… even without the facts that you list, C.O., is Gates's _age_. Profiling (a real issue) is favoring those prone to crime, namely the young. (_One_ constructive fact related to the “racism” hype by the media and activist dreck once this event wrongly made major news nation-wide is that in the past and now, any tension toward some blacks or other minorities and _whites_ out of concern for safety is directed, again, at _youth_. Does anyone find an older person of any race or ethnicity _frightening_?) [rolling eyes]

Gates's _age_ immediately ruled out “racial profiling,” at least among those not “challenged” someway.

I'm afraid not, in the case of the media (which, after Obama's idiotic remark and behavior, responded with hype rivaling its behavior after Michael Jackson's death), and the others who came out of the shadows with their predictable and lowly Sixties-radical-baggage-attached nonsense about the pervasive profiling and “white dominated, privileged” society and all the rest of the idiocy.

It was a non-event to normal people, but not to Obama who wrongly exploited it (in a blatantly political manner, and who later expressed “surprise” at the widespread public opposition to this and related behavior) and all the others who wanted to _exploit_ it, which because the _real_ _true_ event.

grrr

On the bright side, it has further deflated the hype over Obama, and constitutes a blunder by him at a time of public concern about the Dems' rushing in Washington to pass all kinds of bad legislation and with failures Obama is experiencing in particular along with other Dems with the health care initiative.

The same with Palin, Cheney, George Bush and all other doers of evil on society……..the left just knows how to flap jaws, not actually get anything done.

So, either listen to Barry, pony up the beers and move on………or file the complaint.

Pitiful that people are even defending the version of events that the police acted improperly. We can hear the police officer talking on the radio while Gates is screaming at him in the background. The man clearly is so wrapped up in his own race issues that he is projecting them on everyone else.

Maybe we should revisit the charges. Should be a caning offence IMO.

I'm not sure

And kritt — while I don't necessarily disagree, this story brought together a lot of under-the-radar topics that I think people need to hash out: race, class, elitism, police/government abuse of power, etc. It's more of a tool to figure out where we as a nation stand on these issues than just its own story, I think.

Yes, where ARE the libertarians here? Saying that somehow in order not to get arrested in one's own home, one must be deferrential and look at one's shoes when an officer is in the vacinity? That's pretty much the opposite of what makes sense. Or is it only white men who get to challenge the power of the government?

Now I only based my opinion on what was said in the CNN report. I haven't heard the tape. I haven't read more. I'm open to hearing more. I could be wrong in my conclusion. But WHETHER OR NOT the report of the tape turns out to be accurate, what you so accurately quoted is that my solution to the box that ALL OF THEM are in, is for the 3 of them to model civility, to bring us all down a peg, and teach us all a thing or two.

Obama and Gates thinks the arrest was completely improper and indicative of this country's racial past.

Almost everyone else thinks Crowley acted professionally and correctly.

What sort of reconciliation can really come of this photo op? Both parties have strongly held beliefs that will not change over a glass of beer.