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t was a marked change in tone for Gates, 58, who in the days following his arrest gathered up his legal team and said he was contemplating a lawsuit. He even vowed to make a documentary on his arrest to tie into a larger project about racial profiling.
1 posted on 07/25/2009 2:10:55 PM PDT by Dubya
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I don’t want to move on. I want this to GO on and on.


78 posted on 07/25/2009 3:25:39 PM PDT by truthkeeper ("Why oh why didn't I take the blue pill?")
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He wants to “move on” because the audio in the police tapes is very, very incriminating against him!! That’s why!!

Fool.


79 posted on 07/25/2009 3:26:00 PM PDT by SilvieWaldorfMD (Airlines can take their $15-per-checked-bag surcharge and shove it!)
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He wants to “move on” because the audio in the police tapes is very, very incriminating against him!! That’s why!!

Fool.


80 posted on 07/25/2009 3:26:09 PM PDT by SilvieWaldorfMD (Airlines can take their $15-per-checked-bag surcharge and shove it!)
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Something’s up....


81 posted on 07/25/2009 3:26:30 PM PDT by Tzimisce (No thanks. We have enough government already. - The Tick)
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Gates says it's time to 'move on' from his arrest

It didn't work, Obama flubbed using it politically, and most support the officer.

If not he would be screaming RACISM to the high heavens presently.

82 posted on 07/25/2009 3:28:18 PM PDT by EGPWS (Trust in God, question everyone else)
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he will pass the baton to Jesse and Al.


88 posted on 07/25/2009 3:37:15 PM PDT by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid! (Obama, the first ever 3 in a half year, lame duck TOTUS)
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Gates wants to "move on" because he knows there is a good potential that the Police have an audio of his rants and he...and Obama...do not want it heard.

IMHO, one of the most revealing thing about the issue with Gates is that he is so clearly another person and instance of a pattern that fits Obama's other "close friends".

Racist, hate filled, angry, people who detest traditional America and the free market and whose seething hatred is only just below the surface...and in some cases always out in the open. Frank Davis, Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn, Jeremiah Wright, Henry Louis Gates, even his own wife, Michelle (by her own admission)...and the list goes on and on.

There is a clear pattern here that the MSM not only knows, but refuses to report. And that is because most of them share this hatred.

Obama and all those pushing his radical agenda are abject marxist ideologues. Their "fundamental; change" is nothing more than a destruction of the American free market and fundamental republican principle.

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89 posted on 07/25/2009 3:39:54 PM PDT by Jeff Head (Freedom is not free...never has been, never will be. (www.dragonsfuryseries.com))
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Too Late, Bubba Gates.
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We found THIS story:
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=104928

JERUSALEM – The lawyer representing Henry Louis Gates Jr., the Harvard professor at the center of a national race controversy, was a mentor of both Barack and Michelle Obama and served on the president’s black advisory council.

Charles Ogletree Jr., himself a Harvard University professor, is closely linked to the Black Panthers and to radical black ideology.
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And now, 0bama’s been outed as a Radical Black Ideologist, at the least.

This is getting good. Keep talkin’ y’all. From out of the heart, the mouth speaks. And Y’0bama been layin’ it on us gooooooooood with words like “stupid.”


90 posted on 07/25/2009 3:40:12 PM PDT by HighlyOpinionated (I believe in CHOICE: Let the Fetus decide whether to be born or to spontaneously abort. FETAL CHOICE)
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"in the end, this is not about me at all."

Now where have I heard that one before ... ? Sounds like Gates is borrowing talking points from Mr. Obama. They must have had a good chat.


91 posted on 07/25/2009 3:43:56 PM PDT by so_real ( "The Congress of the United States recommends and approves the Holy Bible for use in all schools.")
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Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. says he is ready to move on from his arrest by a white police officer, hoping to “*USE*” the encounter to improve fairness in the criminal justice system and saying “in the end, this is not about me at all.”


And this was his intention all along. He took the playbook right out of the flying Imams’s hands.


94 posted on 07/25/2009 3:51:28 PM PDT by eaglestar
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Henry Louis Gates Jr.

95 posted on 07/25/2009 3:54:38 PM PDT by dragnet2
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Let’s not; let us always remember this P.O.S. and how he tried to end the career of a decent working white man through malicious deceit.


96 posted on 07/25/2009 3:57:09 PM PDT by Carlos Martillo II (Guernica was a work of art...and I don't mean the painting.)
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Hmmmm....fine, right after the tapes are released for all to hear.


