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.
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.
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.
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.