The Association of African American Vintners describes itself as follows: “Mac McDonald’s latest vision is a marketing group, which promotes the fact that he’s not the only African American enjoying the art of making wine. ‘We’re going to better promote ourselves by uniting our ideas and resources,’ said McDonald when recently asked if there really was a need to form a group of vintners of color. ‘
I passionately believe that there’s an audience outside the spectrum of color, so I don’t want to see a group that singularly isolates itself. On the other hand, I don’t want to miss opportunities, either. We all know there’s strength in numbers.””
I am sure the racist Gates only purchases his wine from this organization.
The public here do not support the police on this, which is no surprise. What is amazing to me is how stupid they look when doing so. Whether it's letters or calls to radio shows, every effete Cantabridgian has some halfassed story to tell about how they have witnessed racism here (one woman who sounded like she was stoned talked on and on about how the police asked two black friends of hers if they were smoking dope, and how racist this was, but couldn't answer the simplest questions as to why the police were even talking to her friends in the first place). A local liberal radio host is outraged about this and doesn't seem to understand that his words and tone betray that he, like Gates, is just another "Do you know who I am????" lib.
I have been spoken to by police on more than one occasion and while I can criticize specific officers and specific behavior, I have the ability to get outside myself and see the difficulty of the job and the reasons for certain behavior by police I might find objectionable. Gates and the rest of these fools can't grasp that when someone calls in a report, the police cannot just appear at the scene and, when someone says "It's fine" just walk away. There was a report of a possible break-in by more than one person, and when the officer showed up, the front door was open;the officer asked the man if he was alone, and then to step outside on the chance that someone was inside, or the person he saw was under duress. Also, it isn't a case of a break-in being done by the cliche young guy--what if this break-in was the result of an older man who had a specific reason for wanting to break into this house?
These and other possibilities must enter the citizen's thoughts when dealing with a police officer in a situation where the citizen indeed knows the facts, but the officer doesn't yet. The officer is in your house because of concern for the safety of the people living there--YOU may know the facts, but HE doesn't, for if he did he wouldn't be there. So it is up to you to carefully and politely inform him, and if he requests ID and such, you give it to him.
Police aren't always right, and citizens aren't always wrong. But both are only human. When you see a policeman coming into your house, don't assume he has your particular biases, or ones similar. All you can assume is that the was a cop called to check out something which, if your brain is engaged, you KNOW would look strange to someone who doesn't have the information you have.
All of this is beyond the wussy pot-smoking peacenic backseat freedom fighters of Cambridge, who only see this as yet another opportunity for them to practice their bumper sticker politics and pretend they're fighting for civil rights.
P.S. I have a feeling some of the same Cambridge folks who are bellowing the loudest were those who signed a petition described in this article:
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1282/is_n25_v41/ai_8251987/
As his “legal” attempts at dictatorship fail he will use every power of the presidency—and then some—to,in His words,”remake” America in “His” image.
2AM!! Must be the battle cry at every patriot gathering when the oppression starts.”2AM!” is the 2nd Amendment—our last and best hope for the salvation of the legacy of the Founding Fathers.
2AM is late,but not too late if God is with us.
I've been thinking that, too. As he gets weaker, I think there's more and more likelihood that he will provoke or feign some sort of incident that will let him seize all the powers of government.
I have a family member who has been on a big city police force for years. Heck, even she will tell you that individual police do occasionally act like jerks...but it’s certainly not the rule. Interestingly, the most difficult people she has to deal with are generally the black welfare population - and white professionals. The latter are the ones who, if they’re stopped for a traffic infraction, immediately scream “do you know who I am?” In their tiny minds, being a city bureaucrat or an attorney apparently makes them so special they can drive 20 miles above the speed limit. Usually they have the common sense to shut up after she warns them, though, and reaching for the handcuffs (the next step) is enough to make them fall silent and start looking for their vehicle papers. Some of them won’t shut up and do end up being arrested for interfering with police business or some variation on disorderly conduct.
The police do not act on their own, but have procedures that they have been taught to follow. These are for their own protection, as well, and they follow them carefully. Every police officer knows of a case where somebody didn’t check the house carefully enough, opened a door the wrong way, was inattentive to procedure for a moment in a traffic stop, and ended up dead.
I’m sorry to hear the attitude of the folks in Cambridge. But it reminds me of something my cop family member told me: these same yuppie types who mouth off at the cops are the very ones who, after a burglary at their homes, will call the police station every day to ask if their missing possessions have been found yet, or why the police aren’t “looking harder.” Good grief. It’s all about them.
That attitude is one of the things that I find hardest to take about Obama, because he has it to the nth degree: the yuppie “it’s all about me” mantra runs in his head at every waking moment. Grievance groups, such as the various race associations, just take this attitude one step further and give themselves a permanent reason to think it’s all about them. Gates is a perfect example of this.
BTW, I lived in Cambridge once, years ago. I literally had to move after only a few months because I found the people so intolerable. And this from somebody who grew up on the Upper West Side (near Columbia) in NY!
The more Obama opens his mouth, the more he shows the world the hatred he was taught at his white grandfather’s communist knee. Obama can’t overcome his prejudices against the United States - they are part of his psyche.
Hatred stifles learning. This is evident in our inner-city schools.
As I have said many times before, it is foolish (stupid) to ask for or even want an apology from someone like Gates or Hussein. It will be a lie. We all know that. Asking for an apology is simply asking to be fooled. Please deceive us, we can’t deal with the truth.
The last thing we want to do here is “move on”. Yes dear leader, we do want a dialog on race. We want to hear you explain why you are such a race baiter, and we want to discuss it 24/7.
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