You might be joking but yes you SHOULD have a right to call ANYONE a racist on your own property, that is if you believe in property rights. Do you?
Of course. If you can’t be disorderly on your own property, where can you?
After all, he was being arrested for that. By the cop. No one else complained.
You DO have the right to call an officer a racist on your own property. That was never the problem. He was arrested for behavior, yelling and carrying on, not for what he said. If you’re going to pull the old “I have rights” ploy you had best know just what those rights are and what is and isn’t protected under those rights. Saying anything you want to a cop is protected. Behaving in a disorderly fashion is a crime.
Now, do that while yelling so loudly that the neighbors are all coming out on their porches to see what the heck is going on. Or perhaps you think that someone should be allowed to engage in conduct that disturbs the peace, as long as it is on their own property? What about a loud party at 2AM? After all, it's on someone's property?
You and this writer miss the point. The arrest was not for being rude to a cop. The arrest was for raising a ruckus outside the house and then refusing to stop doing such. That will get most folks arrested who engage in such.
“...that is if you believe in property rights.”
So, by your statements, I can cuss at anyone that comes on my property (because I have property rights) even if that violates laws that say cussing is illegal (such as in Texas: where you cannot cuss in the presence of minors).
So, by your statements, I can shoot anyone that comes on my property (because I have property rights) so long as I say I felt threatened. I should NOT be arrested while they do the investigation - because I was on my own property - at which point I could run, I could shoot someone else, but because I was on my own property, you are supposed to suspend all OTHER laws?
Your argument is thin. Gates created a disturbance - period. The police officer obviously was not going to calm him down there, so he took him in to help settle things down - something they have a CONSTITUTIONAL right to do - period. But, because he was on his own property, the rest of the rules just don’t count?
With this mentality, we really would be back in the old west with people shooting each other over the placement of fence lines!