97 posted on 07/25/2009 4:03:46 PM PDT by jennyjenny
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gathered up his legal team

He has a legal team on call? That's just damn scary.

102 posted on 07/25/2009 4:10:48 PM PDT by Jean S
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"in the end, this is not about me at all."

Funny, because "in the end" I'll bet it's all about him (and Obama) and his behavior that is exposed on those tapes.

103 posted on 07/25/2009 4:12:03 PM PDT by jennyjenny
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They routinely release 911 tapes (which I object to), so why not release the tape of Gates’s rant?
104 posted on 07/25/2009 4:16:53 PM PDT by clintonh8r (General James Mattoon Scott: Where are you now that we need you?!)
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"About that charity you run, Professor Gates

Clarice Feldman

Dan Riehl explores a charity headed by Professor "Skip" Gates which takes in a lot of money, pays out very little, mostly to his colleagues and assistants at Harvard, was late filing the necessary papers and lists as its office the house Gates rents from Harvard.

Perhaps as Ann Althouse suggested yesterday on her blog there was something in his home that Gates did not want the police to see.

Crowley says that Gates's "tone" was "peculiar." And I'm wondering why the question "Is there anybody in the home with you?" would have upset him so much. It could have been just that it was an invasion of his privacy, but think about this along with the fact that Gates didn't seem to want to report the damage to his door that made him need to force it open when he got home. Did Gates already somehow know who had broken the door while he was away, so that he wanted to protect that person? Was that person in the house, such that the question "Is there anybody in the home with you?" felt threatening to Gates?

Inkwell, the Gates charity is designed to help blacks trace their genealogy through their DNA. The stated purpose for Gates' trip to China which preceded this incident was to study Yoyo Ma's genealogy. Is Inkwell Gates' honeypot to pay for whatever trips he wants to make?

Does the president have yet another close associate with tax problems?"

AMERICAN THINKER

114 posted on 07/25/2009 4:54:03 PM PDT by Dubya (Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father,but by me)
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a marked change in tone for Gates, 58, who in the days following his arrest gathered up his legal team and said he was contemplating a lawsuit.

The reason for the change in tone is that Gates has talked to his lawyers and very likely has learned that he has potentially very serious legal exposure on his hands.

The legal problem for Gates occurred when he went outside the house and yelled to the gathering crowd words to the effect that Crowley was a racist cop.

If Crowley is NOT in fact a racist cop, then Gates has slandered Crowley.

It would not be a problem for Gates if he said that only in the presence of Crowley, but when he said that to the onlookers, he "published" the statement within the meaning of defamation law.

Gates would not be exposed if Crowley is in fact a racist cop, because truth is a defense to a slander charge.

Gates could always claim that Crowley called him the "n" word in the house, or some such thing.

However, it now appears that there are police audio recordings from Crowley's open mike, which could establish just what was said inside the house. Outside the house, there are witnesses as to what was said.

Liberals often think they can say any nasty lies they like about someone, because of the "actual malice" standard under defamation law - the slandered party has to prove the speaker harbored "actual malice" in his heart to recover.

Gates may not have realized that Sgt Crowley does not come under the "actual malice" standard because Crowley is not a public figure or a public official.

You might say, wait, isn't a police officer a public official? No, say, the courts, a public official generally is meant to include policy-making officials - not a rank and file government employee like a patrol officer.

So if police recordings exist to prove the content of the conversation inside the house, and if Crowley did not say or do anything to evidence that he is a racist, then Gates is in deep sh!t, legally speaking, because he has slandered Crowley.

Furthermore, this is probably defamation per se, which means that Crowley does not have to prove actual damages to be able to maintain a lawsuit against Gates.

However, I think a jury would find substantial damages against Gates given that Crowley appears to have an existing reputation as the opposite of a racist cop, in fact teaching police cadets about the dangers of racial profiling and having attempted to save the life of a prominent black basketball player, Reggie Lewis.

So Gates has some serious making nice to do with Crowley if he wants to avoid a possible large legal judgment against him.

116 posted on 07/25/2009 5:00:37 PM PDT by SirJohnBarleycorn
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It is indeed about him. Had he not been such a loudmouth jerk he would not have been arrested in his own home. No on is coming out and saying that. You don’t shoot your mouth off to police and get away with it.


118 posted on 07/25/2009 5:06:13 PM PDT by plain talk
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His legal team will try to stack the jury w/ as many blacks as possible.

Put me on that jury.

121 posted on 07/25/2009 5:18:14 PM PDT by South40 (Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance. ~Hussein Obama, Cairo, Egypt, June 4, 2009)
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